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(Young Collectors)Movin' On Up
The Young Collector
Over the years this space has served not only to document our lives in and our view of the antiques trade but by necessity, to a degree, our personal lives as well. (At Cowan’s we used to joke about having T-shirts made that read, “The auction business is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Closed for Season but Much of the Collection Now Available Online
The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur, Delaware, closed for the season on January 4 and will reopen to the public on March 1 with a new lineup of exhibitions and programs.
The institution has announced that it has reached a significant milestone: 60,000 objects in the collection have been cataloged ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Good Fellows: The Walpole Society
Part IV of V
Photos courtesy the Walpole Society
“Outsiders are often unclear as to what the Walpole Society actually does. [Member Robert Lincoln McNeil Jr.’s daughter] Vickie recalls as a child telling her grade school class that her father was going to spend time with the Tadpole Society!” The Walpole Society ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Westchester Glass Club Show Offers Free Admission
The Westchester Glass Club’s 40th annual Collectors Show and Sale will be held on April 9 and 10 at the Greenwich Civic Center in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. To celebrate the 40th anniversary and to attract new dealers and new buyers to the show, the Westchester Glass Club will offer free ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Passion for Collecting: Part I of the Estate of Candice B. Groot
Treadway Toomey Auctions, Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Treadway Toomey Auctions
When John Toomey of Treadway Toomey Auctions hired John Walcher, Toomey asked him to build a new sale category. Long celebrated for a depth of Arts and Crafts auctions plus period fine art and 1950s/contemporary sales, the Oak Park, Illinois, gallery ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old Masters Lead the Potomack Company Sale
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its first sale of the 2016 season on February 6 at its gallery and showrooms in Alexandria, Virginia. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the firm. In that relatively short time Potomack has become a leading auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Nelson Collection Succeeds
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
There is nothing quite like a single-owner auction to get everyone’s attention, particularly when that collection is a carefully gathered and highly regarded one. So when the Van Kirke and Helen Nelson collection of Plains Native American art came to auction on February 6 at Skinner’s Boston ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Four Useful Apps
Computer Column #326
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Most antiquers use both desktop and mobile computers these days. Here are four useful mobile apps available for both Apple iOS and Android devices. Most integrate well with desktop Windows, Macintosh, and Chromebook partner software or allow desktop access using any web browser. Except the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A $665,000 Imperial Snuffbox at the Center of a Lawsuit
Two Maine residents with lineage to a famed Bulgarian diplomat are among the plaintiffs suing Christie’s over the sale of a jeweled and enameled two-color gold snuffbox. The 3¼" wide snuffbox, marked by Karl Hahn, was sold on May 20, 2015, in New York City for $665,000 (includes buyer’s premium), ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shrubsole Researches Tea Table Used by George Washington
When Tim Martin, president of S. J. Shrubsole, walked into Doyle New York in early October 2015 to preview some silver, he had no idea he’d be the next owner of a tea table used by General George Washington at his headquarters in Newburgh, New York, during 1782 and 1783.
One ... (Read More)
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