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(Auction)The Potomack Company Enjoys Success Across All Categories
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The fall live catalog auction of The Potomack Company was held September 26, 2015, at the firm’s gallery in Alexandria, Virginia. We are used to Potomack’s sales being heavily inventoried with Chinese and other Asian items. This sale had a greatly reduced ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Harrisburg, We Have a Problem
Editorial
Former Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mayor Stephen Reed was arrested in July and charged with over 400 crimes. He’s accused of using public money to buy antiques for a series of proposed museums. Reed, elected mayor in 1981, held office until early 2010. During his tenure, he bought thousands of antiques on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Deer and Folly
In our September issue, Celia Briggs sought help identifying the pattern of blue transferware shards found on a beach in Maine. Dayton Bard of Santa Fe, New Mexico, provided an answer, pointing to an example he found on eBay and another in Brunk Auctions’ September 11 and 12 sale. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whistler Drawing Brings $413,000
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
The September 25 sale of American and European art at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago scored a happy note for paintings and other art. Generally of late, individual paintings—other than blockbusters—have been a hard sell. This sale of 300-plus lots told a more upbeat story.
Zachary Wirsum, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bowlful of Italian Chicken Noodle Soup and a Roomful of Oriental Antiques
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
This is a tale of two topics, cooking and auctioning antiques. Actually they are very similar endeavors. They require an experienced person at the table, a menu/game plan, a list of ingredients, and an audience of participants to observe or to partake. And ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
With material coming from several significant collections across the United States, interest seemed a notch or two above normal during the live sale of American Indian and Western art held by Cowan’s Auctions on September 25, 2015, at the company’s gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Malware and Moving Files
A Trojan horse, useful software that hides some malicious content, detected by Avast, one of many available Internet security programs.
Computer Column #322
John P. Reid, [email protected]
There are two topics this month: protection from computer malware and a new product for moving files between digital devices.
Malware
In June the Symantec Corporation published one ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Outsider and Folk Art
This Gilbert Stuart (1755-1828) portrait of George Washington, oil on canvas, 29¾" x 24½", was part of the Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette collection consigned by Credit Suisse. This is one of the 75 replicas Stuart made from his Athenaeum portrait, which was painted from life in his Germantown studio in ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, October 2015
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
The Golden Age of English Horology: Masterpieces from the Tom Scott Collection ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Executive Arrested and Charged with Conspiracy, Obstruction, and Fraud
“This type of scheming only ends in handcuffs.” That’s what Diego Rodriguez, assistant director in charge of the New York field office of the FBI, had to say about the arrest of Robert A. Olins, 58, on August 26 in West Hartford, Connecticut. Olins was charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and ... (Read More)
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