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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
This month’s selection, which I came to realise during the course of my research marks 30 years of these “Letters,” is largely dominated by matters military. Arms and armour associated with Tipu Sultan, the “Tiger of Mysore,” provide the lion, or tiger’s share of the words and pictures, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Yes, There Are Treasures to Be Found
This mask sold for $380,621.
This Kota reliquary figure sold for $6,172,827.
Photos courtesy Christie’s
A Tlingit mask from the Northwest Coast of America, striking in its expressiveness and rare iconography, sold at Christie’s in Paris on Tuesday, June 23 for $380,621 (includes buyer’s premium), more than four times its high estimate ($56,994/91,191).
The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rockwell's Kennedy Portrait to Be Sold on July 30
Norman Rockwell’s Portrait of John F. Kennedy, painted for the April 6, 1963, cover of the Saturday Evening Post,will be auctioned on July 30 at the 15th anniversary gala for the National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI). The auction will be held in the garden at Vernon Court, 492 Bellevue ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The June Auction
The high lot of the sale was the platinum, onyx, turquoise, and diamond sautoir, 38½" long including the tassel, most likely made by Boucheron, as it was signed indistinctly “B…ron Paris.” Estimated at $2000/4000, it brought $84,000 from a New York diamond merchant who is also a collector, and he ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Spitler Chest Brings $356,500
A yellow pine blanket chest decorated in paint by Johannes Spitler (1773-1837) and called the “Long Family Spitler blanket chest” sold at auction for $356,500 (includes buyer’s premium) on June 20 at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The buyer was a southeast Virginia collector.
Jeff Evans said, “To ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antiques in the Valley Show
Farmer David Tuttle of Oley, Pennsylvania, said he bought these mittens in Vermont—“I like textiles”—and asked $335 for them. He sold a woolwork picture, six pieces of redware, and a sculpture of a train wreck made from wooden patterns from an iron-molding shop.
David Tuttle asked $625 for this dollhouse. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spitler Chest Achieves Record Price
The high lot of the Evans sale was something of a foregone conclusion. The Johannes Spitler paint-decorated yellow pine blanket chest enjoyed pride of place in the salesroom and was the object of most of the presale conversation. The chest has a hinged rectangular lid with applied edge molding. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Cincinnati
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
Cowan’s Auctions had another go at an Americana-only auction on June 20 in Cincinnati. It was something the company last did in April 2014. The results this time around were once again encouraging, and Kirstie Craven, coordinating specialist for Cowan’s fine and decorative arts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Winds Up the Toy, Doll, and Advertising Game
This Caille “Busy Bee” trade stimulator, fresh to the market, brought $26,662.50. Julia photo.
Accompanying this Arcade Manufacturing Company model of a 1930s two-tone black and sea-foam-green Buick sedan was a vintage tin sign (not shown) reading “MEN AT WORK Except WHILE BUICKS ARE PASSING.” The pair went for $6517.50.
The Dent ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Evolution of Washington, D.C.
A Book Review
The Evolution of Washington, D.C.: Historical Selections from the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University by James M. Goode George Washington University, distributed by Smithsonian Books, 2015, 192 pages, hardbound, $40.
James Goode, historian and curator of the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection, has selected ... (Read More)
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