(Auction)
The Phillips family needlework, created around 1670 in the English style by 13-year-old Sarah Phillips (1656-1707) of Rowley, Massachusetts, sold for $903,000 to dealer David A. Schorsch, bidding in the gallery for a client. The price is the third-highest achieved at auction for an American needlework.
“The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
Photo courtesy Witman Auctioneers, Inc.
When auctioneer Luke Witman was cleaning out the estate of collector Mary S. McCommon of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, he found an old, stained, rain-soaked box in the garage, not very far from the trash bin. “I always tell my guys, ‘Look in every box,’” he said.
When the ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
Considered the headliner at the auction, this set of ferrotype buckles picturing the four tickets of the presidential and vice-presidential candidates of the 1860 election, each approximately 1" wide, sold for $58,750.
Dated 1789, this George Washington “Memorable Era” brass inaugural shank button brought $15,000. Featuring a Federal-style eagle and slogan, ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
George Allen of Raccoon Creek Antiques at the 2009 Heart of Country show in Nashville, Tennessee.
Things have gone from bad to worse for George Allen and Gordon Wyckoff, well-known dealers of Raccoon Creek Antiques LLC in Oley, Pennsylvania. On February 27, both were arrested by Officer Pamela E. Mathias.
Each was ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
A man’s alleged attempt to sell stolen antiques in California led to three men being arrested.
On February 25, Deputy Ryan Arthurton of the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department responded to a commercial burglary report in Yucca Valley. The victim, David Scholar, reported that unknown suspects had forced entry into his ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
Director of decorative arts Corbin Horn told us that other copies of “Divan Japonais” by Toulouse-Lautrec, 1892-93, have sold for far less, but the $30,000 result at this sale might have resulted from the tide of enthusiasm generated by surrounding lots. Hindman photo.
The Emile Gallé marquetry cabinet tied for the ... (Read More)
|
(Show)
Santa Fe, New Mexico, dealer Jan Duggan was asking $20,000 for this pre-1900 Zuni frog pot. She said that sales were “great” and that she’d sold beadwork, a specialty that “had been slow but was definitely coming back.” She added, “Saturday’s attendance was up from last year.”
Santa Fe, New Mexico, ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
The second-highest price of the sale was the $115,000 paid by an absentee bidder for this 8'9" high stainless steel kinetic sculpture by George Warren Rickey (1907-2002) from the collection of Richard Brush of Rochester, New York, former owner of the SentrySafe company.
Meissen porcelain figural group, signed and numbered, some ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
The highlight of the sale was Mountain Lake by Birger Sandzén (Swedish-American, 1871-1954) that sold for $33,825.
An equine lot brought impressive results. A late 19th- or early 20th-century full-body weathervane with some sheet metal in the highly detailed form of a horse being led by a groom or a ... (Read More)
|