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(Auction Law and Ethics)

Prepare to Get Ready
by Steve Proffitt

Auction Law & Ethics “Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.” Alexander Graham Bell—engineer, innovator, inventor, scientist, and inventor of the telephone—is credited with that chestnut, and truer words he never penned. An alternate version I was taught as a young lawyer is this: “Preparation is nine-tenths of the ... (Read More)

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Owners of Garth's Auctions Buy Selkirk's Assets
by Don Johnson

Assets associated with Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers, St. Louis, Missouri, including company names and other intellectual property, have been purchased by Legacy Group STL, Inc., which is owned by Jeff and Amelia Jeffers. The couple, who also own Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, are revitalizing the longstanding Selkirk brand as Selkirk Auctioneers & ... (Read More)

(Young Collectors)

There and Back Again
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience, even a difficult one, just to be able to have the satisfaction of utilizing what you learned from the awkward, inefficient way you did it the first time. Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience because you’re Homer Simpson and you ... (Read More)

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Collector Alleges He Was Sold Two Tiffany Fakes
by M.A.D. Staff

Florida collector Alfred A. Turner Jr. spent $100,000 in 2012 to buy two Tiffany lamps from Buffalo, New York, dealer Lawrence Ludtka, who calls his shop Larry’s Antiques. After Turner was rebuffed when he tried to consign one of the lamps to auction, he had them both evaluated and became ... (Read More)

(Auction)

Gruppé Groupies Head for Farrin’s
by Mark Sisco

A 9" x 12" oil on canvas of three fishermen on a rocky ocean coast was titled on the back Bass Rock Fishermen and signed lower right “Chas. P. Gruppe.” Charles Paul Gruppé (1860-1940) was progenitor of the artistic Gruppé clan that included his sons Emile, Karl, and Paulo and ... (Read More)

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Fewer Participants, Still Top-Quality Merchandise at ADA Show
by David Hewett

The 14½" high early 19th-century sheet-iron door handle backplate in the form of a fiddler is a Connecticut piece, said Greg Kramer of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, who priced the unusual find at $2250. The Colonial Revival spinning wheel settee, offered by A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, was found ... (Read More)

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Strong Sales at a Wet Fishersville
by Walter C. Newman

Garland Grimm commented that since his signs were meant to hang outside, the rain was not a problem for his inventory. The Fishersville, Virginia, dealer offered this array of signs at his infield booth. The Studebaker Erskine sign is perhaps the most scarce. Studebaker manufactured the Erskine for only four ... (Read More)

(Auction)

Fine and Decorative Art at Auction
by Don Johnson

Pint-size sand bottle by Andrew Clemens (1857- 1894), one side with design lettered “Our Emma / 1884,” other side with a floral design, unusually large at 9" high, $19,200. Pictured is one of a pair of 18th-century English Chinese Chippendale mirrors by George Godley of Winchester, 65" x 26½". Of carved giltwood ... (Read More)

(Auction)

African-American Art Sale Features Richard A. Long's Collection
by Jeanne Schinto

Elizabeth Catlett’s Singing Head of circa 1977 is carved tropical wood with painted details. It is 16¼" x 8" x 7½" and sold for $125,000 (est. $120,000/ 180,000). An institution paid $57,500 for Vernon by William E. Artis (1914-1977). The 1946-50 terra-cotta sculpture is 22" tall, including its base. It is ... (Read More)

(Auction)

Guns Fire Off at Julia’s for $19.3 Million
by Mark Sisco

Like numerous other lots in the auction, this cased Mannlicher pistol, serial number 231, purported to have belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, had to be sold while waltzing carefully around the murky new ivory laws. The unremoveable and intricate ivory inlays meant that it could be sold, but the ... (Read More)
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