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(Auction)The Potomack Company Catalog Sale
High lot of the Potomack sale was this ancient Roman marble bust from the first century. The sculpture depicts Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus and mother of Gaius or Caligula. The bust is life size, 14" x 8¼" x 5¾". The subject is depicted with her hair parted in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago’s Design Auctions in June
In a rare armadillo form for a glazed stoneware vessel for flower arrangement, this 1890 pot, 4¼" x 8½" x 3½", is signed “R.W. Martin + Bros.” for Robert W. Martin. It sold for $43,750 (est. $15,000/20,000).
George Ohr (1857-1918) made this 9¼" x 4¼" pot, with in-body twist and folded ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
The small seating area by an exit was a nice idea. Items from The Century Shop, Louisville, Kentucky, included a pair of Black Forest carved panels, circa 1850, priced at $1850, and a Gothic Revival pier mirror, 63" high, with original gilding, for $6000.
Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, brought ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sonoma Dealer Arrested for Fraud and Other Charges
On June 5, police deputies in Sonoma, California, arrested 51-year-old antiques dealer Dwayne Robert Kershner. According to authorities, Kershner had been operating an antiques consignment shop named Front Door Antiques at 201 W. Napa Street in the Sonoma Marketplace shopping center. The business suddenly closed up shop at the end ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Auctioneer Denied License Renewal, Fined $12,500
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers voted unanimously in August to deny a license renewal to Angela Nevells of Blue Hill, Maine, to impose fines totaling $12,500, and to seek relief for the victims of Nevells’s multiple violations of law.
The board found that Nevells, who has a Blue Hill ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Orders Return of Colonel Rush Hawkins's Tiffany Sword
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
On June 4, United States Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Miller ruled that a Tiffany presentation sword and scabbard that was purchased by a collector in 1992 had been stolen from Brown University in the 1970’s. The judge ordered its return to the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biography of an Object Writing Contest
The second annual Biography of an Object writing contest kicked off on June 3. “We were thrilled with the response last year,” said contest sponsor and founder Amelia Jeffers, president of Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers in Delaware, Ohio. “We received over 100 entries from all over the United States, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Indian Art Sale Brings $2.25 Million
This 6 1/8" high John Tiktak stone sculpture sold to a Canadian collector for $43,750 (est. $20,000/40,000). Haas said a colleague at Bonhams, Ingmars Lindbergs, is “striking out into Inuit material. I never handled much of it before, but the very best artists can do very well. We invite more ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association June Show
The iron and marble table with original paint was $1850; the pair of paint-decorated chairs at the table was also $1850; the mermaid in the compote was tagged $1250; and the compote full of shells was $1450 from Jewett & Berdan.
The flow blue Indian pattern covered tureen was $360, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mike and Marianne Wilson Sale
This cherry accountant’s desk dated 1841 was attributed to western Pennsylvania and has original ocher swirl paint decoration. It has a slant lid and four recessed panel doors with two panes each and rests on high, turned feet. “It has powerful paint,” stated the private buyer. It sold for $18,880.
The ... (Read More)
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