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(Fragment)Casablanca Poster Sells for $107,550
$107,550. Heritage Auctions photo.
A six-sheet movie poster for Casablanca, one of just two copies known, sold for $107,550 (includes buyer’s premium) in Heritage Auctions’ March 23 and 24 movie poster auction in Dallas, Texas. The sale totaled approximately $1.72 million.
Grey Smith, director of movie posters at Heritage, said of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Repaired Butter Churn Brings $19,500
$19,500.
A rare circa 1825 N. Clark & Co. (Nathan Clark, Athens, New York) six-gallon salt-glazed stoneware butter churn, decorated with a large cobalt deer and tree, brought $19,500 (no buyer’s premium charged) at Rhonda’s Auction and Event Center in East Bloomfield, New York, on March 23. According to the auctioneer, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Every Picture Tells a Story
Pablo Picasso, Visage au nez noir, 13" high white earthenware clay pitcher, 1969, decoration in engobes (slip glazes) of black, green, blue, white, and red, engraved by knife under partial brush glaze, marked “Edition/ Picasso/ 122/200/ Madoura,” stamped “Edition/ Picasso” and also “Madoura/ Plein Feu” on bottom, $48,400.
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toys Main Attraction of Third Lambert Auction
An early 18th-century cherry Bible box in its original dry surface with a carved pinwheel in the center of the lid and carved star in each corner stole the show when it went from an opening bid of $1000 to close at $11,000. Collector Cliff Stanton, phoning from Florida, bought it.
A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Double Bogey
Two of the early standouts in the African sale were these bronze ancestral plaques from Benin dating to the 16th-18th centuries. The one on the left, with three young men in high relief, 17½" x 14½", sold for $17,250. Right, a bronze guardian plaque of three warriors, each carrying a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sales Offer Some Gems in New Brunswick
This Thomas Nisbet card table in mahogany also sold for $15,000. Tim Isaac Auctions.
This Irving tanker truck made by Otaco Limited Co., Orillia, Ontario, in the 1950’s fetched $1200, and the Lincoln Van Lines/ Trans Canada Service truck made $130. Kevin Bond Auctions.
This Thomas Nisbet sofa table in mahogany and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Homecoming for Top American Tools Sold Abroad
Said to be the earliest documented American plane maker, Francis Nicholson (1683/4-1753) worked as a joiner in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, before setting up shop in Wrentham in 1728. The first known mention of “toolmaker” in an American context occurs in 1752 in Francis Nicholson’s will. This molding plane bearing his stamp ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Auction
Patriarchs of the Grove, an oil on canvas by William Wendt (1865-1946), was on the back cover of the auction catalog and on a full page inside. The 40" x 50" picture was consigned by the family of the original owners, Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Strong of Rochester, New York. ... (Read More)
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()Trustee Teitelbaum and Judge Drain Arrange Fate of Esmerian Collection
On Friday, March 22, a meeting was held in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, New York, before Judge Robert Drain. The reason for the meeting was to hear arguments, pro and con, concerning the liquidation trustee’s motion to award the auction of the Esmerian collection to Sotheby’s.
Ralph Esmerian ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sales Stronger Than Ever at Sixth AD20/21 Show—Finally
(From left) AD20/21 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award winner John P. Axelrod; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston curator Nonie Gadsden; and Boston Architectural College President Theodore C. Landsmark. For many years, Axelrod has had a close association with the MFA, Boston, acting as an overseer and donor. The Art of the ... (Read More)
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