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(Fragment)Mid-Atlantic Merger: Quinn's and Ken Farmer Team Up and Acquire Harlowe-Powell
Ken Farmer (left) and Paul Quinn.Quinn’s Auction Galleries of Falls Church, Virginia, is aligning with Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals of Radford, Virginia, to purchase the Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The new firm officially launched on October 1. When first making the announcement, they referred to the new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Let My People Recline
$40,625.An Egyptian Revival bone-inlaid mahogany chaise longue, almost identical to one used in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, estimated at $1500/2500, sold for $40,625 at Doyle New York’s Belle Epoque sale in New York City on September 17. The panels of the chaise longue are decorated with seated pharaonic ... (Read More)
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(Show)New and Improved Los Angeles Antiques Show
A first-time show exhibitor, Jon Eric Riis of Atlanta, Georgia, is a tapestry artist whose work is in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. With this opulent jacket—those are hundreds of pearls—using traditional and contemporary imagery, he crafted a stunning visual, priced ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Show in Saratoga Springs Sparkles
Tramp art specialist Clifford Wallach of Manalapan, New Jersey, featured a tramp art desk, $7500; a large mirror, $2400; a small mirror, $550; a lighthouse, $1295; and a gilded dressing table with a regal stand, $5800.Charles Washburne Antiques, Solebury, Pennsylvania, had two large Minton majolica shells for $7885; two round ... (Read More)
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(Show)Optimism Reigns at the Shenandoah Antiques Expo
One thing you can always find at Fishersville is a piece of “project” furniture. This walnut blanket chest pushes the boundaries of just how much of a project one may be willing to undertake. It was in the booth of Larry and Linda Fox. The Foxes are from Valencia, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Kip and Judith Coburn, Wood Bull Antiques, Milford, New York
Kip and Judith Coburn. That's their dog Bo'sun (as in "boatswain") with his back to the camera in the foreground.Entrance to Wood Bull Antiques.Nicely polished cast-iron stove, $650; stenciled and rosewood-grained rocker, $235.A small portion of the chair inventory.The "drafting" room is filled with architectural antiques and frames. The calipers ... (Read More)
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(Show)Gaglio Conquers Concord, Drawing a Big, Buying Crowd
James B. Grievo of Stockton, New Jersey, sold the 18th-century New Hampshire chest-on-frame to a collector. The unsigned tall clock sold to a dealer visiting the show. Grievo said he also sold "many, many smalls. It was one of the best shows I've ever had. I don't think [the distance ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Townsend Collection, Part 2: Prehistoric Native American Art
The 3 7/8" long porphyry birdstone known as the "Smithsonian Bird," found in Vernon County, Wisconsin, appeared to be bid to $725,000 over the phones but did not sell (see text).Described as "the best of its type," this 4½" x 3¼" Wisconsin wing bannerstone of porphyry, in good condition, found ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bigger and Better Deerfield
The "Murray's" store sign from Maine was $1750 from Bill Quinn of Alna, Maine. Quinn also had a huge grain bin, "fresh from Maine," priced at $1850.Weathervanes and checkerboards and a circa 1900 carved carousel cat ($3700) were all from William Gittes of Barrington, New Hampshire. The tin vane (center) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Ceramic Sale at Crocker Farm
Starting the sale was this rare stoneware jar with open handles and stamped "Coerlears Hook" and "N.York" along the rim. A very early piece, it turned up not long ago at an estate sale in South Carolina. Made in Manhattan by African-American potter Thomas Commeraw, this 11 5/8" tall two-gallon ... (Read More)
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