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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2022
A couple of pictures are at the very top of the price lists in this month’s somewhat curious selection.
The most expensive of them, at over $450,000, is Johan Zoffany’s very late 18th-century portrait of the comic actor Edward Townsend singing “The Beggar”from Merry Sherwood, or Harlequin Forrester, an entertainment based ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.9 Million Art and Design Auction
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Within the past decade or so, the Chicago auction house Toomey & Co. has featured a series of art and design auctions, each intended to highlight distinctive examples of period design. By our reckoning, the first officially named art and design sale ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)It’s the Little Things
Beneath the Surface
The last few years have recalibrated our lives. They have shifted our sense of community, our work culture, our economy. As “history people,” although we can acknowledge that this wouldn’t necessarily be a time period we would have chosen, it is undeniable that we are in the midst ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Estates Fuel the Jewelry Section of Nye & Co.’s Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Nye & Co.
A wide variety of jewelry was offered at the December 7 and 8 estate treasures auction held by Nye & Co., Bloomfield, New Jersey. I asked John Nye, president of Nye & Co., if the jewelry came from different estates, and he said, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Chance of a Lifetime!
On page 82 of The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece (1993), Albert Sack pictured a 1770-90 Philadelphia comb-back Windsor armchair, proclaiming it a “Masterpiece.” He likened it to a “thoroughbred,” calling it “one of the supreme examples of the Windsor chairmakers’ art.” He ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Doros Collection of Tiffany Glass, a 58-Lot, $2 Million Sale
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
It will take four sales to disperse the exquisite one-of-a-kind Tiffany glass and objects from the collection of Jay and Micki Doros, including the most comprehensive collection of Favrile glass vases by Tiffany Studios ever to come to market.
The first 58 lots, published in a ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show
Lewisville, Indiana
Following the success of a new antiques show in east-central Indiana, the promoters are planning to hold the event twice a year.
A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show debuted December 3 in Lewisville, Indiana, with a full house of 20 dealers. Richard McKnight, one of the show’s ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Starting Strong at Mebane’s Americana and Continental Sale
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
Jon Lambert of Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina, neatly divided the 830 lots of his two-day December sale into two distinct categories. The first day was devoted to Continental objects and the second to Americana. He carefully ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Williamsburg Buys Its Earliest Piece of American Silver
A caudle cup struck with the marks of Robert Sanderson Sr. (c. 1608-1693), his partner John Hull (1624-1683), and their apprentice Jeremiah Dummer (1645-1718) offered at a Heritage Auctions’ coin sale in Dallas, Texas, August 22 was acquired by Colonial Williamsburg.
Made by the first silversmiths working in what is now ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in Denville, New Jersey
The Denville Historical Society and Morris Catholic High School have partnered with D. Turi Antique Shows to present a new show, Christmas Antique & Design Market on December 3 and 4.
The show will be held at Morris Catholic High School in Denville, New Jersey, and will benefit the school’s scholarship ... (Read More)
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