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(Auction)Americana and More at New England Auctions
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
It just keeps getting better at Fred Giampietro's New England Auctions in Branford, Connecticut. The January 10 and 11 auction was the best sale yet, with over 13,000 bidders registered. Over two days bidders pursued over 900 lots of Americana, folk art, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, January 2024
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Shipping News
Beneath the Surface
The competition has to be getting to Santa these days. When we were kids, he had to have his helpers out at the mall and on the float in the Christmas parade, but now he even has to have help delivering packages! To be fair, it is not ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Bruce and Vivalyn Knight
Amelia Jeffers Auctioneer & Appraiser, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers Auctioneer & Appraiser
More than 800 lots from the collection of Bruce and Vivalyn Knight of Springfield, Ohio, sold for $1.15 million during an auction conducted by Amelia Jeffers Auctioneer & Appraiser January 5 and 6 at Delaware, Ohio.
Jeffers promoted the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fighting for the Dunghill...
Letter from London
Fighting for the Dunghill...
A contemporary hand-coloured etching with aquatint of 1798 that caught my eye in a November 15 sale held by Dominic Winter, Fighting for the Dunghill: ____ or ____ Jack Tar settling Buonaparte is the work of James Gillray (1756-1815).
In their catalogue notes, the South Cerney, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Paul Neuman
Paul Neuman in his New York City apartment.
After 40-plus years as a caterer in New York City, Paul Neuman has embarked on a new project involving sustainable packaging related to the food industry. Growing up in Flushing, Queens, he worked in his father's store in Manhattan, the Rosedale Fish Market, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)An Unusual and Interesting Collection
A Book Review
Ron Gard is an author and collector who has written three books on American folk art and decoys. As a young boy he collected Native American artifacts on his grandparents' farm in Texas and kept them in an unused house on the property that served as his own ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Americana Week in New York City in January
The Winter Show
For 70 years collectors have made a pilgrimage to the Park Avenue Armory in January to shop at a show founded in 1954 to benefit East Side House Settlement in the Bronx. It was an ingenious idea: an elegant bazaar could provide funds for the needy and at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Speed Art Museum Expands Free Sundays
Now in the seventh year of a landmark gift from the Owsley Brown II family and the Brown-Forman Foundation making attendance free for all Sunday visitors, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has been awarded a significant grant from Art Bridges Foundation to expand upon its free general admission ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Collections of Historic Odessa
A Book Review
Few historic sites have received the level of examination and interpretation as Historic Odessa. Building on the research of several generations of historians and collectors and adding his own encyclopedic knowledge of 18th- and early 19th-century American furniture and history, Philip D. Zimmerman has written a fascinating illustrated ... (Read More)
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