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(Feature)Graham Gallery Celebrates 150 Years in Business
Graham Gallery Celebrates 150 Years in Businessby Lita Solis-CohenJames Graham & Sons, the Madison Avenue gallery in New York City, is celebrating a century and a half in the art business with a low-key exhibition of the paintings, sculptures, and American silver that the firm had sold over the years ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Amoskeag Spring Arms Auctions Earn $2.6 Million
Amoskeag Auction Company, Manchester, New HampshireAmoskeag Spring Arms Auctions Earn $2.6 Millionby Robert KyleAhh…Springtime in New England. Daffodils are blooming. Atlantic salmon are swimming back to their parent streams for spawning. And machine guns in Manchester are in their full glory.That was the scene on May 19 when Amoskeag Auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mary Merritt Doll Sale II
Noel Barrett and Andy Ourant, Wyomissing, PennsylvaniaThe Mary Merritt Doll Sale IIby Lita Solis-CohenSimone Saurland bid on line from her house near Brighton in the United Kingdom during the first Mary Merritt Doll Museum sale on September 30 and October 1, 2006, and was not successful. That's why she came ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tapply Flies and Furniture at The Cobbs
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New HampshireTapply Flies and Furniture at The Cobbsby Mark SiscoThe Cobbs were pleased to present a portion of the sporting collection of the late H.G. Tapply at their auction on April 21 in Peterborough, New Hampshire. The Tapply items sold well, but it was early furniture ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)QUILT REPAIR USING COMPUTERS
QUILT REPAIR USING COMPUTERSby John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] so often the search for ways for antiquers to use computers takes me to an unexpected destination. That is the way it was when I discovered using computers for quilt restoration. This is an established field practiced by skilled needleworkers who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marathon Spring Catalog Sale in Manheim
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Marathon Spring Catalog Sale in Manheim
by Karl H. Pass
Conestoga Auction Company in Manheim, Pennsylvania, held its two-day spring catalog sale on May 4 and 5. The 1411-lot sale was much larger than the typical multi-consignor catalog sales conducted by Conestoga. The large sale grossed over $750,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Editorial: A Brave Goodbye
A Brave GoodbyeRichard Withington, New Hampshire's oldest auctioneer (near 90) and the holder of New Hampshire auctioneer's license No. 1, shocked the standing-room-only crowd at his on-site sale in Keene on June 7 when he announced that his brain cancer was incurable and doctors have given him four to five ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Larson Clock Collection: Rare and Right
Cottone Auctions, Leicester, New YorkThe Larson Clock Collection: Rare and Rightby Jeanne SchintoWe've been asked to make it clear at the outset. Lindy and Karen Larson of Westminster, Vermont, are not going out of business, and they are not getting a divorce after 38 years of marriage-far from it. Neither ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Treasures at Doyle's May Americana Sale
Doyle, New York CityTreasures at Doyle's May Americana Sale by Lita Solis-CohenDealers always check out Americana sales at Doyle New York knowing that 70% of the goods come from estates. Sometimes they find treasures among undercataloged lots with low estimates.The publicity for the sale on May 1 touted a silver-hilted ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Tenth Annual Historic East Berlin Antique Show
East Berlin, PennsylvaniaThe Tenth Annual Historic East Berlin Antique Showby Karl H. PassMay 17-19 marked the tenth annual Historic East Berlin Antique Show. All proceeds from the show go to the nonprofit East Berlin Historical Preservation Society and are used to maintain five buildings in its care: a 1790's stone ... (Read More)
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