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(Auction)Online Americana Sale Brings $1.1 Million
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s had so much Americana to sell in January that the last 305 lots were offered online only on Monday afternoon, January 23, beginning at noon and ending at 5 p.m. All the lots were on view for inspection at 1334 York Avenue, and 224 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Hope’s Americana Exhibition in New York City
Olde Hope is hosting an exhibition, Recent Arrivals featuring Highlights from an Important 30-year Pennsylvania Collection, in its New York City gallery until April 1.
The Pennsylvania collection was started over 30 years ago by Susan Fetterolf and her husband, Jeff Gorrin, while living in New York City. Their early collecting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folky Stand Brings $11,500
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Photos courtesy Farrin’s Country Auctions
A two-day sale held January 21 and 22 at Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, brought a huge crowd, according to auctioneer Rusty Farrin. The sale on the first day was topped by a paint-decorated one-drawer stand, probably from Maine, said Farrin, that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Don’t Trust, Always Verify
The crooks are sophisticated, and in 2020 they managed to snare two high-powered businesses, leading to losses and now court battles.
A London insurer is suing online auction platform Invaluable, which has, in turn, filed suit against Sotheby’s.
According to the lawsuit by underwriters at Lloyd’s of London filed in August 2022, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Kindig Collection
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
The Kindig family story, told in the introduction to the illustrated catalog for the sale of the Kindig collection of American furniture, paintings, silver, and decorative arts, documents an earlier time.
Joseph “Joe” Kindig Jr. (1898-1971), who amassed a collection of more than 400 long rifles ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Knowingly Buys Fake for More Than Double High Estimate
On January 21 Crescent City Auction Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana, sold three paintings all properly cataloged as “After Clementine Hunter.” They were fakes, and sold as such. In fact, after determining they were fake with the help of Hunter expert Tom Whitehead, Crescent City asked the consignor to write “FAKE” ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fruit Jar and Bottle Club Convention and Show
Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club Show, Muncie, Indiana
The annual show hosted by the Midwest Antique Fruit Jar & Bottle Club typically excels in top-end canning jars. That’s why it has been referred to in some circles as the Super Bowl of fruit jar shows. The 2023 edition, held ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, February 2023
Margaret Norton (1905-2000) of the Folly Cove Designers demonstrating the printing process. Collection of the Cape Ann Museum.
—Through March 19 —Gloucester, Massachusetts
Designed & Hand-Blocked by the Folly Cove Designers at the Cape Ann Museum explores the Folly Cove artistic collective, which existed from 1938 to 1969. Craftspersons, mostly women, created ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portrait Soars to $945,000
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Nine American museums were among the bidders for a 19th-century portrait of two unidentified girls at Christie’s Americana sale in New York City January 20. The black girl on the left holds a rose and is wearing more coral jewelry than her white companion—a necklace, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collection off the Market for 50 Years Sells
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
There were 10,000 objects in the collection of the Packwood House Museum in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Edith Kelly Fetherston collected furniture, quilts, ceramics, glass, metalware, and paintings and housed them in a historic building on Water Street that began in 1796 ... (Read More)
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