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(Feature)The Collector Within: Joseph Cornell
The Collector Within: Joseph Cornellby Jeanne SchintoJoseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, the first major retrospective of the artist's work in more than 26 years, presents 180 of his finest pieces of "assemblage," the most celebrated of which are his box constructions. The intimate scale of the boxes, none of them ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Cowan's, Cincinnati, OhioAmerican Indian and Western Artby Don JohnsonThere was the Henry Farny painting that sold for $1.16 million (includes buyer's premium), and there was the sale total of $2.7 million. The most intriguing story, however, to come from Cowan's latest sale of American Indian and Western art, held March ... (Read More)
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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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