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(Issue Story)Hanging with Bob Zordani and Heidi Kellner, Z and K Antiques
Over time, Heidi Kellner has become a proponent of “Zen and the Art of Antiques Dealing,” she says. Unless there is significant sentimental value to an object, she no longer holds onto the finds she and her husband, Bob Zordani, buy.
“I got over that a long time ago,” she said. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Bjurman Collection and Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Western art specialist Katherine Halligan called the paintings owned by G. Andrew Bjurman (1948-2022) “an extraordinary collection,” and the market agreed on November 1 at Bonhams, paying a total of $5,436,720 (including buyers’ premiums) for them. Halligan said Bjurman was a careful and quiet collector who ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Collector’s Eye
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Collector’s Eye is now and always will be “the other show.” But that’s OK. It works. It works really well.
Held twice a year in the Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Collector’s Eye is a general-line show that began in 2005 to supplement the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midwest Antique & Art Show
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Perennially strong on folk art and Americana, the Midwest Antique & Art Show had its fall edition on Sunday, October 30, in the Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The semiannual show did not disappoint.
The event’s longevity speaks of its success. “We’ve been doing this for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Elverson Antique Show
Elverson, Pennsylvania
“We just love this show,” said Heather Bissell while looking at stoneware in the booth of Duane Watson of Doc’s Crocks at the Elverson Antique Show in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Saturday, October 29. She and her two sisters, Heidi Kluesner and Sara McCool, came to the show from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Blessing Collection, Part One
Woody Auction, Douglass, Kansas
Photos courtesy Woody Auction
Nineteenth-century American furniture single-owner sales are rare. Ron Blessing’s collection was sold by the Woody Auction Company October 29 and featured a number of lots that had been originally sold to Blessing by Woody. Blessing’s sale included French art glass lots along with silver ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation Awarded to Cooper Hewitt
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced that the 2022 Prize for Excellence and Innovation will be awarded to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for its upcoming exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.
Dorothy Liebes’s studio, New York City, circa 1957. Dorothy Liebes Papers, Archives of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gary Hendershott Sentenced
After a Georgia militaria collector implored a superior court judge to appropriately punish Gary L. Hendershott for stealing items that had been consigned to him to sell, the well-known dealer was sentenced August 18 to five years in prison and ten years of probation and was ordered to pay about ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized
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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(Auction)“From the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande”: The Collection of Roy H. Robinson
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams’ Native American specialist Ingmars Lindbergs said his department’s single-owner two-day auction October 26 and 27 in Los Angeles was “pretty damn good.” And by pretty damn good, he means $4.46 million in sales (including buyers’ premiums).
Acquiring, researching, cataloging, and selling the collection of Roy ... (Read More)
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