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(Auction)A Successful Eclectic Holiday Auction
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
All prices include the buyer’s premium.
Hilliard & Co. concluded its final auction of 2022 at its gallery in Madison, Virginia, December 19. Following the format that it has used during the COVID-19 environment, the Hilliard sale was available for several days online ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Netsuke
On December 16, a 3 3/8" high wooden netsuke of a kirin on a cloud, estimated at $15,000/20,000, sold for a whopping $441,300 (includes buyer’s premium) at Bonhams, New York City. The buyer was a private collector, underbid by the Japanese trade.
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(Issue Story)Finds
Finds are a highlight of collecting. Because of the many definitions, gradations, and nuances, I am unsure that agreement exists on what one is, but collectors know when such a discovery takes place.
To some a find is a treasure a collector discovers unexpectedly. To other collectors spending the day going ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Arrested in Antiques Shop Thefts
Between September 14 and October 5, the Camp Verde Office in Verde, Arizona, received reports of an older man allegedly committing thefts from local antiques stores. This man entered the stores during business hours and allegedly took several thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry and other high-end merchandise without paying for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2022
A couple of pictures are at the very top of the price lists in this month’s somewhat curious selection.
The most expensive of them, at over $450,000, is Johan Zoffany’s very late 18th-century portrait of the comic actor Edward Townsend singing “The Beggar”from Merry Sherwood, or Harlequin Forrester, an entertainment based ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.9 Million Art and Design Auction
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Within the past decade or so, the Chicago auction house Toomey & Co. has featured a series of art and design auctions, each intended to highlight distinctive examples of period design. By our reckoning, the first officially named art and design sale ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)It’s the Little Things
Beneath the Surface
The last few years have recalibrated our lives. They have shifted our sense of community, our work culture, our economy. As “history people,” although we can acknowledge that this wouldn’t necessarily be a time period we would have chosen, it is undeniable that we are in the midst ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Estates Fuel the Jewelry Section of Nye & Co.’s Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Nye & Co.
A wide variety of jewelry was offered at the December 7 and 8 estate treasures auction held by Nye & Co., Bloomfield, New Jersey. I asked John Nye, president of Nye & Co., if the jewelry came from different estates, and he said, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Chance of a Lifetime!
On page 82 of The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece (1993), Albert Sack pictured a 1770-90 Philadelphia comb-back Windsor armchair, proclaiming it a “Masterpiece.” He likened it to a “thoroughbred,” calling it “one of the supreme examples of the Windsor chairmakers’ art.” He ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Doros Collection of Tiffany Glass, a 58-Lot, $2 Million Sale
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
It will take four sales to disperse the exquisite one-of-a-kind Tiffany glass and objects from the collection of Jay and Micki Doros, including the most comprehensive collection of Favrile glass vases by Tiffany Studios ever to come to market.
The first 58 lots, published in a ... (Read More)
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