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(Show)The Socially Distant Deerfield Antique Show
Deerfield, New Hampshire
Spirits hung over the Deerfield Fairgrounds in Deerfield, New Hampshire, on Sunday, August 2.
The first was the spirit of the past and the familiar. Gurley Antique Shows mounted a live one-day open-air antiques show, an event that was ubiquitous BC—Before COVID. The traditional, throwback antiques show, one easily ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Sale on the Cape
Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
When the green and white tent goes up each year around Memorial Day on the terrace at Eldred’s in East Dennis, Massachusetts, it signifies that summer and summer auctions have begun. Barring weather interference, it remains in place through mid-September. Summer sales are a fine ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Overhead Premium Fee at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s will implement a new fee as of August 1. Called an “overhead premium,” it will be payable by all auction buyers in the house’s global salesrooms and online sales. The fee, which will be 1% of the hammer price plus any applicable local taxes, “is an allocation of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grueby Vase Brings $431,250 at Record-Setting Design Auction
Two collectors bidding by phone for a Grueby vase with a butterscotch glaze set a new record for Grueby pottery, $431,250 (includes buyer’s premium), after a 45-minute bidding battle on July 30 at Sotheby’s. The price far exceeded the vase’s $7000/9000 estimate.
Grueby vase, $431,250. Photo courtesy Sotheby’s.
The 6¾" high vase was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pook Firearms, Militaria, and Ephemera
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Auctioneers sell whatever comes their way. It was firearms, militaria, and ephemera at Pook & Pook on July 30, including a mix of autograph material from the estate of the much-loved manuscripts dealer Joseph Rubinfine (1938-2019), who produced scholarly catalogs ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sales of Modern Design
Sotheby’s, New York City, and Phillips, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s and Phillips
While New York City seemed like a ghost town this summer, with galleries and antiques shops closed, online design sales were heartily embraced at Sotheby’s on July 30 and at Phillips on July 29, and records tumbled.
Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sign of the Times
A hand-painted sign by Ken Manko of Manko Antiques & American Folk Art in Moody, Maine, lays out the rules for shopping in the barn during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Originally published in the August 2020 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2020 Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Unique Compilation of Consigned Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Doyle New York
Doyle New York has continued to hold its full calendar of jewelry auctions during the pandemic—some online only, and some live but without participants in the salesroom. Its July 29 live fine jewelry auction included “a wide array of stylish designs ranging from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hybrid Sale of American Art
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
An online sale offering 68 lots of American art was held at Bonhams New York on the afternoon of July 29 in what the auctioneer described as a “hybrid sale behind closed doors.” Bids were taken from the phones, online, and from absentee participants, with ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)An Updated Guide to Fraktur Artists
A Book Review
Corinne Earnest (1942-2016) called her life’s work Papers for Birth Dayes, the term used to describe fraktur in the estate of prolific fraktur artist Friederich Krebs, whose juvenile son’s upbringing was entrusted to the Earnests’ direct ancestor David Ernst after Krebs’s death in 1815. Russell Earnest points out ... (Read More)
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