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(Issue Story)Jewelry Highlights and a Packed House at The Cobbs Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy The Cobbs Auctioneers
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshire, held an antiques and fine art auction on July 13. Highlighting the sale was a group of jewelry from an estate that had been collected in the 1920s and 1930s in France and Shanghai.
An Art Deco Burmese ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Case’s Best Summer Auction Ever
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
John Case is a “big picture” kind of guy. He wants to know not only what happened, but why it happened. The firm’s annual summer sale on July 13 produced the highest total results in Case Antiques’ history. And although a precise figure was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Auction
Willis Henry Auctions, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Since 1982, Willis Henry Auctions’ annual Shaker auctions have become a well-attended affair. The July 13 event at the Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, was no exception.
Willis and Karel Henry, who by 1982 were dealing in antiques, were introduced to the Shakers in 1971 or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Launches Monthly Online Fine Art Auctions
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, will launch monthly fine art auctions this summer. The monthly auctions, which will be held the second Thursday of each month, will complement Heritage’s live auctions and other current online auctions of prints and multiples and photographs. The sales will feature a combination of material primarily ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Get On Board
The Young Collector
Part of our impetus for uprooting our lives so completely a couple years ago was the desire to be part of a community. We both grew up in small towns, the kind of place where you saw your teacher at church and the cashier in the grocery store ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Signed Newport Fly Tea Table Shown in Reopened Museum
When the Whitehorne House Museum at 416 Thames Street, Newport, Rhode Island, reopened on May 29, it put on view a tea table with the chalk signature of joiner Joseph Sanford. The Newport Restoration Foundation bought the table at Sotheby’s in January 2019. Armin Allen, a foundation trustee, did the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Multiple Lists, Desktops, and Monitors
Computer Column #366
Doing research for something as simple as this column can result in piles of notes. Sorting and organizing such notes amounts to organizing the column or another research report.
In high school we old-timers were taught to put the notes on file cards. This still works. A book collector ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, July 2019
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Monet: The Late Years by George T.M. Shackelford (Kimbell Art Museum and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Stuff about the Stuff: The Value and Imperiled Future of Collectors’ Papers
Part II of II
As an antiques reporter, I have always loved best the assignments that send me into archives to read the papers of collectors from past generations. Besides enjoying the guilty pleasure associated with reading other people’s mail, I have found these troves to be filled with fascinating and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)In the Trade: Christopher P. Settle Antiques, Newton, Massachusetts
In the Trade
Some might say that Massachusetts dealer Christopher Settle took a circuitous route to dealing in fine antiques. But that would not be true. At loose ends after college, where he’d been an English major, he took a job as a packer for an Ann Arbor, Michigan, moving company. ... (Read More)
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