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(Show)From Z to A at Liberty with Unplanned Side Trips
Liberty Antiques Festival, Liberty, North Carolina
The long-running Liberty Antiques Festival is organized alphabetically from row A on the left to row Z on the right. For almost 20 years, your reporter has worked the sale from left to right. Some years the dealers at the end of the alphabet were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Deals Lead to Lawsuits
Deals to buy three pieces of art—two contemporary and one Impressionist—have led to a lawsuit and a countersuit, with both parties claiming the other didn’t hold up their side of the bargain. The money involved is substantial— $645,000.
Art dealer Philippe Hoerle-Guggenheim, who runs art galleries under the name HG Contemporary ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Books in the Internet Age
Computer Column #364
Books are old-fashioned but still important. They provide information that may have been long forgotten. No one library could hold a minute fraction of the books of the world.
Searching for specific books is a necessary skill for a researcher. Antiquers may need book references to trace the provenance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stacy Hollander Departs American Folk Art Museum
Collectors and the museum world were shocked to hear that Stacy C. Hollander, deputy director for curatorial affairs, chief curator, and director of exhibitions at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York City, is leaving on June 30 the museum where she has worked for 34 years.
Hollander said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Robert and Ruth Vogele
Wright, Chicago, Illinois
Let’s hear it for the iconoclast collector! A tip of the hat to those with discerning taste and a passion for the visual. We honor the seeker of visual perfection and give homage to collectors who endlessly seek what they must possess, then act when they find it. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buyers Shoot the Works for $8 Million at Morphy
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
On April 24 and 25, in the sixth major firearms auction since its acquisition of the James D. Julia Company, Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, piled up an impressive total of over $8 million in firearms sales. In a press release, president and auctioneer ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Supreme Court Decision Changes Sales Tax Policies at Auction Houses
In an e-mail sent on March 26, Josh Eldred, president of Robert C. Eldred, Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts, notified clients of recent changes in sales tax laws that will require the imposition of sales tax on all objects shipped to New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.
The 2018 Supreme Court’s ruling in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Attorney General Announces Settlement with Auctioneer
On April 24 New York Attorney General Letitia James announced a settlement in a contempt of court case with an auctioneer who previously defrauded consumers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Syracuse area.
Timothy W. Conroy was found in contempt of court for violating a 2008 court order ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2019
There are Impressionists and Post-Impressionists and moderns contributing to the pictorial content of this month’s “Letter,” but in terms of sheer numbers it is an exceptional collection of Lalique wares that leads the illustration count.
Elsewhere there are dummy boards and walking sticks, something for those who like to row, and, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Silhouettes “Cut Without Hands...”: A Rare Broadside for Miss Martha Ann Honeywell
The discovery of a previously unknown printed advertisement for Martha Ann Honeywell, a silhouette artist born without arms, caused this author to reexamine the young lady’s life and see if anything had surfaced in recent years that might cast new light on her unusual career.
For someone to forge ahead in ... (Read More)
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