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(Fragment)Dorflinger Punch Bowl Brings $114,000
George Siek ran a successful wholesale supply business in Florida before he retired to Highlands, North Carolina, where he opened the Museum of American Cut and Engraved Glass and shared his passion with visitors for the last 25 years. “I will close the museum in November,” said 87-year-old Siek a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)North and South: Stellar Stoneware and Redware Hit the Market at Crocker Farm
Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
“This particular auction may make such pieces seem almost commonplace. We can assure you, they are not.” Appropriate words, as read in the catalog introduction for Crocker Farm’s July 22 sale. The Zipps’ summer sale consisted of 622 lots and grossed $1,129,555 (with buyers’ premiums). “This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Feast of Smalls at Laughlin's Summer Sale
Laughlin Auctions, Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions
While covering sales at Laughlin Auctions, I have learned that with three auctioneers working simultaneously throughout the building, it is impossible to see it all. No one can be in several places at once, and with only a rough idea of the sequence of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 43rd Annual Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Show
Stratton, Vermont
The Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association (VADA) annual show was held July 21 and 22 this year, and for the first time in about 25 years it was back in the Stratton Mountain Base Lodge in Stratton, Vermont. The base lodge sits on Stratton Mountain. It’s a very large, sprawling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scrimshaw Record Set at Eldred's
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
For its annual Cape Cod marine auction under the big tent on July 20, Eldred’s in East Dennis, Massachusetts, began as it meant to go on. It was a buying kind of day, and bidders were ready. Eldred’s was more than ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in Case of Historical Documents
On July 20 Daniel Witek, 54, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in U.S. District Court. Court papers state that Witek is also known as Daniel Mountbatten-Witek and Walter Payne.
According to the plea agreement, Witek was a volunteer at the Buffalo History Museum in 2013. While volunteering ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Apollo 11 Lunar Bag, Bought for $995, Sells for $1.8 Million
A bag used by Neil Armstrong to bring back to earth samples of lunar material sold for $1,812,500 (with buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s on July 20 to a “private American.” The estimate was $2/4 million.
Photo courtesy Sotheby’s
This wasn’t the first time this bag had been offered at auction. In fact, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pretty Things to Kill Folks With
Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maine
Running a tightly focused specialty auction can be a challenge, even for an experienced auctioneer. He runs the risk of not being able to attract a sufficient number of bidders to attain “critical mass” to generate buying enthusiasm, even with ample use of absentee and phone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Tarkington Collection, Part I
Seeck Auctions, St. Louis, Missouri
Photos courtesy Seeck Auctions
Since the start of his career in the 1980s, auctioneer Jim Seeck of Seeck Auctions has had the pleasure of selling some of the finest examples of carnival glass of his career to Carlton and Jane Tarkington.
On July 15, Seeck had the bittersweet ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art and Tribal Art at Cobbs
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy The Cobbs Auctioneers
It was all about art at the midsummer auction at The Cobbs Auctioneers in Peterborough, New Hampshire, on July 15. The top lot was an oil on canvas by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), Moat Mountain from the Intervale, 1872, in a Foster ... (Read More)
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