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(Fragment)DC Big Flea & Antiques Market Adds Modernism Show
The April 29 and 30 DC Big Flea & Antiques Market will have a special attraction—the 34th Washington Modernism Show, produced by Jim Linz of the Art Deco Society and featuring over 50 dealers and several special exhibits. The special exhibits include two modern trailers from the latter half of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buccellati Silver and a Bird Fly at Gamage
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Auction, Rockland, Maine
“The silver is going to speak, because there’s a lot of rare Buccellati in the sale,” Bruce Gamage predicted before his April 24 auction in Rockland, Maine. Italian goldsmith Mario Buccellati opened his business in 1919 in Milan. Over the years, he expanded with outlets ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal's April Estates Auction: A Spring of Simple Treasures
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
At the Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, emphasis is often placed on big events in the fall, especially the annual Louisiana Purchase Auction. The April 22 and 23 spring estates sale, however, offered many remarkable examples of 19th-century furniture and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show is alive and well. It has been resuscitated by the management team of Diana Bittel and Karen DiSaia, working with volunteers led by Anne Hamilton, Nancy Kneeland, and Nancy Taylor. They made certain that the right dealers exhibited and the right people came ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cloisonne Chinese Bottle Vase Realizes $812,500
A Chinese cloisonné bottle vase offered on iGavel (www.iGavel.com), estimated at $400/600, finished at $812,500 (includes buyer’s premium) when the sale closed on April 20. The 10" tall vase, dated as 18th/19th century, was being offered by Quinn’s Auctions, Falls Church, Virginia. Quinn’s sale of 466 lots realized a total ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.2 Million Photography Sale Offers Americana from Ansel Adams to Anonymous
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Ansel Adams, one of the 20th century’s greatest and most revered American photographers, once famously said, “The negative is the equivalent of the composer’s score, and the print the performance.” Swann’s photography department, headed by its longtime specialist Daile Kaplan, drove home the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Wilkes and Liberty No. 45
Robert Hunter, collector, dealer, and editor of Ceramics in America, has always had an interest in historical ceramics. When he learned that Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, U.K. was offering a 5" tall creamware mug with a portrait of a bewigged, red-robed, and cross-eyed fellow with words in a banner ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes to California Autograph Law Clear Committee
It was a law passed with good intentions but little notice and even less foresight.
When Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law on September 9, 2016, a bill that amended a state law that tightly regulated the sale of signed memorabilia, it sent shock waves through the industry. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arrests Made in Kansas Aggravated Robbery
Three arrests were made on April 13 in connection with an aggravated robbery incident in Garnett, Kansas, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
On Wednesday, April 12, at approximately 11:30 p.m., the Garnett Police Department responded to a report of an aggravated robbery at Papa’s Front Porch Antiques, 618 East ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Custer's Last Stand, Again
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
Before his firearms auction in Fairfield, Maine, April 11-13, James Julia remarked, “We’ve sold more guns that came off that [Little Bighorn] battlefield than, I think, more than everybody else combined.” A pistol with a connection to the Battle of the Little Bighorn contributed significantly to ... (Read More)
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