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(Auction)In the Details and the History
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
Hap Moore is in his 31st year of antiques auctioneering, and he’s hit a comfortable stride. He holds auctions only every few months, but they usually feature items of strong historical interest, centered particularly on the southern Maine and New Hampshire region. This year apparently ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pennsylvania Representatives Introduce Ivory Legislation with Antiques Exemption
On February 2 two members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Madeleine Dean and Tarah Toohil, announced that they would soon introduce legislation “prohibiting the import, sale, purchase, barter or possession of ivory or rhinoceros horn.”
When the text of the proposed law was published on February 23, it included an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cast-Iron and Steam Toys
Pook & Pook, Inc. with Noel Barrett, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett
Eberhard Luethke’s collection of steam engines and Stephen Sachs’s collection of cast-iron toys offered by Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on March 31 and April 1 was a test of two ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Simple Is Best
Computer Column #340
John P. Reid, <[email protected]>
About 1960, the aerospace industry coined the acronym KISS for “keep it simple stupid” (no comma) and insisted it in no way implied the listener was stupid; rather the opposite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle). We computer users need to remind ourselves of the KISS principle.
Speech-to-text smartphone app taking ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Heroes of the Slavery Era Are Standouts at $1.2 Million African Americana Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
“How do you come back from that?” Jenelle Watler, Swann’s operations director and one of its auctioneers, asked her audience after the applause ended. She had just hammered down a previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman for $161,000 (including buyer’s premium) in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's to Open New Location in Los Angeles
In April Christie’s will open a new 5400-square-foot two-story flagship location in Beverly Hills, California. The auction house says there is growing demand among Los Angeles-area collectors for greater access to buying and selling opportunities, fine art advisory and appraisal services, private selling exhibitions, auction highlight tours, and art-related estate ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Arrested in Antiques Mall Burglary
On Thursday, February 16, at approximately 8:48 p.m., officers with the Harrisonburg (Virginia) Police Department responded to the Rolling Hills Antique Mall at 779 East Market Street for what has been investigated as a commercial burglary. Officers on scene were able to view security footage showing the suspect entering the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Rules in Basquiat Case
On February 27 Judge Charles E. Ramos ruled in favor of Michael P. Schulhof in his suit against art curator and consultant Lisa Jacobs of New York City. Schulhof alleged that Jacobs had skimmed $1 million off the sale of Future Sciences Versus the Man by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Nancy McClelland's Homage to George Washington and Old New York
On January 22, 1932, more than 3000 luminaries from the arts, academia, politics, design, and New York society gathered at the Waldorf Astoria for the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects’ annual ball. Departing from the society’s usual Francophilia, the theme was “A Pageant of Old New York,” in honor of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctionata Files for Insolvency
Online auction house Auctionata (www.auctionata.com) filed for insolvency on March 1. “Our business operations will discontinue,” an e-mail from the firm read.
The firm, based in Germany, had tried to find financing. On February 1 Auctionata had sent an e-mail stating that the firm had filed for preliminary insolvency on January ... (Read More)
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