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(Auction)Lady Washington Plate Soars
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
A historic plate was the subject of intense bidding in the gallery and on the phone when it opened at $15,000 at Grogan & Company’s sale on June 5 in the Boston gallery. It raced to $244,000 (includes buyer’s premium) against the estimated $25,000/50,000. The 9?" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Randi Ona, Wayne, New Jersey
In the Trade
Randi Ona knew early on that she liked antiques. As a girl, she spent weekends with her grandparents in Paterson, New Jersey. “My grandmother loved antiques,” Ona recalled. “We’d go to tag sales every week.” Paterson had been home to some great silk mills during the heyday of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vending Machine Restorer Banned from Operating in North Carolina
A restoration company that repeatedly failed to complete work or return antiques to consumers is temporarily banned from operating in North Carolina, the state’s Attorney General Roy Cooper announced on April 28.
“Taking money from consumers and then failing to finish the job is simply the wrong way to do business,” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Sale
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Quiet but dedicated Massachusetts conservationist and philanthropist Erhart Rudolph Muller (1909-2015) and his wife, Ruth Tate Atwood Muller, began collecting Shaker art and artifacts in the 1940s. Ruth, who had arrived in the 1940s at Harvard, Massachusetts, as a librarian and married Erhart, died at 97 in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago's Spring Design Sales
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
David Rago sold 20th- and 21st-century design from three catalogs on June 4 and 5 in Lambertville, New Jersey. It was the first of the June design sales, followed by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Bonhams in New York City and Wright in Chicago. This sale went ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Fails to Pay Tax, Pays Huge Settlement Instead
A settlement with Aby J. Rosen, a collector of contemporary art, has been adjudicated for his failing to pay millions in sales and use taxes on art acquisitions made by his companies. Rosen will pay $7 million following an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office.
A major figure in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Imaginary Conversation Leads to a Proposed "Collector Code of Conduct"
Opinion
I imagine a well-known antiques dealer saying, “I think every dealer hopes for knowledgeable collectors who look for a win-win situation and have the means to follow through. Anyone who deals in retail finds most people desirable to deal with. Yet there is a segment that makes it so hard that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antiques in 2 Barns
Jennifer Sabin is stressing the basics when she debuts Antiques in 2 Barns, a small, one-day show on Wednesday, September 14, at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Hilliard, Ohio. The timing takes advantage of buyers in the area for the Springfield (Ohio) Extravaganza later that week. The shows are 35 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Hong Kong and New York City have seen much of the major saleroom action in recent times, though by the time this issue appears, London will be fully up and running again. A couple of personal favourites from the Impressionist and Modern picture sales held in London in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Sales Executive Settles Tax Case
Art sales executive Victoria Gelfand, whose companies failed to pay New York sales and use tax on more than 30 works of art purchased by her companies, has agreed to pay the state $210,000 in sales and use tax combined.
From 2005 through 2013, Gelfand employed two companies to engage in ... (Read More)
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