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(Auction)"Tradition of Progress" Exhibit
A section of balcony railing made by the Rose Iron Works, Cleveland, circa 1927, serves as a focal point at the entrance of A Tradition of Progress. Overhead is one of four name boards from the steamer Queen City. Made of painted wood, it dates to 1897.
Cambridge Glass Company items ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Okito's Checker Box Brings $12,000 in Magic Auction
The hand-painted checker cabinet by Theo Bamberg, a.k.a. Okito, sold for $12,000 (est. $7000/9000).
The interest in a photograph of French magician Alexander Herrmann was surprising to Fajuri. It sold for $5760, way above the estimate of $1500/1800. The cabinet card portrait was signed on the back by Adelaide Herrmann, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, April 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
There are a lot of pictures in this month’s selection, some of them very expensive ones, but added to the mix are some fine old German glasses and a German broadsword, a Bellarmine jug, some wall lights, an odd assortment of items from a “Gentleman’s Library” and what ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Opens for $3.5 Million
The 8" cannonball that missed killing Admiral David Farragut aboard the U.S.S. Hartford at the Battle of Mobile Bay when it fell intact onto the deck of the ship brought $5332.50.
Congressional silver medal commemorating the Jeannette Arctic expedition, 1879-82, given to team member Herbert Leach, $21,330.
A collection of about 50 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)February Auctions at Sotheby's and Freeman's
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s and Freeman’s
Two auction houses on the East Coast held moderately priced sales in advance of Valentine’s Day. Sotheby’s Important Jewels auction, held in New York City on February 5, included jewelry with lower estimates than its Magnificent Jewels or Noble Jewels sales would contain. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Raises Buyer's Premium
Effective February 1, Sotheby’s enacted a new buyer’s premium rate structure. The new rate structure will be 25% on the first $200,000 of the hammer price; 20% on the portion of the hammer price above $200,000 up to and including $3 million; and 12% on any remaining amount above $3 ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show & Sale
Found in Adams County, Pennsylvania, this exceptional redware pottery teapot with raised and molded relief decoration of birds in heart-shaped nests, a chain link spout, coggled rim, and black manganese glaze, signed William Baker twice, was $27,500 from Greg Kramer.
Alice and Art Booth of Wayne, New Jersey, asked $3200 for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal Rolls the Dice on Rococo Revival--and Wins
Big and boisterous, this nine-piece bedroom suite (partially shown) from the Service collection is in the Renaissance style referred to as “Henry II.” Altogether it’s a great deal of carved oak furniture for $52,580 (est. $15,000/25,000).
Grant Oakes purchased both chandeliers and table lamps for the Service collection. Most ornate—with figures ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville: American Beauty in Its 25th Year
Now in its 25th year, the Antiques & Garden Show benefits the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, whose resident gardeners constructed the entry presentation “La Dama del Jardin” with her dramatic blooming dress. Rows of antiques dealers’ displays can be seen beyond the fountain.
Veteran exhibitor Ron Lotz ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fresh-to-Market Philadelphia Tea Table Sells for $1,895,000
The 1755-57 Potter-Crouch-Jordan family Philadelphia mahogany tea table, 29" high, top 37 3/8" inches in diameter, sold for $1,895,000 (est. $500,000/2,000,000).
A group of Sons of Liberty toasts found in the papers of William Russell (1748-1784), a schoolteacher and early member of the Sons of Liberty and a Boston Tea Party ... (Read More)
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