Search Stories
Now showing 4990-5000 of 9788 result(s)
(Fragment)Cowan's Acquires Little John's Auction Service
Cowan’s Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, has acquired Little John’s Auction Service of Orange, California. Completed in January, the deal makes Cowan’s the third-largest auction house of antique firearms in the United States. It brings together two companies with more than 60 years of combined experience and more than $600 million ... (Read More)
|
(Issue Story)Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels Sale Caps a Year of Stellar Results
This circa 1920 signed Tiffany & Co. platinum, moonstone, and sapphire brooch designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany sold to a phone bidder for $62,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). It was accompanied by an AGL report stating that the sapphire is of Ceylon origin, with no indications of heating. Sotheby’s, New York.
When Lisa ... (Read More)
|
(Issue Story)Elise Abrams, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Elise Abrams’s shop is just north of Great Barrington on Route 7. Part of it was originally a Dairy Queen.
Elise Abrams.
A very partial interior view.
Abrams said a service like this (which is for 12 although only eight are set up) averages about $300 per piece.
Art Deco Czech geometric cut ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Nashville in Transition: Year without a Heart
The announcement last year that the 33rd edition of the well-known Heart of Country Antiques Showwould be the last saddened collectors and dealers for whom the event had become a festive annual reunion. The Opryland Hotel in Nashville, once merely large, had more than tripled in physical size during the ... (Read More)
|
(Young Collectors)2014: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
It’s a fitting thing to be wrapping this up on New Year’s Eve, that night when we indulge ourselves, overindulge ourselves, in any number of ways including nostalgic reflection. Sometimes, like in the afternoons of wet fall days or in the sticky middle-of-summer mornings (or anywhere on Interstate ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Convicted Art Dealer's Release Revoked
Two things not to do after pleading guilty to fraud in connection with the sale of fake artwork are to sell more artwork and to edit the Wikipedia page of a witness who testified before the grand jury. Those things constitute what the United States Attorney in Connecticut claims art ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Art Dealer Charged with Money Laundering
Art dealer Nathan Isen, 61, of Villanova, Pennsylvania, was charged on January 8 with one count of money laundering. According to court papers, Isen is accused of selling 12 pieces of artwork in 2012 in exchange for $20,000 in cash, for the purpose of laundering the $20,000, which he understood ... (Read More)
|
(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Make a List
Auction Law and Ethics
“The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.”
I’ve long liked that Mark Twain line, and the message rings true for selecting the “right” auctioneer versus just any other. When a consignor seeks to hire an ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Raccoon Creek Antiques and George Allen Stave Off Sheriff's Sale by Declaring Bankruptcy
On January 19, Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, LLC and dealer George Allen each filed for bankruptcy in federal court in Pennsylvania. The January 19 bankruptcy filing stopped a January 20 sheriff’s sale that would have been conducted by the sheriff of Berks County, by order of the Court ... (Read More)
|
(Show)The Lebanon Antique Show Finds a New Home, but for How Long?
A variety of coverlets and quilts were displayed by the Warren County Historical Society, which hosts the Lebanon Quilt & Fabric Arts Show each March.
This 50" wide end-of-the-line trolley bench from Marietta, Ohio, had a back that flipped from one side to the other. Judi and Bob Fryer of Fryer ... (Read More)
|
1 (800) 752-8521 • PO Box 1429 • Waldoboro, ME 04572
