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(Show)The Pure and Simple Antique Show
Shenandoah Valley pie safe, Rappahannock or Culpeper County, Virginia, grain painted, four tins, $2800 from Bob and Carole Closser of Red Kettle Antiques, Carthage, Indiana.
“Rabbits for Sale” sign, $110 from Tim and Charline Chambers of Missouri Plain Folk, Sikeston, Missouri.
Uncut hooked rug pattern, “E.S. Frost & Co. Biddeford, ME / ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Historic East Berlin Antiques Show
Mark Wannemacher of East Berlin, Pennsylvania, asked $975 for this copper kettle made by John Kidd in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1796.
Lynne Oppenheimer of Ivy Hill Primitives, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, asked $965 for the very large English pewter plate, 1720-40; the punched tin lantern was $385; the soapstone inkwell, $195; the stoneware ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Changes Afoot for Sotheby's Boston Office and for Its Former Director
William S. “Bill” Cottingham. Litwin Media photo.
Cottingham Fine Art, 67½ Chestnut Street, Boston. Schinto photo.
One day in mid-January a sign maker put up new signage on the 19th-century carriage house at 67½ Chestnut Street at the foot of Beacon Hill where Sotheby’s regional Boston office had been located for the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greater York Antiques Show 2015
The line was long on Friday. The weather was too gorgeous on Saturday for a really big crowd, but the right people came, and business was done.
Kelly Kinzle of New Oxford, Pennsylvania, offered this Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, walnut Dutch cupboard, fresh to market, for $14,000.
Ruth Rogers of School House Farm ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Listen
Auction Law and Ethics
Right out of law school I was routinely in court to appear on some motion or another—occasionally to try a small case. Despite the theory, philosophy, public policy, published opinions, moot court, and all the rest that constitute the law school experience, the real world is where ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ADA Online Show
The Internet has changed the antiques business in many ways. For example, the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA), founded in 1984 with the object of making the buying and selling of antiques more professional, held its third three-day online show April 28-30. The online shows are designed to enable ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Stages of an Antiques Collector's Life--A Curious Journey
Some people never lose their innocence to passion. Sometimes collecting antiques never gets into one’s blood. Not all collectors reach the final stage of their journey; people stop at different way stations to full-blown accumulating insanity. For others, collecting antiques can be a life journey. Like those fabulous characters in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Crossing the T's and Dotting the I's
Editorial
While on a cruise in 1999, Mattie King and her husband (now deceased) went to an auction conducted by Park West Galleries, Inc. They bought a complete set of Salvador Dalí’s Divine Comedy prints, spending $165,000. The set came with a certificate of authenticity and appraisals.
Ten years passed and King ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings Auction Brings Highest Total in 16 Years
Old Coast Road, 30" x 36", by William Wendt (1865-1946), which had a two-page spread in the catalog and was pictured on the back cover as well, broke the million-dollar mark, selling for $1,565,000 (est. $400,000/600,000). This painting was on the cover of Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kennedy Blanket Brings $14,400
This navy-blue lap robe embroidered with the presidential seal, one of two from the presidential limousine of President John F. Kennedy, sold to a Texas museum for $14,400. McInnis photo.
This Federal period portrait miniature of a gentleman, 3" x 2¼", in a 14k gold frame in the original presentation case ... (Read More)
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