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(Fragment)Antiques to Help Beat Alzheimer's
Pewter & Wood Antiques’ ninth annual Alzheimer’s Silent Auction Benefit for Research is being held March 21 in Cave Creek, Arizona. All items are donated by customers, dealers, and supporters. Donations of antiques are currently being accepted through March 13. Donations are tax deductible, and the Alzheimer’s Association will mail ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hixenbaugh Ancient Art Relocates to Chelsea
Hixenbaugh Ancient Art (HAA) has relocated to the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City after nine years on the Upper East Side.
HAA handles art farom a variety of ancient civilizations that flourished in Europe, North Africa, Western Asia, and the Americas. The gallery is led by Randall Hixenbaugh, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic Military Images Sought
Customers and exhibitors are invited to bring historic military images to the 32nd annual Spring D.C. Antique Photo and Postcard Show, March 15, at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn in Arlington, Virginia. The photos may be scanned for future inclusion in Military Images magazine or appraised for possible future auction consignments ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)No Regrets
One of Édith Piaf’s big hits was “Non, je ne regrette rien” (No, I regret nothing), but I doubt the French chanteuse was a collector.
All collectors and dealers have regrets about purchases, some of them costly. If they deny they’ve made mistakes, they’re either too embarrassed to admit them or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peale Miniatures Sold in Florida
This miniature watercolor and gouache on ivory portrait of Robert Livingston sold for $24,900. Photo courtesy Louis Dianni.
Nine portrait miniatures by Charles Willson Peale sold for a total of $96,495.50 (with buyers’ premiums), and three portrait miniatures, not by Peale but cataloged as after Peale or in the manner of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Cabinet Brings $183,750
This Paul Evans (1931-1987), Paul Evans Studio, four-door Sculpture Front cabinet, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1964, welded, forged, torch-cut, and polychromed steel, bronze, and 23k gold leaf and painted wood, with welded signature “Paul Evans 64D,” 21½" x 99" x 24", was purchased from the artist. It is published in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show
Among the surprises from Abe’s Old Hat Antiques, Springfield, Illinois, was this musical group fashioned by David Campbell, an Illinois folk artist working in the 1980s who had been a metalsmith by trade. When Campbell retired, he fashioned things from junk metal. The complete quartet was $18,000.
Country Treasures, Preston, Maryland, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Doug Supinger Carries on the Fiddler's Tradition
Show manager Doug Supinger of Troy, Ohio, brought some things of his own to sell, including this desirable lighthouse hooked rug for $875.
Cynthia Brooks of MC Antiques specializes in early flags; the example at upper right with 38 stars in a medallion pattern had sold. The 38-star flag at left ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Horst Sells Tannehill and Coleburn Collections
This Confederate Civil War letter signed by Robert E. Lee regarding the formation of the 39th Virginia Volunteers Infantry Regiment, addressed to Col. Charles Smith, sold for $10,600. The letter descended in the family of Smith to his granddaughter Marie Preston Smith, wife of well-known antiques collector Titus Geesey.
This fine ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Thrill of the Hunt at Copley's Winter Sale
A. B. Frost (1851-1928) is perhaps best known for his illustrations for Tom Sawyer and Uncle Remus. This 14" x 22" Quail—A Covey Rise by Frost was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons as part of a chromolithographed set entitled “Shooting Pictures.”The original watercolor was first purchased by Clarence Otis Bigelow, ... (Read More)
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