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(Fragment)Morphy Auctions Acquires Victorian Casino Antiques
Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, has acquired Victorian Casino Antiques (VCA), an auction house in Las Vegas, Nevada, that specializes in vintage gambling/coin-op machines and antique advertising. Terms of the deal were not announced. Victorian Casino Antiques’ long-established corporate name will be retained, with the new tagline “a Morphy Auctions ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Invaluable Files Trademark Lawsuit
Will Internet users confuse AuctionZing with AuctionZip? Are “zip” and “zing” synonymous?
Yes, according to a lawsuit filed by Invaluable, LLC and AuctionZip, LLC against Storage Unit Auction List, LLC, which does business as AuctionZing and auctionzing.com. The suit was filed on July 21 in federal court in Boston.
Invaluable (once known ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Robert Girouard, West Granby, Connecticut
Rob Girouard with some of his favorite glass.
Mid-19th-century conical amber quart bottle with pulled white loopings, attributed to the Whitney glass factory in southern New Jersey, $2000. Girouard said, “In all my years I’ve only seen one other. It sold at auction in south Jersey for about thirty-five hundred [dollars].”
Midwestern ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Old Technology in a New World
A plug-in external hard drive can back up all files on an old or new computer in a few hours unattended.
Computer Column #309
John P. Reid, [email protected]
New developments in computers come so fast that there is danger of being caught with obsolete technology. Nowhere is this truer than in recordkeeping.
The inventory ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Revolutionary War Map Tops Portsmouth Auction
The top lot of the sale was the 16" x 30¼" hand-drawn map of the Battle of Monmouth by Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy (1746-1804), the cartographer and aide-de-camp of Marquis de Lafayette. It was estimated at $90,000/150,000, but a private collector, bidding by phone, had to pay $486,400 to own ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show
Navajo rug specialist Eric Phillips of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was asking $48,000 for this 1910-20 large Zia jar, 17" tall x 22" diameter. “The show was well attended,” Phillips told M.A.D., “with a lot of interest in everything. I sold more historic jars than Navajo weaving.”
This circa 1900 Apache figural ... (Read More)
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(Show)21st Annual Folk Fest
Jackie Haliburton’s memory paintings focus on hats and body shapes within a southern African-American community. Butt Stop is typical of her work. She asked $1500 for this large (3' x 8') acrylic on canvas.
The artist John “Cornbread” Anderson was widely represented at Folk Fest. His 36" square oils on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Objects of Art Santa Fe
Michael Smith, who has a gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, was asking $18,500 for this large (74" x 46") circa 1920 Navajo weaving of a Hopi kachina. Smith said he’d met “a lot of people.” By the day after the opening, he’d sold “a nice painting,” but “business ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Crown Jewel of Maine Antiques Shows
A $10,000 American celestial globe stood prominently with show newcomer Michael Corbett of The Federalist Antiques, Kenilworth, Illinois. Standing on a tripod pedestal with paw feet and acanthus leaf carvings on the knees, it was made by T. M. Bardin of London in the early 19th century.
Robert Foley of Gray, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 Great Southwestern Antique Show
An anonymous buyer seemed entranced by the items in Susan Swift’s space. She and Erich Erdoes do business in Santa Fe under her name. That buffalo robe, circa 1890, was a magnificent $25,000. The beaded and quilled bags to the right were $7500 each.
John Durbin of Redding, California, displayed this ... (Read More)
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