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(Issue Story)Memorial Service For John J. Snyder Jr.
A memorial service for John J. Snyder Jr. will be held on June 8, at 2 p.m., at Rock Ford Plantation, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For more information, call (717) 392-7223.
Originally published in the June 2014 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2014 Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Some Big Prices at Briggs Auction
A pair of lounge chairs on welded and patinated steel frames by Paul Evans brought $33,040.
There was competition for a Chester County, Pennsylvania, sampler dated 1830 and worked by Hannah Bittle, who stitched flowers, animals, and the names of her parents and grandparents and surrounded them all with a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Wild Cherry, signed lower right, a 28" x 30" oil on canvas in a Newcomb-Macklin frame, $230,500. Painted in 1928, it had been acquired in 1931 by Mr. and Mrs. James Hillman of Pittsburgh. Garber wrote to James Hillman’s wife, Margaret, describing Wild Cherry: “The scene is ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country Show Evolves and Survives
This Mexican child’s jacket was priced at $65 at Los Angeles dealer Andrew Munana Collection’s American Indian art booth.
This 53" long wood and upholstery settee was priced at $1695 at Atherton Antiques, Menlo Park, California.
This Pennsylvania green-painted and stenciled flowers blanket chest cost $1895 at F. & B. Rosenquist, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The June 2014 Heartland Antique Show
Butter molds: (top) cornucopia, $795; snowflake, $895; (bottom) Pennsylvania Dutch tulip, double-sided with star-in-circle on the back, $850; Pennsylvania Dutch heart, half round, $995, all from John H. Rogers Antiques, New London, New Hampshire.
Continuous-arm Windsor in bittersweet paint, $1950, and New England tavern table, $2900, from Bruce Rigsby of Lancaster, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXIV, Keramics 2014, Art Glass 2014
Rookwood Iris glaze vase, decorated by Kitaro Shirayamadani, 1909, moonlight scene with summer birch trees in delicate shades of gray and white, 8 7/8" high, un-crazed, $11,500.
This Rookwood Mahogany glaze vase was a trial piece by William McDonald in 1898 with painted and incised stylized lotus blossoms and leaves. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana in Atlanta
Massachusetts mid-18th-century highboy, $39,325.
An early 19th-century Empire table by New York furniture maker Charles H. Lannuier, with white square marble top, $36,300.
Federal eagle-inlaid and figured mahogany tall-case clock, circa 1800, attributed to Matthew Egerton, $28,435.
Several pieces of high-end Americana crossed the block at Ahlers & Ogletree in Atlanta, Georgia, during ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Attracts Buyers to Allen Estate Sale
Thought to be an image of the Adirondacks, this 1860s Hudson Valley school oil on canvas of a camp in the mountains reached $1265 (est. $200/300).
Dated 1871 and sporting an illegible signature, this oil on canvas portrait of a Confederate colonel is thought to be a likeness to General ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
Originally pendant lamps, the Murano table lamps were repurposed by The Find, Highwood, Illinois. They were $2400 the pair. Santo crowns on Lucite bases were $195 each, and a $225 Murano blue set plus a painted porcelain box, circa 1890, rest on a $750 vintage brass bamboo cart.
Time Gallery, Highland ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Talk Show Personality Glenn Beck Buys D-Day-Flown Flag for $386,500
The 36" x 39" (widest part) flag is now in the collection of Glenn Beck. Photo courtesy Bonhams.
A D-Day-flown flag from the American vessel LST-493 sold for $386,500 (includes buyer’s premium) at the Bonhams auction of World War II memorabilia on June 5 in New York City. The flag, estimated ... (Read More)
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