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(Auction)Successful Sale in Spite of Storm Delay
President Ashton Thomas said the auction house likes to schedule fine jewelry on Sunday morning, just to wake everyone up. Top lot of the entire sale was this platinum and diamond ring with a central stone of over 10.46 carats flanked by smaller baguettes. The ring sold for $196,800. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fred Thompson Hand-Colored Photo Brings Thousands
$3520. Photo courtesy Michael Ivankovich.
At Michael Ivankovich’s October 11, 2013, auction in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a Fred Thompson hand-colored photo sold for $3520 (includes buyer’s premium).
Fred Thompson was a photographer from Portland, Maine, who, like his contemporary Wallace Nutting, sold hand-colored photos during the early 20th century. Thompson visited Nutting’s Southbury, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two More High-Flying Folk Art Lots
Underbid by a collector, Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, Pennsylvania, paid $545,100 for Views.... Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.
In an upcoming issue, we’ll have a closer look at two auctions that added to the list of folk art lots that have sold for over $500,000. At Pook & ... (Read More)
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(Show)Avenue Antiques, Art & Design Show
Bridges Over Time, Newburgh, New York, sold several pieces of furniture including a petrified wood table with an iron base to a design firm. In the above picture is a bronze sculpture on a Formica base by Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas, a great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. The asking price was $9500. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fifty Shades of Blue
Three phone bidders competed for this historical blue Staffordshire Mt. Pleasant Classical Institute plate, 10 5/8" in diameter, impressed “Clews,” one of three known examples, and in excellent condition. It sold for $21,330 (est. $4000/6000).
This 9 1/8" x 11¾" Staffordshire Baltimore platter sold on the phone for $7110 (est. $2500/3500) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printed and Manuscript Americana: Maps, Memoirs, and Mug Shots
This album of 31 photographs of a whale hunt and other scenes of Inupiaq village life sold to a dealer for $18,750 (est. $2000/3000). Suzanne Rognon Bernardi and her brother, Jack Rognon, were the photographers in Wales, Alaska, in 1901-02. Pictured are two Inupiaq hunters butchering a whale.
The top lot ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Los Angeles Antiques Art + Design Show 2013
A.G. Rizzoli is an artist whom Bonnie Grossman of Ames Gallery, Berkeley, California, discovered in 1990. A woman came to the gallery with four color drawings and 39 assorted pieces on vellum to sell. “I bought them all,” said Grossman, and there have been numerous shows of his work in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Millersburg Glass with a Twist
The glassmaker threw it all at this purple Four Pillars vase, twisting the body, flattening the rim, and swinging it out from its original 7" length to 12". A one-of-a-kind whimsy, it sold for $1607.
An outstanding piece of Millersburg, this 11" purple Peacock at Urn tri-corner bowl combined a rare ... (Read More)
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(Auction)J. Garland Warren's Country Store Collection
This 35" x 47" sign for Armour’s pork and beans, embossed tin in a wooden frame, late 19th or early 20th century, brought $2585 (est. $600/1200).
This 58" high Royal Crown Cola sign of enameled tin, early 20th century, sold for $1058 (est. $250/500).
This 7½" x 59" wooden sign with “Oliver ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Potomack Company Sale Tops $1.4 Million
The high lot of the Potomack Company sale was this carved sandstone head of a bodhisattva. The 10" high head is thought to have come from cave 17 at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province, west of Beijing. More than 50,000 pieces of carved art were found in the ... (Read More)
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