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(Young Collectors)Just Be Yourself
The Young Collector
Let’s talk for a minute about Brimfield. No, not that one, another one (named for that one), a little farther west: Brimfield, Ohio.
Don’t feel bad if you haven’t heard of it. Most people haven’t. Brimfield, Ohio, gets lost easily, pinched as it is between the suburban sprawl that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Barbara Boardman Johnson, Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire, and Cave Creek, Arizona
Barbara Boardman Johnson in New Hampshire.
Johnson’s shop Pewter & Wood in Enfield, New Hampshire. It’s on a dirt road, just like her place in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Eight bottle dolls (actually, one is mounted on a tin can rather than a bottle). “They’re under $350 each,” Johnson said.
Interior views of Johnson’s ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Annual Maritime and China Trade Auction
“It’s going to a great home,” said Bourgeault after knocking down the painted silk 16" x 14" mourning escutcheon (hatchment) that was part of the elaborate funeral of Thomas Hancock in August 1764. It had descended in the Hancock family, spending years folded up and in a closet before being ... (Read More)
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(Show)Twenty Years of Folk Fest
An unusual group of ten characters made from roots, limbs, sawdust, and glue date from the late 19th century. They were offered only as a group for $9900 by Don Schweikert of Hickory, North Carolina.
Mary Proctor was surrounded by her work in her booth that was set up like a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Scherenschnitte to Shipwrecks: The Annual Ellsworth Antiques Show
The impressive silkwork and oil painting, featuring a velvet hull and silk sails, by Thomas Willis in 1909 was in great condition and considered one of his best examples. It was priced at $12,500. The 1930’s New England gilded fish weathervane was $6400, and the painted New England faux tiger ... (Read More)
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(MAD News)Manions International Auction House Faces Lawsuit over Consignor Funds
Erlene W. Krigel, acting as the trustee in the bankruptcy case of collector Harold Ross Henshaw (1938-2013), filed suit in federal court in Missouri on August 13 against Manions International Auction House in Kansas City, Kansas, and against its president and chief operating officer, Joseph Tucker (a.k.a. Jody Tucker). Manions, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Park, Backus, and Thieme Pace McInnis Sale
Small (4½" x 5¼") oil painting by Korean artist Park Soo-Keun (1914-1965), $119,025.
Anthony Thieme oil on canvas, White Birches in an Autumn Landscape, $21,850. McInnis photo.
Albert Ernest “Bean” Backus (1906-1990), oil on canvas of a Florida landscape, $20,700.
The original paint of the matching flame graining on the drawer fronts was ... (Read More)
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()Rare New England Furniture Form Stars at Americana Sale
This 23½" high chip-carved spoon rack with crusty black paint carried an estimate of $800/1200, but there was a lot of interest in the early accessories, and $9000 is what it took to buy it. Stephen Corrigan of Stephen-Douglas, Rockingham, Vermont, took it home.
Although it was clearly a good day ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique Indian Art Show
Marcy Burns American Indian Arts, New York City, was asking $19,000 for this circa 1895 Hopi jar attributed to Nampeyo, from the Dwight and Lorraine Lanmon collection. Burns called the show “wonderful,” adding that the show was “well attended by collectors in a buying mood.”
These circa 1890 Arapahoe moccasins cost ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William and Mary Winner
This walnut William and Mary period escritoire or fall-front desk is perhaps the only surviving American-made example of the form. It was the top-priced lot at Skinner’s Americana auction in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on August 10. Dennis Carr, curator of American decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, ... (Read More)
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