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(Issue Story)Affordable Jewelry & Watches
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
When a press release arrived broadcasting the news that “The Mid-Market Struts Its Stuff in Rago’s Big $1.8 Million April Auction Weekend” after we had decided to feature affordable jewelry at auction (hovering around $1000 and under) this month, it seemed the planets had aligned to support ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
There is much Meissen in this month’s selection—the all-Meissen “Delphinium” and Marouf collections sold by Bonhams and the magnificent Meissen menagerie that made up the main portion of a Sotheby’s sale that dispersed property from the collections of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie.
Add to that an Iron Age ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Face behind the "Faceman"
Auction Law and Ethics
Templeton Peck. Do you remember him from the 1980’s? He was the slick con man on The A-Team TV series (1983-87). Peck was such a pretty boy he was often called “Faceman.” I always liked the show and often recall the wry-smiling Faceman when I think of ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Web Site Marketing
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of creating quantifiable and achievable marketing goals. This month I highlight the benefits of developing and maintaining an effective Web site. This is a very broad topic that I may come back to in the future because there is much in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pryor Dodge: The Bicycling Collector
Pryor Dodge in his SoHo loft in April 2013. The bicycle on the wall, patented by John McCloskey of Ontario, Canada, in 1896, has a one-piece bentwood hickory frame. Schinto photo.
Dodge on Rue Saint-Vincent in Montmartre in 1971, just a few months after he bought his first high-wheel bicycle and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dave, Dan, and Lorraine Braskie, Quaboag Valley Antiques Center, Palmer, Massachusetts
From left: Dave and Dan Braskie. (Lorraine was off on the day we visited.)
Exterior of the group shop.
One of the crowded no-nonsense aisles in the Quaboag Valley Antiques Center.
The furniture section of the center. Much of it is devoted to Dan and Dave’s inventory.
Oil on canvas painting of a red ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The 1%'s 18%
Editorial
The superrich really are different, if numbers released by the Singapore-based firm Wealth-X are to be believed. A report released on June 5 claims that the world’s top ten billionaire art collectors have an average of 18% of their net worth tied up in their art collections.
The number one collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George
Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, will be the site of an unusual major art exhibition beginning this June. The collection has received a $200,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support from the Charles R. Wood Foundation and other sources, to mount the first exhibition of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Saline Antiques Market to Fill Ann Arbor Gaps
The new Saline Antiques Market will be held June 15-16, July 20-21, August 17-18, September 14-15, November 17, and December 8 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor, Michigan.According to a press release, when the promoters of the Ann Arbor Antiques Market chose to refocus their efforts to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Coping with an Antiques Paradigm Shift
Landschaft mit Vulkan (Landscape with Volcano), 30¼" x 28½", by Franz Sedlacek (Austrian, 1891-1945) sold for $188,800. It was the sale’s top-dollar painting. In 1927, the year he painted Landschaft, Sedlacek joined the Viennese Secession, a group generally opposed to academic art. He also worked in the New Objectivity style, ... (Read More)
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