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(Fragment)Court Orders Return of Colonel Rush Hawkins's Tiffany Sword
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
On June 4, United States Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Miller ruled that a Tiffany presentation sword and scabbard that was purchased by a collector in 1992 had been stolen from Brown University in the 1970’s. The judge ordered its return to the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biography of an Object Writing Contest
The second annual Biography of an Object writing contest kicked off on June 3. “We were thrilled with the response last year,” said contest sponsor and founder Amelia Jeffers, president of Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers in Delaware, Ohio. “We received over 100 entries from all over the United States, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Indian Art Sale Brings $2.25 Million
This 6 1/8" high John Tiktak stone sculpture sold to a Canadian collector for $43,750 (est. $20,000/40,000). Haas said a colleague at Bonhams, Ingmars Lindbergs, is “striking out into Inuit material. I never handled much of it before, but the very best artists can do very well. We invite more ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association June Show
The iron and marble table with original paint was $1850; the pair of paint-decorated chairs at the table was also $1850; the mermaid in the compote was tagged $1250; and the compote full of shells was $1450 from Jewett & Berdan.
The flow blue Indian pattern covered tureen was $360, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mike and Marianne Wilson Sale
This cherry accountant’s desk dated 1841 was attributed to western Pennsylvania and has original ocher swirl paint decoration. It has a slant lid and four recessed panel doors with two panes each and rests on high, turned feet. “It has powerful paint,” stated the private buyer. It sold for $18,880.
The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Heartland Antique Show
Susie and Rich Burmann of New London, New Hampshire, asked $16,500 for the Pennsylvania or Ohio paint-decorated blanket chest, dated 1833, and $7800 for the 29½" long copper prancing horse weathervane with an iron head, late 19th century.
Blue and white coverlet with a corner block lettered “RY/ By D.I.G./ 1839,” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wyeth, Vroman, and Landesio Pace Thomaston Sale
This carved wooden fruit display opened the auction and blew away the $600/800 estimate when it sold for $6785.
India ink drawing by Andrew Wyeth, In the Georges Islands, $60,375.
Oil on canvas ship portrait of the Alfred Keen by Rockland, Maine, artist James Gardner Babbidge, $13,800.
Sometimes good period furniture seems on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXIII, Art Glass 2013, Keramics 2013
Once the property of the czar of Russia, this is a 6" x 3½" (closed), 6 5/8" (open) St. Petersburg triptych. The painting depicts the resurrection of Christ with angels and two frightened guardsmen. In a gold-washed silver and enameled case, it is in excellent condition and sold for $57,500.
This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Pottery for Sale
Combining an early Daniel Seagle salt-glaze pot with incised historical reference to an event took this Lincoln County, North Carolina, pot to $17,050. It is quite possibly a presentation piece.
The Meaders name is synonymous with face jugs because of Lanier’s fame with this form. Lanier’s brother Edwin also produced face ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Earl Davis Wins in Suit Connected to Salander-O'Reilly
Here at M.A.D., we never know where a phone call from a reader might lead us. A call during the early summer of 2007 from a subscriber on the West Coast illustrates that point perfectly. Los Angeles art collector Maurice Katz was having trouble collecting a $32,000 debt owed to ... (Read More)
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