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(Show)Oglebay Institute's 60th Annual Antiques Show & Sale
The miniature writing desk featuring four interior cubbies and fantastic inlay work was 18th-century Italian ($6500); the miniature desk/stationery box having ivory decoration could be had for $2200. Both were offered by Paul Fischer and Dannie Chandler of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Sold out of the booth of Sorisio's Antiques, Leechburg, Pennsylvania, was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Aetna Reverse-Painted Glass Sign Sells for $51,300
Aetna Insurance Co. reverse-painted glass sign with mother-of-pearl inlay, $51,300.
"That Aetna sign was one of the most impressive reverse glass signs we've ever seen, just beautiful," said Mike Eckles of Showtime Auction Services.
Eckles was speaking of an Aetna Insurance Company reverse-painted glass sign with mother-of-pearl inlay, 34" square, in excellent ... (Read More)
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(Show)"The Jewel in the Crown"
Frontispiece of the first edition of an early (1665) treatise on tobacco, Commentarius De Abusu Tabaci... by Danish physician Simonis Paulli (1603-1680). Priced at GBP3250 (or $5390) by Sokol Books, London, the book also includes sections on tea, coffee, and chocolate and was at the forefront of the debate over ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Elijah Pierce Carving Breaks Auction Record
Presidents and Convicts, 1941, sold for $87,500 (est. $10,000/15,000), setting a record auction price for carver Elijah Pierce. Born in 1892 to a former Mississippi slave, Pierce eventually settled in Columbus, Ohio. He was a barber, a lay minister, and a wood carver and is best known for his religious ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The ADA On-Line Show
There were no lines, no traffic, no bad weather, no tickets, no dealer-to-dealer preshow buying, and no standing in line at the bar. The Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA) on-line show could be experienced anywhere-on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. This on-line-only show ran ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The George D. Horst Fine Art Sale
Gustaf Edolf Fjaestad (Swedish, 1868-1948), Pool in Winter, inscribed "G Fjaestad 13" on the bottom left. It also retains on the back a label with "The Swedish Exhibition 1916" and "Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco 1915." Horst bought the 47 3/8" x 573/4" oil on canvas from a Swedish exhibition ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Sale of the Horst Collection Is "Perfect Storm"
Winter Sunlight by Edward Redfield, oil on canvas, 381/4" x 50", $710,500. Photo courtesy Freeman's.
Marshes of Long Point by Frank Benson, oil on canvas, 36" x 44", $662,500. Photo courtesy Freeman's.
On Sunday, March 30, Freeman's in Philadelphia sold the George D. Horst collection of 63 European and American 19th- and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plenty of Variety at Cottone's March Sale
This 16" x 201/4" signed oil on canvas genre painting by Felix Schlesinger (German, 1833-1910), in original condition and its original frame, opened at $10,000 and went all the way to $39,100 (est. $15,000/25,000) to a Pennsylvania buyer.
This appealing 11" x 14" signed oil on canvas by Cornelius David ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Boston Blockfront Chest Leads Willis Henry Sale
This 18th-century Boston mahogany blockfront chest of drawers sold on the phone for $73,160.
A bidder favorite was Harbor Mists, a view of Gloucester harbor with vessels under sail, by Swedish-American artist John F. Carlson. It sold on the phone for $8260. The painting retained labels from the Grand Central Art ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
David Allen Fine Arts, Arlington, Virginia, had a lot of traffic. Allen "usually sells $20,000 to $30,000 here at the show," and sometimes sells things for a lot more. He offered a port wine server with spigot, stamped Tiffany, that he found in Italy, for $3500 (middle shelf, second from ... (Read More)
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