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(Fragment)Philadelphia Antiques Week Events
There are plenty of events during the 2013 Antiques Week in Philadelphia to keep collectors and dealers busy.
Stenton Symposium
The Stenton Symposium, “Philadelphia & the Frontier: Urban & Vernacular Furniture in the Early Eighteenth Century,” will be held Thursday, April 11. The sold-out program was rescheduled after Hurricane Sandy caused its ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rare Books in the Big Apple
Jeremy Markowitz (left) and Tom McLaughlin of Donald A. Heald Rare Books, New York City. Their natural history offerings included a first elephant folio of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman, price on request.
The first book illustrated by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction House Owners Arrested for Offering Elephant Footstools
Mary Jo Garlo, 60, and Peter Francese, 70, owners of Great American Auction Service, Inc., Hyde Park, New York, failed to obtain a permit from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) before offering in an auction two stools made of elephant feet. On April 10, New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Francis Crick’s "Secret of Life" Letter Sets Record
Seated in the Christie’s salesroom (from right) are Francis Crick’s son, Michael, a video-game inventor (www.wordzap.com); Michael’s daughter Kindra Crick, an artist (www.kindracrick.com); two unidentified women; James D. Watson; and an unidentified man. While the bidding took place, Michael snapped photographs of the auctioneer, room bidders, and phone bid-takers. Afterward ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maureen O'Sullivan Stars in Devin Moisan Auction
Half-sheet poster, 22" x 28", for The Grapes of Wrath, $5175. Moisan photo.
Otto Henry Bacher oil on canvas of “Desdemona’s Palace” in Venice, Italy brought $6900.
The scrubbed-down top and carriage of this New England Queen Anne drop-leaf table appeared to have started life together. The maple table with rule-jointed leaves ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doyle Sells Diego Giacometti Console Table for Record $1,762,500
Console table by Diego Giacometti (Swiss, 1902-1985), bronze and glass, signed “Diego” and monogrammed “DG.” The 31¾" x 67" x 15" table was accompanied by a certificate from James Lord; a letter from Pierre Matisse to Serge Matta, the French fashion designer for whom this table was made in 1975; ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collector's Mementos of Nicholas & Alexandra on the Block
A 6½" x 8½" circa 1905 gelatin silver print of the Russian imperial family aboard their yacht Standart brought $2640 (est. $1000/1500).
A 1912 menu from the yacht made $2160 (est. $500/700). It was signed by dinner guests.
This 6 5/8" x 3½" circa 1907 photogravure of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in ... (Read More)
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(Show)If You Fill It, Will They Come?
This vividly colored print was in the booth of Chloe and Jim McKinney of Chloe’s Antiques and Fine Collectibles in the Seattle area. It quickly caught the eye of one passerby and sold early in the show. The 48" x 48" framed artist’s proof, signed “Tarkay,” was priced at $750. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Paintings, and Decorative Art Sold on the Cape
Cape Cod artist Ralph Eugene Cahoon (1910-1982) painted this seaside scene with three sailors carrying two mermaids in nets. In the background a train pulls into an active seaport. A hot air balloon, often seen in Cahoon’s paintings, is in the sky. The painting sold quickly at $22,420 (est. $15,000/20,000).
This ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Show
Paul J. DeCoste Antiques, West Newbury, Massachusetts, offered a large collection of early wine glasses, which he said he had bought at Skinner. The earliest have baluster stems; later ones have air twist stems. Champagne glasses were $500 and $600 each; engraved glasses, $700 and $800 each; and common ones, ... (Read More)
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