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(Auction)American Indian Art
Eastern Plains three-bladed knife club, 39" long, circa 1870, $180,000. The club has beveled edges and a serrated back ridge. The haft is painted in red, blue, and yellow pigment and studded with tacks. Four open hands or paws and four stylized thunderbirds are carved on opposite sides of club. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Tosses Lawsuit over Detroit Institute of Arts Admissions Policy
On April 3, Judge John C. Foster of the Macomb County (Michigan) Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) over its admissions policy.
On August 7, 2012, voters in the Michigan counties of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb had approved a ten-year millage increase to support ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decision Reached: Sotheby’s to Sell Esmerian Folk Art Bonanza
It’s as final a word as any could be about the often up-in-the-air business. Sotheby’s will offer the 212 pieces of folk art formerly at New York City’s American Folk Art Museum at a public auction at the end of this year or early in the next. The possibility that ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Antiques and Folk Art Show Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
David and Mary Jo Field of Croydon House Antiques, Enterprise, Ontario, offered this circa 1890 Cree chief’s jacket with blue, yellow, and green beads, horse hair, and ermine pelts for $7500.
Clay and Carol Benson of Port Hope, Ontario, had no trouble selling this open-top dish dresser, Nova Scotia, circa ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Casablanca Poster Sells for $107,550
$107,550. Heritage Auctions photo.
A six-sheet movie poster for Casablanca, one of just two copies known, sold for $107,550 (includes buyer’s premium) in Heritage Auctions’ March 23 and 24 movie poster auction in Dallas, Texas. The sale totaled approximately $1.72 million.
Grey Smith, director of movie posters at Heritage, said of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Repaired Butter Churn Brings $19,500
$19,500.
A rare circa 1825 N. Clark & Co. (Nathan Clark, Athens, New York) six-gallon salt-glazed stoneware butter churn, decorated with a large cobalt deer and tree, brought $19,500 (no buyer’s premium charged) at Rhonda’s Auction and Event Center in East Bloomfield, New York, on March 23. According to the auctioneer, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Every Picture Tells a Story
Pablo Picasso, Visage au nez noir, 13" high white earthenware clay pitcher, 1969, decoration in engobes (slip glazes) of black, green, blue, white, and red, engraved by knife under partial brush glaze, marked “Edition/ Picasso/ 122/200/ Madoura,” stamped “Edition/ Picasso” and also “Madoura/ Plein Feu” on bottom, $48,400.
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toys Main Attraction of Third Lambert Auction
An early 18th-century cherry Bible box in its original dry surface with a carved pinwheel in the center of the lid and carved star in each corner stole the show when it went from an opening bid of $1000 to close at $11,000. Collector Cliff Stanton, phoning from Florida, bought it.
A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Double Bogey
Two of the early standouts in the African sale were these bronze ancestral plaques from Benin dating to the 16th-18th centuries. The one on the left, with three young men in high relief, 17½" x 14½", sold for $17,250. Right, a bronze guardian plaque of three warriors, each carrying a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sales Offer Some Gems in New Brunswick
This Thomas Nisbet card table in mahogany also sold for $15,000. Tim Isaac Auctions.
This Irving tanker truck made by Otaco Limited Co., Orillia, Ontario, in the 1950’s fetched $1200, and the Lincoln Van Lines/ Trans Canada Service truck made $130. Kevin Bond Auctions.
This Thomas Nisbet sofa table in mahogany and ... (Read More)
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