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(Fragment)California Country Show: Under New Management and New Name
Sandy Raulston and Ted Birbilis, owners of Roadside America in Pasadena, California, have taken over the management and promotion of the California Country Antiques Show in Los Altos, California. The show, now renamed the New California Country & More Antiques Show, will be held on June 9 and October 20.Raulston ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie’s and Sotheby’s Change Buyers’ Premiums
On February Christie’s and Sotheby’s announced new buyers’ premiums.
Christie’s new buyer’s premium in the United States is 25% of the hammer price of each lot up to and including $75,000; 20% of the hammer price from $75,001 up to and including $1,500,000; and 12% above $1,500,000.
Sotheby’s new fees are 25% ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$20 Million Thomas Cole in Crate
In February the Seward House Museum and the Fred L. Emerson Foundation jointly announced that Thomas Cole’s landscape Portage Falls on the Genesee, 84" x 61", had been removed from the museum and was going to be sold.
The Fred L. Emerson Foundation, incorporated in Delaware in 1943, was the former ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Taxing Problem
Tax authorities in Philadelphia, in a clumsy and shortsighted move, have decided that dealers exhibiting at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, one of the most prestigious shows in America, are tax scofflaws who haven’t been paying enough tax to the city (see Lita Solis-Cohen’s report on page 12-A). The city is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
A Handsome Cupboard of Plate: Early American Silver in the Cahn Collection by ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Point, Click, Bid!
The Young Collector
We’re not lazy people. Trust us. In the past 48 hours we have gone to two grocery stores, the post office, the gas station, the pet store, and the bakery; worked on four upcoming lectures; made the necessary preliminary notes for this column and cranked out 800-plus words; ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Scouting the Competition
The Art of Marketing
Since beginning this column several months ago, I’ve received a fair number of open-ended questions, all of which I have answered as quickly as possible through e-mail. Answering individually has not been an easy task, so I thought I might spend some time in the column discussing ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)No Transparency at the Block
Auction Law & Ethics
Every time I pick up a paper or click on the news, someone is calling for transparency in something. Critics and the media demand transparency in this and that. The public wants transparency in everything—except their individual affairs. Transparency shows up time and again in discussions of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
From the portraits of two beautiful women whose lives followed very different paths, this month’s selections move on to include Dr. Heller’s “silver lexicon,” blacksmithies and white owls, masterpieces of 18th-century French furniture making, overweight cattle and pigs, beautifully engraved glasses, and something to bring a smile to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)John Fignar of Saratoga Springs, New York
John Fignar is shown with the slot machine he bought in Las Vegas that got him hooked on gambling antiques. It’s a Pace “Saratoga” model machine made in 1937. In addition to being a slot machine, it also includes the world’s easiest pinball game, which you had to “succeed” at ... (Read More)
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