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(Fragment)Fenichell Joins Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Fenichell Joins Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jill Fenichell has been appointed vice president and will head the newly formed ceramics department at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. She will split her time between the newly established Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates New York office and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Texas Desk and Pottery Donated to Bayou Bend
Rare Texas Desk and Pottery Donated to Bayou Bend
A labeled Adolph Kempen writing desk and approximately 150 pieces of early Texas pottery have been given to the Bayou Bend Collection in Houston, Texas, by philanthropist and collector William J. Hill.
"For decades, Mr. Hill has been a major advocate and benefactor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Forty-Year Member of NHADA Resigns, Quits Annual Show
Forty-Year Member of NHADA Resigns, Quits Annual Show
by David Hewett
Longtime show exhibitor and member of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) Peter Eaton of Newbury, Massachusetts, has resigned from the association, which automatically ends his 40 consecutive years as an exhibitor at the show that gave birth to Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pook & Pook to Sell Pastor Weiser's Pennsylvania German Collection
Pook & Pook to Sell Pastor Weiser's Pennsylvania German Collection
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Auctions are often much more than listings of property for sale; they can be rites of passage, a chance for friends and colleagues to remember a collector. Such is the case of the sale of decorative arts from the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Increases Dividend and Accelerates Payment of Two Quarters of Dividends
Sotheby's Increases Dividend and Accelerates Payment of Two Quarters of Dividends
The board of directors of Sotheby's declared an accelerated first and second quarter of 2013 cash dividend totaling $0.20 per share of outstanding common stock. This $0.10 per share per quarter dividend reflected a 25% increase from the previous quarterly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Sultan and a Sultana
Panel of stereoview (1897) Dedication of Grant's Tomb-the Yacht Sultana. Only sold by Griffith & Griffith, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Liverpool, England. This stereoview was possibly taken by William Rau (1855-1920) of Philadelphia, who worked periodically for Griffith & Griffith.
A nearly identical photo of the Sultana attributed to John S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Yaffe Meets Rabizadeh
Auction Law and Ethics
Yaffe Meets Rabizadeh
by Steve Proffitt
When present meets past, as Yogi Berra said, "It's déjà vu all over again," or something like that. This happened when Yaffe met Rabizadeh-but with opposite results.
-A Costly Walk
May 11, 1984, was a good spring day in Richmond, Virginia. Across the street from ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)The Art of Marketing
The Art of Marketing
by Al Kenney
I’m an avid antiques collector, not a dealer, and a professional marketer with a diverse career. I’ve worked for many global corporations marketing many major household brands as well as for small start-up companies. I’ve owned an international strategic marketing firm and marketed to people ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Mary and Bob Fraser, Chester, Vermont
In the Trade
Mary and Bob Fraser, Chester, Vermont
by Frank Donegan
Mary and Bob Fraser.
Exterior view of the shop. A lot of work went into making it look as if nothing much was done to this barn.
A partial view of the Frasers' shop.
Another view of the shop.
A ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Risky Business
The Young Collector
Call it sentimental reflection brought on by our new arrival (Nathaniel Byrne, or Nat, as we call him, arrived on November 16 at 2 a.m., and we’re all fine and deeply in love already), but sometimes we like to look at Nora and joke about how she came ... (Read More)
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