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(Feature)Weiser Collection and More at Pook & Pook
Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951), oil on canvas, Autumn From Music Circus Hill, Lambertville, signed lower right, 25" x 30½", sold for $65,175 (est. $20,000/40,000).
Berks County, Pennsylvania, pine hanging corner cupboard, circa 1790, with a double-raised-panel door and scalloped two-tier drop, is inscribed on the inside of the door “From Eshelman ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Special Sale of Americana
Late 19th-century full-bodied cow weathervane in copper with verdigris surface, attributed to New York, 27½" high x 43½" long, bullet holes and surface damage, $24,675.
Paint-decorated poplar blanket chest with original pinwheels and flowers on a red ground, dated 1835, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 25½" high x 49" wide, repaired hinge rail, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Season’s Opener at Hap Moore
One of the top lots of the sale was this 10'5" x 7'1" Sarouk carpet with a russet field and blue border. It sold for $6210.
This primitive 18th-century sawbuck table with a single wide board top and breadboard ends sold for $3565.
This Ethan Allen running horse weathervane with a molded ... (Read More)
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(Auction)36th Anniversary Antiques and Collectibles Auction
This 1967 Amphicar, along with another (not shown), came from an estate in Valparaiso, Indiana. The family had originally bought eight. In the process of being restored, this vehicle sold for $31,165. The other brought $18,250. Kraft photo.
Thirty-five issues of Playboy magazine from a private collection excited buyers. This January ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Thrill of the Chase: Antiques of the Sporting Life
Karen DiSaia (right), manager of the show, is shown with Claudia Pfeiffer, the George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Curator, National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, Virginia. The display behind them features the early 20th-century English sterling silver centerpiece on a marble base that was used on the cover of the show ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)PADA Makes Grant to Grey Art Gallery
For the past 19 years, the Private Art Dealers Association (PADA) has made a grant to an outstanding institution in the arts. The 2012 recipient, the Grey Art Gallery of New York University, received its award at the annual dinner of PADA, held at the Lotos Club in New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Indiana
Stepback cupboard, the upper portion having a pair of four-pane doors over a fall-front door concealing a storage area, in original crusty red paint, said to be from Oldenburg, Indiana, $1100.
Pair of portraits of a lady and a gentleman, pastel on paper, 1830-40, $1100.
New England Chippendale tiger maple tall chest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Happy New Year’s Day At Foster’s
This Louis Vuitton traveling wardrobe opens to reveal an abundance of drawers and hanging compartments and sold for $8800.
This Enrico Caruso caricature of fellow Italian tenor Dante Del Papa and a book entitled Caricatures of Caruso (not shown), published in 1908, which includes a very similar caricature of Del Papa, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Woman Pleads Guilty in Connection with Theft of Franklin Bust
Andrea Lawton, 46, of Mobile, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on December 18, 2012, to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the theft on August 24, 2012, of a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Antoine Houdon, valued at approximately $3 million.
Lawton ... (Read More)
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(Auction)First of Multi-Part Single-Owner-Historical Documents Sale Achieves $6 Million
The sale’s top lot, going at $336,000 (est. $200,000/300,000), was this four-page autograph letter in French signed by Vincent van Gogh. Written in Saint-Remy de Provence on January 20, 1890, to “M. & Mme. Ginoux,” the letter discusses illness, the artist’s and Madame Ginoux’s. “Less than seven months before his ... (Read More)
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