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(Auction)The Potomack Company Catalog Sale
High lot of the Potomack sale was this ancient Roman marble bust from the first century. The sculpture depicts Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus and mother of Gaius or Caligula. The bust is life size, 14" x 81/4" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago's Design Auctions in June
In a rare armadillo form for a glazed stoneware vessel for flower arrangement, this 1890 pot, 41/4" x 81/2" x 31/2", is signed "R.W. Martin + Bros." for Robert W. Martin. It sold for $43,750 (est. $15,000/20,000).
George Ohr (1857-1918) made this 91/4" x 41/4" pot, with in-body twist and folded ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Burton Antiques Market
Funky is prevalent at Burton. Made of wood and hand painted, the trio of stage props for an off-Broadway production of Carousel was offered at $850 by Ken and Jan Silveri of Hawks Inn Antiques, Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The couple had found the set in Buffalo, New York.
A bit of rain ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
The small seating area by an exit was a nice idea. Items from The Century Shop, Louisville, Kentucky, included a pair of Black Forest carved panels, circa 1850, priced at $1850, and a Gothic Revival pier mirror, 63" high, with original gilding, for $6000.
Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, brought ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sonoma Dealer Arrested for Fraud and Other Charges
On June 5, police deputies in Sonoma, California, arrested 51-year-old antiques dealer Dwayne Robert Kershner. According to authorities, Kershner had been operating an antiques consignment shop named Front Door Antiques at 201 W. Napa Street in the Sonoma Marketplace shopping center. The business suddenly closed up shop at the end ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Auctioneer Denied License Renewal, Fined $12,500
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers voted unanimously in August to deny a license renewal to Angela Nevells of Blue Hill, Maine, to impose fines totaling $12,500, and to seek relief for the victims of Nevells's multiple violations of law.
The board found that Nevells, who has a Blue Hill ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Orders Return of Colonel Rush Hawkins's Tiffany Sword
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
On June 4, United States Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Miller ruled that a Tiffany presentation sword and scabbard that was purchased by a collector in 1992 had been stolen from Brown University in the 1970's. The judge ordered its return to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biography of an Object Writing Contest
The second annual Biography of an Object writing contest kicked off on June 3. "We were thrilled with the response last year," said contest sponsor and founder Amelia Jeffers, president of Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers in Delaware, Ohio. "We received over 100 entries from all over the United States, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Indian Art Sale Brings $2.25 Million
This 6 1/8" high John Tiktak stone sculpture sold to a Canadian collector for $43,750 (est. $20,000/40,000). Haas said a colleague at Bonhams, Ingmars Lindbergs, is "striking out into Inuit material. I never handled much of it before, but the very best artists can do very well. We invite more ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wyeth, Vroman, and Landesio Pace Thomaston Sale
This carved wooden fruit display opened the auction and blew away the $600/800 estimate when it sold for $6785.
India ink drawing by Andrew Wyeth, In the Georges Islands, $60,375.
Oil on canvas ship portrait of the Alfred Keen by Rockland, Maine, artist James Gardner Babbidge, $13,800.
Sometimes good period furniture seems on ... (Read More)
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