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(Auction)Farmer Sale Survives Storm and Videotape
This 19th-century Wythe County, Virginia, pie safe is constructed primarily of cherry and measures 45½" x 53½" x 19". The two-board top is pine over the cherry case. Each end panel features two joined punched tins, and each door has four joined tins. All of the tins exhibit a central ... (Read More)
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(Show)Adirondack Museum Antiques Show
Tom Baker and Barbara Boardman Johnson had a "Fresh Seafood" sign that sold; an early tin gold-mining pan for $45; and green-painted fish decoys for $395.Jane Langol had an assortment of Weller, Roseville, and Robinson Clay Products pottery. The umbrella stand was $390; a green vase with a flower, $435; ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Accord" Revived with the Help of Dealers
Pictured are the Bob Withington pier table, Arthur DiMambro's painting Pheasants and Plums, and the glass wine fountain lent by Bill Schwind.Thomas B. Johnson, former curator of the Museums of Old York in York, Maine, and Mary P. Harding, curator of the George Marshall Store Gallery, a property of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Art of Thomas Nisbet
A selection of chairs by Thomas Nisbet reflect the various forms popular in the early 19th century.This sofa shows the high-quality carving often seen on Nisbet furniture.The banquet table in mahogany shows great proportions and has typical rope-turned legs with ebonized ring turnings.The label of Thomas Nisbet & Son was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Attendance Up at New Hampshire Antiques Show
Scott Bassett of the Peter Sawyer firm unveils the rare Aaron Willard shelf clock they kept covered until the doors opened at 10 a.m. It was available for $55,000.After the show had closed, Peter Sawyer said, "We had a very good show, [selling] two bureaus, two tall clocks, a candlestand, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: In Search of Balance
by Steve ProffittMaybe it is a result of having seven children. Maybe it is because I will soon have four of them in college at the same time. I have been asked often to represent or consult with various parties involved in auction situations by auctioneers, sellers, bidders, and buyers. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Dingman Collection: A $9.8 Million Joy Ride
This 1939 Ford Deluxe station wagon, one of the most desirable Ford woodies, with hydraulic brakes and gleaming bird's-eye maple panels, sold for $247,500.Dingman's top seller, a 1936 custom Ford cabriolet with coachwork by Gläser, made $396,000.A 1937 Ford half-ton pickup V-8, one of two trucks in the sale, embraced, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Awards Tennessee Family $320,000 for Missing Lighthouse Clock
by David HewettOn June 28, Judge Arnold Goldin, a chancellor in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, entered an Order of Final Judgment in favor of Richard C. Rogers and Margaret Ann Rogers of Memphis, Tennessee.Goldin declared that Baltimore, Maryland, antiques dealer and Antiques Roadshow appraiser J. Michael Flanigan ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester
Taken from the bleacher seats in the JFK Coliseum, about an hour after the 3 p.m. opening on Wednesday, this photo shows that the joint is still jumping. The last time the coliseum was used for an antiques show, it had way too few exhibitors among huge areas of curtained-off ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Barnes in Philadelphia: Reservations Required
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. ©2012 Tom Crane.Room 18. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. ©2012 The Barnes Foundation.Room 13. Photo by Ryan Donnell. ©2012 The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.View of the Light Court, looking east. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. ©2012 Tom Crane.Le Bonheur de vivre Room. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. ©2012 Tom Crane.Cocktail ... (Read More)
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