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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Sweet Sorrow
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the auction business, one occasionally hears references to the Three D's. For decades, that was shorthand for the three most likely ways collections came to auction: death, divorce, disaster (some say disease or debt). People might sell a couple of pieces for other reasons, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McInnis Empties a "Rusticator" Cottage
Oil on canvas by Abbott Fuller Graves, titled Dividing the Shares, 32" x 46", sold for $26,450. The subjects were a Kennebunkport fishing captain and his crew. Left to right, they were identified as Captain Henry S. Ward, Frank Emery, Tom Basey (seated), a Mr. Pitts (standing, smoking a pipe), ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tin Circus Wagon Caps Julia Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction
This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Arts of Pacific Asia Canceled for 2013
New York Arts of Pacific Asia will not be produced in 2013 because a suitable venue for the show is not available during Asia Week New York. The 11th floor of the Merchandise Mart's facility at 7 West 34th Street, which had been the show's venue since 2009, is being ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.975 Million Sale Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire
The 103/4" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Program in New England Studies, June 2012
The 1784 Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. George Washington was entertained at the house in 1789 but slept elsewhere. In keeping with HNE's policies of expanding the appeal and uses of historic properties, the house is available for weddings and functions, and it offers temporary exhibits in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tin Circus Wagon Caps Julia Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction
This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Lititz Antiques Show's 50th Anniversary
Penny Thomas of Bear, Delaware, said she is known as the queen of smalls. "I don't go to auctions, but I find great things at shows and markets," she said. She offered a collection of rolling pins; the Shaker crimper, $65, was used to cut cookies; another crimper from Pennsylvania ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Chase Tigers and Other Animal Art
Roused, a Tiger and Tigress, Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1925), 1912, oil on canvas, 24" x 39", $333,500 (est. $150,000/ 250,000).Home of the Big Horn, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 16" x 20", $97,750 (est. $60,000/90,000).Mount Assiniboine, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 91/2" x 11", $14,375 (est. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Homefront & Battlefield
Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Zacek Bassett (American Textile History Museum, 2012, 231 pp., softbound, $39.95 plus S/H). To order, call the museum at (978) 441-0400, ext. 247 (Monday and Tuesday) or ext. 243 (Tuesday through Sunday). Photo of quilt ... (Read More)
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