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(Auction)Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction Hits $1.4 Million
It was the condition and the original wooden box with a label that drove this Automatic Toy Works figure well past the $6000/9000 estimate. The paper label read "Automatic Toys/ Woman's Rights/ Patented October 13th, 1874." The little mechanical Black woman in perfectly intact attire pounded the podium and turned ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Legislators Seek New Protections for Consignors
by Sabrina Pry and Betty Flood Consignors and their heirs would gain increased protection for works of art under legislation sponsored by New York assemblyman Jonathan L. Bing and cosponsored by New York senator Elizabeth O'Connor Little, chair of the Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee. "The legislation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kensett Painting Tops at $310,500 in Americana Auction
The top lot of the sale was this unsigned and unframed 9" x 14" oil on canvas study for View of the Beach at Beverly, Massachusetts by John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), dating from around 1860. Kensett did this study as preparation for the painting currently being exhibited in the Santa ... (Read More)
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(Show)April Showers Bring Antiques Buyers
Bruce "Butch" Hanes of Dad's Follies, Gibsonville, North Carolina, holds a vintage metal Popeye mold in his left hand and a postwar plastic Popeye mold in his right. Hanes and his sister inherited the passion for antique chocolate and ice cream molds from their parents more than 40 years ago ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bowmanville Show: Then and Now
Two stunning ruddy ducks on a pond background, inexpensive at $400, were in the booth of Adrian Tinline of Bowmanville.A model of the first all-Canadian-built steel hull passenger ship, the Manitoba, launched May 4, 1889, was offered by Steve Harris of Portobello Road Antiques, Wiarton, Ontario, for $1850.Steve Harris wanted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kenos Seek Buried Treasure on Fox
by Lita Solis-Cohen In the works since last summer, Buried Treasure, a new reality show starring Leigh and Leslie Keno, has been given the green light at Fox. The show is described as "an unscripted series in which the identical twin brothers Leslie and Leigh Keno of PBS Antiques Roadshow ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Schultz Auction Sells Rare Chinese Moon Flask for $1,751,500
Photos courtesy Kelly and Benjamin Schultz.by Charles Wenner On May 7, an auction held by Kelly and Benjamin Schultz in Clarence, New York, led to a climactic bidding event that resulted in the sale of an 18th-century Chinese moon flask for $1,751,500 (includes buyer's premium). The early flask has a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herkimer Home Reopens
The Herkimer Home State Historic Site in Little Falls, New York, which had closed for the winter with no plans to reopen, has been reopened. Barbara Mielcarski, president of Friends of Herkimer Home, said, "The site is reopened. We now have two staff on board, and filling in with volunteers, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heisey Collection Highlights Spring Sale
This Wedgwood "Florentine" dinnerware service, comprising 12 place settings and 130 pieces total, all in good condition, according to the catalog report, sold for $2200.This tiny three-masted ship model with a village diorama in the background sold for $1980. It was inside an 11" long clear glass whiskey bottle with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Majolica and Oyster Plate Auction
The top lot was this 34" high x 20½" deep Minton floor jardinière in the form of three putti with garlands crowning their heads, separated by pink shells with yellow centers supporting a large cobalt basket (shape No. 1281). With a professional repair to one foot, the rim on two ... (Read More)
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