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(Fragment)Esherick Library Ladder Sells for $119,600
Wharton Esherick steps, $119,600. Photos courtesy Briggs Auction, Inc.by Lita Solis-Cohen A walnut spiral library ladder by Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), signed "W.E./ 1969" and from the estate of Harry and Ruth Sefarbi, soared to $119,600 (includes buyer's premium) after a bidding duel between a Pennsylvania collector and a collector from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pickers Market and Mid-Week Return to Furniture World
Barn Star Productions' two antiques shows during Antiques Week in New Hampshire will be returning to the Furniture World Design Center in Manchester. The Manchester Pickers Market Antiques Show will be held Monday, August 8, and the Mid-Week in Manchester Antiques Show will be held Wednesday and Thursday, August 10 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Constitutional Convention Notebooks Acquired for New-York Historical Society
Shown are the title page and list of convention delegates from John Lansing Jr.'s second notebook from the Constitutional Convention of 1787, and Lansing's transcription of the Virginia Plan, drafted by James Madison, with amendments made by the Committee of the Whole. The two notebooks sold for $902,500 (est. $600,000/900,000) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Forbes Toy Boats Sailed to New Harbors on a $2.4 Million Sea of Money
The top lot of the Malcolm Forbes personal toy collection, a 37½" long painted replica of the renowned British passenger ship Lusitania (sunk by Germany in World War I), went to an anonymous collector at a toy boat world auction record of $194,500.An early 1880's pink and green clockwork gunboat ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Solid Sales and Surprises
Leza McVey is said to have been a leader for modern ceramic art in the U.S. Her khaki, black, blue, and white ceramic bottle with a stopper, 21¼" high and signed “Leza” on the base, brought $17,700.Girl in Pink Blouse by William Sommer (1867-1949), a 26" x 20" oil on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printed & Manuscript Americana: Lincoln and Baseball, Fire and Brimstone
A 13½" x 18" lithograph published in 1860 by Currier & Ives—"The National Game. Three 'Outs' and One 'Run'"—sold to a dealer for $10,800 (est. $800/1200). The price is the new world record for an uncolored lithograph by the firm, according to Swann. Besides being the year that Lincoln was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Maine Auctions
Refinished oak Hoosier cupboard, complete with all the "guts," including flour sifter, bin, and spice jars, $2310. Foster photo.Gorham sterling silver flatware, 53 troy ounces, $1705. Saco River photo.A 20" x 21" watercolor by late 20th-century Maine artist Peter Rolfe, dated 1975 and showing seagulls wheeling around a weathervane on ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: American Furniture 2010
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican Furniture 2010Edited by Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2010, 290 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from UPNE, (www.upne.com) or (800) 421-1561.American Furniture takes a yearly look at the latest research. It is where scholars in the field discuss ways ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Reading the American Market for Antique Scientific Instruments
Figure 1. Surveyor's compass, H.M. Pool, Easton, Massachusetts; note the two spirit levels placed at right angles for leveling. $402. The Auctioneers Group photo.Figure 2. Surveyor's compass, F.W. & R. King, Baltimore, Maryland; note the brass cover and mount. $1035. The Auctioneers Group photos.Figure 2A. Signed dial of Figure 2.Figure ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gold Gets the Silver, James Gets the Gold
These 18k gold bowls or wine cups, presented to Benjamin Smith Lyman by the Hokkaido Mining and Steamship Company in 1907, sold along with some documenting letters for $18,400, only slightly higher than the gold market price at the time.A richly luminous oil on canvas by British artist David James ... (Read More)
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