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(Auction)Fresh Venue, Good Smalls, and Some New Blood at Shaker Sale
The 5'8" long cherry drop-leaf dining table in original varnish finish, Hancock, Massachusetts, sold to a phone bidder for $44,480 (est. $25,000/35,000). The catalog gave its very detailed history. "Built for the space next to the dumbwaiter in the Dining Hall of the Brick Dwelling House," it "remained there until ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Supreme Court of New Hampshire Rules on Bid-Rigging Case
by Elizabeth DinanThe Supreme Court of New Hampshire ruled that auctioneer Harold French of Warner, New Hampshire, broke state law by rigging the bidding for an antique nautical painting, and the court also upheld sanctions imposed against French by the state Board of Auctioneers.Portsmouth, New Hampshire, police allege that French ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buyer Claims Multimillion-Dollar Art Purchases Included Fakes and Overpriced Works
by Clayton Pennington The issue of pricing art is going to face scrutiny in court, if a lawsuit filed in federal court goes to a decision. Arthur Properties, a corporation based in Luxembourg, filed suit on June 29 charging ABA Gallery of New York City with selling four fakes and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Start of Manchester Show Canceled for 2011
The Start of Manchester Antiques Show, scheduled for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whim Museum Celebrates 25 Years of Antiques Auctions
The Estate Whim Plantation Museum sign just outside the town of Frederiksted in St. Croix.Over 200 people attended the auction, and every seat in the big tent was taken. The overflow crowd found seating on all sides of the tent.St. Croix Landmarks Society, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islandsby Michael Connors, ... (Read More)
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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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