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(Show)Richmond Academy of Medicine Celebrates 49th Show
This was Martin Chasin's first year at the Richmond Academy of Medicine show. The Fairfield, Connecticut, dealer trades as Martin Chasin Fine Arts, LLC and offers an array of British sporting art, silver, glass, and porcelain. In one of his cases were a large George I covered urn-form container, $2100; ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column, as I promised in the last issue, deals only with items sold this year-but before I kick off with my first "surprise" bid of 2011, a brief, follow-up note on the most spectacular, record-shattering result of last year.In the January issue, I illustrated ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Taxes 101: How to Fix a Broken Tax Return
by Caroline EvansSo you filed your income tax return, and you made a mistake. What do you do now?People who are self-employed in the antiques trade can have a lot of paperwork to sort through as they prepare their tax return. Making mistakes, forgetting an item, or finding out about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)June Festival of Antiques Expands
The fifth annual June Festival of Antiques in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, has added a fourth pavilion for this year's event. The new Wallace Warren Pavilion at the Gloucester County 4-H Fairgrounds will be utilized to hold 14 more dealers under cover."The new pavilion that was built just before last ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)French Asks New Hampshire Supreme Court to Review Punishment by Board of Auctioneers
by Elizabeth DinanThe New Hampshire Supreme Court is scheduled to decide whether an auctioneer accused of rigging the bidding for an antique nautical painting was justly punished by the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers.Auctioneer Harold French of Warner, New Hampshire, was reprimanded by the board of auctioneers in May 2010 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)How Sweet It Is
$69,000. Photo courtesy Cottone Auctions.by Fran KramerBy any standard it was the crème de la crème. Lot 639 of the Cottone Auctions fine art and antiques auction on March 26 in Geneseo, New York, had a famous maker (Tiffany & Co.) and a famous designer (Edward C. Moore), was displayed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ken Farmer Winter Catalog Sale
The Wilton dollhouse and its furnishings were offered during the first day of the Farmer sale. The extremely detailed replica did not sell during the sale but did find a home in the weeks following the sale. It brought $2070 (est. $1000/10,000).The catalog noted that this single-drawer worktable originated in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Malcolm Forbes Maritime and Nautical Auction
Listed in the sale addendum as "winner of the toy fair, Paris, ca 1910," this windup chain-driven amphibious car called L'Amphibio brought $23,700 on the phone.This model is of a ship with a history. It was an early steam-powered passenger liner built in 1907 that served in the First World ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art of the 20th Century
Wharton Esherick oak, leather, and wrought-iron armchair, 1939, carved "Wharton Esherick MCMXXXIX, to the Pecks, Chick-Jean," 40½" x 23" x 23". Estimated at $25,000/35,000, it sold for $100,650 to a collector on the phone.George Nakashima American black walnut and pandanus cloth cabinet on custom base, 1960's, marked with client's name ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts
The dynamic Russian bronze by Vasily Grachev (1831-1905) was the top lot in the sale. It went at $31,720 to a Moscow collector. Hindman photo.Obviously, this is the Handel lamp department. Right to left, the paneled glass table lamp went at $1830; the leaded floral, $3172; the leaded wide shade ... (Read More)
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