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(Auction)The CIGNA Sale
A pair of French carved walnut ship's quarter gallery figures, depicting robed, reclining females, dating to the late 17th century, 43" x 46", sold for $53,460 (est. $4000/8000) to a private New York City buyer.An early 20th-century painted wood model of the "Washington" hook-and-ladder truck, circa 1850, 12" x 42", ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marston and Lincoln Papers Top Auction
Among the hundreds of papers of Brigadier General Gilman Marston was a handwritten honorific in the form of an acrostic, dated 28th August 1865, in which the first letter of each line of poetry spelled his name. The entire lot sold for $5720.Letter by Admiral Horatio Nelson accounting for operating ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Virginia Chest Leads Evans Sale
When a sale reaches lot #370, and the room is still full, it is an obvious indication that something good is coming. This Shenandoah Valley of Virginia walnut bureau was what many had been waiting for. The small chest (383/4" x 383/4" x 201/2") features a rectangular top with complex ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 115th Dunham Tavern Museum Antiques Show
Jane Langol Antiques, Medina, Ohio, offered a zinc window surround (not shown) for $495; a bent-twig settee found in a camp in Vermont, $850; a bent-twig chair found in Orange, Missouri, $340; a wooden angel (left) by Earnest Patton, Campton, Kentucky, $990; and a 7'5" x 2'5" Kilim runner, $600.A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farrin's Benjamin Swan Song
The Benjamin Swan painted tall clock with a rocking ship movement, conch shell spandrels, and calendar dial sold for $10,450.A fully three-dimensional Black Forest carved hall tree with a mother bear prowling around the base and her two cubs in the upper reaches sold for $3850.Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maineby ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Keno's First New York City Auction Successful
There were three phone bidders competing for this diminutive (201/2" high x 221/4" wide x 123/4" deep) paint-decorated pine blanket chest attributed to Robert Crosman (1707-1799) of Taunton, Massachusetts. The hinged top is a 19th-century replacement. Estimated at $2000/4000, it sold for $14,640. It was illustrated in The Magazine Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Show)Modernism 2010
This collection of old microphones, some with the stations' call letters, was around $7000 from James Elkind of Lost City Arts. They sold to someone who saw them on line and came to the show to see them in person and buy them.Jacksons, Stockholm, Sweden, and Berlin, Germany, asked $35,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
The star of the American Art Fair was Gilbert Stuart's George Washington, for which Hammer Galleries at 475 Park Avenue was asking $7,500,000. When Armand Hammer bought it at auction in 1970, it cost $205,000, then a record for a painting by an American artist, eclipsed by an Eakins a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Edward Gorey Glory
Swann sold a signed copy of Gorey's The Beastly Baby by Ogdred Weary for $1200 (est. $400/600). Published in 1962, it is one of 500 unnumbered copies of the first book bearing Gorey's own Fantod Press imprint. Ogdred Weary is an anagram for Edward Gorey. According to Swann, the price ... (Read More)
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(Feature)An Antique Jewelry Market Glimpse from Two Maine Businesses
A client of Dan Chambers brought in this circa 1910 natural fancy colored yellow diamond (weighing 5.19 carats), diamond,and platinum ring made by her grandfather, Samuel H. Draisin, a competitor of Harry Winston. Chambers represented his customer with Bonhams and Butterfields,at an auction of fine jewelry and timepieces in June ... (Read More)
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