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(Feature)Linda and Allen Rosen, Linda Rosen Antiques, Sheffield, Massachusetts
Linda and Allen Rosen. The Seth Thomas clock iscarved walnut in the form of a pocket watch with a marble face and metal numerals. It runs for 30 days. They believe it may have come from the Poughkeepsie, New York, railroad station. It’s $3500.The Rosens’ remodeled 18th-century barn. The addition ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vermont Butter Churn Makes $11,550
Circa 1855 “J. & E. Norton/ BenningtonVT” six-gallon butter churn, 16" high, decorated in great Bennington blue slip with an elaborate compote of flowers in fine line detail, minor imperfections in the making, $11,550.Circa 1855 “J. & E. Norton/ Bennington VT” four-gallon crock, 11½" high, decorated in cobalt blue with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Provenance Error Results in Lawsuits
Sheriff by N.C. Wyeth. Photo courtesy Gerald Peters Gallery.by Clayton PenningtonA mistake in provenance is a $1.5 million error. That's the contention of Steve Sell, a collector in Dallas, Texas, who filed suit in federal court in Texas against the Gerald Peters Gallery in December 2010.The lawsuit revolves around an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)March York Antique Marketplace Canceled
The York Antique Marketplace show scheduled for March 5 and 6 at the York Fairgrounds in York, Pennsylvania, has been canceled, according to promoter Tex Johnson. The November 19 and 20 York Antique Marketplace is still scheduled at this time.For more information, call (610) 207-9505 or e-mail ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clements Library Buys Strachey Papers at Third Copley Library Sale
The Henry Strachey papers, 1775-83, approxi-mately 480 pages, sold for $602,500 to the William L. Clements Library at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, with dealer William S. Reese acting as agent. “The purchase of the Strachey papers at Sotheby’s auction was a remarkable collaborative effort,” Clements Library director ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Garth's
Lieutenant Commander James Parker’s flag from the Second Battle of Fort Fisher, hand sewn with 34 appliquéd stars, signed “James Parker” on the fly, approximately 8½' x 16½', $29,375. Sold with a hand-sewn naval pennant with 13 embroidered stars, approximately 25' long, as well as Parker’s appointment to lieutenant (signed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Greenbrier Hosts First Annual Antiques Show
The Greenbrier is referred to as one of the “grand” hotels. No argument.Father and daughter David and Elizabeth Lindquist of Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, offered a George III open-shelf oak dresser/cupboard from the English Midlands, 1765-80, for $22,000. The drawer fronts feature mahogany crossbanding and inlay details. On ... (Read More)
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(Show)Autumn Hartford Antiques Show Seems to Be a Winner
C. Neville Lewis was one of the six exhibitors chosen to give what Frank Gaglio termed booth chats, mini-lectures under the general heading “Knowledge Is King.” The lectures were more successful than he had imagined, Gaglio said later, and will be used again in the future.Roberto Freitas American Antiques & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column contains some very expensive things indeed and news of record prices for English furniture, Audubon's The Birds of America, and the flower paintings of Pierre-Joseph Redouté, but I will kick off with something much more modestly priced but directly relevant to this New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Greek Maiden Lights Up Evans Sale
The high lot of the sale was this single caryatid-form candlestick in a strongly marbled deep sapphire blue pressed as a single unit. The catalog noted that this piece may be unique, as no other examples of this form in this color have been noted. The central Greekinspired form features ... (Read More)
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