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(Fragment)Annual New Hampshire Open House
Eight Fitzwilliam and Richmond, New Hampshire, antiques shops will hold their 19th annual Holiday Open Houses on Saturday and Sunday, January 2 and 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A variety of refreshments will be served at each shop, and many will offer special discounts. The dealers will be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bertoia Auctions Changes Date for Spring Kaufman Sale
The sale date for Bertoia Auctions' third installment of the Donald Kaufman antique toy collection has been moved back by one week. Originally scheduled to take place April 9 and 10, the auction event featuring 900 lots of automotive toys and a selection of comic character toys will now be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brooklyn Flea Launches Expanded Holiday Market
Brooklyn Flea is moving its Gifted holiday market into Manhattan, taking over the 6500-square-foot former Tower Records Annex storefront at 20 E. 4th Street (at Lafayette Street) in NoHo, where it has launched an expanded five-day-a-week pop-up shop until Christmas.Gifted will feature a rotating cast of 50 vendors until Thursday, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Select Stuff Surprisingly Strong at Americana Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby David HewettPhotos courtesy SkinnerThe 9" x 13¾" oil on board Arctic Sunset with the Ice-Bound Panther was in original condition, had an impeccable provenance, and the artist, William Bradford (1823-1892), was a well-known painter of ships and Arctic scenes. All that helped it more than double ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New American Decorative Arts Curator at Huntington
Harold B. "Hal" Nelson is the first curator of American decorative arts at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. A specialist in decorative art and contemporary craft for more than 30 years, Nelson has written numerous publications and organized a variety of exhibitions. As ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Large Fines Levied Against Two Maine Auctioneers
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers is proving it has teeth. At two hearings in the fall of 2009, October 7 and November 16, the board took a huge bite from Maine auctioneers James Cyr and Thomas Madsen. The two were fined a total of $67,200.Cyr was hit with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Devotees Keep the Faith
The sale’s top lot, going to dealer John Keith Russell at $117,000, was a 5'5" long trestle table in cherry with original finish in cranberry red paint. Made in 1830 or 1840 in Mount Lebanon, New York, very likely for use by the ministry of that Shaker community, it came ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Gary Pepper Collection of Elvis Presley Memorabilia
A lot of 14 photos from the Rainbow Rink in Memphis in 1961, including one with Pepper, sold for $3904.Chicago collector Mike Gomez fought phone bidders to capture an RCA album, Loving You. Inscribed to Pepper, it sold for $5368. Hindman photo.Chicago-area fan John Urso bought both shirts in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair of Aesthetic Movement Chairs Sells for $390,400
$390,400. Photo courtesy Rago.by Lita Solis-CohenThings often bring more at sales where you don't expect to find them. A surprising $390,400 (includes buyer's premium) was paid at an estate sale at Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, on Saturday, December 5, 2009, for a pair of chairs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Stahl to Leave Sotheby's on December 31
by Lita Solis-CohenOn
December 3, 2009, Bill Stahl called his last American paintings sale as Sotheby's
vice chairman and auctioneer. Stahl will leave Sotheby's on December 31. He said
he will stay involved in the marketplace for Americana, the field in which he
has played a major role since 1974. ... (Read More)
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