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(Fragment)New Hampshire Auctioneers Disciplined by Auctioneers Board
Auctioneers Stephen J. Bennett and Harold French were disciplined by the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers on May 3.In April, both were arrested by Portsmouth, New Hampshire, police, accused of rigging the bidding of a Solon Francis Montecello Badger ship portrait in order to obtain a commission (see M.A.D., May ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Days of 20th-Century Decorative Arts
Louis Comfort Tiffany cabbage-shaped ceramic vase with polychrome mottled matte glaze, incised "LCT," 81/2" x 8", restoration to underside of one foot, $50,020 (est. $19,000/24,000).Tiffany Studios table lamp with Daffodil shade over a three-socket Secessionist base, 24" x 20", base and shade stamped "Tiffany Studios New York," shade numbered 1497-18, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's Sells More Art from Lehman Brothers Collection
A hand-colored lithograph of City of New York, published by Nathaniel Currier in 1856, 24 1/8" x 30 5/8", framed, sold for $12,500 (est. $1500/2500).Appropriately, the last lot in the sale was a woodcut of the New York Stock Exchange, signed "Davis." It sold for $8750 (est. $400/600). It was ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Free Software
by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] or catalog cover for an imaginary event being designed with free Scribus page layout software.As the number of unemployed increases in these troubled times, some of those people join the self-employed. But a new business requires resources, not the least of which is the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Connoisseurship Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSome time ago, we talked about how we believe the "good, better, best" paradigm had run amok with "best" becoming the focus, as the paradigm seemed to be moving toward "junk, less junky, worth owning." Now we've started wondering if the whole idea of connoisseurship ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Will Power
by Steve ProffittM.A.D.'s publisher, Sam Pennington (1929-2008), sent me a letter a couple of years ago that he had received from a reader. I came across it recently in my file and am using an edited version to address some of its points:"Dear Sam,"Steve Proffitt writes in M.A.D. about disposing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)High on Coke and Low on HoJos
Coca-Cola porcelain globe sign, $6875.Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maineby Mark SiscoBruce Gamage Jr. held a compact two-day midwinter auction in Rockland, Maine, on January 23 and 24. No records were set that we're aware of, but he did bring forth some interesting art from a Maine island family, some nice ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diamonds Sparkle at Flat Rock
The sale's top lot at $41,250 was this diamond necklace with 50 carats of high-grade baguettes. It was appraised for $135,275.Richard Hatch & Associates, Flat Rock, North Carolinaby Pete PrunklPhotos courtesy Richard Hatch & AssociatesIn all the advertising for his February 26 and 27 sale in Flat Rock, North Carolina, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Harris, Hathaway, and Hartford Produce a Good Sale
Harris & Co. running horse weathervane, $1870.Ship painting byW. Thompson Perkins, $990.Saco River Auction Company, Biddeford, Maineby Mark SiscoAfter more than three decades in the auction business, including many years working with Maine auctioneer Claude Van Tassel, Floyd Hartford has been running his own Saco River Auction Company in Biddeford, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printed Americana: From Early Imprints to Twin Towers Blueprints
A first edition of Esther Levy's Jewish Cookery Book, published in Philadelphia in 1871, sold for $10,800 (est. $10,000/ 15,000). The book's elaborate subtitle-on Principles of Economy, Adapted for Jewish Housekeepers, with the Addition of Many Useful Medicinal Recipes, and Other Valuable Information, Relative to Housekeeping and Domestic Management -gives ... (Read More)
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