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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Problems and Opportunity
by Steve ProffittHave you ever considered auctioneering school? Maybe you should.A sure sign the economy is in steep decline is the significant increase in requests for jobs and job leads I'm experiencing. Recently, a friend asked me to advise a young lawyer who had been laid off by a firm ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Conquistadors and Cowboys Sell at Swann
A partial copy of Tercero Cathecismo y Exposicionde la Doctrina Christiana, por Sermones, published in Lima in 1585, sold for $28,800 (est. $5000/7500). According to the catalog notes, it was either the third or fourth book published on the continent and was printed on the same press as the first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Solid Americana Sale with a Few Surprises
Few knew what to make of this pleasing harbor scene placed early in the two-day sale. It was signed “B. Calixto 1888” and was 16½" x 27½". Eldred’s gave it a modest $350/450 estimate. When calls started to come in for condition reports, and customers from Brazil started to stack ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction Legislation in New York
by Betty FloodSeveral versions of proposed legislation concerning auctions have been introduced in the New York state legislature since 1993, but during this particular legislative session more focus has been on the arts, perhaps because of the economic situation throughout the country.New York state law does not currently mandate the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Royka Sells Artist Bernard Corey's Estate
Sarah’s Road, a 10" x 16" oil on board, fetched $2478. The view is a place in Sutton, Massachusetts, that “doesn’t exist anymore,” said Michael Graves. “It’s probably been gone for twenty years. That was an old road that dead-ended at an old swamp. It’s paved now, of course, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Wary Exhibitors "Keep on Keeping on" at Spring Hartford Show
Brian Cullity of Sagamore, Massachusetts,formerly a museum curator, delights at sometimes showing unusual material. The maple and birch chest of unusual form is a very shapely piece and priced enticingly low at $1850. On it Cullity placed some neat miniature Sandwich glass decanters, priced from $695 to $850.The lighting was ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: It Is Easy Being Green
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondKermit the Frog was right. It's not easy being green, at least not initially. "Initially" is where we think the antiques business is stuck at the moment. We all hear about it a lot, talk about it a little, and do about it ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Tea for Three1: Success to Trade in AmericaThe rare Stamp Act teapot, found in a box of low value bric-a-brac and sold for $117,440 in an English provincial sale.Only a handful of Staffordshire creamware teapots bearing references to the infamous Stamp Act of 1765* are recorded, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show Director for Hillsborough Show
United Voluntary Services (UVS), owners of the Hillsborough Antique Show in San Mateo, California, has announced that Nancy Johnson of Nancy Johnson Events Management LLC in Denver, Colorado, will be the director of its shows, effective immediately."Hillsborough," as it is commonly known, is one of the longest-running antiques shows in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dan Morphy Buys Back Morphy Auctions
Dan Morphy has bought back the operating assets of Morphy Auctions from Geppi's Entertainment. Morphy had sold the auction house to Geppi's in 2005, but in a deal finalized on May 8, Morphy assumes sole ownership of the company he established in 2004. The new firm will be known as ... (Read More)
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