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(Computer Article)Computer Column: FastTrack for Dealers
Inventory item screen for antiques dealer software from AAIN, Inc.Computer Column #254by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] latest edition of Collectorpro for Antiques was reviewed last month. This month, a new edition of Antique Dealers FastTrack Inventory and Business Management Professional Software from the Antique and Art Information Network, Inc. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Barn Star Steps into Tough Territory with New Autumn Hartford Show
Port 'N Starboard Gallery, Falmouth, Maine, asked $15,000 for the eagle with an 84" wingspan that had been carved by Lloyd Hansen Thomas of Camden, Maine.Salt Box Antiques, Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, asked $675 for this cradle in an interesting form; it had been found in Connecticut.V.L. Marcos/ Whimsy, Centerbrook, Connecticut, showed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Charged with Selling Fake Picasso
Tatiana Khan, a West Hollywood, California, antiques dealer, has been named in a federal fraud case involving the $2 million sale of a fake Pablo Picasso that she allegedly paid an artist $1000 to fabricate.FBI agents seized a $700,000 de Kooning painting from Khan that prosecutors allege was purchased with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crocker Farm Fall Sale Full of Treats
A private collector from Florida bidding in the salesroom bought the small stoneware gemel for $24,725 (est. $15,000/25,000). The underbidder was on the phone. Made in Manhattan, or possibly New Haven, Connecticut, the piece with conjoined jugs is a true rarity of American stoneware. It has a single applied handle ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pfizer Mocks Antiques Collecting
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is being hard on the antiques business. In Canada, a 15-second television commercial that takes aim at antiques collecting recently hit the airwaves. The product? Viagra.A middle-aged man speaks to the camera, saying, "My wife and I couldn't control our antiquing-porcelain figurines, oil lamps, those tiny spoons. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: A Celtic copper-alloy comb with "armadillo" motif, A.D. 40-70. Found by a metal detectorist in a field in England, it sold for $43,825 at Bonhams.Two Roman cameos from the Bonhams antiquities sale of October 28. That of the Empress Livia sold for $159,360, and the little ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sales of Corporate Art Increasing
by Daniel GrantThe auction world claims it receives most of its consignments as a result of the three "d's"-death, debt, and divorce-but more recently it has added a new "d" of woe to its revenue stream-downsizing. A growing number of financially troubled corporations that have long collected art have been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sargent Takes Command
John Singer Sargent oil on panel, with a Venetian canal scene on the reverse, $287,500.Tempera painting on vellum, possibly Princess Sybil of Saxony, the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder, $189,750.Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoA quarter-million dollars for a single painting can make an auctioneer's day. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2009
Rookwood Sea Green glaze vase by Matt Daly, 1900, grapes decoration, marked, 123/4" high, light crazing overall, $17,250.Rookwood Aerial Blue glaze vase decorated with a young woman and a tiger by Sallie Toohey, 1895, marked, 83/4" high, $17,250.Newcomb College vase by Henrietta Bailey, 1911, with carved and repeating irises, 12 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armacost Buys the Delray Beach Antiques Show
Armacost Antiques Shows has assumed ownership of the Delray Beach Antiques Show, previously owned by the Delray Beach Historical Society. The show features 30 dealers from around the United States and abroad.The show will take place February 6 and 7 at the Delray Beach Community Center in Delray Beach, Florida. ... (Read More)
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