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(Young Collectors)The Young Collectors' Guide to Antiques Terminology
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWhen Hollie was small, she decided she needed a horse and began a campaign that only a grandfather would tolerate. She wrote horse auction dates on his wall calendar, counted the money in his wallet, and read aloud livestock ads from the weekly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction of Attic, Basement, and Closet Treasures
Three views of a Wallace Nutting carved mahogany slant-front desk, branded with the Nutting name, that sold for $18,400 to a bidder in the room.Carl W. Stinson, Inc., North Reading, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy StinsonAn unassuming question about the number of sales that Carl W. Stinson, Inc. organizes annually elicited ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tacoma Auctioneer Advertises Rarities, Authorities Confiscate Them
by David HewettSometimes you can toot your own horn a little too loudly.That may be the lesson learned by Tacoma, Washington, auctioneer Alan Gorsuch. He called us a few weeks ago to see if we could do a news article about some of the items he had scheduled to offer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Private Parts
EditorialThe auction numbers from the first half of the year are grim. Christie's announced in late July that worldwide sales were $1.8 billion for the first six months of 2009, down 35% from the same period last year. Expensive lots were in short supply-211 works of art sold for more ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Museum Exhibition as Installation Art: The Chipstone Collection
At the entrance to the cabinet of curiosities, the document chest that John Townsend made in Newport, Rhode Island, and signed "John Town[se]nd" in pencil on the outside of the bottom board emerges from a thicket of American elm to represent the vegetable of the animal, vegetable, and mineral kingdoms. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)High Quality, Slow Sales
A 90" square 1890 Blazing Star quilt from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, priced at $950, brought a burst of color to the booth of Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York. This was the third year at the Litchfield show for Sandra L. Axtell and Richard S. Axtell, and they pulled out all ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gratz Gallery to Move
The Gratz Gallery & Conservation Studio is moving to Doylestown, Pennsylvania, effective September 2. The gallery has been in New Hope, Pennsylvania, for the last ten years.An e-mail sent from the gallery reads: "Our time in New Hope has been nothing short of extraordinary. We have watched the ebb and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Marriage Made in Heaven: Wine and Folk Art
The portrait used on the label of Ballet of Angels was also featured on the cover of A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr. by Harlan Lane, published by Beacon Press in 2004. The book was the catalog for a museum show of the same ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Newest Lawsuit Raises Questions in the Bouguereau, Nuns, and Art Dealers Case
by David HewettRemember the story we carried in our April issue (p. 28-A) about the tale of the singing sisters in upstate New York who were left an oil painting that turned out to be a major rarity by French artist William Adolphe Bouguereau? The women invested $14,000 in restoration ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Ceramics Sale Marks Firm's 14th Auction
The sale's first lot was this rare 61/2" high stoneware flask with flattened sides and incised bird and floral decoration (est. $15,000/25,000). In mint condition and attributed to the Webster family of Hartford, Connecticut, it sold for $40,250 to Virginia dealer Marshall Goodman in the salesroom, underbid by a private ... (Read More)
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