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(Fragment)"Wonderful Actor" Makes Off with $5300 Clock from Dealer
by David Hewett"He's clearly a wonderful actor. He was dressed impeccably and spoke English with an accent that hinted he was from an upper-class Spanish upbringing," said Louisville, Kentucky, antiques dealer Trace Mayer.He was describing the man who bought a $5300 clock from him in October, after producing what appeared ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Connecticut Show to Launch
Gene Shannon The AntiquesAffair, a new show under the management of Cord Shows Ltd., for the benefit of the Howard Jennings Dollars for Scholars Foundation, will take place in North Stamford, Connecticut, on December 6 and 7.Art auctioneer Gene Shannon of Shannon Fine Arts will be featured on Saturday from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Machmer Sale
$198,900. Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.by Lita Solis-CohenIt is no longer common to find a collection of extraordinary Americana that was bought in the rural countryside exclusively at farm sales and local auctions. Those who came to the estate sale of the collection of Pennsylvania folk art at Pook & ... (Read More)
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(Show)41st Annual Fall Original Round Top Antiques Fair
Round Top, Texasby Steve BrooksNancy Westmoreland, owner of House of Lamps and Antiques, Austin, Texas, turns vintage pieces into lamps. The body of this lamp is a blue and white Chinese teapot from the 1830’s, complemented by a custom fabric shade and custom base. She asked $350 for it.This massive ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tag Sale in North Carolina Draws Huge Crowd
Mountain Home, North Carolinaby Tom DunnThe crowds on the first day of the sale.A 19th-century east Tennessee walnut corner cupboard, 83" high, with blind doors top and bottom, sold for the full day one tag price of $1795.Two pairs of Bradley and Hubbard bronze bookends—one of the Lincoln Memorial and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In the Land of Oziana
Bloomsbury Auctions, New York CityPeter and the Swans, a pen and ink and gouache by John R. Neill 1877-1943) for the endpapers of Carl H. Grabo’s Peter and the Princess, published in 1920, sold for $15,600 (est. $12,000/15,000). According to the catalog, it is the only known work of art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art Auction
Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Cowan'sEarly Late Classic Navajo serape, 1865-70, with a background of raveled reds and tight horizontal motif of terraced chartreuse< diamonds, each with a central white cross, complemented by deep indigo zigzags and bars, two dark 1" rings on surface, one large outline of circle ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Andrew Wyeth Ink Leads Gamage Auction
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Rockland, MaineAndrew Wyeth pen-and-ink drawing, Spruce Trees, $58,300.Pear-shaped diamond, weighing 1.58 carats, in a platinum setting, $7975.by Mark SiscoAn auction with an important Andrew Wyeth pen-and-ink drawing was an appropriate way to open Maine's unofficial August antiques auction week. Bruce Gamage held his now-traditional opener at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Craftsman Auction
Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenMarblehead vase, 1915, incised and painted by Arthur Baggs with stylized flowers in yellow and orange against a dark blue and speckled medium blue ground, 8½" high, sold on the phone for $27,600 (est. $15,000/20,000), underbid by another phone bidder.This exceptional ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Rifle Hall Americana Antique Show & Fall Fest
Round Top, Texasby Steve BrooksCarol Maglio and Richard Limbacher of CR Finds Antiques, Colleyville, Texas, were asking $120 to $160 for each of these Scottish spongeware pieces from the late 19th century, made for import to the U.S. The designs were applied to the porcelain with specially cut sponges dipped ... (Read More)
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