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(Fragment)American Ceramic Circle Presents 2007 Book Awards
The American Ceramic Circle (ACC) presented two book awards at its annual meeting on November 1 in Baltimore, Maryland.Ceramics in America 2007, edited by Robert Hunter, is devoted to porcelain produced by Gousse Bonnin and George Anthony Morris at the American China Manufactory in Philadelphia from 1769 to 1772. Bonnin ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fresh Estates from Buffalo and Beyond Bring Bidders to Grogan
Grogan & Company, Dedham, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoThis gilt and patinatedbronze figure by Emile Guillemin (French, 1841-1907) came to the sale from Claire Golant’s estate and sold to a New York dealer for $26,450 (est. $8000/12,000). From the top of the goddess’s torchère to the bottom of her carved giltwood marble-top ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Classics Endure: The Murfreesboro Antique Show
Murfreesboro, Tennesseeby Sarah DruryDealer R.L. Pinson (left) was there when the Murfreesboro show debuted in 1967 and is still selling. Promoter Don Detwiler (right) has headed up the event for the past six years and has won good reviews from dealers for increasing the show’s attendance and visibility.David P. Taylor ... (Read More)
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(Show)Granville Antiques Fair Had Something for Everyone
Granville, Ohioby Mary Ellen HareWest Main Antiques, Zanesville, Ohio, offered cast-iron urns from 1870-80 for prices ranging from $125 to $250.For those longing for department stores of yore, Summer Kitchen Antiques, Columbus, Ohio, offered a green ceramic mug marked “Lazarus, 1851-1941,” a nostalgic piece recalling the now-defunct Lazarus Department Store, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Moore Collection
Edward Hicks’s Peaceable Kingdom with Quakers Bearing Banners, 1829-30, a 17½" x 23¼" oil on canvas in a cherry veneer frame hand lettered by the artist, sold for $1,314,500 (est. $2/3 million) to a phone bidder, underbid by Pennsylvania dealer Kelly Kinzle in the salesroom. One of five painted between ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chests Big and Small Impress at Fall Sale
John Palm Boyer (1833-1901) of Brickerville, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, made this slant-lid seed chest with porcelain drawer pulls, shaped skirt, and high arched cutout feet. The elaborately decorated surface was in very good condition. One dealer in the salesroom commented, “It is right as rain.” There was one scallop missing ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: A Good Accounting
Computer Column #240by John P. Reid, [email protected] month is all about antiques businesses. Seldom in the past 20 years has this column discussed bookkeeping or accounting software. Setting up an accounting system is complicated. Good computer skills alone do not make a good accountant. People spend years in college or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Washington Miniature Soars at Last Skinner American Furniture Sale of 2008
by David HewettPhotos courtesy Skinner.On November 1 and 2, Skinner sold the Herbert Nilson collection of clocks, followed by American furniture and decorative arts from several sources, at its Boston galleries. The entire 900-plus-lot sale brought just under $2.2 million.Several lots sold on one bid, and the entire sale had ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Furniture, Folk Art, Maritime Art, and Prints
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenRare Monhegan Island-style red-breasted merganser drake carved by Augustus Aaron Wilson (1864-1950) of South Portland, Maine, circa 1900, with carved crest and eyes, relief-carved wings, and a slightly turned head, 16½" long (est. $100,000/150,000). One of three knownfrom the same rig, it was purchased from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Buechler Auction
Chris Huntington, Blockhouse, Nova Scotiaby Chris BeckettBy mid-afternoon the crowd had thinned, and bargains were to be had.All prices in Canadian fundsLarry and Ruby Buechler were originally from Ontario. In Blockhouse, Nova Scotia, where they ended up, that's the sort of thing everybody knows. Their name, however, was solidly German, ... (Read More)
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