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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Do the Math
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittThis is a primer for consignors on auction contract math. You'd be surprised how many people sign contracts without reading them and gaining a command of the terms of the agreement. In my experience, it's a large number. You'd also be surprised how many contracts ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Software, Saving, and Surfing
Computer Column #239by John P. Reid, [email protected] are three topics this month: more dealer software, reading unfamiliar word processor formats, and a really simple Web browser.-AntiqueShop SoftwareIn the September 2008 issue we listed 19 sources of software to catalog antiques for collectors and dealers. The people at Southport Software (www.southportsoftware.com) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Respectable but Reasonable
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoThis was cataloged as an old master style architectural capriccio in sepia and watercolor. It brought $1650.Erte, costume plate, Lady with Diamonds, $1760. (Some of the shapes seen in the photo are reflections of gallery lights.)The dolls came from the collection of Marguerite ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Foster Moves Mauve
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoRobert Foster of Newcastle, Maine, has a loyal following, especially for his major Labor Day weekend auctions, held this year August 30 and 31. The wall-bursting crowds are heavy with dealers, collectors, and tourists alike each year. Following the sale, Foster told us that ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ellsworth Antiques Show in Eighth Decade
Ellsworth, Maineby Mark SiscoAlthough the venerable Ellsworth Antiques Show has roots extending back to 1938 and has operated under different names in the past, it now seems to have found a permanent home at the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine. The show, held this year August 14-16, dates back to ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association Show Goes On
Cheryl Feldaus was quite pleased with the deal she got from Gerry Bell of Gerald W. Bell Jr. Antiques, Falmouth, Maine. She paid about $40 for this birch bark half-canoe.Visit the booth of Tom and Lynne Woods of Woolwich, Maine, and you'll always find some top-of-the-line silver. Here they offered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and California Paintings: The Cream Rises to the Top
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy Bonhams & ButterfieldsTotal sales for Bonhams & Butterfields' August 5 auction of California and American paintings were $5,520,000 (including buyers' premiums). According to Bonhams specialist Scot Levitt, the figure "compares very well" to totals at recent Bonhams & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gamage Pitches a Double-Header
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Rockland, Maineby Mark SiscoFor at least two days, "dead oak" became "live oak" at Bruce Gamage's double-barreled auctions on July 12 and 14 in Rockland, Maine.The first day consisted primarily of the estate of a Rockport, Maine, couple, who were the longtime owners of the Sail Loft ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Figureheads and Folk Art Fly
Rafael E. Osona, Nantucket, Massachusettsby Jackie SideliPhotos courtesy Rafael OsonaThe top lot of the sale was this group of five paintings by Ralph Eugene Cahoon (1910-1982). Each painting illustrates a different sense: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling. The set of oils on masonite, each 14" x 12", sold quickly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Marble-Top Mixing Table Brings $111,550
by Lita Solis-CohenOn Friday, September 19, when the focus was on how to stop the Wall Street meltdown, John Turner, president of Briggs Auction, Inc., Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania, sold a small, rare 18th-century walnut mixing table with a King of Prussia marble top and trifid feet for $111,550 (includes buyer's ... (Read More)
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