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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: A Field Guide to Collectors
The Young CollectorA Field Guide to Collectorsby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe've been bandying the word "collector" around now for several months, but recently it has occurred to us that "collector" might mean different things to different people. When we started thinking about it, we realized that there are several ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Lee Dudley Ruddy Duck from North Carolina Shatters Record
Guyette & Schmidt, Inc., St. Charles, Illinoisby Karl H. PassGuyette & Schmidt held its 23rd annual spring decoy auction on April 24 and 25 at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois. The total gross of the 572-lot two-session sale was $3,579,797 (including buyers' premiums), making it the fifth-highest ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Warts and All: Identifying Famous People in Vintage Photography
by Jeanne SchintoTwo photographic portraits, each identified by its owner as a famous personage of the Civil War, went up for sale at New England auction houses in mid-April. Neither sold. Ordinarily, that would be the end of the story, except that these portraits raise anew a thorny question: who-or ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Ferrell Auction Company to Close
by Noah FleisherOn July 12 and 13 Ferrell Auction Company in Loveland, Colorado, will celebrate 41 years in the auction business with one final closeout sale. "We're going to close the doors here," George Ferrell said. "I'm retiring from the business, and we're liquidating all of our inventory."The huge two-day ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antiques Mall Find at $154 Sells for $34,500
Pam Lane, a 40-year-old mother of three, has a small business buying and selling antiques in Nashville, Tennessee. She bought what she thought was a candle box with "great surface and years of dirt" for $154 at an antiques mall in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.Lane e-mailed a photo of the box ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Responsibilities Proposed for Show Promoters and Managers in Massachusetts
by David HewettIf an act presently under consideration in the Massachusetts legislature passes into law, show promoters and flea market owners will have to cough up as much as $200 for licenses good for one year at a time and engage in policing of exhibitors, which is not now demanded ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Arbus Auction at Phillips Canceled; Lawsuit Pending
by Jeanne SchintoOn April 8 Phillips de Pury & Company announced that it had canceled its auction of recently discovered photographs by Diane Arbus. It was supposed to have taken place in New York City on April 9. "Private Sale Pending" is the reason stated for the cancellation on the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Asian Art Fair Moves to New Location
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican antiques shows have not been the same since 1989 when Anna and Brian Haughton launched the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory with their special brand of good design and new standards of vetting.They are known innovators. They were ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Show Dealers Mourn Loss of Peers
Bowmanville, Ontarioby John NorrisAll prices in Canadian fundsThe annual Bowmanville Show in Bowmanville, Ontario, celebrated its 35th anniversary on March 21 and 22. Although peppy pop music pumped throughout the small hall of the G.B. Rickard Recreation Complex, and the 28 dealers setting up that day bantered and swapped stories, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Ceramics in America: All about Bonnin and Morris
by Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2007 Edited by Robert Hunter The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by Antique Collectors' Club, $65.00www.antique-acc.comThe 2007 Ceramics in America is a hardbound book filled with articles by 14 scholars and brilliant photographs covering almost all that is known about the American China Manufactory in Philadelphia run ... (Read More)
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