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(Auction)Lang's $2.7 Million Sale, Its Best Ever, Breaks Angling Book Record
Lang's Sporting Collectables, Inc., Boxborough, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoThey're known as the world's leading fishing tackle auctioneers. They sell rods, reels, and lures, and do it extremely well. Three years ago, they had the first $1 million fishing tackle sale. Each of their next three sales achieved more than the previous ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Auctions and Commercial Reasonableness
by Steve ProffittWe began the new year with recounting a discussion I had with an auctioneer. It went like this: "Mr. Proffitt, I've got one of those complaining sellers on my hands and would appreciate your advice on how to handle him. Of course, his complaint is about what his ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sloans & Kenyon Has First $2 Million Sale
Sloans & Kenyon, Chevy Chase, Marylandby Robert KyleIn its most successful auction since opening four years ago, as an outgrowth of Sloan's Auction Galleries (formerly C.G. Sloan & Co.), Sloans & Kenyon's sale on November 9-11, 2007, totaled $2.36 million on the strength of fine art, Asian ceramics, sterling silver, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sollo:Rago Modern Weekend
Sollo:Rago Modern Auctions, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenJohn Sollo's over 1100-lot 20th-century modern sale on October 27 and 28, 2007, in Lambertville, New Jersey, offered furniture, lighting, studio ceramics, prints, paintings, and sculpture in a thick catalog. The marathon sale began at noon on Saturday and did not end until ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tasha Tudor's Historic Costume Collection
Whitaker-Augusta Auction Co., New Hope, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenTasha Tudor, the illustrator and author of children's books, began collecting 19th-century clothes when she was nine years old. As an adult she used her collection as source material for her illustrations for more than 100 children's books-some, her own, and some, others' ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: 2008, "The Year to Think Outside the Blanket Box"
by Andrew Richmond and Hollie DavisBy the time you read this, we'll be about three weeks into the new year. Three weeks. About the amount of time it takes the average person to break new year's resolutions. Honestly, did you really think you were going to eat less chocolate, lose ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Museum of the City of New York to Dispose of "Rockefeller Rooms"
by David HewettWhen collectors and dealers gather in New York City every January for the round of Americana auctions and shows, there's usually a swirl of stories circulating among the throngs about who's buying what, what's hot and what's not, and, occasionally, what's happening in academic and museum circles.Two of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's January Americana Sale
by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Christie'sThe Stephenson family mahogany tea table with scalloped top, made in Philadelphia circa 1770, has been widely exhibited. It has been at the Diplomatic Reception Room of the U.S. Department of State, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in the exhibition American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Sotheby's
by Lita Solis-CohenThree piecrust tea tables made for Philadelphia merchants illustrate that "the rococo reached its apogee of colonial achievement in Philadelphia before the revolution," as the late University of Pennsylvania professor Robert C. Smith used to say.The table owned by John Baynton (pronounced Banton) is a fine example of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: The Compact Market
It's a bit ironic, but the antiques industry, what some would call the ultimate consumer industry, could get a much-needed boost by an environmentalmovement that advocates less shopping. Dealers looking for new customers in existing markets would do well to find out about the Compact and compact shoppers.The Compact, born ... (Read More)
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