(Auction)
Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction, Fort Worth, Texas
Photos courtesy Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction
Still headlining events today, Annie Oakley continues to draw a crowd. At Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction on June 11 in Fort Worth, Texas, cowboys, cowboy-wannabes, and lovers of anything and everything Western turned out in ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
If there is such a thing as a celebrity auctioneer, those who attended The Potomack Company’s recent sale were treated to just that. Because of a scheduling conflict, Patrick O’Neill, the firm’s longstanding man with the gavel, was not at the podium. ... (Read More)
|
(Show)
Burton, Ohio
The weather: no one likes to talk about it, but everyone does where shows held outside are concerned. The Burton Antiques Market, held twice a year at the Geauga County Fairgrounds in Burton, Ohio, lives and dies by the weather, and it isn’t just a topic of rain or ... (Read More)
|
(Issue Story)
After publication in the September 2015 Maine Antique Digest of the article “There Was No One Like Rudolph T. Lux, Ever,” readers and friends have provided new facts, which this article incorporates.
For example, the morning edition of the New Orleans Republican of July 14, 1868, reported the following: “Attempted Assassination. ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
The best items performed a bit of a balancing act during the American history sale held by Cowan’s Auctions in Cincinnati on June 10.
On one side of the scale, the auction’s most anticipated lot, a presentation sword and archive of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, ... (Read More)
|
(Book Review)
A Book Review
Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter. The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2015, 216 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
Ceramics in America is the annual Chipstone journal intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, dealers ... (Read More)
|
(Computer Article)
Computer Column #330
John P. Reid, < [email protected]>
Antiquers occasionally need drawings or plans. Instruction to a woodworker for making a replacement part for furniture restoration is one example. A three-dimensional layout for a show booth is another.
Many Tools
Computer-aided design (CAD) has been a major software tool in manufacturing and construction industries ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
The buyer did his homework but could end up holding the bag, a bag that costs $500,000.
On May 7, 2013, Sotheby’s offered a 14" x 7½" oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso, Tête (Portrait de Marie-Thérèse), estimated at $700,000/900,000. The catalog listed the provenance as Knoedler Gallery, Laurence Tisch, and ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
All prices include buyer’s premium
Brooke Sivo, who is the specialist for American furniture and decorative arts for Bonhams in Los Angeles, said he was pleased with the results from the June 7 and 8 auction, titled The Elegant Home. The auction offered “a broad spectrum of ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s held a dedicated sale of just over 200 lots of 20th- and 21st-century furniture and design objects that were amassed by dealer John Birch of the store Wyeth in downtown New York City. It took place the afternoon after Sotheby’s design auction session in ... (Read More)
|