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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Whose Responsibility?
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittHere is an e-mail I received from a reader. "I had a business that failed. The bank held an auction, and everything was sold. A buyer left two items in my building because he could not physically remove them himself: a hood for a kitchen ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kevin Bond's Cabin Fever Sales
A wonderful corner cupboard with a later grain-painted finish came from Ontario and sold for a solid $4000 ($3749). January 30.Kevin Bond, Hampton, New Brunswick, Canadaby Peter SmitAll prices in Canadian funds; approximate U.S. funds in parenthesesKevin Bond offered two country sales in Hampton, New Brunswick, on Saturday, January 30, ... (Read More)
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(Show)One of the Best Americana Shows Out There
Newcastle, Maine, dealers Jewett-Berdan asked $1550 for the large Steiff velvet rabbit and $295 for the small velvet rabbit. Both sold.In addition to a booth at the show, dealer James Lawrence of Little Compton, Rhode Island, had a small area where he signed copies of his recently self-published book Roseware: ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nan Gurley's Sunday Show
Nan Gurley (right) with New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association president Kathy Schoemer, who had words of strong praise for Nan Gurley. “She just runs a fantastic show. Nan is a pro, and she runs our Canterbury, New Hampshire, show in September,” she said.The unusually large pierced tin lantern was $775 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Newport Highboy Sells for $431,250
"The Goddard-Townsend highboy was fresh. It's always been in the family, and everybody came for it," auctioneer Joseph Kabe said of the chest he sold for $431,250 (includes buyer's premium) on April 10 in Milford, Connecticut. The buyer was Ohio and Massachusetts dealer Bill Samaha. Other bidders for the highboy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Days of 20th-Century Decorative Arts
Louis Comfort Tiffany cabbage-shaped ceramic vase with polychrome mottled matte glaze, incised “LCT,” 8½" x 8", restoration to underside of one foot, $50,020 (est. $19,000/24,000).Tiffany Studios table lamp with Daffodil shade over a three-socket Secessionist base, 24" x 20", base and shade stamped “Tiffany Studios New York,” shade numbered 1497-18, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Furniture and Decorative Arts
Consigned by the High Museum of Art, the French silver, marble, and bronze three-piece garniture was the catalog cover lot. It sold for $134,200. Hindman photo.The letter rack marked “1030” and a “920” frame, both in the Zodiac pattern from Tiffany Studios, brought $2440. Hindman photo.Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinoisby ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's Sells More Art from Lehman Brothers Collection
A hand-colored lithograph of City of New York, published by Nathaniel Currier in 1856, 24 1/8" x 30 5/8", framed, sold for $12,500 (est. $1500/2500).Appropriately, the last lot in the sale was a woodcut of the New York Stock Exchange, signed “Davis.” It sold for $8750 (est. $400/600). It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Thomas A. Gray Sale
An Eastern Shore of Virginia one-piece corner cupboard, AccomackCounty or Northampton County, 1750-75, with a red, white, and blue painted surface, its paint restored by Ned Hipp based on a nearly identical cupboard at MESDA, retaining its early glass, 81¾" x 41" x 21", sold for $70,800 (est. $12,000/18,000), a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Hampshire Auctioneers Disciplined by Auctioneers Board
Auctioneers Stephen J. Bennett and Harold French were disciplined by the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers on May 3.In April, both were arrested by Portsmouth, New Hampshire, police, accused of rigging the bidding of a Solon Francis Montecello Badger ship portrait in order to obtain a commission (see M.A.D., May ... (Read More)
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