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(Auction)Stephen Gray Collection Causes a Stir
The 21" high Gustav Stickley Damascus plant stand #9, circa 1901, has a wonderful octagonal form and a Grueby tile at top. From Catalog No. 1 “New Furniture,” the refinished stand sold for $26,400. Gray collection.Important pieces can turn up just about anywhere. A church on the south side of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Family Finds in the Finger Lakes
by Fran KramerWestern New York, a lush rolling countryside, has long attracted "go west" New Yorkers, especially after the Big Ditch (the Erie Canal) was dug. It's horse and wine country, where the bluebloods of the Genesee River valley drink the red and white wines of the vineyards between the ... (Read More)
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(Show)What a Difference a Drape Can Make: Greater Boston, Tweaked
Steele & Steele asked $2600 for the pair of newly reupholstered fireside wing chairs. They displayed photos of the chairs’ bedraggled “before” condition. The circa 1830 oil on board portraits of Thomas and Margaret Andrews Steele (no relation to the dealers) were $3200 for the pair. They had a chalked ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture Auction in Texas
The Philadelphia walnut high chest of drawers from the Lippincott/ Smith family of Salem, New Jersey, sold for $53,775 (est. $5000/10,000) to a dealer on the phone.The cherry sugar chest, circa 1800, topped its high estimate at $2987.50.Dallas Auction Gallery, Dallas, Texasby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Dallas Auction GalleryWhen Dallas Auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Paintings and Decorative Arts
The first lot of the day did well. A commemorative life ring for the America’s Cup defender Enterprise, 1930, with an unsigned portrait of Enterprise in the center hole, inscribed to both designer W. Starling Burgess and Captain Harold S. Vanderbilt, and with a New York Yacht Club burgee, sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show, 2010
Patrick Bell and Edwin Hild of Olde Hope Antiques, Solebury, Pennsylvania, asked $95,000 for the white, black, and gold painted fireboard (on the wall at left) from a house in Long Island, New York. The painted chest below is from Kentucky, 1820-40, 30¼" x 57½" x 20", and $110,000; it ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: A coloured ink drawing of Sissinghurst Castle in 1761, seen at a time when it was used to house French prisoners of war. Today, all that remains of this once great house are the tall Elizabethan towers, the long building in the foreground, part of which ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Vendors Sought for D-R Fund-raiser
The Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School chapter of Citizens Scholarship Foundation of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, is seeking antiques dealers for its spring fund-raiser. On Saturday, April 24, CSF will hold an antiques show and sale at the high school to raise money for college scholarships for 2010 graduating seniors.Antiques dealers from all ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Veteran Connecticut Antiques Dealer Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
by David HewettOn January 15, Woodbury, Connecticut, antiques dealer Harold E. Cole, doing business as Harold E. Cole Antiques, filed a Chapter 11 Voluntary Petition, seeking reorganization in the United States Bankruptcy Court, District of Connecticut.In initial forms filed with the court, Cole, through his attorney, Maximino Medina Jr., estimated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Russian Icons Lead the Way
This icon, “Mother of God of the Sign/ Znamenie,” sold for $92,000. The European buyer felt reassured by the letter of authentication signed by Marina Bowater of Bowater Gallery in London in 1970.This Russian triptych icon painted in egg tempera on wood has Mary Magdalene in the center, flanked by ... (Read More)
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