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(Auction)Clock Feast at Fontaine's
A mid-19th-century gilt-bronze owl-form French clock-and-candelabra set sold in the room for $10,925 (est. $8000/12,000). The three pieces have matching serial numbers.A circa 1870 French industrial clock-and-barometer combination in the form of an automated steam engine, 19½" x 13½" x 7½", sold to an absentee bidder for $19,550 (est. $12,000/15,000).Fontaine's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bunch Sells the James Galley Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain
Archaic Chinese hardstone covered vessel, 6¼" high, lion mask carving with dragons on lid, pierced wooden stand inlaid with silver wire, $40,950 (est. $600/ 800) to a phone bidder from London.Chinese eatingknife, carvedwood, gilt bronze,tinted ivory with ajade handle,$4095 (est. $100/200).This pair of rare Chinese export porcelaincandlesticks, circa 1770, with ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Tower Antique Show
The child’s toy dry sink in its original oil paint finish was possibly made for one of the children of the Boltinghaus family of Lexington, Kentucky. Made of pine, it was 18" wide x 8" deep and tagged $1100 by Woody Straub.Phil Dutcher of The Antiquary Ltd., Tulsa, Oklahoma, offered ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Speech Recognition
Computer Column #247by John P. Reid, [email protected] recognition software was mentioned in this column for the March 2009 issue. Such software allows you to dictate text to a computer. The emphasis in the earlier column was on computer users whose limited use of their hands makes typing and mouse handling ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Director at Ogunquit Museum of American Art
by Rose SafranRecent changes at the Ogunquit (Maine) Museum of American Art (OMAA) include the appointment of a new director, planned extension of the season, new exhibits, addition of a small library, community outreach, and involvement with other arts organizations such as the nearby Portsmouth Athenaeum.Ronald Crusan, former executive director ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Antiques Show Weathers the Storm
A fresh face to the show this year was La Belle Gueule de Bois, Magog, Quebec. They had a fine booth that included this rare primitive bonnetière cupboard from Quebec’s Eastern Townships featuring fish hinges and forged nails in the construction, with complementary bracket base, ex-collection Peter Baker. It dated ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stitches in Time: Portsmouth Samplers from 1760-1840
Sampler worked by Elizabeth Lake in 1817. Collection of the Portsmouth Historical Society.Stitches in Time: Portsmouth Samplers from 1760-1840, an exhibit produced by the Portsmouth Historical Society at the John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, will be on display until October 31. The exhibit features over 30 needlework ... (Read More)
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(Auction)All Things Georgia: The Griffin Collection
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolinaby Pete PrunklPhotos courtesy Brunk AuctionsBill and Florence Griffin at home in Atlanta. Bill was a successful real estate attorney and field ornithologist. Florence helped found the Southern Garden History Society, the Georgia Conservancy, and the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. Their marriage “was built on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record $169,200 Paid for Newcomb Pottery
The vase is incised with a stylized design of deep blue Clematis jackmanii with yellow centers held aloft on sage green trellis-like stems in a rhythmic progression and with a yellow band at its rim. This impressive vase scored a new record for Newcomb pottery, selling for $169,200. Neal Auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Withdrawn Ohr Works Worry Art Pottery Trade
by Lita Solis-CohenTwo two-handled vases, signed in script "G.E. Ohr," were withdrawn from Sotheby's June 12 auction. No official reason was given, but a group of Ohr collectors and scholars believe they were fake.Eugene "Gene" Hecht, who with Garth Clark and Robert Ellison wrote The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The ... (Read More)
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