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(Feature)The Louisville Slugger: Rare Glass Target Ball Comes to Market
This great aquamarine ball is embossed in all capital letters: "Manufactured by the/ Kentucky Glassworks Company/ Joseph Griffith & Son's Sole Agents/ Also Dealers in Guns Pistols & Fishing Tackle Louisville/ Kentucky." The embossing covers the ball from top to bottom. Photos courtesy Glass Works Auctions.by Ralph FinchIt finally happened. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Hoard of Chocolate Molds Found and Sold
Chocolatiers, the Paul Anast family. Photo from the Paul Anast Confectioner family.Local advertising for Easter chocolates. Photo from the Paul Anast Confectioner family.Bunny sitting on a stump, $187; Kewpie, $198; harp, $198; Santa sitting, $852.50.Jon Lee Auction Service, Latham, New Yorkby Betty FloodPhotos courtesy Jon Lee Auction ServiceLong ago, chocolate ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
John Sideli of John Sideli Art & Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine, offered a large collection of African figures and masks that he said he has been collecting for some time. A well-carved Baule figure from the 1930’s was $4500; a Luba kifwebe mask, $2000; and a Senufo ceremonial spoon, $2500. Three ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Primitive Gallery to Move
Aarne Anton has announced that American Primitive Gallery is moving and will be closed during the summer. The gallery has been located in New York City's SoHo district for the past 20 years and hosted shows of American folk art and contemporary self-taught art.American Primitive Gallery will reopen in the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Putting the Antics in Antiques
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondLast week we had one of those "lemons or lemonade" days, when things start sliding off track from the beginning, and we had to decide whether to salvage or to swear (OK, we swore a little at first). We started off bright and early on ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
A viewer instructs his wife on the fine points of “Fantastic Verdure,” a $16,000 original cartoon for an Aubusson tapestry. French seller Jean-Yves Lhomond specializes in the originals done for Aubusson in the 19th century. This circa 1850 gouache on paper measured 55" x 68". We overheard hubby say, “Note ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoy Auction: Diverse Offerings Hold Up Well
This rare hollow canvasback drake by Charles Perdew with original paint by Edna Perdew sold for $63,250 (est. $45,000/ 55,000) to a collector from Illinois. It was ex-David Galliher.A rare green-winged teal drake by Robert Elliston (1849-1915) of Bureau, Illinois, sold to a collector in New Jersey for $31,625 (est. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shankland's Victoria Cross Sells to the Canadian War Museum
$288,000 (Canadian). Photo courtesy Bonhams.The Canadian War Museum of Ottawa, Ontario, purchased the Robert Shankland medal set, which includes the Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, at Bonhams in Toronto on May 25 for $288,000 (approximately $257,363 U.S.)."Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Shankland's story is an essential part of the national heritage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Base Found and Sold to the Met
Scott Defrin, owner of European Decorative Arts Company, located in Gallery Six at the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center, New York City, made a remarkable discovery in April. Defrin found the long-missing pedestal to Hercules and Antaeus, an 11" ivory sculpture attributed to the Master of the Martyrdom of Saint ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Indicted
Anthony Bonneau of T’s Family Auction, Cairo, New York, was indicted on charges of grand larceny in the third degree by a Greene County, New York, grand jury on May 13.Bonneau is accused of selling property that once belonged to artist James Michael Newall (1900-1985) and not remitting the proceeds ... (Read More)
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