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(Auction)July Estates Auction Balances Live and Online Platforms
The son of freed slaves, William Edmondson (1874-1951) worked hard at service jobs in Nashville until receiving what he considered a God-sent calling to become a sculptor at the age of 57. His medium was limestone; his tools were a hammer and railroad spike. In 1937 he was the first ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stewart Coin Silver Trophy Breaks Record
George W. Stewart Kentucky coin silver trophy. Photo courtesy Brunk Auctions.
Collectors and museums battled in the home stretch to win a coin silver trophy by George W. Stewart (c. 1820-c. 1875) at Brunk Auctions on July 16 in Asheville, North Carolina. The undated trophy was not associated with a particular ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Financial Troubles of Broker/Consultant Create Avalanche of Legal Action
A broker and consultant’s financial troubles have led to three lawsuits, and he figures prominently in other suits where he is not named as a defendant. London resident Timothy Sammons and his dissolved firm, Timothy Sammons, Inc., are facing suits in U.S. federal courts and a New York state court. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bonhams in Sydney, Australia Sells Lockwood de Forest Collection
In oil on a 9½" x 14" card, this painting by Lockwood de Forest II is initialed, dated, and inscribed “Ulwar L de F 93.” It brought $2717.
A late 19th-century carved teak vitrine, designed by Lockwood de Forest II and made for him in Ahmedabad, India and assembled in New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Pottery Sale for the New Collector Generation
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
Not every Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society (SFPCS) absentee sale can offer a $100K-plus “Dave the Slave” decorated pot. Then again, few collectors can even think about bidding on such an item. The most recent SFPCS sale, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sue Cummings and Glynn Marsh Collection
Jerry Stichter Auctioneer, Inc., Troy, Ohio
Textiles played a considerable role when auctioneer Jerry Stichter held a one-owner sale on July 11 in Troy, Ohio. The latest in a series of auctions, it included material from Sue Cummings and Glynn Marsh, whose interest in collecting antiques came honestly, according to Stichter. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Bill Johnson Collection
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Bill Johnson began collecting as a schoolboy—with clocks. And by the time the Berwick, Maine, native died at an auction last year, his gleanings occupied 15 acres along Route One in Wells, Maine, in his very own Johnson Hall Museum. The museum embodied Johnson’s appreciation of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Badger Portraits Donated to Portsmouth Historical Society
The six portraits were last seen in Portsmouth when Ron Bourgeault and Northeast Auctions sold them at the Sawtelle sale in Portsmouth on August 17, 2014. They sold for $30,000. Pennington photo.
Six folk portraits of the Badger family, likely painted by Jonathan Treadwell, have been donated anonymously to the Portsmouth ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?
The Young Collector
For much of western history, the dining room, even remotely as we know it, did not exist. For centuries, virtually all spaces in the homes of common folks, and even to some degree those of “uncommon” folks as well, were multifunctional. Even in the wealthiest of homes, manor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Private Sale of the Meriwether Lewis Pipe Tomahawk
A presentation pipe tomahawk, originally owned by Captain Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and possibly carried during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, has been sold privately in a deal handled by Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio. The identities of the parties were not disclosed nor were the terms. However, company president Wes Cowan ... (Read More)
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