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(Show)The Heartland Antique Show
Susie and Rich Burmann of New London, New Hampshire, asked $16,500 for the Pennsylvania or Ohio paint-decorated blanket chest, dated 1833, and $7800 for the 29½" long copper prancing horse weathervane with an iron head, late 19th century.
Blue and white coverlet with a corner block lettered “RY/ By D.I.G./ 1839,” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wyeth, Vroman, and Landesio Pace Thomaston Sale
This carved wooden fruit display opened the auction and blew away the $600/800 estimate when it sold for $6785.
India ink drawing by Andrew Wyeth, In the Georges Islands, $60,375.
Oil on canvas ship portrait of the Alfred Keen by Rockland, Maine, artist James Gardner Babbidge, $13,800.
Sometimes good period furniture seems on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXIII, Art Glass 2013, Keramics 2013
Once the property of the czar of Russia, this is a 6" x 3½" (closed), 6 5/8" (open) St. Petersburg triptych. The painting depicts the resurrection of Christ with angels and two frightened guardsmen. In a gold-washed silver and enameled case, it is in excellent condition and sold for $57,500.
This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Pottery for Sale
Combining an early Daniel Seagle salt-glaze pot with incised historical reference to an event took this Lincoln County, North Carolina, pot to $17,050. It is quite possibly a presentation piece.
The Meaders name is synonymous with face jugs because of Lanier’s fame with this form. Lanier’s brother Edwin also produced face ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Earl Davis Wins in Suit Connected to Salander-O'Reilly
Here at M.A.D., we never know where a phone call from a reader might lead us. A call during the early summer of 2007 from a subscriber on the West Coast illustrates that point perfectly. Los Angeles art collector Maurice Katz was having trouble collecting a $32,000 debt owed to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marilyn Monroe Trumps Everyone in Manuscripts Sale
Marilyn Monroe’s undated letter to Lee Strasberg sold for $156,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Written in pencil, it is a wrenching cry for help.
Andrew Jackson wrote these three pages on October 20, 1819, on the justification for his complicated Indian removal policy. The recipient was Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee, whose state ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Memorial Day Sale in Portsmouth
Small picture, huge price. This 8¾" x 16¾" oil on panel, The Beach at Trouville, signed by French painter Eugène Louis Boudin (1824-1898), sold to a phone bidder for $542,400, smashing the $90,000/150,000 estimate. The bidder was on the phone, underbid by another phone. It was dated 1880 and inscribed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Memorial Day Sale Attracts the Faithful Despite Cold Snap
This is how the Hannan merchandise (plus a few similar additions) looked as it was displayed in one of the rooms in the reconstructed French house. Now imagine about 20 would-be buyers squeezed into the room and see what it was like during Saturday and Sunday mornings’ inspection periods. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)Combing the Christie Classic for Collectibles
Ken Aubrey of Ottawa, Ontario, asked $350 for this 1950’s pedal car in green, yellow, and black by an unknown maker.
Bisback Family Antiques sold a circa 1880 file cabinet with 32 drawers from the Ayton, Wellington County, Ontario, municipal office for $2650. An artist needing storage space bought it.
George Lehto ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fearless Followers Forever
Edward and Lillian Miller of Pioneer Folk Antiques, Ellsworth, Maine, have a good eye—well, actually four—and they spot the whimsical and the colorful, such as this metal tractor part, $450, that looks almost like spokes of a game of chance, and the 1940’s metal “Candy-Soda” sign, $675.
This wonderful old 1840’s ... (Read More)
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