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(Issue Story)Three Jewelry Auctions
Alexander Eblen said that this Victorian yellow gold, pearl, and shell cameo brooch was beautifully crafted. “With shell, you’re dealing with a material that is most common in cameos, so it gets the least respect; however, when you have a really finely carved one, and it’s something out of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More on Rockwell's Willie Gillis: Package from Home
Drama surrounding the sale of Norman Rockwell’s 1941 painting Willie Gillis, Package from Home appeared to sputter to a close in mid-April when Chicago auctioneer Sean Susanin chose a curious way to announce that he had sold the painting for $1.75 million. That sum is millions below the $3/5 million ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Creating Goals and Improving Web Traffic
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of setting a budget to cover the most essential marketing items that you need. This month we will review creating achievable goals. Once your core strategies have been set, you’ve completed your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, and you ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The London Foundling Hospital’s Textile Tokens, 1740-70
John Styles, a research professor in history at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. and an honorary senior research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, researched ordinary people’s clothing for his book The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England, published in 2007. Very ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)High Noon for Consignors
Auction Law & Ethics
Transparent is not a correct adjective for the auction process. Murky is close. Midnight is the truth. When I serve as an auction consultant to consignors, this is the message that I continually emphasize.
Since April, we have been considering the lack of transparency in auctions and how ... (Read More)
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