Stories for October '21
(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, October 2021
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Endless Summer
Beneath the Surface
Or, the summer vacation that wasn’t really. Back in the spring, we both got vaccinated. There were tears. A parent or two also cried in relief. The kids acted as if it was a holiday, even though at eight and (by the time you’re reading this) 11, they ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artemus USA and Edelman Arts Sued Over Lease
Art leasing and art finance companies Artemus LLC and Edelman Arts, Inc., are being sued in the Supreme Court of the State of New York for allegedly not paying rent on a seven-story townhouse at 111 East 70th Street in New York City. The suit was filed by the Permanent ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Sandy Smith
One might expect antiques show impresario Sanford “Sandy” Smith to have a colorful background. He does.
His mother named him for the polo player Stephen “Laddie” Sanford, whom “she was impressed with,” as he put it.
At Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn, New York, he edited the yearbook and was business manager for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Weston Antiques Show Canceled Again
The Weston Antiques Show in Weston, Vermont, has been canceled; it was scheduled for September 30-October 2. It is the second year that COVID-19 has canceled the show, which is part of the annual Vermont Antiques Week.
“There were COVID-19 concerns expressed by dealers and some of the volunteers who manage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Camp Cups Story: A Correction and a Follow-Up
In the story about the set of camp cups cataloged as having been owned and used by George Washington that were withdrawn from Nate D. Sanders Auctions’ July 29 sale (September, p. 137), the camp cups were compared with documented camp cups in museum collections illustrated in catalogs or posted ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2021
Things tend to get a little quiet in the London rooms in late July and early August, and this month’s “Letter” once again moves into the provinces for some of the lots that make up this latest selection.
That is not to say that big money spinners from the capital are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art House to Open in New York City
New York City will welcome a new venue at the former Barneys flagship store at 660 Madison Avenue in Manhattan in November when Art House takes over five floors of the marble-covered, wood-paneled, windowed space strategically located between 60th and 61st Streets.
“We knew that New York has the highest concentration ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby’s Sues Florida Couple and Company over Alleged Fakes
Sotheby’s wants its money back. The privately held auction house claims that several consigned Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) lots were fake, as were the provided provenance documents.
On August 5 Sotheby’s filed suit in federal court against Frederic Thut, Bettina Von Marnitz Thut, and FAAM LLC (Fine Art Auctions Miami).
According to court ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Shot in the Arm
Two years ago—with the antiques market seemingly mired in the doldrums—we described the annual shows that make up Antiques Week in New Hampshire as a firewall. If the widely anticipated and well-attended Americana shows floundered, it would point to a larger downturn.
In the end, the firewall held, and the 2019 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, October 2021
William Doriani (1891-1958), Flag Day, 1935, oil on canvas. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sidney and Harriet Janis collection. Digital image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA/Art Resource, New York.
—Through December 11 —Atlanta, Georgia
The High Museum of Art presents Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Unique Congressional Gold Medal Sells for $600,000
A unique large Congressional Gold Medal weighing 7.6 troy ounces that was presented to Major General William Henry Harrison to honor Harrison’s War of 1812 victory at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada on October 5, 1813, sold beyond all expectations for $600,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at Stack’s ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Annual NHADA Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
The annual antiques show of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA)—always one of the most anticipated events of the year—was back live after a year’s hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The August 12-14 New Hampshire Antiques Show at the DoubleTree by ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Antiques in Manchester: The Collector’s Fair
Manchester, New Hampshire
"Sales at the show were sort of out of sight,” wrote Wiscasset, Maine, antiques dealer Peter Eaton regarding Antiques in Manchester: The Collector’s Fair, held on August 11 and 12, promoted by Karen DiSaia Management.
The Rogers family William and Mary maple high chest has a molded cornice, applied ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Dealer Convicted and Sentenced for Walrus Ivory Trafficking and Tax Evasion
Walter Earl, 76, owner of The Antique Gallery in Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced on August 11 to six months of home confinement and more than $400,000 in fines and restitution for illegally trafficking in walrus ivory and failing to report business income to the IRS.
According to court documents, on three ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration 2021
Concord, New Hampshire
The 40-plus dealers from 13 states celebrated their sales, buyers celebrated their purchases, and show manager Peter Mavris of Parsonsfield, Maine, celebrated another successful show in the “quadrangle” of shows in August 2021 in no-sales-tax New Hampshire.
The Tuesday, August 10, Americana Celebration antiques show in the Douglas Everett ... (Read More)
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(Show)Deerfield Dealers Display Americana and More
Deerfield Antique Show, Deerfield, New Hampshire
On Monday, August 9, dealers from over a dozen states displayed their finds and their expertise at the Deerfield Antique Show, the long-running show managed by Rachel Gurley and Joshua Gurley. The Deerfield Fairgrounds in Deerfield, New Hampshire, offered lots of parking, two large buildings ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Hit Debut and a Welcome Return
Downeast Art & Antiques Show, Blue Hill, Maine
The Downeast Art & Antiques Show made its debut with a well-attended preview party on August 2 at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. The show continued August 3 and 4. The tagline for the show read “A continuing tradition since 1948.”
How ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California Art Sale
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"Very, very pleased with the outcome,” said fine art director Scot Levitt about Bonhams’ August 3 California art auction in Los Angeles. Levitt said that with so much of the bidding action being online, it is difficult to predict an auction’s outcome. He needn’t have worried ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antique Jewelry to Be Worn and Loved All Over Again
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Sworders
There is a wealth of antique jewelry to be found “across the pond,” and Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers’ sale of fine jewelry and watches, held live online on July 27 in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, U.K., had stellar examples in its 493-lot auction.
Because so many of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Holy Grail of Sports Cards Smashes All-Time Auction Record
Lot 1 at a timed sale that began on July 23 and was scheduled to end on August 15 at 9 p.m. at Robert Edward Auctions, Chester, New Jersey, was a 1909 T206 Honus Wagner baseball card. Brian Dwyer, who in 2016 bought the New Jersey sports memorabilia company founded ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Coolidge Point Estate
Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
Eldred’s single-owner sale on July 15 brought to market antiques from the collection of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica of Coolidge Point in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. The sale, beneath a tent on the terrace at the gallery in East Dennis, had a 99% sell-through rate.
Coolidge Point, formerly Millet’s ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thomaston Auction: Live and In Person!
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
As of this writing, we’re not quite certain if we’ve got this COVID-19 thing backed into a corner or not. But for at least one auction, a three-day affair at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, July 9-11, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Johnson Decoy Collection and the Sporting Sale
Copley Fine Art, Hingham, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art
The annual summer feast of feathers kicked off July 9 with Copley Fine Art’s two-day online sale of the Johnson decoy collection, which merited its own 140-page catalog, and the sporting sale, which continued on July 10. The sales were live-streamed from ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques and Artisans in the Church Yard
South Salem, New York
Flags were flying, burgers were grilling, and antiquers were hunting for treasures after 16 months at home. The longtime Antiques and Artisans in the Church Yard show, held annually on July 4, did not disappoint.
Cars lined up at 9 a.m., and several volunteers, many of whom have ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Sale Equals Good Results
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"For a small sale [100 lots], the results were quite good,” said Native American art department director Ingmars Lindbergs about the June 29 auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles. “Quite good” translates to total sales of $645,404 (including buyers’ premiums). The sell-through rate was 87% ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Pop Culture at New Haven
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
The first day of New Haven Auctions’ June 26 and 27 sale in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery featured the estate of Daphne Peabody Murray, which included fine jewelry and fine American and European art, with additions from other area estates.
This 1904 oil ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Wells Antiques Show
Wells, Maine
The energy was electric at Goosefare Antiques & Promotions’ 20th Wells Antiques Show at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm in Wells, Maine, on June 27. On the dot of 10 a.m., the ropes at the entrance dropped, and waves of buyers rushed the dealers set up beneath tents, upstairs ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Great Sources Yield Great Results
Neal Auction, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction
The past year has been filled with news of supply chain problems ranging from missing electronics at the auto factory to having no straws at the drive-through window. At Neal Auction in New Orleans, however, estates filled with fresh-to-the-market material with excellent provenance ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Deep Local Connections at Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Over a century ago, in 1910, construction began on the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company’s transmitting facility in Marion, Massachusetts, a year after Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his technology facilitating the long distance broadcast of radio ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Looking on the Bright Side of Life: The Summer Sale at Leland Little
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
Two bright, cheery paintings that portrayed the sheer joy of summer set the tone for Leland Little Auctions’ signature summer sale held on June 12. The perky paintings also far exceeded their estimates. They were produced by an Iowa farm girl ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Canandaigua Antique Show & Sale
Canandaigua, New York
Where were you in 1948? Kindergarten? Junior high? Or maybe you were not even born yet? If you lived in the Rochester, New York, area in 1948 and collected or bought and sold antiques, or maybe knew someone who did, you might have read something in the area ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“Keramics & Rookwood”: American and European Art Pottery Sold Online
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
The Chicago auction scene notched another big win on the collector scale on June 17 when Toomey & Co. held a dedicated art pottery auction offering more than 400 lots of choice examples. It was, as far as we could determine, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Asian Sale at Oakridge
Oakridge Auction Gallery, Ashburn, Virginia
Photos courtesy Oakridge Auction Gallery
Oakridge Auction Gallery held its sale of Asian art and antiques in two sessions, June 12 and 13, at its gallery in Ashburn, Virginia. For the time being, Oakridge continues to conduct virtual sales using five online bidding platforms as well as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back in Action in the Green Hills of Turner
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
It was a cool, misty late spring morning when Charles M. Talbot Associates emerged from a COVID-19-induced slumber to hold its first auction in over a year on June 12 in Turner, Maine. With a rural setting of the old Talbot homestead graced by a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Two-Day Auction with Deep Historical Connections
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
The historical and quirky came to market at John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury, Massachusetts, in two online single-owner sessions on June 12. The estate antiques of Jack and Grace Weil of Marblehead, Massachusetts, included well over 800 lots, many with deep American ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fairhaven Antique Festival
Fairhaven, Ohio
After a nine-year absence, the Fairhaven Antique Festival returned on June 3 and 4. The Ohio show is legendary for bringing fantastic dealers to the middle of nowhere, and it arrived with a splash, literally, as wet weather during setup and unrelenting heavy rain the afternoon of the first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Online Sales at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Skinner’s quarterly paintings auction was bifurcated, with the sale of American and European works of art taking place online on May 21 and paintings, sculpture, and works of art on paper sold online from May 11 through May 20. That format is in place ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art, Including the Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Collection
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Christie’s held two auctions back to back on the morning of May 18—“Fields of Vision: The Private Collection of Artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason” and its customary spring American art sale. By the early afternoon the auction house’s sales totaled $17,146,125 (including buyers’ premiums).
Down ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany and More at Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Stunning pieces of fine decorative art glass, highlighted by the superb craftsmanship of Tiffany Studios, crossed the auction block at Heritage Auctions’ April 29 sale of Tiffany, Lalique, and art glass. The auction also included Art Nouveau and Art Deco works.
Enthusiastic bidders helped drive ... (Read More)
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