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(Auction)Color Is Key at Green Valley's Spring Glass Sale
Green Valley Auctions, Mt. Crawford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanGreen Valley Auctions held its seventh annual spring cataloged auction of glass and lighting on May 18 and 19 at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The sale consisted of 1053 lots and included consigned items from several major collections.Three former officers ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tom Luciano and Dina Palin, Historical Materialism, Hudson, New York
In the Tradeby Frank DoneganWhen Tom Luciano and Dina Palin were pickers 15 or so years ago, they were the quintessential hipster couple. They'd pull into your shop in their 1964 Dodge Dart. Tom would have his porkpie hat on, and they'd buy the interesting, oddball stuff that was hard ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)It's Elementary, My Dear Watson
Auction Law and Ethicsby
Steve ProffittFriend and fellow columnist David Vazdauskas wrote me about an
auction consignor who suffered a loss of property at an auction house. Vazdauskas's
inquiry paralleled a reader's question and caused me to think of an issue I haven't
previously addressed: what a consignor should do ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Beautiful Portrait and Brainy Clock Sell Best
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoThere were several wild cards at the latest Skinner Americana sale in Boston on Sunday, June 3, but the cover lot, a breathtakingly beautiful portrait of a young woman attributed to Ammi Phillips, was not one of them. The oil on canvas laid down on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Ann BermanResponding to an unusually lean season of business-getting, Sotheby's American art specialists prudently padded their sale of May 23 with anything they could get their hands on. There were some great works on offer but also plenty of average pictures and some real clunkers.How did ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Polar Books: Cold Is Hot at Swann
Swann Galleries, New York Cityby Jeanne SchintoA first edition of the first book published in Antarctica sold to a collector for $84,000 (includes buyer's premium) at the highly successful auction by Swann Galleries of the polar library of Dr. John M. Levinson in New York City on May 24. The ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Beanes Bloom in Waterville
Beane's Antiques & Photography, Waterville, MaineBeanes Bloom in Watervilleby Mark SiscoWe once called David and Becky Beane the "seven-year locusts of auctioneers." Every seven years they stick their heads out and make some noise. Although it hasn't been quite seven years since their last auction in August 2002, the time ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dixon Painting Tops Auction
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CaliforniaDixon Painting Tops Auctionby Alice KaufmanBonhams & Butterfields' paintings specialist Scot Levitt called his $4,169,700 California and American paintings auction, held May 1 in Los Angeles and San Francisco, "very good, but there were more buy-ins than I'd wanted." Nevertheless, "Western art ... (Read More)
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(Show)Blue Ribbon Show: Right Day, Right Weather, Not Enough Visitors
Contoocook, New HampshireBlue Ribbon Show: Right Day, Right Weather, Not Enough Visitorsby David HewettOn Saturday, June 2, the third annual Blue Ribbon Antique Show was held at the Hopkinton State Fairgrounds in Contoocook, New Hampshire. It appeared to the participating dealers, members of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association, that ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country
Los Altos, CaliforniaCalifornia Countryby Alice KaufmanMarie Croft, one of the 59 exhibitors at the June 10 California Country antiques show in Los Altos, California, said that like her fellow exhibitors, she was selling "memories and nostalgia." Both were thick on the ground at the show, which, as always, also featured ... (Read More)
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