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(Auction)Walker Estate Comes to Auction
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Judging from the number of cars and trucks in the parking lot for the April 25 sale at Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts, attendance at the auction house was up markedly. The 575-lot sale offered paintings, sculpture, silver, jewelry, clocks, coinage, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)60 Years of the NADCA Show
North American Decoy Collectors & Sporting Collectibles Show, Lombard, Illinois
When two diverse yet related collecting events hold bang-up sales and gatherings in the same location on roughly the same days and both deliver a huge success, it is a phenomenon. In today’s collecting climate, standout success points to happy clientele ... (Read More)
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(Show)Twenty Years of Simple Goods
Berlin, Ohio
There was no cake. Nary a slice. Not even a spatula with some leftover icing. “I don’t do cake,” said Christina Hummel.
The thought of cupcakes got nixed too. The concern was that some oafs might stuff the paper liners into, well, just about any conceivable recess in a room ... (Read More)
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(Show)Earlier Times Antiques & Folk Art Show
Millersburg, Ohio
There remains a comfortable, laid-back atmosphere at the semi-annual Earlier Times Antiques & Folk Art Show. Like the surrounding community, it’s part of what gives the show its allure.
The six tins in this walnut pie safe each have a design of an urn with a central heart, all surrounded ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)American Furniture 2024
A Book Review
American Furniture 2024, the annual journal published by the Chipstone Foundation that focuses mostly on 18th- and 19th-century furniture history, was delayed because of production difficulties. It was well worth waiting for!
It is the 31st volume of American Furniture, the first of the Chipstone hardback journals that has ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Liberty Antiques Festival: Past, Present, and Future
Liberty, North Carolina
"Antiques have been our life," said Mary Ellen Sico. She and husband Vito Sico had antiques shops in their home state of New Jersey and then in North Carolina. Mid-1990, they were chatting about the possibility of an outdoor antiques show with their real estate agent-friend Janet Hill. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record-Setting Million Dollar Decoys at Guyette & Deeter
No decoy had ever sold at auction for $1,000,000, but two decoys did at Guyette & Deeter's Part I sale of the James and Diane Cook collection. The first lot of the April 23 and 24 sale was a superbly painted wood duck decoy in fine condition by Joseph Lincoln ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Million Dollar Decoys Lead Guyette & Deeter's Best Sale Ever
Guyette & Deeter, Lombard, Illinois
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
There had never been a decoy sold at auction for $1,000,000 until April 23, and then there were two. The first lot in Guyette & Deeter's two-day decoy and sporting art sale in Lombard, Illinois, finally did it: a decoy was hammered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three-Panel Screen Sells for $826,000
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Four works by Bob Ross (1942-1995) were offered in the sale with proceeds benefitting American Public Television and Public Broadcasting Service. Seen here is Purple Mountain Range, painted in 1993, 18" x 24". The painting went to an online bidder for $279,900 (est. $35,000/55,000). It ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Watching the Race
The British tabloid Daily Mail has intrigued us with an interesting experiment. In March, the Mail created the "Race to GBP10,000." The newspaper has given GBP500 to five contestants to see who can turn that amount in GBP10,000 first. The Mail noted that any profits made will go to charity.
Each ... (Read More)
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