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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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(Auction)The Atten Collection of Pilgrim-Century Objects
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Pilgrim-century and early 18th-century antiques gathered by Marion P. Atten of DeWitt, Illinois, came to market on October 6 at Skinner’s gallery in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Atten (1944-2020) was a collector and a knowledgeable dealer in early decorative arts who owned Antiques at Hillwood Farms in DeWitt.
Speaking after the sale, Stephen L. Fletcher, who ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Black River Antique Show
Ludlow, Vermont
The fall foliage was not even close to peak (blame the warm weather evenings), but the annual Black River Antique Show, October 1 and 2, was, as usual, the place to find good buys. There was some brisk business, according to show manager Steve Sherhag of Ohio.
Steve Sherhag’s booth ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at the Ice House
Ludlow, Vermont
We knew that Vermont has ski resorts and lodges, but an ice house? In Ludlow, Vermont, one of the annual fall antiques shows was held in what most of us would call an outdoor ice skating rink. Jackson Gore Lodge at Okemo Mountain is a high-end resort with an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$3.5 Million Sale at Pook
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
A Mickey Mouse print by Andy Warhol sold for $196,800 (including buyer’s premium); a Harriet Whitney Frishmuth bronze fountain sold for $147,600; an Elie Nadelman bronze head of a man wearing a jaunty hat sold for $116,850; and four bronze 1992 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
An Andrew Clemens sand bottle sold for a record $956,000 (including buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $100,000/150,000 during the Hindman auction of American furniture, folk art, and decorative arts on September 30 and October 1 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wes Cowan, vice chair of Hindman, said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Sweet Suite of Potomack Company Sales
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its recent suite of targeted sales in five sessions, spaced over a three-day period, September 28-30, at its Alexandria, Virginia, galleries. Potomack has settled comfortably into a groove of offering these smaller, more precisely curated auctions in series. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hindman’s Fall Fine Art Sales Online
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
We love these salad days in the auction biz, and still they continue. This September in a series of three days (September 27-29), each with a cataloged fine art sale, Hindman Auctions in Chicago realized over $7.5 million. In the process, more than 15 ... (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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