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(Show)Chicagoland Decoy Show
Lombard, Illinois
Assume, for the sake of elucidation, that you are on the board of directors of a nationwide collecting group with more than 6000 members. For as long as most remember (some 54 years) the group has held a multi-day annual show each spring in the same location. The event ... (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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(Show)The York Show: This Is What We Missed
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
Photos by Kathy Lesieur
There was a good gate on Friday, September 17, at what show manager Melvin Arion called the 177th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale even though the last one held, pre-COVID-19, January 31-February 2, 2020, was the 174th. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Spanning over a Century at Clars
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Clars Auction Gallery
The fine jewelry and timepieces sale on September 16 at Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, “offered a beautiful selection of diamond, colored gemstone, and signed jewelry spanning over a century,” according to Lauren Della-Croce, director of jewelry. “Prices were strong for signed jewelry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Oppenheimer Collection of Meissen
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
On Tuesday, September 14, in a Sotheby’s salesroom, 21 collectors and connoisseurs, including several members of the trade, and a lawyer from Tel Aviv representing the consignors of 117 lots of Meissen porcelain filled the chairs arranged in pairs, 6' apart, for social distancing according ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gentlemen, Start Your Bidding
A circa 1909 Märklin clockwork limousine, estimated at $7500/25,000, sold for $48,875 (includes buyer’s premium) at Stony Ridge Auction in Lemoyne, Ohio, on September 12. The buyer was Doug Prendeville of Train Collector’s Warehouse and Tin Toy Gallery in Parsippany, New Jersey. The underbidder was on the phone.
$48,875. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Premier Sale with Adjustments
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions’ “Premier” sale in Asheville, North Carolina, on Saturday, September 11, was a day when, in the words of American fine art specialist Nan Zander, the history of American painting was on display. In addition, major collections of American furniture and Delft ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Part Two of Schroeder Collection Brings $2.6 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
September 10 and 11 found the gallery of Bertoia Auctions once again filled with the ultimate antique toy fantasyland, compliments of the Aaron and Abby Schroeder collection. This autumn event was round two. The first auction to disperse the couple’s collection took place ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record Price Paid at Wiederseim
An oil on canvas by Xanthus Russell Smith (1839-1929), estimated at $5000/7000, sold for a record-breaking $106,250 (with buyer’s premium) at Wiederseim Associates in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, on September 10. We could find no other work by Smith selling for a higher price at auction.
The buyer, according to Ted Wiederseim, was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dave Drake Stoneware Jar Sets Record at $1.56 Million
The Zipp family of Crocker Farm sold a 25-gallon poem jar by Dave Drake, among the most important items of American stoneware the firm has sold in its career, for $1.56 million (with buyer’s premium) in an auction that closed on August 6. The buyer was an American institution. “We had ... (Read More)
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