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(Book Review)Art, Furniture, and Genealogy
A Book Review
"Buy the object, not the story.” This classic advice properly cautions antiques buyers against paying for questionable provenance or celebrity associations. Antique furniture, paintings, silver, and everything else should stand on their own aesthetic and historical merits, not on “granny notes,” family lore, or dealer anecdotes.
But at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charles Carroll’s Declaration Sells for $4,420,000
One of Charles Carroll’s two copies of “The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America,” engraved by William J. Stone in 1823, sold at Freeman’s in Philadelphia on July 1 for $4,420,000 (includes buyer’s premium).
It is the second-highest price ever paid for any printing of the Declaration of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2021
A record-demolishing $2 million price in Scotland for a little medieval ivory casket from Paris was a last-minute entry to this month’s “Letter” but gets pride of place.
Fearsome-looking suits of Japanese armour, bizarre birds and other appealing Martinware creations, a rare Saxon shilling, and a bidding race between a camel ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gifts to Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum Upgrade Collection
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (BPMM) in the Bronx, New York, has received important additions to its collection of early 19th-century American furniture and furnishings.
A Classical bronze-mounted mahogany center table with an original Thomaston marble top made by Isaac Vose & Son, Boston, 1820-24, has replaced an Empire Revival table in ... (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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(Issue Story)Hanging with Heather Campbell Coyle
Heather Campbell Coyle, chief curator and curator of American art at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, said she didn’t know she wanted to be a curator until she became one. Hired at the museum as a part-time research assistant during graduate school at the University of Delaware, she ended ... (Read More)
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