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(Auction)Chinese Plaque Leads at Hilliard
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
The October 3 antiques and fine art online auction presented by Hilliard & Co. from its Madison, Virginia, gallery offered an interesting mix of 347 lots. Selling in real time and executing bids from absentees, telephone bidders, and online bidders using LiveAuctioneers, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Collector's Lens
The Young Collector
Sometimes we like to muse about what we would do if independently wealthy. We would buy our friends a lot of "This made me think of you" gifts, we would probably have an array of interesting business cards printed just for laughs, and we might hand over mowing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Calder Mobile Brings $1,872,500, Setting Record for Hindman
Triple Cross, a 1947 standing mobile by Alexander Calder (1898- 1976), sold for $1,872,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Hindman in Chicago on October 1. The 311/2" x 37" x 113/4" sculpture, estimated at $600,000/800,000, set a record for the highest sale price in the Chicago auction house's 38-year history. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Sentenced
On August 20 auctioneer David Hall was sentenced to one to three years in prison and ordered to pay $227,100 in restitution. In February Hall had pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny for not paying over $227,000 in auction proceeds to a consignor. He was scheduled to be sentenced in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Harold Gordon, Creator of Fake "Bingham" Secretary, Sentenced
On September 29 Harold Gordon, 71, of Templeton, Massachusetts, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, to five years of probation. Gordon was also ordered to pay restitution to Connecticut dealer Allan Katz in the amount of $84,500.
On January 29, 2019, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Pop-up Antiques Show at Thomaston's New Green Space
Thomaston, Maine
It doesn't have a name, so let's call it the "Great Thomaston Show of No's." It was held on September 26 at Thomaston Green, a community park in the heart of downtown Thomaston, Maine, that once housed the former Maine State Prison. Every descriptor about the show seems to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Larkin Ambrotype Tops Jefferson Land Grants at Mebane
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
Around 1937, unmarried sisters Maude Spotswood Larkin and Mary Dillard Larkin, who resided in the historic Garland Hill neighborhood of Lynchburg, Virginia, inherited a massive collection of family letters, documents, photographs, books, and furniture. The collection descended from their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Richard and Valerie Tucker's Collection of Shooting Gallery Targets
Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri
Photos courtesy Soulis Auctions
There's something to be learned by zeroing in on Richard and Valerie Tucker's collection of shooting gallery targets offered by Soulis Auctions on September 26, 2020, in Lone Jack, Missouri.
It wasn't the quality or quantity of the collection; that was already well known. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Works of Art
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Skinner's Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery was the site of a September 25 auction of American and European works of art. Vice president and department director Robin S.R. Starr took the podium precisely at noon with an audience of no one. Skinner staffers were in place at their ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Print Shop Has a New Owner
The Philadelphia Print Shop, a fixture on Germantown Avenue in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia and at major antiques shows, has been sold. The new owner is David Mackey, a Main Line commercial real estate/land developer, collector, and sometime dealer in maps and prints of Chester County (www.malvernmaps.com). Mackey ... (Read More)
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