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(Auction)Black Unicorns and Historical Blues
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
One end of a black unicorn-decorated dower chest was pictured on the cover of Pook & Pook’s April 28 auction catalog. Both ends of the chest were in very good condition, and the decoration on the top was partially visible in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Decoy and Sporting Collectibles Show and Auction
Guyette & Deeter, Inc./Midwest Decoy Collectors Association, St. Charles, Illinois
One bonus of going to diverse collecting events is learning something new. As example, we didn’t have a clue about canoe cups until Rick Sandstrom, president of the Midwest Decoy Collectors Association (MDCA), showed us examples owned by Robert Burger at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Heirloom without an Heir
The Young Collector
We hate to be the bearers of bad news. No one wants to hear this, but we have all been dancing around the problem for way too long. It is time to simply put it out there, so here goes. We hate to break it to you, but ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Lockwood Kipling Bas-Relief Found at Estate Auction
I first began visiting Lambertville, New Jersey’s antiques shops, the Golden Nugget Antique Flea Market, and Rago Auctions in the 1990s while a graduate student in the art history department at the University of Delaware. Moving on in 2001 to a post as director of collections and exhibitions at the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2018
The big money lots in this month’s selection are to be found among the Impressionist and modern pictures sold in London at the end of February, but an old master “find” that made some 100 times its estimated price and a sunny example of the work of Dame Laura Knight ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jim Morneau, Classic Home Hardware, Canton, Connecticut
In the Trade
People get into the antiques business in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons. Take Jim Morneau for example. When he was 23 years old, a house fire incinerated his furniture, and he discovered it was a lot cheaper to buy replacements at the local ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New York from Brooklyn Sells for $162,500
Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers
Gene Shannon and Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers had a successful auction at the gallery in Milford, Connecticut, on April 26. The top lot of the auction, New York from Brooklyn by Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937), a dramatic oil on board ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lost Portrait of Forgotten Hero of American Revolution Rediscovered
Research on both sides of the Atlantic has unlocked the identity of a portrait of a French general wearing a Spanish uniform with medals including a Society of the Cincinnati eagle insignia. He’s a forgotten hero of the Revolutionary War.
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Farrin’s Launches Parking Lot Show
Farrin’s Country Auctions of Randolph, Maine, is launching an outside antiques show in the parking area of the auction house. Farrin’s Country Antique Show and Vintage Market will be held on Saturday, June 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (rain date, June 24) at 36 Water Street. The new ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Sells Well
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Freeman’s Americana sale on April 25 demonstrated that there is still a strong market for American history among passionate group of collectors and dealers. Bidding erupted with gusto when American books and ephemera consigned by a prominent Quaker family crossed the block. Toward the end of ... (Read More)
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