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(Auction)Collectors Propel Fall Signature Toy Sale to $2.6
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions signed off on its November 11 and 12, 2017, Signature sale with the company's highest-grossing sales figures since the glory days of the sale of Donald Kaufman's collection (five auctions held from 2009 to 2011). The 1470-lot barrage of toys, banks, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Most Unusual Sale
Slotin Folk Art, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art
The November 11 and 12, 2017, Slotin Folk Art Auction was particularly strong, with heavy emphasis on African American and slave-related material, much from the Acacia Collection in Savannah and the Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. These lots appeared ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Miniature Portraits Lead at Evans Americana Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 33rd cataloged auction of Americana and fine antiques on November 10 and 11, 2017. These semiannual sales are designed to emphasize items from Virginia and the South.
As is his custom, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 American Art Fair
New York City
The tenth American Art Fair opened its doors to an enthusiastic crowd on Saturday evening, November 11, 2017, ushering in American Art Week in New York City with a private invitation-only preview. The show ran through November 15.
Seventeen dealers of 19th- and 20th-century American art covered the walls ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Rhinoceros Horn
Irish national Michael Hegarty, 40, pleaded guilty on September 29 in U.S. District Court in Miami to fraudulently facilitating the transportation and concealment of a rhinoceros horn libation cup that was smuggled from the United States to Great Britain in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
In mid-April 2012, Hegarty ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dan Morphy: The Man with a Specialized Plan
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
Dan Morphy had the good fortune to grow up in a collecting family. His physician father, Dr. John C. Morphy Sr., and his mother, Janet, took him along on the antiques trail, and Dan began acquiring and dealing his favorite specialties as a very ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Witek Sentenced for Mail Fraud
Daniel Witek, 54, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to time served (six months) by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny on November 8, 2017. He was also ordered to pay $2100 in restitution.
Witek was a volunteer at the Buffalo History Museum in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes at the Winter Antiques Show
Michael Lynch, Lucinda Ballard, and Arie Kopelman.
Arie L. Kopelman, the chairman of the Winter Antiques Show for the last 25 years, was made for the job. As president and CEO of Chanel, Inc. at its New York City headquarters, he is credited with transforming Chanel from a reported $357 million ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hoarder or Collector? Some Readings and Reflections
"Why do you collect all these newspapers?" I asked Uncle Arthur.
Uncle Arthur tilted his head and looked at me curiously from slitted eyes. "I don't collect them."
"Then why do you have so many?"
"I've been busy. I haven't had time to read them."
Uncle Arthur's papers closed around us like a dark ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art, Pottery, and Jewelry Headline Arts of the American West
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Denver, Colorado
Photos courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Provenance packs a punch, especially when discussing artwork being offered up by an institution. Not only do collectors know the items in question were probably handled and cared for properly, said artwork has a documented past.
These attributes added to the appeal of ... (Read More)
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