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(Young Collectors)A Long and Winding Road
The Young Collector
There are people you like and people you love. For people you like, you return calls, pick up their mail every now and then when they’re out of town, send them a card at the holidays, and like their photos on Facebook. For people you love, well, you ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXVI
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
It was one of those “the water’s fine, come on in” kind of auctions when Humler & Nolan held its summer sale on June 4 and 5. In usual fashion, the company offered nearly 1500 lots in multiple sessions: keramics, art glass, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Alasdair Nichol called his June 5 American paintings sale at Freeman’s “An American Dream” and put an N.C. Wyeth picture of a happy American family on the cover. He had high hopes after his record-breaking $4 million sale in December 2015. That was when he sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lady Washington Plate Soars
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
A historic plate was the subject of intense bidding in the gallery and on the phone when it opened at $15,000 at Grogan & Company’s sale on June 5 in the Boston gallery. It raced to $244,000 (includes buyer’s premium) against the estimated $25,000/50,000. The 9?" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Randi Ona, Wayne, New Jersey
In the Trade
Randi Ona knew early on that she liked antiques. As a girl, she spent weekends with her grandparents in Paterson, New Jersey. “My grandmother loved antiques,” Ona recalled. “We’d go to tag sales every week.” Paterson had been home to some great silk mills during the heyday of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vending Machine Restorer Banned from Operating in North Carolina
A restoration company that repeatedly failed to complete work or return antiques to consumers is temporarily banned from operating in North Carolina, the state’s Attorney General Roy Cooper announced on April 28.
“Taking money from consumers and then failing to finish the job is simply the wrong way to do business,” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Sale
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Quiet but dedicated Massachusetts conservationist and philanthropist Erhart Rudolph Muller (1909-2015) and his wife, Ruth Tate Atwood Muller, began collecting Shaker art and artifacts in the 1940s. Ruth, who had arrived in the 1940s at Harvard, Massachusetts, as a librarian and married Erhart, died at 97 in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago's Spring Design Sales
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
David Rago sold 20th- and 21st-century design from three catalogs on June 4 and 5 in Lambertville, New Jersey. It was the first of the June design sales, followed by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Bonhams in New York City and Wright in Chicago. This sale went ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Fails to Pay Tax, Pays Huge Settlement Instead
A settlement with Aby J. Rosen, a collector of contemporary art, has been adjudicated for his failing to pay millions in sales and use taxes on art acquisitions made by his companies. Rosen will pay $7 million following an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office.
A major figure in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Imaginary Conversation Leads to a Proposed "Collector Code of Conduct"
Opinion
I imagine a well-known antiques dealer saying, “I think every dealer hopes for knowledgeable collectors who look for a win-win situation and have the means to follow through. Anyone who deals in retail finds most people desirable to deal with. Yet there is a segment that makes it so hard that ... (Read More)
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