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(Auction)Copley's Winter Sale of Sporting Arts Makes $1.4 Million
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Charleston, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Fine art, bronzes, and vintage fishing gear followed by an extensive array of vintage and contemporary decoys composed the Winter Sale 2017 hosted by Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC on February 17 at the American Theater in Charleston, South ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buffalo Pottery Has Special Appeal
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
On February 17 Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held a little sale at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. I refer to the sale as "little" for two reasons. This was a single-theme sale, and it consisted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Michigan Art Dealer Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Prison
Eric Ian Hornak Spoutz, a.k.a. "Robert Chad Smith," a.k.a. "John Goodman," a.k.a. "James Sinclair," was sentenced on February 16 to 41 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan for wire fraud charges arising out of his sale of dozens of forged artworks purportedly by renowned American artists ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of Tennessee Antique Show: Second Edition Moves to New Wilson County Expo Center
Lebanon, Tennessee
The second edition of the Heart of Tennessee Antique Show, under the enthusiastic management of Katherine Bovard, presented two changes from last year's debut. Most important was the move to the recently completed, neo-farm-style Wilson County Exposition Center, just off Interstate 40 in Lebanon, Tennessee, on the eastern edge ... (Read More)
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(MAD News)Kenos Resolve All Legal Matters
Leigh and Leslie Keno, well-known figures in the antiques world, have resolved all four of the legal claims against them. The twins were involved in four separate lawsuits, each with a similar charge: the Kenos were accused of buying multiple lots at auctions and failing to pay the auction houses.
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tobacco Figures Smoking Hot at Thomaston
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Superlatives were easy to come by at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' February 11 and 12 auction in Thomaston, Maine. President and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux called it "the biggest and best of this kind of stuff we've had in twenty-five years." He was referring to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
A single-owner collection of American Indian art that was offered at Skinner on February 10 in the Boston gallery was a mighty tempting treat for collectors and dealers. The Philip and Patricia Marco collection was begun in the mid-1980s after Patricia Marco made a visit to a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Winter Auction Bangs Out Over $3.2 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
James Julia took a leave of absence for a few months before the February 9 and 10 auction in Fairfield, Maine, to be with his wife, Sandy, as she was being treated for a potentially devastating illness. As of this writing, the report is that Sandy ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Asked to Decide Who Owns a Tiffany Light Fixture
On February 28, 1976, five lighting fixtures designed and made by Louis Comfort Tiffany were stolen from the Belasco Theatre in New York City. The crime-reported to police-was never solved. Forty years later, one of the lighting fixtures may have surfaced.
In June 2016, Thomas Stein, a project manager for the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Photo Editing and E-Mail Scams
Computer Column #338
John P. Reid, [email protected]
There is an impressive new photo editor on the market at a reasonable price. We will also describe websites that warn of computer scams. (Subscribers reading the digital edition can click on the cumbersome website URLs below.)
New Photo Editor
We often have said that photo editing ... (Read More)
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