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(Fragment)Grand Opening for 14 E. King Antiques and Design
A new shop in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania, 14 E. King Antiques and Design, will celebrate a grand opening September 22-24. The shop will be open all three days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Owners Tracy Dodge and Steve Lipman, former owners of The Yellow Garage Antiques Marketplace, Mullica Hill, New Jersey, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2016
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Some very expensive lots from the English summer sales are lined up for this month’s “Letter,” not the least of them a pictorial tour of a Prince Bishop’s Bavarian garden. Stubbs and Munnings provide a couple of defining moments in equine portraiture, while mayhem in a Dutch schoolroom ... (Read More)
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(Show)Arion's Fall York Show 2016
The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
There were over 90 dealers on 92 stands at Melvin “Butch” Arion’s 167th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale in York, Pennsylvania. It was a three-day event, September 23-25, with a diverse roster of dealers from Pennsylvania, New York, New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bierstadt's Washington Monument Leads Potomack Sale
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held a big two-day antiques and fine arts catalog auction on September 24 and 25 at the firm’s Alexandria, Virginia, gallery. The sale consisted of more than 800 lots at the two-day live auction and another 300 lots during ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diamonds Are an Auctioneer's Best Friend
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
At the September 23 and 24 auction at Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York, the top lot of the sale of 700-plus lots was a vintage Kashmir sapphire and diamond ring that sold for $103,500 (includes buyer’s premium) to a New York City collector. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Anemones in a Glass Jar" Tops Sale in Boston
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Robin S.R. Starr, the paintings department director and an auctioneer at Skinner, Inc., summed up the September 23 paintings sale in the Boston gallery when she said, “Overall, we are pleased, given the vagaries of the current market.” Those vagaries make for volatile sales ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ball Club, Once in the Trash, Brings $102,000
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
An Otoe ball club sold for $102,000 (with buyer’s premium) to highlight the sale of American Indian and Western art held by Cowan’s Auctions on September 23, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio. The weapon came with an intriguing back story. The club was consigned by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Important American Furniture, Silver, Outsider Art, and Folk Art
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Christie’s catalog for the September 20 Americana sale was small, just 8¼" x 6 5/8". The sale was small, just 144 lots. There was a small crowd at the sale with fewer than 15 bidders in the salesroom. Two dozen phones were available for bidders ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fire: Living a Collector's Worst Nightmare
The Sport of Collecting by Sir Martin Conway was one of my few antiquarian books to emerge, charred and waterlogged, from the wreckage of my home, which burned to the ground in January 2016. As an antiques dealer and collector, collecting is my sport, my lifelong passion, and my livelihood. ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Bit of Everything
Springfield Extravaganza, Springfield, Ohio
Apparently, Elvis had left the building.
Late on the first day of the Springfield Extravaganza, held September 16-18 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in central Ohio, The King was gone. His image had been there Friday morning at the start of the show—the rock-and-roll legend on black velvet. ... (Read More)
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