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(Issue Story)Sotheby's $50 Million Gutsy Gambit
Editorial
In early January, Sotheby’s announced it had acquired Art Agency, Partners, a two-year-old art advisory firm managed by Allan Schwartzman, Amy Cappellazzo, and Adam Chinn, for an eye-popping $50 million. (The price could rise to $85 million if certain performance criteria are met.) The announcement came about two weeks after ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Schorsch Sale
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
A generation ago when a vast collection of Americana needed to be sold to settle an estate, Sotheby’s or Christie’s held a house sale. Crowds came to Sotheby’s Garbisch sale at Pokety Farms in Maryland in May 1980 and to the Sotheby’s Wetzel sale in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fortuna Auctioneers: A Small Town Approach in the Big City
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Fortuna Auctioneers
Fortuna Auctioneers and Appraisers, owned and operated by partners in business and marriage Seth Holehouse and Anna Lin, GG, is a relative newcomer to the jewelry auction scene in New York City. The company held its fine jewelry sale on January 19.
Lin and Holehouse ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Park Avenue Armory Is a "No-Show"
A “no-show” disappoints. A “no-show” is expected but does not appear. A “no-show” inexplicably fails to keep an appointment. A “no-show” shirks duty. The Park Avenue Armory is a “no-show” in the minds of the Palm Beach Show Group, promoters of antiques shows in five American cities.
According to a Page ... (Read More)
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(Show)Lebanon Antique Show
Lebanon, Ohio
Bruce Metzger doesn’t disagree that the Lebanon Antique Show is changing. As he sees it, that’s one reason he was hired to manage the event a few years ago.
The most recent edition of the show, held January 16 and 17 on the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio, was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana
Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s
At Garth’s Auctions on January 16, the company’s first sale of 2016 gave some insight into the market. It was a “good, better, best” kind of thing. Starting at the low end, the good (or not so good, depending on one’s point of view) was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pricey Pewter Peppers January Auction
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
On the weekend before the great gathering for Americana Week in New York City began, Pook & Pook held a two-day auction in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on January 15 and 16. At this junior varsity game before the big ones, there were a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Advice for Winter Auctions in Maine: If It Snows, Go!
Andrews & Andrews, Northport, Maine
We’re a tough breed of auction-goers here in Maine. Don’t count on us to be scared off by a little weather. January 16 was one of those wintry days bedeviled by a blustery snowstorm. It was also the day that Dan and Elsie Andrews held their ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Harry Greenberger, HG Limited, Palenville, New York
In the Trade
Harry Greenberger sells hammered aluminum, the decorative giftware that flourished in the mid-20th century. But what Greenberger sells probably isn’t your mother’s hammered aluminum.
Harry Greenberger.
During the late 1940s and 1950s mass-produced hammered aluminum objects became all the rage. In fact, Greenberger said, during that period hammered aluminum trays, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Pleads Guilty in Ivory Smuggling Case
Yiwei Zheng, a.k.a. Steve Zheng, 43, of St. Cloud, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in federal court on January 13 to smuggling elephant ivory and illegally exporting rhinoceros horns.
Zheng smuggled elephant ivory out of the United States on April 30, 2011, to a recipient in Shanghai, China. Zheng also exported two rhinoceros ... (Read More)
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