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(Auction)This Old Guitar Sold for $29,700
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane
On December 4, 2015, Alfreda Evans met the man who bought her great-uncle’s 1937 Gibson Nick Lucas guitar. The encounter represented an important closure for Evans. She had never met her Uncle Ben. The amateur guitarist was killed in a robbery at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Elected to Board of Foundation for Appraisal Education
Allyson Bradley of Michaan’s Auctions in Alameda, California, and Matthew S. Wilcox of Freeman’s in Philadelphia have been elected to the board of directors of the Foundation for Appraisal Education (FAE), a Chicago-based organization founded in 2002 to raise scholarship funds for professionals seeking aid in the field of personal ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grave Opinion
I question the morality of selling gravestones, as seen in a recent auction report in M.A.D. The gravestone sold was broken, yet it still held clues helpful to determining the identity of the person for whom it had been made. The name on the gravestone appeared to be either “Hannah” ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Wheel Keeps Spinning
Auction Law & Ethics
Sometimes all you can do is scratch your head and ask, “What the heck?”
Between September 2014 and September 2015, I wrote 13 columns covering the major aspects and issues of consigning to auction and offered numerous insights and tips for consignors. The same month that the 13th ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)South Florida Artist Sentenced to Five Years in $4 Million Counterfeit Currency Conspiracy
Artist Jean Phineas Losier, 41, of Wellington, Florida, was sentenced to five years in federal prison for conspiracy to deal in counterfeit Federal Reserve notes. A federal jury in Jacksonville convicted him in June 2015. Losier also faces counterfeit manufacturing charges in the Southern District of Florida.
According to court documents, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Library Company's Madeira
In 1731, when Benjamin Franklin founded what is now America’s oldest cultural institution, the Library Company of Philadelphia, Madeira was already the rage. In 1786, when Madeira importer Henry Hill built Hill-Physick, his house at 321 South 4th Street in Philadelphia, Madeira was the wine of choice. In 1895, when ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frick's Center for the History of Collecting Names Winner of Biennial Book Prize
The Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting has awarded its biennial $25,000 book prize for a distinguished publication on the history of collecting in America to The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in association with Yale University Press, New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Washington State Approves Initiative Measure 1401 in Landslide
It wasn’t even close. On Tuesday, November 3, voters in Washington state approved Initiative Measure 1401, a bill to fight trafficking of animals, by a wide margin of 70.58% to 29.42%.
Initiative 1401 will affect the trade of any antiques that utilize any species of elephant, rhinoceros, tiger, lion, leopard, cheetah, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 55th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s Auctions
Paint played a pivotal role during the 55th annual Thanksgiving Americana sale held by Garth’s Auctions on November 27, 2015, in Delaware, Ohio. Not that anyone was surprised. Garth’s is known for great pieces in early paint, and on Black Friday color was king.
Topping ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Pier Show during Americana Week
Americana Week 2016 will include something that hasn’t been seen since 2013: an antiques show at the Piers. D’Amore Promotions will produce the NYC Big Flea Market on January 23 and 24, 2016, on Pier 90 in Manhattan. For more information, contact D’Amore at (917) 301-7708 or visit the website ... (Read More)
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