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(Auction)The December Auction
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Fine art and jewelry are frequently areas of blurred distinction. Both are mainstays at Grogan and Company's auction gallery in Boston, and neither disappointed at the December 6, 2015, sale where a fine 18" long silver necklace by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) brought $109,800 (includes buyer's premium). ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's American Art
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
A standing-room-only crowd, a dozen staffers on telephones, plus a fellow at a computer taking bids from online bidders filled the first-floor gallery at Freeman's in Philadelphia on Sunday, December 6, 2015, for an auction of more than 130 lots of American art and Pennsylvania Impressionism. Many ... (Read More)
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(Auction)December Sale Presents the Flatt Collection of Fine Art and Unusual Artifacts
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Nothing provides more panache for an auction than a glamorous collection with star lots, and the New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) had an impressive biography to open its December 4-6, 2015, sale. Lloyd Cooper Flatt was a retired aerospace executive with homes in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Golden West Show
Glendale, California
The two-day Golden West Show, held December 5 and 6, 2015, at the Glendale (California) Civic Auditorium, is the hoped-for upgrade of the Golden California Antiques Show, held for 12 years at the same venue. The new owners are Terry Schurmeier, Victoria Wilson Roberts, and Eric Berg. Schurmeier called ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VMFA Hangs Its West and Gets Major Donation
A portrait of young Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1776-1834), and his elder sister, Princess Sophia (1773-1844) of Gloucester, by American painter Benjamin West (1738-1820) was recently installed in the McGlothlin American Galleries at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond. The portrait was acquired ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ships, Clocks, and Stars: The Quest for Longitude
Mystic Seaport, Mystic, Connecticut
41 degrees, 21 minutes, 20 seconds North by 71 degrees, 57 minutes, 50 seconds West. This is the global "address" of Mystic, Connecticut. Many of us know, from reading Dava Sobel's 1995 best-selling book Longitude, that finding Mystic was not so easy for ship captains before John ... (Read More)
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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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