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(Auction)Julia Winds Up the Toy, Doll, and Advertising Game
This Caille "Busy Bee" trade stimulator, fresh to the market, brought $26,662.50. Julia photo.
Accompanying this Arcade Manufacturing Company model of a 1930s two-tone black and sea-foam-green Buick sedan was a vintage tin sign (not shown) reading "MEN AT WORK Except WHILE BUICKS ARE PASSING." The pair went for $6517.50.
The Dent ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Evolution of Washington, D.C.
A Book Review
The Evolution of Washington, D.C.: Historical Selections from the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University by James M. Goode George Washington University, distributed by Smithsonian Books, 2015, 192 pages, hardbound, $40.
James Goode, historian and curator of the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection, has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bunch to Sell Raccoon Creek Inventory
Photo courtesy William H. Bunch Auctions & Appraisals.
"Game on," said Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, auctioneer William Bunch on June 5. Bunch was confirming that his firm, William H. Bunch Auctions & Appraisals, has been tapped to sell at auction the assets of Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania. Raccoon ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maid of Dreams Tops Auction
The top lot was this Edward S. Curtis orotone, Maid of Dreams,which was signed on the lower right "Curtis LA c" and numbered "R8-09." According to notes from the catalog, it retains its original Curtis frame that measures 121/2" x 103/4". It sold for $6300 (est. $5000/7000).
This silver-mounted violin bow ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rittenhouse Tall Clock and Jonas Weber Box Sell at Conestoga
This paint-decorated small trinket box by Jonas Weber, often called Jacob Weber, 1820-40, 2 3/8" x 4 1/8", is painted green and decorated with a red house and yellow trees on the front, tulips on the sides, and a flower and corner fans on the top. It sold on the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Summer Show in Winnetka
Zane Moss of New York City had been a fixture at NSADA shows. For this show, he brought the 19th-century mahogany apothecary chest, with original labels and knobs, priced at $4750, topped with a 19th-century Staffordshire lion priced at $575 and four rare circa 1850 Bewlay's covered jars with labels, ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Country Gathering
Pam Bauer of P.L. Greene Unique Identities, New Haven, Missouri, is no stranger to A Country Gathering. "I've been here from the start," she said. Fresh to the market was an 1860s pie safe in old paint with eight punched tins, priced at $850. It had been acquired in Pennsylvania ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barbara Boardman Johnson and Kelly Kinzle Added to New Hampshire Dealers Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association's 58th annual New Hampshire Antiques Show will be August 6-8 at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire. It will feature 67 exhibitors, including two new ones: Barbara Boardman Johnson of Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire, and Cave Creek, Arizona, and Kelly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Expands Again in New York City
Heritage Auctions is expanding its New York City offices at 445 Park Avenue (at 57th Street). The addition of more office space on the building's 15th floor will free up street-level floor space to expand public displays from Heritage's different auction categories, including sports memorabilia, rare coins, comic books, entertainment ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Auction
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
In the closing minutes of the American history sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 12, a cabinet card that sold for $300 (including buyer's premium) said something about this genre of material that has served as the foundation for the ... (Read More)
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