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(Auction)Calendar Clock Brings $27,600
The 24" diameter D. J. Gale’s rosewood calendar clock was untouched and sold to a dealer in the gallery on the phone with a client for $27,600.
The painted cast-iron Kewpie doll arcade target (34" long) with ten figures was rare and sold for $4887.50. McInnis photo.
A Newburyport mahogany bowfront chest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Furniture by Thomas Nisbet Tops Auction
From the Ritchie family came a mahogany desk made by Thomas Nisbet & Son for the New Brunswick Legislature and inscribed in pencil “Alan Joseph Ritchie, Newcastle, NB.” The desk made $2800.
Indian Town at the Foot of Main Street, Saint John, New Brunswick, a 12" x 16" gouache signed by ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Annual Augusta New Year's Day Show
Preliminary drawing of the Mystic Whaler, a 78' long schooner designed in 1963 by V.B. Crockett in Camden, Maine. It was $50 from dealer Dana McKinney of Rockland, Maine.
The sign from the early 1940s was for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Crowd Sees Red at Foster's
Connecticut Valley Chippendale four-drawer chest in dry red paint, $1980.
Stepback mahogany Sheraton chest with uniform matching graining on the drawer fronts, full spiral-turned columns, and hints of tiger graining on the top edge, $990.
A 6'5" x 4'6" Navajo rug showing kachinas, sun symbols, and several animal pictographs rang out ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show for Sturbridge
The inaugural Central Massachusetts Antique Show at Sturbridge will be held on December 31 and January 1, 2015, at the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Over 75 dealers are expected to exhibit.
On Wednesday, December 31, there will be evening hors d’oeuvres, a reception with entertainment, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2015
by Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
This May selection kicks off with a double MM, a sighting of a “Moon Maiden,” and there are more Ms in a charming Exmoor landscape by Munnings and a mosaic mask that turned Greek tragedy to saleroom joy.
A wonderful collection of old carriages and sleighs; an Egyptian ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Design Sales of December
A phone buyer and a man in the salesroom vied for this table by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). The bidding continued for several minutes, with the phone buyer eking out the win by $50,000. The Goodyear table, made by Noguchi in 1939 for A. Conger Goodyear of Old Westbury, New York, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Celebration of Music: A Bravo-Worthy Sale of Manuscripts and More
A leaf from part of Mozart’s Serenade in D Major for orchestra, K. 185, realized $209,000 (est. $200,000/300,000). The two pages, approximately 6 2/3" x 8½" each, are from the working manuscript. A leaf from this same serenade sold at Sotheby’s in London on November 27, 2013, for £200,500 ($325,111).
A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Spend Big for Einstein, Lincoln, Jefferson, & JFK
An eight-page manuscript draft for a scientific paper signed by Albert Einstein was the sale’s top lot, bringing $180,000 (est. $120,000/180,000). The subject is his unified field theory, which was an attempt to unify his general theory of relativity with Maxwell’s theory of electromagnetism. The latter theory was named for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Americana Week in New York City 2015
Download printable Americana Week 2015 Calendar of Events (pdf)
Crouch-Jordan-Bacon family mahogany scalloped- and tilt-top tea table, Philadelphia, 29" high x 37 3/8" in diameter, with rococo carving on its shaft and knees, to be offered January 31 at noon at Keno Auctions. The estimate is $800,000/1.2 million.
Spending Americana Week in ... (Read More)
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