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(Computer Article)Project Management Utilizing Gantt Charts
Computer Column #305
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Project management is important in big corporations and institutions. It is one of the subjects when earning an M.B.A. (Master of Business Administration) degree. On a smaller scale, project management is a part of many antiques activities.
Promoting an antiques show, opening a new shop, staging ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Bing's Lesson
Auction Law & Ethics
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.” So wrote management guru, economist, and author Peter Drucker (1909-2005) on business and ethics.
We’ve spent the past two months looking at ethics—what they are, their origins, what they mean, and why they are important. This month ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Write That Book!
The Art of Marketing
This month’s topic is book writing. In this column I’ve been talking a lot about the business of promoting your business. Sometimes publishing your own book on a particular segment of the antiques market can show your in-depth knowledge on a subject and gain you instant credibility. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 "Antique City" Fun Fair
JoAnne Schaut and Norm Schaut greeted early buyers on opening day.
A view from the balcony overlooking the show. Schaut photo.
This first edition of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was offered for $2000 from Richard Mori.
Dottie Freeman and Allan Teal of Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, put together a comprehensive display of glass including ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Art Pottery Association Show
Art pottery from Iowa State College dates to the 1920s and is relatively scarce. In a green glaze, this vase was priced at $1500 by Marie and Mark Latta of Clay Town Antiques, Wilton, Iowa.
Made by the University of North Dakota School of Mines and priced at $2295 each, the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair
On a gorgeous crisp early spring Friday, purposeful crowds thronged to large show tents flanking indoor displays.
Tagged at $12,000, the carved stone Four Seasons statues, 1830s, Venice, were bought for a North Shore home during preview. The $795 sun and moon carved wooden plaque is mid-20th-century French. All were from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Flora Gill Jacobs's Private Collection Auctioned
Flora Gill Jacobs discusses this early 19th-century English Regency town house in her 2005 book, The Small World of Antique Dolls’ Houses. The three-story center-opening dollhouse with balustrades on the roof and windows, 25" wide x 14½" deep x 42" high, has a hand-painted faux stone exterior with quoins, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction of the Jane Murphy and Ken Erwin Estates
There were plenty of animal weathervanes to choose from—a horse, a pig, a beaver. Nothing came close to this gilt-copper full-bodied running fox that sold for $15,600. From the early 20th century, it was 32" long. It had six bullet holes and typical weathering.
Some of the Shaker furniture stood out ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Forster Flag Sells Privately
Doyle New York photo.
Pots of time and money was spent bringing the Forster flag to market. In the end, it was sold privately for a confidential price to a buyer who wishes to remain anonymous, said a spokesman for Doyle New York.
When the auction began, precisely at 10 a.m. on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Internet and Phones are Big Winners at Couture and Vintage Fashion Auction
The fashion house Irfé is unknown to us, which was obviously not the case with a woman who sat one row ahead of us and kept her paddle raised for this outfit until the hammer went down for $12,000 (est. $600/800), after which this woman quickly exited the premises. Her ... (Read More)
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