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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Get Ready
Auction Law & Ethics
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." Alexander Graham Bell-engineer, innovator, inventor, scientist, and inventor of the telephone-is credited with that chestnut, and truer words he never penned. An alternate version I was taught as a young lawyer is this: "Preparation is nine-tenths of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Owners of Garth's Auctions Buy Selkirk's Assets
Assets associated with Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers, St. Louis, Missouri, including company names and other intellectual property, have been purchased by Legacy Group STL, Inc., which is owned by Jeff and Amelia Jeffers. The couple, who also own Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, are revitalizing the longstanding Selkirk brand as Selkirk Auctioneers & ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)There and Back Again
The Young Collector
Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience, even a difficult one, just to be able to have the satisfaction of utilizing what you learned from the awkward, inefficient way you did it the first time. Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience because you're Homer Simpson and you ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Moving Company Adds Appraisals to Client Checklist
Aware that moving antiques, fine art, and collectibles requires special care, T-N-T Moving Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina, has upgraded its moving policy to include current appraisals in its client checklist.
T-N-T Moving Systems co-owner Todd Koepke said, "You see appraisal values change over time, so it's important that when we do ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic New England Awards Book Prize
Historic New England has awarded its 20th annual book prize to Curiosities of the Craft: Treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Collection by Aimee E. Newell, Hilary Anderson Stelling, and Catherine Compton Swanson, and "With Eclat": The Boston Athenaeum and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)What Price History?
Editorial
An off-the-cuff remark from Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman should be troubling to those in the antiques business. When asked about the cost of restoring almost 40 chairs original to the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, the governor said there were better uses for the taxpayers' money and that he would ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mount Vernon Selects Senior Curator
Susan P. Schoelwer has been appointed the Robert H. Smith Senior Curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Schoelwer has served as Mount Vernon's curator since 2010. In that capacity she has overseen the recent refurnishing and reinterpretation of George Washington's "New Room," the reinstallation of the greenhouse slave quarters, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Tillou Gives Glass to Carnegie
From left: A pillar-molded celery glass of yellow glass, blown with eight ribs, tooled at the rim to produce a wavy effect, with an applied circular stem and foot, ground pontil mark, 1840-70, 91/2" high x 5 3/8" diameter; pitcher of white, red, and blue glass, blown in white, trailed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vintage Marketplace and Grand Rapids Antiques Market Combine for Show in January
The Grand Rapids Antiques Market in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the popular Vintage Marketplace are joining forces this year, creating a bigger weekend of antiques shopping.
Vintage Promotions, producer of the Grand Rapids Antiques Market, will team up with Jenkins Management, producer of the Vintage Marketplace, which is held in Tennessee, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Alleges He Was Sold Two Tiffany Fakes
Florida collector Alfred A. Turner Jr. spent $100,000 in 2012 to buy two Tiffany lamps from Buffalo, New York, dealer Lawrence Ludtka, who calls his shop Larry's Antiques. After Turner was rebuffed when he tried to consign one of the lamps to auction, he had them both evaluated and became ... (Read More)
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