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()Rare New England Furniture Form Stars at Americana Sale
This 23½" high chip-carved spoon rack with crusty black paint carried an estimate of $800/1200, but there was a lot of interest in the early accessories, and $9000 is what it took to buy it. Stephen Corrigan of Stephen-Douglas, Rockingham, Vermont, took it home.
Although it was clearly a good day ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique Indian Art Show
Marcy Burns American Indian Arts, New York City, was asking $19,000 for this circa 1895 Hopi jar attributed to Nampeyo, from the Dwight and Lorraine Lanmon collection. Burns called the show “wonderful,” adding that the show was “well attended by collectors in a buying mood.”
These circa 1890 Arapahoe moccasins cost ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William and Mary Winner
This walnut William and Mary period escritoire or fall-front desk is perhaps the only surviving American-made example of the form. It was the top-priced lot at Skinner’s Americana auction in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on August 10. Dennis Carr, curator of American decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, ... (Read More)
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()The Adirondack Museum Show
Ronald Wells of Binghamton, New York, featured a circa 1760 fruitwood settee with a caned seat and back for $2800. The horse oil painting, Black Runner by Edward L. Ulrich, 1933, was $5200, and the etched bronzed cocktail table, signed “Mark D’Haehehens” and dated 1979, was $18,500.
Loose Moose Antiques in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kiowa Cradleboard Brings $103,500
Early 20th-century Native American Kiowa cradleboard, $103,500.
Early 1900’s Sioux traditional style saddle drape, sinew-stitched with lazy stitch beading, $4600.
An early 20th-century Native American Kiowa cradleboard with beaded accents and original boards sold for $103,500 (with buyer’s premium) at the “Best of Santa Fe 2013” sale held August 9 and 10 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Smaller but Still the Biggest
Dennis Raleigh of Wiscasset, Maine, always brings some great upscale stuff to this show. This year, he had a 19th-century patriotic drum for $3400 decorated with an American flag with a non-official star field of about 45. “It was made in Cleveland,” Raleigh confirmed via a “sunbeam” hole in the ... (Read More)
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()Pickers Market to Remain a Friday Event
Michael Hall came from Nashville, Tennessee, and it was his first time exhibiting at the Pickers Market. “It was a long way for me to go from Nashville to do the show. I think a lot of customers didn’t go to the show or left town before Friday…This is the ... (Read More)
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(Show)2013 Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
Strangers from Hopiland, 10¾" x 9¾", was Gustave Baumann’s “favorite” woodcut, according to Steve Stoops of Stevens Fine Art, Phoenix, Arizona. It was priced at $25,000.
At the booth of Gallery Tribal, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Robert Fiedler was asking $2200 for this early 20th-century Urhobo (Niger Delta) canoe carrying shark ... (Read More)
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(Show)NHADA Annual Show: “There’s Nothing Like This Show Anywhere in America!”
Meryl Weiss of American Classics, Canaan, Connecticut, showed the 8' long demilune Windsor-type bench with rush seat, circa 1900; price was $950. The view of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, was painted by Elisa R.F. Lancaster and given by her in 1896 to her native town of East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty to Wildlife Smuggling Conspiracy
Qiang Wang, a.k.a. Jeffrey Wang, 34, a New York antiques dealer, pled guilty on August 7 in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to smuggle Asian artifacts made from rhinoceros horns and ivory and to violate wildlife trafficking laws. Wang was arrested in February 2013 as part of Operation Crash, a ... (Read More)
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