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(Show)Big Crowds at Antiques in Manchester
James William Lowery of Baldwinsville, New York, featured this over 7' long hooked rug that was inspired by Edward Hicks but oddly reminiscent of the jungle paintings of Henri Rousseau. Lowery called this “a folk art masterpiece.” It dated to the 1860’s, Lowery said, and was found in Scriba, New ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midweek’s Anniversary Party, Celebrating 20 Years
Nancy Fishelson, who shared a booth with Robert Perry Antiques, asked $3600 for her two-sided optometrist’s sign. Fishelson of Orchard Park, New York, who has an interior design business, said the sign’s other side is less faded, but she prefers the one displayed. Fishelson’s early 20th-century rooster weathervane, found in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fifteen of Top 20 Posters Go to Collectors
This 39¼" x 29¼" condition B+ framed poster from 1917 with the iconic image of Uncle Sam by James Montgomery Flagg (1870-1960) opened for bidding at $8000 and closed above estimate at $14,400. It sold to a collector, produced the day’s top auction price, and set an auction record. Not ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings Auction
Wind-swept Pines (15" x 18") by Guy Rose brought the auction’s highest price, $374,500 (est. $150,000/250,000). Prior to this auction, it had been bought “long ago, and has been in a private collection on the East Coast,” said Bastian. “It has been essentially untouched, and Rose continues to be the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Low-Pressure, High-Value Show
And they’re off, moving at a good pace around the bend and up the hill to the first buildings of the show.
This child’s settle with lift seat, 33" high x 42" long, from Mary de Buhr of Downers Grove, Illinois, was $3700. Always stop by her booth to get a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Fine Arts, and Marine Auction
This vivid oil on masonite by Anne Ramsdell Congdon (1873-1958) of Nantucket was offered early in the Osona sale. It was signed and dated on the lower right, “Anne Congdon, 1940.” A very similar picture is in the Nantucket Historical Association collection and is illustrated in Picturing Nantucket on page ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Great Southwestern Antique Show
This booth featured some santos, religious paintings on tin, not in great condition but representative of a folk art tradition common in the Southwest. The prices were between $150 and $250.
This was the distinctive booth of Joseph Alphabet of Newport Beach, California. The Chinese heads on the top shelf are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Northeast Auctions Starts Antiques Week in New Hampshire with $2.3 Million Sale
These oval portraits by Rufus Porter of five members of the Bartlett family of Massachusetts brought $25,200.
This 9½" high Liverpool jug with an image of a member of the Boston Fusiliers sold for $11,400.
This Benjamin Frothingham-labeled Chippendale mahogany slant-lid desk with a reverse serpentine front brought $42,000.
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
Ron ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire with $2.3 Million Sale
Collector and dealer Gary Green of Moravia, New York, chased this 47" long copper and zinc sulky, horse, and driver weathervane until it was his for $49,200, the auction’s top price. The weathervane had a history of ownership by the Paul Weld estate and Connecticut dealer Jeffrey Tillou.
A noted New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Currier & Ives Ships at Northeast Auctions’ Annual Summer Auction
Clipper Ship “Racer,” large folio, $840. James Buttersworth, recently arrived from England, was recruited in 1852. He did the clipper yacht Architect in that year for Endicott but then joined Currier with Flying Cloud. He would remain a Currier stalwart into the 1870’s. Shown here is the clipper ship Racer ... (Read More)
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