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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)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)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 141/2" 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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(Auction)Internet and Phones are Big Winners at Couture and Vintage Fashion Auction
The fashion house Irfe 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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(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)Sold: Copy of the Law that Made the Dollar Almighty
An Act Establishing a Mint, and Regulating the Coins of the United States, signed by Thomas Jefferson, sold for $118,750 (est. $50,000/75,000). Five pages on three 15" x 93/4" sheets, produced by the press of Francis Childs and John Swaine in Philadelphia on April 2, 1792, it is a first ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Convicted for Trying to Sell Fakes
Counterfeit Damien Hirst spin painting.
On April 8, a jury found Kevin Sutherland, 46, guilty of attempted grand larceny for attempting to sell counterfeit artworks he falsely claimed were by British artist Damien Hirst. Included were "spin" paintings and "dot" limited-edition prints worth tens of thousands of dollars if they ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Sells Treasures from the Caren Archive for $1.3 Million
Paul Revere (1735-1818), The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King-Street Boston on March 5th 1770..., engraved, printed, and sold by Paul Revere, but printed by Edes & Gill around March 28, 1770, engraving on laid paper with hand-coloring, laid down, with restored losses, matted and framed, sold for $100,000 (est. $25,000/35,000). ... (Read More)
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