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(Auction)Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts
Emma Heather by William Pierce Stubbs (1842-1909) depicts the three-masted schooner Emma Heather, built in 1871 in Milton, Delaware, and sunk in a gale off the Delaware Breakwater in 1893. Stubbs's work and the work of so many other artists flattered and idealized its subject. She was a coal carrier! ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Miami Show
Puchstein Promotions will launch a new show in January. The Miami Antiques Extravaganza will be held January 24 through 26, 2014, at the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds, located on the west side of Miami, Florida. The majority of the approximately 400 exhibitors will be inside the air-conditioned Arnold Hall and Coliseum; ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winter Weather Fails to Dampen Round Top Show
Gorgeous, rich greens come together in this Haitian painting from the 1970's. Fred Cain of Naples, Florida, called it Children of Paradise and priced it at $1800.
"Whoever buys it gets to figure out how to open it!" Nancy B. Cooper of Austin, Texas, said of the secret drawer in this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week
This scalloped-top Philadelphia tea table from the Eric M. Wunsch estate, probably made in the shop of Benjamin Randolph, with carving attributed to Richard Butts, brought $905,000. Christie's photo.
This eider drake decoy from the legendary McCleery collection, from a rig probably made by an unidentified maker on Monhegan Island, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Silver, Furniture, Folk Art, and Chinese Export Art Bring $10.44 Million
The silver brandywine bowl, one of only two known with the mark of Cornelius Vander Burch, New York, circa 1690, has six lobed panels and a domed center with an embossed and chased flower head. The two cast scroll handles have caryatids and beading, and the body is engraved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Bonhams
The highest Americana price of the day belonged to a carved and inlaid automaton hall clock commissioned from Tiffany & Co. and delivered in April 1901. Estimated at $40,000/60,000, it went at $100,000 to a phone bidder.
A phone bidder on the line with Madelia Ring ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Metro Show 2014
Ricco/Maresca, New York City, asked $35,000 for renowned palmist Marianne Raschig's collectionof original vintage palm prints that she collected between 1925 and 1935 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Leigh Keno's Americana Week Business
The players in the drama of the sale of the Continental Congress document that sold for $912,500 at Keno Auctions on January 26. From left: Leigh Keno, the auctioneer; Dr. James Kerr, president of the Morris-Jumel Mansion board of trustees; Carol Ward, director of the Morris-Jumel Mansion; Emilie Gruchow, the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Ceramics Fair 2014
Cliff Lee (b. 1951) of Stevens, Pennsylvania, asked $40,000 for this piece of porcelain he called a Double Dragon vase. There is an incised dragon on the body of the vase and a dragon with ruby eyes on the lid. He said it was very difficult to put on the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermonter Charged with Library/Historical Society Theft, Again!
Patrick Rooney, 55, of Colchester was arraigned in Vermont Superior Court in Burlington on January 21 on charges of petty larceny and sale of stolen property. He pleaded not guilty and was scheduled to return to court on February 19.
Rooney holds an unusual place in recent Vermont history. He's the ... (Read More)
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