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(Auction)California Art Sale
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Department director Scot Levitt called the results of the November 8 California art auction at Bonhams “good, considering there was only one blockbuster, but nice solid, colorful pieces in a lower price range. It is harder and harder to find anything to sell. There is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Community Watch
Beneath the Surface
You learn things over the life of marriage, and then, or so it seems to us, if you stay married you learn to accept the things you have learned as being immutable. People are just strange, and they are very often consistent in their strangeness. It is best ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Bonhams
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams held its fall American art sale November 7, which was Election Day. The auction house offered 83 lots, and the sale totaled $2,307,538 (with buyers’ premiums). The sell-through rate was 70.5%. The total estimates (not including buyers’ premiums) were $2.88/4.338 million.
High Aspirations by Ernie ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mary’s Antiques: The Final Sale
Ledbetter Auction Gallery, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Auction Gallery
In 1975 after decades of independent buying and selling, Mary Wells opened Mary’s Antiques on busy Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina. For the next 42 years, her shop, Greensboro’s largest, was a popular destination for collectors and dealers. When she ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Win
Cagle Auction Company, Bogart, Georgia
Photos courtesy Cagle Auction Company
Located in the northeast corner of Georgia, which is known for generations of potters, Cagle Auction Company presented nearly 300 lots of pottery, a few folk-art examples, and primitives November 4. This was a pottery collector’s dream sale. There was no five-digit-priced, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Book Reviews
Here are brief reviews of books we’ve recently seen. We have included contact information for books that you can order directly from the publisher or museum. We also encourage you to consider supporting your local independent bookstore.
Migration of Stoneware Potters in North America by F. Robert Treichler (Carlisle Printing, 2022, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Denver Police Seeking Additional Victims of Theft
The Denver (Colorado) Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is asking for the public’s help to identify possible victims of a man who was posing as an antiques broker.
Princeton Wilson. Photo courtesy Denver Police Department.
Princeton Wilson was charged last year with eight felony counts: one count of theft from an at-risk ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Donald F. Moylan Collection
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
The first of two auctions of items from the collection of Dr. Donald F. Moylan was held by Hindman (now Freeman’s | Hindman) November 3 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The single-owner sale netted $830,372.
Moylan began collecting in the early 1970s, buying from well-respected dealers such as John ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2023
When a Sleeper Awakes
From the same August 8 sale held in Colchester by Reeman Dansie Auctioneers & Valuers that saw a bronze figure of Mercury sell for $858,350 (see October M.A.D., p. 86), another spectacular success story was provided by a little ring that came to auction from the same ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Assets of Antiques Mall Seized
On September 20 agents from the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR), accompanied by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, executed tax warrants and seized the assets of Metcalf Antique Mall LLC in Overland Park, Kansas, for nonpayment of sales tax totaling $62,866.38.
Assets seized include all known bank accounts, on-site cash, business ... (Read More)
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