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(Fragment)Cameron Joins MaxSold
Boston-area auctioneer and auction house owner Tonya A. Cameron is joining the management team at MaxSold, a Canada-based firm that specializes in on-line estate and business liquidation auctions. In her capacity as regional manager for MaxSold in New England, Cameron will be visiting with clients at their homes or business ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Funny Business
Editorial
Getting hoodwinked at an auction is no laughing matter, but we must admit that we chuckled at a story coming out of Australia.
According to a local television station, an auction buyer paid around $300 for a signed print by Modernist artist Margaret Preston (1875-1963) at a sale conducted by Arthouse ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jenkins Management Cancels Fall Nashville Show
Jenkins Management has canceled its fall 2013 Nashville, Tennessee, antiques show: Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show and the Vintage Marketplace. The February 13-15, 2014, show will still be held but at a different venue-the Nashville Expo Center at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. For the past two years, the show has been ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Walcher Joins Toomey
John P. Walcher has joined the staff of John Toomey Gallery in Oak Park, Illinois, as head of silver and decorative arts. For the last four years, Walcher has worked in the furniture and decorative arts department at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago, where he recently organized the successful 767-lot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Major Theft at National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
1903 Belmont Stakes trophy, won by Africander.
1903 Brighton Cup trophy, won by Hermis.
1923 Grand National Steeplechase trophy, won by Sergeant Murphy.
1914 Brook Cup Handicap Steeplechase trophy, won by Compliment.
1905 Saratoga Special trophy, won by Mohawk II.
Five historical trophies were stolen during a three-minute burglary at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Willis Henry Sells McCue Collection and More
Here's a rare maple rocking chair made at Union Village in Ohio. The more common (but still rare) version has turned posts with the familiar symmetrical pommels or finials at the top and arched-top slats. This version in thin bittersweet orange paint has the thinned-down posts and notched-end slats. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)John Alexander Ltd. Empties Warehouse
This English metal-mounted and carved mahogany display cabinet by George Washington Jack for Morris & Co., circa 1890, stamped "Morris & Co., 449 Oxford St. W. 1783," sold for $4600 (est. $10,000/15,000). Levitties said he thought it was worth $40,000 at the top of the market.
Pair of Danish teak and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana Sale at Garth's
Two-piece apothecary or store chest with 63 drawers, pine with old gray paint, 19th century, 811/2" high x 87" wide, $3916.
Gasoline sign, single-sided, wood in original blue paint with white letters and black trim, first half of the 20th century, 16" x 86", wear and some losses, $3290.
Patriotic pitcher with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pook's First Toy Auction
This Dark Town Battery cast-iron mechanical bank, manufactured by J. & E. Stevens Company, sold for $3318 (est. $1500/2500) to an absentee bidder. A fine example might sell for $10,000 or $12,000, and the auction record is $27,500 for an exceptional one.
This carpenter-made 223/4" high cast-iron and wood three-story burning ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Educational Series to Fund Winterthur Scholarships
Matthew Quinn, vice president of Quinn's Auction Galleries, introduces speaker Ken Farmer at the 2012 ISA FAE symposium. Image courtesy of Quinn's Auction Galleries.
The Foundation for Appraisal Education (FAE), the fund-raising arm of the International Society of Appraisers (ISA), has announced the establishment of a scholarship program at Winterthur Museum, ... (Read More)
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