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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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(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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(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 91/2" 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 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Duck Dynasty
This 1890's black-bellied plover by A. Elmer Crowell of East Harwich, Massachusetts, appeared on the cover of American Bird Decoys by William J. Mackey Jr., published in 1965. Estimated at $125,000/175,000, it sold for $214,000 to Charleston, South Carolina, dealer Tom Reed, who calls his business American Sporting Classics. Reed ... (Read More)
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()Stoneware and Pottery Auction
"G.W. Hubacher, Dry Goods &c., Clarington Ohio," eight-gallon crock stenciled with a shield-breasted, spread-winged eagle and having freehand cobalt lines, $5170. It previously sold at auction for $9000 hammer.
Two-piece birdbath with embossed birds at the bottom, diffused blue and white, unmarked, 93/4" high, $3080.
"From W. H. Mallory, Clarington, Ohio," six-gallon ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Dust Jacket" Plover Brings $214,000
$214,000. Pennington photo.
A black-bellied plover by A. Elmer Crowell that appeared on the cover of William J. Mackey's 1965 book American Bird Decoys sold for $214,000 (est. $125,000/175,000) on August 1 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, at Guyette, Schmidt & Deeter's annual summer two-day auction.
The plover was part of the Carolyn ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Roadshow "Golden Ticket" Sweepstakes
Antiques Roadshow, PBS's most-watched ongoing prime time series, is offering "Golden Ticket" sweepstakes entrants a chance to win a VIP trip for two to the Roadshow event in Richmond, Virginia.
The grand prize includes round-trip transportation for two adults to Richmond; hotel accommodations for two consecutive nights; a VIP entrance for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Catherine Sweeney Singer Named Director of the Philadelphia Antiques Show
Catherine Sweeney Singer at the 2009 American Art Fair in New York City.
On July 31, the board of the Philadelphia Antiques Show an- nounced the appointment of Catherine Sweeney Singer as the show's director, which is a new position for the show. Sweeney Singer will be working with the exhibitors, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Paintings Sale on the Cape
Norman Rockwell's Study for Lunch Break with a Knight was signed on the lower right. It had been featured on the cover of the November 3, 1962, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The lot included a framed copy of the magazine cover. It came from a private Massachusetts collection. ... (Read More)
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