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(Computer Article)Fraud and Floor Plans
Software drawing of an antiques show floor plan. A perspective view is inset.Computer Column #276by John P. Reid, [email protected] is available for drawing floor plans of antiques shows or shops. First, some reminders on Internet privacy.-Internet FraudWe are all familiar with on-line fraud, especially in e-mail. Not a day goes ... (Read More)
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(Feature)September Jewelry Auctions
The top lot of Sotheby's September 20 auction was this circa 1928 Cartier tutti-frutti 7" long platinum, carved colored stone, diamond, and enamel bracelet. Thirteen bidders edged it to far past its $200,000/300,000 estimate, and it sold for $842,500 to the "international trade," according to a press release. With carved ... (Read More)
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(Show)Country Living Fair
The entrance to Country Living Fair saw constant traffic all three days.Cari Cucksey of HGTV's Cash & Cari (in the jacket) had her hands full at Country Living Fair in Ohio Village in Columbus in September. When she wasn't busy signing autographs (often on items people had purchased), Cucksey was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lambert-Pain Auction
Hanover, Ontario, dealer Dieter Sebastian paid $11,550 for a rare large, round chair table with a 5' width from a Quaker settlement near Uxbridge, Ontario. It was circa 1825 and had a three-board scrub top, a stretcher-base chair on turned legs, and original red finish. Pain collection.Mike Scott was seeking ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Teamsters Picket Sotheby's During Americana Auction
Mark Keenen pickets outside Sotheby's in New York City.by Lita Solis-CohenSotheby's art handlers, members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters 814, have been bargaining for a new contract since May. When contract talks expired on July 30, and the Teamsters threatened to strike, Sotheby's locked out the 42 art handlers ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: All Debts, Public and Private
We've become accustomed to onerous secondhand dealers laws enacted by municipalities in an effort to stop trade in stolen goods. The laws, often called “pawnshop” laws, require extensive recordkeeping and the collecting of information about sellers. They are well intentioned but often end up sweeping antiques dealers into a nightmare ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Dick and Scott Ferris, J & R Ferris Antiques, Boonville, New York
Scott and Dick Ferris.Three pieces of headgear, from left: militia or political campaign hat from the 1840's, $1900; American militia dragoon helmet from the 1850's, $5300; and American chapeau, probably militia, from the 1820's, trimmed in ribbon with a repeat eagle pattern, $2150. Dick said, "Decorators love things like this. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] head of a man from the era of the Roman "Soldier Emperors," 3rd century A.D., sold for $704,620 by Christie's South Kensington. Hellenistic marble head of a girl of the late 3rd-2nd century B.C., sporting a "melon" hairdo, sold for $482,720 at Christie's South Kensington.The carved chalcedony ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Show in Waldoboro
Longtime dealer Guenter Adam of Brunswick, Maine, showed this hand-colored and pencil-signed Art Deco print by Anthony Victor, a contemporary of Louis Icart, The Romance, dated 1934, for $195.Robert T. Foley of Gray, Maine, had this recently acquired sailor's chest with a marine scene of the four-master W. Smith painted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Silver
This group of tiny silver and enamel carnival figures designed by Gene Moore, New York, circa 1990, a bal masqué of five figures, probably prototypes, sold for $40,645 (est. $10,000/15,000) to a private collector. These were not produced by Tiffany, which produced other circus figures by Moore.A group of nine ... (Read More)
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