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(Feature)Sterling McCall Antiques Showcase
Calvin Hendrickson of Lingering Treasures, Brenham, Texas, offered this 19th-century yarn winder for $175. Made by Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. of Providence, Rhode Island, it was used to wrap spools of yarn that were purchased by the foot in a general store. This piece came from the general store ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Rifle Hall Americana Antique Show & Fall Fest
An assortment of sterling silver napkin rings with dates from the 1840’s to the 1950’s was offered for prices ranging from $40 to $300 by Paul Kurilecz of Floribunda Cottage, Dallas, Texas. Many have engraved names or initials, and Kurilecz likes to pair names, such as Fred and Ginger.A pine ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Music Valley: Smaller Show Continues Americana Focus
Lynn and Michael Worden of Worden Select Objects, Burr Oak, Michigan, continue their focus on a visually appealing, eclectic style. The couple combined a strong metal base with a stone slab, possibly a building revetment, to produce an attractive table, priced at $1450. The geared wheel on top was $295. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Orleans Domestic Views: Strong Prices and a Question
by Ed Polk DouglasPalo Alto plantation, Ascension Parish, Louisiana, by Marie Adrien Persac, $371,000. Photo courtesy Neal Auction Company.Cataloged as "American School/New Orleans, mid-19th c., 'A New Orleans House and Grounds, probably on Esplanade Ridge,' c. 1860," the painting brought $6273.75. Photo courtesy Neal Auction Company.The locale where an object ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Point-of-Sale Software
A homegrown point-of-sale system on the computer monitor.Computer Column #266by John P. Reid, [email protected] discussing using computers as cash registers, here is an interesting news item. On November 23, 2010, Christie's in London sold an Apple-1 computer motherboard with its original shipping box, some accessories, and a typed letter signed ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Past the Halfway Point
>by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondAround our house, Hollie's always taking things apart to fix them and putting them back together. If we're going to have to call someone in anyway, we might as well take a crack at it first, right? More than once, with the dishwasher disassembled or ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.A New World Imagined: Art of the Americas, edited by Fronia ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Joseph Sorger Collection
The 24½" high white marble bust of a woman by William Henry Rinehart (1825-1874), signed “Wm. H. Rinehart Sculpt. Roma 1874,” sold for $25,000 (est. $3000/5000) to New England collectors in the room. (The 42½" high Carrara marble pedestal under the bust was sold separately for $544.)Cataloged as French school, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Icon of American Horology Sells for $539,500
The William Bond & Son astronomical regulator, made in 1868, sold to a private collector for $539,500 (est. $300,000/500,000). The clock has a single-arm gravity escapement and a constant-force remontoire invented by Richard F. Bond. Only two other clocks like it are known. One was made for Harvard University’s observatory, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Canadian Painting Hits $25,300
Leading all painted chests was this one with original black and green sponge paint with the script initials “HD” in mustard yellow that sold for $10,062.50.A watercolor of a Canadian Rocky Mountain Indian encampment by Walter Joseph Phillips (1884-1963) sold for $25,300.Frank Vining Smith oil on canvas of the revenue ... (Read More)
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