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(Fragment)Two Folk Art Objects Stolen
The Just Folk Gallery in Summerland, California fell victim of a theft on May 20 at approximately 4:20 p.m. Missing from the Just Folk collection is a 9" x 9" x 2" mixed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring On-Site Auction
Landscape painter Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910) dated this robust and large (22" x 34") painting 1884. Signed on the lower left, it brought $5400. Sideli photo.This vivid and colorful painting by Antonio Cirino (Italian, 1889-1983) reflects the artist's Providence, Rhode Island, and Rockport, Massachusetts, influences. D & M Antiques, Rumford, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Some Great Stuff in New Brunswick Sales
There was a good selection of decoys at Bond's sale. Three decoys by Ralph Howlett of Saint John (one shown left) made $140; the whistler hen and drake went together at $525; and the black duck by Bert Burns of Rothesay, New Brunswick, fetched $120. Kevin Bond, April 16.This silver ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Supreme Court of New Hampshire Rules on Bid-Rigging Case
by Elizabeth DinanThe Supreme Court of New Hampshire ruled that auctioneer Harold French of Warner, New Hampshire, broke state law by rigging the bidding for an antique nautical painting, and the court also upheld sanctions imposed against French by the state Board of Auctioneers.Portsmouth, New Hampshire, police allege that French ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buyer Claims Multimillion-Dollar Art Purchases Included Fakes and Overpriced Works
by Clayton Pennington The issue of pricing art is going to face scrutiny in court, if a lawsuit filed in federal court goes to a decision. Arthur Properties, a corporation based in Luxembourg, filed suit on June 29 charging ABA Gallery of New York City with selling four fakes and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Start of Manchester Show Canceled for 2011
The Start of Manchester Antiques Show, scheduled for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction Hits $1.4 Million
It was the condition and the original wooden box with a label that drove this Automatic Toy Works figure well past the $6000/9000 estimate. The paper label read "Automatic Toys/ Woman's Rights/ Patented October 13th, 1874." The little mechanical Black woman in perfectly intact attire pounded the podium and turned ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Legislators Seek New Protections for Consignors
by Sabrina Pry and Betty Flood Consignors and their heirs would gain increased protection for works of art under legislation sponsored by New York assemblyman Jonathan L. Bing and cosponsored by New York senator Elizabeth O'Connor Little, chair of the Senate Cultural Affairs, Tourism, Parks and Recreation Committee. "The legislation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whim Museum Celebrates 25 Years of Antiques Auctions
The Estate Whim Plantation Museum sign just outside the town of Frederiksted in St. Croix.Over 200 people attended the auction, and every seat in the big tent was taken. The overflow crowd found seating on all sides of the tent.St. Croix Landmarks Society, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islandsby Michael Connors, ... (Read More)
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(Show)April Showers Bring Antiques Buyers
Bruce "Butch" Hanes of Dad's Follies, Gibsonville, North Carolina, holds a vintage metal Popeye mold in his left hand and a postwar plastic Popeye mold in his right. Hanes and his sister inherited the passion for antique chocolate and ice cream molds from their parents more than 40 years ago ... (Read More)
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