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(Fragment)Auction Firm Pleads Guilty to Tax Charges
by Sabrina Pry and Betty Flood Pneuco, Inc., owned by well-known and popular auctioneer R. Cash Cunningham, 59, of Buffalo, New York, pled guilty to underreporting more than $164,000 in sales tax, according to New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Commissioner Thomas H. Mattox. The corporate plea to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rural Material Culture: Selections from Indiana and Borders
Among the most expressive works by Marcus Mote, a devoted Quaker, is an 1884 oil on canvas, 18" x 28", inscribed "Old Indiana Yearly Mtg. trying to count her chickens."Using wood as a canvas, Hosea Hayden expressed views on women's suffrage in the incised decorations and text of this tripod ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 30th-Anniversary Indiana Art Auction
The Sentinel by Edward K. Williams (1870-1950), oil on canvas, 30" x 36", signed, with 1935 Hoosier Salon tag, $31,900."Ol' Saint Nick" by T.C. Steele (1847-1926), oil on canvas, 27" x 20", signed on frame and dated 1870, $82,500.By the Side of the Road by William Forsyth (1854-1935), oil on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Reunion in Madison: The Tenth Annual Madison Antiques Show & Sale
The wide variety of offerings from Paul and Shirley Cox of Salado, Texas, is obvious in this view. A Washburn parlor guitar of Brazilian rosewood ($3500) sits on a black walnut three-board-top table ($1850). The table is believed to be of Pennsylvania origin and has three drawers in the apron. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2011 Los Angeles Antiques Show
Bonnie Grossman of The Ames Gallery, the lone dealer of Outsider art in the show, exhibited a collection of southern face jugs. Jugs originally were made to serve as vessels for syrup, water, and whiskey. The craft lay dormant until a revival in the '60's and '70's. The popularity of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Deaccessioning Criteria in New York
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(Feature)Spring Jewelry Auctions
The top lot at Christie's sale was this cut-cornered, rectangular-cut diamond ring, approximately 37.16 carats, the diamond flanked on either side by three graduated baguette-cut diamonds and mounted in platinum. The accompanying GIA report states that the diamond is D color with internally flawless clarity. It sold to a private ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Thinning of the Herd
The catalog's cover lot, Highlights, a 381/4" x 461/4" circa 1928 still life by Joseph Kleitsch (1882-1931), sold for $506,000 (est. $400,000/600,000), the auction's highest price. The catalog described it, in part: "Rarely has a painting of this quality come on the market, which can be considered at the top ... (Read More)
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(Auction)No Tool Like an Old Tool, Unless It's a New Tool
Boxwood and Brazilian rosewood plow plane by E.W. Carpenter of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in mint condition, with patented arms and handle, $5830.This veneer saw had a finely carved cherubic face surrounded by floral arabesques and a few wormholes. It was probably of 18th-century French origin and sold for $632.50.A Macassar ebony ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indy Ad Show
The papier-mache roly-poly rabbit was $495, and the standing rabbit with cone and basket was $125 from Linda and Jim Maley of Atomic Age, Fullerton, California.The RPM Motor Oil sign with "A Knockout for Winter" features a Donald Duck illustration by Walt Disney. The sign has a 1940 copyright and ... (Read More)
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