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(Show)Fiddler's Antique Show: Old Place, New Face
A smiling Pat Cobb of Ann Arbor, Michigan, used the standard motel mirror to reflect her wares. A sewer tile bird on stump was $650; an English blown glass tazza or syllabub stand, $1000; and a cobalt glass bottle, $795.Kitty Saylor of Hamilton, Ohio, was having a great day as ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Infinite Variety: Three Centuries of Red and White Quilts
Daniel and Joanna Rose at the exhibition. Dan Rose said he was thrilled to see the quilts for the "first time." He said, "I mostly saw their backs. When we went to shows, I was the one who held them up so Joanna could see the pattern." Photo: Gavin Ashworth.The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)June Festival of Antiques Expands
The fifth annual June Festival of Antiques in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, has added a fourth pavilion for this year's event. The new Wallace Warren Pavilion at the Gloucester County 4-H Fairgrounds will be utilized to hold 14 more dealers under cover."The new pavilion that was built just before last ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)French Asks New Hampshire Supreme Court to Review Punishment by Board of Auctioneers
by Elizabeth DinanThe New Hampshire Supreme Court is scheduled to decide whether an auctioneer accused of rigging the bidding for an antique nautical painting was justly punished by the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers.Auctioneer Harold French of Warner, New Hampshire, was reprimanded by the board of auctioneers in May 2010 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)How Sweet It Is
$69,000. Photo courtesy Cottone Auctions.by Fran KramerBy any standard it was the creme de la creme. Lot 639 of the Cottone Auctions fine art and antiques auction on March 26 in Geneseo, New York, had a famous maker (Tiffany & Co.) and a famous designer (Edward C. Moore), was displayed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Marin Show: Art of the Americas
Santa Fe dealer Steve Elmore was asking $14,000 for this circa 1885 Zuni heart-line deer jar.Choctaw Ron Milam of Corona, California, has been selling at auction since 1966. This early Yokut bowl was priced at $11,900. Ron's son Allen Milam said he had sold "a lot of little items. Our ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Pounce on Black Panthers at Best African Americana Sale
The top lot was an archive of published and unpublished writings of Charles Harris Wesley (1891-1987), historian, author, and educator. An institution paid $43,200 (est. $30,000/40,000) for the approximately 35 cartons of correspondence, photographs, albums, diaries, booklets, brochures, programs, pamphlets, and ephemera covering the years 1927-82.A group photograph of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)What Modern Is: The Collection of Mark McDonald
Thomas Downing's Four Blue Five, 1962, a 663/4" x 663/4" acrylic on canvas, signed, dated, and titled, came from McDonald's personal collection. Estimated at $20,000/30,000, it sold for $62,500 to a dealer on the phone. Downing was one of the Washington Color Painters (named for their original 1965 exhibition in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Connecticut Spring Antiques Show: Colorful and Classic
Justin Cobb of Captain's Quarters, Amherst, Massachusetts, asked $3000 for this 471/2" tall x 43" wide captain's desk of teak and rosewood, probably made in China or India. Cobb said that newer desks are coming in from Asia and lack the quality of the period ones and explained that to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Equal in Goodness: Ohio Decorative Arts 1788-1860
Items from the northeast quadrant of Ohio include a "Map of the Western Reserve Including the Fire Lands in Ohio," published by William Sumner of Nelson, Portage County, 1826; and a figured maple settee from Zoar, Tuscarawas County, circa 1840.Items from the southeast quadrant of Ohio include a paint-decorated Windsor ... (Read More)
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