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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Bad Selling Redux
by Steve ProffittLast month I wrote about one of my sharpest peeves—how we frequently "sell" ourselves into bad spots. We make bad buys, get into bad jams, fall for bad scams, suffer bad losses, and get bitten by bad deals. No one holds a gun to our heads. We do ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Maine Shuts the Door
Losing isn't easy. When Maine lost two court rulings in Virginia regarding a broadside copy of the Declaration of Independence, it stung.In July 1776, the Massachusetts Executive Council ordered that copies of the Declaration be printed and delivered to ministers of all churches in Massachusetts so it could be read ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"An Excellent Adventure:" A Fitting Tribute to Bowmanville Show Founder
A late 18th- or early 19th-century burl bowl, ex-Gordon Baker collection and illustrated in Howard Pain’s The Heritage of Upper Canadian Furniture, figure 582,sold for $6050. Thompson photo.This watercolor portrait of James Gauntley, Bowmanville, circa 1835, was the top lot of the sale at $15,400.A mid-19th-century glazed corner cupboardfrom Millbrook, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Country Sale in the North Carolina Mountains
The top furniture lot and the second-highest lot of the sale was a two-piece French cabinet with scrolled and carved crown, open shelves, and two doors above. Below were one small drawer, two angled doors, and a carved skirt. It sold for $1485. The top lot of the sale at ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burk Show Rolls Into Its 40th Year
The pillar and scroll shelf clock from Allentown, Pennsylvania, had a Black Forest movement from Europe. The dial and tablet were original and on tin. It was priced at $12,500 from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, dealer Kelly Kinzle. The Severin Roesen still-life painting was $55,000, and the inlaid cutlery box was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"Miss Edgerton's Ye Colonial Shoppe" or Women in the Trade, Part Two
by Jeanne Schinto"You've sold all my things. You've sold my mother's china. You sold the rugs. You sold the portraits. You've made a business out of it—selling the past. What kind of a business is that—selling the past?"—from "Publick House," John Cheever, The New Yorker, August 16, 1941The cover of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Farm Animal Shelter in Western New York Saves Historic Site
by Fran KramerCracker Box Palace, a farm animal haven in Alton, New York, is well underway to saving an essential piece of Shaker history.Alasa Farms, on the site of what was the Sodus Shaker community from 1826 to 1836 (the Sodus Shakers then moved 90 miles southwest to Groveland and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strongest Painting Sale Ever---without a Fitz Henry Lane
At the Grand Prix by Childe Hassam (1859-1935), an 11½" x 8¼" (sight size) pastel and graphite on paper/board, brought the top price of the day, $699,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). Signed “Childe/Hassam,” it was inscribed “given to me by A.L.A. for Victorian Room” on a label from the Worth Avenue Gallery, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room found a way to solve the universal case crunch dilemma. Faced with showing 21 Chrysanthemum pattern plates by English maker Herculaneum, they mounted themon a wall. From about 1810, the plates were $17,000 for the lot or $850 each.Merchandise Mart seller Richard Norton brought a set of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiquing Around the World--On Line
The Woolloongabba Antique Centre in Brisbane, Australia looks like something you might find anywhere in the U.S.Computer Column #260by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] the past six months, this column has discussed serious stuff—software for dealers and antiques malls, inexpensive office software, running Windows programs for antiquers on a Macintosh ... (Read More)
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