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(Show)Richmond Academy of Medicine Celebrates 49th Show
This was Martin Chasin's first year at the Richmond Academy of Medicine show. The Fairfield, Connecticut, dealer trades as Martin Chasin Fine Arts, LLC and offers an array of British sporting art, silver, glass, and porcelain. In one of his cases were a large George I covered urn-form container, $2100; ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column, as I promised in the last issue, deals only with items sold this year-but before I kick off with my first "surprise" bid of 2011, a brief, follow-up note on the most spectacular, record-shattering result of last year.In the January issue, I illustrated ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Taxes 101: How to Fix a Broken Tax Return
by Caroline EvansSo you filed your income tax return, and you made a mistake. What do you do now?People who are self-employed in the antiques trade can have a lot of paperwork to sort through as they prepare their tax return. Making mistakes, forgetting an item, or finding out about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Conroy Sentenced Again, Escapes Further Jail Time
by David HewettOn March 17 former auctioneer Tim Conroy, who pleaded guilty in March 2010 to stealing from his Onondaga County clients, escaped further jail time by making restitution of over $3000 to one of them.The 48-year-old Elbridge, New York, man received a sentence of five years' probation from state ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alexander Gallery Moves--To Two Places
The Alexander Gallery has moved, after almost 40 years on Madison Avenue in New York City. The executive office is now located at 115 East 72nd Street near Park Avenue, and the interim exhibition space is off Madison Avenue at 34 East 68th Street.According to the firm, plans to move ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Twelve-Tune Clock Sells for $74,750
Photos courtesy Hudson Valley Auctioneers.by Lita Solis-CohenAt an estate sale at Hudson Valley Auctioneers in Beacon, New York, on Monday night, February 28, a bidding battle erupted between John Delaney Jr. of West Townsend, Massachusetts, and James Price of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when a musical clock made by Frederick Heisely in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Paint, Pattern & People" Has Opened at Winterthur
Chest-over-drawers, Lancaster County, 1783, walnut, hard pine, sulfur, brass, and iron, 29" x 54" x 26". Inlaid in sulfur on a board beneath the till covering a secret drawer compartment: "ANNO 1783." Inscribed on underside of lid in graphite: "D.W. Dietrich 1876." Feet replaced (no evidence of ball feet); proper ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Decorative Arts and Design Auction
A pair of wrought-iron and leather consoles in the style of Jean-Michel Frank, circa 1945, executed by Comte, Buenos Aires, each 29 5/8" high x 39 1/8" wide x 10 5/8" deep, with the Comte metal label and stamped "4755," sold on the phone for $40,000 (est. $10,000/15,000).Christie's, New York ... (Read More)
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(Show)It's All in the (Hand)Bag at the Miami National Antiques Show
Rosemary Krieger, president of Dolphin Promotions.Meet Marco Astrologo, purveyor of Louis Vuitton. This Philadelphia dealer said he has the largest collection of vintage Vuitton trunks and suitcases in the U.S. He was wearing a Vuitton vest made for him from old fabric off a clothes bag.When you think of Miami ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ken Farmer Winter Catalog Sale
The Wilton dollhouse and its furnishings were offered during the first day of the Farmer sale. The extremely detailed replica did not sell during the sale but did find a home in the weeks following the sale. It brought $2070 (est. $1000/10,000).The catalog noted that this single-drawer worktable originated in ... (Read More)
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