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(Auction)Kaufman IV Toy Auction Ups the Score at $1.6 Million
A tour de force, this American National deluxe coupe, circa 1925, 69" long, sold for $46,000. Madaline Friz photo.The top lot in the Disney segment was not a windup or a doll but a 1934 Mickey Mouse merchandise catalog-Disney's first. Contained in the 9" x 12" catalog were all the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Some Pig: "Charlotte's Web" Cover Art Brings $155,350
The original 1952 cover art for the best-selling children's book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White brought $155,350 (includes buyer's premium) on October 15 at Heritage Auction Galleries' illustration art sale in New York City.The auction was Heritage's second-highest-grossing auction of illustration art since the inception of the category, tallying $3.75 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art and Antiques Insurance--Know What Is and Is Not Covered
by David HewettIn one of our previous stories about the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries collapse and the subsequent arrest and jailing of its owner (May 2010, p. 33-A), it was noted that the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Maryland against AXA Art Insurance Corporation, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Berks County, Pennsylvania, Schrank Sells for $818,500
by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Pook & Pook.A colorful Berks County sponge-painted schrank in a small, desirable size (81" high x 60" wide) and in exceptionally good condition sold for $818,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Pook & Pook's auction of the collection of Richard and Joane Smith on October 30 in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Joe Lincoln Widgeon Drake Highlights Decoy Sale
A rigmate pair of mergansers with slightly turned heads by Keyes Chadwick of Oak Bluff, Martha’s Vineyard, sold for $19,550 (est. $11,000/14,000). The hen had a crack on the underside, and they both had some light discoloration to their original paint.A decorative preening old squaw drake with lifted wings by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Asian Art Strong at Chicago Auction
These handsome George II painted and parcel-gilt pedestals sold for $6710 the pair. Hindman photo.The pair of Neoclassical cast metal urns sold for $2928. Fitting for midsummer, the sale had a good amount of outdoor and garden ornamentation. Hindman photo.The Chinese oil on canvas of Hong Kong harbor, measuring almost ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
A field of soybeans banked the white tent that is the trademark of the Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale.The tent housed the majority of the dealers.Found in the booth of Deborah FisherAntiques, Lebanon, Ohio, were a two-drawer, two-door jelly cupboard in original red wash, $2800; a bulk garden ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Mythbuster
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittThere are myths in auctions that some auctioneers don't recognize. An "auction with reserve" seems like a simple concept, but its nuances cause confusion for many. I'm reminded of that whenever I address an audience of auctioneers on the subject, as I did recently while ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Seibert Joins Cordier Part Time
by Lita Solis-CohenPeter Seibert, who served as president of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County Inc. from 1993 to 2008 and is currently the executive director of the National Council for History Education, has a weekend job as a consultant and catalog specialist at Cordier Antiques & Auctions in Camp ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Difficulties in Overseas Transactions
by Daniel GrantThe Asian art and antiques sales at Eldred's in East Dennis, Massachusetts, generally have gone quite well—with occasional exceptions. Some of the mainland Chinese buyers, who may not have read the contract when they registered to bid, or perhaps didn't understand what they read, as soon as they ... (Read More)
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