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(Show)Bottle Spirits Rise in Fall
The sun rose, leaves fell, and bottle spirits soared at the annual Norman Heckler bottle lollapalooza on Saturday, October 10, 2009, as 70 to 80 dealers set up in the pasture. Your reporter (in the odd sweatshirt in the foreground) searches for rare target balls and good quotes.by Ralph FinchPhotos ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
Berkeley, California, dealer Thomas Livingston was asking $12,500 for this American Aesthetic Movement gilt and marble-top console that had been sold in San Francisco on November 22, 1884. The initials “WF” are stenciled on the back; Livingston wondered if they stood for Wells Fargo. The top of the console is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Benton at American Paintings Auction
Childe Hassam (1859-1935), The White Dory, Gloucester, signed and dated 1895 lower left, titled and signed with the artist’s initials and dated 1895 on the reverse, oil on canvas, 26" x 21". Estimated at $2.5/3.5 million, it sold to a bidder on the phone for $3,666,500, the top lot in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fake Movie Posters: One Pulled from Auction, Two Lawsuits Filed
Estimated at $200,000/250,000, the Dracula poster was revealed as a fake and withdrawn from the Profiles in History auction.by Richard de ThuinA one-sheet poster from Dracula (Universal, 1931), the landmark and much-revered horror film starring Bela Lugosi, was withdrawn from the Hollywood auction #37 at Profiles in History (an auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
Above the Narrows, a 48" x 32¼" tempera on panel painted in 1960 by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), depicts Nicholas Wyeth at age 18 at Bradford Point on the St. George River in Cushing, Maine. It was estimated at $3/5 million and sold to a woman in the salesroom, bidding for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Autumn Americana Sale at Doyle's
This 22" x 25 7/8" oil on board by Grandma (Anna Robertson) Moses (1860-1961), Sugaring Off, 1942, sold for $28,125 (est. $5000/7000). It was the most expensive painting in the sale, but it brought less than it had at Sotheby’s in December 1998, when it sold for $34,500.This set of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: FastTrack for Dealers
Inventory item screen for antiques dealer software from AAIN, Inc.Computer Column #254by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] latest edition of Collectorpro for Antiques was reviewed last month. This month, a new edition of Antique Dealers FastTrack Inventory and Business Management Professional Software from the Antique and Art Information Network, Inc. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antique Ice Skates in America
Bone skates are mostly found in museums and date back 1500 to 1700 years ago.Snow skate, $100 and higher; uncommon 10", $150 to $200.Maple or beech skate with attached rounded blade, 10", $200 to $350.Skating scene showing crowds and old-time skating clothing. Skating, 1885, Boston by Henry Sandham, from a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Charged with Selling Fake Picasso
Tatiana Khan, a West Hollywood, California, antiques dealer, has been named in a federal fraud case involving the $2 million sale of a fake Pablo Picasso that she allegedly paid an artist $1000 to fabricate.FBI agents seized a $700,000 de Kooning painting from Khan that prosecutors allege was purchased with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crocker Farm Fall Sale Full of Treats
A private collector from Florida bidding in the salesroom bought the small stoneware gemel for $24,725 (est. $15,000/25,000). The underbidder was on the phone. Made in Manhattan, or possibly New Haven, Connecticut, the piece with conjoined jugs is a true rarity of American stoneware. It has a single applied handle ... (Read More)
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