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(Auction)Standing Room Only at Slotin Folk Art Auction
After about two hours of "warmup," the section that the Slotins call the "Masters" was offered. It included two examples by Mattie Lou O'Kelley of Banks County, Georgia, both from the Karen and Werner Gundersheimer collection. Her Spotted Cat, 24" x 18", had been illustrated in a 1980 Life magazine ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
Carlson & Stevenson, Manchester Center, Vermont, asked $1400 for the trundle bed (it would make a nice coffee table with a piece of glass on top) and $850 for the circa 1910 double birdcage. The early 20th-century watercolors of ships by a California artist are in period frames and were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art Auction
A Haida or Tlingit eagle effigy bowl, estimated at $50,000/80,000, was the auction's top seller at $146,000. The bowl "went overseas," purchased by a dealer who was not necessarily the end user, Jim Haas said. He said that bowls like this-"a great early classic example of Northwest Coast material"-were "exceedingly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Oriental and Decorative Strong at Northeast Sale
The 5 7/8" diameter Chinese porcelain bowl had lovely color and form, and the seal of Daoguang on the base dated it to 1821-50. A similarly marked pair of 123/4" high vases in a Famille Rose pattern brought an astounding $902,500 at Christie's on September 15, 2009. They were from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Canadian Reference Book Pieces Achieve Solid Prices at Auction
The tall clock by Simon Willard, circa 1810, had a great deal going for it and became the top lot of the Ingolfsrud collection, selling at $63,250. May 16.A walnut blanket box with dovetailed construction and bracket ogee feet soared to $10,350, leaving its $150/250 estimate far, far behind. May ... (Read More)
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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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(Show)The Brandywine Show 2010
Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut, asked $3750 for the unsigned Thomas Willis school silk and paint picture of boats in a tramp art frame. The bowl on the William and Mary chest was $3350, and the mirrored sconce is one of a pair for $3350 the pair. The table ... (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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(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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(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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