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(Auction)Spring Americana Sale in Portsmouth
This 9ΒΌ" high fluted and engraved silver sugar urn and cover by Paul Revere, circa 1800, is a prime example of Neoclassical design. It’s very similar in form to a silver sugar urn and cover that is owned, along with the matching cream pitcher, by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Pinned Down
EditiorialIn 2002, we noted how then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, deeply religious and conservative to the core, had ordered huge drapes to cover two seminude figures that stand in the Great Hall of the Justice Department building in Washington, D.C.Press reports indicated Ashcroft was annoyed that news photography and television footage ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Barnett Musket Leads Cobb Auction
Barnett Indian trade musket, $9775.At first the auctioneers thought these were Paris porcelain plates made for the Italian market and decorated in Italy. Italian sources convinced them that they were entirely Italian made and decorated. The set of six handpainted plates depicting figures in richly colored regional Italian dress, with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jean Harlow Portfolio Camera Negative Shoots Up to $57,500
$57,500. Photo courtesy Profiles in History.by Richard de ThuinAt an auction of glamour photography run by Profiles in History on March 26 and 27 in Calabasas, California, a bear rug portfolio camera negative of actress Jean Harlow (1911-1937) sold for $57,500 (includes buyer's premium) against a $20,000/30,000 estimate.Shot by George ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Market for Fountain Pens
Montblanc Fortune Number 88 pen (edition of 88) with a Chinese motif. It has a red gold latticework design of interlocking eights on the body, a diamond-studded clip, and an 18k red gold nib engraved with a yin and yang symbol. It sold at Bonhams & Butterfields with its black-lacquered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nashville Flooding Severely Damages Opryland Hotel
by Karla Klein AlbertsonHistoric Nashville has long been an important focus for American country antiques as well as the national country music industry. The recent flooding on the weekend of May 1 and 2, however, was more biblical than historical in its destructive effect. News and weather channels were filled ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Patriotic Eagle Inlays on Federal Furniture
Figure 1. Courtesy National Archives, Washington, D.C.Figure 2. Author's files.Figure 2A. Courtesy Diplomatic Reception Rooms, U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.Figure 3. Courtesy Bernard & S. Dean Levy, Inc.Figure 3A. Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of Art; gift of F. Ethel Wickham, in memory of her father, William Hull Wickham, 1950 (50.18.1).Figure ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Greenwich Antiques Show Canceled for 2010
The Greenwich (Connecticut) Historical Society will not ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Whose Responsibility?
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittHere is an e-mail I received from a reader. "I had a business that failed. The bank held an auction, and everything was sold. A buyer left two items in my building because he could not physically remove them himself: a hood for a kitchen ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kevin Bond's Cabin Fever Sales
A wonderful corner cupboard with a later grain-painted finish came from Ontario and sold for a solid $4000 ($3749). January 30.Kevin Bond, Hampton, New Brunswick, Canadaby Peter SmitAll prices in Canadian funds; approximate U.S. funds in parenthesesKevin Bond offered two country sales in Hampton, New Brunswick, on Saturday, January 30, ... (Read More)
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