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(Fragment)"A Stitch in Time" Gets More Time
Because of strong attendance, the Greenwich Historical Society in Greenwich, Connecticut, has extended its current exhibition, A Stitch in Time: Quilts from the Collection, to August 29. The exhibition was originally scheduled to close on June 13.A number of the historically significant quilts in the exhibition have never been shown ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quiet Silver Sale in Texas
A George I silver gilt ewer (9" tall) and basin (10 7/8" diameter) by Paul de Lamerie, London, England, 1714-16, sold for $61,000.01 after the auction. This set is among the earliest extant examples of de Lamerie's work.The enamel and silver gilt clock, Carl Faberge, workmaster Henrik Wigstrom, St. Petersburg, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Button, Button: Gwinnett Letter Sells for $722,500
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Jeanne SchintoThe Copley Library's Button Gwinnett autograph letter sold to an unidentified buyer for $722,500 (est. $500,000/700,000). A Sotheby's press office spokesperson said there was only one other bidder. The text is in the hand of Timothy Matlack, scribe of the final version of the Declaration ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Hooked Rugs: Rare Frost Rug Pattern in Farnsworth Museum Show
The original Frost pattern No. 171 is clearly marked with the E.S. Frost & Co. name. It has a basket tipping to the left in contrast with the Waldoboro rug at the right. It seems highly unlikely that two designers during the same time frame would come up with the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eames Photographic Archive Pulled from Auction, Subject of Legal Dispute
by Daniel GrantIn all other respects, the sale of 133 lots of furniture and decorative objects designed by husband-and-wife team Charles and Ray Eames at Wright auction house in Chicago on April 8 took place without a hitch. It did reasonably well, realizing $344,896 (includes buyers' premiums) for the sale ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Monroe (Washington) Antique Show: Definitely Not a Light Repast
This little (8" x 10" x 4") cabinet or doll bed from France, 1880-90, quickly sold for $195 on the first day of the show. Show promoter Loretta Johnson of Cobweb Antiques, Monroe, Washington, offered it and said she wasn't certain if it represented a cabinet bed or armoire but ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Secondhand Dealers Law Stopped and Passed on Cape Cod
by Clayton PenningtonArticle 37 on the warrant for the May 4 town meeting in Dennis, Massachusetts, was a seven-page proposed bylaw that, if passed, would have severely limited the antiques business in the town of approximately 16,000. Action by local dealers resulted in the article's being pulled from the town ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minor Ordered to Pay Sotheby's
Multimillionaire art collector Halsey Minor, former head of CNET, has lost the latest skirmish in his ongoing war with the New York City auction houses.
In a March 31 judgment, Minor was ordered by U.S. District Judge Barbara S. Jones to pay Sotheby's $6,639,850.99. As of June 14, no payments had ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Lockwood de Forest's Artistic Journey
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenLockwood de Forest: Furnishing the Gilded Age with a Passion for Indiaby Roberta A. MayerUniversity of Delaware Press, 2008, 238 pages, hardbound, $49.50 plus S/H from University of Delaware Press, (www2.lib.udel.edu/ udpress) or (302) 831-1149.Based on her doctoral dissertation, Roberta A. Mayer's book firmly places Lockwood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Daniel Horan Joins R.O. Schmitt's Clock Auction House
Daniel Horan (left) and R.O. "Bob" Schmitt at the April 24 sale in Manchester, New Hampshire.by Jeanne SchintoR.O. "Bob" Schmitt has announced that, while he is relocating his residence to Phoenix, Arizona, this summer, the clock auction house he founded in 1979 will continue to have its semiannual sales in ... (Read More)
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