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(Show)Bowmanville Antiques Show Weathers the Storm
A fresh face to the show this year was La Belle Gueule de Bois, Magog, Quebec. They had a fine booth that included this rare primitive bonnetière cupboard from Quebec’s Eastern Townships featuring fish hinges and forged nails in the construction, with complementary bracket base, ex-collection Peter Baker. It dated ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stitches in Time: Portsmouth Samplers from 1760-1840
Sampler worked by Elizabeth Lake in 1817. Collection of the Portsmouth Historical Society.Stitches in Time: Portsmouth Samplers from 1760-1840, an exhibit produced by the Portsmouth Historical Society at the John Paul Jones House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, will be on display until October 31. The exhibit features over 30 needlework ... (Read More)
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(Auction)All Things Georgia: The Griffin Collection
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolinaby Pete PrunklPhotos courtesy Brunk AuctionsBill and Florence Griffin at home in Atlanta. Bill was a successful real estate attorney and field ornithologist. Florence helped found the Southern Garden History Society, the Georgia Conservancy, and the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. Their marriage “was built on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record $169,200 Paid for Newcomb Pottery
The vase is incised with a stylized design of deep blue Clematis jackmanii with yellow centers held aloft on sage green trellis-like stems in a rhythmic progression and with a yellow band at its rim. This impressive vase scored a new record for Newcomb pottery, selling for $169,200. Neal Auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Withdrawn Ohr Works Worry Art Pottery Trade
by Lita Solis-CohenTwo two-handled vases, signed in script "G.E. Ohr," were withdrawn from Sotheby's June 12 auction. No official reason was given, but a group of Ohr collectors and scholars believe they were fake.Eugene "Gene" Hecht, who with Garth Clark and Robert Ellison wrote The Mad Potter of Biloxi: The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Hampshire Suspends Auctioneer's License for Five Years
On June 5 the New Hampshire Board of Auctioneers suspended the license of New Hampshire auctioneer Frank Beliveau for five years. The unanimous action came after the board heard a complaint from Alan DeVarney, who consigned objects to an April 4 auction and was not paid.According to a consignor settlement ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Evil Twins
by Steve ProffittM.A.D. has an upscale following. As my mentor, a now old lawyer from the South, would say, "Steve, that's the silk stocking crowd." With this crowd come the accompaniments of money, position, and power, including those Saturday night black-tie get-togethers known as benefit auctions. I receive most of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Art Exhibition at Berman Museum of Art
Folk Art from the Dr. David Bronstein Collection opened at the Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art on the Ursinus College campus in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, on May 29. The exhibit, in the Upper Gallery, will run through August 29. The installation focuses on examples from Dr. Bronstein's collection of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)April Modernism Auction
Sollo:Rago, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Sollo:RagoThe sale opened with this George Nakashima English oak free-edge coffee table, 13" x 76" x 34", that sold for $24,000 (est. $40,000/60,000). It seemed to set the tone for the sale.John Sollo and David Rago's catalog for their 20th-century modern sale on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Obama Bucks Carry Strong Sale
As shown, the Oriental room-size carpet is 7' x 13'7" overall, but it’s valued for the carpet found within the borders because those former parts are genuinely antique, probably somewhere between 200 and 300 years old, and the latter have been added at a later date. The buyer, a subscriber ... (Read More)
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