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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Relevance Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSo, where were we? We had been talking about relevance-the art of being useful/staying useful or as Merriam-Webster puts it, "having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand"-and the reasons antiques had once been relevant. The problem, as we mentioned last month, is ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: I Never Thought of This
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(Fragment)Willowbrook Village: Improvements Planned and Auctions Scheduled
The exhibits at Willowbrook Village in Newfield, Maine, are spread out over 3.5 acres and housed in 34 structures. Over the next year, Willowbrook will be making changes in order to better tell the story of life in 19th-century rural Maine and to reduce the financial burden of maintaining so ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Lebanon Antiques Show
Kensington six-piece sterling silver tea service (excluding silver-plated tray), International Silver Company, $5500 from Sue Robinette of Monticello, Kentucky.A hooked rug showing musical notes, possibly a cover for a piano bench, was $225 from Diane Statler of Oakridge Antiques, Louisville, Kentucky.Along the top was a "Welcome Home" flaghoisted by U.S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Some Big Hits in the Big Easy
Charles Cage, silver specialist at NOAG, was enthusiastic about the silver lots that had done well, especially the George III sterling silver soup tureen, made in London 1777-78 by Robert Makepeace and Richard Carter, that sold for $21,600. As he put it, "Beautiful work on it-the crest and the arms, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Matching Grant Will Help Museum Retire Mortgage
Dean Six, executive director of The Museum of American Glass in West Virginia, told attendees at the 19th annual Glass Gathering on October 23, 2009, that an anonymous donor has stepped forward with a matching donation offer. The goal of the current fund drive is $45,000, which, when matched, will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charlotte Show Changes Hands, Not Management
Lydia Sullivan, show director of the Greater Charlotte Antique & Collectible Show, has announced that she has purchased the rights to the show from The Art Fair Company, which acquired the show earlier in 2009 from dmg world media."We are building such a great show at the Cabarrus Arena," said ... (Read More)
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(Show)Signs of the Times at Rhinebeck
An all-wire motorcycle, replicating a Harley-Davidson from the 1930's, was tagged $2650 by David Allan Ramsay of Cape Porpoise, Maine.Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania, showed an exceptional large rooster weathervane with a great surface for $26,000. The 1840's Pennsylvania apothecary was $7200.A pair of 1940's "block art" ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: [email protected] of the collection of letters from Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson that sold for $455,466 at Sotheby's."The partridges are plentiful...& the girls on the manor just coming into season..." [Lord Byron]Time was when British Prime Ministers were expected to be serious bookmen-to be well read, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show
Pair of Sevres biscuit models of lions supporting gilt white reticulated baskets, modeled by Jean-Charles- Nicholas Brachard l'aine, after a drawing by Fragonard, 1818-20, part of an elaborate dessert service, $400,000 from Brian Haughton Gallery.Three-panel room divider by Paul Evans (1931-1987) of patterned welded steel panels with gold-leaf edges and ... (Read More)
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