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(Feature)Lots of Maritime Lithographs
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire by A.J. Peluso, Jr. Northeast Auctions' August 18 and 19 sale in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was particularly rich in lithographic offerings, with well over 100 examples. There were no records achieved, and the sale might be viewed hereafter as a missed opportunity. (The focus here ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Call It Oosik or Baculum, It's a Popular Bone to Pick
by Robert KyleA world-record price for the largest known antique penis bone was set August 26 when the I.M. Chait Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, sold a 4½' long petrified walrus reproductive part for $9600 (including buyer's premium). The successful telephone bidder from Florida was representing Ripley's Believe It or ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Rago's 19th- and 20th-Century Fine Art Auction
Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-Cohen Rago Arts and Auction Center kicked off the fall season at noon on Saturday, September 15, at its gallery in Lambertville, New Jersey, with a special sale of art by Pennsylvania and New Jersey artists. This was immediately followed by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Round Top Reorganizes; Prince Hangs In for Another Year
Damariscotta, Maineby Mark SiscoWith four major auctions and the Maine Antiques Dealers Association show at River Arts at Round Top Farm in Damariscotta all happening in the week prior to Labor Day, Maine has a legitimate claim to its own Antiques Week, following the officially designated week in New Hampshire. ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Kid Still Shines
Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanEven after six years, promoter Barry Cohen's Historic Indian & World Tribal Arts: Santa Fe show is still the new kid in town. Held at the College of Santa Fe's Shellaberger Tennis Center, August 9-12, it also remains the kid voted most likely to succeed.Cohen ... (Read More)
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(Show)Historic Casino Is a Beautiful Setting for the Saratoga Springs Antique Show
Saratoga Springs, New Yorkby Ed PfeifferSaratoga Springs, New York, some 180 miles north of Manhattan, is a beautiful place. Its wide streets are lined with vintage, architecturally attractive residences and other structures, surrounded by colorful flower gardens and big, mature trees. The historic place was a famous watering hole in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Scott Antique Market: July and January Designer Events Bring Special Buyers
Atlanta, Georgiaby Karla Klein AlbertsonTo the question "Where did you get that?" hundreds of dealers in shows around the country have answered "I found it at Scott's Market." So it makes sense to take a trip to the source, join the hunt, and see what turns up when you have ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Pressing Irons Stay Hot
Simmons and Company Auctioneers, Indianapolis, Indianaby Don JohnsonThe clothes dryer broke last week. It simply refused to dry. Nary a tumble nor a BTU of heat. But the light inside the door still worked, as if to taunt us as we replaced every fuse known to man in order to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Early War Shirt Is Star of Tribal Arts Sale
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoA spectacular 19th-century Native American war shirt from the Plains, made of two bighorn sheepskin hides, was the top lot at Skinner's latest American Indian and ethnographic art sale on Sunday, September 23 in Boston.The auction house's expert, Douglas Diehl, said it had been collected ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strange Fish Sell at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoMilton Avery's Strange Fish made the biggest splash at Skinner's auction of prints, paintings, and sculpture in the auction house's Boston gallery on September 7. The fish brought $215,000 (including buyer's premium) from a New York dealer bidding by phone.Signed and dated 1951, the oil ... (Read More)
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