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(Auction)Withington's Last Big Sale at the Hillsborough Center House
Richard W. Withington, Hillsborough, New Hampshireby David HewettThere was standing room only around the big white tent pitched in Richard W. Withington's backyard on Thursday morning, July 26. The nearly 90-year-old auctioneer, who counts a #1 New Hampshire auctioneer's license among the trophies won in a career spanning nearly 70 ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Who Is the Young Collector?
by Andrew Richmond and Hollie DavisWith the plaintive cry of "Where are all the young collectors?" going up all over the marketplace these days, we thought it might be timely to answer the more appropriate first question: who is the young collector?Who is this nameless, faceless entity so important and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Swann Galleries? First Lot to Break $1 Million
The top lot at Swann Galleries? auction of 19th- and 20th-century photographs on Monday, October 15 in New York City was a partial set of Edward S. Curtis?s magnum opus, The North American Indian, with 16 complete portfolios containing his large-format photogravures and 16 fully illustrated text volumes in Morocco ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Noel Barrett's June Sale: "Primo Stuff Brought Primo Prices"
Noel Barrett Antiques & Auctions, New Hope, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenWhere to sell a lifetime collection is a big decision. Collectors of architectural toys, old bicycles, trains, mechanical banks, penny toys, and other related material chose Noel Barrett's June 16 and 17 Father's Day weekend auction at the Eagle Fire Hall ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Art Auction Yields Over $4 Million
Barridoff Galleries, Portland, Maineby Rose SafranLast year Rob Elowitch of Barridoff Galleries was delighted. He sold over $4 million worth of art—his best auction. This year, he was also delighted. Despite a one-third buy-in rate, unusually high for this house, the August 3 auction on a hot Friday evening in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sells in California
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanReflecting on the June 25 San Francisco sale of American furniture and decorative accessories, Bonhams & Butterfields' Americana specialist Brooke Sivo said that, in general, Americana "is not an easy market today."The market for country, for instance, Sivo said, was "very soft," then ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bedford Pickers Market: Not in the Minor Leagues Any More
Bedford, New Hampshireby Fran Kramer"Frank Gaglio hit a home run," said dealer Edward Miller of Pioneer Folk Antiques, Ellsworth, Maine, an exhibitor at the tenth annual Bedford Pickers Market, held August 6 in Bedford, New Hampshire. It was a Monday opening, not a Friday "game," and Gaglio and his 100-plus ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's Inaugural Dog Sale Fetches $2.1 Million
Christie's, New York Cityby Dorothy S. GelattEven though half the elegant lots were passed, Christie's first sale of mostly English and American dog paintings and sculpture—"The Dog Sale"—managed to chew up $2,169,840. But that was a lot less than most people had expected.A major reason for the relatively meager return, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Rookwood XVII, Keramics 2007, Art Glass 2007
Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonSeventeen years. Riley Humler can't quite figure it. "I'm sitting here talking to you about Rookwood Seventeen, and I don't know how we got where we are. We went from 1991 to 2007 in the blink of an eye-it's scary," said Humler, director of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Collectible Computers, Screen Savers
Computer Column # 226by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] as collectibles and homegrown screen savers are discussed.-Antique Computers?Setting up at an antiques show with an old Windows 95 computer for recording sales, I am sometimes jokingly asked, "Is that an antique?" Perhaps it is—if computer years are like dog years. ... (Read More)
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