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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Ann BermanResponding to an unusually lean season of business-getting, Sotheby's American art specialists prudently padded their sale of May 23 with anything they could get their hands on. There were some great works on offer but also plenty of average pictures and some real clunkers.How did ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Polar Books: Cold Is Hot at Swann
Swann Galleries, New York Cityby Jeanne SchintoA first edition of the first book published in Antarctica sold to a collector for $84,000 (includes buyer's premium) at the highly successful auction by Swann Galleries of the polar library of Dr. John M. Levinson in New York City on May 24. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chippendale Secretary Leads
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoAs a group, some ship paintings by Badger and Stubbs were the strongest offerings at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries sale on May 26 and 27 in Thomaston, Maine. With items representing four continents and numerous countries, it was a wide-ranging sale.The small ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Revelations about Smuggled Whale's Teeth
Revelations about Smuggled Whale's Teethby David Hewett
In April, antiques dealer Martin Schneider, 60, of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, pled guilty to smuggling "hundreds" of the raw sperm whale's teeth from 1995 through 2005, so many that his sales of the teeth netted him over $500,000. "That's just the tip of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dawson & Nye Expands into New England
Andrew K. Holter, director of business development at Dawson & Nye Auctioneers/Appraisers in Morris Plains, New Jersey, a former Sotheby?s officer, and specialist in furniture, decoys, and fine art, always nurtured a dream to live in New England. With more property being consigned from the north and with two young ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Reingold Sculpture Sale
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Rago Arts and Auction Center
Dr. Marvin Reingold and his wife, Eileen, collected American sculpture and art pottery passionately for 40 years. ?We were first at every sale at Sotheby?s, Christie?s, and Doyle?s, and we went to sales in upstate New York in snowstorms. We ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Legislation in New York Aims to Forbid Chandelier Bids
Legislation in New York Aims to Forbid Chandelier Bids
by Jessica Best and Betty Flood
Sham or chandelier bids from auctioneers would be prohibited, unless the bids are identified with the phrase ?for the consignor,? under legislation introduced in both houses of the New York State Legislature. Also known as a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Philadelphia Antiques Show Cuts Down to 51 Dealers
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Six dealers will not return to the Philadelphia Antiques Show next April when it moves to the Navy Pier at Philadelphia?s Navy Yard, April 11-15. The dealers are G.K.S. Bush, New York City and Nantucket; Marcy Burns, New York City; F.J. Carey, III Antiques, Ambler, Pennsylvania; Charles ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Amoskeag Spring Arms Auctions Earn $2.6 Million
Amoskeag Auction Company, Manchester, New HampshireAmoskeag Spring Arms Auctions Earn $2.6 Millionby Robert KyleAhh…Springtime in New England. Daffodils are blooming. Atlantic salmon are swimming back to their parent streams for spawning. And machine guns in Manchester are in their full glory.That was the scene on May 19 when Amoskeag Auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mary Merritt Doll Sale II
Noel Barrett and Andy Ourant, Wyomissing, PennsylvaniaThe Mary Merritt Doll Sale IIby Lita Solis-CohenSimone Saurland bid on line from her house near Brighton in the United Kingdom during the first Mary Merritt Doll Museum sale on September 30 and October 1, 2006, and was not successful. That's why she came ... (Read More)
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