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(Fragment)Tiffany Studios Poppy Lamp Brings $541,200
Tiffany Studios table lamp with a 20" conical leaded-glass shade in the Poppy motif and a rare base with 16 iridescent Favrile glass balls as supports for the telescoping stem. There are Tiffany stamps to both the shade and base. It sold for $541,200 (est. $350,000/450,000). According to Morphy Auctions, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Full Schedule for Bath Antique Sale
For the first time since acquiring the Bath (Maine) Antique Sale, Gurley Antique Shows has announced that the show will have a full six-show schedule. The first show this fall, October 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will have approximately 50 dealers from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont exhibiting.
The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Martindale Acquires Whitehawk
Venice, California-based American Indian art dealer, gallerist, and show producer Kim Martindale’s stunning announcement that he has acquired Santa Fe’s Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show affects almost all serious members of the Indian art collecting community—dealers, collectors, and artists.
Martindale wrote in a press release, “Words can’t fully express ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farrin’s Sells the Kimball Collection
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Newburgh, Maine
“It’s like a lumberjack going at a big wood lot.” Those words were from Randolph, Maine, auctioneer Rusty Farrin, shortly before his firm’s two-day single-owner on-site sale of the Amos Kimball estate in Newburgh, Maine, July 29 and 30.
The sale was less “wood lot” and more ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Snow Doesn’t Stop Boxborough Show
The January 7 edition of the Boxborough Antique Show opened at 10 a.m. to 12" of snow and freezing temperatures. Run by Rachel and Joshua Gurley at the Boxboro Regency Hotel in Boxborough, Massachusetts, the show carried on. Although most events would have canceled, the Gurleys say “Rain, Snow, or ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Auction at Nye & Company
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Nye & Company
When Christie’s and Sotheby’s get large collections of Americana for sale, they skim the finest examples for New York City sales and often refer the rest to a regional auction house or invite regional auctioneers to compete for the consignment. That ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peggy Bacon Exhibit in Maine
The Gallery at Trifles, Wiscasset, Maine, is hosting a selling exhibition of 70 drawings by Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) that have never been on public display. This coincides with the exhibition Peggy Bacon: Biting, Never Bitter currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art.
Peggy Bacon was a painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)FBI Determines Seized Scalp Is Human
On January 17 the Federal Register published a notice from the National Park Service that revealed that a scalp seized in early May 2022 at Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Fairfield, Maine, was human. The scalp was attached to a beaded American Indian pipe bag and was part of a large ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show
For 63 years, there has been an antiques show in Philadelphia providing a treasure hunt for the finest things money can buy. In its long history, this grand bazaar under a succession of show managers has moved from the 103rd Engineer Battalion Armory (now the Drexel Armory) to the Convention ... (Read More)
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