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(Auction)What a Crock!
This stoneware jug, stamped "E.H. Maxwell/ Wine & Spirit M'c'ht/ 79 & 81 Broad St./ Boston./ 3," with a pair of blue cobalt birds facing one another, led the sale at $8360.Seth Thomas oak-cased regulator clock, $1100.This painted John Rogers statue, Checkers Up at the Farm, with a provenance to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Auction at Christie's
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), The Piazzetta with Gondolas, executed 1902-04, watercolor with pencil on paper, 10" x 14", $842,500 (est. $600,000/800,000) to private dealer Michael Altman in the salesroom sitting with a collector. The painting is a dynamic example of Sargent's favorite subject painted during one of his annual visits ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Decorative Arts Auction
Hermann Ottomar Herzog (1832-1932), Sunset in the Florida Everglades, signed, oil on canvas, 17 1/8" x 24", $74,500 (est. $25,000/35,000) to a private collector on the phone.Landscape of Mt. Washington, with the signature "V.B. Crocker" and the date "1864," oil on canvas, 30 1/8" x 50 1/8", sold for $10,000 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Getman Buys Boston Book Show; New Venue Found
Marvin Getman of Impact Events Group, Lexington, Massachusetts, has acquired the Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show from promoter Bernice Bornstein.Bornstein started the Boston Book, Print and Ephemera Show 15 years ago as a satellite show to the fall Boston Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America (ABAA) International Book Fair. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Layoffs at Iroquois Indian Museum
by Betty Flood and Alyssa PlockThe employees of the Iroquois Indian Museum in Howes Cave, New York, have been notified by the board of trustees that the entire staff will be laid off as a result of Tropical Storm Irene. The financial problem reared its ugly head, despite the fact ... (Read More)
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(Auction)How History Unfolds on Paper, Part I: The Eric Caren Collection
The auction highlight of the first part of Caren's collection was the 1674 manuscript authorization for Edmund Andros to take possession of New York from the Dutch, signed by Charles II, King of England. The magazine Manuscripts described it as "New York State's Birth Certificate." It is a letter signed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early Photography at Americana Sale Soars
A half-plate daguerreotype portrait of two hunters with game and a sleeping dog was the top lot of the early photography portion of the sale, bringing $18,960 (est. $1500/2500).A quarter-plate daguerreotype of students in a classroom fetched $15,405 (est. $1000/1500).A half-plate daguerreotype of an architect at work in his office ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amendment to California's Secondhand Dealers Law Would Allow Seizure of Dealer's Inventory
by David Hewett"California is very much into getting income from everyone and anyplace it can find it now. We're in big-time debt." That came from Michael Ogle, co-owner of American Garage, a popular folk art business in Los Angeles.The debt problem was never acknowledged as the reason for the introduction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)19th-Century Maritime Art
The inset is Buttersworth's "Madeline" and "Sappho" off Sandy Hook Lightship, oil on canvas, 30" x 40". It's also shown in the catalog with a closeup. The catalog is available from Monmouth University, Pollak Gallery, 400 Cedar Avenue, West Long Branch, NJ 07764. Price is $20 at the gallery, $30 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bid-Rigging Charges Dismissed
by Elizabeth DinanA judge has dismissed the charges that Portsmouth, New Hampshire, auctioneer Stephen Bennett rigged the bidding for a nautical painting. The judge's ruling stated that the New Hampshire attorney general's office, not the Portsmouth police, had exclusive authority to prosecute the case.Bennett was charged with three misdemeanors alleging ... (Read More)
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