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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Two to Tango
by Steve ProffittThe prize at the end of an auction should be the seller's satisfaction with the auctioneer's work. Auctioneers need to focus on the process required to achieve that result, and a major component is teaming with the seller to work jointly for auction success. This effort is complicated ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fall Shenandoah Antiques Expo
Don Toth of Parkside House Antiques, Brecksville, Ohio, used this open kitchen storage rack to display some of the items from his infield booth. The dealer offered a painted tin candle lantern, $135; a paint-decorated valuables box with a lock but no key, $75; another tin candle lantern, $75; a ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country & Folk Art Antiques Show
This Victorian-era felt and hand-stitched table mat cost $450 at Ordeshook's Antiques, La Canada, California, where business was "much slower" than in the past.This small Arts and Crafts wood cabinet found in Monroe, Washington, 1910-18, was priced at $100. Similar items can be found at Antique Avenue, Manteca, California, "the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Motley's 44th Anniversary Sale
Although not an antique, this vintage solitaire diamond engagement ring was the high lot of the Motley's sale. Weighing in at 2.75 carats and set in a six-prong 14k white gold setting, the ring sold in the room for $13,570 (est. $6000/12,000).This petit-point tapestry is either French or Belgian and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Guns Cap a $9 Million Blowout
This blue silk battle flag centering the seal of the state of Pennsylvania was flown by the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, which had a history with most battles of the Army of the Potomac, including Antietam and Gettysburg. The flag originally had a standard that read, "Presented by the Grateful Citizens ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stair to Sell the Gerald Kornblau Estate
by Lita Solis-CohenOver the last decade Colin Stair of Stair Galleries sold a number of things for his Claverack, New York, neighbor, Gerald Kornblau. "I met Gerry when I noticed an iron dog had toppled over in his yard. It was one of those Mott Iron Works casts, and I ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Memorial Tribute to Albert Sack at Winter Antiques Show
On Sunday, January 22, from 10 to 11 a.m., the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. will host a memorial reception and tribute for Albert Sack (1915-2011). The reception will be held in the Tiffany Room at the Park Avenue Armory in conjunction with the Winter Antiques Show. Sack, who ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)LAPD Seeks Assistance
Matthew Taylor, a.k.a. Matthew NelsonInvestigators are seeking the assistance of the art community in identifying altered artworks sold by defendant Matthew Taylor (a.k.a. Matthew Nelson), who has been federally indicted on seven charges of fraud and art theft. It appears that many of these paintings may have been purchased from ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: Auction Highlights
by Lita Solis-CohenAmericana Week in New York City is a long tradition that grew up around the Winter Antiques Show. Although it is ever changing, which keeps it vital, it is still the time when newly discovered masterpieces appear at auctions and shows and are published for the first time ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: The Shows
by Lita Solis-CohenThe New York Winter Antiques Show spawned Americana Week more than 30 years ago when auctions began scheduling Americana sales while collectors were in town. Then satellite shows began to cluster around the grandest of all shows in America, reaching a peak in numbers in the 1990's and ... (Read More)
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