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(Fragment)Teamsters Picket Sotheby's During Americana Auction
Mark Keenen pickets outside Sotheby's in New York City.by Lita Solis-CohenSotheby's art handlers, members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters 814, have been bargaining for a new contract since May. When contract talks expired on July 30, and the Teamsters threatened to strike, Sotheby's locked out the 42 art handlers ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: All Debts, Public and Private
We've become accustomed to onerous secondhand dealers laws enacted by municipalities in an effort to stop trade in stolen goods. The laws, often called “pawnshop” laws, require extensive recordkeeping and the collecting of information about sellers. They are well intentioned but often end up sweeping antiques dealers into a nightmare ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Dick and Scott Ferris, J & R Ferris Antiques, Boonville, New York
Scott and Dick Ferris.Three pieces of headgear, from left: militia or political campaign hat from the 1840's, $1900; American militia dragoon helmet from the 1850's, $5300; and American chapeau, probably militia, from the 1820's, trimmed in ribbon with a repeat eagle pattern, $2150. Dick said, "Decorators love things like this. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] head of a man from the era of the Roman "Soldier Emperors," 3rd century A.D., sold for $704,620 by Christie's South Kensington. Hellenistic marble head of a girl of the late 3rd-2nd century B.C., sporting a "melon" hairdo, sold for $482,720 at Christie's South Kensington.The carved chalcedony ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Show in Waldoboro
Longtime dealer Guenter Adam of Brunswick, Maine, showed this hand-colored and pencil-signed Art Deco print by Anthony Victor, a contemporary of Louis Icart, The Romance, dated 1934, for $195.Robert T. Foley of Gray, Maine, had this recently acquired sailor's chest with a marine scene of the four-master W. Smith painted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Silver
This group of tiny silver and enamel carnival figures designed by Gene Moore, New York, circa 1990, a bal masqué of five figures, probably prototypes, sold for $40,645 (est. $10,000/15,000) to a private collector. These were not produced by Tiffany, which produced other circus figures by Moore.A group of nine ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sentences Handed Down in Fake Clementine Hunter Case
William Toye, 80, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 6 to conspiracy to sell nonauthentic paintings falsely attributed to Clementine Hunter, an African-American folk artist who lived in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.Toye, his wife, Beryl Anne, 70, and Robert E. Lucky Jr., 64, of New Orleans were named in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Flamingo Eventz Assumes Management of New Jersey Book and Ephemera Fair
Garry Austin of Austin's Antiquarian Books and Tina Bruno of Flamingo Eventz, LLC have reached an agreement for Flamingo to assume management and operation of the annual New Jersey Book and Ephemera Fair. The 20th annual fair will be held December 2 and 3 at the Ramada Hotel & Conference ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Opinion Peace
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIt's happened to all of us. You walk into a show or an auction, you're looking around, and suddenly you see a beautiful Chippendale cupboard. You're looking it over and notice a few things that make you think the feet might be replaced, but the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques, Art & Design at the Armory Gets a Redesign
Interior designers Ellie Cullman and Jamie Drake, cochairs of the design committee, were doing heavy-duty greeting at the preview party.The 19th-century English wooden sculpture of an English terrier with pleading glass eyes ($24,000) looked so cute and cuddly that everybody kept patting it, including Ronnie M. Barokh of Fine Arts ... (Read More)
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