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(Fragment)New Massachusetts Mercury Law Exempts Antique Instruments
by Jeanne SchintoAntiques dealers, auctioneers, and collectors are applauding the passage of a new Massachusetts law, S2403, "An Act Relative to the Sale of Antique Barometers, Thermometers, and Clocks," signed by Governor Deval Patrick on July 26. The legislation exempts pre-1955 "mercury-added" devices from the sales ban established by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XX
Overbeck vase, carved with repeating profiles of women walking amid stylized flowers, Elizabeth and Mary Frances Overbeck, marked, 14 3/8" high, light crazing, otherwise excellent condition, $17,250.Daum Nancy cameo lamp, the shade and base with cockscomb flower heads, dark purple-brown over marmalade, marked, 20" high, shade 12¾" diameter, very good ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fresh Folk Art Carvings Lead the Way
Unlike many key baskets, this example is not marked with the name of the harness or saddle shop where it was made. The 7" x 10" x 4" oval leather basket is decorated with three rows of simple hammered punch impressions. The padded leather handle is affixed to the body ... (Read More)
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(Show)The NSADA Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
Joseph M. Hayes Antiques, Columbus, Ohio, brought the 18th-century Queen Anne secretary bookcase. It was 78" high x 36" wide and tagged $35,000. The English sterling candlesticks were $2500 for the set of four. Hayes told us that they are early 20th-century copies of a set in the Victoria and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)USArtists Moves to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
by Lita Solis-CohenUSArtists, to be held October 1-3, will be a different show this year. This major show and sale of American art is leaving the gymnasium-like space at the 33rd Street Armory and moving to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), in a new gallery space in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Snavely Eagles Soar at Sale
This George Hoff, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,30-hour movement withpewter dial in a country Chippendale softwood tall case sold for $16,500. The clock had some restoration, and the light brown- and yellow-painted decoration on the case was old but not original.The pair of Carl Snavely spread-wing eagles with finely detailed cross-hatching and feather ... (Read More)
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(Show)Eighth Annual Shaker Village Antiques Show
Nettie Jarvis of Bloomfield, Kentucky, showed a beautiful cherrywood tester bed with canopy. It was purchased in Kentucky and priced at $6500. Partially seen at right is a customer examining a No. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: A Collector by Any Other Name
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondYou can imagine our surprise when a recent letter to the editor opined that there are no longer any collectors, that there have, in fact, not been collectors since the early 90's. We can't comment much on the early 90's, as our concerns at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Glass Museum Opens
The grand opening celebration of the New Bedford Museum of Glass (NBMOG) will be held the weekend of September 10-12. More than 1000 examples of the glassmaker's art are now housed in 50 monumental display cases at the new facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts.Collection highlights include a core-formed Eastern Mediterranean ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Watercolor Scroll Tops Auction
A Chinese watercolor scroll by Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), depicting an eagle standing on a rock, 20th century, 67" x 23½", generated the highest bid of the auction, $203,150.A color aquatint, Bacchanale, after PabloPicasso, circa 1959, framed 25½" x 30½",sold for $10,755.A Steuben plum jade glass vase, created in the 1920’s, ... (Read More)
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