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(Show)The Tailgate Antique Show: Its Own Style
Robert Nicholas of Splurge, Asheville, North Carolina, had set up his eye-on-design booth not far from the Tailgate entrance. The white-painted wooden glider was tagged $475; the 12' table, $395; and the geometric metal trellises, $375 each.Kim and Mary Kokles of Garland, Texas, who carry the best in antique advertising, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Music Valley in Nashville: American Classics at the Fairgrounds
Ted Fuehr of American Spirit Antiques, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, had a cluster of tiger maple, including a doll bed for $825, a drop-leaf table for $1900, and a large bowl for $900.Jon Jenkins chats with the crowd waiting to enter Antiques at Music Valley on Friday morning. Mad Anthony Books ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-American Art from A to VanDerZee
Swing Low, Sweet Chariot by Malvin Gray Johnson (1896-1934), the first Johnson work to come to auction, sold to a collector in the room for $228,000 (est. $200,000/250,000). The 49" x 29" oil on canvas dates from 1918-29 and fetched the top price of the sale.This untitled work (Two Card ... (Read More)
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(Show)Southern Charm: Madison, Georgia Antiques Show & Sale
William Aiken Walker is widely known for his scenes of the rural South in the mid-1800’s. Vine Covered Cabin with Three Figures was the top single sale at $28,000 from Charleston Renaissance Gallery,Charleston, South Carolina. Photo courtesy Charleston Renaissance Gallery.One of the few American Arts and Crafts decorative pieces seen ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Sound Decision
Collector Richard Hopp, a bail bondsman by trade, often sets up at shows looking to buy books, documents, and ephemera. Setting up in Los Angeles, California, caused some problems. Los Angeles has two ordinances relating to the regulation of secondhand book dealers and secondhand dealers in general. The police department ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)By George, a Million-Dollar American Painting
$1,063,750.by Fran KramerA Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington was the cover lot of Cottone Auctions' March 27 consignment auction in Geneseo, New York. It brought $1,063,750 (including buyer's premium) from a happy New England buyer to a very happy Geneseo consignor.About ten phone bidders yielded to persistent Jeff Bridgman, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Newport Highboy Sells for $431,250
"The Goddard-Townsend highboy was fresh. It's always been in the family, and everybody came for it," auctioneer Joseph Kabe said of the chest he sold for $431,250 (includes buyer's premium) on April 10 in Milford, Connecticut. The buyer was Ohio and Massachusetts dealer Bill Samaha. Other bidders for the highboy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Devin Moisan Auction
The oil on canvas signed lower left “Dickinsons” sold for $5750.The Queen Anne drop-leaf table sold for $4025.The early Pennsylvania painted dower chest sold for $4830. The deep arched panels raised the piece a cut above the ordinary.Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Dover, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoDevin Moisan is not New Hampshire's ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Joel and Linda Einhorn, Woodbury, Connecticut
Linda and Joel Einhorn. That's a Dartmouth cap he's wearing. The sideboard is a classic New York Hepplewhite example with fan inlay and beautifully angled and tapered legs. It's $48,500.The grain-painted tall clock with southeast Vermont type paint decoration and a dial with the name of Sanbornton, New Hampshire, clockmaker ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)J.C. Devine Firearms Auction Canceled; Phones Disconnected
We have learned that the J.C. Devine, Inc., firearm and weapons sale scheduled for Monday, May 9, at the Radisson Hotel in Nashua, New Hampshire, has been canceled.
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