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(Auction)Shotguns and Jacobsen Pace Cobbs Auction
Antonio Jacobsen ship portrait of the Ada Bailey, $27,600.James Purdey & Sons side-by-side 20-gauge shotgun, circa 1951, $32,200.The pair of red Chinese covered jars in baluster form, decorated with white and dark blue domestic scenes, 17" tall, probably 19th century, finished up at a big $6900 (est. $1000/1500). Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Wedgwood's 250th Anniversary Celebration Dampened by Bankruptcy
by Karla Klein AlbertsonPhotos courtesy Birmingham Museum of ArtCurator of decorative arts Anne Forschler-Tarrasch, Ph.D., will be researching the extensive Buten Wedgwood collection recently acquired by the Birmingham Museum of Art.The Birmingham Museum of Art has acquired the Buten Wedgwood collection, on display from 1957 until 1988 in Merion, Pennsylvania. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Lamps, Rare Stoneware, and Some Shaker
The top lot of the sale was this 64" tall Tiffany Studios floor lamp with a Maple Leaf pattern shade. The base was signed “Tiffany Studios, NY, 387,” and the shade was 22" in diameter. Opening at $50,000, it sold to a private collector on the phone for $103,500.Cottone Auctions, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Northeast Auctions: The Highs Were Very High; the Lows, Very Low
The miniature (1½" x 1¼") portrait on ivory of Washington, after the Charles Willson Peale portrait done at Princeton, engendered quite a bidding war between Richard Manney and a phone bidder. The phone bidder prevailed at $106,470.Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshireby David HewettPhotos courtesy Andrew Davis, Northeast AuctionsThe one inescapable ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Recently Discovered Boynton Stoneware Cooler Highlights Spring Ceramics Sale
Measuring just under 13" high, the record-setting Boynton cooler is relatively small. The keg-form cooler was produced by Jonah and Calvin Boynton, brothers whose pottery was located on Washington Street in Albany, New York. Bearing their upper case maker’s mark of “Boynton” on the reverse side, the piece is incised ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Green Shoots
The latest catchphrase in the financial world, "green shoots," is used to describe the signs of the end of the recession. Here are some art and antiques growth notes.o A new group shop, Olde Towne Hall Antiques and Collectibles, has opened in the former Stratham, New Hampshire, town hall on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A New Direction in Plundered World War II Art?
by Travis McDadeAllied soldiers walking through the smoking ruins of the German town of Waldenburg on April 16, 1945. This was the “safe” location to which the Staatsgalerie of Baden-Württemberg moved its Graphic Arts Collection in 1944, to protect it from bombing. It was here that U.S. Army Captain John ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Esmerian Property Removed from American Folk Art Museum
by Lita Solis-CohenA Sotheby's truck, sent to the American Folk Art Museum in New York City some weeks ago, picked up promised gifts from the collection of Ralph Esmerian. The renowned dealer in colored gemstones had over the years become the principal donor of works to the museum.In 2001, at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)April Americana Sale
Erastus Salisbury Field (1805-1900), a portrait of a young boy holding a book, circa 1830, 26 7/8" x 24", $15,000 (est. $4000/6000). At Christie’s sale of the collection of Kendra and Allan Daniel on January 20, 2001, this painting sold for $7050 (est. $12,000/18,000). It more than doubled in value ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Dealer Paul Scott Injured in Accident at Home
Popular New Hampshire antiques dealer Paul Scott was badly injured in a fall at his Hillsborough home on Sunday, May 10. The veteran New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association and Antiques Dealers? Association of America member was preparing for the week of sales at the May session of Brimfield when he ... (Read More)
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