December 13th, 2009 
Geo 
Stored in a boiler room for 40 years, a pair of American Aesthetic Movement chairs with missing panels and parts sold for $390,400 (hammer price of $320,000 + 22% buyer premium) on December 5 at Rago Auctions in Lambertville, NJ. The chairs, lot 133 in the sale, were part of a larger consignment of property [...]
December 13th, 2009 ewmiller 
At some point, likely between 1831 and 1840, Andrew Jackson bought a sideboard for his home at The Hermitage outside of Nashville. While the sideboard remains in the same room he placed it, information about where it originated has been lost. The sideboard is featured on page 405 of the recent book Philadelphia Empire Furniture. [...]
Posted in Antiques, Museum 
Tags: Andrew Jackson, Anthony Quervelle, Governor's Mansion, Hermitage, Marsha Mullin, Missouri, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Sideboard 
1 Comment » December 6th, 2009 Hui 
Too many times I have heard that young people are not buying antiques from dealers, but have the dealers truly reached out? Is there any measure that the owners of stores and malls can take to attract more young collectors? Here are some of my thoughts: 1. Website You don’t have to know all search engine optmization [...]
December 6th, 2009 Pearl 
26 Photos of Different Types from Austin Auction Gallery In this series, the UAA team will list some of the interesting items that we have found in auctions, antique shops or eBay. We neither own the items or have the capability of examining the items in person in most cases. It mainly serves as [...]
December 6th, 2009 Geo 
A trip along Route 80, down I-99 and back brought us to a number of antique malls and shops and enough merchandise to make your head spin. The first stop was Lewisburg, Pa. Roller Mills, 100 N. Water Street, Lewisburg, Pa—Contains merchandise from some 400 dealers including furniture, glassware and more. There’s a lot of [...]
Posted in Antiques, Collecting Tags: antique depot, bloomsburg, danville, duncansville, flemings, historic red mill, hoffman's, lewisburg, roller mills, sundaydriver 2 Comments » December 2nd, 2009 ewmiller 
A rainy Manhattan night provided an excellent opportunity to spend some time at a preview for Antiques & Art at the Armory, although I don’t think a sunny day could have kept me outside. The best thing about the show is the wide variety of merchandise available. It’s not that big of a show as [...]
December 2nd, 2009 Hui 
In last week’s “A Gaggle of Interests“, we have compared a bowl offered from the Dallas Auction House with a similar bowl in the Forbidden City Museum. The article was also posted on LinkedIn group and one of the readers Fay replied with her opinion, which we would like to share with other readers. As [...]
December 2nd, 2009 Pearl 
On the morning of Dec 2, 2009, three generations of Wyeth paintings were auctioned in the Christie’s Important American Painting and Sculpture Sale. A large egg-tempera on panel by Andrew Wyeth Above the Narrow was the top lot of the sale. When the auctioneer hammered down the price of 6.1 million dollars given by a [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Auction Tags: Andrew Wyeth, Christie's, Joseph Decker, Joseph Stella, Martin Johnson Heade, Mary Cassatt, Wilmington Institute Library 1 Comment » December 2nd, 2009 Hui 
Dr. Karen Lemmey, research associate of the Department of American Paintings and Sculpture at the The Metropolitan Museum, will lead a tour in Green-Wood Cemetery and examine its vast collection of sculpture. Most of the previous tours at the Green-Wood Cemetery are given in the historical subject area, thus this tour, accompanied by the historian [...]
December 1st, 2009 ewmiller 
It won’t be the first Grif Teller painting to come up at auction in recent years, but it is the first original created for a Pennsylvania Railroad (PRR) calendar I’ve seen. In terms of the estimated price anyway, that can make all the difference in the world. Coming up December 8 at William Bunch is [...]
Posted in Art, Artist, Auction Tags: Art Students League, Grif Teller, National Academy, PRR Calendar, Raymond Loewy 3 Comments »
