Geo | September 30, 2010
A stunning early 20th century Tiffany & Company Favrile lava glass three-handled vase soared to $62,100 at a two-session multi-estate auction dedicated to Fine Wine and Fine & Decorative Arts held Sept. 17-18 by Leland Little Auction & Estate Sales, Ltd. The event was held in the firm’s new, state-of-the-art gallery, at 620 Cornerstone Court. [...]
UAA Team | September 29, 2010
From New York American Auctions 2010 It may not look like much to a casual observer, but a wing chair brought more than $1 million including premium at Christie’s Important American Furniture, Folk Art and Prints sale Wednesday. The chair was described as a Chippendale Carved Mahogany Easy Chair, possibly by the shop of Benjamin [...]
Geo | September 28, 2010
I caught a few hours of the Christie’s sale this morning and took a few screen shots. The first is of a work by John Sloan owned by the Delaware Art Museum that passed after receiving only a $6500 bid. The work had been estimated at $12,000 to $18,000. Next was a work by Ralph [...]
ewmiller | September 28, 2010
I spotted this ad yesterday for “Colonial work tables.” As this early 20th Century ad has demonstrated, the classical/colonial style has remained popular with peaks and valleys for a long time. I was watching an episode of Mad Men last night and the 1960s dining room was decorated with Phyfe-looking furniture. Once we get to [...]
UAA Team | September 27, 2010
Each year the biggest auction houses in New York have their American sales. A few months before Antique Week, the events provide a good opportunity not only to see items that may not be on public view again for sometime, and see others before they move through the retail chain. Saturday provided the opportunity to [...]
UAA Team | September 23, 2010
The contents of the Conewago Manor Inn – an historic structure dating back to an original 1742 grant from the William Penn family, founders of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – will be sold without reserve (everything goes, regardless of price) in an on-site auction slated for Saturday, Oct. 23, at the Inn itself in Elizabethtown, [...]
UAA Team | September 22, 2010
It’s hard to think of a better location for an antique show than historic Williamsburg. The Holiday Antiques Show will be held here this November for the 29th time. Dealers come from 13 states and the UK to offer their wares and be part of the show. As lucky as the vendors and their clients [...]
UAA Team | September 19, 2010
In the current issue of The Magazine Antiques, legendary dealer Nathan Liverant says each day he wakes up, excited about what he might see. Today Houston today would be a good place to wake up. Houston Antiques Dealer Association President Larry Bahn wrote in the program, fall back in love with antiques. The event provided [...]
UAA Team | September 17, 2010
A postcard signed by Samuel Langhorne Clemens, more commonly known by his nom de plume, ‘Mark Twain’, has been acquired by Fraser’s Autographs, London. The photograph, depicting Twain in his trademark white suit, can be dated to the 1880s, potentially disproving the ‘theory of the white suit’, synonymous with the author. Twain was famous for [...]
Geo | September 16, 2010
Benjamin Franklin’s famous “Disputes with America” letter of 1767, one of the most important and widely quoted letters from this legendary founding father, will be sold at public auction by Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills on Oct. 14 as part of the company’s Signature Historic Manuscripts Auction. It is estimated to bring more than $300,000. [...]
