October 31st, 2010 
ewmiller 
I don’t know that I would attend a rally in Washington sponsored by comedians, but from what I watch of it on the internet, the nature of the comedy was in the vein of satire, and that served well to remind us we’ve gotten a little too used to bringing everything to the edge of [...]
Posted in Art 
Tags: betty White, Edward Hicks, John Stewart, National Mall, Peaceable Kingdom, Rally for Sanity, Stephen Colbert, Tony Bennett, Washington DC 
1 Comment » October 31st, 2010 ewmiller 
It was sad to see the trees coming down and a building going up on the wonderful green lawn between Lois Kahn’s Kimbell Art Museum and Phillip Johnson’s Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. I wish they could have built the addition on the parking lot between the Kimbell and the Modern, but unfortunately [...]
October 27th, 2010 UAA Team 
The School Sisters of Notre Dame in Baltimore are about to receive a little divine love from the Holy Grail of Baseball Cards. A newly discovered T206 Honus Wagner card, left to the convent by the brother of a member of the order when he passed away, will be auctioned off on Nov. 4 in [...]
Posted in Auction, Collecting Tags: Baltimore, Baseball card, Dallas, Heritage, Honus Wagner, Pittsburg, Pittsburgh, School Sisters of Notre Dame No Comments » October 27th, 2010 ewmiller 
Getting antiques dealers in the United States to do anything together might be something akin to herding cats, but somehow its second-nature in the U.K. I recently noticed an item on National Antiques Week coming up in the November. If the number of television shows on the topic is any indication, I sense there is [...]
Posted in Antiques, Antiques Business, Collecting, Furniture Tags: England, National Antiques Week No Comments » October 25th, 2010 Geo 
Most any list of things to do before you die, for those in the United States and beyond, is sure to include a stop at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. It was the opportunity to see some fall colors on a hike in Shenandoah that brought us to Virginia. After a long walk to [...]
Posted in Antiques, Art Tags: Cabin, Monticello, Sears Catalog, Shenandoah, Thomas Jefferson No Comments » October 21st, 2010 David Sokosh 
On a recent weekend, I attended the Antiques & Art at the Armory Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. If you haven’t been to an event at the Armory, it’s worth a trip just to see the building itself. With original interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany, Stanford White, Herter Brothers and Pottier [...]
October 20th, 2010 UAA Team 
The original 1952 cover art for the best-selling children’s book, Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White, brought $155,350 on Friday, Oct. 15 as a feature of Heritage Auctions’ Signature Illustration Art auction. Part One of Garth Williams: The Art of Charlotte’s Web – consigned by the late great artist’s family – brought more than $780,000, with [...]
October 20th, 2010 UAA Team 
Thanks to the hit TV series Mad Men the ’60s are back and fans of the show will be finding the best the era had to offer at Modern Vintage Chicago Fall Fashion and Jewelry Explosion by the Randolph Street Market Festival. “Other popular series like Six Feet Under and the Sopranos didn’t have the [...]
Posted in Collecting, Jewelry, Show & Gallery Tags: Bausch & Lomb, Channel, Hermes, Kelly, Levis, Mad Men, Randolph Street, Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, Vintage, Vuitton No Comments » October 19th, 2010 UAA Team 
The combination of rarity, quality and artistry could all merge to create a world record price at public auction when the only known The Bride of Frankenstein (Universal, 1935) teaser one sheet Style E movie poster, from the renowned Collection of Todd Feiertag, comes up for auction as part of Heritage Auction Galleries Beverly Hills [...]
October 14th, 2010 ewmiller 
I’ve previously written on these pages about Pittsburgh sideboards known to have been made in Pittsburgh and some that could have been made in Pittsburgh. Just recently a reader sent in photos of another sideboard. The question of whether it originated in Pittsburgh may never be answered, but its one that’s fun to ponder. What [...]
Posted in Antiques, Collecting, Furniture, Museum Tags: Furniture, heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Sideboard No Comments »
