UAA Team | January 19, 2012
With all the brouhaha over the Duncan Phyfe show at the Met, you don’t expect you could find a attributed Phyfe sideboard for sale in the price range of a ten year old used car. If you’re visited the show, or even if you haven’t, you may want to watch this auction. Thomaston Place is offering a New [...]
ewmiller | January 17, 2012
A fancy painted card table, by Thomas Seymour, a blown flask, a winter painting by Walter Palmer and two sofas in a classical form provide additional highlights in a an auction featuring a broad spectrum of American art and decorative arts. Keno Auctions’ Important Americana, Paintings, Furniture and Decorative Arts kicked off Americana Week activities. The Boston [...]
UAA Team | January 6, 2012
“Brown furniture” and “Victorian”are not words you commonly hear in the same breath with “auction records,” but there are welcome exceptions now and then. A rare, museum-quality mechanical rosewood drop-front secretary desk, made around 1860 and attributed to the renowned American furniture maker Thomas Brooks, recently sold for $21,280 at only the second auction held [...]
UAA Team | November 11, 2011
![Jack Boucher [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.urbanartantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Governors_Mansion_1010_Colorado_Street_Austin_Travis_County_Texas-150x150.jpg "Governor")
The 2011 Theta Charity Antiques Show in Houston will have a special display of items from the Texas Governor’s Mansion. For the first time since the devastating fire in 2008, the mansion will release a collection of fine and decorative arts to display at this year’s show. Jane Karotkin, Texas Governor’s Mansion Curator/Administrator of Friends [...]
UAA Team | September 14, 2011
An 18th-century corner cupboard believed to have been made by Squire Boone, Jr., the younger brother of Daniel Boone, realized $35,000 during an auction conducted by Beckort Auctions, LLC on Sept. 3. The cupboard sold to representatives of the Old Goshen Church & Cemetery Memorial Foundation, which intends to display the piece in Corydon. Having [...]
ewmiller | July 31, 2011
And it’s a song you’ve heard before. I was watching a carpet on LiveAuctioneers and New Orleans Auction Galleries today and couldn’t help notice the traditional/classical looking furniture wasn’t bringing much. When you compare it to paper items like maps and samplers- the price per ounce would seem pretty unreal. Small items like curtain rods [...]
ewmiller | June 19, 2011
During our Vintage Yard sale this weekend we heard the constant dreaded word “downsizing.” It seems everyone is downsizing, but they still like to shop- or else why are they at the yard sale? Actually sales at the yard sale were pretty good. Lots of smaller items sold, even some plates and glassware. The furniture, [...]
UAA Team | June 8, 2011
![By Joey Gannon from Pittsburgh, PA (Edwards) [CC-BY-SA-2.0 (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://www.urbanartantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/John_Edwards_3._September_2007_in_Pittsburgh-300x200.jpg "John_Edwards,_3._September_2007_in_Pittsburgh")
Articles published this week suggest 2008 vice presidential Candidate John Edwards received $700,000 or more from Rachel Mellon, which he allegedly used to cover up an affair during that year’s campaign. A representative of Mellon, who wasn’t named but later identified as Person C in the indictment, told the New York Times the money was [...]
Regina | May 2, 2011
The Art and Antiques Dealers League of America debuted “The Spring Show NYC” at the 67th Street Armory on April 27 with a preview benefit for the ASPCA. Among those at present were co-chairs Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner, publisher of the The New York Observer. Aided by a boost from Mayor Bloomberg, who [...]
ewmiller | April 15, 2011
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Yet another show about antiques is coming to the airwaves and will focus on price. It’s Worth What, a summer reality series on NBC will be produced by Lara Spencer and hosted by comedian Cedric “The Entertainer.” NBC says It’s Worth What is a game show that taps into America’s love for cost and value, [...]
