November 24, 2009 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • The 46th Annual Delaware Antiques Show
    November 24, 2009

    A benefit for Winterthur, the 46th Annual Delaware Antiques Show opened in grand style with a preview party on November 5. Attended by a huge crowd, collectors and museum supporters came to the show early in the evening and stayed late into the night, marking this as a highly successful social event.

  • First Major US Exhibition Of Swedish Modernist Carl Fredrik Hill On View
    November 24, 2009

    The first major exhibition in the United States devoted to Carl Fredrik Hill (1849‱911), one of the most important and original Swedish artists of the Nineteenth Century, is on view at Scandinavia House through January 9.

  • RSL Reaps The Rewards Of 1 Million Bountiful Harvest Sale
    November 24, 2009

    Record prices were achieved at RSL Auction⁳ 477-lot Bountiful Harvest sale on October 17. The multiple-consignor offering anchored by top-tier pieces from long-held collections ended up being the company⁳ most successful auction to date.

  • NYPD, Art Loss Register Seek Owners Of Book Collection
    November 24, 2009

    The New York Police Department (NYPD) has recovered a collection of rare Civil War-era books in the possession of a known thief. The books are believed to be stolen, though […]

  • A Banner Day For Paintings At John McInnis Auctioneers
    November 24, 2009

    Busy previews and a full house signaled a strong sale for John McInnis Auctioneers†November 7 sale, where the focus was on fine paintings fresh from area collections.

  • FletcherCopenhaver Donates Taslitzky Drawing To Holocaust Museum
    November 24, 2009

    Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art acquired a drawing by Boris Taslitzky (1911′005), made while the artist was interned at Buchenwald concentration camp at the end of World War II. and on November 4, John Copenhaver and Joel Fletcher donated the pencil drawing to the US Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.

  • Peck Portrait Brings 241,500 At Fairfield Auction
    November 24, 2009

    A rare oil portrait on panel by the early Nineteenth Century Vermont/ New York State itinerant artist Sheldon Peck soared past presale estimates at Fairfield Auction this past Sunday, November 22.

  • Early Deadlines
    November 24, 2009

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  • Sanford Alderfer Looks Back On Fifty Years Of Calling Auctions
    November 24, 2009

    This is the story of two brothers and a box. When auctioneer Sanford Alderfer of Sanford Alderfer Auction & Appraisal began his auction company 50 years ago, he wanted to stand out from the other auctioneers, so he had a friend make him a wooden box to stand on when calling auctions. The box is a simple thing: plywood that has been stained and varnished to a golden-honey sheen but it is a fitting metaphor for the ethical foundation he has lived his life by and centered his business on. ⁍e, standing on my box, was my signature,†he says.Together with his younger brother, Harold Alderfer, Sanford can look back on a lifetime working in the community, having built a business that is going strong into the second generation.

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