?> August 14, 2023 - Antiques And The Arts Weekly

  • Pokemon Booster Box Seals The Deal At Bruneau & Company Auction
    August 14, 2023

    CRANSTON, R.I. — “To break the box or not?!? That’s for the lucky bidder to decide,” mused Bruneau & Company Auctioneers operations manager Ashle Landry. She was referring to the Texas collector who won a sealed 1999 Wizards of the Coast Pokemon Base Unlimited booster box. It received the winning bid of $16,875, including premium, at the firm’s comic, sports, TCG and toy auction on August 8. With green-wing Charizard box art and single country code on bottom, the box was factory sealed with tight and intact cellophane wrap.

  • First Documented American Scrimshaw Leads Eldred’s Marine Auction
    August 14, 2023

    DENNIS, MASS. — On August 10 and 11, Eldred’s conducted a two-session Marine Sale offering about 600 lots of fine nautical artifacts and art. The first session focused on all things whalebone and baleen, resulting in a top price of $163,800 ($125/175,000) for an “iconic” polychrome scrimshaw whale’s tooth carved circa 1825-29 by Edward Burdett (Nantucket, 1805-1833).

  • Box ‘O’ Barbie Brings Top Dollar At Richard Opfer Auctioneering Sale
    August 14, 2023

    TIMONIUM, MD. — Of course, right?! On the week that the Greta Gerwig-directed Barbie movie earned more than $1 billion in worldwide box office sales, the mania would be mirrored in auction halls across the United States. For Richard Opfer Auctioneering on August 10, it boosted a lot comprising a 12-inch-long vinyl case filled with assorted Barbie clothing and accessories (some of which may or may not be all Barbie) to top lot status, selling for $510, including buyer’s premium. More from this 400-lot sale to come in a later review.

  • A $480,000 Painting & $120,000 Decoy Lead At
    Guyette & Deeter
    August 14, 2023

    PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Guyette and Deeter’s August 8-9 sale was built around three major collections; one collection of American paintings that included works by Edmund Osterhaus, Winslow Homer and a Mary Cassatt that earned $480,000, and two collections of decoys, one of which featured a Ward Brothers pintail that earned $120,000.

  • Serious Sideboard At Old Kinderhook Auction Company
    August 14, 2023

    VALATIE, N.Y. — Old Kinderhook Auction Company’s Trust In August auction took place on August 8 and 9, offering more than 1,300 lots during the two-day stretch. Between both sales, the highest-selling lot was a sideboard made of mixed steel, iron and other materials, sculpted in deep relief in the manner of Paul Evans (American, 1931-1987). The sideboard was in overall good condition with a blue-painted interior and it measured more than 97 inches wide; an Internet bidder secured it for $7,800 ($1/2,000). More on other lots in the two-day auction to follow.

  • Louis Vuitton Trunks Take A Trip With Crowther & Brayley
    August 14, 2023

    CHESTER, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA — Crowther & Brayler’s 31st annual summer auction, which took place on August 3, offered more than 500 lots of fine art, jewelry, furniture and decorative art. Though there was strength in many areas, particularly local and Indigenous items, the high mark of the day was achieved by two vintage Louis Vuitton trunks, offered consecutively, that each sold for $5,428.

  • Two Crocker Farm Lots Share Top Price, Find Museum Homes
    August 14, 2023

    SPARKS, MD. — The top two lots in Crocker Farm’s August 5 summer auction each achieved $120,000 and each sold to institutions. The first — the sale’s beginning lot — was a 20-gallon stoneware keg (right) with exuberant slip- and sponge-decorated cobalt landscape that had been made by the West Troy Pottery around 1875. It was immediately followed by a 2-gallon stoneware jar made by Thomas W. Commeraw (left), who is the first African American pottery owner and the subject of recent scholarship and a museum exhibition at both the New-York Historical Society and the Fenimore Art Museum..

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