Review and Onsite Photos by Laura Beach, Additional Photos Courtesy Eldred’s EAST DENNIS, MASS. – Spurred by ongoing research and a robust collectors’ circle, scrimshaw prices surged...
As the lines start to form at the door for each show in Antiques Week in New Hampshire, managers and dealers know they can always count on a group of familiar faces to lead the charge. The Early Early...
Works of art and artistically crafted furniture top the interesting sales this week. Napoleon would have been pleased to learn that his portrait, attributed to the circle of Francois Pascal Simon Gerard,...
By Laura Beach, Editor-At-Large, Photos by Greg Smith, Editor TORRINGTON, CONN. – Can a maximalist become a minimalist, even a little? When Peter Tillou told us he was thinking of downsizing, we knew...
Review and Onsite Photos by Rick Russack, Catalog Photos Courtesy The Cobbs PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – On July 13, The Cobbs presented a sale that included several tall case and banjo-style clocks, a selection...
RENO, NEV. — Leading the field for Coeur d’Alene Art Auction’s July 27 Fine Western & American Art sale was Frederic Remington’s “Casuals on the Range,” which sold for $981,750. The annual...
Review and Photos by Greg Smith EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. – The glory days of summer are found on the grounds of the East Hampton Antiques & Design Show, held this year July 19-21 at the historic Seventeenth...
DALLAS— A rare title lobby card from the first true sound horror film that had long-lasting significance in the Universal Horror series sparked a flurry of competitive bidding before it sold for $114,000...
Review and Photos by Greg Smith PLAINVILLE, CONN. – When Linda Stamm coincidentally met two women in the antiques business in the late 1970s, she could not have dreamed that it would turn into a 40-year...
Review and Onsite Photos by Jackie Sideli NANTUCKET, MASS. – According to notes from the catalog, the idea for Eldred’s to hold an auction on Nantucket was formulated a few years ago. “It...
PLYMOUTH, MASS. — On July 25, a trio of shore birds carved by Elmer Crowell, East Harwich, Mass., around 1900, sold to collectors for $1,140,000. The birds were sold individually at $420,000, $396,000...
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. — Gary Guyette and Jon Deeter’s two-day auction, July 23 and 24 in Portsmouth, N.H., grossed $2,465,000. The highest price was for an exceptional pintail drake by Elmer Crowell of East...