We email, we text, we update our status, we tweet, but it is the rare person these days who actually puts pen to paper. It was not always this way, as Pen to Paper, a collection of letters by artists from...
Review by Rick Russack, Photos Courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers. WENHAM, MASS. — You can’t get a feeling for the collection that John McInnis sold July 1–2 without looking at some of the interior...
MARLBOROUGH, MASS. — Skinner’s July 15 sale of Paul Lauer’s collection of Wedgwood was about 95 percent sold. The first lot of the collection was a numbered first edition copy of the Portland vase,...
By Laura Beach EAST DENNIS, MASS. – Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., the Cape Cod auction house with a long track record in the area of marine and sporting art, has been selected to sell the scrimshaw collection...
Review By R. Scudder Smith, Photos Courtesy Morphy Auctions DENVER, PENN. — On Friday, June 24 at 9 am, Morphy Auctions was off and running with a three-day sale that began with a Japanese tin friction...
By Greg Smith Silver has long been used as a luxe medium for metalworkers to create both works of art and objects for daily use. With current scrap value in the dumps, the time is nigh to get your hands...
SPARKS, MD. — A phone bidder picked up a rare and important Maysville, Ky., stoneware pitcher for $143,750 early on during Crocker Farm’s July 16 auction. Lot 54, a 3-gallon pitcher made in 1840 by Ezekiel...
LONDON — In a Christie’s original video, Alexander Massouras, a contemporary artist, demonstrates how the fundamental techniques behind some of history’s greatest prints remain unchanged...
SPARKS, MD. — Crocker Farm will hold its summer auction of American stoneware and redware on Saturday, July 16, at 10 am. Preview is Friday, July 15, 1 to 6 pn, and Saturday, 8 to 10 am. Among the rare...
NORWALK, CONN. — The Norwalk Historical Society (NHS) has several exhibitions that explore the city’s history on view at the society’s museum in the City Hall complex. “Norwalk Collects: Unifying...
Review by Rick Russack, Photos Courtesy of White’s Auctions MIDDLEBORO, MASS. — John White and his wife, Kathryn Black, have been in the auction business for 23 years, doing business as White’s Antique...
As befits New England’s oldest auction house, Eldred’s is steeped in offhand charm and a wise, worldly approach to selling the classics, from early American antiques to Asian art and artifacts....