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October 27, 2015Review By Charles R. Muller, Photos courtesy of Willis Henry Auctions Inc PITTSFIELD, MASS. — Since 1982, Willis Henry has conducted his annual Shaker sale each fall. The last few years, the question...
October 27, 2015A certain fatigue has set in in some quarters of the collecting world. The primitive country furniture that seemed so radically new and of the moment in 1975 can feel anachronistic now, static in a world...
October 27, 2015NEW YORK CITY — Bonhams sold an important and historic item for $449,000, including the buyer’s premium – three times over low estimate and a record price for the chair — Monday, October 26, during...
October 27, 2015Review by W.A. Demers; Catalog Photographs Courtesy of Crocker Farm SPARKS, MD. — It is probably fitting that an exceptional stoneware water cooler with profuse incised federal eagle motif and attributed...
October 27, 2015DALLAS, TEXAS — The Dallas Museum of Art acquired a marble head of Herakles, the Greek hero the Romans called Hercules, at Sotheby’s New York auction of Egyptian, classical and western Asiatic antiquities...
October 26, 2015BOSTON, MASS. — Selling to a phone bidder for $303,000 at Skinner’s October 25 auction was a Boston Harbor marine painting by William Bradford (American, 1823–1892). It depicted several fully rigged...
October 23, 2015NEW YORK CITY — Throughout much of the history of art, sculpture represented the figure standing still, not in action. Donatello (1386–1446), widely recognized as one of the greatest sculptors ever...
October 23, 2015DENVER, PENN. — A new fishing hole will be open on Saturday, October 24, when Morphy Auctions tackles its first sale of antique fishing lures and related equipment at its gallery, 200 North Reading Road....
October 23, 2015LAMBERTVILLE, N.J. — A Greene & Greene table lamp with inlay and cutouts trounced a presale estimate of $40/60,000 to bring $502,000, including buyer’s premium, at Rago Arts and Auction Center’s...
October 23, 2015NEW YORK CITY — A rare and operational Nazi Enigma machine sold for $365,000 to a private collector at Bonhams on October 21, setting a new record at auction. The M4 machine, which was builtbetween 1943...
October 23, 2015PLAINFIELD, N.H. — Smith’s Auction Gallery will conduct an auction of an anonymous Massachusetts estate October 31–November 1. The sale of the more than 2,000 items of antiques, furniture, paintings,...
October 21, 2015Article and Photos by R. Scudder Smith Allentown, Penn. — “I know each and every piece by heart, and each one has its own story,” the collector said, but those stories are really only a preview to the interesting...
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