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Austin Healey Barn Find Sells For $24,575 At Alderfer Auction FRIDAY JUNE 30, 2017 • VOL. 48, NO. 26
“Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect”
A 1966 Austin Healey Mark III 3000 attracted worldwide interest at Alderfer Auction’s Fine and Decorative Arts auction on March 30. The Alderfer Auction Center, located at 501 Fairgrounds Road in Hatfield, Pa., was all abuzz with a packed house and record-breaking amount of phone bids. All hardwired phones
Mark III sported its original convertible top, manual transmission with electric overdrive and 47,729 miles. It was a “barn find” driven into storage in 1981 and remaining there until 2017.
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Major Retrospective Exhibition On View At Brandywine River Museum Of Art The Brandywine River Museum of Art is showcasing the exhibit, “Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect,” the first career retrospective of the artist since his death in 2009. The exhibition features over 100 works, spanning the entirety of the artist’s career—from the early watercolors Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) painted the drybrush watercolor that established his “Evening at Kuerners” in 1970. Courtesy 2017 Andrew reputation to his final Wyeth/Artists Rights Society (ARS). Private Collection. painting, “Goodbye,” completed just a few months before his death. The show also will include many of Wyeth’s studies, which were rarely exhibited in the artist’s lifetime and offer new insights into his creative process and approach. Coorganized by the Brandywine and the Seattle Art Museum, Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) painted the tempera “Pentecost”in “Andrew Wyeth: In 1989. Courtesy 2017 Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights Society Retrospect” commem- (ARS).Private Collection. orates the centennial of the artist’s birth in July and provides the most in-depth presentation of the renowned artist’s diverse and prolific practice to date. Wyeth’s life extended from World War I - a period that sparked the imagination of the artist as a young boy - to the new millennium. This com- Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) painted the tempera “Winter, prehensive retrospec- 1946,” in 1946. Courtesy 2017 Andrew Wyeth/Artists Rights tive examines four Society (ARS). North Carolina Museum of Art,Raleigh. major periods in Wyeth’s career, taking inspiration and deliberately built up layers of from the artist’s own words likening paint on panels. The Brandywine will serve as his painting to “following a long thread leading like time to change the only East Coast venue for the and evolution.” The exhibition exhibition, and the only location at offers new interpretations of his which visitors will be able to work, including the lesser explored immerse themselves in both influences of popular film and Wyeth’s work and life. The museum images of war, and looks more campus is home to the artist’s stuclosely at the relatively unstudied dio, which served as his principal but numerous portrayals of African Pennsylvania workspace from 1940 Americans from the Chadds Ford through 2008, and also Kuerner community. “Andrew Wyeth: In Farm, a major source of inspiration Retrospect” also provides a thor- across Wyeth’s career. Tours to ough comparison of his widely these sites, both National Historic divergent approaches to watercolor Landmarks, add an intimacy to the - which inspired him to paint quick- experience and understanding of ly and at times with abandon - and his work and give audiences a to his use of tempera, a more con- dynamic view into Wyeth’s very Continued on page 3 trolled medium, in which he slowly
were in use, along with many employees on their cell phones, some with translators. The car sold for $24,575 to a phone bidder from France. This one-owner Austin Healey
Bridging the past with today’s technological world, Alderfer offers online bidding and worldwide marketing while maintaining its unrivaled local customer service. For further information, readers may call 215-393-3000 or visit www.AlderferAuction.com.
Divine Encounter: “Rembrandt’s Abraham And The Angels” Beginning in the late 1630s and increasingly through the 1640s, Rembrandt shifted away from the dynamic movement of his earlier work towards imagery characterized by stillness and calm. These are the defining qualities of the artist’s “Abraham Entertaining the Angels,” of 1646,” Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–69) painted the oil-on-oak panel in which a “Abraham Entertaining the Angels,” in 1646, private collection. Photo m o m e n t o u s is courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art. episode of divine revelation unfolds in the most was perceived. “Divine Encounter: hushed of ways - dramatic action Rembrandt’s Abraham and the replaced by subtle gesture and an Angels” is organized by Joanna astonishing luminosity, all within a Sheers Seidenstein, Anne L. Poulet panel measuring fewer than nine curatorial fellow at The Frick inches wide. Collection, who also wrote the On loan from a private collec- accompanying catalogue. tion and displayed publicly for the “We are privileged to have the first time in more than 10 years, opportunity to exhibit this paintthis extraordinary painting is the ing, which contains one of centerpiece of a small exhibition Rembrandt’s most creative treatdedicated to Rembrandt’s depic- ments of the divine, a glowing figtions of Abraham and his various ure who appears to dematerialize encounters with God and his from mortal flesh into light before angels, as recounted in the book of our eyes. We hope our audiences Genesis. The exhibit is being held will enjoy engaging deeply with at the Frick Collection, an art this work and with Rembrandt’s museum in the Henry Clay Frick other treatments of the Abraham house located in the Upper East story, which fascinated the artist Side of Manhattan, N.Y. throughout his career,” said In the panel and in the other Sheers Seidenstein. works included in the show - a The exhibition will run until tightly focused selection of prints Sunday, Aug. 20. The Frick and drawings and a single copper Collection is located at 1 E. 70th St. plate - Rembrandt explored, in in New York City. different media, the nature of For additional information, call divine presence and the ways it 212-547-0710.
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Kaiser Collection Of 19th-Century Glass Produces Strong Prices on page 9
Palm Beach Modern Sets House Records on page 10
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FEATURED AUCTION: Woody Auction - July 22 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa - Page 2
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R.S. Prussia Collection To Be Sold At Woody Auction In Cedar Rapids, Iowa Collectors of R.S. Prussia to include many rare animal, should mark their calendars portrait and scenic pieces.” All for Saturday, July 22. lots will be offered That’s when Woody w i t h o u t Auction will offer the reserve, startoutstanding lifetime ing at 9:30 a.m. collection of Marvin and Central time. Laura Heard, plus a few One of the expected headThis 16-inch R.S. Prussia mold liner lots is a #644 tankard has an iridescent magnificent 16Tiffany background and keyhole inch R.S. Prussia summer season portrait décor. mold #644 tankard smaller private collecwith an iridescent tions, more than 250 lots Tiffany background of R.S. Prussia pieces in and keyhole sumall, during this year’s R.S. mer season portrait Prussia Convention at décor. The tankard the Cedar Rapids boasts superb gold Marriott in Cedar highlights and Rapids, Iowa. satin border “This will be trim – a mustone of the finest see piece and collections of R.S. one of the Prussia to be sold at finest examples of R.S. Prussia to The 11-inch R.S. Prussia be found anywhere. carnation mold tankard fea“And it’s available, tures a summer season porfor the bidder fortutrait with a lavender and pink nate enough to satin background. acquire it,” continued public auction in a very Woody. long time,” said Jason That isn’t the only Woody of Woody tankard in the sale. Also Auction, based in offered will be a beauDouglass, Kan. tiful 11-inch R.S. Prussia “Collectors will be able carnation mold to view and bid on tankard featursome truly ing a summer beautiful and season porhighly soughttrait with a after pieces, lavender and pink A R.S. Prussia s a t i n 10.5-inch mold b a c k #85 bowl having ground. a pink, yellow and Vases will green background feature a has two rare scenes pair of rare, of a summer season unmarked R.S. portrait and mill scene. Prussia mold
#906 high-shouldered vases – satin finish with a fall season one 8.75 inches tall with green portrait décor and the R.S. tones and a lion and lioness Prussia carnation mold chocodécor, the other 13 inches late set (10-inch chocolate pot and six matchThis rare, unmarked R.S. Prussia ing cups and saucers, mold #906 high-shouldered with rim repair on three vase, 8.75 inches tall, has green of the cups) in a white tones and a lion and lioness and lavender satin decoration. finish with summer season portall with an ostrich trait décor. scenic décor. An exceedingAdditional R.S. ly rare R.S. Prussia Prussia vases will hatpin holder, feature an unmarked diminutive at just mold #909 vase in 3.75 inches tall, with green and brown an Admiral Peary tones, 8.5 inches tall, scenic décor (“Midst with a scenic décor of Snow and Ice”), and a tigers in a jungle, very scene showing a tent, rare; a mold #938 skier, dog and oval-shaped polar bear, is two-handled certain to vase, 10 attract bidinches tall, der interest, as is a The R.S. five-piece Prussia 10.5R.S. Prussia inch diameter icicle mold unmarked mold berry set #253 bowl with 10.75showing attractive inch diameter green tones boasts a master bowl and rare ostrich scene. four 5.5-inch with nice colors and having diameter matching berry dishthree scenic decors: pheasant, es, with a snowbird scene. barnyard and bluebird; and an R.S. Prussia bowls will be unmarked 8.5 inch tall mold plentiful, to include a 15-inch #909 vase having brown tones diameter unmarked carnation and a rare ostrich décor. mold center bowl, beautiful Collectors with a sweet cobalt blue with gold stencil tooth to satisfy will be drawn highlights, and a 10.5-inch to the 10-inch R.S. Prussia iris mold #85 bowl having a pink, mold chocolate pot having a yellow and green background cream, lavender and peach with two rare scenes of a
summer season portrait and mill scene décor. One of two unmarked R.S. Prussia mold #906 highshouldered vases in the sale, this one is 13 inches tall with an ostrich scene. Other R.S. Prussia bowls will feature an 11-inch diameter carnation mold bowl with white and peach satin showing lavender highlights and a desirable fall season portrait décor and a 10.5-inch d i a m e t e r unmarked mold #253 bowl showing attractive green tones and
boasting the rare ostrich scenic décor. For those unable to attend in person, internet bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com (full link at www.Liveauctioneers.com/ woody-auction-llc). Absentee bids will also be accepted. The entire catalog may be viewed online now, with color photos, at www.woodyauction.com. A preview will be held Friday, July 21, from 2 to 6 p.m. Central time. The Cedar Rapids Marriott is located at 1200 Collins Road. R.S. Prussia members will have access to a special room rate. To learn more, call 319-393-6600. For more information about Woody Auction, call 316-747-2694 or visit www.woodyauction.com. A rare R.S. Prussia hatpin holder, 3.37 inches tall, with an Admiral Peary scene (Midst Snow and Ice), also has a scene showing a tent, skier, dog and polar bear.
This R.S. Prussia carnation mold chocolate set (10-inch chocolate pot and six matching cups and saucers), in a white and lavender satin finish, has summer season portrait decoration.
Ocean City Historical Museum’s Annual Antiques Show Set For July 8
The Ocean City Historical Museum will sponsor its fifth annual antiques show on Saturday, July 8. The show will be open to the public with free admission, but donations are gratefully accepted to help with the museum’s mission. It
will take place in the air-conditioned Community Center located at 17th and Haven in Ocean City, N.J. Show hours will be from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. In addition to the 30 vendors who will be participating in this year’s indoor show, the
museum also sets up a “museum table” where deaccessioned items or donated antique items are sold to benefit the museum. This is always a popular part of the show since many hidden treasures surface and are offered inexpensively
for sale. Of special interest this year, the museum plans to auction a period tall-case clock that was donated by a longtime Ocean City resident, Peggy Lloyd. The clock is Scottish and dates from 1810. The opening bid for the silent auction is $200. Returning dealers will be selling a wide variety of antiques and collectibles that include shore-related items, glassware and china, antique jewelry, small furniture, antique toys, and books and paper goods, including vintage postcards. Mark calendars to “down the shore” and spend the day in Ocean City, N.J., while shopping for quality antiques in the air-conditioned community center while supporting a good cause.
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COLLECTOR CHATS WITH PETER S. SEIBERT This Week: Packing It Up
By Peter Seibert I had two interesting lessons in packing this past week. The first concerned my elder daughter and her collection of toy trains. Jane and I have been collecting O-scale trains for about a decade now. We began when she was about 8, and now she is 18 and heading to college this fall. The
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private world - his approach, technique, and the landscapes and scenes that informed his painting throughout his life. The exhibition will remain on view at the Brandywine through Sunday, Sept. 17, 2017, and then travel to Seattle Art Museum, where it will open in October. 1935-1949 This section looks at Wyeth’s emerging presence in the art world - from the colorful, expressive watercolors of the Maine coast that reveal a debt to Winslow Homer and brought him to the attention of the art world in the late 1930s, to his early forays into the medium of tempera, and to the powerful, dramatic works of the mid to late 1940s. Highlights include “Lobsterman” (1937), painted
Andrew Wyeth, circa 1935, courtesy of the Wyeth Family Archives.
trains were something we could do together in terms of collecting and also running them. They began on the floor of our row house in Harrisburg and graduated to the basement of the farm in York and the garages in Taos and in Virginia. However, Jane has not touched the trains in about eight months. The dust was starting to build up, and so we had a long talk. She is going to college and agreed that the toy trains were not something that she was as interested in as she had been, but she wanted to keep them. So off to the big box
hardware store for the sturdiest rubber tubs that I could find and lots of packing materials. I prefer the rubber tubs because of the climate here in Virginia. And I tend to buy the heaviest that I can with goodquality packing materials. It was a bundle of money, but eight tubs of trains are now packed. Jane was sad about seeing them go, but she admitted that she was not able to play with them. My arthritis is too bad to do the wiring that I was able to do, and so they are now ready for her to take to her home someday in the next decade or so. While I was cleaning the
garage out, I got into a box of china that I had set aside for Mary, my younger daughter. My mother and grandmother loved china, and so both daughters are getting two matched sets each. I have no idea if they want them, but they are getting them when they get married! Anyhow, the set for Mary had belonged to my grandmother, also named Mary. I had packed it when I closed my mother’s house out in Harrisburg back in 2001. The rubber tub that I put it in was the best that I could get at that point. Four moves later - the
last one at the hands of a major-name moving company - and I finally opened the box to find that all the turkey platters and serving bowls were crushed and broken. The plates and the rest seemed OK, but the big items were ruined. Well, this is a case where I am thankful for eBay, as I immediately typed in “Copeland Rose Briar with basket weave,” and up popped a host of pieces to replace the broken ones. For the last week, the mailman has been bringing boxes of china to the house, and I have been able to replace all the
broken pieces. I feel better, and Mary will have her complete set. I went out and purchased heavy-duty rubber tubs like I did for the trains and repacked all the china, including the new items. I hopefully will not need to move them anytime soon, but when I do, they will be ready. My lesson for everyone is not only to check items frequently that are packed but also to purchase the bestquality materials to store them. And then, realizing that age will take its toll, be prepared to upgrade when you can.
the summer before his first, momentous New York show; his early temperas, such as “Frog Hunters” (1941), which was featured in the landmark Museum of Modern Art show titled “Americans 1943: Realists and Magic Realists,” and iconic works such as “Winter 1946” (1946) that was created after October 1945, when the death of his father caused a profound shift in Andrew Wyeth’s outlook on his art. 1950-1967 By 1950, Wyeth’s attention was focused on his own visceral responses to the landscape around his home in Chadds Ford, and Maine, both the coastline and the Olson property in Cushing. Wyeth divided his time between these places. In Chadds Ford, he painted the Kuerner Farm (now part of the Brandywine River Museum of Art), which was long at the center of Wyeth’s world, there and forever linked in his mind to the nearby railroad crossing where his father, N.C. Wyeth,
had met a tragic death. He also painted those he knew in the Black community that had been established in Chadds Ford during the Civil War. In Maine, Wyeth expressed his compelling emotional connection to the siblings Christina and Alvaro Olson and their 18th-century house that sits on a hill below, which is the graveyard where Wyeth and the Olson family are buried. Significant works from this period include “Northern Point” (1950); “Miss Olson” (1952); and “Spring Fed” (1967). Examples of Wyeth’s extensive studies in pencil and watercolor of his African American subjects Tom Clark, Adam Johnson, and Willard Snowden (“The Drifter, 1967”) are also included. 1968-1988 By now one of America’s most famous artists, in 1968 Wyeth began to explore the realm of erotic art. This is the period that saw his first extended series of nudes, of
the adolescent Siri Erickson in Maine and of Helga Testorf in Chadds Ford. The paintings of Helga, famously kept secret by the artist until the mid-1980s, when their revelation created a national sensation, have occupied an outsize place in the narrative of Wyeth’s multidecade career. The exhibition will reveal that while he was working on these nude subjects, he also painted for public view some of his most psychologically complex, symbolically rich, and compositionally ambitious works. Highlights include the now
iconic paintings focusing on his Chadds Ford neighbors, the Kuerners: examples are “Evening at Kuerners” (1970); “The Kuerners” (1971); and “Spring” (1979). 1989-2009 Beginning in 1989, Wyeth’s work became particularly selfreflective as he looked backward - partly in response to the critical backlash he experienced from the revelation of the Helga paintings. His late works are often enigmatic, infused with a surreal quality that recalls his earliest work and, at times, in fact, directly
references it. Highlights include the large tempera “Snow Hill” (1989), filled with autobiographical allusions, and “Goodbye” (2008), a painting completed just months before his death that has not been widely seen or published. The catalogue accompanying the exhibition will be co-published by Yale University Press, the Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum. It will provide a full visual document of the works in the exhibition, as well as lay Continued on page 6
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European Weaponry In High Demand At Cowan’s May 3 And 4 Auction Posts $1.3 Million Gross Sales Weapons from Europe were in high demand for both days of Cowan’s Historic Firearms and Early Militaria Auction held May 3 and 4 in the auction house’s Cincinnati, Ohio, salesroom. The auction featured some of the rarest of the rare in European weaponry, spanning multiple eras from the 16th century through World War II. “We made our name The French and Indian War engraved powder horn dated 1758 sold for $17,625.
selling some of finest Civil War pieces to ever hit the market, but after this sale there should be no doubt left in anyone’s mind that we can sell European pieces with the best of them,” said Jack Lewis, Cowan’s director of Firearms and Militaria. “This is just the tip of the iceberg for us. You can expect more of the same in coming sales.” The auction got off to a good start with an exceptional collection of blunderbusses that provoked spirited bidding on the floor, on the phones, and on the internet, which pushed many sale prices over their estimates. The top lot of the group was
of the auction, selling for $36,425, while a marked version of the standard Model an early British brass barrel between two phone bidders. flintlock blunderbuss by Other top edged weapons 1859 Lemat sold for $35,250. As would be expected of a Blanckley that sold for $11,750. from Europe included a 17thCowan’s Historic Other highlights from the century English pillow Firearms and Militaria blunderbusses included a pair sword, which sold for auction, the bulk of the of British brass barreled blun- $5,581.25; a 17th-century sale featured derbusses by E. Newton that clam shell Northern Form sold for $8,812.50, a flintlock Tessak, $4,993.75; a This rare original Tucker blunderbuss by Armstrong for 17th-century German Sherrod flask went for $6,462.50, a dragon blunder- sword with basket hilt, $25,850. buss made for the Chinese $4,112.50; an early 17thmarket for $5,750, an Irish century North exceptional lots brass blunderbuss by E u r o p e a n from 19th century Rigby for s w e p t America. The top h i l t lot from this pivrapier, otal period of $4,112.50. A American history chained SS dagger was a very rare origbrought $3,407.50. inal Tucker Sherrod flask $4,700, and a British brass The top two lots of the day barrel blunderbuss with fold- were also produced in Europe that sold for $25,850. The sale also featured a ing bayonet by Styan for despite being synonymous $4,406.25. with the Confederacy. A collection of long guns from this era, highThe sale featured possibly lighted by the greatest grouping of an early European swords auctioned in Sharps the United States since the sporting rifle shipped collection of William Goodwin to Carlos Gove that sold for Renwick was offered by $10,575. A Civil War Sotheby’s in the early 1970s. Confederate Fayetteville rifle So, it was no surprise that went for $9,400, a Sharps the European edged model 1874 sporting rifle for weapons saw consider$8,812.50, and a Pope barreled able action from bidders The Colt SA Sheriffs Model Marlin #6 Ballard rifle with on both sides of the sold for $9,400. Pope reloading tools sold for Atlantic. The most $7,050. sought after was a clasPistols and revolvers from sic 16th century Saxon arming Belgian-made Brevet Model sword that sold for $6,462.50 1859 Prototype Lemat percus- the 19th century were also in after a lengthy bidding war sion revolver was the top lot high demand both days.
Joel Heisey Sells Harley Sportster For $6,000 On May 13, in Palmyra, Pa., auctioneer Joel Heisey held a sale for Harold and Mary Gish highlighted by motorcycles and various vehicles, which included a 1979 personal touring Eagle Coach bus selling for $14,600. A 1990 Corvette convertible sold for $4,900; a 1987
Honda Gold Wing touring bike, readers may call Joel Heisey 717-949-3211 or visit $3,300; a miniature (Harley of Newmanstown, Pa., at www.heiseyauctions.com. XR1000) chopper, $1,000; and a 2011 Harley Sportster sold for $6,000. A 1973 Cadillac Eldorado sold for $5,200, and a 440 Arctic Cat snowmobile brought $450. For additional information,
This 1973 Cadillac Eldorado sold for $5,200.
A 1990 Corvette convertible sold for $4,900. The 2011 Harley Sportster sold for $6,000.
This 1987 Honda Gold Wing touring bike realized $3,300.
This miniature (Harley XR1000) chopper sold for $1,000.
Highlights included a Colt SA Sheriffs Model that sold for $9,400. A cased Colt Volcanic pistol went for $8,625, an engraved blackpowder Colt single
a Civil War Clauberg presentation sword to Gallant U.S. Regular Artilleryman Lt. Francis S. French, which brought $5,462.50; and a Civil War sword presented to Capt.
A classic 16th-century Saxon arming sword sold for $6,463. action Army revolver for $6,462.50, and a factory engraved presentation cased 1849 Colt pocket revolver presented to Hon. Arthur B. Calef sold for $5,875. Not to be outdone by their European counterparts, American edged
Charles E. Chapman, 37th NYSM, which sold for $5,100. Miscellaneous highlights from the sale included a rare French and Indian War engraved powder horn dated 1758 that sold for $17,625,
An early British brass barrel flintlock blunderbuss by Blanckley sold for $11,750. weapons performed quite well during both days, with a Model 1840/60 sword presented to Lt. Col. Porter S. Cox selling for $14,950, which was the highest price paid for any edged weapon in the auction. Other American edged weapon highlights included a Confederate “D” Guard Bowie knife, which sold for $6,756.25;
a pair of French flintlock pocket pistols by Nicholas Boutet for $17,625, a Scottish all metal flintlock pistol by T. Murdoch for $6,600, an M-10 machine gun for $6,325, a Little Big Horn battlefield map by Russell White Bear for $5,875, and a pair of miniature Dutch ivory stock pistols for $5,700. To learn more, visit www.cowanauctions.com.
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antiquesandauctionnews.net The Brandywine River Museum of Art features an outstanding collection of Continued from page 3 out the first detailed timeline American art housed in a 19thof Wyeth’s career. In addition century mill building with a to Patricia Junker’s insightful dramatic steel and glass addicontextual analysis of the four tion overlooking the banks of the Brandywine. The museum days a week. S. Seem values periods described above, the is open daily from 9:30 a.m. to catalogue will include seven and seeks to promote educa5 p.m. (except Thanksgiving tional outreach programs in provocative essays on key Day and Christmas Day) and aspects of Wyeth’s work by its mission. is located on Route 1 in To learn more, readers scholars from both the United States and Japan. The catalogue may call 610-390-0403. is intended to be a foundation for subsequent Wyeth studies. The co-curators for the exhibition are Audrey Lewis, curator, Brandywine River Museum of Art, and Patricia Junker, the Ann M. Barwick curator of American Art at the Seattle Art Museum. The exhibition will be on view at the Seattle Art Museum from Oct. 19, 2017, through Jan. 15, 2018.
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S. Seem Antiques & Artisans To Host “Roadshow” On June 29 S. Seem Antiques & Artisans in historic Bath, Pa., will host the “S. Seem Roadshow” on Thursday, June 29, from 6 to 8 p.m. The public is invited to bring two antique items, free of charge, to be appraised by three antiques dealer appraisers - Ken Vliet, Evelyn Stravino and Carol Bear. There will also be a lecture on how to research current market values for your antiques using the internet. Laurie Ohlandt will be demonstrating how to use eBay and several other auction sites to get up-to-theminute pricing assistance for your antiques. Light refreshments and wine will be served, and Faith Gabrielle will be singing and playing the guitar. S. Seem is a two-story antique co-op in an 1840 brick building at 100 S. Chestnut Street in Bath, Pa. It opened five years ago. There are now five other shops on the same block. The co-op has 25 quality dealers and is open seven
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Chadds Ford, Pa. Admission (as of May 30) is $18 for adults, $15 for seniors ages 65 and over, $6 for students and children ages 6, and free of charge for children 5 and younger and Brandywine Conservancy & Museum of Art members. Guided tours of the Andrew Wyeth Studio, N.C. Wyeth House & Studio, and the Kuerner Farm are
available daily for an additional fee; reservations are recommended. For more information, call 610-388-2700 or visit www.brandywinemuseum.org.
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AUCTIONS MARYLAND 07/02/17, RISING SUN, SUN 10 AM, Antiques, furniture, antique tools, glassware, collectibles, antique toys, jewelry, books, coins, Beatles records, memorabilias, Gibney's Auction Ctr 124 Greenmount Rd, George Gibney 07/08/17, FREDERICK, SAT 9 AM, Antique furniture including a 18th C. Hepplewhite Breakfront orig. superb condition, jewelry & costume, sterling silver, gold jewelry, collection of tribal masks, apothecary collection, oil paintings, advertising signs, china, Lionel & American Flyer trains etc., Indoors Frederick Fairgrounds (Bldg #9) 797 E Patrick St, Howard B. Parzow
07/06/17, HATFIELD, BID NOW AND LIVE ONLINE THURS 8 PM, Sports Collectibles, Online @ w w w. a l d e r f e r a u c t i o n . c o m , Alderfers Auctions & Appraisers 07/07-08/17, QUARRYVILLE, FRI & SAT 9 AM, Farm & country primitives farmhouse collectibles, antique furniture etc., OnSite 675 Truce Rd, United Auctions & Antiques & Rentzels Auction
07/08/17, BARTO, SAT 9 AM, Antiques, Boy Scout items, jewelry, vintage Christmas items, books, ephemera, artwork, garden, lawn etc., "Treasure Barn" @ Jakes F/M 1380 Rt 100, Kimberly Hemingway 07/11/17, BANGOR, SUN 4 PM, Coin & Currency, 521 Richmond Rd, Hartzell's Auction Gallery, Inc.
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07/22-23/17, CHANTILLY, SAT 9 AM-6 PM SUN 11 AM-5 PM, DC Big Flea & Antiques Market, 4320 Chantilly Shopping Center, Dulles Expo Center
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Kaiser Collection Of 19th-Century Glass Produces Strong Prices Jeffrey S. Evans & bulb-form font raised on a followed the lighting section Associates’ annual spring auc- square five-step base and of the auction. A rare pressed tion of 18th- and 19th-century original tin and cork double- hen on nest covered dish in glass and lighting was held on tube drop-in burner. In out- translucent jade green was the May 20. The 1,000-lot sale fea- standing condition, the pair favorite of many. It had been tured the collection of glass had been published in published twice and was author and scholar Joan included in three different E. Kaiser of East exhibitions at the Sandwich, Mass. The Sandwich Glass Museum. renowned Kaiser collecRepresenting the first protion comprised an outduction of this form in the standing selection of United States, the circa Sandwich and South 1860 dish flew off at $9,945. Boston glass of all types, Rare colored flint early including many imporAmerican pattern glass tant pieces published in (EAPG) was also well repreBarlow/Kaiser, “The sented in the sale. Glass Industry in Highlights included a Sandwich, Volumes 1-5,” canary yellow Mirror 10and Kaiser, “The Glass inch diameter open comIndustry in South pote and Comet water tumBoston.” Bidders travbler that sold for $3,802.50 eled to the auction from and $2,925, respectively. as far away as Wisconsin Each had been published and Canada for the A pair of free-blown and pressed whale oil lamps in volume one of opportunity to view this from the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., circa 1830, Barlow/Kaiser, “The Glass collection. Further mark- from the Kaiser collection, sold for $26,910. Industry in Sandwich.” ing the occasion, a speThe Kaiser collection cial 426-lot color auction also included a diverse catalogue of the Kaiser collec- Barlow/Kaiser, “The Glass selection of later wares made tion was produced. Industry in Sandwich, Vol. 2,” at and/or in Sandwich, includThe most hotly contested p. 56, fig. 2020, and included in ing six pieces of rare Trevaise lots in the sale fell into the the “Sensational Sandwich” art glass manufactured by the lighting category. Leading the exhibition held at the short-lived Alton way was a rare pair of circa Sandwich Glass Museum in Manufacturing Co. between 1830 Boston & Sandwich free- 1995. All of these factors con- 1906 and 1907. The top seller blown and pressed whale oil tributed to the pair selling for was a 10-inch triangular-body stand lamps in a deep purple- $26,910 to an advanced New blue color. Each featured a England lighting collector. All prices reported include the 17 percent buyer’s premium. Other lamps that sold well included a pair of deep brilliant emerald green pressed Three-Printie Block fluid stand lamps that reached $10,530. A pair of brilliant sapphire blue pressed Bigler whale oil stand lamps soared to $7,605, and a canary yellow Triple-Dolphin hurricane lamp with fluid font sold for $6,435. Candlesticks were another strong lighting category, led by a fine pair of translucent blue Petal and Columnar examples, which brought $3,042, and a pair of Petal and This pair of pressed Three-Printie Loop sticks in an unusual Block fluid stand lamps from the translucent light turquoise A Trevaise art glass vase from the Alton Manufacturing Co., Sandwich, Mass., Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., circa blue, selling for $2,691. 1850, from the Kaiser collection, sold A fine selection of other 1906/1907, 10 inches in height, from for $10,530. colored Sandwich glass the Kaiser collection, sold for $2,574.
vase with an iridescent mint green and gold coil design on a green-tinted white ground. The vase was raised on a flared foot featuring an applied disk- The pressed glass hen on nest covered dish, The pair of Strawberry Diamond and Fan cut canlike wafer with Kaiser collection, from the Boston & Sandwich dlesticks from the Pittsburgh area, circa 1830, polished pon- Glass Co., circa 1860, realized $9,945. from the Gehman collection, sold for $4,680. til mark to the underside, a trademark feature and honor to handle the Joan the auction drew. While there of Trevaise wares. It sold for Kaiser collection. The collec- are still many great buying $2,574 against an $800-$1,200 tion was assembled with great opportunities in the glass marthought and meticulous docu- ket, this sale showed that most estimate. Other consignments to the mentation. Her eye for detail, great rarities in top condition auction included the Roger attention to condition, and are hotly contested and selling Gehman estate collection of understanding of historical for strong prices,” continued primarily Pittsburgh glass. The context were the guiding Evans. The complete detailed high lot among this collection attributes of her collecting was a seemingly unique pair objective. Always one to have catalog with prices realized of Strawberry Diamond and a clear goal in mind, every is available by visiting A Fan cut candlesticks, each piece was carefully vetted and www.jeffreysevans.com. featuring a turn-over rim tells a part of the overall story limited number of the fully socket raised on a hollow, of glass made and used in the illustrated color print catalogs ovoid standard and wide star- Boston/Cape Cod area during of the 426-lot Kaiser colleccut foot. After opening above the 19th century,” said compa- tion are still available for $30 estimate at $1,400, the pair ny president Jeffrey S. Evans plus shipping. For further information, was battled to $4,680. Two following the sale. “We were collections of historical/fig- very pleased, but not sur- call 540-434-3939 or email ured flasks, one from the prised, with the strong interest info@jeffreysevans.com. Nancy DuPont Reynolds Cooch estate (being sold to benefit the Toledo Museum of Art’s collections fund), drew strong interest, led by an emerald green GII-64 Eagle Willington Glass Co., Connecticut pint flask that soared to $1,872. The auction also included a selection of 18thand 19th-century English glass featuring part one of the George and Patricia Arden collection of New York City. This category was led by a Liege A Traforato openwork basket and two stands that sold for $2,691. The auction was 100 percent unreserved and drew over 700 active bidders, with roughly 40 percent of the lots selling online. Over 40 bidders attended the auction in person, and four museums were among the successful bidders. “It was a great pleasure
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Palm Beach Modern Sets House Records Sam Francis Painting, Newly Added To Artist’s Foundation Records, Tops $600,000 May 6 was a stellar day for Palm Beach Modern Auctions’ (PBMA) co-owners Rico Baca and Wade Terwilliger. Not only did their 492-lot offering of blue-chip modern art, design and luxury goods set a house record for a one-day auction – $1.9 million – it also showcased an important Sam Francis painting that ended up being the most expensive item ever to cross the PBMA auction block. The vibrant canvas sold for a buoyant $603,250. All prices quoted are inclusive of a 27 percent buyer’s premium.
The Sam Francis (American, 1923-94) “Quiet Fruitfulness,” from 1987, acrylic-on-canvas, listed in the 2011 catalogue raisonne, registered by the Sam Francis Foundation, sold for $603,250. The Francis painting, a major acrylic-on-canvas titled “Quiet Fruitfulness,” was created in 1987, seven years before the internationally acclaimed California artist passed away. Measuring 60.5-by-80.5-inches, the work retained a 1988 Knoedler Gallery (London) label on verso and came with a copy of the sales receipt from the gallery as well as a conservator’s condition report. It is also listed in the Sam Francis Catalogue Raisonne that was published by the University of California Berkeley Press in 2011. “But the icing on the cake, in terms of provenance, was the letter we received from the Sam Francis Foundation prior to the auction that confirmed the painting had been added to their official archival record,” said Baca. “They had been
Guests at Palm Beach Modern’s May 6 auction could dine and bid as auctioneer/PBMA co-owner Rico Baca presided at the podium. Note the nonchalant canine observer in the baby stroller, shown far left. looking for this painting, which had been out of the public eye for many years, so they were happy to learn of its whereabouts, and we were thrilled to bring it to the marketplace – a win-win all around.” The Sam Francis painting was “a magnet for art dealers,” said Baca. “There were many who commented during the preview or at private viewings that it was a great example of his work.” Prices were strong across the board for “name-brand” art. A large original abstract work by African-American “Color Field” painter Sam Gilliam (b. 1933) titled “Gild and Tropic” sold for $69,850 against an estimate of $50,000$80,000, while an original Angel Botello (Spanish/Puerto Rican, 1913-86) painting, “Girls Picking Fruit,” swept past its $30,000$40,000 estimate to settle at $50,800. Sculptures, which are always popular with PBMA regulars, once again fulfilled or exceeded pre-auction expectations. Alex Katz’s “Double Ada” made $36,830; a Mary Bauermeister “Wabenbild” construction more than tripled its high estimate at $19,050; and Robert Rauschenberg’s monumental “Publicon – Station I (G.814)” commanded twice its high estimate, reaching $25,400. There was a 100 percent
Heritage Auctions Staff Aids In Recovering Stolen Coins Quick thinking on the part of a Heritage Auctions staff member led to the discovery of two high-value coins reentering the marketplace. Earlier this year, Bill Walker, a rare coin specialist in Heritage Auctions’ Dallas, Texas, office, was approached by a Florida coin dealer seeking to auction five rare coins. Walker began researching the coins and noticed that they all had been offered and sold in the firm’s Florida United Numismatics (FUN) Auction in 2016. The winner purchased seven coins, and the Florida dealer was offering five from the purchase. Realizing that the coins likely did not belong to the same person who successfully won the coins in the auction, Walker delved further into the matter. Curiously, the dealer was offering the coins for less than the recent auction results. Walker called contacts in the hobby and then the winning bidder to learn if
the coins had been sold following the auction. As expected, the winning bidder denied selling the coins at a loss and only then was made aware they had been stolen. Walker traced the coins’ history and discovered they likely were stolen while on the way to Numismatic Guaranty Corporation by a mail carrier shipment shortly after the auction. They likely were sold then to a Florida dealer, who subsequently offered them to another dealer, who eventually contacted Heritage Auctions. “I knew these coins could not have belonged to the winning bidder,” said Walker. “I thought it was extremely odd that the seller was offering the coins for less than the recent auction price, and I found out some coins had been broken out of their certified holder.” Thanks to Walker’s work and quick thinking, the grateful owner has so far recovered five of seven stolen coins.
mirrored crystal and glass top is gracing a new home after selling for $35,560 against an estimate of $ 1 5 , 0 0 0 $25,000, while This Angel Botello (Spanish/Puerto Rican, 1913-86) “Girls another con- Picking Fruit” sold for $50,800. versation-starter, an iconic 67.75-inch-long Paul Evans Stalagmite design, rose to $10,160 against expectations of $5,000-$8,000. Exquisite fine jewelry, including a number of pieces from Palm Beach estates, included a chunky 14-carat white gold ring with a 4.40carat brilliant-cut central dia- This Fontana Arte coffee table Model mond. Assessed as being a #1774 with concave mirrored crystal color D with S12 clarity, it and glass top, Italian, sold for $35,560. came with an appraisal certificate from the Universal business and that they want Gemological Services. The ring to consign some important surpassed its estimate to artworks to our future sales. close at $20,320. That’s music to any auction“We were extremely happy eer’s ears,” continued Baca. with the results of our May 6 To contact Palm Beach auction. Not only did we set Modern Auctions, readers may two significant house records, call 561-586-5500 or email we also were approached by info@modernauctions.com. collectors who said they like Images courtesy of Palm the way we operate our Beach Modern Auctions.
sell-through rate on the choice selection of Picasso pottery entered in the sale. “In fact, we’ve never had an unsold Picasso ceramic since first offering it in our auctions. Everyone wants to own a Picasso, and collectors can’t seem to get enough of it,” commented Baca. The May 6 Picasso grouping was led by a hand-painted Chouette (owl) vessel that flew to the top of
its estimate range at $24,130. Also noteworthy in the decorative art section were a set of four small Philip & Kelvin Laverne plaques that realized $8,255 against a $2,000-$3,000 estimate and a set of eight Piero Fornasetti Conchiglie plates with attractive shell motifs, selling for $4,765. A super-stylish Fontana Arte (Italy) coffee table with a concave, sapphire-blue
Robert Rauschenberg’s (American, 1925-2008) “Publicon – Station I (G.814),” 1978, mixed media, signed, 24/30, sold for $25,400.
A Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973) Chouette (owl), painted ceramic, ed. 265/500, with Madoura stamp, sold A Sam Gilliam (African American, b. 1933) oil-on-canvas, titled “Gild and for $24,130. Tropic,” from 1976, signed, realized $69,850.
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Is It Sterling Silver Or Silverplate? “What’s It Worth” Antiques Minute By Mike Ivankovich How can you tell if your items are “sterling silver” or “silverplate?” It’s actually easier than you may think. If your items are marked “Sterling,” “925,” or “925/1000,” your items will be sterling silver. If your items are marked “EPNS” (Electro Plated Nickel Silver), “EP” (Electro Plated), “Plated,” or “IS” (International Silver), your items are most likely silverplated. Even items marked “Quadruple Plate” are still “silverplated,” having nominal scrap silver value. If your items have no markings, many reputable jewelers and gold stores will
test your items at no charge. What’s it worth? Your sterling silver items will be worth at least the scrap silver value, and often many times scrap value if your items are highly desirable and in unblemished condition. Having nominal “scrap silver” value, most silverplate items also have nominal utilitarian value because so few want to polish silver today. Mike Ivankovich is an auc tioneer, appraiser, home downsizing expert, and host of the “What’s It Worth? Ask Mike the Appraiser” radio show that airs live on Friday mornings from 9 to 10 a.m. on WBCB 1490 AM in the Greater Philadelphia area. It is
available on the internet at www.WBCB1490.com. To learn more, readers may visit www.AskMike TheAppraiser.com.
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