2014Auction and Antiques Show Highlights

Highlights

"American Eagle.? Pook &

Pook?s two-day October

auction was led by the

Wilhelm Schimmel carved

eagle with original

polychrome surface that

attained $72,000.

Coke collectors battled it out for a one of the earliest known Coca-Cola calendars, 1900, offered at Morphy?s Advertising auction. Only one buyer was able to satisfy his habit when they paid $210,000 for the calendar, more than double the presale estimates.

"Common Cents Here?? Heritage continued to offer exemplary cents with this 1793 chain example selling at $2.35 mill ion, a record price for a penny.

Brock W. Jobe, Winterthur Museum?s professor of American decorative arts, accepted the ADA Award of Merit at a dinner in his honor during the Philadelphia Antiques Show.

Bridges Over Time, Newburgh, N.Y. offered a tasteful mix of Mid-Century Modern at the 34th annual Baltimore Summer Antiques show in August.

Time To Retire? ?When I look back at my career, the objects are wonderful memories, but it was all of the friends and relationships that gave me the most satisfaction,? commented Robert Eldred as he stepped down as chief executive off icer of the Robert C. Eldred auction company after 45 years. Here, in a photo from 1989, he shows a stoneware crock that sold for $39,600.

?Big Bang Theory.? James D. Julia?s March f irearms sale saw record results. This this rare presentation double cased Colt set, given to General W.A. Thornton by Colonel Colt hammered down at $224,250.

?Bonnie get your Gun.? It wasn?t the highest grossing lot ever sold, but it ?created the most buzz of any item ever sold at Case Auctions.? This nickel-plated .38 caliber pistol found hidden in Bonnie Parker?s clothing after she was gunned down, realized $99,450.

"Nice, not naughty"? Santa brought a nice price during the Ralph Esmerian auction at Christie?s Americana auction on January 25. The Samuel Robb carved f igure rose to $875,000.

"Breakfast - the most important meal of the day.? A perennial favorite, the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show was once again was a crowd-pleaser. Massachusetts dealer Peter Eaton put a red sold tag on this country Queen Anne breakfast table in old red paint shortly after showing it to a client.

Management of the Palm Beach Group was beaming during the highly successful West Palm Beach Jewelry, Arts and Antiques Show . From left, Laurie Green, CEO Scott Diament and Robert Samuels, vice president.

High style: the unusual high-wheeled bike at Copake?s April bicycle auction, sped off to a museum for $42,120.

Daniel and Karen Olson, Newburgh, N.Y., were among 96 exhibitors that f il led Memorial Hall East at the York Fair-grounds and Convention Center for the Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show & Sale that show manager Melvin ?Butch? Arion conducts.

?Not To Be Taken.? Glass Works Auctions? September auction featured a choice coff in-form poison bottle embossed ?Not To Be Taken.? One buyer took it away for $11,500.

?Almost a f lock.? The Martin Brothers triple bird tobacco jar was the top lot of David Rago?s Twentieth Century auction in March, selling at $111,750.

Its important history recorded in its tatters, this D-Day 48-star ensign f lown from the LST-493 supplying the Normandy beach head was also f lown on the beaches of Gold, Juno, Utah and

The Germania Exchange Bank by J&E Stevens had Bob Brady provenance, so it sold well above presale estimates at RSL Auctions in June, depositing $90,000.

Babe Ruth items were hit out of the ballpark ? $1,028,500 for his signed contract with the Boston Red Sox from 1918 and $204,000 for his game-used bat from

Morristown has been a destination for antiques enthusiasts for years. No wonder with booth like this one presented by Roger Winter.

AD 20/21, presented by Fusco and Four, anchored the inaugural run of Boston Design Week in 2014. This contemporary bentwood and laminated furniture was offered at Kino Guerin, Quebec, Canada.

A hot t icket with its six silver bands and shell-carved ivory grips, this cased Colt No. 5 Texas Patterson commanded $805,000 at Rock Island Auction?s f irearms sale.

He spent 13 years as the Lawrence Fleischman chairman of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Morrison Heckscher stepped down on July 1, replaced by Sylvia Yount.

Not For Sale!

?A Big Blue Bottle.? Peachtree & Bennett?s October auction offered the rare gallon-sized Harrison?s

Decoys continued to bring strong prices throughout the spring, with this one-of-a-kind, premier grade wood duck by the Mason Decoy Factory leaving Guyette and Deeter?s auction for a record price of $690,000.

The conoid George Nakashima black walnut bench was used in the furniture maker?s showroom and when asked to sell it, he refused. He reconsidered and parted with the special bench that realized $79,950 at Skinner.

Alexander McQueen?s masked mesh dress from the Hunger collection sold for $22,800 at Charles Whitaker auction.

The Clark family American Gothic rosewood and marble center table, circa 1840, was the center of attention at New Orleans Auction Gallery?s May auction, bringing

The Flying Spaceman with Superman rider f lew out of Morphy?s February toy sale at $55,200.

The Tif fany Studios Wisteria pattern lamp wound its way to a selling price of $437,000 at Christie?s Twentieth

?How cool is that.?

The Finn Juhl ?Chieftain? armchair comfortably achieved $55,000 among the Twentieth Century offerings at Philadelphia auction house Freeman?s.

?No getting Buffaloed here.? This 1911 Pierce four-cylinder motorcycle

manufactured in Buffalo, N.Y., was snatched up by a collector from

Buffalo for $166,750.

Small change, big money at Heritage Auctions May coin sale in New York City, as this rare 1792 silver center one cent piece, one of the earliest and most famous coins from all 1792 coin patterns, sold for $1.41 mill ion.

The Pavo Tynell chandelier sold over estimates at Westport Auction in December bringing $84,000.

It was purchased in 1910 and presented as a wedding anniversary present. This Frederick H. Rhead vase, discovered during a cleanout of the family?s home, was sold by Pasadena, Calif ., auctioneer John

This Ross blade survived from the Woodland period, Hopewell phase (200-1500 BC), Slightly more than 8 inches long, it took $276,000 at Morphy?s prehistoric auction in May.

The price was anything but f lat for this Minton ?f lat iron? teapot sold at Strawser?s in November for $42,000.

A magical look was captured in Maine dealer Dennis Raleigh?s booth at the Brandywine Antiques Show in May.

?A Princely Desk.? Twentieth Century furniture brought premium prices in New York including this desk by Eugene Printz, circa 1932, that realized $845,000 at Sotheby?s.

?PLEASEEE, Mom. Can I have It!!!? A Ferrari 250 GTO sent hearts racing and the bids soaring as Bonhams bested its own auction record for a car when it achieved $38 mill ion at the Quail Lodge sale in August.

The highly ornate shoe store sign made of colorful leaded glass ran to a f inal price of $109,350 at Julia?s toys, dolls and advertising auction in June.

The original Cowardly Lion costume worn by Bert Lahr in The Wizard of Oz roared off the auction block at $3.07 mill ion at Bonham?s in November.

?Fitch some paper and type a letter, please.? The rare ?Fitch Type Writer? from 1891 brought $30,700 at Team Breker in Koln, Germany.

?Go West Young Man.? The Thomas Molesworth club chairs from the Historic Plains

?King of the Forest.?

Lucy Grogan shows off an Art Deco Jadeite necklace that was sold during the inaugural sale at Grogan?s new gallery located on prestigious Charles Street. The necklace sold at $90,000.

?No thorns on this Rosebud.? Featured at Bertoia?s November toy sale, ?Rosebud,? the name collector Max Berry gave to his Ives cutter sleigh, sold for an impressive $234,000.

Buyers made no bones about how interested they were at Louis Dianni?s 5th annual West Point/Garrison?s Landing auction in August when this mastodon skull and jaw crossed the auction block. It was found buried on a local farm and sold for $22,420.

?Its About Time.? The Lalique topaz glass le jour et la nuit clock was a ringer at Heritage Auctions selling at $47,000.

?The South Rises Again.? Southern furniture continued to rise in popularity with this Chippendale china press, late Eighteenth Century selling at $44,840.

?Fashionably French.? One of many French dealers participating in The Salon of Art + Design was Galerie Diane de Polignac, Paris.

Shaker dealer John Keith Russell acquired this lovely washstand in ochre at Will is Henry?s annual Shaker auction in September. Selling for $206,500, the stand was made in 1862.

?Wow Factor.? This luminous Tif fany favril le glass and patinated bronze f loral bouquet chandelier proved to be a win-ner at Bonham?s selling for $197,000.

An old-time collection of art glass saw substantial interest at Flannery Auction, Pine Bush, N.Y. One of many spar-kling lots offered, this one changed hands for

?Take me to your Leader.? The Machine Man tin litho robot from the 1950?s led Phill ip Weiss? November auction selling at

Realizing a record $102,500, this pie safe from the Shenandoah Valley was a notable slice of the action at Nicely?s Auction

?Play it again Sam.? The piano from Casablanca sold at Bonham?s November ?No Place Like Hollywood? auction for $3.4 mill ion.

A bounty of modern wares was on offer during Rago?s trifecta of Modern and Twentieth Century auctions in mid-October. The massive welded steel and bronze sculptural cabinet by Paul Evans sold at$183,750.

?Pulling Teeth.? Marine antiques dealer Andrew Jacobson pulled this tooth, decorated by Frederick Myrick, circa 1829, out of Skinner?s American auction in October for $123,000.

The most recent show to join Antiques Week in New Hampshire is Karen DiSaia?s Antiques in Manchester. Now in its third year, the show featured, among others, Jeffery Tillou, Litchf ield, Conn.

A record-breaking Dorf linger Montrose punchbowl set attained $132,000 at DuMouchelle?s three-day glass auction in September. The 15-piece green-to-clear glass set f lew well over its $10/15,000 estimate to set a new auction record.

? The ?Inverted Jenny? is iconic among stamps. This unique plate block of four misprinted stamps sold at The Mystic Stamp Company for a record price of more than $4.8 mill ion.

The September edition of Brimfield Week is busy as buyers rush around to f il l up at the market?s f inal show of the year. Here, buyers rush onto the f ield May?s Market.

As Antiques Week in Manchester came to a close, the Pickers Market Antiques show wrapped up the popular event with dealers like Jim Yeager, Lees Summit, Mo.

Consignor Ted Kurtz shows off this John Brewster Jr. portrait of Marcia Ingraham, circa 1832, that was the top lot at Caddigan Auctioneer?s August on-site sale. The rare portrait caused some excitement when it sold for $413,000,

?A Good Game.? Skinner?s annual Americana in August auction were surprised when these two f ine gameboards soared over their $800/1,000 presale estimates to bring $30,750 each.

At the peak of leaf peeping season in New England, it?s also antiques season as Vermont Antiques Week presents f ive antiques shows in four days. The Nutting House, New Paltz, N.Y. exhibited at the Magic Mountain Antiques Show.

Probably made on Monhegan Island in Maine by Gus Wilson, the eider drake decoy was claimed by Connecticut dealer Arthur Liverant for $767,000 at

Crocker Farm?s tenth anniversary auction was a celebration as this rare Fort Edward stoneware crock decorated in co-balt with Civil War soldiers marched to $402,900. The Chippendale carved mahogany

bombe chest from the Jarvis family found a new home for $485,000 when it sold at Christie?s Americana week

Flying out of Copley?s July auction of decoys and sporting art was this Gus Wilson open bill eider drake at $330,000.

The most valuable piece of merchandise seen Masterpiece London in June was this 1912 Cartier corsage at Symbolic and Chase?s stand. The necklace sold in the opening days in excess of $20 mill ion.

One of the f inest examples of Anna Pottery?s temperance snake jugs was sold by Crocker Farm in November. It established a record price selling at $87,400.

Those attending the 57th annual New Hampshire Antiques Show presented by the New Hampshire Dealers Association were treated to many stellar presentations, such as this one from Stephen-Douglas.