Horner dining set sells for more than $100,000, vintage Tiffany dominates...
A monumental circa-1890 R.J. Horner figural carved mahogany 12-piece dining room set soared to $100,300 at a cataloged auction held May 21, 2011 by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery. The set was the top lot...
View ArticleFurniture Detective: Don’t underestimate sandpaper’s ability to close wood...
Furniture Detective Fred Taylor asks after a piece of antique furniture is stripped, what happens next? The purist will say to finish it in some exotic concoction of wax and oil and leave it alone. The...
View Article1,200 lot discovery sale hides trove of 19th century New England artists
Affordable paintings, antique prints and contemporary works by listed artists are featured along with country Americana in the July 27-28, 2011 Skinner discovery auction. Tucked inside this month's...
View ArticleLouis XVI bedroom suite brings $72,000 in California antique furniture auction
At a time when furniture is down in most circles, a June 14 auction in Los Angeles delivered what bidders wanted in their antique furniture: quality, variety and provenance. A Louis XVI style gilt...
View ArticleFormer FBI agent turned author Robert Wittman’s first-ever art crime seminar...
Former FBI agent and author Robert Wittman's first-ever seminar June 13, 2011 on how the art business can protect itself against the growing threat of art crime attracted 13 attendees, including...
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More than 500 rare and vintage clocks and assorted memorabilia offered with...
An antique discovery clock auction, Aug. 27, 2011 is loaded with more than 500 rare and vintage clocks from a single-owner collection. Included in the sale are American large wall clocks and case...
View ArticleDebt crisis does nothing to slow down New Orleans auction action
In the midst of the government's debt crisis deliberations, New Orleans Auction Galleries hosted one ofits most successful sales to date July 30-31, 2011, showing signs of strength in the luxury and...
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Can I buy the original patina antiques dealers use? Sorry, come back in 100...
If you were able to ask an appraiser on TV or an auctioneer could they, in fact, precisely define the concept of patina for you? Probably not. As it turns out, the definition of patina is a lot like...
View ArticleAttendance booming at Ohio’s Country Living Fair Sept. 16-17, 2011
Stella Show Promotions filled Ohio Village, the State’s historical reproduction village, with The Country Living Fair for the fourth year at this site. Open for the weekend of September 16-18 the...
View ArticleDealers and collectors bid a soggy farewell to 2011′s Brimfield antiques show...
Weather again menaced Brimfield for this season’s final gathering September 6-11, 2011 with rain Tuesday and a storm Wednesday overnight called the hundred year rainfall by the weather reporters on TV...
View ArticleFurniture Detective: Lable identifies table as Stickley-Brandt
In his Furniture Detective column, Fred Taylor fields reader questions about a Stickley handkerchief table and a buffet thought to be made by Irwin of Mich. Read More +The post Furniture Detective:...
View ArticleThere’s no such thing as an antique coffee table
In his latest Furniture Detective column, Fred Taylor discusses the benefits that come with understanding “period” furniture and knowing that no matter what anyone tells you, coffee tables are not...
View ArticleEnjoy your high spirits on a low table
The topic of coffee tables always seems to draw much discussion about how old or not old the concept of these low tables really is. Here Furniture Detective Fred Taylor weighs in.
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