DOWNINGTOWN, Pa. – Pook & Pook, Inc. is implementing new ways to cut down the environmental impact resulting from printed materials that promote their sales. The busy suburban Philadelphia auction house made a significant move toward reducing their carbon footprint when they first signed on with LiveAuctioneers.com, which enabled them to offer potential bidders not only a convenient new way to bid but also an alternative to purchasing a glossy printed catalog. Now in their 25th year, as they prepare for a March 25-26 Variety auction, they’re turning to additional electronic methods. Their “go green” promotion started with a mailer (on recycled paper) asking customers to join an e-mail mailing list so they could cut down on the number of paper mailings going out each year. The company has been very happy with the results, and their customers have reacted very positively to receiving e-mailed notifications as opposed to reminder postcards.
The upcoming auction features a wonderful array of antiques, art and accessories that are very “wallet friendly.” The Variety Sale, which will include items from six museums and historical associations, nine estates, and a hundred other consignors. More than 1,500 lots will be offered, and all may be viewed and bid on, absentee or live via the Internet as the sale is taking place, through www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
The sale will include the traditional offerings of American and Continental country and formal furniture; paintings, drawings, engravings and prints by listed artists, Oriental carpets, hooked rugs, samplers, quilts and coverlets; pottery and porcelain to include: Limoges, Chinese export, mocha, Staffordshire, art pottery, spatter, luster, redware, stoneware, pearlware and creamware.
Glass will include: Lalique, Cameo and Steuben. Other categories in the sale are woodenware, brass candlesticks, metalware, silver and silver plate, pewter; toys and trains; clocks, books, music boxes and decoys. Additionally, there will be jewelry, ephemera, weapons, weathervanes, fraktur, lamps, barometers, Native-American items including jewelry; fans, mirrors, and many other unusual, budget-priced items of excellent quality.
For additional information on any lot in the sale, call Pook & Pook at 610-269-4040 or e-mail info@pookandpook.com. View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
Top lot in the sale – a Louis Vuitton flower box, 5½ inches high by 11 inches wide, $14,000. Image courtesy Ted Wiederseim Associates Inc.
LUDWIG’S CORNER, Pa. – Ted Wiederseim, Auctioneer held an exciting two-day sale at Griffith Hall, Ludwig’s Corner, Pa., on February 26-27as a huge nor’easter bore down on the East Coast and threatened to postpone the sale. Miraculously, the storm chose another path. What was supposed to be 12 to18 inches of fresh snow only amounted to a third of that, and the sale went on as scheduled with standing-room-only crowds and heavy Internet bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com on both days.
The sale was loaded with quality smalls, redware and stoneware, Staffordshire, Delft, silver, antique guns, paintings and furniture. The Friday night session selling lots 1 thru 250, had a very German Christmas theme with Belsnickles, kugels, and other Christmas decorations. Many of the items came from the Estate of Gladys Lowa of Schwenksville, Pa., and the upscale Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia. A group of four grape-form kugels, the largest being five inches high, sold after very spirited bidding for $2,500 (all prices shown are on the hammer), while a lot of seven kugels brought $2,100. Yet another lot of nine kugels did $1,300. The late 19th-century belsnickles did equally well, with the best bringing $1,000.
Also on Friday night, a Dr. Daniels Veterinary Medicine oak display case made $2,000. Among the numerous lots of redware, a plate with “St. Fidelas Martyr” in slip decoration sold within estimate for $950. A set of German silver flatware marked “800” did $1,500; a circa-1920 cast-bronze stag-form lamp brought $1,000; and a rare Joslin’s tabletop globe sold for $2,300.
The highlight of the Friday evening session was a very well-executed oil-on-canvas painting of fishing boats by Samuel Hester Crone (American, 1858-1913), which sold on the phone to a relative of the artist for $7,000.
Saturday’s session brought both sunny skies and another packed house of enthusiastic bidders for the remaining 700+ lots. The offerings included a nice selection of Staffordshire figures, furniture, silver and pottery and also some unusual and interesting items such as a Wurlitzer Multi-Selector tabletop jukebox, which sold to an absentee bidder for $4,000.
The most notable of the Staffordshire lots included a rare black and white standing Cavalier King Charles spaniel, which realized $2,750; a standing figure of Ben Franklin, $1,300; a pair of lion spill vases, $2,300; and a pair of seated Maltese dogs, $3,000.
Although there were few lots of furniture, the pieces offered were very well received, with a Chippendale carved mahogany mirror with the maker’s label “John Elliot,” active 1775-1800, selling for $2,500, a rare Sheraton mahogany flip-top gaming table inlaid with an American eagle and rosettes, $5,250.00; a nice Queen Anne candlestand, $2,400; a Connecticut River Valley maple highboy, $5,500; a mahogany bookshelf cabinet with dentil molded cornice and glass doors, $3,750; and an unusual bird’s-eye maple bow-front chest, the skirt with an inlaid bird, $2,500.
The Saturday session also included a large collection of signed Stahl pottery, perhaps the most unusual being a dish decorated with tulips and inscribed on the back with an extensive verse about America during World War II. Signed “G.S. Stahl, March 30, 1942,” it sold for $850. A very nice Tucker porcelain pitcher with overall gilt decoration brought $4,500 and a fine pair of Bristol-type vases with scenes of the Philadelphia Waterworks and area bridges realized $2,500.
Paintings continued to be strong, with a Carl Muller (Austrian 1862-1935) oil-on-canvas harbor scene selling for $3,000. A beautifully gilt-framed Emil H. Meyer (American, 1863-) oil-on-canvas landscape of a woman standing at a fence sold for $3,000; a wonderful allegorical watercolor of Lady Liberty with an eagle soared to $6,000; and a very pleasing portrait of a young man in riding attire by Ellen Wetherald Ahrens also realized $6,000. A diminutive Walter Emerson Baum oil landscape, probably depicting Easton, Pa., and retaining its original exhibition label sold within estimate for $2,750.
The top lot in the sale was Lot 550, a small Louis Vuitton flower box measuring only 5½ inches high by 11 inches wide, opened at $4,500 and blossomed at a whopping $14,000.
Consignments are now being accepted for Wiederseim Associates, Inc.’s May 8, 2010 cataloged sale, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers.com. On May 22, 2010, the company will conduct an on-site estate sale of property of Leonard E. B. Andrews, to be held at his farm “Ponder This” in Malvern, Pennsylvania.
Click here to view the LiveAuctioneers catalog with illustrated prices realized from Wiederseim’s Feb. 26-27 auction.
Lot 104 – Samuel Hester Crone (American, 1858-1913) painting of fishing boats, oil on canvas, sold to a relative of the artist for $7,000. Image courtesy Ted Wiederseim Associates Inc. Rare Staffordshire black & white Cavalier King Charles spaniel, $2,750. Image courtesy Ted Wiederseim Associates Inc. Wurlitzer Multi-Selector tabletop jukebox, $4,000. Image courtesy Ted Wiederseim Associates Inc. Group of four grape-form kugels, the largest measuring 5 inches, $2,500 lot price. Image courtesy Ted Wiederseim Associates Inc. Lot 558 – Allegorical watercolor of Lady Liberty with eagle, $6,000. Image courtesy Ted Wiederseim Associates Inc.
Foo dogs accompany a pair carved ivory statues of an emperor and empress. Exquisitely detailed throughout, the sculptures have a $10,000-$15,000. Image courtesy of Bill Hood & Sons Art & Antique Auctions. DELRAY BEACH, Fla. – Picking up estates from Coral Gables to Vero Beach, Bill Hood & Sons Auctions will be bringing fresh antiques and art to the market on March 23. The 514-lot auction, to begin at 5 p.m. Eastern, will include antiques of all kinds and100 antique and contemporary paintings.
LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding.
Chris Hood, son of Bill and Carolyn Hood said some of the estate property belongs to people who are still living, but have decided to choose auction marketing to downsize.
Top items will be Tiffany bronze pieces, French and American antique furniture, great Russian, English and Chinese sterling, Chinese export porcelain, fine Chinese antique and 20th-century porcelains, gilt carved mirrors, lamps, Baccarat and Webb art glass, clocks, ivory and jade.
An extraordinary lot is a pair of carved ivory emperor and empress statues with on carved wooded bases. The seated figures are 37 inches high, 21 inches wide and 20 inches deep. The pair has a $10,000-$15,000 estimate.
Chris Hood said the Orientalia in the auction is particularly strong, with much ivory, jade and porcelain.
“We get some good things in this area; there are a lot of retired people with money. They bring some of their best things with them when they move here and eventually part with those items, hence the quality,” said Hood.
The Hood family has owned the business for 20 years. Chris co-founded the company with his parents. Mother Carolyn was a licensed appraiser for more than 10 years, which eventually spurred the auction business, said Chris.
For condition reports or to ask questions, e-mail info@hoodauction.com or call Chris or Bill Hood at 561-278-8996.
Absentee and phone bids are accepted. Live on-line bidding is also available.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet during the sale at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
Henri Joseph Harpignies (French, 1819-1916) painted this 19 1/2- by 13 1/2-inch oil on board. A Gallerie Charpentier label is on verso. It carries a $12,000-$18,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Bill Hood & Sons Art & Antique Auctions. Expected to sail to a $5,000-$7,000 finish is this Swedish Wasa silver enamel and jeweled ship. Stamped ‘925,’ the model is 29 inches tall and weighs 180 ounces. Image courtesy of Bill Hood & Sons Art & Antique Auctions. This period Queen Anne desk has a dovetailed case and fitted interior. It stands 36 inches high by 35 inches wide by 19 1/2 inches deep. The estimate is a modest $1,000-$2,000. Image courtesy of Bill Hood & Sons Art & Antique Auctions. Karel Appel (Dutch, 1921-2006) used mixed media to create this abstract face. The untitled work, 26 inches by 20 inches, has a $20,000-$26,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Bill Hood & Sons Art & Antique Auctions.
Chinese Ming or Qing gilt wood Shakyamuni Buddha, 25 inches high, circa 17th-18th century, $55,125. Image courtesy Dallas Auction Gallery.
DALLAS – Dallas Auction Gallery conducted its first all Asian auction March 10, which was an unqualified success.
In March 2009, DAG saw a marked increase in demand for Asian art, furniture and pottery at auction during this traditional Asian auction month, with many pieces selling well above estimated values. This held true in Wednesday’s sale.
“Our first completely Asian Auction was a great success,” said Scott Shuford, president of DAG. “Our auctions pull a large international audience, and this auction was no exception. We had live bidding from over 28 different countries.”
LiveAuctioneers provided Internet live bidding.
The sale included 317 lots from an extensive local collection plus other quality consignments from around the world. Highlights included a superb collection of antique gilt bronze Buddhas, a large group of finely carved Chinese ivory, a pair of Chinese Qing cloisonné tripod censers on stands, a Chinese Qing Qianlong Imperial blue and white porcelain “He” shaped pot and high-quality jade pieces.
Some highlights from the sale are as follows:
Chinese carved rhino horn Luohan, holding a fuchen (est. $20,000- $40,000). Provenance: important New York collection. Sold for $58,187.50.
Chinese Ming or Qing gilt wood Shakyamuni Buddha with right hand pointing to the floor (a sign of victory against the evil), with red ground (est. $10,000-$15,000). Provenance: From the collection of Victor Oppenheim, the “Father of Columbian Geology.” Circa 17th-18th century, 25 inches high. Sold for $55,125.
Chinese Qing Kangxi imperial edict written on five-color Yunjin brocade, dated the 36th year of the Kangxi period, seventh month, 19th day (est. $6,000-$9,000). Circa 1697, 17 feet long by 12 1/2 inches wide. Sold for $18,375.
Important Japanese Koransha vase by Fukagawa, the lid with a kirin finial, two phoenix shaped handles, the body with highly stylized intricate decoration, Gilt mark to underside of lid (est. $3,000-$5,000). Possibly made for the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, restoration, 28 inches high, circa 1875-1879. Sold for $8,579.
Chinese Daoguang gilt porcelain water lily jardinière (est. $3,000-$5,000). Six character mark for the Great Qing Daoguang production. Circa 1821-1850, 2 3/4 inches high by 11 inches wide. Sold for $14,700.
Chinese Qing carved ivory cup depicting figures in a landscape, having two dragon-shape handles (est. $3,000-$5,000). Provenance: Important collection in Florida. Circa late 18th or early 19th century, 8 3/4 inches high by 8 inches wide by 4 1/2 inches diameter. Sold for $15,925.
For additional information from the March 10 auction visit: www.dallasauctiongallery.com or call 214-653-3900.
Chinese carved rhino horn in the form of Luohan holding a fuchen, 4 3/4 inches high, 19th-20th century, $58,187.50. Image courtesy Dallas Auction Gallery. Chinese Qing Kangxi imperial edict written on five-color Yunjin brocade, 17 feet long by 12 1/2 inches wide, circa 1697, $18,375. Image courtesy Dallas Auction Gallery. Japanese Koransha vase by Fukagawa, possibly made for the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition, restoration, 28 inches high, $8,579. Image courtesy Dallas Auction Gallery. Chinese Qing carved ivory cup, circa late 18th or early 19th century, 8 3/4 inches high, $15,925. Image courtesy Dallas Auction Gallery.
