Michael Kaplenk Lidded Vessel, Image courtesy of Belhorn Auction Services.
COLUMBUS, Ohio – On Sunday, May 16, Belhorn Auction Services will disperse one of the largest single-owner collections of contemporary art pottery to come to auction in recent years – the Philip Sartore collection. Internet live bidding will be provided by LiveAuctioneers.com.
The Sartore collection includes more than 600 pieces of art pottery by artists from Indiana, the Midwest and across the United States. Highlights from the collection were recently displayed at the Richmond (Ind.) Art Museum. In preparation for that exhibit, Philip Sartore wrote the following:
“I first met potters Walt Schmidt and Barb Bihler in 1980. I purchased a teapot and cups, but not much else. In 1985, I asked Barb to make my first set of dishes – a brown rim with white on the bottom and lots of black specks. The reason for the black specks is that I like pepper and should I be out [of pepper], the black specks would give me the impression. By the late 1990s, I would see a pot and purchase it. In 1999, I met Larry Spears and he made me a pottery collector.”
Sartore continued: “I purchased art and antiques. It proved an impossible dream to afford those things. Add a bad experience, and I decided to look for contemporary art. The most affordable thing was pottery. As I met more and more potters, I saw wonderful things. These pieces may or may not be ‘art’. I think so. There are so many styles, sizes, glazes, etc.”
Sadly, Philip Sartore passed away before his collection was exhibited. After the exhibition, Philip’s family decided it best to sell the collection at auction to allow other enthusiasts the opportunity to share in Philip’s passion.
“We feel honored to offer Philip’s collection to the public,” said Greg Belhorn, auctioneer and president of Belhorn Auction Services. “It has been a real pleasure handling this pottery while getting know some of the artists who created these works. The collection represents pieces that are purely art forms as well as those that are purely functional and others that serve both purposes. Traditionally our auctions have offered antique art pottery. This auction has provided a nice break from that.”
For additional information on any piece in the sale, call Greg Belhorn at 614-921-9441 or e-mail auctions@belhorn.com.
Dutch conjuror Fred Kaps, who appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964, the same night as the Beatles performed, often used this walking stick to produce a live white rabbit. The 33-inch-long stick with faux ears on the top end and a spring-loaded rabbit tail at the tip has a $2,500-$3,500 estimate. Image courtesy of Potter & Potter Auctions.
CHICAGO – Magic specialists Potter & Potter Auctions – no relation to the young sorcerer Harry – will sell Part IV of Jay Marshall’s legendary magic memorabilia collection May 16. LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding.
Among the highlights will be apparatus of significant historic association, rare books, early posters and broadsides, and ephemera and props suitable for all levels of collectors. Twenty lots of Houdiniana will also be featured in the auction. Included are a signed Harry Houdini letter and an autographed publicity photo, each estimated at $800-$1,000.
The auction will begin at 9 a.m. Central.
Exhibition will be held during the week of May 10, with special showings arranged for attendees of the Magic Collectors’ Weekend (held in Rosemont, Ill., on the three days preceding the auction).
In several instances, magic tricks will be sold by the trunk load. Magicians who worked the chautauqua and lyceum circuits packed their acts in large trunks for transit. Passed down from famous magicians to serious collectors, these rare trunks filled with secrets of the craft carry estimates of several thousand dollars each.
Single props like Fred Kaps’ Rabbit from a Cane and a stylish Card Star made by Okito (Joe Berg) of Chicago have estimates of more than $1,000 apiece. Talk about a tough act to follow, Kaps had the distinction of following the Beatles on stage on the Ed Sullivan Show on Feb. 9, 1964.
Magician posters will include a circa 1908 three-sheet color lithograph promoting Germain the Wizard’s (Karl Germain/Charles Mattmuller) Witch’s Cauldron illusion, which has a $3,500-$4,500 estimate, and a circa 1938 three-sheet two-color lithograph for Dante (Harry August Jansen), a London magician, which is estimated at $800-$1,200. Both posters are linen backed.
Gabe Fajuri, president of Potter & Potter Auctions, and managing auctioneer Sami Fajuri, have 30 years combined experience in the antiquarian and collectibles auction trade.
Cooper & Cooper Auctions is located at 3729 N. Ravenswood Ave., Suite 116, in Chicago.
An Asian robe is one of the many props contained in this Edwin Brush/Lightner the Wizard theatrical trunk. A unique, impressive and historically significant piece of magicana from the era of chautauquas and lyceums, the trunk carries a $2,500-$3,500 estimate. Image courtesy of Potter & Potter Auctions. This three-sheet poster color lithograph poster in orange and black gave the public a glimpse of Germain the Wizard’s Witch’s Cauldron illusion, which materialized a female ghost from the flames of a fire. The circa 1908 poster, which is 41 inches by 76 1/2 inches, has a $3,500-$4.500 estimate. Image courtesy of Potter & Potter Auctions. A magician in the late 1940s used this handsomely crafted card star to produce specific playing cards on command. The lacquered wooden star stands 19 3/4 inches high with a span of 12 3/4 inches. It has an $800-$1,200 estimate. Image courtesy of Potter & Potter Auctions. Vaudeville and chautauqua magicians Imro Fox, Frank Ducrot and Eugene Laurant used this H. Aston Model 1847 percussion pistol much like a wand. Passed down from one great magician to another, this prop is expected to bring $3,000-$4,000. Image courtesy of Pottery & Potter Auctions.
The Counting, by Jeanne Johnsey and Elisabeth Isensee Courbois.
HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) – Hattiesburg becomes a virtual character in The Counting, a new novel by authors Jeanne Johnsey and Elisabeth Isensee Courbois.
Familiar places mentioned in the narrative include Hudson’s Salvage Center, the University of Southern Mississippi and Forrest General Hospital, while other businesses’ identities have been subtly changed, but will still be recognizable.
“When people ask me what ‘The Counting,’ is about, I usually tell them, in a nutshell, it is about love, betrayal, revenge, and the antique business,” said Johnsey, who has a doll shop inside Calico Mall Antiques Center in downtown Hattiesburg.
While much of the story takes place at the fictional Compton House antiques store, and all the local name-dropping adds even more reality to the tale, it is all just a figment of their vivid imaginations.
“Elisabeth and I were both familiar with the antiques business, and that’s why we chose to have our characters involved in that business,” Johnsey said.
Johnsey and Courbois met when they were both in graduate school at USM and soon discovered that they had a unique ability to write together.
“We were both in the workshop for writers, taking classes, and also teaching classes, and we both still had children at home,” Johnsey said.
“With all the activities, it was hard for each of us to find time for ourselves, to do our own writing. But if we were working together, and we each knew the other expected us to have five pages, or 10, by our next work session, we’d somehow be able to get it done, not to let the other down.”
It has taken a while to fine-tune the process, but the old friends have learned how to write fiction together. They started The Counting over a cup of coffee.
“We discussed the characters and plot,” Johnsey said. “Each one of us picked a scene to write before the next meeting. Maybe one particular character or action would especially intrigue each of us and we’d work on that one. Before the meeting, we’d e-mail pages to each other, and have suggestions ready for the next meeting. When we met again, we would read the text aloud over and over as we made changes.
“When we finally had a section to our liking, it was a great moment, worthy of celebration with Pepperidge Farm Geneva cookies. A lot of coffee and those Geneva cookies went into this book. Besides the little changes, we totally revised the book several times, wrote about twice as many pages as there were in the final book. We made lots of cuts to the final version to keep the pacing going.”
In The Counting, Ashley McLaurin leaves prison after serving eight years for a crime she did not commit. She is emotionally deadened after being disowned by her family and forced to give up custody of a child born to her in prison. All that remains is her desire for revenge.
When Ashley returns to Hattiesburg after her release, she notices that the town has really grown. That’s something Courbois, a native of the Netherlands, has also noticed since moving here in 1980.
“I first came to the U.S. because of my husband’s job,” Courbois said.
“We moved around all over the world, but the company decided not to move households anymore, so I wanted to find a nice place to raise my two boys. I was in California, and a friend told me Hattiesburg was a nice place to live. So I came and looked around and thought it was a nice place. I have seen Hattiesburg grow into a bigger city.”
Johnsey and Courbois published The Counting, through X-Libris, a print-on-demand company.
“The publishing business has gone through a lot of changes in the last decade, and getting a book to market in the traditional route is a slow process,” Johnsey said. “We became aware that a lot of new writers now are starting out by self-publishing. It gets your work out there where it can be read by people, and that is ultimately what you want, whether it is a dozen, or a thousand or more people.
“We enjoyed being able to design our own cover, take the pictures, and have it done just the way we envisioned it.”
View of the sculpture garden at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., Aug. 2007 photo by Gryffindor. WASHINGTON (AP) – The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum will be open after a UPS delivery truck broke through a barrier and crashed into the building.
Smithsonian spokeswoman Linda St. Thomas says the truck came about a foot into the circular-shaped building Monday evening and shattered a large glass window.
Authorities called in the city’s bomb squad as a precaution. St. Thomas says it appears they checked each package in the truck.
Fire Department spokesman Pete Piringer says the truck crashed through a post and a flower pot barrier along Independence Avenue. The museum had closed about three hours before the crash.
The driver of the truck sustained serious, but not life-threatening, injuries.
The cause of the crash has not been determined.
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DALLAS (AP) – Authorities say they’ve arrested a man who worked for a security company hired by the Sixth Floor Museum.
That’s where a safe was taken last week in a thwarted burglary of the building that served as a perch for President John F. Kennedy’s assassin.
Dallas County sheriff’s spokeswoman Kim Leach says 30-year-old Patrick Cleveland of Dallas was charged Friday with burglary of a building and later released on bond.
Leach said there was no information on an attorney for Cleveland. A phone listing for him was disconnected.
Leach said more arrests were expected.
Authorities say the alleged burglary was interrupted early May 4 by a security officer who fired shots at two men driving toward him in a pickup truck carrying the safe on a winch attached to the truck bed. The men abandoned the truck after crashing it.
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) – The exotic cars owned by a high-profile South Florida lawyer accused of concocting a Ponzi scheme are on display for potential bidders in a mult-million-dollar government auction.
Ten of Scott Rothstein’s cars went on display Monday outside a Miami warehouse. They will go on auction June 3 at the Broward County Convention Center. Among the cars up for sale were a Bugatti, a Lamborghini, a 2009 white Bentley and a 1967 red convertible Corvette Stingray.
The cars were forfeited to the government under an agreement in which the attorney pleaded guilty to running a billion-dollar Ponzi scheme out of his Fort Lauderdale law office. He faces up to 100 years in prison at a June 9 sentencing.
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Information from: South Florida Sun Sentinel, http://www.sun sentinel.com
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NEW YORK (AP) – An Argentine writer is trying to stop a memorabilia dealer from trying to sell what he says is one of few remaining copies of the document at the heart of the film Schindler’s List.
The document – a roster of 801 Jewish workers whom German businessman Oskar Schindler employed to spare them from Nazi concentration camps during World War II – is being offered for $2.2 million. Dealer Gary Zimet says the seller bought the 1945 document from relatives of Schindler’s accountant.
But Marta Erika Rosenberg said in a lawsuit filed last week in a Manhattan court that the proposed sale would infringe on rights bequeathed to her by Oskar Schindler’s widow, Emilie. She died in 2001.
Rosenberg, Emilie Schindler’s biographer, says she inherited the widow’s interest in the list. The document went through several revisions and eventually saved more than 1,000 Jews. A handful of other surviving copies are held in museums and archives.
The Buenos Aires-based Rosenberg wants proof that the copy Zimet is offering is genuine – and wants to block the sale if it is.
“She’s not interested in profit or fame,” said her lawyer, John P. Gleason. Her goal, he said, is “to preserve, protect and correct the historical record.”
Zimet called Rosenberg’s claims baseless, saying the document was properly obtained through channels independent of Emilie Schindler.
“The list is indisputably authentic, and she has no right to it,” said Zimet, who declined to identify the seller. His Washingtonville, New York-based business, M.I.T. Memorabilia Inc., specializes in autographs, manuscripts and other historic documents.
Schindler’s story was chronicled in the 1993 Steven Spielberg film Schindler’s List, which won best picture and other Academy Awards.
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Alexander Archipenko (Ukrainian/American, 1887-1964) created ‘Round Torso’ in 1937. The 46-inch-high polished terra-cotta sculpture has a $200,000-$300,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. CHICAGO – Leslie Hindman Auctioneers’ May 16 auction will feature American and European paintings, sculpture, fine prints, photographs and multiples. The star of the sale’s remarkable Modern and Contemporary session, Alexander Archipenko’s 1937 Round Torso sculpture ($200,000-$300,000), comes with exemplary provenance from the private collection of Michael Greenwald, Gary, Ind. The starkly elegant 46-inch high polished terra-cotta figure was originally purchased at Katherine Kuh Gallery in 1937 by collector and artist Claire Florsheim.
LiveAuctioneers will provide Internet live bidding.
Also among the auction’s modern and contemporary works, Deborah Butterfield’s Horse is estimated to bring $20,000-$40,000. The mixed media sculpture depicts a mare in fibrous, modernist form. It was acquired from the Lee Hoffman Gallery in Birmingham, Mich., by Irma Ecksel, its present owner.
Roy Lichtenstein’s Untitled HeadI ($70,000-$90,000), executed in 1970, has been in private hands since 1971, when Gray Atkinson, Sebastopol, Calif., acquired it from the Margo Leavin Gallery in Los Angeles.
Fine bronzes round out the auction’s modern sculpture selection; Lynn Chadwick’s Two ($30,000-$50,000), Fritz Wotruba’s 1964 Standing Figure ($20,000 to $30,000) and Michael Ayrton’s Re-Entry ($10,000 to $15,000) all come from private Chicago-area collections.
In the Fine Prints, Photographs and Multiples session, Pablo Picasso’s Les Repas Frugal ($120,000 to $140,000), from La Suite des Saltimbanques, represents a despondent transition between two of the painter’s most significant periods and was only his second work as a novice printmaker. Les Repas Frugal combines styles from Picasso’s melancholic Blue period and his Rose period, marked by his fascination with wandering acrobatic performers. It was acquired at R.S. Johnson International Gallery in 1972 by its current owner.
The afternoon auction’s painting offerings come with equally glowing provenance. Henri Jean Guillaume Martin’s Lisette cousant, assise sous une des tonnelles de Marquayrol ($80,000-$120,000) is the property of a Barrington Hills, Ill., collector. Elias Rivera’s Wall of Passion ($30,000-$50,000) was used as the cover for a 2006 monograph by Edward Lucie-Smith of the artist’s work; that same year, Rivba Yares Gallery celebrated the painting with an exhibition in Santa Fe, N.M.
The auction’s exhibition takes place May 12 through May 15 at 1338 W. Lake St. in Chicago’s West Loop.
Pablo Picasso’s etching ‘Le Repas Frugal’ is from an edition of 250. The work measures 18 1/8 inches by 14 3/4 inches. It has a $120,000-$140,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Roy Lichtenstein’s 1970 brass sculpture ‘Untitled Head I’ stands 25 1/2 inches tall. No. 17 of an edition of 75, it carries an estimate of $70,000-$90,000. Image courtesy of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. ‘Horse’ is a mixed media sculpture by Deborah Butterfield (American, b. 1949). It measures 26 1/2 inches by 46 inches by 11 inches and has a $20,000-$40,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. ‘Wall of Passion’ by Elias Rivera (Mexican, b. 1937) measures 80 inches by 68 inches. The 1997 oil on canvas has a $30,000-$50,000 estimate. Image courtesy of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
This carved stone statue of a young man playing bagpipes got the April 24, 2010 auction at Kamelot off to a rousing start, making $5,280, with premium, against a $1,000-$1,500 estimate. Image courtesy Kamelot.
PHILADELPHIA – Before he got into the auction business, Jeff Kamal was a collector—who soon learned that auctions are an incomparable source of art, antiques and decorative objects.
“I started buying things at auction to furnish my house,” he recalled. “I realized that there were ways I could do a better job of it.”
At the time, Kamal had a successful career in pharmaceuticals. Friends were perplexed as to why he would give it up to launch an auction house.
“People look at auction houses the same way they do funeral homes,” he said. “They think you have to be born into the business and have it handed down to you.”
Kamal founded Kamelot Auction House in 2004, opening a 15,000-square-foot showroom in the historic Atwater-Kent Building in northwest Philadelphia. In addition to abundant free parking, the site offers ready access to major highways.
Kamelot grew rapidly by making the auction process easy for consignors and buyers. The house has a trusts and estates department, which provides top-notch support to banks, law firms, museums, corporations, and estate executors. Lots are staged in attractive room-like vignettes. Free appraisals are offered on most Wednesdays. Kamal, CEO and president, developed an international client pool through LiveAuctioneers.com, where prospective bidders can browse through digital catalogs, place bids and track sales.
To set himself apart from the pack, Kamal established a niche in architectural antiques, especially elements associated with the garden. That strategy quickly took root and blossomed through an annual sale in April, ideally positioned between the Chicago Garden Show and the New York Botanical show.
“It provides the top dealers with a great opportunity to replenish their inventory before the New York show,” Kamal noted.
The 2010 sale on April 24 got off to a cracking good start. The first lot, a Vincenza stone statue of a young man with bagpipes, resonated with bidders to the tune of $5,280, including 20-percent buyer’s premium. That’s five times the $1,000 low estimate.
A pair of Continental Neoclassical cast-led garden urns with ram’s-head handles, estimated at $3,000, fetched $13,800 with premium, taking honors as the top lot of the sale.
Along with such classics as urns and statuary, Kamal likes to offer the unexpected, as in the ancient fragment of a cypress tree consigned by an entrepreneurial Alabaman.
“She goes into swamps and drags out pieces of petrified wood,” he said.
The consignor’s sweat equity paid off, with the tree bringing $1,200, including premium.
Although the high end is strong, Kamal said many consignors are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for the economy to improve.
“The middle of the market is still very difficult,” he said. “A jardinière on a stand that would have brought $400-$600 several years ago will bring $200.”
Still, the cream rises to the top. At the April 2010 garden sale, a fine example of a bronze and iron circa-1910 Oscar Bach conservatory table with marble top brought a handsome $12,000, including premium. Kamal noted that several years ago a similar piece garnered $8,000.
Every auction tells a tale, and the account of Kamelot’s top lot to date is a genuine human-interest story. The coveted item on the block was a bronze-on-mahogany pedestal of a pensive seated scribe titled Nestor the Chronicler, by Russian sculptor Mark Matveevich Antokolsky (1843-1902). The bidder in the gallery was an elderly tailor, whose family had been acquainted with the artist.
“He had saved all his life for this one thing he could cherish,” Kamal recalled.
Bidding quickly zipped past the $20,000-$30,000 estimate, with the tailor and a dealer on the phone from New York competing in an electrifying duel.
The gavel went down at $253,000, when the tailor had to drop out of the bidding.
“He was tearful—and the people in the audience had tears in their eyes, too,” he said. “Everyone in the room wanted him to win the piece, but it spiraled beyond his grasp.”
In September 2009, Kamelot hosted the aftermath of another drama, a high-profile, no-reserve sale sparked by the acrimonious divorce of billionaires Tim and Edra Blixseth. Bidders from 27 countries registered for the sale through LiveAuctioneers.
The Blixseths lived large, as evidenced by the antiques they collected to furnish the posh Yellowstone Club they built near Big Sky, Montana, including two 1875 sideboards from a French chateau, measuring 12 feet high and more than 13 feet wide.
Kamelot’s reputation as a resource for architectural elements has inspired a few unusual requests. When the Pennsylvania Lottery wanted to depict its mascot Gus the Groundhog as royalty, Kamelot got the call.
“They borrowed a bunch of big, important chairs that look like thrones,” Kamal said.
When patrons of the Philadelphia Art Museum are looking for help in transporting large sculptures and statues, curators frequently suggest asking Kamelot for advice.
“Having a reputation for being able to move heavy things isn’t always a blessing,” Kamal said.
The top lot at the spring garden sale was a set of Continental Neoclassical cast-led garden urns with ram’s head handles. The pair was expected to fetch $3,000 but bidding sprouted to $13,800. Image courtesy Kamelot. In Kamelot’s brief history, the highest-priced lot to date was "Nestor the Chronicler," by Russian sculptor Mark Matveevich Antokolsky. The piece surpassed estimates by ten-fold, garnering $253,000. Image courtesy Kamelot. Mother Nature was the artist that created this petrified cypress tree, pulled from an Alabama swamp and sold for $1,200. Image courtesy Kamelot. This Oscar Bach conservatory table is decorated with a frieze of lions and castles and supported by bronze legs with acanthus leaf detailing. It sold for $12,000, including premium, at the April 24 garden sale. Image courtesy Kamelot. One of a pair of similar monumental rosewood sideboards, this circa-1875 French piece with central cast-iron rosette sold for $7,200, with 20-percent premium, when Kamelot auctioned off the contents of an exclusive club following a billionaire breakup. Image courtesy Kamelot.
Los 218 ist der berühmte Thom Sarorstát Überdruck 1d in einem Block mit dem Fehler "Missing Accent and AT", niemals angekommen, beginnend bei 9000 Euro. (Photo – Rodgau Philatelie). Ein irisches Briefmarken Auktionshause ? In Deutschland ?
“Ja,” sagt Roy Hamilton-Bowen von Rodgau Philatelie, Eisenbahnstr. 8 in Rodgau, Deutschland. “Irische Briefmarken in deutscher Qualität” is sein Geschäftsmotto. Das Logo seiner Webseite www.hibernian-news.eu ist eine grüne Briefmarke geschmückt mit einer Harfe, einem irischen Symbol, welches aus dem 13 Jh. stammt.
Hamilton-Bowen ist geborener New Yorker, der international in London und Paris aufwuchs. Er begann bereits als Jugendlicher Briefmarken zu sammeln, irische Briefmarken begannen ihn zu faszinieren, nachdem er eine Zeit auf der smaragdgrünen Insel verbracht hatte.
In den späten 70igern des letzten Jahrhunderts begann er im Briefmarken Geschäft zu arbeiten. Auf seinem Weg schnappte er etwas Deutsch auf, endete aber schließlich in einem Vollzeit-Job des Unternehmens in Dublin.
Als im Jahr 1985 die Mehrwertsteuer von 10 auf 25 Prozent stieg, überspannte die Firma einen Kredit gegenüber einem deutschen Kunden und musste in Liquidation gehen. Hamilton-Bowen entschied sich, die Gelegenheit beim Schopfe zu packen und startete sein eigenes irisches Briefmarken Geschäft in Rodgau, Deutschland. Seine Autionen finden online aber auch per Katalog statt, er allerdings hat das Sammeln seit längerer Zeit aufgegeben.
“Ein wichtiger Kunde könnte kommen und ich würde Stücke aus meiner eigenen Sammlung nutzen, um seine Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen”, begründet er seinen Entscheidung.
Rodgau Philatelie Auktion, welches am 22. Mai geschlossen wird, hat 715 Lose irischer Briefmarken und sonstiger Postsendungen anzubieten mit einem Vorverkaufswert von insgesamt ca. 250.000 Euro..
Von besonderem Interesse sind Los 333, eine 1939 wieder-gravierte 10/ mit Überdruckdopplung in ausgezeichnetem Neuzustand mit einem Startpreis von 6000 Euro; Los 124, eine registrierter Schutzumschlag mit vermischter Überdruckfrankierung inklusive dem Dollard 1/2d mit invertiertem Überdruck, beginnend bei 3000 Euro und Los 105, das erste Exemplar der seltenen “SLIGO” Vorläufer, welches seit vielen Jahren wieder auf dem Markt ist, beginnend bei 2500 Euro.
“Ich finde die provisorischen Überdrucke aus den Jahren 1922-23 am interessantesten”, erklärt Hamilton-Bowen.
Die Jahre seiner Interessen und jüngsten Expertisen bezüglich dieser Briefmarken brachten ihm Spitzenanerkennung in der Welt der Briefmarkensammler. Sein Artikel über die provisorischen Überdrucke wurden in der Märzausgabe des London Philatelist veröffentlicht.
“Das war die höchste Auszeichnung, die ich erwarten konnte.”, bemerkt Hamilton-Bowen stolz.
Roy Hamilton-Bowen, Besitzer von Rodgau Philatelie, Rodgau, Deutschland. (Photo – Rodgau Philatelie).
Rodgau Philatelie kann kontaktiert werden unter +49 6106 3023.
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Leipziger Buchmesse zieht 156.00 Besucher an
Ein Schatz im Regal: Melzers Antiquarium, Lüdenscheid, brachte nicht nur schön gedruckte Bücher zur Leipziger Antiquariatsmesse, sondern auch ein Knopf-Muster-Buch von ca. 1890, Preis bei 2.400 Euro. (Photo von Heidi Lux).
Eine Rekordbesucherzahl genoss die Leipziger Buchmesse 2010. Das kennzeichnete auch das 16. Jahr für die Antiquariatsmesse in Halle 3 mit 69 Händlern aus Deutschland, Österreich, den Niederlanden, Ungarn, der Tschechischen Republick, Schweden und Finnland.
“Es ist eine wunderbare Messe,” notierte Michael Melzers Antiquarium in Lüdenscheid.
“Sogar Nicht-Sammler kommen hier her, um zu fragen und zu kaufen.”
Durch das Leipziger Buchkunst Museum und das Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, durchgeführte Demonstrationen uralter Drucktechniken vervollständigten die antiquariatische Erfahrung in Halle 3.
Die nächste Leipziger Buchmesse ist für den 17. – 20. März 2011 angesetzt. Wenn Sie an weiteren Details dazu interessiert sind, besuchen Sie ww.abooks.de.
Frühlings Auktionen:
Galerie Bassenge, Berlin (Grunewald):
Frühlings Auktionen: Kunst inklusiv Drucke, Gemälde, Zeichnungen und Moderne Kunst, 3. – 5. Juni; Druckgraphik des 15. – 18. Jahrhunderts und Buntpapiere 3. Juni; Druckgraphik des 19. Jahrhunderts und Verschiedenes 3. Juni; Gemälde Alter und Neuer Meister, 4. Juni; Zeichnungen des 15. – 19. Jahrhunderts, 4. Juni; Moderne Kunst Teil II, 5. Juni. www.bassenge.com
Villa Grisebach, Zürich:
Frühjahrsauktionen – Klassische und Zeitgenössische Fotografie, 3. Juni; Ausgewählte Werke, 4. Juni; Zeigenössische Kunst, 4. Juni; Kunst des 19., 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts, 5. Juni. Zweite Etage – Schätzwerte bis 3000 Euro, 5. Juni. www.villa-grisebach.de
Galerie Widmer Auktionen AG, St. Gallen, der Schweiz:„Ausgewählte Werke“ 2011 – 4. Juni. www.galeriewidmer.com
Widmer A. Dietrich
Los Nr. 60 – Adolf Dietrich (1877 – 1977), Grünspecht auf Föhrenast, 1955. Öl auf Karton. Schätzpreis: CHF 80,000- 55,000. (Foto mit freundlicher Genehmigung von Galerie Widmer).
Schweizer Kunst, von 19. Jahrehunderts, 14. Juni. www.sothebys.com
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Eine aus den USA stammende, freischaffend tätige Journalistin – Heidi Lux ist in der Nähe von Rochester, NY, aufgewachsen – und hat das Studium am Nazareth College in Rochester erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Ihr derzeitiger Wohnsitz befindet sich in Sachsen, Deutschland, wo Sie als Englisch Redakteur und Privatlehrer für Englisch arbeitet. Ihre journalistischen Arbeiten wurden sowohl in den englisch sprachigen Magazinen “Transitions Abroad” und “German Life” veröffentlicht, sowie auch in mehreren US-amerikanischen Publikationen des Antiquitätenhandels.
Eine aus den USA stammende, freischaffend tätige Journalistin – Heidi Lux ist in der Nähe von Rochester, NY, aufgewachsen – und hat das Studium am Nazareth College in Rochester erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Ihr derzeitiger Wohnsitz befindet sich in Sachsen, Deutschland, wo Sie als Englisch Redakteur und Privatlehrer für Englisch arbeitet. Ihre journalistischen Arbeiten wurden sowohl in den englisch sprachigen Magazinen “Transitions Abroad” und “German Life” veröffentlicht, sowie auch in mehreren US-amerikanischen Publikationen des Antiquitätenhandels.