Marla Maples. Image provided by Kaminski Auctions.
BEVERLY, Mass. – Kaminski Auctions will auction the personal collection of Marla Maples and Tiffany Trump on day two of their Annual Thanksgiving auction. The auction will be held at their auction gallery in Beverly, Massachusetts, on November 30th and December 1st. LiveAuctioneers will provide the Internet live-bidding services for the sale.
A portion of the proceeds from Marla Maples’ collection will benefit a cause very dear to her heart: the newly formed Brain Cancer Research Institute headed by Santosh Kesari in San Diego, California. Having first hand experience with a loved one battling brain cancer, Maples knows how important this research is to finding the cause and treatment of this terrible disease.
Featured from the collection is an Art Deco solid bronze Erte sculpture on a marble basevalued at $2,000-$3,000. Also highlighted is a wonderful Val St. Lambert Jupiter vase with 24K gold applied decoration.
Original furnishings from the consignors’ Trump Tower residence include a modern designer sideboard with coral type veneer and brass inlay, circa 1980s. The lot also includes three photographs of the sideboard in situ at the Trump residence. There is also a pair of designer chrome and beveled glass side tables, also part of the original furnishings at Trump Towers, New York.
Art from the collection includes an oil on canvas scene of children climbing a ladder signed “O. Tanner” purchased byDonald Trump for Marla Maples, along with multiple personal photographs and other interesting memorabilia from the couple’s years together. These personal effects include a “Rich Donald/Poor Donald” doll given to Donald Trump by David Letterman on his show in the late 1980s.
There is a fabulous original Escada trunk with brass locks stamped “Escada” and accompanied by a travel tag marked “Maples/Trump” with the original Trump Towers address. The trunk is conservatively valued at $2,000-$2,500. Other personal items of interest include a bottle of 1945 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, given to Marla and Donald Trump at their wedding. This special bottle of wine is valued at between $3,000 and $5,000.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
This yellow pine pie safe was made in Virginia in the 19th century. It is 65 inches high. An eager buyer paid $3,159 for it at a Pook & Pook auction in Downingtown, Pa., in April 2013.
BEACHWOOD, Ohio – It’s time to think about Thanksgiving and the abundant dinner expected for the holiday. Tradition today suggests a menu of turkey with stuffing, cranberry sauce, creamed onions, sweet potatoes and apple or pumpkin pie. A green-bean casserole and deep-fried turkey are newer ideas. But the first Thanksgiving probably featured very different food: deer, turkey, wild birds, perhaps even passenger pigeons, fish, clams, mussels, some nuts and a grain called maize that was used to make bread.
But by later Colonial times, pies were popular for a main course when filled with meat and for dessert when made with fruit. There were no refrigerators, not even ice boxes, but a cooked pie could be safely stored for about a week if kept away from bugs and mice. A “pie safe” was used for food storage by the 19th century, especially in the Midwest. A wooden cupboard on four tall thin legs was made with shelves and drawers. But the sides and the cupboard doors had panels made of pierced tin. The sharp edges of the holes kept out most creatures and the holes let in air so the cooked fruit did not create mold. The cabinet was kept on a porch on the cool, shaded side of the house.
Collectors today like handmade informal kitchen furniture. The best pie safes had tin panels with the holes placed in attractive patterns. Sometimes the tin or the wood was painted. Some experts today say a pie can stay on a shelf for two or three days and still be OK to eat. Refrigerating a fruit pie lowers the quality the pie.
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Q: My mother has some Royal Doulton figurines of women dressed in elaborate ruffled hoop skirts, bonnets and shawls. But one figurine seems a bit risque for Royal Doulton. She is wearing a tight, revealing dress while sprawled on a couch. Could it be a fake?
A: The Royal Doulton figurines made by Doulton and Co. after 1902 were made to sell in gift shops. Most of the figurines were sentimental, lovable, beautiful ladies from a more romantic century. But one of Doulton’s designers, Leslie Harradine, made small anthropomorphic animals and other figures that were unusual. He designed several figurines of women lounging on couches in provocative poses. One called “Dreamland,” made in the 1930s, was in the Art Deco style. Another, “Siesta,” made between 1928 and 1938, featured a shapely blond in a flimsy dress leaning on a sofa covered with a pink shawl. Both of these figurines are rare and expensive today. Siesta sold in 2013 for $1,560. Dreamland was listed a few years ago for $7,000, but is worth a little less today. The fame of the artist is the reason the figurines sell for high prices.
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Q: A gumball machine was left in a commercial building we bought back in 1968. There is a one-cent decal on the glass top. A metal label on the silver lip where the gum comes out reads, “Parkway Machine Corp., 715 Ensor St., Baltimore 2. Md.” Can you give me any information about the machine?
A: Parkway Machine was founded in 1938 by Irv Kovens. He was a Baltimore cab driver who repaired and sold stamp machines on the side. Parkway Machine initially repaired vending machines. The company began selling vending machines and supplies in 1941. Your gumball machine was made between 1943, when one- or two-digit postal zone numbers were first used, and 1963, when five-digit ZIP codes were introduced. In 1999 the company’s name became A&A Global Industries. It’s still in business, run by members of the Kovens family, but is now based in Cockeysville, Md.
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Q: I have a grayish foot warmer about 11 1/2 inches long. The words in blue on the top are “Henderson Foot Warmer.” The bottom is marked “Dorchester Pottery Wks., Boston, Mass.” There is a brass screw filler with a chain attached to the neck. On the filler it says “Pat. Nov. 15, 1912.” What would this foot warmer be worth today?
A: George Henderson founded Dorchester Pottery in Dorchester, Mass., in 1895. The pottery made jugs, jars, flower pots, butter pots, specialty items and, later, dinnerware. Henderson was granted a patent for “a new and useful improvement in taps or nipples for earthenware containers” in 1912. He designed a metal screw-off tap that was used in place of a rubber stopper. The Henderson foot warmer became one of Dorchester Pottery’s most popular products. The pottery made foot warmers until 1939. The pottery went out of business in 1979. The value of your foot warmer is $50-$100.
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Q: Can you please give me information about my Ivanhoe three-burner stove with an extra side burner?
A: Ivanhoe kerosene stoves were made by the Perfection Stove Co. of Cleveland. The earliest Ivanhoe stoves, probably introduced around 1930, had a single burner. Ivanhoes with two or three burners plus a side burner were made later. Once electricity and gas were installed in houses across the country, the market for kerosene stoves and ovens dried up. Stoves like yours sell for $100 to $300, depending on condition.
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Tip: When cleaning a chandelier, do not spin it around. This could damage the wiring or the chain holding it. Instead of moving the fixture, move your ladder around it.
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CURRENT PRICES:
Current prices are recorded from antiques shows, flea markets, sales and auctions throughout the United States. Prices vary in different locations because of local economic conditions.
Bed warmer, copper, pierced bird design, long wooden handle, c. 1865, 43 inches, $180.
Tiffany pie server, silver, Thanksgiving pattern, serrated edge, year 2000, 10 5/8 inches, $190.
Honey pot, glass, silver base and lid, embossed Hebrew text, c. 1980, 3 3/4 inches, $225.
Wedgwood pie dish, lid, caneware, relief-molded game and grapevines, hare finial, oval, c. 1860, 12 inches, $250.
Horse-drawn toy dray wagon, driver, cast iron, red paint, Wilkins, 20 1/2 inches, $305.
Spode Thanksgiving plates, central turkey, flower and fruit border, 10 3/4 inches, 12 pieces, $325.
Shaker box, pine and maple, Mt. Lebanon, N.Y., c. 1850, 1 3/4 x 4 inches, $375.
Arts & Crafts umbrella stand, oak, tapered, c. 1915, 30 x 15 inches, $565.
John. F. Kennedy press pin, Election Night pass, green, cardboard back, 1960, 3 1/2 inches, $2,210.
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This yellow pine pie safe was made in Virginia in the 19th century. It is 65 inches high. An eager buyer paid $3,159 for it at a Pook & Pook auction in Downingtown, Pa., in April 2013.
Vincente Palmaroli (Italian, 1834-1896), Oil on Board ‘Beautiful Woman,’ Signed, Image 26 ½in x 14 ¼in, Overall 30 x 17in. Chamberlain’s image. CLARKSTON, Mich. – The ice bucket will be chilled and the hors d’oeuvres will be waiting for a virtual cocktail party on December 6th. That’s when Chamberlain’s Auction Gallery will be hosting its Holiday Champagne Auction, with Internet live bidding through LiveAuctioneers. A 233-lot evening event commencing at 7 p.m. Eastern, the auction will feature a carefully chosen selection of exquisite antiques and vintage collectibles whose quality would please even the most discriminating collector
Among the highlights to be auctioned are 19th-century French clocks, a pair of signed Tiffany & Co. Favrile candlestick lamps (est. $3,000-$4,000), Pairpoint lamps, and fine 19th-century furniture. A circa-1770 George III green and gilt japanned long-case clock is signed on its face: “Robert Gratrese, London.” It is estimated at $7,000-$9,000.
An array of 18th and 19th-century paintings will cross the auction block at Chamberlain’s, including a David Burliuk (Ukranian, 1882-1967) oil on board titled “Flowers.” It measures 24 by 20 inches and is estimated at $7,000-$9,000. Another top painting is a signed, 26½ by 14¼ in Vincente Palmaroli (Italian, 1834-1896) oil on board titled “Beautiful Woman.” Estimate: $5,000-$6,000. An outstanding 19th-century Italian hand-carved wood sculpture with pedestal of a nude, titled “Figure Seated on Dragon,” stands 63½ inches tall. It is expected to make $5,000-$6,000.
A stocking stuffer no lady would refuse is the pair of 18K white gold drop earrings with snakelike pave-diamond dangles grasping two large rubies with a total ruby weight of 11.59 carats. The estimate on these most unusual earrings is $17,000-$19,000.
For additional information on any item in the auction, call 248-241-6588 or e-mail cag@chamberlainsauction.com.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
Vincente Palmaroli (Italian, 1834-1896), Oil on Board ‘Beautiful Woman,’ Signed, Image 26 ½in x 14 ¼in, Overall 30 x 17in. Chamberlain’s image.
Pair Napoleon III Renaissance Revival Six Light Gilded Bronze Candelabra, 25 ¼in h., 12 ½in diameter. Chamberlain’s image.
Early 19th Century Mantel Clock, 19 ½in h., 13 ¾in w., 4 ¾in diameter. Chamberlain’s image.
Early 19th Century Hand-Carved Wooden Figural Wall Shelf, 33in h., 19 1/2in w., 14in diameter. Chamberlain’s image.
David Burliuk (Ukranian, 1882-1967), Oil on Board, ‘Flowers,’ Signed, Image 24in x 20in. Chamberlain’s image.
Outstanding 19th Century Italian Hand-Carved Wood Sculpture ‘Figure Seated on Dragon’ with Pedestal, Overal 53 1/2in h., 24in wide. Chamberlain’s image.
George III Green Lacquer Long-Case Clock, Signed on Face ‘Robert Gratrese, London,’ Circa 1770, 91in h., 19 ½in w., 9in deep. Chamberlain’s image.
Pair Outstanding “Tiffany & Company” Candlestick Lamps, Each Signed on Base and Shade ‘LCT Favrile,’ Very Good Condition, 12in high, 7 ½in diameter. Chamberlain’s image.
Montmorenci Stair Hall at Winterthur, elegantly decked out for the holidays with garlands, poinsettias and other Christmas decorations. Image courtesy of Winterthur.GREENVILLE, Del. (AP) – The Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library in Delaware is giving visitors an early look at Christmas and the history behind light displays.
The museum that once was Henry Francis du Pont’s country mansion has opened its annual holiday decorations display. The show had a soft opening Saturday and will run through Jan. 5.
The News Journal reports this year’s “Yuletide at Winterthur” show celebrates holiday lighting traditions, such as the Swedish-American tradition of decorating a tin candelabra with fringed paper in the early 20th century.
Winterthur has made a specialty in its celebration of American Christmas traditions as a museum of decorative arts.
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Montmorenci Stair Hall at Winterthur, elegantly decked out for the holidays with garlands, poinsettias and other Christmas decorations. Image courtesy of Winterthur.The famed Winterthur Dried Flower Tree’s first appearance was in 1978, the same year of the first Yuletide at Winterthur. It has been part of Winterthur’s Christmas theme ever since, with decorations that change every year. Many visitors come to Winterthur especially to see this tree. Image courtesy of Winterthur.There are so many visual delights to enjoy at Winterthur, especially during the Christmas holidays. Image courtesy of Winterthur.A giant live Christmas tree is erected every year in the Museum Conservatory at Winterthur, in keeping with a practice started by Winterthur’s founder Henry Francis du Pont. Du Pont would always buy a live tree from a local farm, a tradition that is followed to this day. Image courtesy of Winterthur.
Dome of the Vermont Statehouse, topped by a statue of Ceres. Photo by Jim Hood, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) – From the top of the golden Statehouse dome, Ceres, the Roman goddess of agriculture, has endured Vermont’s long winters, blizzards, Tropical Storm Irene, high winds and the sun’s glare for more than 70 years. Now the wooden sculpture is getting a touch-up.
Crews have been working on top of the dome under a tent of plastic, repairing rotted sections and repainting the roughly 15-foot-high sculpture.
The $18,000 project is expected to be finished by next month, weather permitting, said Tricia Harper, the state’s architect.
The hand-carved piece replaced an original sculpture called Agriculture by sculptor Larkin Mead that had rotted. In 1938, during the Great Depression, the 87-year-old sergeant at arms, Dwight Dwinell, took on the task of whittling the head, and the custodial staff carved the body of the folk-art piece.
“The resulting copy was not a very faithful replica of Mead’s work of fine art but is now appreciated as an outstanding example of Vermont folk art,” said Statehouse Curator David Schutz.
The original 14-foot statue was approved by the commissioners overseeing the reconstruction of the Statehouse in January 1858, Schutz said. They picked the simplest proposals from sketches Mead had submitted, including some that incorporated other symbols of farming, such as a plow and animals, he said.
Schutz speculates that the most engaged commissioner, George Perkins Marsh, may have chosen the agriculture theme, referring to the piece as an allegory rather than a goddess, as the statue eventually became known.
“An early rendering of the proposed Statehouse shows the figure of Freedom on top of the dome, so eventually Agriculture prevailed,” Schutz said.
Crews from Liszt Historical Restoration, of Essex Junction, have removed the peeling, cracked paint of the sculpture, replaced rotten portions, and sanded and prepped it for painting. This week they added an elastomeric paint, which allows moisture vapor to exit the sculpture but doesn’t let in water. A second coating was mixed with sand for texture.
They are also doing repairs to some of the balusters in the roughly 5-foot railing that surrounds the base. They will install some vents by drilling small holes in the back of the sculpture — on the north side, which doesn’t see much sun and tends to rot. The small holes will allow moisture to escape, reducing the chance of rot.
Paul List, owner of Liszt Historical Restoration _ which uses a different spelling of the family name — says he’s talking with the state about more frequent maintenance to keep the sculpture in solid shape. It moves a bit in high winds.
“You’ll seal the cracks and just ongoing stuff,” he said, “so you don’t wind up having to do a full-scale restoration all the time.”
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Dome of the Vermont Statehouse, topped by a statue of Ceres. Photo by Jim Hood, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.
Curt Swan original cover art for Action Comics #309 featuring Superman family and JFK disguised as Clark Kent. Probably the only remaining original art from this controversial issue, which came out the week after President Kennedy’s assassination. Estimated at $50,000-$75,000, it sold for $112,015. Photo: Hake’s Americana & CollectiblesYORK, Pa. – Richly visual, historically significant and unique in the dictionary sense of the word, the original Curt Swan cover art for Action Comics #309 helped rewrite the record books at Hake’s when it closed at $112,015 on day three of the company’s Nov. 19-21 auction. The sale achieved $1,346,848 (inclusive of 15% buyer’s premium), making it the highest-grossing Hake’s auction since the company’s launch in 1967.
An extraordinary treasure to comic art collectors, Swan’s eye-filling cover art for Action Comics #309 is believed to be the only surviving original art from the issue DC Comics tried to recall in the week following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination. Coincidentally, the issue’s storyline – which included all of the members of the “Superman family” – focused on The Man of Steel’s friendship with President Kennedy, disguised as Clark Kent.
“While there was nothing at all disrespectful about the comic book’s portrayal of JFK as Clark Kent, a comic book is still entertainment, and its release might have seemed inappropriate at a time when America was grieving over the death of its president,” said Hake’s General Manager Alex Winter. “Although DC Comics did its best to recall the issue, the distribution process was already too far along for it to be stopped. As a result, Action Comics 309, and the cover art we sold, will always have a connection to history.”
In claiming top-lot honors, the Swan cover art became the second-highest-priced item ever sold by Hake’s. On September 27, 2007, the Pennsylvania-based firm auctioned a pair of rare, giant display dolls of Walt Disney’s Mickey and Minnie Mouse for $151,534.35.
The auction also contained rare 1920s-’30s Disney toys from the collection of the late children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak.
Curt Swan original cover art for Action Comics #309 featuring Superman family and JFK disguised as Clark Kent. Probably the only remaining original art from this controversial issue, which came out the week after President Kennedy’s assassination. Estimated at $50,000-$75,000, it sold for $112,015. Photo: Hake’s Americana & Collectibles
COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) – Texas A&M University is expanding its College of Liberal Arts by about 10 percent, leading to the largest hiring campaign in the program’s history.
The Bryan Eagle reports the college wants 19 new tenured professors and another 15 assistant professors. College dean Jose Luis Bermudez says the staff will expand from about 330 to 364 people and ultimately he hopes to have more than 400 on his staff.
Bermudez says all the departments will grow. He plans to spend about $3.5 million to fill the posts and plans to have the staff in place by the 2014 academic year.
Bermudez says the hires will lower the college’s current 17-1 student-to-teacher ratio, allowing it to “give students individual attention and to be more active participants in class.”
Original Polaroid print of Farah Fawcett by Andy Warhol. Image courtesy of LiveAuctioneers.com Archive and Dreweatts and Bloomsbury.
LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Ryan O’Neal snatched an Andy Warhol portrait of his ex-lover Farrah Fawcett from her home shortly after she died, even though he knew the work was not his, lawyers claimed Monday.
But as a long-awaited trial opened in Los Angeles, a lawyer for the veteran actor claimed he was the rightful owner of the painting, with an estimated value of up to $12 million.
The University of Texas, where the “Charlie’s Angels” star studied as a young woman, sued O’Neal in August 2011 after the disputed canvas was spotted in the actor’s home during an episode of reality TV show “Ryan and Tatum: The O’Neals.”
The university says Fawcett bequeathed all her artwork to her alma mater when she died, and it insists the Warhol painting should be displayed in a museum next to a near-identical portrait of the late actress.
The university’s lawyer, David Beck, told a Los Angeles jury that O’Neal removed the work from Fawcett’s Wilshire Boulevard condominium shortly after she died of cancer on June 25, 2009, aged 62.
“We need your help to resolve a dispute as to who really owns this Warhol painting,” he said in his opening statement in the LA Superior Court.
Fawcett “had possession and control of these two paintings on the day she died and for years before that,” the university’s lawyer said, claiming O’Neal knew that when he drove away with the disputed canvas.
“He didn’t tell anyone what he was going to do, and he didn’t tell anyone what he had done,” Beck said.
But O’Neal’s attorney Martin Singer said the university was trying to take away the one portrait the 72-year-old actor has of “the love of his life, Farrah Fawcett.”
“One iconic portrait of Farrah Fawcett is not enough,” he told the six-man, six-woman jury, referring to the Warhol near-duplicate the university already has.
While the university says the portrait is worth about $12 million, O’Neal’s lawyer estimated its value at just under $1 million, adding: “The University of Texas should have been satisfied with what they got.”
Fawcett was born in Texas and went to college there for three years, but left without graduating after being “discovered” and moving to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career.
But she remained loyal to her alma mater. “Farrah never forgot where she came from,” Beck said.
Outlining his case, the university’s lawyer said the creator of a reality show called “Chasing Farrah,” Craig Nevius, will testify about overhearing a conversation between O’Neal and Fawcett after she was diagnosed with cancer.
“I want something to remember you by … How about giving me one of those Warhols?” O’Neal asked Fawcett, according to Beck, who said the question proved that the actor knew both portraits belonged to Fawcett.
But O’Neal’s lawyer said Warhol gave one portrait to Fawcett and the other to O’Neal.
The actor kept the painting from 1980-98, turning it over to Fawcett only after they temporarily split, because he did not feel comfortable about other female friends seeing it at his home, said Singer.
The couple got back together in 2001 after O’Neal was diagnosed with leukemia. The portrait went back and forth between their homes, but O’Neal decided to leave it at her home when she became seriously ill, he said.
The trial continues Tuesday.
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Frederick Frieseke, ‘On the Beach (Girl in Blue),’ est. $600,000-$800,000. Heritage Auctions image.NEW YORK – Frederick Frieseke’s masterpiece On the Beach (Girl in Blue) is expected to bring $600,000+ in Heritage Auctions’ Dec. 5 American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Signature® Auction, part of a two-day presentation of fine and decorative arts in New York, starting with Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass Dec. 4 and the inaugural Art of New York Signature® Auction also on Dec. 5. Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.
Frieseke’s On the Beach is being offered at auction from a private collection following a century of appearing in public exhibits and publications, said Brian Roughton, Director of American and European Art.
“This is a very important transition piece for Frieseke,” Roughton said. “It marks a movement away from the use of tonal “color fields” and the start of painting en plein air and employing natural sunlight on his female models.”
Among the historic and important works in the auction is Torch Bearers by Anna Hyatt Huntington, a heroic monument and the most significant work by the artist to come to market. The monument is expected to bring $400,000+ and is offered to benefit the Discovery Museum and Planetarium of Bridgeport, Conn., with proceeds to directly benefit science and engineering programs and exhibits.
Roman Bronze Works was hired to cast the work in bronze in 1963, an undertaking which took months to complete. “Torch Bearers symbolizes the passing of the torch of civilization and progress from one generation to the next,” said Aviva Lehmann, Director of American Art at Heritage’s New York location. “There are only four other known examples of ‘Torch Bearers’ in existence, with the other examples, cast in aluminum rather than in bronze , located in Havana, Cuba, at the University of Madrid in Spain, the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, and the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia.”
Additional highlights include Lucinda, Mexican Girl, 1916 by Robert Henri, which could sell for $400,000+. Purchased the year it was finished and passed down through the family to the current owner, the work was initially exhibited in 1916 and 1917 during the height of Henri’s success as the leader of the avant-garde Ash Can School.
Another highly anticipated painting is A Summer Vacation, by Edward Henry Potthast, which is expected to sell for $150,000+. Perros-Guirec, Côtes du Nord, France, by Childe Hassam, is expected to hammer for $100,000+.
Bathers by Max Weber exemplifies the artist’s work during the pivotal period from 1909 to 1912, when he transitioned from his early Fauvist compositions to his mature Cubist style. Painted in 1910, two years after Weber returned to New York from his studies in Europe, the work retains the foundation of his European training, but the contorted figures and flattened space embody the fundamental roots for his Cubist exploration. It could sell for $60,000+.
The auction also includes an important private collection of 20 bronzes by Charles Cary Rumsey, led by Study for a Centaur, circa 1914, which may sell for $5,000+. The full size massive bronze titled The Centaur is installed in front of the Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo, New York.
A second important collection offered in the American auction includes 43 magnificent hand-colored engravings from John James Audubon’s ornithological magnum opus, The Birds of America; from Original Drawings, led by a plate for Pine Finch (Plate CLXXX from The Birds of America) 1833, expected to bring a combined $80,000+.
Additional highlights include, but are not limited to:
Fireworks, Bridge at Vernon France by Theodore Earl Butler. Estimate: $25,000+.
Allegheny at Night by Aaron Henry Gorson. Estimate: $20,000+.
Madame LaFarge et ses Animal Sauvage by Orville Bulman. Estimate: $15,000+.
Garden Bust with Pedestal by Gaston Lachaise. Estimate: $15,000+.
View the fully illustrated catalog and sign up to bid absentee or live via the Internet at www.LiveAuctioneers.com.
Frederick Frieseke, ‘On the Beach (Girl in Blue),’ est. $600,000-$800,000. Heritage Auctions image.Anna Hyatt Huntington, ‘Torch Bearers,’ est. $400,000-$600,000. Heritage Auctions image.Robert Henri, ‘Lucinda, Mexican Girl,’ est. $400,000-$600,000. Heritage Auctions image.Edward Henry Potthast, ‘A Summer Vacation,’ est. $150,000-$200,000. Heritage Auctions image.Childe Hassam, ‘Perros-Guirec, Cotes du Nord, France,’ est. $100,000-$150,000. Heritage Auctions image.Max Weber, ‘Bathers,’ est. $60,000-$80,000. Heritage Auctions image.
Main characters from the 1986-1994 hit BBC-TV series ‘Lovejoy,’ L to R: Dudley Sutton (‘Tinker Dill’), Ian McShane (‘Lovejoy’), Chris Jury (‘Eric Catchpole’) and Phyllis Logan (‘Lady Jane Felsham’). Copyrighted promotional photo used here to illustrate the persons and subject covered in the article. No free equivalent exists; fair use under United States Copyright Law.LONDON (ACNI) – The hit BBC series Lovejoy, which followed the escapades of a roguish English antiques dealer played by Ian McShane, isn’t exactly back on the table – but it hasn’t been ruled out, either.
In a recent interview with the British publication Radio Times, McShane was asked about the possibility of reviving Lovejoy and told the interviewer: “Sky (TV) talked about it last year. I said ‘If you’re serious about it, why not make it about Lovejoy’s daughter this time? And maybe I could do guest appearances on an antique Zimmer frame (walker). That’d be terrific.’”
It’s unlikely that the character Lovejoy will one day have a chance to rekindle the arms-length onscreen spark with Lady Jane Felsham that viewers so enjoyed. Scottish actress Phyllis Logan, who played the down-to-earth aristocrat Felsham, has since won international acclaim for her portrayal of Mrs. Hughes, the housekeeper on Downton Abbey.
McShane hasn’t been resting on his laurels, either. He’s been in constant demand since Lovejoy ended its hugely successful eight-year run in 1994. In the United States, he is perhaps best known for the role of historical figure Al Swearengen in the HBO series Deadwood, for which he won the 2005 Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Television Drama. He was also nominated for at the 2005 Emmy Award and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Within the science fiction community McShane is best known for playing the character Robert Bryson, Ph.D. in Babylon 5: The River of Souls.
