1905 Tiffany Studios favrile glass grapevine vase leads our five lots to watch

Tiffany Studios Favrile grapevine vase, estimated at $8,000-$12,000 at Taylor & Harris.

1905 Tiffany Studios Favrile Glass Grapevine Vase

WILMINGTON, Calif. – Though the name today is a powerhouse brand symbolic of luxury, Tiffany Studios comes from humble origins as a glassmaker. Founder Louis Comfort Tiffany’s glassworks in the Queens borough of New York City started in 1892, and after much experimentation with his plant chief Arthur J. Nash, hit upon mixing metal oxides with liquid glass to create incredibly iridescent colors.

Tiffany called this glass favrile, and received a U.S. patent for it in 1894. Soon after, the Queens plant was churning out all sorts of colored art glass for use in Tiffany’s stained glass windows and later, lamp shades.

Taylor & Harris have a fine example of LCT’s favrile output in its Sunday, January 21 Decorative Arts and Jewelry auction. Marked LC Tiffany Favrile 3826B and standing 10.8in in height, the vase features a grapevine design created by Tiffany artisans using wheel carving and glass etching. Dated 1905, the lot is a classic example of favrile iridescence. Taylor & Harris estimate the piece at $8,000-$12,000.

Montblanc Artisan Edition Picasso Fountain Pen

Montblanc Picasso Artisan Series fountain pen, one of 91 made, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at PBA Galleries.
Montblanc Picasso Artisan Series fountain pen, one of 91 made, estimated at $40,000-$60,000 at PBA Galleries.

BERKELEY, Calif. – Since 1906, Montblanc has been creating fine luxury goods for the world’s elite. Known best for its writing instruments and timepieces, the company also offers luxury handbags and even fragrances, all united under the German brand.

Building expensive writing instruments in a digital world that prefers electronic communication to the written word presents an ever-increasing challenge for Montblanc. Where once a fine pen was considered a status symbol and an indispensable tool, today it must be much more to command the type of pricing typically seen with Montblanc merchandise.

The company’s Artisan Edition series of pens draw from notable personalities in the world of art for inspiration, with an obvious nod to the collector mindset and marketplace scarcity. This Picasso-licensed edition from 2012 is one of a series of just 91. It features a skeletonized 18K gold cap engraved with Picasso’s Portrait de Jeune Fille and the artist‘s sketches and remarks. The barrel resembles Picasso‘s preferred sketch pencils and the clip, set against the cap window, represents the face of Picasso‘s Jeune Fille.

In excellent condition and “never inked,” according to the lot notes, PBA Galleries brings this instrument to market with a $40,000-$60,000 estimate as part of its Fine Pens & Watches sale on Thursday, January 18.

Never-before-seen Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) Illustrated Poem

Previously unknown illustrated poem by Dr. Seuss creator Theodor Geisel from Dartmouth College’s ‘Jack-O-Lantern’ humor magazine, published in 1922 and estimated at $1,000-$2,000 at Potter & Potter.
Previously unknown illustrated poem by Dr. Seuss creator Theodor Geisel from Dartmouth College’s ‘Jack-O-Lantern’ humor magazine, published in 1922 and estimated at $1,000-$2,000 at Potter & Potter.

CHICAGO – Beloved by generations for his poetic, easy-to-read books for children, Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904-1991) has sold hundreds of millions of books, beginning with 1937’s And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street and ending with Oh, The Places You’ll Go in 1990, just a year before his death from cancer.

Geisel grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts, born to German-American parents who ran the family brewery. Geisel was accepted to the prestigious Ivy League school Dartmouth College, and attended classes there from 1921 to 1925. During his time on campus, he served as the editor-in-chief of the school’s humor magazine, Jack-O-Lantern (affectionately known as Jacko). His tenure was cut short due to his hosting a drinking party while Prohibition raged in America, forcing him to adopt a pen name to continue appearing in print. He used his essentially unknown middle name, and the legend of Dr. Seuss was born.

Potter & Potter received a consignment of three volumes of the Jack-O-Lantern, covering the school years of 1919 to 1922. In it they discovered a single-page illustrated poem signed ‘Ted Geisel,’ foretelling the famous style for which his Dr. Seuss books would use to teach children to read. Essentially unknown, Potter & Potter experts believe “The full-page illustrated poem titled ‘Jazz’ is apparently undocumented in Seuss literature and appears here for the first and evidently the only time.” The three-volume set of books with the Geisel content are estimated at $1,000-$2,000 as part of Potter & Potter’s online-only Printed Books & Manuscripts sale slated for Thursday, January 18.

1957 Detroit Lions NFL Championship Team-signed Football

Authentic NFL football signed by every member of the 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions, estimated at $5,000-$15,000 at DuMouchelles.
Authentic NFL football signed by every member of the 1957 NFL Champion Detroit Lions, estimated at $5,000-$15,000 at DuMouchelles.

DETROIT – Droughts come in all forms, but for sports fans, nothing can be more painful than a failure to win a championship for decades. It happened to the Boston Red Sox, it happened to the Chicago Cubs, and it is still happening to the Detroit Lions of the National Football League, which have never even been to a Super Bowl, much less won one.

This football, consigned to DuMouchelles, is signed by every member of the 1957 Lions team that won their fourth and final (to date) NFL championship, when they went 8-4 and walloped the Cleveland Browns in the championship game, 59-14. While autographed balls are always of interest, this one is even more meaningful because of how it came to be – and that its mere presence suggests an eerie curse on the Lions.

In the days before mobile phones or even cheap long distance service, the world relied on telegrams for timely communications between people and organizations. The undisputed leader in this realm was Western Union, which had reinvented itself from its early days as a nationwide telegraph network operator.

Victor F. Pegg, Sr. was a telegram deliveryman for Western Union in Detroit in 1957, and his route included every member of the Lions team as well as the Lions corporate office, which relied on telegrams to keep players up to date with team news. As such, Pegg was not only a Detroit Lions fan, but friends with the entire team, routinely delivering telegrams to their homes. After the Lions achieved their historic win, Pegg purchased an authentic NFL football and asked each player to sign it. They all did, and then the football went into hiding in the Pegg home, rarely being handled or brought out into the light, which might damage the precious ball-point pen signatures.

In fact, the football was so jealously guarded that only its third owner, Victor Pegg II, the son of Victor Pegg, Jr., would finally learn of its fate upon the death of his namesake father. In spectacular condition, the ball is estimated at $5,000-$15,000 as part of Day One of DuMouchelles’ January 2024 two-day sale.

Maybe now that the ball is known to the public and available for sale, perhaps the lingering winless streak cursing the Detroit Lions will be lifted.

Upright Broadwood Piano Designed by Charles Robert Ashbee

Upright Broadwood piano designed by Charles Robert Ashbee, estimated at £6,000-£8,000 ($7,590-$10,125) at Sworders.
Upright Broadwood piano designed by Charles Robert Ashbee, estimated at £6,000-£8,000 ($7,590-$10,125) at Sworders.

STANSTED MOUNTFITCHET, U.K. – A recently rediscovered version of one of the best-known Guild of Handicraft designs will appear for sale at Sworders on Tuesday, January 16. The upright Broadwood piano designed by Charles Robert Ashbee (1863-1942), a piece sent for exhibition in Hungary in 1902, is estimated at £6,000-£8,000 ($7,590-$10,125).

Fashioned in mahogany inlaid with holly and applied with pierced strap hinges, it is one of at least five Broadwood pianos made with Ashbee casings by the Guild of Handicraft. Examples are pictured in all of the major texts on British Arts and Crafts furniture.

This particular piano, numbered 95406, model 8, has an impeccable provenance. The Broadwood Archives list the date of manufacture (it was finished on February 27, 1902), the price paid by one Mr. C. Watson Low (118 pounds, two shillings and sixpence) and its part in the British Applied Arts Exhibition at the National Museum of Decorative Art in Budapest in September-November 1902. It was sent to Hungary along with another Arts and Crafts piano designed by Hugh Mackay Baillie Scott.

Watson Low later gave his Ashbee piano and its stool to his niece, Miss C.M. Low, who used it to teach piano until her retirement in 2001. Her grandson is offering it for sale. He contacted Sworders after he found a near-identical piano sold by the auction house in 2014 for £10,400 (roughly $13,150).

Tiffany ‘paperweight’ vases anchored substantial results at The Benefit Shop Foundation

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MOUNT KISCO, N.Y. – A trio of exceptional Tiffany Studios pieces known as ‘paperweight’ vases flew past expectations at The Benefit Shop Foundation‘s September 27 Red Carpet Auction.

Like many of the best objects in this sale, they traced their provenance to the family of Byron DeWitt Miller (1875-1960) – the errand boy from Portland, Maine who became the president of Woolworth.

It was under the aegis of Louis Comfort Tiffany that the Tiffany Studios began exhibiting ‘paperweight’ objects alongside other elements of the favrile glass range around 1900. Using the hot glass, caning and encasement techniques mastered in 19th-century France, in the first two decades of the new century Tiffany’s artists pushed the medium further to create new effects. A series of ‘paperweight’ botanical vases that appeared to trap flowers and water within the glass became the signature product.

The three vases offered on September 27 – all signed, numbered and retaining original paper labels to the base – represented a good cross section of the paperweight medium. And, with estimates in the hundreds, they attracted more than 100 admirers each on the LiveAuctioneers platform. Ultimately, all three sold to internet bidders at the sort of five-figure sums similar pieces have commanded at sales in Manhattan.

The largest, at 8in high, was worked with a design of stylized poppies. It hammered for $16,000 ($20,640 including buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $200-$500. Sold at $11,000 ($14,190 with buyer’s premium) against a similar estimate was a 5in squat form vase with marbled botanical leaf and vine decoration, while a particularly sophisticated vase with red and marbled green tomato vine decoration brought $21,000 ($27,090 with buyer’s premium).

A fourth Tiffany favrile glass vase demonstrated a different, but again, scarce form of decoration of the type popularized by the glassmakers of Nancy, France. The 8in cameo vase in a dark red and yellow opaque glass carved as a floral bloom sold at $4,000 ($5,160 with buyer’s premium).

Byron DeWitt Miller had the ultimate retailing career, climbing from the bottom to the top of the ladder to become president of the world’s largest variety store chain. His big break came in 1908, when he was chosen by Frank W. Woolworth to launch the firm’s first transatlantic stores.

Between 1909-20 — around the time these vases were made — Miller was involved in the creation of more than 80 Woolworth stores across the UK. His first openings in 1912 were in Brixton (which he considered to be the British equivalent of Brooklyn, New York), and in Bristol (which he compared to Atlantic City, New Jersey). He became the third president of the company in 1930.

Like many industrialists of the pre-war era, Miller was an ardent collector of American, European and Oriental works of art. Other items from the estate were offered by The Benefit Shop in 2021, when several Chinese works of art flew to big numbers.

Much the same happened again in September. Occasionally the cataloging left something to be desired, but frequently the bidding did not. A Qing double-lozenge jardiniere and tray decorated with auspicious symbols in the famille rose palette was described simply as ‘a Chinese chinoiserie porcelain flowerpot.’ Estimated at $100-$200, it hammered for $43,000 ($55,470 with buyer’s premium). These were unmarked but almost certainly made in the later years of the Qing dynasty. Jardinieres and trays for growing narcissus bulbs were popular in the Tongzhi and Guangxu periods.

Described only as a ‘molded amber sculpture on a stand’ was an amber brush washer carved in the form of a lotus flower. The quintessential Qing scholar’s object and a rarity in amber, it took $10,000 ($12.900 with buyer’s premium) from an internet bidder via Live Auctioneers against an estimate of $40-$90.

The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc. is a registered not-for-profit that operates to raise funds for local charities.
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Tiffany favrile glass vase, which sold for $16,000 ($20,640 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Tiffany favrile glass vase, which sold for $11,000 ($14,190 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Tiffany favrile glass vase, which sold for $21,000 ($27,090 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Chinese chinoiserie porcelain flower pot with plate, which sold for $43,000 ($55,470 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Asian amber sculpture on stand, which sold for $10,000 ($12.900 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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1858 J. T. Peele oil on canvas, which sold for $6,500 ($8,385 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Cartier Santos Dumont aviator sunglasses, which sold for $1,600 ($2,064 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Hand-carved marble planter, which sold for $4,750 ($6,128) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Biedermeier flame mahogany grand secretary, which sold for $8,500 ($10,965 with buyer’s premium) at The Benefit Shop Foundation.
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Thornton Dial’s ‘Struggling Tiger’ leaps to the top at Ahlers & Ogletree

Thornton Dial, ‘Struggling Tiger (The Tiger Penned In),’ $84,700
Thornton Dial, ‘Struggling Tiger (The Tiger Penned In),’ $84,700
Thornton Dial, ‘Struggling Tiger (The Tiger Penned In),’ $84,700

ATLANTA – A 1991 mixed media painting by Thornton Dial (American, 1928-2016) titled Struggling Tiger sold for $84,700, and a Tiffany Studios favrile glass door from the 1920s titled The Sower, brought $51,425 to take top lot honors in Ahlers & Ogletree’s New Year’s Signature Estates Auction held January 14-16.

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Lalique, Tiffany set to impress at Ahlers & Ogletree, Jan. 14-16

Lalique Cactus crystal center table designed in France in 1951 by Marc Lalique, est. $20,000-$30,000
Lalique Cactus crystal center table designed in France in 1951 by Marc Lalique, est. $20,000-$30,000
Lalique Cactus crystal center table designed in France in 1951 by Marc Lalique, est. $20,000-$30,000

ATLANTA – A Tiffany Studios favrile glass door from the 1920s titled The Sower; an original 1991 painting by Thornton Dial, titled Struggling Tiger; and a stunning Lalique Cactus crystal center table designed in 1951 are just a few of the expected top lots in Ahlers & Ogletree’s three-day, three-session auction slated for January 14, 15 and 16. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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Tiffany Oriental Poppy lamp a prized entry in Oct. 28 Heritage sale

Tiffany Studios leaded glass and bronze Oriental Poppy lamp, est. $100,000-$150,000
Tiffany Studios leaded glass and bronze Oriental Poppy lamp, est. $100,000-$150,000
Tiffany Studios leaded glass and bronze Oriental Poppy lamp, est. $100,000-$150,000

DALLAS – As if to prove the lesson we all learned in early science classes – that in order to grow, plants need water and light – a spectacular Tiffany Studios leaded glass and bronze Oriental Poppy lamp will shine brightly at Heritage Auctions’ Tiffany, Lalique & Art Glass: Including Art Nouveau & Art Deco auction Oct. 28. Absentee and Internet live bidding will be available through LiveAuctioneers.

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