Archive for the 'Antiques Trade Gazette' Category
Hoping For the Best, Antique Furniture
Saturday, February 13th, 2010In the commercial world of decorative and fine arts, the present economic environment has been tough on many areas of the industry, but especially hard on furniture. Is it price, design, or is it not minimalist enough? As one esteemed dealer at the Winter Antiques show lamented to me, was this “English furniture’s […]
A National Antiques Week
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009FYI, the National Antique Week runs from November 23-30th, but in England. If American antiques dealers would recognize what a positive image could have on their sales, perhaps they might want to come together for such an occasion. It’s hard for anyone to not be curious about antiques.
The camaraderie of dealers working together for […]
A New Auctioneer’s Model: No Reserve or Estimates
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009The news in the trade has certainly been anything but robust for the image and financial prospects of the industry. However, there seems to be an evolutionary movement by one new auctioneer, who is willing to try to challenge the current form of that process with a new imaginative approach. Leigh Keno, who […]
Antiques, An Investment Opportunity
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009Before I started working at Newel full time, I had a position as a staff accountant at Coopers and Lybrand, a then “big 8” accounting firm. I was pleased to read that a present day survivor of the now “big 4”, Deloitte, has concluded that for the antique furniture market, it is a good […]
Dealers Can Learn From This Auctioneers’ Conference
Thursday, April 16th, 2009The auction business hasn’t been successful just by using smoke and mirrors in the bidding process. The secret reserve is very effective however their institutional organizations will now be on display with the Antiques Trade Gazette’s promotion of the Auctioneers’ Conference taking place next week in Birmingham, England. In looking at the program […]
Letter to the Editor of ATG-A Flawed Process
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009Following is a letter I sent to the editor of the Antiques Trade Gazette (England) in response to a commentary written by Mr. John Rumens that appeared this week in this trade newspaper.
I feel compelled to challenge John Rumens comments on the “addictive nature of auctions” as “a flawed process-but here to stay”. In […]
With Sotheby’s new minimum lot price, is Christie’s far behind?
Friday, March 2nd, 2007March 1, 2007
News can travel fast in our industry, with the internet giving anyone quick access to information as well as rumors. Before I left work this afternoon I saw a bulletin from the English newspaper, Antiques Trade Gazette which stated that Sotheby’s was going to close their Olympia middle priced auction facility in […]