Twentieth-century reproduction furniture also did well.
It sold for $2006, nearly twice its estimate. The piece featured large winged lion figures supporting the upper shelf, with full-width beveled mirrors as the backboard of each tier. Prices for the chairs ranged from $200.60 to $265.50, approximately half of their estimates.Īmong furniture lots of note was a large, elaborately carved two-tiered oak Renaissance Revival sideboard/server from the late 19th century. All of the chairs were in working order and displayed engraved and punched decoration to the headrests and footrests. One interesting group of lots consisted of four mid-20th-century leather-seated barber chairs by Koken Barbers’ Supply Co., St. The winning bidder was Ken Farmer, bidding in the room on the phone with his client.
There was intense bidding for the servers, which ultimately sold for $135,700 (est. One of the scenes is signed “Menard,” perhaps Gladys Menard, a turn-of-the-19th-/20th-century porcelain artist. The lower cabinet drawers are deeply carved, and the door panels feature hand-painted woodland scenes on porcelain. The open cupboard backboard features a framed center painting on gilt metal foil, flanked by painted panels in a leaf and twig design. The top shelf is lined with velvet and is supported by elaborately turned urn-form columns, capped with Ionic column scrolls finished with acorn finials. The servers are elaborately decorated, with virtually every area of carving displaying applied gilt. The skirt is a grillwork pattern, and the feet are turned. The base consists of two drawers over a storage area enclosed by two doors. There is a molded cornice, with a galleried shelf above an open cupboard and serving surface. The servers are constructed of dark-stained rosewood, with maple as the secondary wood. This pair of Herter Brothers servers was the high lot of the Farmer sale. These servers are described in greater detail in the photo section of this report. The servers sold for $135,700 (includes buyer’s premium) to Ken Farmer, who was in the room, bidding with his client on the phone. The high lot of the sale was a pair of custom-made Herter Brothers servers, most likely from the early 20th century. An excellent variety of material crossed the block, and no single category dominated the offerings. The bidding was live, absentee, telephone, and via the Internet. The April 1 sale was a good old-style gallery sale. This format will not work in every situation, but where it is appropriate, significant efficiencies are derived from savings in handling and moving the property.
The bidding continues until a specified ending date and time, when the lots close in sequence. Bidding is open within a specific time frame-usually two or three weeks -and a date for on-premises inspection is set. These sales offer a model in which the items being sold are photographed and posted on the firm’s Internet bidding platform, but they are not removed from the consignor’s home or business. On-site online sales are an interesting hybrid that is developing. His business models include traditional on-site auctions, what he hopes will be regularly scheduled “salon” or gallery catalog sales, and less traditional on-site online auctions. Hines is keenly aware of the ever-changing auction environment and is willing to allow the auction winds to carry him in whichever direction is most effective and efficient for his business and his consignors. Salon sales, as Hines refers to traditional live gallery auctions, round out the card. Business liquidations, real estate, bankruptcies, governmental and institutional surplus, firearms, and estate sales are all on the table. The companies, trading as Entrusted Auctions, offer a soup-to-nuts auction/sales operation. As well as the Salem gallery, Hines’s firm operates locations in Radford, Virginia, and Beckley, West Virginia. Jarrod Hines comes from an auction family with five generations of experience. The catalog notes that Farmer Auctions is an affiliate of Hines Services LLC. Hines purchased the auction business from Will Farmer effective August 1, 2016, and continues to operate under the Farmer name. This was the first of the firm’s sales that I had attended since it was acquired by Jarrod Hines. Herter Brothers Servers Lead Farmer Auction April 1st, 2017įarmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia, held its spring catalog auction on April 1.
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