Press release: Tradewinds auction
Tradewinds is pleased to present our 36th all-cane live auction on April 24, 2010, at 11:00 AM, with preview at 9:00 AM. The sale will be held at the Marriott Peabody just off route 128 at exit #28, in Peabody, Mass. We are starting our 18th year of doing all-cane auctions and have gathered a wonderful array of antique canes.  We will be offering 199 lots of carefully selected high quality pieces, with many rare and uncommon examples. The sale will be preceded the evening before, April 23, 2010, at 6:30 PM, by a special event and private auction preview at the Peabody Marriott Hotel. It will be our 11th pre-auction event.  It will feature Anita Blackaby, Executive Director of the House of Seven Gables in Salem Mass. She will be presenting a talk entitled:  Salem‚s House of Seven Gables-100 Years of Preservation and Community Service
A sampling of highlights includes: A very important gold cane of John Quincy Adams (Est: $10000-$12000), a lovely 18th Century French Saint-Cloud porcelain cane (Est: $2000-$3000), a fierce ivory gorilla cane (Est: $1500-$2500), a marvelous Tiffany agate cane with silver overlay,(Est: $2500-$3500), a great ivory hand on whalebone nautical cane (Est:$4000-$6000), a scarce Remington 32 caliber gun cane curio (Est: $6000-$8000), a fantastic Japanese ivory eagle cane with monkeys (Est: $3000-$4000), a great pepperbox gun cane curio (Est: $5000-$7000), a beautiful ivory Japanese shibayama cane (Est: $1800-$2800), the fabulous gold quartz cane of Dominican Republic Dictator Rafael Trujillo, (Est:$8000-$12000), a marvelous tethered ivory dog (Est: $3000-$4000), a fabulous French „La Terrible‰ defensive cane (Est: $4000-$5000), a splendid 1705 English ivory pique cane (Est: $4000-$6000), a great narwhal and silver cane (Est: $4500-$6500), and more.
A 15% Buyers premium will be added to the hammer price of each lot.  A 3% discount will be subtracted from the hammer price of each lot for any buyer personally attending and purchasing for themselves at the sale. Telephone bidding and absentee bidding, either written or electronic, do not qualify for the 3% discount. If you wish to order a fully pictured catalog, please call at (978) 526-4085, $40.00 U.S., $45.00 outside. (MasterCard or Visa accepted).
(Lot #‚s cited above are: 2, 10, 15, 25, 27, 30, 35, 50, 55, 102, 115, 125, 150, and 175)
(PLEASE NOTE: The auction catalogue is now online)
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http://tradewindsantiques.com/
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Press Release: Tradewinds conducts its spring all-cane auction
Peabody, Massachusetts
On May 2, 2009, Tradewinds Antiques held its semi-annual all-cane live auction at the Peabody Marriott Hotel, in Peabody, Massachusetts.  It was the thirty-fourth such event for AmericaÂ’s Premier Cane Auction House ™Â and it featured 197 carefully selected lots most of which were sold.
The leader of the sale was a rare California gold quartz cane that belonged to Congressional Representative Hotchkiss of Connecticut.  It fetched $10,350.
A scarce Remington large  dog head gun cane curio achieved $8,625, while a fine nautical with inlaid silver whales brought $6,900, as did an ivory and boxwood shogun.  An impressive “going ashore” nautical made $6,325 as did a 1692 English pique pomander, and a wonderful ivory full frog.
A great wood capped narwhal fetched $5,750 while a rare nautical with silver pique brought $5,463.
There were many other items in the $4,000, $3,000 and $2,000 levels and examples in all price ranges were sold.
The auction grossed  $234,859 and all prices quoted include a 15% buyers premium.
Tradewinds’ next event will be our mid-summer Online-Only Auction beginning on July 15, 2009
The next live auction will be October 3, 2009, at the Peabody Marriott in Peabody Mass.
Details of all events can be obtained by calling (978) 526-4085 or watching for postings on our website at www.tradewindsantiques.com.
(Note: The lots cited above were #2, #175, #95, #120, #15, #125, #160, #175, and #26.)
