NEW YEAR'S AUCTION @ Sterling Sold

ANNUAL NEW YEARS DAY AUCTION-OVER 200 ITEMS SOLD BY CATALOGUE PLUS OVER 300 ITEMS UNCATALOGUED SOLD TO IN HOUSE BIDDERS

Date: Friday, January 1, 2010
Time:11:00 a.m.
Kimball M. Sterling presents The 20th Annual New Years Day Auction

Here is the link to the catalogue.

Outsider Art, Fine Antiques, Pedal Cars, Jewelry and Antique Watches, Toys, Large Advertising Tin and Dipper Collection, China and Glassware, Carpets, Furniture from Many Periods, Comic Books, and many Fine Estate Items. Coins Indian rugs, art, Cufflink collection, Toys and much more

This sale will also be carried live on the net at liveauctioneers.com. They will sell about 200 items by catalogue and over 300 items which are not catalogued for internet bidders

Two gallon cobalt jug attributed to Lewis Haun of Greene County Tennessee, Native American paintings by Edwin Deming, Combination Table Company display table, East Tennessee Railroad stock certificate, Collection of early pedal cars including Murray plane-Jolly Roger boat and many more, Large collection of peanut butter tins, Quarter hour 14kt gold repeater watch, Movado Calendar wrist watch, Navaho Rugs, Massive ice cream scoop collection, Outsider art including three works by Linville Barker, large Barker cat, Mary Proctor, Prison Art, Collection of Tennessee History and Appalachian books, Fine Persian carpets, Bakelite flatware, Fine paintings, Country store items, Fine jewelry, Gene Autry boys bicycle, Schwinn Phantom bicycle, Early tricycles and ride-on items, antique canes, gentleman’s cuffs link in gold and silver, fine dining china, coins, 5.00 gold piece, over 75 pieces of outsider art, Longines Military type d pocket watch, a collection of George Washington wax seals from a decendant of the former president and the Father of our country, rare jewelry store display case, group of hunting case pocket watches, nautical keel table, fine country and formal furniture, carved African-American Jacksonville pipe, early toys, Oils by Jack Savisky, early midwifery book, Bicycle inkwell, Tennessee Jackson Press, Early large framed religious crochet, braided rugs, string instruments, stamp collection, Mahogany highboy, French style bedroom suite, sterling flatware and serving pieces, large collection of comic books,William Cross Stone Collection, military items, large collection of interesting antique smalls, three pre 1900 Bowie knives, Custom high grade early French 16ga. double barrel, and more to list soon

Cash or check 10% BP

Preview 9:30 a.m.

AUCTION: JOE ADAMS OUTSIDER & FOLK-ART COLLECTION

Outsider art auctioneer Kimball Sterling is hosting the auction of The Joe Adams Collection of Outsider and Folk-Art tomorrow (5/30) at 11AM est:

My friend Joe 'The Spam' Adams has collected folk-art for about as long as I have been selling art. I met Joe about 19 years ago and when he attended the Howard Smith Collection auction. That was the first major collection offered to the public. Many pieces in this auction are from Joe's private collection. It was exciting getting into his storage and seeing items that have been off the market for many years from various collections that we have sold. He bought the best Willey Masseys from the Smith Collection, art from the Gitter-Yellen Collection, the Oh Appalachia Collection, Warren and Sylvia Lowe Collection, the James Smith Pearce Collection and many more. This will be an in-house and live internet auction. Both phone and absentee bids will also be accepted. Click here for a sneak peak preview of items.

Make your plans now to attend this auction of a lifetime collection of one of the pioneers of the folk-art field. This will be a great event for the art community.

The entire sale catalogue will be on our website about two weeks before the auction. The collection has been moved from Hilton Head S.C. to our gallery here in Johnson City. There will be over 600 pieces of art in the catalogue auction by both major and emerging artists. After the catalogue sale we will auction other art from the collection to in-house bidders. There will be many surprises in the after catalogue auction.

Visit Sterling's site For info on terms, shipping, previews, etc., or email:
elizabethsterling@earthlink.net or kimballsterling@earthlink.net

• Folk art aficionado and storyteller Joe Adams talks about his famous "Chicken Room" and his love for yard bird.

SCENE/ART: Outsider Art Auction (online 11/22)

My friend Jim once told me about a bear of a man living in the mountains of Tennessee who holds public auctions of outsider art. When pressed to regale me with one of his tall tales though, Jim merely points out that “Kimball Sterling is a big, big man with big, big thoughts and even bigger shoes. I saw him clog dance once...you do NOT want to be in the way.”

Sterling has gathered together all of the Southern Outsider “bigwigs” plus some of the "Wildest" art in one location that you will ever find for the auction he is holding in person and online tomorrow (11/22) @ 11AM (EST). The lot includes works by Mose Tolliver, Howard Finster, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, R.A. Miller, Purvis Young, Charlie Lucas, and many others, as well as a very large collection of Southern unknown vintage folk art boxes, lamps, rugs, quilts and more.

Kimball Sterling is considered one of the top three cane auctioneers in the world. Sterling, Inc. came up in the fields of antique cars, jukeboxes and memorabilia, and is now considered the premier auction house in America for Outsider, Folk and Appalachian art.

Unrelated but incidentally, the keepers of Finster’s flame held a grand opening of the Paradise Gardens Gallery on November 8 and are currently looking for volunteers and donations to help save World's Folk Art Chapel.