NEW YORK—Keno Auctions will reason a sale of critical paintings, furniture, jewelry, and musical humanities during a Marriott hotel in Stamford, Conn., on Saturday, Sept 24.

Leigh Keno, a owner of a auction house, and his hermit Leslie Keno, both veterans on a “Antiques Road Show” radio show, debuted their possess show, “Buried Treasure,” on Fox on Aug. 24. This auction competence hoard additional courtesy as a result.

The sale will offer a far-reaching operation of styles and genres from a 17th to 20th centuries, including a auction house’s initial try into a area of jewelry.

The full-service auction residence is formed in Manhattan and binds dual auctions a year. The initial was final Nov in Stamford.

“We had such a good start, grossing over $6 million. We set mixed records,” Leigh Keno explained in a phone interview.

While he customarily works in a city, Keno prefers to reason a auctions in Stamford.

“We’re formed on 69th Street in my townhouse. The auction residence is downstairs, and we live upstairs with my family. It works out good for me there. It takes usually a notation to get to work.”

But for a vast auctions, it’s not as convenient. “We reason a auctions adult there since it’s a available place to go, possibly from places like New England and Pennsylvania. It’s right off a 95, and from New York City, it’s usually about 35–40 mins on a train.”

Bargain Potential

Keno pronounced a pre-sale auction estimates are really low, charity buyers “extraordinary opportunities.”

It’s partial of his business truth to keep a sale estimates low, and he pronounced he sees a results.

“It’s psychological. Conservative estimates are some-more exciting,” pronounced Keno. “We trust in low estimates so that a square can find a possess level, but a clever reserve. So we have people come in and get vehement that they competence get it. It’s arrange of opposite tellurian inlet to be told how most something is worth.

“If it’s high, afterwards they try to find faults. If it’s low, afterwards they can concentration on a beauty of a item. It’s like that aged saying: No one wants to buy feathers from a goose,” he said, laughing.

“For example, in a initial auction, we had a Chippendale chest. We had it estimated during $200,000 to $400,000. we knew it could go for over a million. … It finished adult offered for $1,400,000.”

One intensity understanding ensuing from Keno’s low-estimate truth is a William Trost Richards (1833–1905) portrayal that’s adult for sale. The landscape portrayal is estimated during usually $10,000 to $20,000, when behind in May, a new auction record of $1,650,500 was set during Christie’s for Trost’s “Mackerel Cove, Jamestown, Rhode Island.”

Back in 2009, Christie’s sole “Moonlight” by Trost for $74,500, and in 2004, a Trost portrayal “Newport Coast” sole for $138,000 during Alderfer’s Auction Company in Hatfield, Pa.

Sale Highlights

Trost’s watercolor portrayal “A Summer Afternoon” is remarkable for demonstrating his poise of a clarity of water, according to Keno Auctions.

His portrayal is one of a preference of 18 peculiarity nautical paintings from a private Connecticut collector, and 18th and 20th century American, European, and Old Master landscapes and still life paintings.

Other highlights embody a Tiffany Studios’ “Dragonfly” leaded-glass liquid flare circa 1910, noted “Tiffany Studios/New York” and estimated to go for $40,000 to $80,000; “Lugger on a Wind,” a sea portrayal by British-American painter Robert Salmon (1775–1858), estimated to go for $40,000 to $60,000; and “Pastoral Landscape,” an oil portrayal on board by American artist George Inness (1825–1894), estimated to go for $20,000 to $40,000.

The sale starts during 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 24, with previews on a preceding Thursday and Friday.

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