| Important Mid Winter Antiques Auction
For this years Mid-Winter antiques auction we are pleased to have been chosen to sell fine furnishings and accessories from the Estate of Glen Snider, Albany, NY, a Clifton Park, NY family relocating, and others. This sale features many fine paintings by listed artists, a private collection of important American sculpture including a wonderful plaster bust of "Imogen" by Erastus Dow Palmer, an exciting group of American Country and Period Furniture including a 13'7" period triple pedestal mahogany dining table, a Stoneware Collection including a rare decorated flask, House fresh Oriental Carpets, Sterling Silver, Oriental Porcelain, Clocks, Mirrors, a collection of Classical Wedgewood, a collection of Roseville Pottery, and more.
We are pleased to start the New Year off with this strong auction filled with many investment quality antiques.
'Brother Al' loved to have a good time
A family oriented person since childhood, Alfred Joseph Stoufflet III of Bay St. Louis was known to all as "Brother Al," said his sister, Judy Schwartz of Lakeshore, who speculates it was because he was a brother to everybody. He was the oldest boy among seven siblings that included four sisters all older than him. As a kid, Stoufflet "liked to roam, to be free, and to be with friends and family," Schwartz said. "He just loved to have a good time. He loved Christmas. He could be the life of the party." Stoufflet, 52, died Tuesday of heart problems following a massive heart attack last Father's Day. For five days before that, he had been having chest pains he thought were muscle spasms, his sister said, but were actually small heart attacks. Stoufflet loved to saltwater fish and excelled at cleaning and cooking what he caught, frequently supplying food for the fish fries and crawfish boils so enjoyed by his large family.
Tom Jones sells Bel-Air house that he never lived in
Sorry, Tom, but it is unusual to own a house for more than 25 years and never live in it. Yet that's what singer Tom Jones did with a Bel-Air house he just sold for close to its $4.25-million asking price. The 66-year-old Grammy winner purchased the mid-century-style house, in the Bel-Air section of L.A., in 1981 as a place for his parents and sister to stay when visiting from Great Britain. The pop star moved to the United States in 1974, when he bought himself a different Bel-Air home that belonged to Dean Martin and is now owned by Nicolas Cage. Since his parents died, his sister bought a nearby villa, and Jones, a regular on the Las Vegas circuit, stays in a Beverly Hills-area home he bought for $2.7 million in 1998. The Bel-Air house he sold was built in 1962.
Britt Festivals' annual fundraising dinner and auction returns
Britt Festivals' annual gala fundraising dinner, auction and dance--the "Bash"--will be held on Saturday, starting at 5 p.m. in the Red Lion Hotel Ballroom, Medford. This year's Bash features a sumptuous dinner, over 40 live auction packages and over 90 silent auction packages. Auction highlights include a one-week stay in Kailua-Kona with 180-degree view of ocean and beach access, three days in Maui at the Grand Wailea Resort with airfare, a Fender Squier electric guitar signed by Britt headliners, a three-night getaway on Whidbey Island, golf packages at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort as well as golf resorts in Arizona and Las Vegas, Sonoma wine tasting weekend, a helicopter ride to southern Oregon coast or Crater Lake, a one-of-a-kind hand-painted antique Chinese cabinet circa 1850s, a diamond necklace, original artwork by renowned artists, many local dinner parties and, of course, some fabulous Britt packages with premium tickets for the hottest concerts.
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