Maine Antiques Digest announces Leigh Keno’s new auction plan. He will hold his first sale in May while continuing to deal antiques from his shop:

“We will have no estimates, no reserves,” Keno went on. “We will sell anything made anywhere worth one hundred dollars and up; we want to be a full-service auction that wants lots under five thousand dollars and those over one hundred thousand.[…] Keno said he will continue as a dealer, selling paintings and furniture privately, bidding at auctions for clients and for stock, and exhibiting at the Winter Antiques Show in New York City in January and at the Philadelphia Antiques Show in April. Now, with the auction house, he can give sellers a choice: sell the piece to him; consign it for private sale; or consign it to a public auction. “For example, I have an eight-eenth-century Salem secretary bookcase consigned for the Winter Show, but the owner of a Hadley chest is leaning toward auction,” he said. […]

Leigh Keno said he hopes Sotheby’s and Christie’s will think about referring lower-priced items from estates to him. “Sotheby’s and Christie’s send things they don’t want to sell to other auction houses. I hope they will put me on their list. With low overhead and a small staff, I will be able to cut a good deal.”

Keno Auctions (Maine Antiques Digest)