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The Potomack Company in the News:
2019
- Maine Antique Digest – Fine Art Highlights Potomack Sale, September 2019
- Maine Antique Digest – Revolutionary Engraving Leads at Potomack, July 2019
- Maine Antique Digest – Stolen Hamilton Letter Resurfaces, July 2019
- 27east – Contents Of Three Ponds Farm Go On Auction After 58-Acre Compound Sells, June 2019
- Washington Post – What a stolen Alexander Hamilton letter reveals about the sticky business of fine art, May 2019
- Maine Antique Digest – Ancient Corn Mummy Leads at Potomack, May 2019
- Antiques & The Arts Weekly – Across the Block: ‘Pink Roses’ Blossom to $188,750 at Potomack Company, April 2019
- Antiques & The Arts Weekly – Egyptian Corn Mummy Rises At Potomack Company Sale [full auction coverage], February 2019
- Antiques & The Arts Weekly – Corn Mummy Rises To $112,500 At Potomack Company [auction highlight], February 2019
- Maine Antique Digest – Corn Mummy Opens The Potomack Company’s Year, March 2019
- Alexandria Times – Thomas Jefferson Letter Up for Auction Saturday in Alexandria, February 2019
- ArtDaily – Rare Hassam, Jefferson letter and Sèvres porcelain offered at Potomack Auction, January 2019
- WUSA Washington DC – Thomas Jefferson offers shutdown wisdom in rediscovered 219-year-old letter, January 2019
- Washington Post – A timely letter by Thomas Jefferson heads to auction: ‘Every man cannot have his way in all things,’ January 2019
- Washington Post – The tidying tide: Marie Kondo effect hits sock drawers and consignment stores, January 2019
- Alexandria Times – Potomack Company to auction Thomas Jefferson letter, January 2019
2018
- NBC – Painting Stolen From Nazi-Occupied Eastern Europe Recovered in DC Area, December 2018
- Washington Post – Ivan the Terrible painting sent for auction had been looted from Nazi-occupied Ukraine, December 2018
- Antiques And The Arts Weekly – Painting Stolen In World War II Is Heading From US To Ukraine, December 2018
- Alexandria Living – A Bit of Holiday History to be Auctioned in Alexandria, December 2018
- Maine Antique Digest – Potomack’s Fall Sale Is a Gem, December 2018
- Maine Antique Digest – Antiques Week on the Potomack, September 2018
- WTOP – Va. auction has plenty of jolly-good items for Royal Family fans, May 2018
- Richmond Times-Dispatch – After sale of Woodland, the ‘Tara of Dinwiddie County,’ 30 years of treasures are up for grabs, May 2018
- Maine Antique Digest – The Potomack Company Begins Its Year in Grand Style, April 2018
- Maine Antique Digest – Fine Art and Carved Chinese Plaques Set the Pace at Potomack, March 2018
- La Gazette Drouot – Baroque 1900, January 2018
2017
- Maine Antique Digest – Rare Chairs and Coney Island Bathers Lead at Potomack, December 2017
- Alexandria Times – Auction houses are still ‘places where people trade’, November 2017
- Maine Antique Digest – Wally Bill Hedrick Paintings Lead at Potomack, August 2017
- Maine Antique Digest – Retha Walden Gambaro, Native American Sculptor, May 2017
- Maine Antique Digest – Society of the Cincinnati Plate Leads at Potomack, April 2017
- Nashville Arts – Appraise It, January 2017
- WTOP – See How Much These Tom Clancy Items Sold for at Auction, January 2017
- WTOP – Bid on Items from Spy Novelist Tom Clancy, January 2017
2016
- Baltimore Sun – Tom Clancy’s Golf Cart, Snakeskin-Topped Table and Other Possessions to be Auctioned Off, January 2017
- Northwest Current – Auction to Offer Vestiges of the Kennedys’ Pre-White House Residence, September 2016
- Antiques & the Arts Weekly – Bierstadt’s Washington Monument (Baltimore) Soars To $200,000, September 2016
- Maine Antique Digest – Artworks and Flora Danica Bolster June Auction, September 2016
- Georgetowner – Auction Block, September 2016
- Maine Antique Digest – Washington Memorial Embroidery Leads Potomack Auction, June 2016
- Maine Antique Digest – Old Masters Lead The Potomack Company Sale, May 2016
- Georgetowner – Auction Block, March 2016
- Middleburg Eccentric – Potomack Company Celebrates Tenth Anniversary with New Books Expansion, February 2016
- The Scout Guide – SCOUTED: The Potomack Co. Opens Office in Baltimore, January 2016
- Maine Antique Digest – The Potomack Company Enjoys Success Across All Categories, January 2016
2014
- Maine Antique Digest – Calligraphy and Fine Art Lead the Way, July 2014
- Washington Post – Denise Austin’s Fitness Empire, For Sale to the Highest Bidder, May 2014
- Maine Antique Digest – Fruit-Eating Rat Leads Potomack Company Sale, May 2014
- Alexandria Times – Fundraiser Nets Big Bucks for Typhoon Haiyan Relief, January 2014
- Alexandria Gazette – Estate Sale to Aid Typhoon’s Victims, January 2014
- Alexandria Times – Local Teen Leads Haiyan Relief Effort, January 2014
2013
- Washington Post – ‘Flea Market’ Renoir Ordered Back to Baltimore Museum of Art by Federal Judge, January 2014
- Washington Post – Charles Goodman’s Own Mid-century Modern Furniture to be Auctioned, December 2013
- Maine Antique Digest – Potomack Company Sale Tops $1.4 million, October 2013
- Middleburg Eccentric – Bidding Greatly Exceeds Estimates at Long Branch Auction, October 2013
- Middleburg Eccentric – Long Branch Auction of Harry Z. Isaacs Collection, September 2013
- Winchester Star – Auction Grosses 650K for Trust at Long Branch, October 2013
- PR Newswire – Potomack Company To Auction Furnishings From Historic Virginia Estate Long Branch, September 2013
- Antiques Trade Gazette – Roman Show-Stealer at the Potomack Company, July/August 2013
- Maine Antique Digest – The Potomack Company Catalog Sale, June 2013
- Art Daily – Potomack Company Finds Rare Andy Warhol Marilyn Print Set For Auction March 16, March 2013
- Maine Antique Digest – The Potomack Company Opens New Facility, June 2013
- Maine Antique Digest – Potomack Features Strong Supporting Cast, January 2013
2012
- Maine Antique Digest – Cloudy Provenance Halts Renoir Sale, November 2012
- Washington Post – There’s (Art) Gold in Them Thar Hills, September 2012
- The Free Lance-Star – Masterpiece Found at WV Flea Market, September 2012
- Maine Antique Digest – Rhinos and Cinnabar and Giraffes, Oh My!, July 2012
- Maine Antique Digest – Encouraging Signs Emerge at Potomack Auction, June 2012
- Maine Antique Digest – Teapots Brew Excitement at Potomack, January 2012
2011
- Maine Antique Digest – Korean Brush Pot Rocks Potomack Sale, September 2011
- Washington Post – VIP (Window) Treatment For Sale, September 2011
- Alexandria Gazette- Signed George Washington Letter to be Auctioned, June 2011
- Washington Post – For Sale! Curtains that Draw People, June 2011
- Maine Antique Digest – The Potomack Company Finds its Place, June 2011
- Washington Post – Historic Urns Bound for Return to Arlington, January 2011
- Washington Post- Arlington Urns go on Auction Block, January 2011
2010
- Maine Antique Digest – Expensive Jade and That Outfit, November 2010
- Alexandria Gazette – Asian Art Record Set at Potomack Company Sale, October 2010
- London Antiques Trade Gazette – Asian Art in the Fore Once More, September 2010
- Alexandria Gazette- Asian Textile Big Seller at Auction, July 2010
- Antique Week- Bids Bloomed Big Floral Still Life, February 2010
2009
2007
- New York Times- From a Resort’s Attics, Treasures of the 1940s, September 2007
- DC Luxury Magazine- This Sold House, September 2007
- Washington Post- Greenbrier Bids Farewell to Dorothy Draper Signatures, August 2007
- Sun Newspaper- Daniel Boorstin former Librarian of Congress’s Estate at Alexandria’s Potomack Company, July 2007
- Alexandria Times- Reagan’s Artists Leaving Old Town; Leaving it all to Auctioneers, April 2007
Press Releases:
2019
2018
- The Keck Collection Sets Record at Potomack Company January 27th, January 2018
- The Keck Collection at Potomack Company January 27th, January 2018
2017
- Native American Artist Retha Walden Gambaro (1917-2013) at Potomack Company February 28th Auction, February 2017
- Potomack Company to Auction Estate of Novelist Tom Clancy, January 2017
2016
- Alexander Calder at Potomack Company Special November 17th Auction, November 2016
- Jacqueline Kennedy’s ‘Sweet Little Chandelier’ at Potomack Company Auction on November 5, October 2016
- Potomack Company Launches New Books and Manuscripts Department, February 2016
- Potomack Company Announces Opening of Baltimore Office, January 2016
2014
- Potomack Auction Results Point to Surging Antique Furniture Market, October 2014
- Important Private Collections Highlight Potomack Company’s October 4th and 18th Auctions, September 2014
- Strong Results For Native American Artifacts at Potomack Company October 4th, September 2014
- Virginia Lifelong Estate Collection of Over 1000 Native American Artifacts at Potomack Company Oct. 4th, September 2014
- Local Students Raise Over $10,000 for Philippine Typhoon Relief, January 2014
2013
- Chinese Art, Lalique Glass and Mid-Century Modern Designer Furniture Highlight Potomack Company’s December Auction, December 2013
- Renowned DC-Area Modernist Architect Charles Goodman’s Private Furniture Collection at Potomack Company Auction, November 2013
- Potomack Company’s October 2013 Fine Collections Auction Results, October 2013
- Potomack Company To Auction Furnishings From Historic Virginia Estate Long Branch, September 2013
- Potomack Company Finds Rare Warhol Marilyn Print, March 2013
2006-2012
- North Carolina Cabinetmaker’s Work Highlights Potomack Company’s March 16-17 Auction, February 2013
- Renoir Painting Paysage Bords de Seine Withdrawn from September 29 Auction
- Lost Renoir Painting at Potomack Company September 29 Auction
- Elizabeth Ann Swift Asian Ceramics Collection at the Potomack Company Auction
- Asian Market Still Strong – But For How Long
- Washington D.C. History – Past and Present
- Potomack Company to Auction Items from the Kluge Estate – Albermarle House
- The Potomack Company Brings Signed George Washington Letter to Auction June 11
- Historic Arlington Cemetery Urns Delivered to Army Corps of Engineers
- Potomack Company Donates Salahi White House Sari Proceeds Following Record Breaking Auction
- Asian Art Record Set at Potomack Company October Sale
- Salahi White House Sari at The Potomack Company Auction
- Bon Vivant Food Writer R.W. Apple’s Wine and Art Pottery Collections at Auction on April 24 and 25, March 2010
- Rare Kennedy Premonition Death Letter at Potomack Company Political Auction on November 1, 2008
- Notable Artist and Illustrator Victor de Pauw Featured in Potomack Company Auction
- Treasured Piece of D.C. History Sets Record at Potomack Auction on May 17, 2008, May 2008
- Dorothy Draper Items Produce Excited Bidding at The Potomack Company September 2007 Auction
- Estate of Former Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin at Potomack Company on June 30
The Potomack Company Videos:
NBC 4, September 2012
WUSA 9, September 2012
WTTG FOX 5, September 2012
WUSA 9, March 2009
WTTG FOX 5, September 2012
WJLA NBC 7, September 2012
WUSA 9, September 2012
WUSA 9, October 2008