Pick of the week: US celebration of English silver on New Year’s Day
Auctions on New Year’s Day are a tradition in regional North America. The sale at Nadeau’s in Windsor, Connecticut, on the first day of 2019 included a collection of 17th and 18th century English silver that had been given to Yale University in 1896 in memory of a former alumnus, the Pennsylvania coal baron James Browne Neale.
The items – some with later decoration – were being deaccessioned by the Yale University Art Galle…