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(Issue Story)Fitting It In
Beneath the Surface
At a recent show, we sold our two biggest and heaviest things, which always means it is a successful show. In our early auction days one strategy of ours was to go to shows and walk the floor the last few hours; we would usually come up with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Amelia Jeffers
Amelia Jeffers wears a bracelet that reads "fearless," and she subscribes to the notion "The harder I work, the luckier I get."
Luck has rested on her shoulder since childhood. "I'm a poor kid from West Virginia," she said, who had no generational ties to antiques. Thanks to an elementary school ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Landmark Maps of Texas: History and Much More
A Book Review
Frank and Carol Holcomb compiled a vast collection of maps during their 45 years of collecting. Many of these maps are the illustrations for Landmark Maps of Texas, which is less of a scholarly history of Texas maps and more of a cartographic art lesson of the state. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, June 2025
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)L.A. Pawn Shop Owner Indicted
Glenn Steven Bednarsh, 58, the owner of a pawn shop in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles, California, was indicted on April 22 for allegedly conspiring to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print trial proof, which was shipped from the Beverly Hills office of an auction house to Dallas, Texas, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Concord Museum's American Revolution Collection
A Book Review
"The Revolution, the great turn from a monarchy to a republic, was already over well before April, 19, 1775, the day the Revolutionary War began." So writes David F. Wood, celebrating his 40th year as Concord Museum curator and author, in his new richly illustrated book.
Eyewitness to Revolution: ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ohio Man Charged in Online Auction Fraud
Paul Jackson of Youngstown, Ohio, was charged on April 7 in federal court with two counts of wire fraud. Jackson is accused of defrauding "Online Auction Site 1" from November 2017 through August 2021. The online auction site is not named in the court filing, but prosecutors state that it ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jim Crow Meets Bluebeard: Imagination and Humor in the Staffordshire Potteries
The Collector's Find
The story, or perhaps the journey, began at Elinor Penna's home on Sunday, October 1, 2023. That was the day members of the Staffordshire Figure Association (SFA) had the opportunity to purchase figures from Penna's vast collection of Staffordshire figures, numbering in the thousands. Penna, a well-known collector ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Collector Discipline
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. -Plato
Collectors need many attributes if they are to build a collection over time that they are proud of. Patrick Bell of Olde Hope names three. Passion and knowledge are two. (And of course money never hurts.) ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2025
Manufactured by Thomas W. Jones, New York, peacock weathervane, 20" x 271/2", circa 1885, copper. Private collection.
-Through June 8 -Waterville, Maine
Into the Wind: American Weathervanes at the Colby Museum of Art dives into the history of weathervanes, exploring their symbolism, use, and manufacture and what their designs advertised as they ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Market Today: Mid-Century American Studio Pottery
Let's start with a definition. What is mid-century studio pottery? It generally refers to pottery handmade by an individual potter (or often a husband-and-wife team) working on their own in their own studio where they control all aspects of the process-preparing clay, designing the items to be made, decorating and/or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wolf Pewter Goes to Historic Trappe
Historic Trappe has announced the gift of more than 450 pieces of American pewter from the collection of Dr. Melvyn and Bette Wolf, who over a period of 60 years amassed the largest and most comprehensive collection of American pewter ever assembled.
"We are tremendously grateful to Bette Wolf for her ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The History of the Model 1917 Rifle
The Model 1917 rifle (M1917), "America's Enfield," was not made by the Royal Small Arms Factory (RSAF) at Enfield, United Kingdom, more commonly known as simply Enfield, but the rifle that the M1917 was originally based on was, indeed, designed, developed, and manufactured at Enfield. The M1917 was, in reality, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Sentenced to 96 Months for Theft of Artwork
On March 13 Thomas Trotta, 49, of Dunmore, Pennsylvania, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Malachy E. Mannion to 96 months' imprisonment, to be followed by a term of supervised release, for one count of theft of major artwork. He was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)George Bellows: A Master of Lithography
A Book Review
By late 1915 George Bellows (1882-1925) had become a recognized painter and financial success, allowing him to explore his fascination with lithography. He wrote that he had been doing what he could "to rehabilitate the medium from the stigma of commercialism" attached to it. Apparently he achieved success, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Why Some People Do Not Collect
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Police Recover Stolen Washington Painting
The Englewood (Colorado) Police Department has recovered a painting of President George Washington that was stolen from a storage facility in January 2024.
On January 22, 2024, Englewood Police received a report of the theft from a storage facility in the 3300 block of South Santa Fe Drive. The stolen artwork, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Welcome Addition to the Canon
A Book Review
With few exceptions, such as Nina Fletcher Little's Little by Little: Six Decades of Collecting American Decorative Arts (1984) and Leslie Anne Miller's Start with a House, Finish with a Collection (2014), most private collections are not published until they appear as hardcover auction catalogs for landmark sales ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Consider the Context
Beneath the Surface
Humans like permanence and certainty. We carve initials in trees and desks and doorframes. We seal documents in plastic. We enshrine important things in stone. But no matter how we feel about it, things change, and even if they do not, how we feel about them does. We ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kendra and Allan Daniel Pledge $1 Million for Folk Art Museum Acquisitions
On March 26 the American Folk Art Museum announced that longtime patrons Kendra and Allan Daniel have pledged a bequest of $1 million in support of future acquisitions of traditional American folk art.
This bequest initiates Kendra and Allan Daniel into the American Folk Art Museum's Legacy Society, which honors friends ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)If in Doubt, Don't Throw It Out: A Paean to Paper, Specifically Diaries and Journals
It's a little like admitting to being a heretic, but while working for 17 years as a reporter for M.A.D., my favorite items to write about weren't pieces of furniture. They were pieces of paper. I loved to write about things like rare books and ephemera. Chests of drawers, not ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)2024 Ceramics in America
A Book Review
It is hard to believe that Ceramics in America has been around since 2001 and that the current edition is the 23rd volume. (There was an interruption in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Twelve of the 14 articles of varying length in the 2024 volume answer questions posed by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rhinebeck Show to Return
Barn Star Productions' Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck Show is returning. The show will take place Memorial Day Weekend, May 24 and 25, at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York, and will feature 125 indoor exhibitors. Last year, the Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck Show, scheduled for Columbus Day weekend, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Heather Karlie Vieira
Earning her chops as an antiques dealer took spunk, luck, and cocktail waitress experience. After 20-plus years, Heather Karlie Vieira, who with her two teenage daughters now calls Georgia home, has her foot in many doors.
Leaving her hometown of Philadelphia in 2002 for New York City to become an antiques ... (Read More)
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(Show)Another Way: The High Point Antique & Design Center
High Point, North Carolina
High Point, North Carolina, was once the furniture capital of the world. Its first factory opened in 1888. Aided by cheap labor, an abundance of hard woods, and a tradition of cottage-industry furniture makers, by 1900 High Point and the surrounding Piedmont region had 44 furniture factories. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two New Exhibitors for NHADA Annual Show
For 68 years, the annual show produced by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) has upheld the tradition of bringing fine quality antiques to New England. Two new exhibitors will join the show this year bringing the total to 59 exhibitors. The new exhibitors are Philip Mead of Mead ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brazilian Folk Painting Tops Maine Auction
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
"My grandmother bought it on a cruise in 1957," said the consignor of a Brazilian folk painting that was the top lot at Farrin's Country Auctions in Randolph, Maine, on April 26. "It's been in my house, sometimes just leaning against a wall," she said, sitting ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Getting More by Asking for Less
When asked by someone outside of the art and decorative arts world what museums to see in New York City, I always tell them about the American Folk Art Museum. "It's fantastic, and it's free," is my stock recommendation.
"Access, Scale & Market Share," a recent report by Remuseum, a think ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 2025
Stanley Whitney (b. 1946), untitled, 2020, gouache on paper. The Medford and Loraine Johnston collection, promised gift to the High Museum of Art. (c) Stanley Whitney. Photo courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery, New York.
-Through May 25 -Atlanta, Georgia
Thinking Eye, Seeing Mind: The Medford and Loraine Johnston Collection at the High Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bloody Massacre Sells for $200,000
Paul Revere's engraving The Bloody Massacre is one of the most familiar images related to the American Revolution. The event depicted, commonly referred to as the Boston Massacre, took place in the evening of March 5, 1770, and is considered one of the seminal moments that solidified Colonial resistance to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spirit of Spring: Modern American Art at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Female Modernists occupied some of the real estate in Christie's 99-lot modern American art sale April 17 in New York City. The live auction, which attracted over two dozen attendees, totaled $14,228,382 and had an 84% sell-through rate. Christie's reported that 18% of the buyers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bierstadt's Old Faithful Tops Decorative Arts Auction
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Auctions are unpredictable. Sales depend on estates that must be settled and downsizing by collectors who change their focus. In these times of economic and political chaos, consignors were cautious as they watched the middle market settle down to lower values and saw sectors once ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hilliard's Eclectic Sale Lives Up to Its Name
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
One of the realities of the post-COVID-19 online antiques auction world is the move toward targeted sales. We now see an increasing number of sales that consist of lots grouped so as to appeal to specific genres or collecting categories-Asian ceramics, 20th-century ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Catalog of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Assemblage
A Book Review
Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road is the catalog for the special exhibition that celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Historic Trappe in Trappe, Pennsylvania. This gathering of painted boxes, cupboards, chests, and fraktur that enriched the daily lives ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Auction Record for Temperance Jug
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
Setting a new auction record for an American temperance jug, this Anna Pottery stoneware temperance jug, 12" tall, with a rare solid cobalt ground sold to a folk-art collector for $144,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Provenance, condition, extravagant decoration, and coloring (the blue ground) all played ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lost in Flooding
Asheville, North Carolina
A collection of 50 mostly southern high chairs, often lent to museums for exhibitions on life in Appalachia.
An elaborately carved 19th-century Buddha cabinet from Shanxi Province, China, for worship and honoring ancestors. A medieval suit of armor.
Antiques dealers and collectors typically think of themselves as custodians of items ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany and More
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
Tiffany Studios enameled copper cabinet vase with mushrooms, circa 1905, just 21/4" high x 21/2" diameter, sold online for $82,550 (est. $10,000/15,000). "It turned up on Antiques Roadshow in Oregon, and the owner said she bought it for less than a dollar at a garage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Antiquarian Society Receives Paine Collection
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts, has received a gift of more than 18,000 pieces of 18th- and 19th-century ephemera. The collection, assembled over several decades by Stephen Davies Paine (1932-1997) and given to AAS in his memory, is one of the largest and most pristine of its kind.
The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$900,000 Fine Levied in Endangered Species Case
On April 9 a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced two men for trafficking protected birds and eggs into the United States in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Dr. John Waldrop of Cataula, Georgia, was ordered to pay a $900,000 fine-one of the largest ever for an ESA case-and serve ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2025
AHere are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Garth's Bonds Divvied Up, Receiver Wrapping Up Dissolution
On February 19 Judge Kim Brown of the Franklin County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas ruled in the case of two $25,000 auctioneer bonds-one on behalf of Richard "Jeff" Jeffers and the other on behalf of Garth's Auctions, Inc.-issued by the Cincinnati Insurance Company. The total of $50,000 is to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale of Art, Silver, and America's Favorite Pastime at CRN
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions.
Two fine estate collections from stalwarts of the antiques business came to market at CRN Auctions April 6 in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery. One featured some interesting 19th- and 20th-century paintings from the estate of private dealer John "Jack" Carter of Gloucester, Massachusetts, including ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2025 Mt. Kisco Antiques Show
Mt. Kisco, New York
Show manager Debbie Turi of D. Turi Antique Shows rallied some 28 dealers to set out their wares at St. Francis of Assisi church in Mt. Kisco, Westchester County, New York, on April 5 and 6.
A sizeable crowd had already shown up by the time M.A.D. visited ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale of Americana at Horst
Horst Auctioneers, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Horst Auctioneers
Horst Auctioneers' spring sale in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, began Friday, April 4, at 2 p.m., lasted until 6 p.m., continued on Saturday, April 5, starting at 9 a.m., and was over by 2 p.m. All 805 lots found buyers, and the sale brought a total ... (Read More)
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(Show)The GCADA Greater Rochester Spring Antique Show
Henrietta, New York
The patrons poured in to Minett Hall inside the ROC Dome Arena in Henrietta, New York, April 5 at 10 a.m. for the Greater Rochester Spring Antique Show produced by the Genesee Country Antique Dealers Association (GCADA). Escaping the pouring rain, they were eager to buy antiques, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)50 Years of Sommer
In 1975, when Phyllis Sommer first opened her doors at Pumpkin Patch Antiques in Searsport, Maine, little did she know that 50 years later she'd still be opening those doors at the same location. Her 50th season begins on April 12.
According to Sommer, as a history major in college, her ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Coopertition
Beneath the Surface
We feel like foreign correspondents these days, with many of the observations you read here written on the go, what with scratching odd bits on the back of reading schedules and permission sheets, regularly scrounging around under ketchup packets and outdated registration cards for crusty pens and stubby ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Art at Swann Galleries
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Auction Galleries
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City, held its customary spring African American art sale Thursday, April 3, a day after the stock market reacted negatively to the Trump administration's announcement of widespread tariffs. Nevertheless, the 193-lot sale totaled $1,797,755 (including buyers' ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hyland Granby Antiques Offers Seven Paintings from the Lewis Collection
In this fast-changing world, more collectors and executors of estates have been consigning works of high quality to the trade for sale rather than sending them to auction. "The buyers pay more money at auction with the high buyer's premium, so the sellers can do better with a private sale ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tremont Attracts International Interest and Sales
Tremont Auctions, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Tremont Auctions
Tremont Auctions featured several large collections in the March 30 sale in the Sudbury, Massachusetts, gallery. American and European paintings attracted interest, and a large portion of the artwork was headed overseas. A large collection of Asian objects came from upstate New York, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Revealing F. Edwin Church
The F. Edwin Church Catalogue Raisonne Project and North Shore Historical Museum in Glen Cove, New York, will present a retrospective on F. Edwin Church (1876-1975), a New York Impressionist painter prominent in the first quarter of the 20th century. This exhibition is in honor of the 50th anniversary of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Deere Sign Brings Big Money
A recently discovered John Deere Gilpin Sulky Plow sign sold to a private collector for $71,500 (includes buyer's premium) at an auction conducted by Aumann Auctions of Nokomis, Illinois. The sale closed on April 28. Bidding for the sign started at $1 on March 28.
Photos courtesy Aumann Auctions.
The rare chromolithographed ... (Read More)
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(Show)International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair
New York City
The International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Print Fair speaks for itself, evidenced by the lines of ticketholders wrapped around the Park Avenue Armory in New York City all the way to Lexington Avenue on opening night. And those on line were VIPs who arrived a full hour ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Unpretentious Personality and Inherent Dignity": A Collection of Chinese Furniture
A Book Review
This self-published volume illustrating a portion of the author's collection of Chinese furniture is more than a photographic album, more than a catalog, more than a lesson on the genre. The Nobility of the Everyday is the author's intimate expose on Chinese furniture that he has collected over ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, April 2025
Photograph by Rafael de la Uz, 2024.
-Through April 13 -Anchorage, Alaska
Nuestra Huella (Our Footprint) at the Anchorage Museum examines the many ways the Latino community has contributed to Alaska's culture and history. Visitors will learn about traditions, beliefs, and histories from Alaska-based Latinx communities through photographs, community stories, historical research, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Public Financing for Art
An interesting bill has been introduced in the Washington state legislature. House Bill 1841 would establish an art purchase program by providing interest-free or low-interest loans from the state to buy art. The bill, dubbed "Own Your Own Art Purchase Program," is modeled after Tasmania's art purchase program.
The Tasmanian program ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Charleston Show 2025
Charleston, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Donna Prunkl
What began as the Charleston International Antiques Show in 2004 has morphed into simply the Charleston Show. M.A.D. was there for the inaugural international show (see the June 2004 edition of M.A.D., pp. 26-28-D). Keeling Wainwright Associates managed the show for the Historic Charleston Foundation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Laughlin's 39th Spring Auction
Laughlin Auctions, Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions
Laughlin Auctions hosted its 39th annual spring antiques and sporting auction March 5-19. The two-week online-only sale provided ample time for potential buyers to sort through the nearly 1100 lots offered by the Edinburg, Virginia, firm. Laughlin uses the HiBid bidding platform.
In addition to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toy Market Strength on Display at Bertoia
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions' spring "Signature" event held March 15 in Vineland, New Jersey, found the second half of the Curtis and Linda Smith collection of pre-1900 American toys headlining the event. The first session of this couple's collection of toys sold a year ago ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dolley Madison's Plundered Coffeepot Sells in the U.K.
On August 24, 1814, following a victory at Bladensburg, Maryland, British forces captured the city of Washington, D.C., and set fire to the White House, the Capitol, the Treasury, and the Library of Congress. The burning was one of the final events of the War of 1812, a conflict which ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bronx Man Admits to Stealing Trading Cards and Sports Memorabilia
Shelby Dozier, 34, of the Bronx, New York, formerly employed by the United States Postal Service as a sorting clerk, has admitted to theft of mail. Dozier pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas to an information charging him with theft of mail by a postal service employee.
In ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Daniel Ridgway Knight Online Catalogue Raisonne
Rehs Galleries, New York City, has launched the Daniel Ridgway Knight online catalogue raisonne (www.ridgwayknight.org), a comprehensive and continuously updated digital resource dedicated to the life and works of the 19th-century American artist.
This scholarly project is being led by Howard L. Rehs, art historian and owner of Rehs Galleries. Dr. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stack's Bowers Galleries 2025 Professional Numismatist Program
Stack's Bowers Galleries has announced the 2025 session of its Professional Numismatist Program, scheduled to be held July 20-25. The program's mission is "To provide practical tools and build professional connections for the next generation of young adult numismatists." The lead instructor will be Devin Hipp, joined by industry leaders ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Center for Painted Wall Preservation Scholarship
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) invites applications to the 2025 inaugural CPWP scholarship. Awards will be made for either one recipient of $1500 or two recipients of $750. The selection will be based on review of proposals for educational scholarly projects designed to study, understand, and educate about ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Stone Birds: How to Find a Peckham
How do you find a new painting by somebody who's been dead for 150 years? As you might expect, there's no straightforward answer. I found myself in that quandary not too long ago while studying the Massachusetts folk painter Deacon Robert Peckham (1785-1877).
Peckham was a staunch advocate for abolition, temperance, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Vander Sande Collection at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
The entire 211-lot catalog for the March 12 sale at Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, was devoted to the collection of Marie-Teresa and John (1944-2024) Vander Sande of Newbury, Massachusetts. The couple researched and purchased 17th- and 18th-century Massachusetts furniture and decorative arts. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Skinner Art Sale
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Bidders disregarded the estimates on Island Funeral, this charcoal on paper sketch, 43" x 501/2" (sheet size), by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) and drove it to $508,500 (est. $25,000/35,000). In September 1934 Wyeth watched from the porch of his home in Port Clyde, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fletcher to Receive President's Award
On Wednesday, April 16, Old Sturbridge Village will present its President's Award to Stephen L. Fletcher, Americana expert and former executive vice president of Skinner.
The Old Sturbridge Village President's Award honors those individuals whose work, like that of Old Sturbridge Village, brings meaning, relevance, and inspiration to the public through ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A-Mark Acquires Parent of Stack's Bowers Galleries
A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., a precious metals platform, has entered into a agreement to acquire 100% of the stock of Spectrum Group International, Inc. (SGI), the parent of Stack's Bowers Galleries (SBG), one of the world's largest rare coin and currency auction houses and a wholesale and retail dealer specializing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Balancing Act
Beneath the Surface
Is there anything worse than not being able to find something that you absolutely know is there somewhere? With a big house, an auction gallery, and two kids, Hollie really would not want to calculate how many hours she spends looking for things: keys, math books, library books, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eldred's Relaunches Sandwich Auction House
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts, relaunched Sandwich Auction House in February as a discrete brand under its umbrella of auction and appraisal services.
Sandwich Auction House, founded in 1974, spent decades selling hundreds of thousands of items and providing comprehensive estate auction services to southern New England and beyond. After nearly 50 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stellar Gate and Growth for Hudson Antique Show
Canfield, Ohio
The Hudson Antique Show held March 8 and 9 at the Canfield Fairgrounds Event Center (a.k.a. the Michael Kusalaba Event Center) in Canfield, Ohio, recorded the largest gate in the history of the show. Dealers and shoppers alike pulled show manager Steve Sherhag aside to state variations of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Crowntainer Sells for Record $111,150
A rare Chief Oshkosh Crowntainer beer can set a new auction record at $111,150 (includes buyer's premium) at Morean Auctions, Brimfield, Massachusetts, March 9. (Crowntainers are a style of beer cans that have a funnel-shaped cone top that was sealed with a bottle cap.) The white Chief Oshkosh is the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buyers Root for Orville
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
Photos courtesy Casco Bay Auctions
The Casco Bay Auctions March 8 sale in Freeport, Maine, was spiced by a few items that notably leaped past their estimates to settle in at low four-figure prices and a few awakening sleepers that later might yield tidy sums for their ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Paper Town Boxboro Show under New Ownership
Paper Town Boxboro, the vintage book and paper show held in Boxborough, Massachusetts, twice a year, will continue under new ownership, according to event promoters Tina and John Bruno, who are retiring after more than 40 years in the business.
Richard Mori of Richard Mori Books will operate the shows, beginning ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, March 2025
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hanover Tavern Exhibition
The Hanover Tavern Foundation has planned several events to celebrate the semiquincentennial of the United States. The initial event is an exhibit titled United In Liberty, Divided In Design: Furnishings During the American Revolution. The exhibit includes objects of everyday Colonial life and decorative arts that had been created before ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marc J. Matz Collection of China Trade and Indian Art Draws Strong Bids
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
Fred Giampietro of New England Auctions offered the Marc J. Matz collection in a single-owner sale March 5 in Branford, Connecticut. Matz is a longtime specialist in works from the China trade, colonial India, the Dutch East Indies, Japanese export, and Southeast ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ADAA Pledges $100,000 to Fire Relief Fund
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has pledged to contribute $100,000 from the ADAA Relief Fund to the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, which has risen to over $12 million and continues to grow. Led by the J. Paul Getty Trust, with support from a coalition of major ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Old Friends
Old friends are precious. They know you and your history well, and you theirs. They are as comfortable as that flannel shirt or pair of shoes you would never part with. Conversations begin as if never left off. You cannot imagine life without the contact, the laughs, the tears, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Boston Marble Slab Table
Photos courtesy Levy Galleries
The talk of the town at The Winter Show was the sale of the circa 1755 Boston marble slab table with naturalistic rococo carving by John Welch that was sold by Frank Levy of Levy Galleries, New York City, to the Chipstone Foundation during the first minute ... (Read More)
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(Show)2025 Outsider Art Fair
New York City
The 33rd iteration of the Outsider Art Fair said farewell to a couple of icons in the field while welcoming a few new players.
The original owner of the fair, Sanford L. "Sandy" Smith, who passed away last year, had sold the fair 13 years ago to Andrew Edlin ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Fred and Kathryn Giampietro
In his homes Fred Giampietro is surrounded by contemporary art, mid-century modern furniture, folk art, Native American pottery, and music emanating from his wife's oboe.
Fred and Kathryn Giampietro spend time between their 19th-century carriage house in New Haven, Connecticut, which they bought and renovated in 1985, and a 15-year-old custom-built ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Goosefare Will Manage Duxbury Antiques Show
Goosefare Antiques & Promotions has contracted to manage the Duxbury Antiques Show in Duxbury, Massachusetts. According to John and Elizabeth DeSimone of Goosefare, they will make some changes.
They have changed the dates of the Duxbury Show to April 26 and 27, the last weekend in April. The DeSimones decided to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, March 2025
Gertrude Horsford Fiske (1879-1961), Graveyard, Cape Neddick, circa 1940, oil on canvas. Gift of Artemis P. Willis. Oqunquit Museum of American Art, 2002.4.
-Through March 16 -Durham, New Hampshire
Networks of Modernism, 1898-1968: Works from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art at the University of New Hampshire Gallery of Art contextualizes the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.5 Million Three-Day Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine, held a late winter three-day auction February 21 to 23. When the last gavel came down, the gallery had taken in a cool $1.5 million. Only one lot hit the hundred-grand mark, but there ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Over $3 Million at Copley Winter Sale
Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC, Pembroke, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC
Copley Fine Art Auctions' two-day online-only auction February 21 and 22 brought in over $3 million, was over 95% sold by lot, and achieved new record prices. The auction house, based in Pembroke, Massachusetts, and entering its third ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Political Memorabilia from the Kimmel Collection
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A superb trove of presidential and political memorabilia from the collection of a single owner was sold at Heritage Auctions' February 21 and 22 Americana and political "Signature" auction.
The Roger H. Kimmel collection featured 916 lots, with an emphasis on political pins from the ... (Read More)
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(Show)National Arts & Crafts Conference and Shows
Asheville, North Carolina
Devotees of the annual National Arts & Crafts Conference and Shows in Asheville, North Carolina, didn't waste any time once the doors to the show of antiques and contemporary crafts opened on February 21. Bright red sold signs began sprouting throughout the Omni Grove Park Inn's grand ballroom ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2025 Heart of Tennessee Antique Show
Lebanon, Tennessee
The Heart of Tennessee Antique Show was held in Lebanon, Tennessee, February 13-15. The event featured 33 dealers and began with a Thursday evening preview party. The ninth annual show was once again part of Nashville's antiques week, which offered five solid but distinct shows divvied up between Nashville ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Nashville Show 2025
Nashville, Tennessee
The Fairgrounds Nashville had an interesting way of promoting one of its marquee events. Taped to the doors of restroom stalls, where occupants became a captive audience, were fliers for the monthly Nashville Flea Market, described as "The Best Flea Market in Tennessee."
A flea market was an odd thing ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2025 Lebanon Antique Show
Lebanon, Tennessee
The guy behind me is tapping his fingers impatiently. Seriously. He's drumming away like John Bonham of Led Zeppelin. Except I'm oblivious to his exasperation-focused instead on photographing a small wool-covered ram. Anyway, sorry, dude. I didn't mean to raise your blood pressure.
It was Friday morning, shortly after the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2025 Fiddlers Antique Show
Nashville, Tennessee
With new owners and some tweaks to the event, Fiddlers Antique Show was held February 12-15 in Nashville, Tennessee. An integral part of Nashville's antiques week, the long-running show was one of three antiques-related events held that weekend at The Fairgrounds Nashville.
Jill and Mark Mattingly of MattPro Show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Jitterbugs V Dances to the Top at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its first suite of 2025 sales the week of February 10 to 14. The online-only sales consisted of ten targeted groupings offering a total of 1395 lots. A separate catalog was published for each sale. Over the week ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Society Presents Awards and Prize
The Decorative Arts Society, Inc. (DAS) recognized scholarly works produced in 2023 by presenting its Charles F. Montgomery Prize and Award and Robert C. Smith Award on November 12 at the Explorers Club in New York City. Recipients were chosen after careful review of numerous worthy and laudable publications submitted ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, February 20205
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Historical and Native American Antiques
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
Esoteric might be one word to describe Fred Giampietro's New England Auctions' February 13 sale in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery. Offerings fell into various collecting categories, including Americana, folk art, military, medical, scientific, Native American, and woodworking.
The double-sided painted wood trade sign, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tankard with Unusual Characteristic Given to MFA
Fairhaven, Massachusetts, resident Thomas E. Linzee Jr. has donated an 18th-century silver tankard with an unusual characteristic to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
The tankard, which descended in Linzee's family over the last 260-plus years, was made in the 1750s by Boston silversmith Samuel Minott (1732-1803). The form conforms to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painted with Silk at the DIA
Painted with Silk: The Art of Early American Embroidery on view at the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) opened on December 13 and continues through June 15. It is mostly a loan exhibition of 69 samplers and pictorial embroideries and memorials from three private collections. One painting and two early ... (Read More)
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