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(Auction)Record Rembert at Outsider Art Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
The widely anticipated Outsider and vernacular art sale at Christie's was held the afternoon of Wednesday, January 18, midway through Americana Week. The sale, which offered 103 lots, totaled $2,064,384, with a sell-through rate of 99%. The presale estimates totaled $1.2/2 million, according to Cara ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eagle Tops $4.5 Million 47-Lot Auction
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's offered 47 lots in its "Art of the Americas" sale held January 18, midway through Americana Week. The noon sale totaled $4,514,580 (including buyers' premiums). Of the 47 lots offered (lots 5 and 7 were withdrawn before the auction), 33 sold, for a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Schiffer Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Pook & Pook offered the collection of Margaret Berwind Schiffer in 393 lots in an illustrated color catalog and sold it live in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, January 18, with about 40 people in the salesroom competing with bidders online and on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
For the first time in eight years, Sotheby's sold American Indian art. It was an online sale January 10 through 18 that opened with sculpture from the collection of Amy and Elliot Lawrence, most of it small pieces of walrus ivory. The sale also ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ADA/Historic Deerfield Show to Return Live
At a gathering at the Bernard and S. Dean Levy gallery in New York City January 18, John Davis, president and CEO of Historic Deerfield, announced the return of the annual Antiques Dealers' Association of America/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show. Previously an October event, the show will now be held live ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Revere Silver Pitcher Sells for Record $129,950
Anyone who previewed the 400 lots of estate jewelry and coins from the New York County Public Administrator and a collection of Native American pottery for the first day of Weiss Auctions' two-day monthly sale January 18 and 19 in Lynbrook, New York, might have walked past the tarnished Paul ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Halliday House Stock Sold
Annex Auctions by Witherell's, Sacramento, California
Photos courtesy Annex Auctions by Witherell's
Witherell's, a Sacramento, California, auction house now run by three generations of the Witherell family, held an online single-owner sale on its Annex Auctions platform featuring the contents of Halliday House, a "quaint little antiques shop nestled in the vineyards ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Washington Winter Show Returns in Style
Washington, D.C.
Staging an antiques and design show in Washington, D.C., in early January is, at best, problematic. The traditional holiday season turmoil is over, but Mid-Atlantic weather is always unpredictable. The Washington Winter Show has had its share of hurdles over the years, but snow, sleet, and ice storms were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garthoeffner Collection Crosses the Auction Block
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
The large full-bodied molded and sheet-copper weathervane in the form of Lady Liberty holding a ten-star flag and raising her right arm was made by Cushing & White (formerly A.L. Jewell), Waltham, Massachusetts. The substantial figure, 383/4" x 271/2", retains the original ... (Read More)
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(Show)Peter Mavris's Three-Hour Antiques Show
Hampton, New Hampshire
The vagaries of weather and COVID-19 notwithstanding, Peter Mavris's January 15 antiques show in Hampton, New Hampshire, pleased dealers and buyers alike. A couple of dealers were struck down by COVID or the flu and withdrew from the show, but it was a delight for those who did ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hindman Opens New Chicago HQ and Moves into New York City
On December 6 Hindman opened a new headquarters at 1550 West Carroll Avenue, Suite 106, in Chicago. The new headquarters is located at The Auxiliary, a historic building that formerly housed the Benrus Watch Company.
In addition to the new headquarters, the firm has opened a newly renovated office at 222 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, January 2023
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)Round Lake Antiques Festival Lowers Cost for Dealers
Everything costs more nowadays-except dealer space at the Round Lake Antiques Festival, held annually in June in upstate New York. Promoter Michael Green has announced he's lowering prices for dealer spaces beginning with the 2023 show.
"We understand how difficult it is for dealers in today's economy, especially for outdoor shows. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Shop Talk
Beneath the Surface
Humans kind of ruin everything. It is true. We do. Think about your favorite vacation spot 30 years ago! But we do not mean to. We mean to make things better. And, to be fair, it is not just us. Left to their own devices, many living organisms ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Eye for Excellence
David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles will not be in their usual booth at The Winter Show this year. Instead the Woodbury, Connecticut, dealers will be presenting An Eye for Excellence, an online exhibition and sale on their website (www.americanantiqueart.com) beginning January 12 at 10 a.m.
An illustrated flip book ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts Auction
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
Art pottery attracted a lot of attention, and the best of the lighting did well, as usual, but a Gertrude Abercrombie painting drew the most interest during the decorative arts auction held by Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 8. "I was happy with the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Bird the Top Lot at Ohio Auction
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
The Americana sale held January 7 by Garth's Auctions at the Municipal Light Plant in Columbus, Ohio, was largely about the basics. It was about folk art and paint, about form and size. It was a lesson in how the good stuff, for the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2023
This month's "Letter," I should warn readers, has led me into foreign and unfamiliar places, in terms of both subject matter and sale locations.
The most expensive piece featured here, an exceptionally rare Chinese folding or "crossed" chair, was part of a Hong Kong sale, while two other reports, though UK ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting Discovered in Basement Sells for $84,480
Hunt & Peck Estate Services, Inc., in Luray, Virginia, does not find a French Impressionist painting in a basement every day.
The firm, founded by Roger Schrenk and Chris Fultz, has been downsizing households and liquidating estates for 20 years. During the COVID-19 lockdown, they closed their resale shop and turned ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Book Reviews
"A book is a gift you can open again and again," said Garrison Keillor. This month's selection of books includes titles you might want to give as gifts or buy for yourself. We have included contact information for books that you can order directly from the publisher. We also encourage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Possible Scalp Seized in Maine
In early May 2022, a beaded American Indian pipe bag with possibly an Apache scalp attached was seized from Poulin Antiques American & Auctions in Fairfield, Maine. If tests determine it is a scalp, selling the object would violate the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act.
A recently unsealed affidavit by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Over a Million Dollars in Jewelry and Watches
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Nadeau's Auction Gallery
The tenth annual New Year's Day sale held by Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut, resulted in a 96% sell-through rate after a "long day of spirited and competitive bidding," according to the auction house. I communicated with Ed Nadeau Jr., co-president of Nadeau's, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Jeffrey Ricketts, East Nottingham Antiques
"Oh my gosh Jeffrey, why do you like this old junk?" ask his friends.
With a self-effacing demeanor, Jeffrey Ricketts, a 21-year-old antiques dealer from North East, Maryland, who has been selling out of a barn on his parents' property for the last five years and who has done shows since ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dodged One Bullet-More to Come
When the text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023 was released, language changing bank secrecy laws was not included. The final House version of the bill is a victory for the art and antiques trade.
The initial House bill included text of the ENABLERS Act ("Establishing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2023
Morgan and Marvin Smith, untitled, Marvin and Morgan Smith and Sarah Lou Harris Carter, 1940, gelatin silver print, 10" x 8". Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Photograph (c) Morgan and Marvin Smith.
-Through January 8 -New Orleans, Louisiana
Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week 2023 in New York City
Americana Week, the annual January conclave in New York City of collectors, curators, museum directors, scholars, historians, librarians, designers, and the curious who look over, discuss, and purchase American furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles, paintings, prints, books, and manuscripts made in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, is jam-packed.
The Winter ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Successful Eclectic Holiday Auction
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
All prices include the buyer's premium.
Hilliard & Co. concluded its final auction of 2022 at its gallery in Madison, Virginia, December 19. Following the format that it has used during the COVID-19 environment, the Hilliard sale was available for several days online ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Netsuke
On December 16, a 3 3/8" high wooden netsuke of a kirin on a cloud, estimated at $15,000/20,000, sold for a whopping $441,300 (includes buyer's premium) at Bonhams, New York City. The buyer was a private collector, underbid by the Japanese trade.
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(Issue Story)Finds
Finds are a highlight of collecting. Because of the many definitions, gradations, and nuances, I am unsure that agreement exists on what one is, but collectors know when such a discovery takes place.
To some a find is a treasure a collector discovers unexpectedly. To other collectors spending the day going ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Arrested in Antiques Shop Thefts
Between September 14 and October 5, the Camp Verde Office in Verde, Arizona, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2022
A couple of pictures are at the very top of the price lists in this month's somewhat curious selection.
The most expensive of them, at over $450,000, is Johan Zoffany's very late 18th-century portrait of the comic actor Edward Townsend singing "The Beggar"from Merry Sherwood, or Harlequin Forrester, an entertainment based ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.9 Million Art and Design Auction
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Within the past decade or so, the Chicago auction house Toomey & Co. has featured a series of art and design auctions, each intended to highlight distinctive examples of period design. By our reckoning, the first officially named art and design sale ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)It's the Little Things
Beneath the Surface
The last few years have recalibrated our lives. They have shifted our sense of community, our work culture, our economy. As "history people," although we can acknowledge that this wouldn't necessarily be a time period we would have chosen, it is undeniable that we are in the midst ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Estates Fuel the Jewelry Section of Nye & Co.'s Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Nye & Co.
A wide variety of jewelry was offered at the December 7 and 8 estate treasures auction held by Nye & Co., Bloomfield, New Jersey. I asked John Nye, president of Nye & Co., if the jewelry came from different estates, and he said, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Doros Collection of Tiffany Glass, a 58-Lot, $2 Million Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
It will take four sales to disperse the exquisite one-of-a-kind Tiffany glass and objects from the collection of Jay and Micki Doros, including the most comprehensive collection of Favrile glass vases by Tiffany Studios ever to come to market.
The first 58 lots, published in a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Chance of a Lifetime!
On page 82 of The New Fine Points of Furniture: Early American, Good, Better, Best, Superior, Masterpiece (1993), Albert Sack pictured a 1770-90 Philadelphia comb-back Windsor armchair, proclaiming it a "Masterpiece." He likened it to a "thoroughbred," calling it "one of the supreme examples of the Windsor chairmakers' art." He ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show
Lewisville, Indiana
Following the success of a new antiques show in east-central Indiana, the promoters are planning to hold the event twice a year.
A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show debuted December 3 in Lewisville, Indiana, with a full house of 20 dealers. Richard McKnight, one of the show's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Starting Strong at Mebane's Americana and Continental Sale
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
Jon Lambert of Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina, neatly divided the 830 lots of his two-day December sale into two distinct categories. The first day was devoted to Continental objects and the second to Americana. He carefully ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Williamsburg Buys Its Earliest Piece of American Silver
A caudle cup struck with the marks of Robert Sanderson Sr. (c. 1608-1693), his partner John Hull (1624-1683), and their apprentice Jeremiah Dummer (1645-1718) offered at a Heritage Auctions' coin sale in Dallas, Texas, August 22 was acquired by Colonial Williamsburg.
Made by the first silversmiths working in what is now ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, December 2022
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)New Show in Denville, New Jersey
The Denville Historical Society and Morris Catholic High School have partnered with D. Turi Antique Shows to present a new show, Christmas Antique & Design Market on December 3 and 4.
The show will be held at Morris Catholic High School in Denville, New Jersey, and will benefit the school's scholarship ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Online Estate and Antiques Auction
Davies Auctions, Brookston, Indiana
Photos courtesy Davies Auctions
Since giving up live auctions for online-only sales during the pandemic, auctioneer Doug Davies of Brookston, Indiana, continues to be pleased with business. The November 28 event held by Davies Auctions drew largely off one estate that helped set the tone, led by a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ancient to Modern Sale II
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Marion Antique Auctions' "Ancient to Modern" sale November 26 in its Marion, Massachusetts, gallery offered artifacts thousands of years old and objects of more recent vintage.
Of particular interest were 150 lots of rare museum-quality wicker furniture from the collection of Mary Jean ... (Read More)
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(Auction)62nd Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
Something interesting came out of the 62nd annual Thanksgiving Americana sale held by Garth's Auctions in Columbus, Ohio, November 25-something unexpected. And it had nothing to do with any specific item being offered.
The auction was Garth's first live event since the salesroom floor closed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Reese Company Has New Owners
The William Reese Company, the world's leading antiquarian bookseller of printed and manuscript Americana, has been sold to new owners. James Cummins Bookseller, based in New York City, and London bookseller Peter Harrington have acquired the company, which will continue to operate at its existing premises at 409 Temple Street, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Chuck Auerbach
When M.A.D. caught up with Chuck Auerbach of Akron, Ohio, he was in his car picking up his two grandchildren, who live in Nashville, Tennessee. He and his wife had made the eight-hour drive the day before in order to help their older son, Dan, who is the lead singer, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California Art Sales at Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"We're very pleased overall," said California art specialist Katherine Halligan (pinch-hitting for department director Scot Levitt for this story). "The market is a little soft, but sales of our 19th- century works were particularly gratifying-a strong start-and there was consistent bidding across Impressionism."
The November 21 California ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Ann Comes Home after More Than 50 Years
It took more than 50 years, but there's a happy ending on Staten Island.
In November 1970, Richmondtown Restoration, a town and farm museum complex on Staten Island now known as Historic Richmond Town, suffered a break-in and theft. Four paintings were discovered missing-portraits of John Totten (1771-1846) and his wife, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Jennings Collection at Wooten & Wooten
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
Of the 462 lots in the November 19 sale at Wooten & Wooten, 192 were consigned by the family of the late Betty and Ralph Jennings. The couple collected widely but concentrated on North and South Carolina pottery, paintings, baskets, iron ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk-Art Figure Leads Evans Premier Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 43rd semiannual premier Americana auction in a suite of three sessions, November 17-19, at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. Live, online, absentee, and telephone bidders participated in each of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2022
Ammi Phillips (1788-1865), portraits of Dirck D. and Annatje Eltinge Wynkoop.
-Through December 18 -New Paltz, New York
Acquisitions and Re-acquisitions at the Dubois Fort Visitor Center at Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) celebrates the return of two portraits by itinerant painter Ammi Phillips, stolen 50 years ago and recently returned by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Record for Manhattan Stoneware
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
The Zipp family, which owns Crocker Farm, is accustomed to setting auction records. The latest was for Manhattan stoneware when the specialty house sold a presentation pitcher for $264,000 (includes buyer's premium) to a private collector. The pitcher with incised decoration of a Federal ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana: The Autumn Palette
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Billed as "Americana: The Autumn Palette,"the November 18 Americana auction at Bonhams Skinner in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery delivered carefully gathered objects from several collections. Short and sweet with 182 lots, the sale brought serious money for many lots.
Weathervanes from the collection of Kimberly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Fall Sale
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Eldred's celebrated its 75th year with its annual fall sale November 17 and 18 in its East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery where it all began in 1947. That was when company founder Robert C. Eldred Sr. moved a barn from South Dennis to a sea captain's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ernie Barnes's Bojangles Leads American Paintings Sale
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
As the last auction house in New York City to maintain a November American art sale, Bonhams held a sale on November 17, the week before Thanksgiving, that attracted dealers and collectors to its Madison Avenue headquarters. The 80-lot sale totaled $1,557,975 with a sell-through ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strikes and Gutters at Historical Memorabilia and Americana Auction
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter
As sometimes happens, said Gabe Fajuri, cofounder of Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago, an unexpected call from about four blocks away yielded a cache of highlight items for the November 17 sale. A socially isolated man left an estate of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Estate of General Colin Powell
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company of Alexandria, Virginia, offered at auction the estate of General Colin Luther Powell (1937-2021) in an online sale that closed November 16. Proceeds of the sale were for the benefit of the America's Promise Alliance and the Colin Powell ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Washington Letter with Maine Connection Brings $2.38 Million
Freeman's, Philadelphia
Photos courtesy Freeman's
On September 18, 1787, George Washington forwarded a freshly printed copy of the new Constitution to Thomas Jefferson, the American minister to France. Washington's cover letter, minus the enclosure, read "Yesterday put an end to the business of the Federal Convention. Enclosed is a copy of the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2022 Delaware Antiques Show
Wilmington, Delaware
he annual Delaware Antiques Show is an Americana collector's dream. At what other show can you find three sawbuck farm tables, three full-blown Philadelphia dressing tables with carved shells and leafy streamers, and just as many simpler, earlier Pennsylvania dressing tables made before the full flowering of the form, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bath Antique Sale
Bath, Maine
"I see a lot of new faces, and I see a lot of old faces," said co-promoter Rachel Gurley shortly before the Bath Antique Sale opened at 10 a.m. on Sunday, November 13, in Bath, Maine. For this one-day, short-and-sweet antiques show, the Gurleys-Rachel and her brother, Joshua, run ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Representing Established and Recently Discovered Self-Taught Work Drives Slotin Folk Art
Slotin Folk Art, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art
Slotin Folk Art held its annual fall "Masterpiece" online-only auction November 12 and 13, and owner Steve Slotin was again impressed with the interest this genre generated. "We continue to have new collectors jump into this field, and that is so important ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall 2022 Gathering on the Prairie
Arthur, Illinois
Chuck Springob was coughing up blood. That's when he and his wife, Mary, knew something was seriously wrong.
The Springobs manage A Gathering on the Prairie, which held its fall outing on November 12 in Arthur, Illinois. Chuck hadn't been feeling well since returning home from a show in Iowa ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2022 Homesteaders Folk Art & Antiques Show
Arthur, Illinois
It was business as usual at Homesteaders Folk Art & Antiques Show, held November 11 and 12 at Arthur, Illinois. That was the good news. The expected news. But there was something else.
Homesteaders has long been a regular part of the semi-annual Antiques Week in Central Illinois, a multi-venue ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall 2022 Country Spirit Antique Show
Arcola, Illinois
"Four shows, three towns, two days, one heck of a good time." That's how Jill Mattingly summed up the fall edition of Antiques Week in Central Illinois. As promoter of Country Spirit Antique Show, Mattingly manages one of those shows at three of those locations in one of those ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
Photos courtesy Casco Bay Auctions
On November 12 Casco Bay Auctions offered up around 611 lots in an Americana auction. The sale, which totaled approximately $148,000, was held inside Casco Bay's facility on Main Street in Freeport, Maine. (Freeport is a notoriously terrible town to park in, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall 2022 Rural Life Antique Show
Tuscola, Illinois
The fall edition of the Rural Life Antique Show was held November 11 and 12 in Tuscola, Illinois. As in the spring, Rural Life used two locations, having previously been in three sites for several years. A notice on Rural Life's Facebook page three days before the show noted, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Record for Concert Poster
The only known poster from "The Day the Music Died" became the most expensive concert poster ever sold at auction when it sold November 11, 2022, for $447,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas.
The 22" x 14" poster sold for $447,000.
The "Winter Dance Party" poster dates from the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Country and Americana Show
Focusing on country antiques and Americana, a new antiques show is planned for east-central Indiana. A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show will debut Saturday, December 3, in Lewisville, Indiana.
The event is the idea of Tom Saunders, Richard McKnight, and Pam Wise. Last year the three were discussing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Social Dilemma
Beneath the Surface
Our van is about to have 300,000 miles on it, but we have not gotten nearly as much mileage out of it as we have out of Andrew's thesis. When he first got out of graduate school, as one of the few people to approach Ohio decorative arts ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New England College Donates Unwin Collection to Monadnock Center
The Nora S. Unwin Collection has found a new home at the Monadnock Center for History and Culture in Peterborough, New Hampshire, through a donation from New England College.
In the early 1980s illustrator and printmaker Nora Unwin left the contents of her Peterborough studio-including more than 500 prints, drawings, paintings, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Samaha Collection Adds Variety to CRN Sale
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
Variety was the flavor of the day at CRN Auctions' November 6 sale in its Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery. The sale was filled with surprising offerings, and for the most part prices reflected that. At the opening, the 13 hardy souls in the gallery were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lachaise Sculpture Is Top Lot at Grogan
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
For what otherwise would have been a daylong sale at Grogan and Company, the company changed things around for its November auction. Fine art came to market at 11 a.m. November 5 in the Beacon Hill, Boston, gallery. Fine jewelry was sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale Brings $7 Million
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions' November 4 sale of American art is further proof of the enduring affection buyers have for artistic expression that showcases the natural beauty, culture, and heritage of the United States throughout its history.
The American art "Signature" auction drew 1150 bids and produced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
"Common Council" reward broadside issued after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the earliest and rarest of the assassination reward broadsides, one of only five recorded copies, issued by Colonel Lafayette C. Baker and including detailed descriptions of John Wilkes Booth and Lewis Payne, who had attempted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings and Prints
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle's auction of American paintings and prints in New York City November 3 totaled $1,131,280 (including buyers' premiums). The sell-through rate was 87%. Presale total estimates, calculated without buyers' premiums, were $1,094,600/1,866,700.
The Upper East Side auction house offered 139 lots that included landscapes, seascapes, marine ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Admits Stealing from Museum on Indian Reservation
On October 3 Preston Jay Spotted Eagle, 31, of Browning, Montana, pleaded guilty to theft of government property. He admitted to stealing artifacts, including a grizzly bear necklace, moccasins, and golden eagle feathers, from the Museum of the Plains Indian on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Spotted Eagle faces a maximum of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2022
There are some unexpectedly high-priced portraits to be found in this "Letter," among them a "sleeping" mother and child whose very modest estimate was demolished by a very serious six-figure bid. There is a broken mug and a royal scandal, along with a bronze huntsman figure whose creator's career ended ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Furniture and Decorative Arts
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle New York, long the neighborhood auctioneer for Park Avenue estates, has had an influx of New England furniture and decorations at its Americana sales since Bostonian Chris Barber took over the American furniture department in March 2022.
At Doyle's sale of 351 lots of furniture, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 34th Annual ADAA Art Show
New York City
The Art Show, organized by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA), returned to the Park Avenue Armory in New York City November 3-6 for its 34th edition. Attendance was strong, and sales were made.
The four-day show had an evening preview November 2. The preview, which has historically ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction House CEO Indicted
Josh D. Levine of J. Levine Auction & Appraisal LLC, Scottsdale, Arizona, has been indicted on 23 felony counts, including fraudulent schemes and artifices, theft, and trafficking in stolen property.
Josh D. Levine.
According to a redacted indictment, the alleged offenses took place between November 1, 2016, and August 31, 2019.
On ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Bob Zordani and Heidi Kellner, Z and K Antiques
Over time, Heidi Kellner has become a proponent of "Zen and the Art of Antiques Dealing," she says. Unless there is significant sentimental value to an object, she no longer holds onto the finds she and her husband, Bob Zordani, buy.
"I got over that a long time ago," she said. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Bjurman Collection and Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Western art specialist Katherine Halligan called the paintings owned by G. Andrew Bjurman (1948-2022) "an extraordinary collection," and the market agreed on November 1 at Bonhams, paying a total of $5,436,720 (including buyers' premiums) for them. Halligan said Bjurman was a careful and quiet collector who ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Collector's Eye
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The Collector's Eye is now and always will be "the other show." But that's OK. It works. It works really well.
Held twice a year in the Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, The Collector's Eye is a general-line show that began in 2005 to supplement the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midwest Antique & Art Show
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Perennially strong on folk art and Americana, the Midwest Antique & Art Show had its fall edition on Sunday, October 30, in the Hawkeye Downs Expo Center in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The semiannual show did not disappoint.
The event's longevity speaks of its success. "We've been doing this for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Elverson Antique Show
Elverson, Pennsylvania
"We just love this show," said Heather Bissell while looking at stoneware in the booth of Duane Watson of Doc's Crocks at the Elverson Antique Show in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania, Saturday, October 29. She and her two sisters, Heidi Kluesner and Sara McCool, came to the show from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Blessing Collection, Part One
Woody Auction, Douglass, Kansas
Photos courtesy Woody Auction
Nineteenth-century American furniture single-owner sales are rare. Ron Blessing's collection was sold by the Woody Auction Company October 29 and featured a number of lots that had been originally sold to Blessing by Woody. Blessing's sale included French art glass lots along with silver ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Trust Prize for Excellence and Innovation Awarded to Cooper Hewitt
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced that the 2022 Prize for Excellence and Innovation will be awarded to Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum for its upcoming exhibition A Dark, A Light, A Bright: The Designs of Dorothy Liebes.
Dorothy Liebes's studio, New York City, circa 1957. Dorothy Liebes Papers, Archives of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gary Hendershott Sentenced
After a Georgia militaria collector implored a superior court judge to appropriately punish Gary L. Hendershott for stealing items that had been consigned to him to sell, the well-known dealer was sentenced August 18 to five years in prison and ten years of probation and was ordered to pay about ... (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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(Auction)"From the Great Lakes to the Rio Grande": The Collection of Roy H. Robinson
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams' Native American specialist Ingmars Lindbergs said his department's single-owner two-day auction October 26 and 27 in Los Angeles was "pretty damn good." And by pretty damn good, he means $4.46 million in sales (including buyers' premiums).
Acquiring, researching, cataloging, and selling the collection of Roy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Shannon's
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers
Celebrating a quarter of a century, Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers marked the occasion with an October 27 auction in its Milford, Connecticut, gallery. American art from the 19th through the 21st centuries was culled from collections and estates far and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Heidelberg-Brothers Valley Fraktur Artist Identified
Although his colorful fraktur has been collected since the early 20th century, the name of the artist who did these embellished documents was unknown. Scholars referred to him as the Heidelberg-Brothers Valley Artist for the two areas of Pennsylvania ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Tiffany Necklace Tops Rago Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Rago
Dianne Batista, director of jewelry and watches at Rago, wrote in an email after the fall jewelry sale, held October 26 in Lambertville, New Jersey, "Just like the start of a new school year, the fall auction season is an exciting one! This auction had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction House Owner Charged
On August 26 the Ottawa (Ontario) Police Service West Criminal Investigations Section charged an Ottawa man following an investigation into multiple allegations of fraud and possession of stolen property by an Ottawa-based auction house.
In July an investigation was commenced into incidents that occurred between early 2019 and February 2022 involving ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil-and the Deduction-Is in the Details
A ruling handed down October 6 in the United States Tax Court provides a valuable-albeit expensive-lesson for potential donors to museums.
In 2011, Heinrich Schweizer, the former director of African and Oceanic art at Sotheby's, donated a Dogon sculpture to the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). He expected a $600,000 deduction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Storied Weathervane Lands at the Met
It's an iconic piece of American folk art, and it's now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
In September, the Met accepted the famed copper Bleriot Model XI monoplane weathervane, a gift of collectors Michael and Patricia Del Castello of Carmel, California.
The Del Castellos ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Boxborough Antique Show
Boxborough, Massachusetts
Antiques dealer and show promoter Nan Gurley (1943-2016) raised her children in the antiques business and trained them well. At their October 23 antiques show at the Boxborough, Massachusetts, Regency Hotel, Rachel Gurley and Joshua Gurley worked as two halves of the same whole. Tim Libby, Rachel's husband, makes ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Show Returns
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
The Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show returned to the Baltimore Convention Center for its 40th edition October 20-23. The 2020 and 2021 shows had been canceled because of COVID-19. During the pandemic the Convention Center had been transformed into a field hospital ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Price for 20th-Century Painting
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
There is nothing like setting a world record to make a great auction even better. Just ask Rachel Davis of Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio. October 22 and 23 found the gallery hopping during its two-day fall event where ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Form and Color at Americana Sales
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
Fred Giampietro's New England Auctions featured the second part of the sale of the collections of Steve and Pat Center October 22 in its Branford, Connecticut, gallery. The 390-lot sale, with some additions, was noteworthy for the artistic eyes that had assembled ... (Read More)
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