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(Auction)Winter Marine Sale
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Maritime art of a great variety was on offer at Eldred's February 24 auction in its East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery. Scrimshaw, whaling irons, prisoner-of-war objects, instruments, and paintings from collections were fresh to the market and well received. Of the 60 lots of scrimshaw, a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)COVID Pushes Glen Ridge Antiques Show to Late March
The 75th annual Glen Ridge Antiques Show has new dates because of COVID-19. Usually held in February, the show will now be held March 26 and 27 at the Glen Ridge Congregational Church in Glen Ridge, New Jersey.
For more information, contact Debbie Turi at (973) 464-9793 or debbieturi@gmail.com, or check ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Jane Langol
Logging 15,000 miles a year in her white full-size Ford van, Medina, Ohio, antiques dealer Jane Langol travels to at least a dozen shows crisscrossing states from Tennessee to Pennsylvania to New Hampshire to Illinois to Vermont to New York.
In business in Ohio since 1984, the Pittsburgh native grew up ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design, Art, and Furniture Sales
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
We'll say this about Toomey & Co.: within the past several years the Oak Park, Illinois-based auction house has experimented with sales held in enough differing configurations of dates that heads were spinning. Not that they were caroming all over the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The January Sunshine
In this bleak winter the Americana Week auctions in New York City brought both light and heat and the promise of warmer days ahead.
There was a lot to like about the results. Christie's and Sotheby's sales tallied over $40 million for ten auctions. We're including Christie's Outsider art, Chinese export, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wyoming Art Auction Brings Nearly $1.3 Million
Jackson Hole Art Auction, Jackson, Wyoming
Photos courtesy Jackson Hole Art Auction
Online-only auctions continue to impress. Just ask Kevin Doyle, Jackson Hole Art Auction's new managing director and partner. Doyle, who joined the business in November 2021, was impressed but not surprised that the second annual Wyoming Art Auction, held February ... (Read More)
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(Show)Settled in to Soaring Sales
The Nashville Show, Nashville, Tennessee
The most exciting thing about the Nashville Show and its previous incarnations is that over the years the Jenkins management events have developed extraordinary breadth and range. Purists can find the American furniture, accessories, and art they crave. While the emphasis may be on country examples, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Puchsteins and Friends Settle in at the Fairgrounds
Fiddlers Antiques Show, Nashville, Tennessee
After being dislocated to a downtown Nashville site last year, the Fiddlers Antiques Show settled into its permanent February slot at one of the new expo halls at the fairgrounds. The February 16-19 event managed by Bill and Kay Puchstein was once again side by side ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stylish Americana
Heart of Tennessee Antique Show, Lebanon, Tennessee
Bursting with everything Americana from formal to rustic, the seventh annual Heart of Tennessee Antique Show was held on its traditional Valentine's week dates, February 17-19. Organized by Katherine Bovard Promotions, Grove City, Pennsylvania, this year's event assembled 36 dealers from 19 states. Exhibitors ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, March 2022
Lee Krasner (1908-1984), Composition, 1949, oil on canvas, 38 1/16" x 27 13/16". Philadelphia Museum of Art: gift of the Aaron E. Norman Fund, Inc., 1959,?1959-31-1. (c) Pollock-Krasner Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
-Through May 15 -State College, Pennsylvania
A Way Through: Abstract Art of the 1940s at the Palmer Museum ... (Read More)
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(Show)Successful at Every Level
The Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville, Nashville, Tennessee
After a year on pandemic pause, the Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville returned February 11-13 to the Music City Center at the heart of this vibrant city, and the crowds came back determined to buy. This is an event that is ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Columbus Bottle Show
Columbus, Ohio
After having to cancel last year's event because of the pandemic, the Columbus (Ohio) Bottle Show was back with its 51st annual outing on February 13. Held by the Central Ohio Bottle Club, the event featured 59 tables and drew a crowd of about 200.
Dealers featured a wide-ranging mix ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$4.26 Million Sale of Lincolniana
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
More than 150 years after his death, Abraham Lincoln remains one of the most beloved and admired presidents in U.S. history. Memorabilia from his life and presidency continues to be highly coveted among collectors and history lovers, who are willing to pay extraordinary prices ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Circus Is Coming to Town
Freedom Auction Company, Sarasota, Florida
Photos courtesy Freedom Auction Company
The arrival of the circus used to be a highlight for any community it visited. The very first signs of a circus's impending arrival were the posters that popped up all around town weeks ahead. Vacant buildings, fences, and telephone poles were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Outsider Art Sale at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's sale of Outsider art on February 3 in New York City, which offered 143 lots and took two auctioneers five hours to conduct, achieved $2,239,625 (with buyers' premiums) and had a sell-through rate of 98%. The presale estimate, which does not include the buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Invest in Your Nest
Beneath the Surface
In anticipation of new toys to play with, since both kids have fall birthdays, foreshocks, if you will, before the seismic main event of Christmas, we usually spend a little time in late fall "deaccessioning" household goods. It is amazing how things accumulate, and, especially in the years ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Art Sale at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's annual Chinese export art sale during Americana Week included the fourth tranche of the famed Tibor collection, formed over decades in Mexico and encompassing every category of Chinese export porcelain, from small tea wares to massive jars and porcelain birds and animals as well ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction Prices Realized, February 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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(Show)Online New York Show Shines Once Again
The New York Antiques Show
If two years of life during a pandemic has taught us anything, it's how to make the best of a not-so-great situation. The New York Antiques Show, an online-only event, has done that with astounding success.
Friday, January 28, through Sunday, January 30, found the second annual ... (Read More)
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(Show)The York Show, Winter Edition
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale was held January 28-30 on the York Fairgrounds in Memorial Hall East. Fewer than the usual number of dealers were exhibiting because of late cancellations, according to manager Melvin Arion. "I had to redesign ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fine Jewelry Collections Bring Strong Results at Case
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Case Auctions
Case Auctions, Knoxville, Tennessee, held its winter auction on January 29 and 30, and fine jewelry was sold on both days. According to Sarah Campbell Drury, vice president of fine and decorative arts, the sale had "a high sell-through rate-overall we sold 97 percent.... ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Posters
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
With 825 lots to sell on January 29, Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago had something to offer many of the myriad subsets of poster collectors: propaganda, women designers, travel (especially Air India, with destinations such as Australia and New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nantucket Historical Association Acquires "Lost Work"
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) has acquired The Old Falconer of Ben Gana, Sheik of the Ziban, 1906, by Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin. The association stated that it acquired the painting "thanks to a generous gift from the Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association with additional support from members of the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Cara Zimmerman
Cara Zimmerman has a full plate these days. The specialist was promoted to head of Christie's Americana and Outsider art department in November, and the house's upcoming Outsider art sale on February 3 will include big groupings from prominent collections. Some 140 to 150 lots will be auctioned in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln by Saint-Gaudens Brings $1.15 Million
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Short and sweet at 83 lots, Skinner's live sale of American works of art on January 28 in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery represented a division of labors. Several departments at the auction house are trying out running separate sales of the objects within their ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)London, February 2022
From Floral Jewels to an Unfortunate Frog-It's All Fabulous Faberge
A selection of Faberge masterpieces from the collections formed over a period of 50 years by Harry Woolf was offered at Christie's on November 29. They saw presale estimates more than double, and a total of $6.93 million was recorded for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ducks and Dragons Brighten a Winter Day
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
During a 2007 televised memorial to movie critic Joel Siegel (1943-2007), ABC TV news anchor Charles Gibson said, "With all his intelligence and with all his sophistication, he [Joel] was a young boy at heart.... He collected antique toys, which was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heckler January Auction Proves Size Doesn't Matter
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
The phrase "less is more" perfectly described Norman C. Heckler & Company's "Premier Auction 205" of antique and historical bottles, flasks, and free-blown glass. The online-only sale opened on January 19 and closed January 26. Since online ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pre-Civil War American Flag Sells for $176,400
At Sotheby's online sale of fine books and manuscripts including Americana on January 25, a commemorative pre-Civil War 13-star flag of the United States, 1840-50, with handsewn single-applique cotton stars and wool bunting stripes on a cotton canvas-type hoist, the stars arranged in two rows of six with a single ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Artists Charged with Misrepresenting Art as Native American
Two Washington state artists have been charged with violating the Indian Arts and Crafts Act (IACA) by representing themselves as Native American artists, when they have no tribal membership or heritage, according to U.S. Attorney Nick Brown.
The two men are 52-year-old Lewis Anthony Rath of Maple Falls, Washington, and 67-year-old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's 44-Lot Important Americana Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's offered 44 lots from various owners, including several discoveries, in the "Important Americana" sale on the morning of Monday, January 24, and sold 30 of them for total of $3,474,280 (including buyers' premiums). Even though a third of the lots failed to sell, Sotheby's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Grant Portrait Tops Sotheby's Americana Auction
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's online various-owners Americana sale that closed on January 24 was the last of six days of sales during Americana Week in New York City, and it brought a total of $1,674,414 (includes buyers' premiums) for 196 of 242 lots offered, many of them unreserved. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Tax Man Is Watching
Mobile payment apps such as PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App introduced a level of convenience and safety for dealers looking to easily accept payments. With the proliferation of smartphones, dealers could be paid immediately, even if they were on the fields of Brimfield or in some other remote location, reducing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)William K. du Pont's Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
William K. du Pont's Collection
Erik Gronning, Sotheby's Americana chief, called the collection of William "Bill" K. du Pont (d. 2020) "one of the greatest private collections of Americana ever assembled...comprising some of the best examples of Americana ever to appear at auction."
Sotheby's offered the collection in a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bath Antique Sale Resumes
Bath, Maine
In Bath, Maine, a city known for shipbuilding, the Bath Antique Sale is like a Yankee clipper: fast, no-nonsense, and it gets the job done.
After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bath Antique Sale returned under new ownership on Sunday, January 23. The four-hour show (10 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, February 2022
Some of the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci on view at the Museum of History & Industry. Photo courtesy Grande Experiences.
-Through March 13 -Seattle, Washington
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), a leading Renaissance painter and sculptor, was also an engineer and a scientist, but his work in these fields remained hidden for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
After the triumphant success of the $10,852,875 sale of folk art collected by Peter and Barbara Goodman (see M.A.D., March, p. 67), Christie's went on to sell 268 lots of Americana consigned by various owners in a live auction January 20 and 21. Silver was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Art in Folk Art: The Goodman Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Ammi Phillips (1788-1865), Woman with Pink Ribbons, probably Melinda Ann Arnold, painted circa 1833, oil on canvas, 313/4" x 27", sold for $3,870,000 (est. $800,000/1.2 million) to Patrick Bell of Olde Hope in the salesroom bidding for clients. It is an auction record for the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the Pfaffenroth Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Peter Pfaffenroth (1941-2020) was a student of the 18th century. Proud of his Princeton degree with a double major in history and engineering and his law degrees from the University of Michigan and New York University that enabled him to have a lucrative law practice, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)January American Art Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's new approach to offering 19th-century American art in a dedicated sale during Americana Week resulted in a sale that totaled just under $5 million with a sell-through rate of 90%. The auction house called the January 19 sale "a resounding success."
"Yes, definitely!" exclaimed Paige ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sayman Collection Sold
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York
Photos courtesy Stair Galleries
Dr. Wynn A. Sayman (1926-2015) and his wife, Dr. Elizabeth F. Sayman (1929-2021), were doctors who collected English 18th-century pottery and porcelain. In 1980 Wynn retired as chief surgeon at Berkshire Medical Center, and they founded Wynn A. Sayman Antiques and soon were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts Auction
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
The online-only decorative arts auction held on January 16 by Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio, was one of those events where the biggest surprise might have been the lack of surprises. Nothing sold stratospherically high. Nothing was dragging in the dirt. And having prices fall ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Willis Henry
Willis Henry Auctions, Rockland, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Willis Henry Auctions
Willis Henry Auctions presented something for everyone at the January 15 sale in Rockland, Massachusetts. It was a welcome scene as bidding bodies filled seats, greeting other bodies not seen since before the pandemic. The Internet and the phones came alive. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Russian Painting Top Lot at Pook's Two-Day Sale
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Paennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
A small oil painting of a Russian priest by Russian artist Vasili Vasilievich Vereshchagin (1842-1904) sold on the phone for $80,600 (includes buyer's premium), far over its $5000/8000 estimate, at Pook and Pook's Americana and international live catalog sale on January ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Americana Collection of David Good
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
Simply put, the man has a very good eye. That man would be Ohio dealer David L. Good, whose collection was sold at New Haven Auctions' live January 8 and 9 sale.
While New Haven Auctions' former space in a rehabbed brick mill ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Stories They Tell
A Book Review
When collectors write books about their collections, other collectors are intrigued. They love a tour of a private collection by the collector. More often, collections of Americana are described by others in "Living with Antiques"articles in The Magazine Antiques or illustrated features in Antiques & Fine Art or ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, January 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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(Issue Story)Making Memories
Beneath the Surface
Why are the winter holidays so stressful? Sure, there are all the additional obligations, like school programs and various holiday parties for the organizations in your life, and all the additional expenses, like gifts for coworkers and the mandatory Christmas gift-card exchange with people you don't know what ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, Sampler Acquired by Museum
An 1826 needlework sampler has been put on display at the Thomas T. Taber Museum of the Lycoming County Historical Society, Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The piece was created by Jane Morison, who likely was born in 1811 and lived in the Pine Creek Township section of the county. Her sampler inscription ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)January in New York City
On Wednesday, January 19, Sotheby's will sell the collection of American furniture, silver, brass, and Chinese export porcelain of the late Peter Pfaffenroth. "Peter was a great collector, and he had some special things," said Erik Gronning, chief of Americana at Sotheby's. "It will be a live sale with an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Historical Print Collectors Society Announces 2021 Newman Award
The American Historical Print Collectors Society has selected Laid Down on Paper: Printmaking in America, 1800-1865 as the winner of the 2021 Ewell L. Newman Book Award. The book contains papers presented at a symposium held at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts, in 2017 in conjunction with the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2022
There are some very expensive things in this month's "Letter," among them an elaborate ceremonial hat that made well over a thousand times its estimate in a Spanish sale-not to mention one of Napoleon's distinctive and much more familiar hats-along with some really quite modestly priced items, but the general ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bath Antique Sale Returns
After a long hiatus due to COVID-19, the Bath Antique Sale Bath, Maine, is returning, according to Gurley Shows. The first sale will be held on Sunday, January 23. Two more dates will follow, March 13 and April 24. The show will resume again in the fall, usually on or ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Christopher and Bernadette Evans
It's a family affair for Christopher and Bernadette Evans, a young couple from Waynesboro, Virginia, who conduct their antiques business the old-fashioned way. They travel for hours to exhibit at shows, notably the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) show in August and to auctions and other fairs, restocking and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Failey Grants Awarded
Author Caitlin Meehye Beach, Historic Rock Ford, and the New-York Historical Society have been awarded Failey Grants by the Decorative Arts Trust.
The Failey Grant program provides $25,000 in support for noteworthy research, exhibition, publication, and conservation projects through the Dean F. Failey Fund, named in honor of the trust's late ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Join Up and Chime In
In mid-November I had the opportunity to speak at the annual luncheon meeting of the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) in Yarmouth, Maine. It was an honor to address the venerable organization. (And I'm never one to pass up a free lunch.)
M.A.D. has always held dealer organizations in high regard. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Randolph Street Holiday Market Pop-Up
Chicago, Illinois
When it comes to dogged persistence and spotting opportunity, Chicago's Sally Schwartz is an overachiever. Known as the impresario behind Randolph Street Market (RSM), the event she started in 2004 and built from an eclectic street market selling genuine and repurposed antiques plus decorative vintage items, she has been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)On-Site Auction of Round Plain Farm
John McInnis Auctioneers, Beverly, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
The night before its December 18 auction, John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts, sent an email headed, "Even if it snows, the auction is a go." With snow, rain, and sleet in the forecast, the prospect of an on-site auction under a tent ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2022
Dutch tile panel showing scenes from daily life, 1620-40, artist/maker unknown. Tin-glazed earthenware with blue decoration, 26 7/8" x 211/2". Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1979. Probably made in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
-Ongoing -Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dutch potters started making ceramic wall tiles in the late 1500s, answering the call for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Joan Stacke Graham's Majolica Collection
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Joan Stacke Graham (1934-2020) was a preeminent expert in the field of Victorian majolica-the jewel-colored, highly modeled pottery made in England, on the Continent, and in America in the second half of the 19th century. In 1989, with her good friend Dr. Marilyn G. Karmason, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hindman's Fine Art Auctions Online
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
When Joseph Stanfield, director of fine art at Hindman Auctions, says "timing is everything," he speaks from experience. The words came in his reply to a query asking about more than 20 unsold lots in the December auction of American and European art. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at McInnis
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
John McInnis Auctioneers sold nearly 1200 lots over two days in its December 10 and 11 Americana auction in the Amesbury, Massachusetts, gallery. Bidders were happy to be on site, although the phones and the Internet accounted for a heavy percentage of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Creatures of the Night Emerge in Gibsonville
Ledbetter Auctions, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Auctions
He was "one of the greatest self-taught visionary carvers the folk art world never knew," said Matt Ledbetter in the advertisement for Ledbetter Auctions' December 11 sale. The unknown carver, Carl Alton "Otto" Long Jr. (1957-2021), started working on skull-centered totems, canes, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Book Reviews
Book Reviews
A Guide to Taking Good Care
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Did you know that using microfiber dustcloths is the safest and most efficient way to keep most objects clean? They are charged with static electricity and are dry and lint free. A long soft-bristled brush is the tool to use to dust ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, December 2021
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., ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Revolution Time
In the long sleepless night before the "shots heard round the world" were fired "shots heard round the world" were firedon Lexington Green on April 19, 1775, a solemn group of patriots sat in that Colonial town's Buckman Tavern awaiting the arrival of British soldiers from Boston. Diaries report that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fresh Perspective
Beneath the Surface
Back when COVID-19 was terrible (or is that still now?) we wrote about an imaginary trip we'd get to take someday when much of this was behind us. Recently, much like a movie adaptation of a novel with some of the important bits trimmed out of it, we ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Goosefare Launches Series of Portland Shows
John and Elizabeth DeSimone ofGoosefare Antiques & Promotionshave announced a new series of monthly winter shows in Portland, Maine. The shows will be on Sundays from December through April at the Italian Heritage Center, off Congress Street.
"The hall is well lit, level to the ground, with three large loading doors, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Emeralds, Sapphires, Rubies, and Diamonds
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Hindman
Hindman, Chicago, Illinois, held a festive, gem-filled jewelry auction on December 7, in good time for holiday and other purchases. The sale centered on "exquisite sapphires and emeralds" from several collections, including those of Maria Perry of Lexington, Kentucky, and Barbara Kohl-Spiro of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Orleans Museum of Art Receives Decorative Arts Trust Curatorial Internship Grant
The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) will serve as the 2022-24 Curatorial Internship Grant partner of the Decorative Arts Trust, a nonprofit organization that underwrites curatorial internships for recent master's degree or Ph.D. graduates in collaboration with museums and historical societies.
These internships allow host organizations to hire a deserving ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hope and the Collector
Most collectors know-and I have written about it myself-that one of the primary motivators for collecting is the hunt. Not knowing when one will find a piece to covet, even what it will be, renders the ongoing search full of unknowns. The hunt lies at the heart of what we ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Second Sale of the Huston Collection
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Abraham Lincoln continues to be one of the most notable and admired presidents in U.S. history, and memorabilia from his life and presidency continue to sell for remarkable prices in the marketplace.
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions' December 4 and 5 auction was no exception to that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eclectic Mix at Tremont Auctions
Tremont Auctions, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Tremont Auctions
Tremont Auctions delivered up some intriguing pieces of jewelry to the market for its December 5 auction in the Sudbury, Massachusetts, gallery. In fact, the Tremont sale was marked by the delivery of much that was interesting and unusual. A single consignor was the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Week at Freeman's
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
The first week of December was American art week at Freeman's in Philadelphia. There were timed viewings for three sales at the Market Street headquarters and the Girard Avenue site. The Sunday, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction at Garth's
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Size played a significant role in the strong bidding for many lots during the annual Thanksgiving Americana auction held by Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio. Because of the ongoing pandemic, the sale was conducted as an online-only event that ended on December ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Single-Owner Jewelry Collection Spanning Two Centuries at NOAG
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) in New Orleans, Louisiana, held its first single-owner jewelry auction on December 4 with a collection that contained "more than two centuries of jewelry design." Taylor Eichenwald, assistant director of auctions, said, "We were very pleased with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2021
One lot towers above all others in this month's selection, not physically but in financial terms-an early 16th-century Samson and Delilah plate that utterly demolished its estimate in selling at $1.71 million in Edinburgh-but in drawing on English and Irish country sales as well some of what the Scottish capital ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Curator Charged with Theft by Deception
On October 19 curator Inhee Moon of Englewood, New Jersey, was arrested on a charge of theft by deception. According to Bergen County prosecutor Mark Musella, on June 15 detectives from the Bergen County Prosecutor's Office Financial Crimes Unit received a complaint against Moon that accused her of unlawfully taking ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mucha's Young Couple from Rusadla Tops Sale
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
You've heard of the Great War and the Thrilla in Manila, right? How about the dustup of Jenkins' Ear or the Battle at South Mountain? All were legendary conflicts, and we refer to them here because in late 2021, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Connecticut Spring Antiques Show to Return with New Manager
The Haddam Historical Society has announced that the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show will be held in Hartford March 26 and 27, 2022, after a two-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Debbie Turi will be the new show manager, taking over for Karen DiSaia, who has agreed to provide guidance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Daring Design: The Impact of Three Women on Wharton Esherick's Craft
Daring Design: The Impact of Three Women on Wharton Esherick's Craft, an exhibition at the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, opened early in September and continues through February 6, 2022. It demonstrates the importance of commissions from three women on the creative life in the early career of Wharton ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)100 Years of Weathervanes
Olde Hope, New York City
There must be something in the New York fall air. Weathervanes seem to be everywhere, including at Olde Hope's New York City gallery exhibition and sale and at the American Folk Art Museum's months-long, well-publicized exhibition American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (open through January ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Holly and Jeff Noordsy
Objects tell stories, and those stories keep evolving, certainly for Holly and Jeff Noordsy, antique bottle, glass, and earthenware dealers who live in Cornwall, Vermont.
Jeff and Holly Noordsy in their abode.
Their story begins at a film studies class during the January term at Middlebury College in Middlebury, Vermont. Jeff, then ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Glen Sells for $3.2 Million
Sotheby's, New York City
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The star performer at Sotheby's annual fall American art sale in New York City on November 22 was The Glen by Maxfield Parrish. The artist transformed a New Hampshire forest of ancient trees and a brook beneath a turquoise sky into an iridescent wonderland. Between ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles
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Bonhams, Los Angeles, held a Native American art auction on November 22. Native American art department director Ingmars Lindbergs thought that with the exception of the baskets offered at the end of the auction, the rest of the sale was "fantastic, with good prices and lots ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ararity Auctions Sells Laughlin Estate in Two Parts
Ararity Auctions, Lorton, Virginia
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This was our first visit to Ararity Auctions in Lorton, Virginia. The firm began as an estate clearance and removal company, but over time it began to receive consignments of increasingly high quality. Ararity's owner, Lori James, realized that the material that was coming ... (Read More)
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(Auction)White and Hunter Collections Lead at Evans Auction
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
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Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its semiannual premier Americana auction in three sessions November 18-20 at the firm's galleries in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The first two sessions consisted of separately published cataloged collections: the American folk-art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)On Acquiring Pottery, the Southern Way
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
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Many of us have tried or at least investigated online auctions. These modern conveniences are fast and efficient. The catalog is online and easily accessible. Sales start and end on time and provide immediate and continuous feedback ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Zipps Cap Off Third Sale of Monumental Year
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
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Riding high from the record $1.56 million sale of Dave Drake's 25-gallon poem jar during the summer of 2021, the Zipps of Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland, sold an inscribed three-gallon stoneware jug made by Drake for $420,000. It was the firm's top lot in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shaker Sewing Desk Stitches Its Way into the Record Books
It is just 18 miles from Enfield to Plainfield, New Hampshire, but it took over 100 years for the journey of a special sewing desk.
Enfield was the site of the Enfield Shaker community from 1793 to 1918. Today its grounds and many buildings are a museum. Plainfield is the home ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2021
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Charing Cross Bridge, brouillard, 1902, oil on canvas, 283/4" x 361/4". Collection of Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO). Gift of Ethel and Milton Harris, 1990. Photograph (c) AGO.
-Through January 23, 2022 -San Antonio, Texas
Claude Monet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler were both fascinated by London's Thames River. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Keane Collection Sold
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Skinner brought the collection of John and Marilyn Keane of Boston to auction on November 19 in the Marlborough gallery, where the auction was live. The Keanes bought carefully and with consultation with knowledgeable members of the antiques trade. They were collectors and philanthropists, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Passing It On
Passing It On
In 2020, staring into the teeth of the COVID-19 pandemic, Germany launched a rescue package dubbed Neustart Kultur (Restart Culture), which committed one billion euros in order to maintain the country's cultural scene and infrastructure. When the initial funds were used up, Germany threw another billion euros at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chris Strand Named Director of Winterthur
Chris Strand, the longtime director of garden and estate at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, has been named its Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO. Strand has served as interim director and CEO at Winterthur since May.
As interim director, Strand was responsible for all aspects of museum, library, and garden ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Art Sale
Christie's, New York City
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Sharing the proper works with the proper audience was the motivation behind Christie's decision to offer a majority of works by American Modernist artists, including a dozen Impressionist paintings, in its November 18 live auction.
The 78-lot sale totaled $28,931,500; 66 lots sold, for a sell-through ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Robed Nude Tops Bonhams Sale
Bonhams, New York City
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Bonhams offered 108 lots of American art in its November 18 afternoon sale, following Christie's morning sale in the same category. The Bonhams sale totaled $4,349,691. Two lots were withdrawn, and 97 lots sold, for a sell-through rate of 89.8%. The results fell close to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printing of Constitution Sells for $43 Million
Sotheby's, New York City
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This "Official Edition" of the United States Constitution, printed in September 1787 by John Dunlap and David Claypoole for the Constitutional Convention, is from the first printing of the final text of the U.S. Constitution. Although approximately 500 copies were printed, only 13 are known ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)O'Keeffe's Crab's Claw Ginger Hawaii Brings $7.7 Million
A live auction that took place on the evening of November 17 in the new Park Avenue space at Phillips, New York City, included a 1939 work by Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) making its auction debut. Nestled in the 20th-century and contemporary art sale, which offered 46 lots (lots 14 and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Silver Sells at Heritage
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
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A trove of exquisite American silver pieces from the personal collection of a former art curator and museum director was the centerpiece of Heritage Auctions' recent silver auction. Heritage's November 16 auction of fine silver and objects of vertu featured 102 pieces from the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
Following a brief 15-lot session of the Henry Fitz Jr. archive of photographic history (see p. 72), Hindman's sale of historical ephemera and photography, held on November 15 in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered more than 300 lots representing a mix of estates and consignors. In a way, ... (Read More)
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