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(Fragment)Unique Congressional Gold Medal Sells for $600,000
A unique large Congressional Gold Medal weighing 7.6 troy ounces that was presented to Major General William Henry Harrison to honor Harrison's War of 1812 victory at the Battle of the Thames in Upper Canada on October 5, 1813, sold beyond all expectations for $600,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Stack's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Live and Online Americana Sales
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Skinner's summer Americana sale on August 19 in the Marlborough gallery had a live audience of 12 to 15 carefully masked and spaced bidders for the 166-lot sale. The online sale, August 9-18, offered 2030 lots.
In preliminary remarks Stephen L. Fletcher, head of Americana among other ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Photography, Prints, and Ephemera
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
A rare 21" x 171/2" early antislavery broadside, "Sclaven Handel"(Slave Trade), printed in German in Philadelphia by Samuel Saur for Tobias Hirte, dated 1794, one of three known copies, sold for $10,332 (includes buyer's premium), above the $4000/6000 estimate, at ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 42nd Annual Whitehawk Show
Whitehawk Antique Indian & Ethnographic Art Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
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(Show)The 2021 Annual NHADA Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
The annual antiques show of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA)-always one of the most anticipated events of the year-was back live after a year's hiatus forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. The August 12-14 New Hampshire Antiques Show at the DoubleTree by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, August 2021
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)The 2021 Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
Manchester, New Hampshire
"Sales at the show were sort of out of sight," wrote Wiscasset, Maine, antiques dealer Peter Eaton regarding Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair, held on August 11 and 12, promoted by Karen DiSaia Management.
The Rogers family William and Mary maple high chest has a molded cornice, applied ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk, Outsider, and Self-Taught Art Plus Americana Online
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
Don't you just love it when auction houses go off the rails? We're talking here about changing direction. Trying a new option. Opening eyes to varied tastes. And shattering expectations.
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Oak Park, Illinois, an auction house ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Objects of Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The Objects of Art show, which ran August 12-15 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in Santa Fe's Railyard District, was filled with happy people seeing each other for the first time since August 2019. The Objects of Art opening (and the opening of the Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Dealer Convicted and Sentenced for Walrus Ivory Trafficking and Tax Evasion
Walter Earl, 76, owner of The Antique Gallery in Anchorage, Alaska, was sentenced on August 11 to six months of home confinement and more than $400,000 in fines and restitution for illegally trafficking in walrus ivory and failing to report business income to the IRS.
According to court documents, on three ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Mixed Markets
Beneath the Surface
The last 15 months (it was just months, right?) have wrought many changes, and a fascinating aspect of living in a historical moment is seeing how many of them become permanent. Maybe we have discovered that working from home does work for a number of people, that present ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration 2021
Concord, New Hampshire
The 40-plus dealers from 13 states celebrated their sales, buyers celebrated their purchases, and show manager Peter Mavris of Parsonsfield, Maine, celebrated another successful show in the "quadrangle" of shows in August 2021 in no-sales-tax New Hampshire.
The Tuesday, August 10, Americana Celebration antiques show in the Douglas Everett ... (Read More)
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(Show)Deerfield Dealers Display Americana and More
Deerfield Antique Show, Deerfield, New Hampshire
On Monday, August 9, dealers from over a dozen states displayed their finds and their expertise at the Deerfield Antique Show, the long-running show managed by Rachel Gurley and Joshua Gurley. The Deerfield Fairgrounds in Deerfield, New Hampshire, offered lots of parking, two large buildings ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Americana Collection of Deborah and Edward Dick
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
Sometimes auction results provide more information than just market values and buying trends. That was the case with the recent single-owner, online-only sale that concluded on August 8 and consisted of 330 lots of Americana from the collection of Deborah and Edward Dick of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts Auction
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977), painting of three conch shells, a compote with grapes, and a skull, oil on board, signed and dated 1944, 83/4" x 113/4" (sight size), excellent condition, $118,750 (est. $20,000/30,000).
Gertrude Abercrombie's march through the art market continues unabated. During the decorative arts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of "Magnificent Polychrome Floating Sculptures"
Guyette & Deeter, St. Michaels, Maryland
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
This mallard drake created by Charles Edward "Shang" Wheeler (1872-1949) of Stratford, Connecticut, shows the bird at rest, its head to the side and its beak tucked in, with comb painting in a tight herringbone pattern. Made around 1940, it was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crocker Farm Sale Is One for the Record Books
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
The massive ovoid vessel by Dave Drake stands nearly 25" high with a circumference of 77". It survives without cracks but with four areas of loss to the rim. The poem jar went to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Hit Debut and a Welcome Return
Downeast Art & Antiques Show, Blue Hill, Maine
The Downeast Art & Antiques Show made its debut with a well-attended preview party on August 2 at George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill, Maine. The show continued August 3 and 4. The tagline for the show read "A continuing tradition since 1948."
How ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Stewart Collection of Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonham
Specialist Katherine Halligan said she was "thrilled with the results" of Bonhams' August 4 Los Angeles auction, "Portrait of the West: The Diane and Sam Stewart Collection."
"We knew going in that the Stewarts purchased these paintings at the top galleries and auctions, but we believed in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California Art Sale
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"Very, very pleased with the outcome," said fine art director Scot Levitt about Bonhams' August 3 California art auction in Los Angeles. Levitt said that with so much of the bidding action being online, it is difficult to predict an auction's outcome. He needn't have worried ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arrests Made in Maine Museum Robbery
On June 19 the Aroostook County Sheriff's Office received a report of a burglary at the Oakfield Railroad Museum in Oakfield, Maine. Tools, artifacts, lanterns, and other objects had been stolen sometime in the days leading up to the date the burglary was reported.
Museum volunteers located some objects hidden nearby, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Trust Awards Research Grants
The Decorative Arts Trust's annual research grants will be awarded to 14 recipients in doctoral and master's programs. Each year the trust awards research grants to graduate students working on a master's thesis or Ph.D. dissertation in a field related to the decorative arts. The trust encourages projects that advance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)1stDibs Goes Public
On June 10 shares in 1stdibs.com, Inc., began trading on the Nasdaq Global Market under the ticker symbol DIBS. The initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock began trading at $21.50 after being priced at $20 per share.
1stDibs (www.1stdibs.com) is an online marketplace for vintage, antique, and contemporary furniture, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Zoar Antiques Show & Artisans' Tent Expands and Shines
Zoar, Ohio
Outdoor events continue to see an upswing in attendance numbers, and the same held true for the 2021 edition of the Zoar Antiques Show & Artisans' Tent, located just on the outskirts of historic Zoar village in Zoar, Ohio. The show was held July 31 and August 1, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Massachusetts Americana Online
Willis Henry Auctions, Marshfield, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Willis Henry Auctions
Marshfield, Massachusetts, auctioneer Willis Henry is known for interesting Americana, folky and formal, and Shaker material. The August 1 online sale brought to market objects of coastal Massachusetts history that bidders were pleased to buy. Stoneware, woodenware from Hingham, Massachusetts, paintings, instruments, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Western Art Auction Tops $17.5 Million
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
Photos courtesy Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
It seems only fitting that while the U.S. Olympians in Tokyo were busy setting new world records, the same was taking place in Reno, Nevada, at the Coeur d'Alene 36th annual Western art auction. Continued interest in fine Western art ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, August 2021
Though there is most definitely a strong Chinese and Russian presence in this month's "Letter," it remains exceptionally wide ranging in content.
Those Chinese lots include a ceramic dish that made an unexpected and record-breaking sum in a Swedish auction as well as rare and highly prized items of huanghuali furniture ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Provincetown Art Highlights Sale
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Eldred's July 28-30 three-day sale was just what a summer sale should be. Replete with Provincetown art, the sale included a group of white-line woodblock prints by artists of the Provincetown Printers, formed in 1915. Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878-1955), who spent summers in Provincetown, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Jill Waddell
Coming from a family of do-it-yourselfers has guided Jill Waddell in her career, and the "thoughtful, clever, and resourceful traits" she inherited have been carried over to her work as a vice president and senior specialist in the silver department at Christie's New York.
The Christie's vice president, a senior ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Withington Auctions Gets New Partners
There will soon be increased auction activity in central New Hampshire under a familiar name. Marcia and Larry Leizure, owners of Hillsborough, New Hampshire-based Withington Auctions, are joining their business with new partners who are looking to continue the Withington auction legacy.
From left: Kenneth Labnon, Gary Yeaton, and Mike Reopel.
New ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antique Jewelry to Be Worn and Loved All Over Again
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Sworders
There is a wealth of antique jewelry to be found "across the pond," and Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers' sale of fine jewelry and watches, held live online on July 27 in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, U.K., had stellar examples in its 493-lot auction.
Because so many of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Betting Big on a Recovery
On July 10 the first lot sold at Casco Bay Auctions in Freeport, Maine, was a Connecticut cherry bonnet-top highboy. Estimated at $8000/12,000, it sold for $51,000 (includes buyer's premium).
Longtime market observers thought it was a good buy. "That would have easily been $100,000 in the old days," they said.
Savvy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Major Work by Local Artist Leads the Sale
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
Being in the auction business is a continual learning experience, and no matter how much you learn there will always be surprises. Reviewing his firm's successful summer auction on July 24 and 25, John Case of Case Antiques noted, "I'm very analytical. I look ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August, 2021
Victoria Hutson Huntley (1900-1971), Babe in Arms, 1937, lithograph, 10" x 83/4". Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; gift of Stephen Goldfarb.
-Through August 15 -Athens, Georgia
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley. Huntley's lithographs were well known in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MidWeek One Day Antiques Fair Postponed until 2022
Antiques Week in New Hampshire will have one less show in 2021. Barn Star Productions has postponed its flagship MidWeek One Day Antiques Fair until August 2022.
According to Frank Gaglio of Barn Star, the event went "from a two-day show two years ago to a one-day event which saw an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Holy Grail of Sports Cards Smashes All-Time Auction Record
Lot 1 at a timed sale that began on July 23 and was scheduled to end on August 15 at 9 p.m. at Robert Edward Auctions, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Netsuke Leads to Criminal Convictions
On July 22 International Antique & Art Importers Inc., which operates as Ming's Asian Gallery & Antiques in King County, Washington, pleaded guilty to one felony count of violating the voter-approved Washington Animal Trafficking Act (WATA). The business will pay $8000, which includes a $4000 criminal wildlife penalty.
Business owner Doreen ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Coolidge Point Estate
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Eldred's single-owner sale on July 15 brought to market antiques from the collection of Catherine Coolidge Lastavica of Coolidge Point in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. The sale, beneath a tent on the terrace at the gallery in East Dennis, had a 99% sell-through rate.
Coolidge Point, formerly Millet's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Annual Show Canceled, Tolland Historical Society Seeks Donations
For a second year the Tolland Historical Society, Tolland, Connecticut, has canceled its annual antiques show because of COVID-19 restrictions and the unsettled dealers market. "This is not a decision we take lightly," said show director Mary-Pat Soucy in a press release. "This is our major annual fund-raiser, one which ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Rock Star Art Deco Bracelet and More
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, had almost 100 lots of jewelry on offer on July 11, the third day of two three-day "Splendor" sales. Jeniffer Cooley, marketing director, said the July 11 sale "had a 93% sell-through with the jewelry, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thomaston Auction: Live and In Person!
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
As of this writing, we're not quite certain if we've got this COVID-19 thing backed into a corner or not. But for at least one auction, a three-day affair at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, July 9-11, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record-Setting Sale for Casco Bay Auctions
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
Photos courtesy Casco Bay Auctions
On July 10 it took only one lot for Casco Bay Auctions to smash its record for highest lot sold. Auctioneer Andrew Davis hammered down lot #1, a Connecticut cherry Queen Anne bonnet-top highboy, for $51,000 (includes buyer's premium) to a buyer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Johnson Decoy Collection and the Sporting Sale
Copley Fine Art, Hingham, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art
The annual summer feast of feathers kicked off July 9 with Copley Fine Art's two-day online sale of the Johnson decoy collection, which merited its own 140-page catalog, and the sporting sale, which continued on July 10. The sales were live-streamed from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Savage Joins Colonial Williamsburg
J. Thomas Savage, a lecturer, author, historian, and cultural site tour leader, is joining the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation as director of educational travel and conferences starting July 12. Savage currently serves as director of external affairs for Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.
According to Colonial Williamsburg, Savage will evolve and expand ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, July 2021
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 Dealers for NHADA Annual Show
The 64th annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association antiques show will return to an in-person event, beginning Thursday, August 12, and running through August 14 at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Several new exhibitors have secured a coveted spot in the show. Added to the show this year ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques and Artisans in the Church Yard
South Salem, New York
Flags were flying, burgers were grilling, and antiquers were hunting for treasures after 16 months at home. The longtime Antiques and Artisans in the Church Yard show, held annually on July 4, did not disappoint.
Cars lined up at 9 a.m., and several volunteers, many of whom have ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sale Is Strong across the Board
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Is there a better time to celebrate Americana than Independence Day? Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 40th semiannual "Premier Americana" auction in two sessions over Independence Day weekend, July 2 and 3, at the firm's ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Word of Advice
Beneath the Surface
Andrew and Hollie are taking the month off, but they decided that after last month's column, even more advice might be appreciated, so enjoy these letters to Aunty Eek instead.
Dear Aunty Eek,
I recently received some terrible news and don't know what to do. I love my local auction ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Art, Furniture, and Genealogy
A Book Review
"Buy the object, not the story." This classic advice properly cautions antiques buyers against paying for questionable provenance or celebrity associations. Antique furniture, paintings, silver, and everything else should stand on their own aesthetic and historical merits, not on "granny notes," family lore, or dealer anecdotes.
But at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charles Carroll's Declaration Sells for $4,420,000
One of Charles Carroll's two copies of "The unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America," engraved by William J. Stone in 1823, sold at Freeman's in Philadelphia on July 1 for $4,420,000 (includes buyer's premium).
It is the second-highest price ever paid for any printing of the Declaration of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2021
A record-demolishing $2 million price in Scotland for a little medieval ivory casket from Paris was a last-minute entry to this month's "Letter" but gets pride of place.
Fearsome-looking suits of Japanese armour, bizarre birds and other appealing Martinware creations, a rare Saxon shilling, and a bidding race between a camel ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gifts to Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum Upgrade Collection
The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (BPMM) in the Bronx, New York, has received important additions to its collection of early 19th-century American furniture and furnishings.
A Classical bronze-mounted mahogany center table with an original Thomaston marble top made by Isaac Vose & Son, Boston, 1820-24, has replaced an Empire Revival table in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Sale Equals Good Results
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"For a small sale [100 lots], the results were quite good," said Native American art department director Ingmars Lindbergs about the June 29 auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles. "Quite good" translates to total sales of $645,404 (including buyers' premiums). The sell-through rate was 87% ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Pop Culture at New Haven
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
The first day of New Haven Auctions' June 26 and 27 sale in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery featured the estate of Daphne Peabody Murray, which included fine jewelry and fine American and European art, with additions from other area estates.
This 1904 oil ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Wells Antiques Show
Wells, Maine
The energy was electric at Goosefare Antiques & Promotions' 20th Wells Antiques Show at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm in Wells, Maine, on June 27. On the dot of 10 a.m., the ropes at the entrance dropped, and waves of buyers rushed the dealers set up beneath tents, upstairs ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Great Sources Yield Great Results
Neal Auction, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction
The past year has been filled with news of supply chain problems ranging from missing electronics at the auto factory to having no straws at the drive-through window. At Neal Auction in New Orleans, however, estates filled with fresh-to-the-market material with excellent provenance ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Deep Local Connections at Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Over a century ago, in 1910, construction began on the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company's transmitting facility in Marion, Massachusetts, a year after Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his technology facilitating the long distance broadcast of radio ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Heather Campbell Coyle
Heather Campbell Coyle, chief curator and curator of American art at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, said she didn't know she wanted to be a curator until she became one. Hired at the museum as a part-time research assistant during graduate school at the University of Delaware, she ended ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pook Sells the Estate of Joyce Bowes Collis
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Joyce Bowes Collis liked color. She liked schranks, dower chests, and country furniture, especially if it was painted blue or yellow. She liked the bold graphics of mocha and spatterware. She bought English yellow-glazed earthenware, sometimes called canary, and other English ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Horology 1776" Symposium in October in Philadelphia
Clocks, watches, and timekeeping in the American Revolution are the focus of "Horology 1776," the 2021 educational conference sponsored by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC). Originally scheduled for October of last year but postponed because of COVID-19, this event will offer the public a first-ever examination ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Anticipation and Collecting
"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best," and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Only Known Rufus Porter Tall Clock Acquired by Museum
The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity in Bridgton, Maine, has acquired the only known Rufus Porter tall clock. The circa 1834 clock case was made by an unidentified cabinetmaker and houses a clockwork mechanism attributed to Porter.
The museum acquired the clock from Bob Frishman of Bell-Time Clocks, Andover, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rendell Archive Gifted to Grolier Club
A collection relating to the detection of forged handwriting has been given to the Grolier Club Library in New York City from club members Kenneth W. Rendell and Shirley McNerney. The Grolier Club calls it "the most important and comprehensive collection on the subject known to exist anywhere."
Rendell, a leading ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Views of Malta and Rome Highlight Auction
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
It was almost like the good old days at CRN Auctions' June 20 sale in the Cambridge gallery, where collectors and the trade were finally reunited after a long shutdown of sales and shows. People were pleased to be out and to greet each ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Looking on the Bright Side of Life: The Summer Sale at Leland Little
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
Two bright, cheery paintings that portrayed the sheer joy of summer set the tone for Leland Little Auctions' signature summer sale held on June 12. The perky paintings also far exceeded their estimates. They were produced by an Iowa farm girl ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Canandaigua Antique Show & Sale
Canandaigua, New York
Where were you in 1948? Kindergarten? Junior high? Or maybe you were not even born yet? If you lived in the Rochester, New York, area in 1948 and collected or bought and sold antiques, or maybe knew someone who did, you might have read something in the area ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Keramics & Rookwood": American and European Art Pottery Sold Online
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
The Chicago auction scene notched another big win on the collector scale on June 17 when Toomey & Co. held a dedicated art pottery auction offering more than 400 lots of choice examples. It was, as far as we could determine, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk-Art Knowns, Lesser Knowns, and Unknowns
Ledbetter Folk Art and Americana Auction, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Folk Art and Americana Auction
Mid-pandemic, Matt Ledbetter defied the odds and held his first public, in-person, socially distant auction in Gibsonville, North Carolina, on June 13, 2020. The emphasis was folk art from his personal collection (see M.A.D., August ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Asian Sale at Oakridge
Oakridge Auction Gallery, Ashburn, Virginia
Photos courtesy Oakridge Auction Gallery
Oakridge Auction Gallery held its sale of Asian art and antiques in two sessions, June 12 and 13, at its gallery in Ashburn, Virginia. For the time being, Oakridge continues to conduct virtual sales using five online bidding platforms as well as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fresh Silver Collection Leads to Blowout Sale on Long Island
South Bay Auctions, East Moriches, New York
Photos courtesy South Bay Auctions
"It was a barnburner, just like the old days," said Portsmouth, New Hampshire, silver dealer Jonathan Trace. "I got blown out of the water."
As did Trace, New York City silver dealer Tim Martin of S.J. Shrubsole went to the live ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burton Is Bustling in 2021
Burton Antiques Market, Burton, Ohio
If the long lines waiting to enter the show and the arms of customers exiting the show laden with packages were any indication, the June 12 edition of the Burton Antiques Market, held at the Geauga County Fairgrounds in Burton, Ohio, was a huge success.
"We did ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back in Action in the Green Hills of Turner
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
It was a cool, misty late spring morning when Charles M. Talbot Associates emerged from a COVID-19-induced slumber to hold its first auction in over a year on June 12 in Turner, Maine. With a rural setting of the old Talbot homestead graced by a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Two-Day Auction with Deep Historical Connections
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
The historical and quirky came to market at John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury, Massachusetts, in two online single-owner sessions on June 12. The estate antiques of Jack and Grace Weil of Marblehead, Massachusetts, included well over 800 lots, many with deep American ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Red Earthenware Industry in Concord, New Hampshire
Located in the center of New Hampshire in Merrimack County, along the Merrimack River, Concord was settled between 1725 and 1727 as Penacook Plantation by a group from Haverhill, Massachusetts, that included Captain Ebenezer Eastman (1680-1748). The town was named Rumford in 1734, but its name was changed to Concord ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Phillips on the Move
Founded in 1796 and based in New York City and London, Phillips is relocating its New York headquarters across the street to a new 96-story residential building at 432 Park Avenue, built by real estate developer and major art collector Harry Macklowe. Live auctions will begin in June, with the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Deep Snow in Savannah
Everard Auctions & Appraisals, Savannah, Georgia
Photos courtesy Everard Auctions & Appraisals
Not surprisingly, a Grandma Moses painting that Everard Auctions & Appraisals co-owner Amanda Everard said was new to the secondary market topped a June 8 and 9 live online sale by bringing $62,500 (includes buyer's premium).
New to the market from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Weathervane Tops Morphy Two-Day Auction
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
The best of the high-end lots at Morphy's two-day auction on June 8 and 9 in Denver, Pennsylvania, consisted of fine glasswares, headed by a field of Tiffany lamps. It was a single weathervane, however, that towered over everything.
This late 19th-century Massasoit weathervane by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Famous Forgery Brings $52,500
One of the greatest fakes of all time has been sold. "The Oath of a Freeman," a masterful forgery by convicted murderer Mark Hofmann, sold at Heritage Auctions for $52,500 (including buyer's premium) on June 9 in Dallas, Texas.
The buyers were Kenneth W. Rendell and Shirley McNerney Rendell. They will ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2021
London sales, as befits the title of this feature, are certainly included among my picks for this month's "Letter," but there are, again, reports inspired by provincial sales-and one of them just had to take top billing. So let me begin with...
A Very Big Day Out for Quite a Small ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stuart Weitzman Sells Three Treasures
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Stuart Weitzman, shoe designer and founder of the Stuart Weitzman shoe company, a passionate collector since childhood, owned the rarest used and unused postage stamps in the world and one of the last gold coins struck by the U.S. Mint, the only 1933 $20 gold double eagle coin ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Yellin Fire Screen Sells for $40,950
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
"We consider the Samuel Yellin firescreen we purchased today at Freeman's in Philadelphia to be among the couple of finest firescreens he executed," wrote Joseph Cunningham in an email after Freeman's design sale on June 8 in Philadelphia. The fire screen sold for $40,950 (includes buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture: The Chipstone Journal
A Book Review
Chipstone's American Furniture 2019 will be known as the "Washington furniture edition" because the first two articles document George and Martha Washington's purchases of furniture, much of it bought second hand, some at auction. The Washingtons were glad to take advice on purchases from friends and neighbors, including ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CPWP Receives Digital Archive Gift
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) has been given a major gift for its digital archive from CPWP advisor Polly Forcier, who has spent over four decades documenting and researching original paint-decorated plaster walls throughout New England. Through her business, MB Historic Decor, Forcier has assembled a collection of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Focus on Antique and Vintage Textiles
Penn Dry Goods Market, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
The eighth annual Penn Dry Goods Market, the antiques show focused on antique and vintage textiles that supports the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, was canceled in June 2020 because of COVID-19 and revived this June as a virtual experience June 4-6.
Bill ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bird Girl Brings $390,600
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's holds just two various-owners American art sales each year-in June and December-offering 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century paintings and illustrations, sculpture, and always a special section of works by Pennsylvania Impressionists.
The two-week-long presale exhibition at Freeman's Philadelphia headquarters at 2400 Market Street was by appointment, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)MADA Unmasked!
Maine Antiques Dealers Association Spring Antiques Show, Topsham, Maine
OK, folks, the masks are off...finally! As of this writing, it appears that COVID-19 is heading for the rear view mirror, at least as far as the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) is concerned. On June 5 about 28 association dealers gathered ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Heartland Antiques Show
Richmond, Indiana
Things didn't go exactly as planned for the 2021 edition of the Heartland Antiques Show, held on June 5 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Richmond, Indiana. In the end, it didn't matter.
Promoter Jennifer Sabin had mastered the art of revision following a year in which most of her ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fairhaven Antique Festival
Fairhaven, Ohio
After a nine-year absence, the Fairhaven Antique Festival returned on June 3 and 4. The Ohio show is legendary for bringing fantastic dealers to the middle of nowhere, and it arrived with a splash, literally, as wet weather during setup and unrelenting heavy rain the afternoon of the first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Small Selection of Americana
Keno Auctions, New York City
Photos courtesy Keno Auctions
Keno Auctions held a sale on June 2, the Wednesday after the long Memorial Day weekend. It began at 7 o'clock in the evening and ended at five minutes before midnight. There was bidding on three Internet platforms-LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable, and Bidsquare-and on phones ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Andrew Holter
Andrew Holter, director of business development at Nye & Company in Bloomfield, New Jersey, does not fit the usual mold of an auction house specialist. He didn't study art history in college, nor did he grow up in a family of collectors.
Andrew Holter holds a preening Canada goose decoy, carved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Walker Homestead Show to Happen
In a sign that life is slowly returning to normal, Walker Homestead will host its spring Walker Homestead's Antiques & Primitive Goods Show on Saturday, June 19, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at 19 Martin Road, Brookfield, Massachusetts. Face masks and social distancing are required.
The show will feature more than ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Week in New Hampshire Shows on Tap
On April 16 New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu announced that the statewide mask mandate would be lifted. For those attending the Antiques Week in New Hampshire shows in August, masks will still be required, according to the promoters of the shows.
After COVID-19 wiped out almost all the shows last August, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rhinebeck Revealed Like a "Box of Chocolates"
Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
There were no fireworks or explosions at Barn Star Productions' spring Antiques at Rhinebeck show held May 29 and 30, but there were lots of red tickets. Revealing its popularity once again after a pause of over a year and a half because of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mebane Top Ten and Then Some
Mebane Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Auction Gallery
In the publicity for his May 29 sale, Jon Lambert of Mebane Antique Auction Gallery emphasized the Renaissance art he had found in a Fayetteville, North Carolina, warehouse. It was a rare treasure for an eastern North Carolina auction house. While ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds
A Book Review
Robert Shaw's long-awaited American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds is a book much needed. With color photographs of the finest weathervanes in public and private collections, this well-documented story of the invention, manufacture, and collecting of weathervanes recognizes them as art, a special category of American sculpture.
Until ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, June 2021
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)Cadou to Step Down as Winterthur's Director and CEO
Carol B. Cadou will step down as Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO of Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library on June 1. Chris Strand, Brown Harrington Director of Garden & Estate, will assume the role of interim CEO immediately to facilitate the transition. Strand has been a director at Winterthur ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Graduation Day: "The Young Collector" Becomes "Beneath the Surface"
Graduation season is upon us once again, and for the next few weeks the news will be filled with the various founts of knowledge and advice that will pour forth. We have knowledge and advice too, some of it questionable, and since we're not likely to be asked to give ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Promise of Spring
In March 2020, at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, an image of daffodils that artist David Hockney had executed on his iPad was widely shared on social media. Hockney titled the artwork Do remember they can't cancel the spring. It was a sorely needed message of hope in a ... (Read More)
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