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(Issue Story)Jewelry Sold at Nye & Co.
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Nye & Co.
Just in time for holiday shopping, Nye & Co., Bloomfield, New Jersey, held its jewelry and fine art auction on December 2, 2020. The sale was highlighted by a Short Hills, New Jersey, and San Francisco, California, collection that produced many of the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Waiting for the Light
The Young Collector
Usually about this time of year, we would turn in a travelogue of sorts. Light, we imagine, entertaining, we hope, the kind of thing you want to read about someone else doing because you would have more sense than to do it yourself. One of these crisp, bright ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2020
Though Bonhams helped by getting their new season's bigger sales under way a little earlier than most, recent weeks have seen most of the big sales taking place in the Far East and North America. So while there are several London sales in what follows, I have dipped into some ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thanksgiving Americana and Fine Jewelry
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
by Don Johnson
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
The annual Thanksgiving sale is a tradition at Garth's Auctions. Held on Black Friday (and in previous years, that Friday and Saturday), the event brings a crowd to Garth's gallery and is one of the strongest sales of the year for the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Rebecca and Taylor Thistlethwaite
We are all spending much more time now in our houses and apartments because of COVID-19. Because we all might enjoy staring at someone else's walls for a change, this column gives our readers an idea of what some of their colleagues, fellow collectors, and other readers surround themselves with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)January York Show Canceled
Promoter Melvin Arion has canceled The Original 176th Semi-Annual York Antiques Show & Sale, scheduled for January 29-31, 2021, in York, Pennsylvania, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information, visit the website (www.theoriginalyorkantiquesshow.com) or call Arion at (302) 542-3286.
Originally published in the December 2020 issue of Maine Antique Digest. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Sale
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
The traditional pre-Thanksgiving American art sale at Bonhams in New York City on November 24, 2020, offered 66 lots of accessibly priced, low- to mid-level works. At the end of the two-and-a-half-hour online sale, 46 lots had been sold for a total of $1,116,290. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker and Sand Art Highlight Americana Sale
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
This sand art bottle by Iowa artist Andrew Clemens (1857-1894), with patriotic and geometric designs, a heart, a hand, and a mortar and pestle, was a presentation piece, dedicated to Dr. Prosper Harvey Ellsworth of Hot Springs, Arkansas, "From Two Friends." Ellsworth had been a Union ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles Launch New Blog
David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles of Woodbury, Connecticut, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Vermont Latest to Get It Wrong but Gives Dealers Some Time
Vermont antiques dealers have about a year to legally sell all their antique scrimshaw, ivory netsuke, or any other antique that will be illegal to sell under a newly passed animal parts and products law.
The law-signed on October 8-prohibits the buying and selling of any item of a covered animal ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Early Furniture Straight from the Source
D. L. Straight Auctions, Sturbridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy D. L. Straight Auctions
Like many auctioneers, David Straight of D. L. Straight Auctions in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, is rolling with the COVID-19 punch. For his auction on November 22, 2020, the number of in-person bidders was zero, but the number of Internet and absentee ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Doherty Decoy Collection
Guyette & Deeter, St. Michaels, Maryland
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
New Jersey collectors Jim and Pat Doherty formed their decoy collection with care. They studied the subject deeply and gathered carefully. Their collections also included clocks, stoneware, theorems, and glass. Jim was the founder of the South Jersey chapter of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Weathervane Tops Smith Sale
William A. Smith, Inc. Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
William A. Smith, Inc., the well-established auction house in Plainfield, New Hampshire, held an antiques auction on November 21, 2020. The auction was online only and consisted of over 400 lots.
This late 19th-century full-bodied eagle weathervane with a 63" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2020
Adriaen van Diest (1655-1704), The Battle of Lowestoft, circa 1690, oil on canvas, 403/4" x 711/4". Gift of the Berger Collection Educational Trust.
-Through December 6 -Denver, Colorado
Treasures of British Art: The Berger Collection showcases about 60 paintings gifted to the Denver Art Museum (DAM) by the Berger Collection Educational Trust ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rising Interest in American Furniture
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Rising interest in American furniture drove Eldred's November 19 and 20, 2020, auction. Many of the lots came from New England collections and estates. One of those collections was that of Richard I. M. Kelton (1929-2019), a collector extraordinaire. Kelton's collection has been sold at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
Material from the Indian Wars brought strong interest during the November 19, 2020, sale of American historical ephemera and photography held by Cowan's Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio. It was a change from Cowan's typical American history auctions, which are often highlighted by Civil War ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Hundred Grand for a Telescope and a Machine Gun
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
At Morphy Auctions' firearms and militaria auction in Denver, Pennsylvania, November 17 and 18, 2020, it was two days of selling and about $8.8 million to the bank in a sale led by one important American telescope and a machine gun that looked as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Silver Presentation Trophy Comes in First
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A collection of spectacular sporting trophies from America's Gilded Age highlighted a recent auction of silver and objects of vertu that was the most successful auction of its kind in the history of Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas.
Featuring some of the finest workmanship of America's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Grogan & Company "Does Better" at Fall Auction
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
Visitors to the Grogan & Company gallery in Boston to preview the November 15, 2020, auction were greeted by plywood across the front door. During the Black Lives Matter protests last June, the door had been spray-painted "#BLM Do Better, Art World!" ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Virtual Version of Rhinebeck
Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck
We have known promoter Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions for decades, have covered dozens of his shows, and are always amazed by his innovations. We thought he had used up his bag of ideas by now, but he found one of his best for the November ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thomaston Place Ends 2020 with a Four-Day Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
From November 12 to 15, 2020, it was four days of continuous selling at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine. With 1730-plus lots up for grabs altogether, about 1350 successfully found new homes over the four-day affair. Day one presented the lower end of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Slotin Enjoys Its Highest-Grossing Auction
Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
The antiques-at-auction industry continues to weather COVID-19 like a boss. The numbers don't lie; buyers of antiques are fine with bidding remotely, be it online, absentee, by proxy, or by phone, and auction houses continue to present gorgeous auctions filled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Double Portrait and Dwarf Clock Lead at Evans
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 39th semiannual premier Americana auction November 12, 13, and 14, 2020, at the firm's gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The three-day event kicked off on Thursday with an auction of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Sale Marathon Ends with $2.3 Million Total
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Antique and collectible toys galore once again filled gallery space during Bertoia's annual fall sale, held November 12 and 13, 2020. Loads of consignments made up this two-day event along with items from the collections of Bob Merck, Jay Schoedinger, and Larry Brethauer. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Strong Sale of American Arts and Crafts Jewelry and More
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois, held a jewelry, silver, and objects of vertu auction on November 12, 2020. A large portion of the sale was sourced from the Paul and Terry Somerson collection of 20th- and 21st-century metalwork and jewelry. John Walcher, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Louis Hahn Estate
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
A simple kindness helped make possible the two-day auction of western Pennsylvania stoneware and American antiques held November 11 and 12, 2020, by Cowan's Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The single-owner collection consisted of material from the estate of Louis Hahn of Pennsylvania. Hahn had been ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Record for a Lozowick Print
Swann Galleries' November 12, 2020, sale of prints in New York City was led by New York, a scarce 1925 lithograph by Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) that sold for $81,250 (includes buyer's premium), an auction record for any print by the artist. The buyer was a collector.
New York, circa 1925, 113/8" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Sale of Americana
Freemans's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
If these were normal times, Freeman's sale of 191 lots of Americana on November 10, 2020, might have been part of its annual fall Americana sale. That auction has traditionally taken place a few days after the Delaware Antiques Show, when dealers and collectors are in ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Plan B
The Young Collector
If we have learned anything from the past few months (please, let us have learned something), it might be that our plans are not plans. Our plans are all too often more like ideas. We have ideas about what we want, ideas about how things will go, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Online Delaware Antiques Show
Wilmington, Delaware
For more than a decade the Chase Center in Wilmington has been the venue for the Delaware Antiques Show during the first week of November. The show is known for attracting a large crowd of collectors both local and from afar. During this year of the COVID crisis, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pennsylvania Country Antiques from Old-Time Collection Excel
Horst Auction Center, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Horst Auction Center
Horst Auction Center held a 526-lot sale that grossed $221,880 (including buyers' premiums) at its auction house in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, on November 6 and 7, 2020. In an age when auction houses need to be as competitive as ever, Horst does not ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gurleys Move Thanksgiving Sunday Show to New Hampshire
Gurley Antique Shows will be running the firm's annual Thanksgiving Sunday Antique Show at a new location-the DoubleTree by Hilton in downtown Manchester, New Hampshire, the same venue that hosts the annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) show during Antiques Week in New Hampshire.
The show will be held on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nine Photographs Offered at Auction Draw a Lawsuit
No auction house wants to sell an alleged fake, but when the alleged fake is copyrighted, there can be additional trouble.
Nine photographs offered in three sales by Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries in December 2019 and January and March 2020 have prompted a lawsuit filed by Iconic Images, Ltd., owner of the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Tom Jewett and Butch Berdan
We are all spending much more time now in our houses and apartments because of COVID-19. Because we all might enjoy staring at someone else's walls for a change, this column gives our readers an idea of what some of their colleagues, fellow collectors, and other readers surround themselves with ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Online TEFAF Show
TEFAF New York, New York City
From November 1 to 4, 2020, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) offered a virtual edition of TEFAF New York, the fair that would have filled the Park Avenue Armory in New York City for its fifth year but for the COVID-19 pandemic.
TEFAF reports that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farrin's Sets the Tables for Thanksgiving
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
One thing that business markets hate is uncertainty. Economic, social, and political doubts are often reflected in stock markets, currency markets, and antiques markets. Witness Rusty Farrin's auction in Randolph, Maine, on the night of November 4, 2020, when the final results of the presidential election ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2020
Quite a mix has resulted from my attempts to look back at some earlier summer sales and to keep as up to date as possible. There are a few old masters and a couple of tortoises, a pair of old shoes, two Dutch dolls with a political edge, and a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leigh Keno and Barn Star Team Up for Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck
Barn Star Productions has announced that Leigh Keno will be a sponsor of the upcoming Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck Online Show, November 13-15, on the Ruby Lane platform (www.rubylane.com).
Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions said, "We are extremely fortunate to welcome Mr. Keno to our team presenting our fourth online ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Charles Collection Takes Top Billing in Americana Sale
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Conestoga Auction Company
Eugene "Gene" and Vera Charles of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, were longtime collectors and later dealers specializing in china and glass at regional shows. They bought at local farm sales and were always condition conscious. David Charles, their nephew, entrusted John Hess of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Delaware Antiques Show Goes Online
The 57th Delaware Antiques Show will be smaller, will last longer-a full week, November 7 through 14-and will be online on InCollect.
There will be no charge to browse the show anytime from 10 a.m. on Saturday, November 7, until 10 p.m. on Saturday, November 14. For $100 the show can ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Folk Art Horology: Clocks and Watches in American Folk Paintings
Since the 13th-century invention of mechanical timekeeping, clocks and watches have appeared in art, never by accident or unintentionally. And even before their arrival, artist depictions of water clocks, sundials, and sandglasses also represented fleeting time, human mortality, technological sophistication, owner affluence, self-discipline, or even just the time of day.
My ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Pennsylvania Sale
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's online-only Pennsylvania sale on October 28, 2020, demonstrated that selling things in the region where they were made is a good plan, and including 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century material in the same sale is a good idea, too. A well-advertised portrait of the Kitzmiller family ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Legend of the West: The T. Boone Pickens Collection
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
"This is a fantastic moment. We are delighted and honored to offer these works," said John Hays, deputy chairman of Christie's Americas, as he introduced the noon sale of 79 lots from the collection of T. Boone Pickens (1928-2019) on October 28, 2020.
The highest-selling lot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Strikes Down Claim to Stolen Hamilton Letter
On October 28 United States Magistrate Judge Judith Gail Dein ruled that a July 21, 1780, letter from Alexander Hamilton to the Marquis de Lafayette is a public record and the property of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
The letter had been stolen from the Massachusetts Archives sometime between 1937 and 1945 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, November 2020
Rob Rey, Bioluminescence: Question, Hypothesis, Experiment, acrylic on canvas, 30" x 20".
-Through November 12 -New York City
Rehs Contemporary Galleries presents Taking Flight, an exhibition to benefit the American Bird Conservancy. The art on view was created by seven artists who each have their own unique style, though all the featured ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Time Times Two: Clocks and Watches at Auction
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts, and Schmitt Horan & Co., Windham, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Skinner and Schmitt Horan & Co.
Horology buyers had plenty of choices in a pair of October 2020 New England auctions. The results were surprisingly strong for both. Each auction house posted well-illustrated and well-described online catalogs, each offered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winter Show to Go Online
The 67th Winter Show, January 21-31, 2021, will be presented online. Dealers will create a gallery viewing room with thumbnail images and a 3-D gallery space and will also be able to share video content. There will also be lectures and discussions. "We are excited about our platform," said Helen ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story) Winter Is Coming
"We've lost it all...but at least we don't have to pay sales tax." That glass-half-full assessment came from an over-80-year-old longtime dealer set up in the corner of a large tent at the Black River Antique Show in Ludlow, Vermont, on a cold and rainy morning in early October.
She said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts Sale
Treadway Gallery, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
A Tiffany Studios Oriental Poppy table lamp sold for $87,500 (including buyer's premium) to highlight the decorative arts auction held by Treadway Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 25, 2020. The lamp was estimated at $65,000/75,000. The stained-glass shade, featuring a design that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Clifford Sanborn Bonney
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
As a nine-year-old boy, Clifford Sanborn Bonney (1945-2019) began a lifelong collection when he acquired an English pewter plate. A descendant of the early settlers of Newbury, Massachusetts, Bonney was a collector and a preservationist. When his collection came to auction in a single-owner sale on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction Features Cleveland School Artists
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
In-person anything remains a huge unknown because of COVID-19, but online-only auctions continue to chug along. Rachel Davis Fine Arts has been utilizing the online auction option for years but always paired with in-house gallery bidding. Eliminating on-site bidding has ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cameo Glass Vase Tops Auction at $50,000
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Beautiful works of decorative art glass, including an impressive collection of Art Deco art and objects, highlighted Heritage Auctions' Tiffany, Lalique, and art glass auction on October 22, 2020. The auction was expected to continue the momentum created by a June auction that had ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction Prices Realized, November 2020
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)Art Fair Moves Online for 2020
The American Art Fair
The 13th edition of The American Art Fair, a show typically held at the Bohemian National Hall on New York City's Upper East Side, pivoted to an online venue in response to the pandemic. Held about a month earlier than usual, October 9-18, the fair featured 24 ... (Read More)
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(Show)An Old-Style Antiquing Event
Virginia Pickers Antique & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
The fall 2020 Virginia Pickers Antique & Collectables Show was held at the Gilman Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia, October 16-18. In its brief three-year history, the show has developed into a regional destination, with the majority of its vendors and patrons ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Virtual Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
St. Charles, Illinois
When a show lasts for decades, it must be something special. The annual Fox Valley Antiques Shows each spring (60-plus years) and fall (46 years) stayed alive all those years by adhering to consistent and unbending standards, along with being customer and community friendly. That's the way to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)FBI Offers $8000 Reward in Stolen Paintings Case
The FBI is offering a reward of up to $8000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the theft of six paintings. The paintings were stolen in Dallas, Texas, on or about March 26, 2019, while they were being transported from Santa Fe, New Mexico, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nagel Portrait-Consigned by the Sitter-Breaks Auction Record
Patrick Nagel's 1983 Jeana sold at Heritage Auctions on October 16 for $350,000 (includes buyer's premium), establishing an auction record for the artist. The estimate was $60,000/80,000. The previous Nagel auction record was $300,000 for Kristen, sold at Phillips in New York City on May 15, 2019.
Patrick Nagel (1945-1984), Jeana, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont Bans Sales of "Animal Parts"
In 2022 antique scrimshaw and netsuke without documentation will be illegal to sell or buy in Vermont.
A bill passed by the House and the Senate in Vermont regulating the sale of animal parts and products was delivered to Governor Phil Scott on October 2. He signed it into law on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fortieth Anniversary Sale for California and Western Art Department
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams' California and Western art auction on October 13, 2020, in Los Angeles marked the 40th anniversary of the department. Department director Scot Levitt, who has been with the department since 1984, wrote an introduction in the catalog about the landmark and about how the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buyer of World Record Ledger Drawing Revealed
In the August Maine Antique Digest, we reported that Maine Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, had established an auction record when the firm sold a single ledger drawing for $106,250 (includes buyer's premium) on May 29.
On October 13 the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) in Richmond, Virginia, revealed that it ... (Read More)
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(Show)The ADA Online Deerfield Show
Antiques Dealers' Association of America
The Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA), founded in 1984 to make the antiques trade more honest and ethical, has been organizing shows for its members since the summer of 1985. In 1998 it moved its fall show to Deerfield, Massachusetts, as a fund-raiser for Historic ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Admiral Tromp Marches to the Top at Fall Sale
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Bidders at the Marion Antique Auctions sale in Marion, Massachusetts, had to wait until almost the end of the October 10, 2020, auction for a framed and glazed drawing by Dutch golden age artist Jan Lievens (1607-1674) to come on the block. The 17th-century drawing of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Brings Fine Results at Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Pook & Pook's big, long Americana and international auction, held October 9 and 10, 2020, offered one estate after another in 874 lots and sold 855 of them for a total of $2,234,475 (including buyers' premiums), well above the presale ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arader's Blockbuster $18.6 Million Sale
Arader Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Arader Galleries
W. Graham Arader III, a dealer in historic prints, maps, books, and paintings who has held auctions since 2007, recently launched his own auction platform, Arader Live. On Saturday afternoon, October 10, 2020, 192 lots of natural history and cartography were offered on ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, October 2020
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)Fall Jewelry Sale
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Rago Arts and Auction
Rago Arts and Auction held its fall jewelry and watches auction on October 6 in Lambertville, New Jersey. I talked with Dianne Batista, director of fine jewelry at Rago, about the sale, and she said she was working on the deadline for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Howls with Its October Sale
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia, held an October suite of nine themed and targeted auctions beginning on October 6, 2020, with a "classic" sale, followed by eight sales scattered over the following weeks. In all, more than 1750 lots crossed the block. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2020
The "Classic" Case of Lucretia, the Demonic Sphinx, and Punchinello
Five of the best-selling lots from the wide-ranging July 29 "Classic Art" sale held by Christie's are featured here, and we begin with an oil on panel that is a portrait of an unidentified man by an unknown Burgundian artist-but a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Fletcher Field
Proctorsville, Vermont
Antiques at Fletcher Field was the larger of the Vermont Antiques Week shows in 2020. Because of the pandemic, there were only two shows this year, both managed by Ohio dealer and show promoter Steve Sherhag. The new event, held October 3 and 4, replaced the Okemo Antique Show ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Black River Antique Show
Ludlow, Vermont
The Black River Antique Show, held October 2 and 3, opened on Friday at 1 p.m. under a large tent pitched on the Paul P. Pullinen Field adjacent to the Ludlow Elementary School in Ludlow, Vermont. It was one of two shows that constituted Vermont Antiques Week in 2020, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Glazer Collection Buoys Auction
New Haven Auctions/Fred Giampietro, New Haven, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
The first 100 lots of New Haven Auctions' October 3, 2020, Americana sale came from the folk-art collection of dealers James and Nancy Glazer of Bailey Island, Maine. Even a casual observer could deduce from those first lots what fun ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Plaque Leads at Hilliard
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
The October 3 antiques and fine art online auction presented by Hilliard & Co. from its Madison, Virginia, gallery offered an interesting mix of 347 lots. Selling in real time and executing bids from absentees, telephone bidders, and online bidders using LiveAuctioneers, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Collector's Lens
The Young Collector
Sometimes we like to muse about what we would do if independently wealthy. We would buy our friends a lot of "This made me think of you" gifts, we would probably have an array of interesting business cards printed just for laughs, and we might hand over mowing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Calder Mobile Brings $1,872,500, Setting Record for Hindman
Triple Cross, a 1947 standing mobile by Alexander Calder (1898- 1976), sold for $1,872,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Hindman in Chicago on October 1. The 311/2" x 37" x 113/4" sculpture, estimated at $600,000/800,000, set a record for the highest sale price in the Chicago auction house's 38-year history. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Sentenced
On August 20 auctioneer David Hall was sentenced to one to three years in prison and ordered to pay $227,100 in restitution. In February Hall had pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny for not paying over $227,000 in auction proceeds to a consignor. He was scheduled to be sentenced in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Harold Gordon, Creator of Fake "Bingham" Secretary, Sentenced
On September 29 Harold Gordon, 71, of Templeton, Massachusetts, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jeffrey A. Meyer in federal court in New Haven, Connecticut, to five years of probation. Gordon was also ordered to pay restitution to Connecticut dealer Allan Katz in the amount of $84,500.
On January 29, 2019, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Pop-up Antiques Show at Thomaston's New Green Space
Thomaston, Maine
It doesn't have a name, so let's call it the "Great Thomaston Show of No's." It was held on September 26 at Thomaston Green, a community park in the heart of downtown Thomaston, Maine, that once housed the former Maine State Prison. Every descriptor about the show seems to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Larkin Ambrotype Tops Jefferson Land Grants at Mebane
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
Around 1937, unmarried sisters Maude Spotswood Larkin and Mary Dillard Larkin, who resided in the historic Garland Hill neighborhood of Lynchburg, Virginia, inherited a massive collection of family letters, documents, photographs, books, and furniture. The collection descended from their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Richard and Valerie Tucker's Collection of Shooting Gallery Targets
Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri
Photos courtesy Soulis Auctions
There's something to be learned by zeroing in on Richard and Valerie Tucker's collection of shooting gallery targets offered by Soulis Auctions on September 26, 2020, in Lone Jack, Missouri.
It wasn't the quality or quantity of the collection; that was already well known. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Works of Art
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Skinner's Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery was the site of a September 25 auction of American and European works of art. Vice president and department director Robin S.R. Starr took the podium precisely at noon with an audience of no one. Skinner staffers were in place at their ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Print Shop Has a New Owner
The Philadelphia Print Shop, a fixture on Germantown Avenue in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia and at major antiques shows, has been sold. The new owner is David Mackey, a Main Line commercial real estate/land developer, collector, and sometime dealer in maps and prints of Chester County (www.malvernmaps.com). Mackey ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)GSA Establishes Rules for Art in Federal Buildings
On September 25 the General Services Administration (GSA) published new rules regarding the "Art in Architecture" program for federal buildings in order to comply with Executive Order No. 13934, issued by President Trump on July 3.
The Executive Order, titled "Building and Rebuilding Monuments to American Heroes," required revisions in the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Alexandra Mann-Nelson
We are all spending much more time now in our houses and apartments because of COVID-19. Because we all might enjoy staring at someone else's walls for a change, this column gives our readers an idea of what some of their colleagues, fellow collectors, and other readers surround themselves with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Spanierman Collection
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
"'It costs you as much to frame a $1,000 painting as it does a $100,000 painting,' Ira told me. 'It costs you as much to photograph it, to store it, and to ship it out on approval. And you have to work just as hard ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lyman Parks Portraits: A Major Private Sale
Private sales are a big part of the art and antiques business. Discoveries and record prices are reported by auctioneers and sometimes touted by dealers at shows. Museums occasionally send out press releases when they buy something special. But private sales are, well, private. We never know who is selling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
Painted by Matthew Harris Jouett (1788-1827) circa 1818, a portrait of Isaac Shelby (1750-1826), the first governor of Kentucky, realized $112,500 (including buyer's premium) to highlight the sale of American furniture, folk art, and decorative arts held by Cowan's Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, September ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bugatti Furniture Attracts International Attention
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Carl Nordblom and Karin Phillips of CRN Auctions can be relied on to assemble auctions of items considered esoteric, even for Cambridge, Massachusetts.
At the September 20 auction, eight lots of furniture by Italian designer Carlo Bugatti (1856-1940) spurred international bidding. Bugatti, a designer of ceramics, musical instruments, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sales, Secrecy, and Sanctions
In late July the United States Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations issued a report, "The Art Industry and U.S. Policies that Undermine Sanctions," that should have every dealer and auction house preparing to have their sales of over $10,000 be subject to the Bank Secrecy Act (BSA).
While legislation to add ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mueller Collection of Americana
Soulis Auctions, Lone Jack, Missouri
Photos courtesy Soulis Auctions
It's hard to say what the main story was during the dispersal of the 30-year collection of Jerry and Cathy Mueller, held by Soulis Auctions in Lone Jack, Missouri, on September 19, 2020. It might have been the Lincoln pie safe or the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Inaugural Jewelry Sale at Andrew Jones Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Andrew Jones Auctions
Andrew Jones Auctions in Los Angeles, California, held its inaugural fine jewelry, watches, and timepieces auction on September 16. The sale was highlighted by the collection of Mary and Lou Silver of Indian Wells, California, who "amassed a broad and wonderful collection of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art and Design of the Early 20th Century
Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co. Auctioneers
As long as auction houses have existed, the pace of major overall change has been glacial. Yet within this year, the pandemic has for many auction houses eliminated in-person viewing, presale handling of lots, live auctions with on-floor bidding, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale on Everyone's Radar: The Banks Estate at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Andrew Brunk opened his September 12 sale of the estate of William "Bill" Nathaniel Banks Jr. (1924-2019) with a brief biography: "He had great taste, a warm smile, and always bought the best."
William Banks, the only child of Evelyn Wright Banks, a native ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana
Garth's, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
A presentation pitcher in an Albany slip with scratched text and decoration sold for $6120 (including buyer's premium) to lead the country Americana sale held by Garth's in Columbus, Ohio, on September 12. The 101/2" tall pitcher was incised "Mrs. R. Pannabaker from Charles 1891" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Auctions
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
Rago Auctions kicked off its fall season with two days of 20th- and 21st-century design sales on September 11 and 12, 2020, in Lambertville, New Jersey. Fifteen in-house bidders, masked and socially distanced, and hundreds on four online bidding platforms and phones competed for 560 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, September 2020
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)Colonial Williamsburg Reopens with Expanded Museum and New Exhibitions
Colonial Williamsburg has reopened with a newly expanded building that houses both art museums and five new special exhibitions, with more on the way. A new wing in the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum and the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum adds 65,000 square feet to the museum building, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Experience vs. Outcome
The Young Collector
As this isolated strangeness grinds on, more and more we realize that we do not miss many big things. What we miss are the little things-shaking hands, seeing smiles, giving hugs. You know, the good old days of being able to run errands without masks, sanitizer, wipes, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)TEFAF New York 2020 Canceled
TEFAF New York 2020, originally postponed from this spring to this fall, has been officially canceled. "We have concluded that, despite our efforts, it will not be possible to host TEFAF New York 2020," a July 17 press release stated. The show was to be held from October 31 to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum of the American Revolution Reopens
A masked, socially distanced visit to a museum is a real picker-upper these days when quarantine makes it hard to remember if it is Wednesday or Thursday because every day seems the same. The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is set to reopen to the general public on ... (Read More)
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