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(Auction)American Art Auction
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The first American art sale since Sotheby's was taken private resulted in $20,867,000 (with buyers' premiums) worth of art being sold. Seventy lots were offered on November 19, 2019, and 43 sold, for a sell-through rate of 61.4%. The presale estimate was $24,795,000/38,215,000.
The results were ... (Read More)
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(Show)Salon Art + Design
New York City
The eighth edition of Salon Art + Design was held November 14-18, 2019. The show "tweaked a few things" this time around yet continues to offer visually appealing, and in some cases arresting, works of art and design from a range of time periods and cultures.
The show welcomed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Art Takes Center Stage at Grogan
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
It's always a full house when an auction begins at Grogan & Company. The November 17, 2019, sale in the Boston gallery was no exception. The sale could be called seaworthy, as the artwork sold had a decidedly maritime flavor, albeit with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Solid Showing for Americana
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 37th semiannual auction of Americana, a two-day affair on November 15 and 16, 2019. The first day featured 18th- and 19th-century glassware, lighting, and ceramics. M.A.D. visited on day two ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stuckey Stoneware
Davies Auctions, Lafayette, Indiana
A selection of Upton Stuckey stoneware, made in Loogootee, Indiana, in the second half of the 19th century, highlighted a consignment sale held by Davies Auctions in Lafayette, Indiana, on November 16, 2019. Prices for four marked examples ranged from $825 to $2860 (including buyer's premium).
The pottery ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
Believed to be the earliest known image of American slaves with cotton, a quarter-plate daguerreotype discovered in Texas and subsequently traced to a family of Georgia slave owners sold for $324,500 (including buyer's premium) against an estimate of $100,000/150,000 during the American history sale ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Lot to Be Thankful for at Farrin's
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Each year Farrin's Country Auctions holds a pre-Thanksgiving sale in Randolph, Maine. On November 13, 2019, it consisted of over 800 lots, out the door in an evening of fast selling, with a small handful of items left behind. The biggest money winners were a couple ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pinckney Portrait Sells for $187,500
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's November 12, 2019, sale, held on the Tuesday after the Delaware Antiques Show, was strategically planned so that dealers and collectors could stop in Philadelphia to preview on their way to or from Delaware. There were fewer than a dozen people in the salesroom. More ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"A Small Leak Will Sink a Great Ship"
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Benjamin Franklin once wrote, "Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship." Old Ben's namesake steamship, the S.S. Franklin, sank in 1854. But Thomaston Place Auction Galleries brought forth the salvaged figurehead as a prime component ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Established Artists and New Discoveries Showcased
Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
Slotin Folk Art Auction continues to impress, not only with the art presented but also with the diversity of artists represented. "We are coming into our twenty-fifth year," auctioneer/owner Steve Slotin explained, referencing the fall sale held November 9 and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show
Winnetka, Illinois
We've said it flat-out in these pages: the perennially successful Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show could not happen anywhere else but in the North Shore Chicago suburb where it has been a fixture for decades. First, because the show benefits and is housed in an institution central to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Welcome to Richmond, Mr. Brunk
Brunk Auctions, Richmond, Virginia
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions held its inaugural auction in Richmond, Virginia, on November 9, 2019. The sale marked the beginning of a new chapter for the Asheville, North Carolina-based firm. Brunk Auctions is not relocating; it has established a second location.
The decision to add a presence ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Courage in the Antiques World
The great-from Homer to George Washington to Winston Churchill-have long been fascinated by courage. And who can blame them? Bravery on the field of battle is one of the most admirable and inexplicable virtues imaginable. How and why, then, can we indulge ourselves, talking about "bravery" in the pedestrian field ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2019 Delaware Show
Delaware Antiques Show, Wilmington, Delaware
There is no question that the Delaware Antiques Show is one of the very best for Americana. Collectors come from all parts of the country knowing that a large contingent of dealers in American furniture, textiles, silver, folk art, ceramics, pewter, and silver made or used ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Center for Pennsylvania German Studies Opens
Local history makes a community proud. It adds to quality of life. Take the town of Trappe, Pennsylvania, for example. It's a crossroads 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia and just a few miles from the larger community of Collegeville, where Ursinus College has flourished since it was granted its charter ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Eglin Collection Buoys Jewelry Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's November 5, 2019, auction of jewelry and watches began with a group of mostly antiques that brought solid prices and ended with the sale of a marquise-cut diamond ring that brought the top price of the auction.
Virginia Salem, Freeman's vice president, head of jewelry ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alaska Man Sentenced
A Skagway, Alaska, man has been sentenced for illegally exporting a raw ivory tusk, using falsified forms to have it admitted to Indonesia, and thereafter illegally importing the carved tusk, for sale, back into the United States.
James Terrance Williams, 67, of Inside Passage Arts was sentenced to serve two years ... (Read More)
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(Show)The AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show
New York City
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) put on a five-day show, October 31 to November 4, 2019, at Wallace Hall, within walking distance of or a short cab ride to the fall edition of TEFAF (The European Fine Art Foundation), held simultaneously at the Park ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Americana
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Color prevailed at Skinner's November 2 and 3, 2019, Americana auction in the Marlborough gallery, where offerings included the collections of Bill McKeever of Urbana, Ohio; Pamela and Brian Ehrlich of Mystic, Connecticut; Tom and Carolyn Porter of Delaware, Ohio; Pam Boynton of Groton, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Vase Leads Holiday Auction
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
A Rookwood Pottery 9" high double-handled Standard glaze vase depicting an Indian woman holding a baby wrapped in a checkered blanket was the highlight of the holiday sale at Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 2 and 3, 2019. The vase, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paddock Collection of Tole Sold
Butterscotch Auctioneers & Appraisers, Bedford Village, New York
Photos courtesy Butterscotch Auctioneers & Appraisers
Butterscotch Auctioneers & Appraisers' sale in Bedford Village, New York, on November 3, 2019, included historically important American tinware decorated by the Butler family from the collection of Charlotte Guild Paddock of East Greenbush, New York. Paddock was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Flies at Skinner
Photos courtesy Skinner
The highlights of Skinner's November 2 and 3 Americana sale were so fine that they left some speechless.
As he opened the bidding at $50,000 on a Chippendale mahogany reverse serpentine bureau, Steven Fletcher, executive vice president and director of Skinner's Americana department, reported, "I was very happy when ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Looking for the Good
School has started back at our house, and every year it is an anxiety-ridden process. Like anything that comes with tremendous rewards, homeschooling also comes with tremendous responsibility. And as with anything that comes with tremendous responsibility, there are people who are happy to take your money to alleviate some ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Distinctively American art that evokes the spirit of the rugged American West and works that nostalgically capture America of the early to mid-20th century achieved sales records for Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas. The November 1, 2019, auction recorded sales of $5,418,288 (with buyers' ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dawes Named Chairman and CEO of Salmagundi Club
Nick Dawes, senior vice president for special collections at Heritage Auctions, has been named chairman and CEO of the Salmagundi Club after serving on the board of the nonprofit club for several years. Salmagundi is the oldest artists' club in New York City and one of the oldest in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Collaboration Resonates with Showgoers at TEFAF
The European Fine Art Fair, New York City
It was all about the mix for the fourth iteration of The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) held at the Park Avenue Armory on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Ninety dealers, including 17 new to the fair, offered antiquities and works of art and ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Robert Ellison's Art Pottery at the Met
In June 2013 the Metropolitan Museum of Art acquired 76 pottery vessels by European artist potters from the encyclopedic collection assembled over decades by artist, photographer, and ceramic historian Robert Ellison Jr. Of the 76 works, 54 were generously donated, and 40 of them were put on view in 2014 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doyle Expands Its Florida Operations
Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers of New York City has expanded its Florida operations, adding two auction professionals. Furniture and decorative arts specialist Sebastian Clarke has been appointed senior vice president, and jewelry specialist Katherine Van Dell has been appointed vice president. Clarke and Van Dell are husband and wife.
They join ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The North Yarmouth, Maine, Pottery Industry, 1791-1890
The late 18th- and 19th-century red earthenware industry of North Yarmouth, Maine, in an area that became known as Yarmouth after 1849, is an aspect of Maine's utilitarian pottery production that is somewhat forgotten today. From about 1791 to 1890 this was arguably Maine's largest production center, located about 12 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2019
A further selection of "Rothschild" specials is featured in this month's "Letter," offering a picture of a "ham dinner" by David Teniers and some exceptional pieces of furniture. Among the latter are Marie Antoinette's writing table and a pair of mid-18th-century console tables that, rather unusually, feature polished steel in ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Elverson Show Celebrates 50 Years
Elverson Antique Show & Sale, Elverson, Pennsylvania
Forty-one dealers set up in the Twin Valley High School in Elverson, Pennsylvania, on October 26 and 27, 2019, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Elverson Antique Show & Sale. From its beginnings in a firehouse in 1969, the Elverson show became known ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Angles and Emerging Art at BIFAS
Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, Massachusetts
For the Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS) held October 24-27, 2019, Tony Fusco and Robert "Bob" Four of Fusco & Four changed the mix, brightening the show, which resulted in an event that overflowed with fine art and enthusiastic visitors at the Boston ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Five Clock Stars
Schmitt Horan & Co., Manchester, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Schmitt Horan & Co.
There were 899 lots-comprising thousands of clocks, watches, tools, parts, music boxes, books, and other antiques-presented at the October 26 and 27, 2019, auction held by Schmitt Horan & Co. in Manchester, New Hampshire.
Continuing a recent strategy of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pennsylvania Sale Excels in the Heartland
Horst Auction Center, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Horst Auction Center
Horst Auction Center held a 798-lot sale on October 25 and 26, 2019, at its facility in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, titled "Folk Art from an Old Time Ohio Collection." The total gross was $298,435. Horst does not charge a buyer's premium for in-house ... (Read More)
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(Auction)On-Site Sale in Newbury
John McInnis Auctions, Newbury, Massachusetts
All prices include the buyer's premium.
John Atkinson arrived in Newbury, Massachusetts, sometime before 1664 when he was granted an acre of land on which to build a house. Over the years it passed from generation to generation until it passed out of the family in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Furniture Study Center
American Furniture Study Center ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Partners to Face Off in Legal Battle
In 1987 an informal partnership of Treadway Gallery and John Toomey Gallery was formed to conduct sales. For the next 30 years, the pair sold hundreds of thousands of lots, regularly publishing thick catalogs filled with every kind of antiques and art but with a special emphasis on Modernism and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Winterthur Purchases Two Genre Paintings
Photos courtesy Winterthur
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library purchased two genre paintings at Christie's in January: Self-Portrait of John Lewis Krimmel with Susannah Krimmel and Her Children, 1810-11, by John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821) and Family Group in a New York Interior by Francois-Jules Bourgoin, a 19th-century immigrant from France. Both paintings ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art at Shannon's
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon's
Twice-yearly art auctions at Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, bring out fine artworks that result in a full house for each sale. The October 24, 2019, sale was no exception.
The 271-lot event drew 500 bids on 20-some phones, on site, and online. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winter Show Loan Exhibition Reflects Global Market
Masterworks from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, spanning 4000 years of Hispanic history, art, and culture, will be the loan exhibition at The Winter Show, January 24-February 2, 2020, the annual benefit for the East Side House Settlement in the South Bronx.
The exhibition is co-curated by ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum
Dedicated to the memory of Robert L. McNeil Jr. (1915-2010), a museum trustee, passionate collector of American art, and benefactor of scholarship, American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Volume I, Makers A-F is the long-awaited first of four volumes to be published over the next five or six ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Starr and Arnhold Collections
Sotheby's, New York City
The Starr and Arnhold Collections
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Two stellar collections of ceramics offered at Sotheby's on successive days were not ignored by an international group of collectors and dealers. "Wedgwood & Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection" sold on October 23, 2019, for a total ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Shot Heard Round the Auction World
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
Morphy Auctions' October 22 and 23, 2019, blockbuster firearms sale in Denver, Pennsylvania, saw over $10 million worth of historical firepower change hands. The headliner was a Dutch flintlock well known in the world of antique guns that had been owned by a soldier ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fired for Ephemera
Officer Charles Anderson, a member of the Muskegon, Michigan, police department for 22 years, was fired on September 12. The cause of his termination was a framed piece of ephemera Anderson had purchased for $20 to $30 at the Shipshewana Flea Market in Indiana.
The piece of ephemera, a blank Ku ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Firearms Auction
Poulin Antiques and Auctions, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
Firearms Auction
by Mark Sisco
Before the October 18-21, 2019, firearms auction in Fairfield, Maine, Nick Poulin, chief operating officer of Poulin Antiques and Auctions, Inc., now in the third generation of Julia family management, told me that the company can now lay claim to being ... (Read More)
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(Show)The CSADA 45th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
St. Charles, Illinois
Should anyone reading this wonder if the 45th fall Fox Valley Antiques Show, held October 19 and 20, 2019, was successful, consider what was told to us by a show dealer: One longtime customer came both days of the show and bought 17 items, including a lap desk, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Continued Growth and Renaming for Virginia Pickers
Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
In October 2018 we were introduced to the Virginia Pickers show. We have followed the birth and early growth of this central Virginia grass-roots twice-yearly event that is now in its second full year. The third Virginia Pickers show was held at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Mars & Neptune Trust Sale
Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Nadeau's Auction Gallery
The inaugural sale of the Mars & Neptune Trust on October 19, 2019, at Nadeau's Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, brought to market a meticulously curated collection of museum-quality military objects from the 17th century to the first half of the 19th ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hurd Sword Seized Hours Before Sale
Photos courtesy Nadeau's Auction Gallery
Bidders were settled in their seats, and the phones and Internet were ready for bids at Nadeau's Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, on October 19 for the sale of military and naval objects from the Mars & Neptune Trust, when the police showed up. Their quarry-lot ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, November 2019
Harley Bartlett, Moon Glow, oil.
-Through November 15 -Old Lyme, Connecticut
The Lyme Art Association (LAA) presents its 2019 New England Landscape Exhibition, focusing on the "subject matter that inspired our founders, the Lyme Impressionists. Contented cows, bucolic pastures, and harbor scenes are popular subjects in this exhibition," stated LAA's gallery manager, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)James Gale Tyler Oil Tops Moisan Auction
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Dover, New Hampshire
Devin Moisan ran a lightning-fast sale on October 17, 2019, in Dover, New Hampshire, barely pausing to draw a breath while moving out about 338 lots.
The lodestar of the sale by a wide margin was a dramatic seascape by James Gale Tyler (1855-1931) of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hindman Rolls Out the Barrels
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
Headed into an October 17, 2019, sale of American and European art, Hindman Auctions in Chicago was still basking in the September glow of a postwar and contemporary art sale that set auction records for six Chicago imagists. For that, credit goes in large ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Lee Radziwill
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Some coveted objects belonging to Caroline "Lee" Bouvier Radziwill (1933-2019), sister of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (1929-1994), came to auction in a dedicated sale during Christie's Collector Week in New York City.
The 168-lot sale, heavily marketed by the auction house, totaled $1,266,000 (with buyers' premiums), with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale Faces Picky Buyers
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Hopes ran high when Hindman Auctions in Chicago announced that an October 15, 2019, sale of furniture, decorative arts, and silver would include more than 150 lots of early American decorative arts, including folk art and other pieces from the collections of Michael and Janice Doniger and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Enthusiasm and Energy at Rhinebeck
Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
The clocks may fall back, but Antiques at Rhinebeck eternally springs forward. Every year on Columbus Day weekend and Memorial Day weekend, this colorful antiques show near the Hudson River in Rhinebeck, New York, between Albany (the capital) and Manhattan (the Big Apple) calls regulars ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Boston Highboy and Lowboy Lead at Hilliard
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers, Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers
Hilliard & Co. held a fall catalog sale at its Madison, Virginia, gallery on October 12, 2019. The sale consisted of 331 lots representing a wide variety of material from all categories.
Notable among the offerings were 80 lots consigned by ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Enjoys a Record Day
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The 65th edition of the Shenandoah Antiques Expo is now in the books. Known commonly by its place name, "Fishersville," the event was held October 11 and 12, 2019, at the Augusta County Expoland complex in Fishersville, Virginia. This installment marked the first for a newly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Gentleman's Collection of Tony Annese Brings Nearly $1.8 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Sometimes everything falls into place, and it has nothing to do with chance or luck. Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey, has been bringing some of the world's finest toy collections to the marketplace for decades. Collector Tony Annese has been acquiring some of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
A two-day auction of American Indian and Western art held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, on October 10 and 11, 2019, grossed $2 million. "It exceeded our expectations," said Danica Farnand, Cowan's director of the department.
The auction began with a session devoted to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sculptural Fantasy
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The second sale to disperse the collection of sculptural American folk art collected by Stephen and Petra Levin that filled their large Stowe, Vermont, ski lodge and guesthouse was offered at Sotheby's on October 10 in a stunning catalog written by curator and author Robert ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kelly Kinzle to Supervise Morphy's New Americana and Folk Art Division
On September 5 Dan Morphy announced that Americana and folk art dealer Kelly Kinzle will head Morphy Auctions' new Americana, folk art, and American decorative arts division.
"Dan Morphy called me and told me he had a collection of Americana he thought might launch a new division and asked me to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Doyle's American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts Auction
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
"Normally I don't come to auctions because you can get the fever," proclaimed a man to M.A.D. just before the start of Doyle's fall American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts sale on October 8, 2019. "I usually prebid," he explained.
And with that the well-attended auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Fine Art
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
The two top-selling lots in Swann Galleries' fall African American fine art auction on October 8, 2019, were bought by institutions. Elizabeth Catlett's Seated Woman, a carved mahogany sculpture, initialed "EC," from 1962, sold to the Saint Louis Art Museum for $389,000 (with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brunk Auctions Expands into Virginia
Brunk Auctions is expanding into Virginia. With a presence in Asheville, North Carolina; Nashville, Tennessee; and now Richmond, Virginia, Brunk Auctions "will provide its bespoke auction services to clients throughout the Southeast and Mid-Atlantic regions," an August 14 press release from the firm stated.
The Richmond location will host biannual auctions ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Consolidation
September, the time of year for looking back at the summer and all that has been accomplished! Or not accomplished, as the case may be. One bay of the garage is still filled with furniture and totes, the gutters on the workshop still need to be cleaned, and the deck ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Emelie Gevalt Named Curator of Folk Art at American Folk Art Museum
Jason T. Busch, the director of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), has announced that Emelie Gevalt will become curator of folk art at the museum beginning in November. She succeeds Stacy C. Hollander, who left the museum in June.
Gevalt comes to AFAM from an internship at the Museum ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Collections
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
All prices include the buyer's premium
John McInnis Auctioneers had gathered up several marine collections, and they were the nucleus of the October 5 and 6, 2019, auctions held under a tent in Amesbury, Massachusetts. The sale was moved from its customary location on Main Street in ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Fall Show
San Francisco, California
The more things change...
The event now called the San Francisco Fall Show, formerly the San Francisco Fall Antiques Show and then the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show, has changed names, dates, layout, rules that called for material to be over 50 years old, and focus.
The more ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful CRN Sale
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
Karin J. Phillips and Carl R. Nordblom of CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts, routinely present buyers with fine buying opportunities. Buyers of every stripe know this and show up for their dependably eclectic thrice-yearly auctions.
The October 6, 2019, sale was no exception, and bidders demonstrated ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Vermont
Ludlow, Vermont
Antiques in Vermont was called the Vermont Pickers Market in 2018 because it set up fast, did not rely on fancy booth arrangements, and lasted only a few hours. Prices are reasonable. One has to move and decide quickly. And it is the last show of Vermont Antiques Week. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Stratton Mountain: The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Show
Stratton Mountain, Vermont
An "old" show sees young dealers, exhibitors, membership, and management.
As you look at the faces of the "next gen," you see talent and knowledge, optimism and opportunity. Several of these faces have a long family history of "it runs in the family." Brian Bittner of Shelburne, Vermont, mentioned ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tea Table and "French" Chair Top Sale
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, offered 1006 lots in a three-session sale, October 3-5, to kick off its fall season and sold 981 of them for $1,977,596 total (including buyers' premiums), toward the high end of estimates. The sale ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Native American Jewelry Collection at Whitley's Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Whitley's Auctioneers
Whitley's Auctioneers, Dania Beach, Florida, held an auction of a single-owner collection of Native American jewelry on August 7. The sale included over 300 lots of jewelry "from traditional designs to intricate inlaid, overlaid and carved masterpieces," according to presale information.
I spoke with and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kochan Launches Mars & Neptune Trust
After 21 years as a full-time antiques and fine arts dealer, James L. Kochan has decided he wants to spend his days researching the military in the Western Hemisphere before 1850. "I am returning to the nonprofit sector as president and CEO of The Mars & Neptune Trust, a 501(c)(3) ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Okemo Antique Show
Ludlow, Vermont
Ludlow, Vermont, in the central part of the state, becomes "well known" to antiquers every fall for two, and now three, antiques shows in town-two at its famous ski resort, Okemo, and one at a community center nearby.
The first show at the Okemo Mountain Lodge, the Okemo Antique Show, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Black River Antiques Show
Ludlow, Vermont
Nostalgia. Do you remember this show run by a church group, featuring the best homemade buffet at any antiques show opening, in a setting where dealer/buyers sat outside at picnic tables waiting for the show to open, bringing their own wine and cheese and crackers, even on cold nights?
We ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Weston Antiques Show
Weston, Vermont
Yes, classic furniture (think highboys) and accessories sell at the Weston Antiques Show, a charming show with a history that repeats yet evolves. The tour buses fill the parking lots for the nearby Vermont Country Store in Weston, Vermont, which in turn fills the appetites for samples of fudge, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in Ottawa
The Canadian Antique Dealers Association (CADA) has announced a new antiques fair and sale, the 2019 National Capital Antiques Art and Design Fair (NCAADF), to be held November 8-10 at Tudor Hall, 3750 North Bowesville Road, Ottawa, Ontario.
The fair will open with a Friday wine and hors d'oeuvres reception (6:30-9 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Curtain Falls on the Williamsburg Holiday Antiques Show
After 37 years, there will be no antiques show in Williamsburg, Virginia, this Thanksgiving weekend. With a lump in her throat and a tear in her eye, Bettianne Sweeney has announced that her Williamsburg Holiday Antiques Show is no more.
Referring to the event as "her" show is not a misstatement. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Newly Completed Expo Center at the Nashville Fairgrounds Will House Two of the February Events
Once again, changes are coming to show week in Nashville. In February 2020, the Nashville Show, managed by the Jenkins family, and the recently renamed Fiddlers at the Fairgrounds, owned by Doug Supinger, will set up their dealers in adjacent halls within the new Expo Center opening shortly at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Transferware Research Grants Announced
The Transferware Collectors Club (TCC), a U.S.-based international nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of British transfer-printed ceramics, has announced the recipients of the 2019 Paul and Gladys Richards Charitable Foundation Research Grants for the study of British transferware. Grants totaling more than $13,000 will be distributed to recipients from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charles and Olenka Santore: An Appreciation
After a brief illness, Charles "Charlie" Santore died on August 11, exactly four months after the death of his wife and best friend, Olenka. To the world at large, Santore was best known as an award-winning illustrator of children's books, including classics such as The Wizard of Oz, The Night ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Tea Service Leads at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
September 28 marked the beginning of a six-day auction marathon for The Potomack Company-September 28 and 30 and October 1-4. We are used to the firm's staging a single live auction followed by a day or two of specialty online-only sales the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
Chalk up another one. A sand bottle made by Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) sold for $100,000 (including buyer's premium) against an estimate of $30,000/50,000 during the fine and decorative art sale held by Cowan's Auctions on September 28, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2019
Quite a few pictures appear in this month's "Letter," with one piece featuring a note on a famous portrait painter's dislike for "Curs'd faces." Overdressed ladies in a Turkish bath and a work by the "Little Spaniard" are also to be found. And are they really "pulling the goose" in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Works of Art at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Wine and hors d'oeuvres for the Thursday evening sale, and a petite brunch with mimosas for noon on Friday. Such was Skinner's presentation of its September 26 and 27 auction of American and European works of art in the Boston gallery. Those enhancements brought bidders into the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Slavery and Abolition Documents Are Highlight of $1 Million-Plus Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Swann Galleries' printed and manuscript Americana sale in New York City on September 26 achieved some phenomenal results, particularly for archives, family papers, diaries, and other unique items in the categories of slavery and abolition, Mormons, Latin Americana, and the American West. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Complete Story of the Thomas Drowne Chanticleer at the MFA
A story in the September issue of M.A.D. (see p. 133) congratulated the Museum of Old Newbury in Newburyport, Massachusetts, on the acquisition of the Shem Drowne weathercock that had been atop the Third Parish Church of Newburyport from 1725 until 1801 and then was moved to the new meeting ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Potter & Potter: Magic and So Much More
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
Gabe Fajuri began Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago in 2007 to disperse the magical memorabilia collection of Jay Marshall (1919-2005). Since then, the firm has branched out into a broad range of collectibles, producing sales that have continued to be magical ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fort Worth Show of Antiques & Art Acquired
After being locally owned for 56 years, the Fort Worth Show of Antiques & Art has been acquired by Luxe Events of Naples, Florida, which will produce the 150-exhibitor event for its 57th year March 6-8, 2020, at the Will Rogers Memorial Center in the Fort Worth Cultural District. The ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Comprehensive Look at the Bond Family of Clockmakers
A Book Review
Queen Victoria visited the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations on several occasions in 1851. The brainchild of her beloved husband, Prince Albert, this inaugural world's fair also was called the Crystal Palace Exhibition. She penned and published lengthy journal entries about those royal ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Colorful September Sale
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions held its September 23 fall fine jewelry signature auction at its Beverly Hills, California, location. Jill Burgum, senior director of fine jewelry at Heritage, said, "The September sale was so colorful, and had lots of really pretty pieces to engage the eye-whether ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Protected Speech
New York state law allows dealers to sell to out-of-state buyers ivory that conforms to federal restrictions, but the dealers are not allowed to display it.
New York state's restrictive ivory law-far more draconian than federal ivory law-does not allow for the "physical display for sale" of any ivory object not ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Moves
Freeman's in Philadelphia, America's oldest auction house, has sold its historic building at 1808 Chestnut Street, and the firm is moving its main salesroom to the newly refitted Aramark building at 2400 Market Street, just a short walk from the 30th Street Station.
Freeman's new purpose-built gallery and auction room with ... (Read More)
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(Show)The York Show
Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
The weather was gorgeous the last weekend of summer, September 20-22, when the 173rd Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale set up in Memorial Hall East at the York Fairgrounds, York, Pennsylvania. It was smaller than usual, with 20-some fewer dealers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Last but Not Least: The Final Auction of the David and Janice Frent Collection
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Six auctions and more than 5000 lots later, Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, has earned the right to sigh a hearty "Whew!," having dispersed the extensive and highly valued David and Janice Frent collection of presidential and political Americana. The auctions finished on September 21 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$4.3 Million "B" Auction
Rago Arts & Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago Arts & Auction Center
September 21 and 22, 2019, was the first weekend sale at Rago Arts & Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, after Rago merged with Chicago auctioneer Richard Wright. There were some subtle changes, but this was a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Vintage Paper, Book, and Advertising Show
Paper Town, Boxborough, Massachusetts
Paper Town, a regional vintage paper, book, and advertising show, set up shop on September 21 in Boxborough, Massachusetts. The 36-year-old show was a lesson in patience for one reporter. Just about anything in or of paper attracts buyers of the same. Paper shows are extremely interesting-and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Porcelli Collection of American, Folk, and Outsider Art
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Joyce and Dennis Porcelli were seeking out and collecting Outsider art before Outsider art was cool. Now that this interesting genre has become mainstream, it was the perfect time for the couple to offer up not only their collection of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, October 2019
Joseph Paul Vorst (1897-1947), Sharecroppers' Revolt, 1939, oil on panel, 24" x 30". Shogren-Meyer collection. -St. Peter, Minnesota -Through November 10 ... (Read More)
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