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(Fragment)Call for Consignments for Rockport Art Association & Museum
The Rockport Art Association & Museum, Rockport, Massachusetts, is currently accepting consignments of artwork by historical American artists, highlighting the Cape Ann school, for its annual art auction. The consignment deadline is Saturday, March 9, and the auction will be held on Saturday, May 4, in the museum's Hibbard Gallery.
Each ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Encryption
Computer Column #361
As youngsters, we listened to the adventures of Jack Armstrong and Captain Midnight on the radio every night. These series, along with Little Orphan Annie and The Lone Ranger, regularly offered premiums for 25cents and a boxtop. A regular favorite was a decoder ring that allowed a youngster ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Halifax Collector's Final Wish
Jack Craft of Finer Things Antiques & Curios, Halifax, Nova Scotia, wasn't sure what to expect when he was summoned to the hospital bed of a local collector who was gravely ill. As it turned out, the collector wanted Craft's help to disperse his superb collection of antique furniture, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Princeton Sued Over Religious Manuscripts
A lawsuit filed in federal court in New Jersey on December 13, 2018, accuses Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, of holding in its collection four religious manuscripts that were stolen in 1917 from a Greek monastery.
The lawsuit, filed by plaintiffs His All Holiness, Bartholomew I, the Archbishop of Constantinople, New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ferren Plasters Sell High
Two abstract plaster reliefs by John Millard Ferren (1905-1970) were the top lots at Kaminski Auctions in Beverly, Massachusetts, on February 3. There was strong competition for the pieces, both of which were signed and dated 1937. The work numbered 29 sold with buyer's premium for $69,600 (est. $20,000/30,000). The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Corn Mummy Opens The Potomack Company's Year
The Potomack Company opened its 2019 auction season with a series of antiques and fine art sales beginning on February 2. The high lot of the live catalog sale was probably one of the oldest items ever offered by the Alexandria, Virginia, firm.
This Egyptian corn mummy in a gilt and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale
York, Pennsylvania
The Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale
There was a lot of Americana for sale at the 172nd Original Semi-annual York Antiques Show and Sale in York, Pennsylvania. A surprise snowstorm didn't keep a corps of regulars from coming to the York Fairgrounds on Friday, February 1. Some arrived ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record-Breaking Attendance at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed 7.36 million visitors to its three locations-The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer-in 2018, an increase over the 7 million it reported for 2017.
According to the institution, the number is due in part to the record-breaking attendance for Heavenly Bodies: ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Bartlam Discovery
An important and previously unrecorded American porcelain tea bowl and saucer, attributed to the John Bartlam manufactory in Cain Hoy, South Carolina, 1765-69, have been consigned to a February 19 auction at Woolley and Wallis in Salisbury, U.K.
The tea bowl and saucer were made at John Bartlam's pottery in Cain ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Clear Eyes, Full Hearts
The Young Collector
We talk a lot in the antiques business about the dollars and cents of things, but for many of us and for much of our work, it is often much more emotional work than financial. It is, bluntly, hard, challenging, sometimes even saddening work. Much of our effort ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2019
Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Now That's What You Call a Royally Great Vase!
One of the more important vases produced by the Russian Imperial Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg to come to auction for generations was a star turn of a Russian pictures and works of art sale held at Christie's, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Show
New York City
The Winter Show celebrated its 65th year, a sapphire jubilee, January 17-27, at the Park Avenue Armory. There were sapphire lights projected on the ceiling and on the front of the loan exhibition, Collecting Nantucket / Connecting the World. Many at the preview party wore sapphire blue, making ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chronometers Set the Pace at CRN
CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions, Inc.
The annual CRN Auctions' winter sale, held on January 27 in its Cambridge gallery, began with a group of choice chronometers-mostly marine examples-and a few navigational instruments from a meticulously held Connecticut collection that found great favor with bidders. The collector had ... (Read More)
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(Show)Lebanon Antique Show
Lebanon, Ohio
Midway through the first day of the Lebanon Antique Show, held January 26 and 27 in southwestern Ohio, show manager John Wanat was helping a buyer move a room-size Oriental rug. The new owner was from Cincinnati, roughly a half-hour's drive away, and hadn't come to the show to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Edmondson's "Uplifted Lady" Raises the Roof
Case Antiques Auctions and Appraisals, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
John Case and the entire auction house team in Knoxville, Tennessee, were elated with the results of their January 26 one-day sale of over 850 lots. While the top-ten list contained everything from modern paintings to regional pottery to Federal formality, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pushing the Button Collection and Pulling Another
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
In 2017 figure skater champion and straight-talking sports commentator Dick Button lent a portion of his skating-related art collection to the Fenimore Art Museum. His posters, paintings, sculptures, skates, costumes, and other artifacts filled six gallery rooms at the Cooperstown, New York, museum. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quinn's Opens 2019 with Strong Sales
Quinn's Auction Galleries, Falls Church, Virginia
Photos courtesy Quinn's Auction Galleries
Quinn's Auction Galleries opened its 2019 sales year with a pair of midwinter cataloged auctions at the firm's Falls Church, Virginia, gallery on January 24 and 26. The first sale comprised 385 lots of modern prints, posters, and works on paper. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Edmondson's Miss Lucy Brings $324,000
On January 26 a sculpture by William Edmondson, Miss Lucy, An Uplifted Lady, sold for $324,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Case Antiques Inc. Auctions and Appraisals in Knoxville, Tennessee. That figure is believed to be the highest price ever paid at auction for an Edmondson female figure, according to Case.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, February 2019
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sculpture Stampedes Past Paintings at Skinner
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts
Photo courtesy Skinner
Good Western sculpture was the most interesting art in the January 25 auction of fine American and European works of art at Skinner's Boston gallery. Sculpture by Western artist Harry Andrew Jackson was front and center, along with a wide range of paintings, drawings, and sculpture.
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Manuscript and Printed Americana
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The only known privately held copy of a William J. Stone facsimile of the Declaration of Independence with a provenance that can be traced back to the direct ancestor who received it in 1824 sold with buyer's premium for $975,000 (est. $600,000/800,000) at Sotheby's fine ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors' Passion Sale
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Nye & Company
Nye & Company held its first sale of 2019 on January 23, a few days after Sotheby's and Christie's Americana Week sales had concluded and during the second week of the Winter Show. Called a "Collectors' Passion Sale," the auction drew ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art, Design & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall
New York City
In 2015 the Art, Design & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall was added to Americana Week events in New York City. At that time, the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair was in full bloom, Metro Curates was doing business at the Metropolitan Pavilion, and the Winter Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Joshua Johnson Portraits Top Americana Auction
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's various-owner sales followed the sale of the Teiger collection without a lunch break on Sunday, January 20, and it took until 7 p.m. to sell the 383 lots of furniture and decorations. The auction included 17 high chests, of which all but four found ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the Teiger Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The sale at Sotheby's of the collection of David Teiger (1929-2014) on January 20 was a test of the market for folk art. The collection was put together over a period of 20 years in the 1990s and into the first decade of this century, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Antique Ceramics Fair
New York City
There were nine dealers at the New York Antique Ceramics Fair, which filled half of the third floor of the National Bohemian Hall, January 17-20, in New York City. The dealers rescued the fair when, after nearly two decades of participating in Americana Week in New York, show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago Brings in $4.8 Million
Rago Arts & Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jersey
Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Rago Arts & Auction Center
Rago's design sales in Lambertville, New Jersey, on Saturday and Sunday, January 19 and 20, were at the same time as the Americana sales at Sotheby's, and, like the sales in New York City, they had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Backus Painting Brings $20,900
One day before the January 20 auction conducted by Ron Rennick of Rennick Auctions Inc., Vero Beach, Florida, featuring paintings by A.E. Backus and Highwaymen, Zollie Reed of Melbourne brought in two paintings by Harold Newton (1934-1994) that she personally had bought from Newton and a painting by Alfred Hair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Outsider and Vernacular Art at Auction
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's Images, Ltd., 2019
Christie's sale of Outsider and vernacular art held a treasure-trove of works from notable collections, including the William Louis-Dreyfus Foundation and the Louis-Dreyfus family collections; and the collections of Larry Dumont, Eugenie and Lael Johnson, and Bonnie Grossman, founder of the Ames ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Nelson and Happy Rockefeller Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Nelson Rockefeller shared the collecting gene with his mother, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), and with his aunt Lucy Truman Aldrich (1869-1955). Between 1934 and 1956, Lucy's collections were given to the Rhode Island School of Design, where they were joined by gifts from her younger ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Art
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's Images, Ltd., 2019
Houqua (1769-1843) was the most powerful and wealthy of the Chinese merchants who made up the Co-Hong in Canton. By the time he retired in 1834, his wealth was estimated at $26 million. China traders wrote about his lavish entertaining and generous ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Word is Out on Outsider Art
Outsider Art Fair, New York City
The word is out. The seventh edition of the Outsider Art Fair (OAF) under the helm of gallerist Andrew Edlin's Wide Open Arts, held January 17-20, during Americana Week, was a big hit with collectors, dealers, and curators who made the trip downtown to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Contents of Little Cassiobury
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's Images, Ltd., 2019
When Cassiobury Park, the Earl of Essex's country house for 250 years in Hertfordshire, northwest of London, was demolished in 1927, some of its interior features were sold to museums and wealthy Americans. A grand staircase went to the Metropolitan Museum of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Vogel Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The collection of Anne H. and Frederick Vogel III was part of the fast-moving, well-attended, and informative all-day Americana Week symposium at Sotheby's in New York City on January 15. The stunning installation on the second and third floor at Sotheby's of the Vogels' 17th- ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Different Look for M.A.D.
This issue will be the last of Maine Antique Digest in its current format. The next issue of M.A.D., which has been delivered to subscribers since 1973, will look very different. Instead of separate sections, the new M.A.D. will be one large-format magazine with a glued spine (called "perfect bound" ... (Read More)
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(Show)Washington Show Succeeds in the Face of Politics and Mother Nature
Washington Winter Show, Washington, D.C.
The annual Washington Winter Show of antiques and fine art was held January 11-13 at the Katzen Arts Center on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C. This year marks the 64th edition of the show and the ninth year that it has been held ... (Read More)
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(Show)January Show Kicks Off Antiques Season in Ohio
Hudson Antique Show, Richfield, Ohio
Hosting an antiques show in January in Ohio is always a thrill. Steve Sherhag, show manager for the Hudson Antique Show, held at the Richfield, Ohio, Days Inn, January 12 and 13, has learned to go with the flow. This year the weather was not an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Americana Sale
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook started 2019 with its largest various-owners catalog sale to date. Offered in two sessions on Friday evening, January 11, and Saturday, January 12, it presented a number of estates, consignments from downsizing collectors, and consignments that just ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Decorative Arts
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
Decorative arts took second billing to Americana during the January 12 sale held by Garth's Auctions in Columbus, Ohio. "There was a level of Americana in that auction that was commensurate with the level of quality we had for Thanksgiving," said Jeff Jeffers, Garth's ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Marna and Steve Tulin, Champlin Hill Antiques, North Ferrisburgh, Vermont
In the Trade
Wherever they've lived for the last 50 years, Marna and Steve Tulin have had an antiques shop at home: first in their Upper West Side Manhattan brownstone (which they bought for $27,000 in 1966), then in their basement in suburban Larchmont in Westchester County, New York, and for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic New England Awards Prize for Collecting Works on Paper
Historic New England has awarded its annual Prize for Collecting Works on Paper to Donna L. Halper and Laurence Senelick. These two honored collections showcase the history of broadcasting in New England and theatrical performance in the United States.
Donna Halper, a professor at Lesley University and a media historian, has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heartland Antique Shows: Changes to 2019 Schedule
As the Heartland Antique Show prepares for its 30th season, promoter Jennifer Sabin has a few changes planned for several events under the Heartland umbrella.
The summer edition of Heartland, Sabin's original show, will continue as usual on June 1 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Richmond, Indiana. Sabin anticipates having ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Porsal Equities Ltd. Agrees to $10.75 Million Settlement in Tax Case
On November 13, 2018, New York State Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced a $10.75 million settlement with offshore art purchaser Porsal Equities Ltd. for tax fraud in connection with over $50 million of artwork and other goods purchased in New York.
"Wealthy art collectors are not above the law," Underwood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judgment against Ithaca, New York, Auction Company
On November 13, 2018, New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced a judgment obtained against Finger Lakes Estate and Auction, Inc., and its owner, Charles Dorsey, for fraudulently inducing consumers into giving up their personal property for auction sales and failing to pay the proceeds. The judgment requires Finger ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A World-Class Restoration Job Leads Gamage Sale
Bruce Gamage Auction, Rockland, Maine
Bruce Gamage's January 5 and 6 auction in Rockland, Maine, was a good kickoff to his auction year.
What was arguably the oldest piece of furniture in the sale turned out to be the most expensive. The extensive repairs on an extraordinary Pilgrim-century chest, circa 1690, seemed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)North American Native American Groups Seeking Repatriation of Artifacts
On October 8, 2018, Eldred D. Lesansee, the public relations spokesman for the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), contacted Rago Arts & Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, asking the auction house to withdraw American Indian lots from its October 19 auction of tribal art from the collection of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA Announces 2019 Board of Directors
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its annual meeting on November 15, 2018, at the Common Man restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire. After a buffet luncheon, speaker Cliff Wallach gave a presentation about Jasper52, a marketing platform for weekly antiques auctions.
The newly elected officers for the 2019 NHADA ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week in New York City 2019
The auction viewings for Americana Week in New York City begin on Friday, January 11. Not every sale is Americana. English furniture, English and Continental pottery and porcelain, and plenty of Chinese export porcelain from well-known collections will cross the block along with American furniture, silver, folk art, and Outsider ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA and Jasper52 Join Forces
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association and Jasper52, an online auction site, are joining forces for an exclusive online auction of items consigned only by NHADA members. The sale will be held on January 22 and hosted on Jasper52's website.
Clifford Wallach of Jasper52 said, "We'll have from fine art to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Show Lists 70 Dealers for April 26-28 Show
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show has released its dealer list for the 2019 show, which will take place April 26-28, with a preview party on April 25 from 6 to 9 p.m.
New to the show is John Driscoll of Driscoll Babcock Gallery, the oldest art gallery in New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nipper Nets Top Spot at Nadeau's
Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Nadeau's Auction Gallery
It's a very good sign when an auction gallery has standing room only nearly an hour before the beginning of the sale. Such was the case at Nadeau's Auction Gallery's annual New Year's Day auction in its Windsor, Connecticut, gallery where every ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Kicks Off Maine's New Auction Year
Robert L. Foster Auction Company, Newcastle, Maine
It was a grand way to open a new year for the Maine auction trade. Once again, people flocked by the hundreds to Robert Foster's New Year's Day auction in Newcastle, Maine, as they've been doing for the past several decades. Some works by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2019
Having been defeated in some recent years, finding a suitable Christmas picture for this month's "Letter" was simple-an original watercolour drawing by Maurice Sendak called A Wild Thing Christmas.
Produced in 1976 as the front cover for a seasonal issue of Rolling Stone that contained a feature on Sendak by Jonathan ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Advancements in Computing
Computer Column #360
Maine Antique Digest was started by Sam Pennington (1929-2008) and his wife, Sally, in 1973. In 1988 he published an editorial saying that businesses were using personal computers and asking for suggestions for articles about how antiquers could do so. Having computer and freelance writing experience, I typed ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Measure of Gratitude
The Young Collector
Last month we made our annual trek to Wilmington, Delaware. We hadn't hauled the kids halfway across the country in a couple of months and thought they might be losing their edge if we waited much longer, so we decided to go there and back in three days. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Arrested Amid Millions of Dollars of Financial Complaints
Originally printed in the Ithaca Times
A New York auctioneer and businessman has been arrested and charged with second degree grand larceny, adding credence to the growing number of people in Tompkins County, New York, and across the country who say they've been cheated by his business.
David Hall, 49, who runs ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)James Arthur and His "Temple of Time": A Cautionary Tale for Collector-Donors and Their Benefici
Part III of IV
When James Arthur (1842-1930) of Brooklyn, New York, gave his horological collection-more than 1900 clocks, watches, sundials, hourglasses, and a related library-to New York University in 1925, he also promised to make a bequest upon his death. He would leave NYU an endowment for the collection's upkeep, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2019
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)An American Main Course with Some Eastern European Seasoning
Hap Moore Auction, York, Maine
At Hap Moore's December 15, 2018, auction in York, Maine, the seasoning in the sale was a collection of early European artworks from a single consignor, but the main course was Charles Woodbury. The European paintings were provided by a consigning couple from Maine, now ages ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Design in New York City
Bonhams, Christie's, Phillips, and Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams, Christie's Images Ltd., Phillips, and Sotheby's
Mid-December is the time when prewar and postwar European and American design is offered at four major auction houses in New York City. In December 2018 there were a number of successes, topped by a ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Imagine That
The Young Collector
In his editorial last month, Clayton Pennington asked the question, and we paraphrase: is Americans' ignorance regarding our own basic history undermining the antiques marketplace (and possibly Western civilization as well)? This sparked a disagreement at our house (thanks, boss), because Andrew feels fairly strongly that history has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two New Shows for Naples, Florida
Luxe Events will launch two new jewelry, watch, art, and antiques shows to be held at the Naples Woman's Club in Naples, Florida.
"We're bringing two shows to the center of downtown Naples during the height of the season," said Andrea Canady, founder of Luxe Events, LLC. These two events will ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)No Trade Need Apply-Maybe
In early November TEFAF announced that it was implementing a new policy regarding vetting its shows. Going forth, no members of the trade-dealers and auction house specialists-will be voting members of vetting committees. Those committees will now consist of "academics, curators, conservators, conservation scientists and independent scholars only."
It's a good ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Found Guilty in Narwhal Case
On October 9 Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer announced that his office had secured a conviction against an antiques dealer for illegally selling exotic narwhal ivory tusks. The sentence included significant fines, community service, and probation.
Antonio's Bella Casa, Inc., and its owner, Anthony James Buccola, were each found guilty ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Across the Continent Brings $62,500
On December 13, 2018, a Currier & Ives print, Across the Continent. Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, sold for a whopping $62,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Swann Galleries in New York City. The estimate was $7000/10,000.
The buyer was the William Reese Company, New Haven, Connecticut. "We bought ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)James Arthur and His "Temple of Time": A Cautionary Tale for Collector-Donors
Part II of IV
Photos courtesy Maude Arthur Brown Family Archive
Why some of even the most fastidious men and women make no plans for their lifelong collections, who can say? Maybe it's simply because they can't imagine themselves dead. In contrast, there is the other type of collector-the one who fusses ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Original" York Antiques Show Alive and Well, Promoter Says
"Original" York Antiques Show Alive and Well, Promoter Says
Melvin Arion, promoter of the "Original" York Semi-Annual Antiques Show in York, Pennsylvania, emphasized in a recent press release that the shows he manages in York, Pennsylvania, are "doing just fine." Arion noted that recent press reports about Bob Bockius and Mitchell ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Hidden Wisdom of Objects
A Book Review
Glenn Adamson's new book is not about the end of the age of clutter. It is not about the fact that there are fewer, better antiques shows with fewer, better dealers, nor fewer, better shops, nor fewer, better lots at some decorative arts auctions.
Its subtitle, The Hidden Wisdom ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Patek Philippe Clock and Colombian Emerald Pendant Star
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy John Moran Auctioneers
John Moran Auctioneers' fine jewelry and timepieces auction was held on December 11, 2018, and was highlighted by the sale of a Patek Philippe "Mrs. Butterfly" pendulette dome clock that realized $118,750 (includes buyer's premium); the estimate was $60,000/90,000.
Following closely behind was an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Baskets and Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Department director Ingmars Lindbergs said he was "very pleased" with the results of the December 10 and 11, 2018, Bonhams auctions in Los Angeles. The first was a single-owner sale of baskets belonging to Albuquerque, New Mexico, collectors Alan and Bronnie Blaugrund. On the next ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barnebys Acquires Online Appraisal Service
Barnebys Group, a Swedish firm that operates an Internet search engine for design, antiques, and art, has acquired ValueMyStuff (www.valuemystuff.com), an online art and collectibles valuation service.
According to a press release, ValueMyStuff has over 500,000 users and provides online valuations of art, memorabilia, wine, watches, and other assets in over ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's Design Sale
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's design sale on Monday, December 10, 2018, was preceded by the single-owner morning sale of the estate of Bonnie O'Boyle. A Bucks County resident, O'Boyle collected American paintings and American design, mostly by New Hope artists and designers, including George and Mira Nakashima and local ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionism
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's December 9, 2018, American art and Pennsylvania Impressionism sale attracted a standing-room-only crowd of mostly collectors, many of them locals who came to bid on Bucks County landscapes. While attendance at auctions has been shrinking as more and more bidders prefer online or phone bidding, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Sales Bring Six-Figure Success
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
The New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) had a remarkable year with a total of nearly $16 million ($15,930,000) for all sales. This figure was the result of ten events in all, a total that included major estates auctions featuring ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record Tiffany Lamp Sold at Christie's
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(Book Review)Folk and Folks: The Henry D. Green Symposium
A Book Review
The Henry D. Green Symposium at the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, has taken place biennially in February since 2000. Most of the talks have been published in illustrated softbound journals.
Dale L. Couch, the curator of decorative arts at the museum, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Barrett/Pook & Pook Toy Sale
Pook & Pook, Inc., with Noel Barrett Antiques & Auctions Ltd., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc./Noel Barrett
Noel Barrett's two-session toy sale held December 7 and 8, 2018, at Pook & Pook was designed for Christmas shopping. The 777 lots covered every corner of the toy market. Friday night ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Men Charged in Identity Theft Bidding Case
An allegedly stolen identity and multimillion-dollar bids for a couple of pieces of contemporary art have resulted in two men being charged in federal court.
On October 5 a seven-page complaint was filed against Antonio DiMarco and Joakim von Ditmar, charging each with wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft.
According to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Surprise Conclusion to the Americana Sale at Mebane
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
Fans of Jon Lambert's sales know that if it's Friday, there is an auction at his spacious gallery in Mebane, North Carolina. The first Friday of December, however, is special. It's the date of Lambert's annual Americana and Continental ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Writings in Honor of Jonathan Fairbanks
A Book Review
This book is a festschrift, a collection of writings published in honor of Jonathan Fairbanks on the occasion of his retirement after a five-year stint as director of the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, Massachusetts. Fairbanks, whose career was spent at major institutions such as Winterthur, the Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Watch for Work by Childs
Photos courtesy Anne Childs
Anne Childs of Little Rock, Arkansas, is a talented and popular contemporary folk artist. Her watercolors-done in a folky Americana style-are so good that unscrupulous people have removed her signature monogram and put her work in the marketplace, leaving no indication that it is new work and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Original Plaza Hotel Portrait of Eloise Sells for $100,000
On December 5, 2018, Hilary Knight's original Plaza Hotel portrait of fictional character Eloise sold for $100,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Bonhams in New York City. The estimate was $100,000/150,000.
Portrait of Eloise, tempera on board, 54" x 37", inscribed by the artist in paint lower right, "For Kay / on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tradition & Innovation Plus Art & Design
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
When John Toomey and a youthful staff led by his daughter Lucy Toomey as chief executive officer set about rebranding his newly renamed and configured Toomey & Co. gallery, they wasted no time. As a result, clients who wondered what the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)New Horizons
Computer Column #359
The world of antiques covers many areas, and no one can be an expert in them all. Sometimes antiquers will want to expand their horizons and enter a new area. The computer, the Internet, and search engines are tools for gaining an initial picture of this new world. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Curiouser and Curiouser
Rago Arts, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago Arts
After a fairly successful sale in October 2017 christened "Curiouser and Curiouser," Miriam Tucker, a partner in Rago Arts, teamed up again with New York City Outsider art dealer Marion Harris for their second foray into an emerging category at auction, selling self-taught ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Gemmy Gifts, Engagement Rings, a Curated Collection, and More
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Rago Arts & Auction Center's sale of fine jewelry on December 2, 2018, in Lambertville, New Jersey, offered 636 lots and realized a total of $2,105,313. The auction was preceded by a November 30 unreserved online jewelry sale of 467 lots that brought $298,175.
The top lot of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Book Review
With all the new research on early 18th-century attempts to make porcelain in America, this new book that tells the story of porcelain production in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries in Europe is timely. The author, Jeffrey Munger, is a former curator in the department of European ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, December 2018
Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Frederic Church's Olana on the Hudson: Art Landscape Architecture, edited by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bill Hamel, Hamel20, Red Hook, New York
In the Trade
If you want mid-century modern furniture for your home, you'll have no trouble finding it. It's all over the place. Dealers who once upon a time sneered at anything made after 1840 are now eager to show off their Finn Juhl chairs or their Harvey Probber sectionals.
Acquiring the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Criminal Charges Filed in Ivory Trafficking Case
San Diego, California, City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced on November 28, 2018, that criminal charges have been filed against the owner and an employee of the Carlton Gallery in La Jolla, California, for trafficking ivory in defiance of California law.
This prosecution follows the largest seizure of ivory products by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Legal Actions Mount against National Book Auctions
*Update: Ithaca.com reports David Hall has been arrested, and charged with second degree grand larceny
Denis Gouey, a consignor to National Book Auctions who filed suit in May against the Ithaca, New York, firm, was granted a default judgment on October 26, 2018.
The Torrington, Connecticut, bookbinder claimed in court papers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2018
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2018
September and October sales in London saw $1.4 million paid for a Banksy painting at Sotheby's that was seen to (partially) self-destruct as the hammer fell-and thereby immediately increase in value-while in New York City at Christie's a far, far higher than predicted $432,500 was paid for an AI (artificial ... (Read More)
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(Show)Williamsburg Show Signals the Opening of the Holiday Season
Holiday Antiques Show, Williamsburg, Virginia
The 37th annual Holiday Antiques Show was held November 23-25, 2018, at the Doubletree by Hilton in Williamsburg, Virginia. Known to most antiques followers as simply the Williamsburg Holiday Show, the event long ago solidified its place as a post-Thanksgiving destination for many in the mid-Atlantic. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)58th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
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It didn't take long to set high expectations during the 58th annual Thanksgiving Americana auction, held by Garth's in Columbus, Ohio, on November 23, 2018. Roughly ten minutes into the sale a New England dome-top box from the mid-19th century, in its original paint ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's held its fall American art auction on November 20, 2018, one week after "An American Place," its sale of the Barney Ebsworth collection, which set a record for an American art auction. The November 20 morning auction offered 71 lots that totaled $26,491,500 (with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Pepsi" Rolex Leads at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company rounded out its 2018 live auction season in three sessions held November 17 and 19. Two of the sessions were live gallery sales, both conducted on November 17, and there was an online-only auction on November 19.
Vintage Rolex collectors ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California Paintings and Sculpture
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"We did reasonably well," said Scot Levitt, describing the results of Bonhams' November 19, 2018, California paintings and sculpture auction, held in Los Angeles and simulcast in San Francisco, that totaled $2.5 million. "The sale was heavy on nineteenth-century material, for which the market has ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Flag Day Tops American Art Auction
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
A 70-lot sale of American art was offered at Bonhams in New York City on November 19, 2018. The sale totaled $2,440,750 with a sell-through rate of 77%.
There were a dozen or so attendees at the sale, which was held on the second floor of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Art and Design
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
A painting by Gertrude Abercrombie (1909-1977) sold for an auction record at $149,000 (including buyer's premium) during the 20th-century art and design sale held by Treadway Gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 18, 2018. The work, Night Arrives, was a 20" x 26" oil ... (Read More)
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