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(Auction)American and European Artworks Draw Global Interest at Skinner
Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
It didn't matter that only nine people, including your reporter, were in the audience when Skinner's sale of American and European works of art began on September 21 in the Boston gallery. Skinner's bank of phones was full, and three Internet bidding platforms were in place. Bidding ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Doyle + Design
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
With plenty of international interest, Doyle's modern and contemporary art and design auction, held two weeks after Labor Day on September 17, rang up a total of $1,348,156 (with buyers' premiums). Of the 253 lots offered, 82% sold.
A young man standing in the salesroom with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Buying at Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, began the fall season with a 660-lot Americana and international offering on Friday evening, September 14, and Saturday, September 15. Much of it came from six estates, including one from New Mexico. Some of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tarkington Collection, Parts II and III
Seeck Auctions, Kansas City, Missouri
Photos courtesy Seeck Auctions
Auctioneer Jim Seeck is seeing what may prove to be emerging trends in the carnival glass market, and the last auctions for the Tarkington collection are no exception.
Prices for punch bowl sets and big pieces seem to be getting softer as collector tastes ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rockwell's John Wayne Drives Auction Past the $8.4 Million Mark
Jackson Hole Art Auction, Jackson, Wyoming
Photos courtesy Jackson Hole Art Auction"The Duke" had his day when the 2018 Jackson Hole Art Auction took place September 14 and 15 in Jackson, Wyoming. Much ballyhoo preceded the sale of the monumental portrait of John Wayne, the work of Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana Sale Evokes Memories
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Highlighting the sale of country Americana by Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers on September 14 and 15 in Delaware, Ohio, was a zinc statue of Lady Liberty that sold for $25,200 (including buyer's premium). But that wasn't the story of the day. In a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ferrell Family Collection at Wooten & Wooten
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
September 8 may be remembered as the last great reunion of Edgefield District pottery collectors. Drawing this dedicated group together was the remainder of the estate of Terry Ferrell (1922-2018), a collection of 19th-century and contemporary pottery, furniture, paintings, and one ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)What Is a "Show"? Editorial, September 2018
What is an "antiques show?" We're sure that most M.A.D. readers could provide a definition with little problem.
We recently got a letter from a dealer who had seen an ad for a "Summer Antique Show." It was "one weekend only" and promised 40 dealers. Better yet, it offered free ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Winter Show
"The Winter Show is its new name," said Helen Allen, executive director of the 65th annual January fund-raiser at the Park Avenue Armory for the East Side House Settlement in the South Bronx. On July 30 Allen called to announce the new branding. East Side House applied to the United ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buyers Head for the Hills
Robert L. Foster Auction Company, Newcastle, Maine
As has been happening for the past several decades, Robert Foster's Labor Day weekend two-day sale in Newcastle, Maine, held this year on September 1 and 2, capped off the state's end-of-summer auction binging week. This time around an elegant floral still life in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Pipe Tomahawk, Gifted By Washington to Cornplanter, Recovered and On Display
An 18th-century Native American pipe tomahawk, purportedly gifted to Seneca leader Cornplanter (d. 1836) by President George Washington in 1792, has been returned to the New York State Museum and is on exhibit through December 30.
Photo courtesy New York State Museum.
For nearly 70 years the tomahawk was in the hands ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2018
This month's "Letter" sees me embarking on a pick and mix from a range of summer sales that will keep me busy for at least a couple more issues before the new season sales in the U.K. pick up any real momentum. This month's selection, however, focuses so heavily on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Baltimore Shows Bring Summer to a Close in Style
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
The annual Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show was held over Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 2, at the Baltimore Convention Center, downtown at the Inner Harbor. This was the 38th year of the show, which over time has been branded under several ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter, Montague, Massachusetts
In the Trade
When I first ran across Nancy Barshter and Bentley Chappell, I said to myself, "Wow, these people are really specialized."
Chappell sells British Aesthetic Movement transferware pottery from the 1870s and '80s, and Barshter sells British pottery made for children: mugs, ABC plates, and Lilliputian tea sets.
Bentley Chappell and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiques Confidential
The Young Collector
Is there anyone more obnoxious than a person whose eyes have just been opened? There are no more ardent evangelists than the newly converted. No one is going to nag you about that lingering smoking habit more than the person who stood next to you and smoked for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jason Busch Named New Director of American Folk Art Museum
On August 2 the board of trustees at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) announced that Jason T. Busch will be its new executive director and take over the job on September 10. Busch had been the deputy director of the Saint Louis Museum and most recently the director of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Quite a Bit, If It's a Finch
Bruce Gamage Jr. Antiques Auction, Rockland, Maine
For decades Bruce Gamage usually opened Maine's auction-packed end-of-summer week near the close of August. This year, he closed it with his August 27 sale in Rockland, Maine.
This oil on canvas portrait of a young girl with a cat, signed on the back with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Emory Loses $19,000 in Fake Invoices Scam
Originally appeared in The Emory Wheel, the student newspaper at Emory University. Reprinted with permission.
Emory University lost more than $19,000 over a three-year period via payments of several fraudulent invoices for art acquisitions.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum. Hagar Elsayed, Video Editor.
Officials at the Michael C. Carlos Museum contacted Emory Police ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wild Orientalia and a Cropsey Painting
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
The sale held on August 25 and 26 in Thomaston, Maine, was Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' biggest yet, finishing up at a grand total of over $4.6 million. Several major pieces of Orientalia from a Florida estate soared into the stratosphere and made their estimates ... (Read More)
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(Show)No Frills, with Honest-to-Goodness Antiques
Heartland at Hilliard, Hilliard, Ohio
Things didn't go exactly as planned for Jennifer Sabin during a canoe trip near Nelsonville, Ohio, last summer. As one of four people in two canoes, she found herself dunked in the river twice that day. Both times rapids had moved her craft under some trees, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
The idea of a small masterpiece lying around somewhere unnoticed-a Homer in a hayloft-never fails to stir our imagination. The object that launched five years of research by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, and has culminated in a fascinating, multilayered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Janis Blouin Collection
John McInnis Auctioneers, Exeter, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
Janis Blouin of Georgetown, Massachusetts, is a picker extraordinaire, and her collections are extensive. They came to market August 24-26 at a John McInnis auction held in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the historic 1855 Exeter Town Hall in the center of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Prepare for Internet Disruptions
Computer Column #356
Last year column #345 covered income tax return software in the middle of the summer because adopting new software should be done well ahead of the start of tax season. This year we will cover keeping online life going in the middle of foul weather. Those in northern ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Clockwork Music
A Book Review
Musical clocks: that was it. Before the early 1800s, to hear music not from "live" musical instruments and human voices, you had about one choice. True, there were a handful of exotic music-playing automata in royal palaces, but for the rest of us, a mechanical clock with bells, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association Goes Back to School
Coastal Maine Antiques Show, Damariscotta, Maine
The annual Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) Coastal Maine Antiques Show, held on August 22, had to be moved to another location this year because of ongoing renovation and construction at the Damariscotta River Association (DRA) in Damariscotta, Maine, where the show has been held ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Bartlam Saucer on Loan to MESDA
Curator Daniel Ackermann calls the John Bartlam saucer now on long-term loan from a private collection to the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem Museums and Gardens (MESDA) "one of the most important ceramics ever made in America."
John Bartlam (1735-1781), porcelain saucer, 1765-70, Cainhoy, South Carolina, soft-paste ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Thrill of the Chase: A Detective Story
Harry Chase (1853-1889) returned to St. Louis, Missouri, at the end of September 1879, after three years of art study in Europe-two years in Paris under Paul Constant Soyer, and a year in The Hague under the great Dutch marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Twice in those three years, in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bid $100, Pay $100: How Strange Is That?
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
Charles Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine, has been in business for over 60 years, making it one of the oldest auction firms in Maine. At the start of the August 21 sale, auctioneer and co-owner Dale Talbot related the story of the company: "Talbot was started ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tremont Auctions Will Not Move
In our July issue (see p. 15-D), we reported that Tremont Auctions would be relocating in the fall. On July 19, the auction house announced that it is staying in Newton, Massachusetts.
"Tremont Auctions is pleased to announce that we're still calling Newton 'home' through June of 2019," an e-mail announcement ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Charged in Connection with $8 Million Theft from Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the victim of a multimillion-dollar theft-approximately $8 million-and according to authorities it was an inside job.
An affidavit filed in Allegheny County court in Pennsylvania by detectives Frances Laquatra and Perann Tansmore notes that the alleged thefts came to light during an appraisal of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Carol Cadou's Plans for Winterthur
Soon after Carol Cadou, the first Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO at Winterthur, began her new job this summer she agreed to an interview. Her newly endowed title was named in honor of Charles Montgomery, first director of Winterthur.
To assume her role as Winterthur's director, Cadou left her previous ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ellsworth Woodlawn Show Going Strong in its Ninth Decade
Ellsworth Antiques Show, Ellsworth, Maine
The Ellsworth Antiques Show in Ellsworth, Maine, held this year from August 16 to 18 at the Woodlawn Museum, still lays claim to being America's longest-running antiques show, with its genesis harking all the way back to 1937 and only a brief break during the World ... (Read More)
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(Auction)MacKay and Field Collection
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
Connecticut dealers Susan MacKay and Peter Field began collecting at an early age. They set up as MacKay and Field Antiques in 1986 when their own collections were bursting. They began with flea markets and soon were exhibiting at indoor shows, all the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 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)Spain's "First Dollar of the Americas" Sells for $528,000
The "First Dollar of the New World," struck in Mexico City by the Spanish in 1538, sold for $528,000 (includes buyer's premium) on August 17 at an auction of ancient and world coins held by Heritage Auctions in Philadelphia.
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions.
The first dollar-size coin struck in the Americas, it ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Edwardian Necklace Tops Joseph DuMouchelle August Sale
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Joseph DuMouchelle
Joseph DuMouchelle's fine jewels and timepieces auction was held on August 16 in Birmingham, Michigan, with around 105 lots on offer for jewelry enthusiasts and dealers. When I spoke with Melinda "Lindy" Adducci, G.G., vice president of Joseph DuMouchelle, on the phone after the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Honest, Abe! It's Really You!
On August 16 L.T. Auctions, St. George, Maine, scored a major hit with a little carte de visite. Larry Trueman has been auctioneering for over 30 years, and the carte de visite turned out to be the most expensive single item he'd ever sold. He found it in Friendship, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three-Catalog Americana Sale at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Skinner hosted a three-catalog Americana sale at its Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery on August 12 and 13. One catalog was for the collection of respected New Hampshire dealers Gail and Don Piatt, which garnered much interest. The second included the folk art collection of Arthur ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer's Collection Stolen in Santa Fe
A theft occurred on Monday, August 13, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, resulting in the loss of a personal collection of jewelry belonging to dealer Judi Stellmach of Blue Dog Antiques. Any information will be gratefully received. Contact Judi or Cy Stellmach at (860) 458-9038 or (860) 458-9039 or via ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)August Jewelry Auction Results: Cordier Auctions and Appraisals and Clars Auction Gallery
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
August Jewelry Auction Results: Cordier Auctions and Appraisals and Clars Auction Gallery
This month we feature results from Cordier Auctions and Appraisals in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Clars Auction Gallery in Oakland, California. Both auctions included a good selection of jewelry that sold along with decorative and fine arts, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2018 NHADA Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
Three high chests in three different booths sold on August 9 in the early opening hours of the annual show produced by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association in Manchester, New Hampshire. (The show continued until August 11.) Pratt's Antiques, Steven F. Still, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Experience Counts: MidWeek in Manchester
MidWeek in Manchester Antiques Show & Sale, Manchester, New Hampshire
After decades in the business, Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions knows that it is the dealers and their merchandise that make the difference between a fair antiques show and a very good one.
The opening crowd.
Gaglio, after all, was one of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
Manchester, New Hampshire
For the seventh year, DiSaia Management produced Antiques in Manchester during Antiques Week in New Hampshire. The result was damn near perfect.
The late 19th-century wooden boxers in original paint and "untouched condition" were $8500 from DBR Antiques, Hadley, Massachusetts. They depict Gentleman Jim Corbett's 27-round heavyweight victory over ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration
Concord, New Hampshire
"I thought it was great-it was better than the first two," said promoter Peter Mavris several days after Americana Celebration, the one-day show he produces at the Douglas Everett Arena in Concord, New Hampshire, closed. The show happens on Tuesday during Antiques Week in New Hampshire, and it ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Owner for Wolfeboro Antiques & Artisan Barn
The Wolfeboro Antiques & Artisan Barn in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, is under new management. Kyle Copeland now owns and manages the 30-dealer group shop that has been in business for almost 20 years and was formerly known as the 1810 House. The shop is located in a 1765 two-story dairy ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tighter and Better: Gurley Show in Deerfield
Deerfield Antique Show, Deerfield, New Hampshire
When we walked into one of two long tin-roofed buildings at the Deerfield Fairgrounds, located about 30 minutes from Manchester, New Hampshire, at 9 a.m. on August 6 to view the one-day Deerfield Antique Show, the first dealer we met said, "This show is tighter ... (Read More)
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(Show)Good Things Come in Small Packages
From Out of the Woods Buy and Fly Antique Show, Goffstown, New Hampshire
"How many dealers in the show?" is a common question we have all asked. Bigger, however, does not always mean better. The 25 dealer booths on the lawn of a well-known antiques group shop in Goffstown, New Hampshire, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Festival Approaching Middle Age at 37
Maine Antiques Festival, Union, Maine
With about 150 exhibitors, the Maine Antiques Festival, held in Union, Maine, August 3-5, lays claim to being the largest antiques show in Maine. I arrived in the early afternoon on Saturday, a bit after the early rush dissipated. As a reporter, one can always get ... (Read More)
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(Show)Early Birds
Milford Antiques Show, Milford, New Hampshire
The early bird gets the-you-know-what, but just how early is that bird? How about 6:30 a.m. on a summer morning in Milford, New Hampshire? That is when promoter Jack Donigian opens his once-a-week show six months out of the year and at the beginning of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Birch, Ingenious Artist
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of its Visual Culture Program, the Library Company of Philadelphia has mounted an exhibition, William Birch, Ingenious Artist: His Life, His Philadelphia Views, and His Legacy, and will hold a one-day symposium on October 5, "William Birch and the Complexities of American Visual Culture."
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Paintings
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
A summer auction on Cape Cod is a more than acceptable way to pass an afternoon. Over the course of three days, August 1-3, under a green and white striped tent in East Dennis, Massachusetts, Eldred's sold nearly 1400 lots of Americana objects and paintings. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Wyeth Experience: A Series of Special Tours
The Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, is offering a special series of tours, "The Wyeth Experience." These three-hour tours include the museum's Wyeth Center and the Olson House in Cushing, where Andrew Wyeth painted for three decades. Tours will take place Friday and Saturday mornings throughout July, August, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)TEFAF and Artvest Separate
In 2016 TEFAF (The European Fine Art Foundation) expanded into the United States, a move facilitated by Artvest, owned by Michael Plummer and Jeff Rabin, via a two-year management services agreement with TEFAF New York. The TEFAF New York Fall show was launched in October 2016, and TEFAF New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, August 2018
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.
Biographies of Western Photographers: A Reference Guide to Photographers Working in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lollipop Tree Turns Sour
Contemporary artist Wayne Thiebaud, almost 100 years old, personally confirmed in February 2018 that he painted a million-dollar picture. Three months later, Thiebaud retracted that claim. Now the buyer wants his money back, and the whole matter has landed in court.
Lollipop Tree sold for $1,080,000 at Nadeau's Auction Gallery on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)What's It Worth? Celebrates Four-Year Anniversary
Mike Ivankovich's What's It Worth? radio show on WBCB 1490 AM celebrated its fourth anniversary on July 13. Since July 2014 Ivankovich has hosted 200-plus shows featuring a wide variety of local, regional, and national guests, including authors, auctioneers, editors, columnists, and experts. The show's focus is antiques and collectibles, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Four Antiques Dealers Charged with Illegal Sales
Four Hudson, New York, antiques store owners were charged with felonies on June 26 in connection with the illegal sale of ivory.
Acting on a tip and supporting an ongoing statewide effort to combat the illegal sale of endangered and threatened species products in New York, investigators with the New York ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Newport Show
The Newport Show, Middletown, Rhode Island
With a shortened name and abbreviated selling time, The Newport Show's 12th edition offered "antiques, art, & exquisite objects" July 28 and 29. Gone was the label "antiques" from the show's name, and the length of the show was reduced by a day.
James and Nancy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Coeur d'Alene Art Auction Exceeds $13 Million Mark
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
Photos courtesy Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
The Thirsty Trapper by American artist Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) led the way at the 2018 edition of the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, held July 28 in Reno, Nevada. The 24" x 20" oil on canvas sold for $1,715,000 (including ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Six Tattoo Flash Art Sheets Bring Combined $41,375
Six early American original tattoo flash art sheets attributed to Charlie Wagner and Sam O'Reilly sold for a combined $41,375 (includes buyers' premiums) at Ripley Auctions in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 28. The top-selling sheet finished at $11,250.
According to the auction house, the six sheets were found in the bottom ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Social Skills
The Young Collector
Back in 2013, we wrote a column about social media and the power it has to build communities and audiences ("Just Be Yourself," September 2013). That column was prompted by the success of Chief David Oliver in Brimfield, Ohio. Oliver, a small-town police chief, became an overnight sensation ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letters from London, August 2018
Letter from London
The most expensive things featured in this month's "Letter" are drawn from the round of Impressionist and modern picture sales mounted in London in June, but Russian works of art, a rare Mozart manuscript, one of Napoleon's "sideways" hats, and one of those legendary found-in-the-attic lots, in this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pennsylvania Gazette with "Join, or Die" Cartoon Brings $50,000
An original May 9, 1754, Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper featuring Benjamin Franklin's famous "Join, or Die" cartoon sold for $50,000 (includes buyer's premium) on July 26 in an online sale of Nate D. SandersAuctions in Los Angeles, California.
The last time it had sold, at Heritage Auctions in an April 11 and ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Rather Elegant Than Showy
A Book Review
Robert D. Mussey Jr. and Clark Pearce tell a compelling story about the career of Isaac Vose, a savvy Boston businessman with very good taste who provided richly veneered, elegant mahogany and rosewood furniture to Boston Brahmins between 1789 and 1825. They take their readers to Boston during ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Suzan McClellan-Whiting, Woodstock, New York
In the Trade
One of the pleasures of writing this feature each month is discovering the myriad paths people take on their way to becoming antiques dealers. Rarely are two paths the same. It's not like becoming an investment banker. You don't need a Harvard MBA.
Suzan McClellan-Whiting. She's sitting in her ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Health Issues and Reading Magazines Online
Computer Column #355
Computer user health issues and getting magazines online will be discussed.
Vertical Mouse
The widespread use of personal computers has raised myriad health concerns, from fading eyesight to ankle damage. There are excellent websites with suggestions for workstations, posture, and exercise. One from Princeton University (1) is up to date ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Raising Caines
Guyette & Deeter, Inc., Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter, Inc.
Summer decoy auctions draw collectors in the same way that decoys draw migrating waterfowl. The birds and the collectors flock, almost as a group, from place to place. Attendant to the auctions are decoy shows where birds are bought, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Camden-Rockport Show Turns 38
Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, Rockport, Maine
Even before the opening gun sounded at the 38th running of the annual Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, there were 50 or 60 people at the gate and more streaming in from the parking lot. The show, under the management of John and Elizabeth ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fraternal Objects Sold in Ohio
Ross Auction Company, Chillicothe, Ohio
On Saturday, July 21, Ross Auction Company in Chillicothe, Ohio, sold a large trove of Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) ceremonial objects. Heart-in-hand staffs, oversize bows and arrows, decorated axes and pikes, carved torches, swords, shields, robes, collars, and even a coffin with a human ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 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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(Auction)Canada Goose Brings $810,000
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Bidders didn't have too long to wait for the fireworks to start at the two-day sale of decoys and other sporting art held July 19 and 20 at Copley Fine Art Auctions in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where over a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Whale of a Sale
In a foreword to the catalog for Eldred's July 19 and 20 marine sale, Josh Eldred, president of the auction house, wrote, "Over the past few years we have been fortunate to have put together some amazing auctions, but this one probably beats them all. It features two major collections, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia History Museum Closes to the Public
Is it a sign of the times that the Philadelphia History Museum, plagued with financial difficulties, suspended its public hours on June 30 and closed its doors?
The museum on 7th Street below Market, in a building designed by John Haviland in 1826 as the first home of the Franklin Institute, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sporting Antiques Sold on the Cape
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
The highlight of the sale came late in the day when this Louisiana swimming ring-necked or ring-bill drake decoy by Nicole Vidacovitch Sr. (1853-1945), circa 1890, flew past the $7500/9500 estimate to sell for $21,250. Vidacovitch carved with great care, using mostly cypress root, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)George Washington Script Here
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Business is booming at The Cobbs Auctioneers in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Over the past few years, some family members and staffers have moved on to other ventures, but the business is carrying on smoothly. Owner and head auctioneer Charlie Cobb runs a tight, well-laid-out sale, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Housewarming to Remember
Case Antiques, Inc., Auctions and Appraisals, Knoxville, Tennessee
At the Friday night preview party for Case Antiques' July 14 sale, auction-goers and staff alike enjoyed the stimulating new gallery glow of their recently purchased facility on Papermill Drive in Knoxville, Tennessee. Whether you spoke with co-owners John and Stephanie Case or ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)EDITORIAL: New Jersey, No privacy for Successful Bidder
"Who bought it?"
It's a question reporters often ask of auctioneers when discussing lots sold at auction. Most times they are politely rebuffed-auctioneers like to protect the privacy of winning bidders.
No such privacy exists if the auction lots were consigned by the state of New Jersey, according to a recent ruling ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stained Glass Not Seen in More Than 40 Years Goes on View
The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) in Worcester, Massachusetts, will present an exhibition of stained-glass works created by Louis C. Tiffany and John La Farge that have not been on view for more than 40 years. Originally commissioned for a Boston church in the late 1890s, the large stained-glass works were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Carlquist Named as Executive Director of Boscobel
The board of directors of Boscobel in Garrison, New York, has appointed Jennifer Carlquist as executive director, effective immediately.
Since joining Boscobel as curator in 2015, Carlquist has spearheaded several exhibitions, including Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now and Make-Do's: Curiously Repaired Antiques. Before joining Boscobel's staff, she served in curatorial ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rockwell's "Four Freedoms" on the Road
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, has committed to a two-year sponsorship of the Norman Rockwell Museum's traveling exhibition Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt & the Four Freedoms. It is the first comprehensive exhibition of the artist's iconic 1943 depictions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's wartime defense of humanity's fundamental human rights.
Rockwell's Freedom ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jewelry Distraction Thieves Hit Antiques Malls and Shops in Six States
According to the Jewelers' Security Alliance (JSA), two white males are suspected to have carried out at least 12 distraction thefts of jewelry in antiques stores and antiques malls in six states. The suspects use keys or pick or break locks to get into jewelry showcases. Thefts have been reported ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Ceramics and Glass Fair Is Canceled
Liz Lees and Meg Wendy, the organizers of the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair, have canceled the fair, which would have celebrated its 20th anniversary in January 2019 at the Bohemian National Hall on East 73rd Street in New York City.
Liz Lees, who, with her husband, Bill Caskey (d. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Johanna McBrien Assumes Reins of Dedham Historical Society
Johanna McBrien, founding editor-in-chief and associate publisher of Antiques & Fine Art magazine, has accepted the position of executive director of the Dedham Historical Society. She assumed her new position on June 8.
The previous executive director, Vicky Kruckeberg, who served for eight years, retired in May.
"I'll still work one day ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barn Star Announces New Morristown Show
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(Fragment)Massachusetts Dealer Arrested in Connection with Missing Warhol Paintings
Brian R. Walshe of Lynn, Massachusetts, was arrested on May 9 and charged in connection with taking and attempting to sell two Andy Warhol paintings on eBay. Walshe was charged with one count of wire fraud.
Brian R. Walshe.
According to court documents, in early November 2016, a gallery owner from Los ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bill Introduced in Congress Would Require Dealers to Report High-Value Sales
A bill introduced in Congress in May by Representative Luke Messer of Indiana would add art and antiquities to the list of business types subject to anti-money-laundering rules.
If the bill is passed, the Treasury Department's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network would require art and antiquities dealers to file certain reports and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dennis Raleigh Relocates
After 18 years of selling and living in Wiscasset, Maine, Dennis Raleigh has relocated to Searsport, Maine. Dennis Raleigh American Antiques & Folk Art's brand new gallery at 15 W. Main Street (Route 1) is finally finished, and a grand opening is planned for Saturday, June 30, with refreshments starting ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)RISD Museum Receives $30,000 Grant for Gorham Silver Exhibit
The National Endowment for the Arts has approved an Art Works grant of $30,000 to the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art to support the exhibition Gorham Silver: Designing Brilliance 1850-1970, which will open in May 2019.
Epergne, 1872, and plateau, 1876, designed by Thomas Pairpoint (1838-1902) and manufactured ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Met's Record Year
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City announced on July 5 that it welcomed more than 7.35 million visitors to its three locations-The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer-in the fiscal year that ended on June 30. It is the highest fiscal year attendance ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)New World, New Problems
The Young Collector
Meeting new people is hard. It can be hard to figure out what to say, how to get a conversation started, or how to keep a conversation going. There are always those icebreaker routines where you are supposed to describe what you did on vacation or what the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Kris and Paul Casucci, Walker Homestead, Brookfield, Massachusetts
In the Trade
Kris and Paul Casucci entered the antiques business at the beginning of the Great Recession after losing their jobs, so they harbor no nostalgic memories of how much fun the business was for many of us during the second half of the 20th century. "It was the worst ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2018
Three-Star Bid Secures Very First Michelin Guide
Now recognised around much of the world as an indispensible guide to fine dining and wining, the Guide Michelin was first published in 1900 and was at the time aimed at a very different market. In an extraordinarily ambitious promotion by the famous French ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 56th Lititz Show
Lititz Antiques Show, Lititz, Pennsylvania
"It's my first time here, and I will be back," said Jan Welshans as she headed to the parking lot. "Next year I will bring the pickup truck. We drove the car, so I could only buy smalls this time." She said she had made three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Revolution Lives On in Searsport
DownEast Auctions, Searsport, Maine
"This will be the last sale we conduct in this building," Mark Bradstreet announced at the beginning of his DownEast Auctions offering on June 30 in Searsport, Maine. DownEast Auctions will be moving into newer and improved facilities, he promised. This day's sale was the remainder of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Classical Principles for Modern Design
A Book Review
New York decorator and cheerleader for the Classical style Thomas Jayne calls Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr.'s The Decoration of Houses the most important decorating book ever written. He organized his new book according to the chapters in The Decoration of Houses, beginning with "The Historical Tradition," ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)AAMD Sanctions Two Museums
Two museums-the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, and the La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-are facing sanctions imposed by the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD), following sales at Christie's and Sotheby's.
The sanctions, announced on May 25, follow "the decision made by each institution to use the proceeds from recent ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Labels, Computer Column #354
Computer Column #354
Labels
John P. Reid, scw.johnreid@gmail.com
It has been seven years (column #267 for April 2011) since we covered software for printing labels. Antiquers might print labels for items in a collection or a dealer's inventory. Mailing labels are needed for a collectors club newsletter, a dealer's sale announcement, or a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dinner Wear
Mary-Ann Wood creates jewelry from broken antique cups, plates, and saucers, crafting "designs cut from these fractured unfortunates" and turning them into unique costume jewelry pieces, mostly necklaces, earrings, lariats, and brooches.
Wood has been making jewelry out of dinnerware for almost 20 years at her business, DinnerWear Jewelry, located in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Officers at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Paula Houst is the new chief financial officer and David Robichaud the new chief operations officer at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine.
Paula Houst.
David Robichaud.
Houst's past experience includes positions in healthcare administration and tourism. A native of Cape Cod, Houst served as senior vice president and general manager for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Inherited Calder Sculpture Leads to Court Fight
A gallery in New York City is facing a lawsuit over a purchase and sale that highlights the need for clear and careful estate planning.
A standing stabile by Alexander Calder was willed to Phyliss Meaders and Paul Meaders III, brother and sister, in 2001. Each owned half interest in the ... (Read More)
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