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(Auction)Old-Fashioned Auction Brings Forth Treasures
John McInnis Auctioneers, Newbury, Massachusetts
John McInnis Auctioneers' two-day auction June 23 and 24 had it all: an old-fashioned standing-room-only event on the historic Lower Green in Newbury, Massachusetts, a food truck with a plentiful menu, no reserves, no estimates, no Internet bidding, and iffy cell phone reception, all in place ... (Read More)
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(Show)Life Is Good Down on Laudholm Farm
Wells Outdoor Antiques Show & Sale, Wells, Maine
Perfect weather, a beautiful outdoor setting, and 77 exhibitors teamed up on June 24 to make a strong showing at the 18th year of Goosefare Antiques and Promotions' show at the rambling Wells Reserve and Laudholm Trust.
This single-banded mocha bowl, unchipped and uncracked, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Abolitionist Banner Leads at Evans Americana Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 34th semiannual Americana and fine antiques auction spotlighting Virginia and the South on June 22 and 23 at the firm's gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. We have become accustomed to ... (Read More)
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(Show)It's Heaven-Pure and Simple
Pure and Simple Antique Show, Kokomo, Indiana
Marti Korba couldn't make it through the interview without being interrupted. That was a good thing.
Late in the day at the Pure and Simple Antique Show, held on June 23 in Kokomo, Indiana, she was offering a recap for this article when a woman ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2018
Plate from Ackermann's Repository, London, 1824. Courtesy Jane Nylander.
-Through July 8 -Concord, Massachusetts
As part of the statewide Mass Fashion collaborative project, Fresh Goods: Shopping for Clothing in a New England Town, 1750-1900, an exhibition at the Concord Museum, examines questions about the sources and context of small-town Massachusetts fashion. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Photo Tops History Auction
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
The Wild West put on a considerable show during the American history sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 22. The top lot was an albumen photograph of James Butler "Wild Bill" Hickok, John Baker "Texas Jack" Omohundro, and William Frederick ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Carole Tanenbaum's Vintage Costume Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Ripley Auctions
In late winter this year, I was eating at an osteria in a nearby coastal Maine town with a friend, who told the owner/cook/baker that I write a column about antique jewelry. We had become regular visitors, slogging through winter, taking respite in his ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A North Carolina Showcase with Asian Surprises
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
Over the past 20 years, auctioneer Leland Little has tweaked his business model in clever and innovative ways. In addition to print, he advertises on three public radio stations-WFAE Charlotte, WFDD Greensboro, and WUNC Chapel Hill. He transmits a digital catalog ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Record-Breaking Result for Marie Zimmermann Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Rago Arts and Auction Center
The results of Rago Arts and Auction Center's sale of fine jewelry on June 10 illustrated certain market trends and revealed that soft sections of the market may be making gains.
In a telephone interview after the sale, Katherine Van Dell, jewelry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clouds and Rhinoceros Horn Cups Lead at Quinn's
Quinn's Auction Galleries, Falls Church, Virginia
Photos courtesy Quinn's Auction Galleries
There was very little doubt as to which lots would most likely become the stars of Quinn's Auction Galleries' sale held on June 9. The catalog's cover featured a closeup of a large painting by popular Washington, D.C., artist Sam Gilliam. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical and Eclectic
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Collectors and dealers know that Marion Antique Auctions in Marion, Massachusetts, is a dependable resource for historical and eclectic offerings. The June 9 sale in the Marion Music Hall by Frank McNamee and C. David Glynn was no exception. There were antiques ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New CEO for Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers announced on June 5 that the firm has appointed Thomas Galbraith as chief executive officer, effective June 4. He succeeds Leslie Hindman, who founded the firm in 1982 and reopened it in 2003 after Sotheby's, which had bought it in 1997, stopped conducting sales in Chicago in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, June 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. This catalog examines the work of 21 self-taught artists through ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ottenberg American Art Collection Buoys Sale
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
In June and again in December, Alasdair Nichol, chairman of Freeman's Auction in Philadelphia and head of the American art and Pennsylvania Impressionists department, fills a salesroom with collectors, the trade, sometimes a curator or two, a bank of 15 men and women on phones, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Plains Ghost Dance Shirt Brings $225,000
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
After years of holding sales only in San Francisco, Bonhams held its sale of Native American art in Los Angeles for the first time on June 4, and that's the plan for the future.
This Southern Plains Ghost Dance shirt sold for $225,000 (est. $15,000/25,000) to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)It's a Bidding "Three-for-All"
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries is expanding its regular schedule of four major auctions per year from two days apiece to three. One session will present Maine artists, both past and present. The rest of the added days will be focused on collections. As the company's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Jewelry and a Cache of Feininger Works
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
When Lucy Grogan took the podium at the start of the jewelry portion of the sale at Grogan & Company's spring auction held on June 3 in the Boston gallery, vacant seats filled quickly. She began with a gold pendant necklace by Greek goldsmith Ilias Lalaounis ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art and Design Auction
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
In large part, it was business as usual when Treadway Gallery held its art and design auction on June 3 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Then again, not really. The day marked a new era for Don Treadway, who founded the auction arm of his company ... (Read More)
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(Show)Objects of Desire
Wilton, Connecticut
A new show with a new concept was held in Wilton, Connecticut, the first weekend of June. Under the helm of Karen DiSaia of DiSaia Management, Old Lyme, Connecticut, Objects of Desire: Style for the Garden and Home featured 26 dealers who brought antique, vintage, mid-century, and contemporary offerings ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Heartland Antique Show
Richmond, Indiana
Of the things normally scribbled into a reporter's notebook, there are these: 100 dealers from 20 states. Twenty-ninth year. Strong sales of smalls across the floor. Spotty movement of furniture. A good gate that resulted in overflow parking.
Three terns, carved and painted wood, mid-20th century, New England, $195 the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques Week on the Potomac
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company kicked off summer with an ambitious four-session catalog auction of antiques, fine arts, jewelry, and specialty collections. During the first week of June, nearly 1600 lots crossed the block. The week began on June 2, with a live sale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Moravian Flask Brings $28,600
A 6 5/8" tall Moravian pottery flask in the form of a woman wearing a green dress and holding a flower sold for $28,600 (includes buyer's premium) on June 2 at Kennedy's Auction Service's sale in Selmer, Tennessee, of the Carl Smith estate. The circa 1811 piece is thought to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Pottery Industry in Southeastern Massachusetts
The red earthenware manufactured in Bristol County, Massachusetts, in the 18th and 19th centuries has been desired for at least a century now by collectors, dealers, and museums. A combination of factors have contributed to this infatuation, including the refinement of the production, the color of the glazes, and the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Art of the Peales
A Book Review
The Art of the Peales in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Adaptations and Innovations by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter From London, June 2018
Letter from London
The really big money went on pictures, notably some "Orientalist" paintings and a newly discovered example of canine portraiture, but the most expensive single piece featured in this month's "Letter" is an exceptionally rare Leica camera-though it was actually sold in Vienna, not London.
This month's most pictorial piece ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Tom Wesdorp, Antiques Anonymous, Millerton, New York
In the Trade
Tom Wesdorp calls his business Antiques Anonymous. It is, he said, "A play on Alcoholics Anonymous: you've got to get your fix once you've been bitten by the buying bug."
But the term might also apply to him-and to dealers like him-in another sense. Although Wesdorp is hardly "anonymous," ... (Read More)
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(Show)Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
On Memorial Day weekend, May 25-28, the 47th annual Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show filled the courtyard, downstairs galleries, and three floors of the atrium of the old Hoffman's grist mill, built in 1864 and now transformed into a modern art museum.
A brief history of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Smith's Memorial Day Auction
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
The auction hall was packed to overflowing for William A. Smith's annual Memorial Day auction at the company headquarters in Plainfield, New Hampshire, on May 28. Soaring above all the rest was a dramatic oil on canvas by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rococo: Celebrating 18th-Century Design and Decoration
This year marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Chippendale (1718-1779), English furniture maker, author of The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director (1754), and important disseminator of what is commonly known today as the Rococo style. Since the 1840s, the term "Rococo" has been used to describe a variety ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck Show
Rhinebeck, New York
Frank Gaglio had a problem. The spring edition of Barn Star Productions' Antiques at Rhinebeck Show was cruising right along-there was good weather and a large crowd, and sales were being made. The fly in the ointment? His on-site shipper had not shown up and was not returning ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Three R.S. Prussia Bowls Reach a Combined $33,000
Three marked R.S. Prussia bowls-each one boasting a portrait and scenic decor of one of the four seasons-sold as individual lots for a combined $33,000 during part one of the sale of the collection of the late John and Lavaun Headlee, held on May 26 by Woody Auction in the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2018
Black-figure amphora, 675-650 B.C.E., attributed to the Swing Painter (Greek, Attic), terracotta. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund.
-Through July 8 -Richmond, Virginia
The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA) presents The Horse in Ancient Greek Art. The exhibition was organized in partnership with the National ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Journal of Revolutionary War Prisoner of War Donated to Museum of the American Revolution
The original handwritten journal of Christopher Hawkins (1764-1837), who was captured from a privateer ship and was a prisoner of war during the Revolutionary War, has been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia.
The journal was discovered nearly two decades ago in the linen closet of Margaret ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
American Modernists dominated the small sale held at Bonhams the afternoon of May 23. The hourlong sale of 56 lots totaled $2,112,750. Forty-seven lots sold, for a sell-through rate of 84%.
John Marin (1870-1953), Sea in Red (Version II), 1948. The signed and dated oil on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Auction
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Overshadowed by months of legal proceedings over the sale of several paintings owned by the Berkshire Museum of Art, Sotheby's nevertheless "kept calm and carried on" with its May American art sale. The 120-lot sale, held the morning of May 23, included three lots from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Battle over Withdrawn Lot
One of baseball's foundational documents-once headed to the auction block-is now at the center of a lawsuit between an auction house and a 92-year-old widow. The sale was stopped, but allegedly the auction house will not release the document, claiming that it is owed for expensive but futile marketing efforts.
On ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's Adds $32.8 Million to American Art Total for May
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's sale of American art on May 22, held less than two weeks after its record-breaking sale of the Rockefeller collection of art of the Americas, did not disappoint. Of the 84 lots offered, 69 sold, for a sell-through rate of 82%. The sale totaled ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lemuel Shaw and Keith Downer
The unidentified portrait of a man that hung outside the chambers of Chief Justice Ralph D. Gants of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court intrigued many when it was retrieved from storage after the relatively recent restoration of the John Quincy Adams Courthouse in Boston. It was among a group of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Software for Antiques Shops and Malls
Computer Column #353
Software for antiques shops and malls has been a common subject of these columns over the years. Programs for dealers have a point-of-sale (POS) cash register feature and inventory recordkeeping. Those for malls or group shops accept items from more than one dealer on a single sales slip ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bombe Desk Brings $240,000
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Chippendale mahogany bombe desk made between 1765 and 1770 was the runaway favorite at CRN Auctions' May 20 sale in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery. Prospective buyers had streamed to the auction gallery to see it. Bidding on the desk, estimated at $30,000/50,000, opened at $50,000 and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show 2018
Chicago, Illinois
Here's an amazing anecdote from the second Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show, held May 18-20. We swear that it really happened, and every word is true. This was told to us by Andrew Rowan of G. Sergeant Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut.
Here is an accent table made from parts ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Rainy Day at Fishersville
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The 62nd Shenandoah Antiques Expo was held on the grounds of Augusta Expoland in Fishersville, Virginia, the weekend of May 18-20. The Fishersville show is organized and promoted by Heritage Promotions. Over the years we have come to know the Fishersville event as something of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ornate Estate Pumps Up the Sale
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
When the New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) offers an "important estate" sale, thoughts might turn first to the contents of an antebellum plantation on the River Road or a French Quarter townhouse. Not perhaps Englewood, New Jersey, but the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Volcano of Timepieces
R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts, Manchester, New Hampshire
I thought of recent Hawaiian Big Island eruptions as, for more than 16 hours, nearly 1200 lots of clocks and watches flowed from R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts' auction in Manchester, New Hampshire. On May 19 and 20, most lots slowly streamed by like lava; ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spring Sale at Wooten & Wooten
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
On May 19, while the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex were celebrating with family and friends, auctioneer Jeremy Wooten was working. He spent six hours-10 a.m. to 4 p.m.-pushing 810 lots across the auction block. That's a sizzling 135 lots ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2018 Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
The lectures were the big draw at the annual Penn Dry Goods Market, held at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, May 18 and 19. Lecture attendees came to listen and then shopped the stalls of the 24 dealers who offered vintage textiles and related Americana; ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record Price Paid for E. Howard No. 57
An E. Howard No. 57 regulator clock set a new auction record for that model at $145,200 (includes buyer's premium) at the May 19 sale at Fontaine's Auction Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The 73" tall clock had its original 14" diameter silvered dial with black incised Roman numerals and blued and pierced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Fresh Start for Barridoff Galleries
Barridoff Galleries, South Portland, Maine
The newly reconstituted Barridoff Galleries is open for business at its South Portland, Maine, location. The building renovations are new, the location is new, and even the landscaping in the rural/urban/industrial setting had a fresh scent to it.
Continuing the parade of Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) offerings that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antique Jewelry and Colored Stones Highlight Skinner's Sale and Fortuna's White-Glove Sale of Bo
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
The first Skinner important jewelry auction of the year was May 15, highlighted by colored stones, diamonds, and antique and period jewelry. The top lot was a carved Colombian emerald from the estate of Emily Crane Chadbourne that "attracted international interest," according to Skinner, and it sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cover and Content: The May Sale at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Streamers of bold primary colors dominated a gallery wall and the covers of the Brunk Auctions catalog for its May 11 and 12 sale. Solomon "Sol" LeWitt's Wavy Brushstrokes, a gouache on heavy paper, was impossible to miss. Inside the catalog was an equally powerful display. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hilliard & Co. Offers a Breath of Fresh Air
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers LLC, Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers LLC held a catalog sale at its Madison, Virginia, salesrooms on May 12. This is the first sale by the firm to be reported on by M.A.D. The company is relatively new; it was established in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Regional Ohio Valley Sale with Jewelry
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Garth's Auctions took a slightly different approach to the May 12 auction of Americana, held in Delaware, Ohio. For the past 11 years, the May sale has been highlighted by an annual Ohio Valley session. This year, the auction was promoted as "featuring regional items ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana from the Rockefeller Collection
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
"It was the first time I wrote a check dated the day after the date on the catalog and picked up my purchases at 2:30 in the morning," said South Carolina decoy dealer Dick McIntyre, recounting his experience at the sale of Americana from the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art Leads the Way at Weschler's
Weschler's Auctioneers & Appraisers, LLC, Rockville, Maryland
Photos courtesy Weschler's Auctioneers & Appraisers, LLC
Weschler's most recent cataloged "Capital Collections" auction was held on May 11 at the firm's Rockville, Maryland, showrooms. The sale offered a broad mix of material from across most categories but with a definite concentration on fine art. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings, Photos, and Prints
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
American and international bidders pursued an eclectic range of paintings, prints, photographs, and sculpture at Skinner's two-session auction on May 11 in the Boston gallery. Prints and photography sold at 10 a.m.; paintings and sculpture sold starting at 2 p.m. The break allowed bidders and staff time ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Pennsylvania German Chest Decorated by the Black Unicorn Artist sells for $300,000
It was 12:45 a.m., early in the morning of May 11, when dealer James Kilvington of Dover, Delaware, bought a Berks County, Pennsylvania, Black Unicorn Artist chest for $300,000 (est. $40,000/80,000) at Christie's sale of the collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller. "I did not sit in the salesroom until ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Rockefeller Collection: Art of the Americas
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
The collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, some 1550 objects, included a historic and encyclopedic collection of art of the Americas. Christie's evening sale on May 9 offered 41 lots, and after two hours all lots had been sold.The total of $106,883,500 (including buyers' premiums) ... (Read More)
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(Show)TEFAF New York Spring
New York City
TEFAF New York is here to stay. The second iteration of the May show (held May 3-8) clearly established itself in the realm of art fairs as a must-see event. It was a heady week for art fairs, with Frieze New York and others happening simultaneously, and the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Martha Stewart's Studio Props
Kaminski Auctions, Beverly, Massachusetts
It seems as if everyone is considering deaccessioning these days, even the domestic diva Martha Stewart. Collectors and a few dealers wanting a piece from Stewart went in droves to Kaminski Auctions' previews and to the May 5 and 6 auction of her studio props. Close to ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bob Bockius's Greater York Show Nears 50th Anniversary
Greater York Antiques Show, York, Pennsylvania
Bob Bockius of Mitchell Displays held the Greater York Antiques Show in Memorial Hall East of the York Expo Center in York, Pennsylvania, on May 4 and 5. The show was expected to host around 55 dealers-there were 26. In spite of the size and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Online Crime: Computer Column #352
Computer Column #352
It has been more than a year (see February 2017, p. 24-E, column #338) since we discussed online crime in its many forms. The fraudsters continue to find ways to cheat us.
Getting statistics on online crime is not easy. IC3, the Federal Bureau of Investigation Internet Crime Complaint ... (Read More)
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(Show)Scrimshaw Weekend and Nautical Antiques Show
New Bedford, Massachusetts
For three decades scholars, historians, collectors, and dealers have converged on the annual Scrimshaw Weekend at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The weekend now includes the Nautical Antiques Show. People go to inspect and acquire maritime objects of historical and aesthetic importance, learn about ... (Read More)
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(Show)Hot Weather and Hot Show
Garden Art & Antiques Fair, Bronx, New York
Although a hot spell engulfed New York City the opening night and first day of the New York Botanical Garden's annual Garden Art & Antiques Fair, the 90-plus-degree weather did not dampen the spirits of the 29 dealers and 500 patrons who sweltered ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Monhegan Museum of Art & History Receives $1 Million Challenge Grant
The Monhegan Museum of Art & History on Monhegan Island, Maine, has received a $1 million challenge grant from the Wyeth Foundation. The museum has up to three years to match this gift, the largest in the museum's history. This grant will assist the museum in its campaign to raise ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Nathan Lumbard and His Circle of Craftsmen
A Book Review
Like a giant jigsaw puzzle, the picture of Nathan Lumbard's place in American furniture history is not complete until the last page of this book is read. Then it all fits together, and Lumbard's work stands out from that of his circle of craftsmen and is easily recognizable.
The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Francis Wahlgren Joins Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Francis Wahlgren has joined Leslie Hindman Auctioneers as an exclusive consultant for its fine books and manuscripts department. He will be based in New York but will assist the auction house's eight locations nationwide, including its Chicago headquarters. He joins Gretchen Hause, director of fine books and manuscripts, who joined ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Rules Insurance Company Doesn't Have to Pay for Fake Wine
A ruling in a California appeals court should send collectors scurrying to inspect their insurance policies.
In 2007 David Doyle, a collector of rare wine, began insuring his collection against loss or damage. He purchased a "Valuable Possessions" policy from Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, with a blanket policy limit of $19 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Why Collect?
Unitarian pastor George Washington Burnap once wrote that three things were necessary for happiness in life: "something to do, something to love, and something to hope for." Collecting embodies all three-curiosity, passion, and anticipation.
Charles Spencer Curb made bold to write in 2010 ("Why We Collect: A Historical and Psychological Perspective," ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Carol B. Cadou Named Director and CEO of Winterthur
Carol B. Cadou Named Director and CEO of Winterthur
Carol B. Cadou has been appointed the first Charles F. Montgomery Director and CEO of Winterthur. Currently senior vice president of historic preservation and collections at George Washington's Mount Vernon, Cadou will succeed David P. Roselle in late spring when Dr. Roselle ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Discoveries and Old Favorites Sell Strong at Slotin Folk Art Auction
Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, GeorgiaPhotos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
Slotin Folk Art Auction continues to have its fingers on the pulse of what constitutes the genre known as Outsider or self-taught art, and the company continues to succeed at bringing the best this collecting field has to offer. Steve ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Dodo Hamilton's Collection
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Alasdair Nichol, chairman of Freeman's in Philadelphia, has had success with single-owner estate sales over the past few years. It was easy for him to convince the family of Dorrance "Dodo" Hamilton (1928-2017) to hold a single-owner sale in Philadelphia, where she was a well-known philanthropist ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Smitty" Axtell's Country Americana
Buzz Hesse/Schillaci and Shultis Auctioneers, Otego, New York
Remember when collectors and dealers filled auction house seats-no online buying, banks of computers, or revolving stages and huge screens with videos showing each lot? Well, if you were at an auction in Otego, New York, on April 27 and 28, you would ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arms, Silver, and Art Up for Grabs at Tremont
Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Tremont Auctions
Knowledgeable collectors of historical arms swarmed Tremont Auctions to preview its April 28 military auction in the Newton, Massachusetts, gallery. They were there for the dispersion of several historical military arms collections, primarily 159 lots from the three-generation collection of Francis Earl Dunn of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Black Unicorns and Historical Blues
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
One end of a black unicorn-decorated dower chest was pictured on the cover of Pook & Pook's April 28 auction catalog. Both ends of the chest were in very good condition, and the decoration on the top was partially visible in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Decoy and Sporting Collectibles Show and Auction
Guyette & Deeter, Inc./Midwest Decoy Collectors Association, St. Charles, Illinois
One bonus of going to diverse collecting events is learning something new. As example, we didn't have a clue about canoe cups until Rick Sandstrom, president of the Midwest Decoy Collectors Association (MDCA), showed us examples owned by Robert Burger at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Heirloom without an Heir
The Young Collector
We hate to be the bearers of bad news. No one wants to hear this, but we have all been dancing around the problem for way too long. It is time to simply put it out there, so here goes. We hate to break it to you, but ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Lockwood Kipling Bas-Relief Found at Estate Auction
I first began visiting Lambertville, New Jersey's antiques shops, the Golden Nugget Antique Flea Market, and Rago Auctions in the 1990s while a graduate student in the art history department at the University of Delaware. Moving on in 2001 to a post as director of collections and exhibitions at the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2018
The big money lots in this month's selection are to be found among the Impressionist and modern pictures sold in London at the end of February, but an old master "find" that made some 100 times its estimated price and a sunny example of the work of Dame Laura Knight ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jim Morneau, Classic Home Hardware, Canton, Connecticut
In the Trade
People get into the antiques business in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of reasons. Take Jim Morneau for example. When he was 23 years old, a house fire incinerated his furniture, and he discovered it was a lot cheaper to buy replacements at the local ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New York from Brooklyn Sells for $162,500
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers
Gene Shannon and Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers had a successful auction at the gallery in Milford, Connecticut, on April 26. The top lot of the auction, New York from Brooklyn by Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937), a dramatic oil on board ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Sells Well
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's Americana sale on April 25 demonstrated that there is still a strong market for American history among passionate group of collectors and dealers. Bidding erupted with gusto when American books and ephemera consigned by a prominent Quaker family crossed the block. Toward the end of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Farrin's Launches Parking Lot Show
Farrin's Country Auctions of Randolph, Maine, is launching an outside antiques show in the parking area of the auction house. Farrin's Country Antique Show and Vintage Market will be held on Saturday, June 23, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (rain date, June 24) at 36 Water Street. The new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lost Portrait of Forgotten Hero of American Revolution Rediscovered
Research on both sides of the Atlantic has unlocked the identity of a portrait of a French general wearing a Spanish uniform with medals including a Society of the Cincinnati eagle insignia. He's a forgotten hero of the Revolutionary War.
The American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, May 2018
Artist, Soldier, Lover, Muse by Arthur D. Hittner (Apple Ridge Press, 2017, 348 pp., softbound, $19.95).
Arthur Hittner worked for eight years on a catalogue raisonne and biography of Harold J. Rabinowitz, a talented young Social Realist who died in 1944 at age 29 after being held by the Japanese for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings and Sculpture
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
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Sales totaled $2,685,000 at Bonhams' April 24 auction held in Los Angeles and simulcast in San Francisco. San Francisco-based specialist Aaron Bastian said, "We saw broad and deep interest in the sale, with a continued focus from our buyers on the big names in California ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Folk Art Museum Establishes the Anne Radice Education Fund
To honor Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, who stepped down after five and a half years as executive director of the American Folk Art Museum, a fund for educational programming has been created.
"During Dr. Radice's tenure, more than 15,000 New York City public school students visited the museum, where folk and self-taught ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions: May 2018
Sally Mann (b. 1951), untitled (Scarred Tree), from the "Deep South" series, 1998, gelatin silver print. National Gallery of Art, Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund.
-Through May 28 -Washington, D.C.
The National Gallery of Art (NGA) presents Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings. The exhibition of over 100 photographs reflects ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Time and Tools
Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
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"What the hell." With that soft outburst, a friend sitting next to me bid again, $27,000 this time, risking bank account and marriage, he confessed. Luckily or unluckily for him, the phone bidder quickly replied with $28,000, and the war was over. They were competing for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
It was an unseasonably cold 40 degrees in Philadelphia on Thursday, April 19, when the Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show opened. The winds howled and wall labels swayed. Those who checked their coats retrieved them after the first hour, and after three hours dealer Peter Pap had wrapped himself ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Revisited
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
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A sale of furniture, decorative arts, and silver held April 18 and 19 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers may forever be known as the sale with "the chest."
The Americana highlight of the sale was this circa 1770 Chippendale mahogany chest-on-chest estimated at $100,000/200,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Prices Are Right for the Michener
Doyle New York, New York City
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Doyle New York's auction of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts on April 18 was a consistent sale where the paintings accounted for $813,344 of the overall total of $1,225,344 (including buyers' premiums). The presale estimate of the entire sale was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scottish Rite Masonic Center Sells Collection
Bailey's Honor Auction & Estate Service, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In November 2017 the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center's members sold their organization's home of more than 100 years. The 130-year-old building in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin-which is 70,000 square feet and includes a 470-seat theatre-contained an ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD 20/21
AD 20/21 Home & Boston Print Fair, Boston, Massachusetts
This year's Boston's AD 20/21 Home & Boston Print Fair, held April 12-15, was a feast for the eyes. Added to the roster of dealers in fine art, prints, and mid-century modern were designers and fine furniture makers. There was something for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Ruth Bryson
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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In 1982 Ruth Bryson and her husband, Jack, bought a stone farmhouse in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, in the southern part of Lancaster County. After they restored it and filled it with appropriate Pennsylvania antiques, Ruth opened her antiques shop in a barn on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hingham Highlights
Willis Henry Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Positioned as it has been on the South Shore of Massachusetts for well over four decades, Willis Henry Auctions is ideally located to gather collections and estates from surrounding towns. The sale on April 14 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, included many lots of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mormons, Mexicana, and Marilyn Monroe-All in a Day's Work at Printed and Manuscript Americana Sa
Swann Galleries, New York City
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A first edition of The Book of Mormon was the top lot of Swann's printed and manuscript Americana sale on April 12 in its New York City gallery-yet again. The auction house has done well with Mormon material for at least a decade. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Wearable Antique Jewelry Is Hot at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers held a sale of jewelry in Chicago April 10 and 11. Katie Guilbault, head of sale, and Jamie Henderson, jewelry associate specialist, shared news about results and market trends after the sale, for which over 1000 people had registered on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Towne Hall Antiques Moves, Changes Name
Olde Town Hall Antiques in Stratham, New Hampshire, is moving across the street and changing its name. According to owner Natalie Healy, the business plans to open on April 2 at The Farmhouse on 33 at 148 Portsmouth Avenue in Stratham.
"We will be in the farmhouse [across the street] to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Object Lessons
Object Lessons
The case of the Bingham family Civil War memorial secretary, confirmed as a fake, offers some lessons. (M.A.D. published the story online on February 26, and it appears in this issue on page 12-A.)
There's no doubt that the saga stings. Dealer Allan Katz, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the vetting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Annual Curated Sale of Historical Indiana Art
Jackson's Auction & Real Estate Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Although Dennis Jackson has been selling Indiana art at auction since 1982, his family auction business tried something new last year: a sale of curated works. The idea was to offer paintings that needed no apologies ... (Read More)
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