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(Auction)Tiffany Candlestick Tops Sale
Cowan's Auctions, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
The obvious story following Cowan's winter sale of fine and decorative art at its salesroom in Cleveland, Ohio, on January 26 involved two records-one for a figural candlestick that highlighted the auction, the other for the sale's total.
That's the easy story. The comfortable one.
However, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes at the Boston Athenaeum
Change has come to the Boston Athenaeum with the appointment of John Buchtel as curator of rare books and head of special collections beginning in June. He succeeds Stanley Ellis Cushing, who announced his retirement in 2017 after 47 years. Most recently Cushing was the Bromer Curator of Rare Books ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Be It Resolved
The Young Collector
By the time you read this, the holidays will be well behind us, and, let's face it, so will most of those New Year's resolutions. So since you've abandoned those good intentions, let us suggest a few replacement options. Don't overdo it-pace yourselves! As they do on those ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Bartlam Teapot Discovered in the U.K.
On February 20 Woolley and Wallis in Salisbury, Wiltshire, in the U.K. will sell the earliest known American porcelain teapot. The blue-and-white porcelain teapot, missing its lid and its handle reglued, is attributed to the John Bartlam factory at Cain Hoy, South Carolina. The blue transfer-printed pattern on one side ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Venue Change for Miami Beach Jewelry & Watch Show
The Miami Beach Jewelry & Watch Show, scheduled for February 1-4, will be held in a new location at One Herald Plaza, the current site of Art Miami and CONTEXT Art Miami-two well-attended art fairs that take place during Art Basel Miami. One Herald Plaza is located at NE 14th ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, February 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)Americana at Sotheby's
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Americana filled seven floors of Sotheby's on York Avenue in New York City in mid-January, daring collectors, curators, and dealers to explore a vast array of America's past. Erik Gronning, head of Americana at the international auction house, gets one chance a year to prove ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2018 Wallace Hall Art, Design & Antiques Show
New York City
Filling a void in the New York City show landscape, The Art, Design & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall offered dealers and collectors a place to exhibit and buy during Americana Week.
The show has grown in stature and significance. The 33 dealers who set up shop January 19-21 ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair
New York City
Serious collectors, curators, scholars, and designers put the annual New York Ceramics & Glass Fair on their January calendars. This year it was held January 18-21 with an opening night preview party on January 17 at the Bohemian National Hall in New York City. They know that half ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Outsider Art Fair 2018
New York City
The Outsider Art Fair offered the best of storytelling, with humor, pain, death, love, fear, abuse, and pathos featured in the artworks that filled the walls of the Metropolitan Pavilion from January 18 to 21. Over four days that coincided with Americana Week, flocks of people headed downtown ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Eldred's Offers Affordable Antique Jewelry and More in January Sale
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Eldred's Auctioneers of East Dennis, on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, held its antiques and accessories sale on January 19 and 20, offering 152 lots of jewelry that achieved good results and had "a very low pass rate," according to Leah Kingman, the specialist who cataloged ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Washington and Wady Top Christie's Americana Auction
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Americana sales in January have been called the barometer of the market for at least five decades. "As goes January, so goes the market" is the mantra. Collectors and dealers who make this market buy what speaks to them and ignore what they deem over-restored, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Outsider Art at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
When a double-sided Henry Darger watercolor and collage sells for $60,000 more than the highest-priced piece of furniture during Americana Week in New York City, people take notice.
This double-sided work by Henry Darger (1892-1973), 93 At Jennie Richee, are chaced for long distance by Glandelinians ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago Design and Unreserved Sales
Rago Arts & Auction Center, Lambertville, New JerseyPhotos courtesy Rago Arts & Auction Center
Rago Arts & Auction Center holds weekend design auctions three times a year, in January, June, and September, offering over 1000 lots in three days. The sales include lots from the entire 20th century, beginning with Arts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marchant Material Buoys China Trade Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's began its January Americana sales with a January 18 session of 206 lots of Chinese export art, of which 100 were consigned by the London firm Marchant. In September of last year Christie's offered close to 50 bronzes, jades, and ceramics in a single-owner ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printed and Manuscript Americana
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
A broadside of the Declaration of Independence printed in Salem, Massachusetts, on July 17, 1776, by Ezekiel Russell sold for $1,185,000 (includes buyer's premium) to a private collector at Sotheby's January 17 sale of printed and manuscript Americana including cartography.
The well-preserved broadside was from ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 46th Annual Hudson Antique Show: Snow Was a Blow or Maybe Not
Richfield, Ohio ... (Read More)
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(Show)Celebrating the Charm of Chinoiserie
Washington Winter Show, Washington, D.C.
The annual Washington Winter Show has consistently grown each year as a midwinter destination for collectors, dealers, designers, and antiques enthusiasts. The 2018 event was held January 12-14. This year marked the 63rd edition of the show and its eighth year at the Katzen Arts Center ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Traylor's Two Pigs Brings $37,200
CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions, Inc.
As auction staff broke out more chairs at CRN Auctions' January 14 standing-room-only sale in Cambridge, Massachusetts, auctioneer Carl R. Nordblom said he and he alone had moved the Patriots game to the previous day to accommodate everyone. The extra chairs filled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Carousel Horse Outdistances the Field at Laughlin
Laughlin Auctions, Inc., Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions, Inc.
Laughlin Auctions, Inc. held its annual winter auction at the firm's facilities in Edinburg, Virginia, on January 13. We have come to expect a broad array of offerings at Laughlin Auctions, and this sale did not disappoint. As noted in previous reports, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Willard Tall-Case Clocks Top Americana and Decorative Arts Auction
Garth's, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Two tall-case clocks from America's first family of horology brought the top bids during Garth's auction of American antiques and European and Asian decorative arts held January 13 in Delaware, Ohio. Although the scope of the sale was plenty wide, Americana consistently drew the strongest interest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the Kemble Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
As newlyweds in the 1960s, Roland and Marilyn Kemble began collecting antiques. They moved from the Bowling Green area of Kentucky to Ohio, taught school, and brought up three children in Norwich, Ohio, living with antiques. Ten years ago-after years of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Match Safe Collection of David and Holiday Winfield
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
A single-owner collection of pocket match safes offered by Cowan's Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, on January 11 yielded a few insights into this highly specialized segment of the antiques market. It was a day when material often trumped motif. As much as anything, however, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Arrested for Antiques Theft
On December 5, 2017, Milford, Delaware, police arrested a 40-year-old Milford man in connection with a November theft that occurred at a residence on West Bullrush Drive.
David A. Honeycutt, 40, was charged with one count of theft under $1500 where a victim is 62 years of age or older after ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Director of American Folk Art Museum to Retire
Dr. Anne-Imelda Radice, the executive director of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM), will retire in early March after five years at the helm of the museum. The board of trustees has designated Stacy C. Hollander, currently AFAM's deputy director for curatorial affairs, as acting director, effective the day after ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Recently Discovered L'Enfant Watercolor of George Washington's Verplanck's Point Camp
Photos courtesy Museum of the American Revolution
Philip Mead has been a collector since he was six. "Every evening as I am winding down, I go on Bidsquare, Invaluable, and some individual auction house sites to see if I can find something of interest," said Mead on the phone recently. He ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2018
Ian McKay,
Yet again I have failed to find something suitably festive to kick off this Christmas issue, but in keeping with established tradition, may I wish M.A.D.readers, one and all, a Happy Christmas and a Good New Year.
A record breaking Harry Potter first edition, one that is very unlikely ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annapolis Was Cold but Worthwhile
Annapolis Antiques Show, Annapolis, Maryland
Hardy New Englanders may disagree, but let's face the reality of winter below the Mason-Dixon line. Lingering snow and ice, near zero temperatures, and subzero wind chills do not bode well for the success of any activity that requires leaving the warmth of home. Antiques shows ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Good Deal of Good Deals
Bruce Gamage Antiques, Rockland, Maine
If you wanted an interesting auction with lots of good deals for careful and well-informed buyers, then the January 6 and 7 auction held by Bruce Gamage in Rockland, Maine, was the place to be.
This gouache on paper by James Brooks (1906-1992) sold for $517.50.
New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts at Auction
Doyle New York, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle New York has a loyal fan base for its semiannual American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts auctions. Its salesroom at 175 East 87th Street in Manhattan fills up a few minutes before the 10 a.m. start time with interested buyers, including a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sale
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
A taste for modern design flourished in the Philadelphia area. By the late 1940s architects were commissioned to design flat-roofed low-slung modern houses, which were furnished with Knoll, Herman Miller, and Scandinavian modern, and also with furniture by local studio artists and craftsmen. Wharton Esherick ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The 12th annual Main Line Antiques Show to benefit Surrey Services for Seniors was a different show this time. "I decided it should be a lifestyle show, not just an antiques show," said Anne F. Hamilton, the enthusiastic cochair of the show, held in the gymnasium of Cabrini College ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Fine Art
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
A standing-room-only crowd assembled at Swann Galleries, New York City, in the midafternoon of October 5, 2017, and three and a half hours later, 124 lots of modern and contemporary African American works had been sold. The auction had estimates of $2,283,500/3,371,000; the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frick Awards Biennial Book Prize
The Frick Collection's Center for the History of Collecting has awarded its biennial book prize for a distinguished publication on the history of collecting in America to Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman by Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J. M. Olson, with contributions ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)James Castle Collection Loses Bid to Stop Book
A new children's book-Silent Days, Silent Dreams, an "imagined biography" of artist James Castle (1899-1977)-includes works of art and drawings that are virtual copies of Castle originals. The James Castle Collection and Archive, LP, which owns all Castle copyrights, filed suit on October 27, 2017, asking the court for a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sunflower Chest Brings $32,400
Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut
There was little doubt what the top lot at Nadeau's 501-lot sale on October 21, 2017, in Windsor, Connecticut, would be. A Connecticut sunflower chest, fresh to the market, sat front and center during the preview, drawing both the curious and the desirous.
The star of the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Marburger Farm Antique Show
Round Top, TexasWhen it comes to the venues of the semiannual Round Top antiques festival, there's nothing quite like the Marburger Farm Antique Show. Located on the west side of Highway 237 between Round Top and Warrenton, Texas, the show sits on 43 acres of slightly rolling farmland.
Now in its ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Sets New Movie Poster Record
One of just two surviving movie posters for the 1931 horror movie Dracula set a world auction record for movie posters when it sold for $525,800 (includes buyer's premium) on November 18, 2017, at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas.
Dracula (Universal, 1931), one sheet (27" x 41"), style A. Before its ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Woven Strands: The Art of Human Hair Work" at the Mutter Museum
Five private collections of 19th-century Victorian hair artwork, never before publicly displayed together, will be exhibited at the Mutter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia from January 19 through July 12. The exhibition examines a domestic craft that employs human hair as textile in four distinctive art and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Great Thanksgiving Day Auction
Tim Isaac Antiques, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Tim Isaac had a great Thanksgiving Day auction on Monday, October 9, 2017, at the Saint John (New Brunswick) Trade and Convention Centre. This was Tim Isaac Antiques' 48th annual Thanksgiving Day sale. In addition to seeing Tim and Liz Isaac, it was ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Look at Collectors
Editorial
UBS, the Swiss financial services firm, has released an "Investor Watch" report that asked wealthy individuals about their collecting habits and the management of their collections.
According to the report, collecting is rarely tied to investment. The number one reason cited for collecting is "It's a passion of mine" at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Money for Old Money
Robert L. Foster Auction Company, Newcastle, Maine
Robert L. Foster opened the new auction year on a frigid sub-zero January 1 morning in Newcastle, Maine. Artist Vernon Broe (1930-2011) figured prominently, but it was old 19th-century money that brought in the big money.
Foster continues to mine the Vern Broe mother lode, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wall Box Tops Auction
Carey Auctions, Somerset, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Carey Auctions
"If you build it, he will come." (Field of Dreams)
As record cold temperatures blanketed Middle America, Brian Carey filled the Bakersville firehouse outside Somerset, Pennsylvania, with a wide assortment of antiques. The logic is that record temperatures would keep people home, but for about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Lollipop Tree" Brings $1.08 Million
On January 1 Nadeau's Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, sold Lollipop Tree, an oil on board painting by Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) for $1,080,000 (includes buyer's premium), well above the $400,000/800,000 estimate. The painting, 13" x 101/4", is signed and dated 1969 in pencil and has a 1970 Allan Stone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Is Big
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
It was a hot day on the second day of fall in Geneseo, New York, and even the phone wires were hot as bidders from across the globe vied for their picks among 677 lots in Cottone Auctions' art, antiques, antiquities, and modern ... (Read More)
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(Show)San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show
San Francisco, California
Perhaps the last (in late October, although there were still two months to go) Bay Area tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the theme of the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques show, held October 25-29, 2017, was "Flower Power." Flowers and floral designs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2017 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
The American Ceramic Circle Book Award, established in 2005, recognizes English-language publications that advance the study of ceramics, present new scholarship and interpretations, and in doing so become important and standard references in the field.
The ACC Book Award Committee identified Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, written ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week Preview: January in New York City
For three generations, a large conclave of collectors and curators has gathered in New York City in mid-January for an annual treasure hunt. The Winter Antiques Show (WAS) at the Park Avenue Armory has been the catalyst for 64 years. Beginning in the late 1970s, auctions and ancillary shows multiplied ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Autumn Estates Sale in Atlanta
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Photos courtesy Ahlers & Ogletree
There are various ways of selling antiques, and the Atlanta firm of Ahlers & Ogletree-named for Robert Ahlers and his wife, Christy Ogletree Ahlers-has most of them covered. From their facilities on Miami Circle in the stylish Atlanta neighborhood of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Carmine Dance Hall Antiques Show
Carmine, Texas
"You can't park there."
I had just pulled my rental car under a tree on a hot Texas morning and was walking toward a group of men tending a grill under a pavilion when Tom Drummond, one of the locals, stepped forward to address me. "You can't park under that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Engel Collection, Parts One and Two
American Carnival Glass Association, Greenville, Ohio; Millersburg Glass Association, Millersburg, Ohio
Photos courtesy Jim Wroda Auction Services
The Karen and Doug Engel carnival glass collection brought a record of about $1.2 million in its first sale and realized another $300,000 in a second auction. The Engel collection was composed of about 600 ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)It's a Wonderful Life
The Young Collector
During some recent travels, we stayed with dear friends with two little children, each almost exactly three years younger than one of our children. So, of course, their lives are still full of the overwhelmingly large feelings that lead to tears on the battlefields of early childhood-meals and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Art Dolls
Topsy-turvy doll, reversible black and white cloth figures, early 1900s.
American Primitive Gallery, in association with John Molloy Gallery, will present Lost Figures & Found Dolls from January 4 to February 3 in New York City. Longtime dealers and collectors Aarne Anton of American Primitive Gallery and John Molloy have assembled ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 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)Splash on the Wall, a Flash on the Hand
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
What's selling right now?" At any auction house carrying varied merchandise, the current answer to that eternal market question is "art and jewelry." New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) has demonstrated its faith in this fact by adding separate focused ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Derik Pulito, Kensington, Connecticut
In the Trade
If you furnished your home with fine American country furniture 20 years ago, you're probably not happy that those $50,000 highboys you bought are now selling for $20,000 or less, but Derik Pulito is.
When we visited him at his restored center-chimney Colonial in Kensington, Connecticut, for this article, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York City Art Dealer Charged
On December 15, 2017, a complaint was unsealed in federal court charging Manhattan art dealer Ezra Chowaiki with wire fraud and transportation of stolen property. He allegedly used his art gallery located on Park Avenue to defraud art dealers and collectors of millions of dollars.
According to court papers, until November ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Violet Oakley's Grand Vision
A Grand Vision: Violet Oakley and the American Renaissance, the exhibition at the Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia, through January 21, 2018, gives new visibility to the depth and range of artist Violet Oakley's work at a time when narrative and illustration art has a new audience, and women painters are ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Shenandoah Valley Safes
A Book Review
Opening the Door: Safes of the Shenandoah Valley
by Kurt C. Russ and Jeffrey S. Evans Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, 2017, 136 pages, softbound, $44.95 plus S/H from Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates (www.jeffreysevans.com/education-and-research/) or (540) 434-3939, or at the museum store at the Museum of the Shenandoah ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Tall Clocks and Tide Pools: A New England Anniversary Adventure
The Young Collector
If you're going to tell a joke, you need to make it funny. Otherwise, you run the risk of no one realizing that you were kidding. Andrew came home this summer from a consultation with a client and said he had a challenging problem: how to get a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rediscovery of Rare Portrait by Henry Pelham
Specialists in American portraiture know Henry Pelham (1749-1806) as the sitter in the iconic portrait by his half-brother John Singleton Copley (1738-1815), Boy with a Flying Squirrel (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston), or for his fine miniature portraits on ivory. Just a few of his miniatures are recorded today, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Sword Donated to Museum of the American Revolution
A small silver-hilted American sword owned and used by Colonel Jonathan Pettibone (1710-1776) of Simsbury, Connecticut, during the Revolutionary War has been donated to the Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia. It was donated by a descendant of Pettibone and his family. The sword has never before been displayed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tears Mix with Triumph at Mebane
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
Instead of relying entirely on pickers and family consignments for his annual Americana sale on December 8, 2017, auctioneer Jon Lambert looked to his own considerable collection for a few lots. He chose seven pieces of redware-four jugs and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Exhibitor List Set for Winter Antiques Show
Who's in and who's out of the Winter Antiques Show (WAS), an active marketplace for American collectors and curators, is anticipated news. In recent years WAS has broadened in scope to include an eclectic mix of periods and materials. Interior designers shop the show for old master paintings, Tiffany lamps, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, December 2017
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.
Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party by Eliza E. Rathbone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Papers from the American Revolution's French Connection Soar at Fine Books and Manuscripts Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Papers from the archives of Francois Jean de Beauvoir, the Marquis de Chastellux (1734-1788), were the uncontested highlight of Christie's fine books and manuscripts sale on December 5, 2017, in New York City. Chastellux was a French major general under Rochambeau during the American Revolutionary ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sheffield Antiques Show Ends
After 69 years, the Sheffield Antiques Show, the longest continuously running show of its kind in Massachusetts, has concluded. Sponsored by the First Congregational Church of Sheffield (Old Parish), the show began in 1948 in the parish social rooms as a fund-raising venture for mission outreach. After three years the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Six Mississippi Residents Convicted of Removing Native American Artifacts
Six Mississippi residents were recently sentenced in U.S. District Court for their roles in illegally searching for and removing Native American artifacts from government land. According to the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Mississippi, the six people are Matthew Glen Arnold, 33, of Booneville; Jackie Dale Arnold, 59, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Days of Clocks and Watches
Bonhams, Christie's, Sotheby's, and Swann Galleries, New York City
I could have stayed home in Massachusetts. Like many, if not most, auction previewers and buyers these days, I could have looked and watched online. I would have saved eight hours of driving, 15 miles of walking, money spent on a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum of Dog to Open
A museum dedicated to dogs will open soon in North Adams, Massachusetts, only blocks from the country's largest contemporary art museum, MASS MoCA. The Museum of Dog (MOD) will feature a private collection of dog-inspired paintings, drawings, sculptures, photographs, and accessories.
The 8000-square-foot historic space, at the merging point of Union ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Saved by the Dolls
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Department director Ingmars Lindbergs described the Bonhams December 4, 2017, San Francisco auction of Native American art as "on a smaller scale but much more successful than the June 2017 sale." Lindbergs said, "Overall, I was happy" with sales that totaled close to $885,000 (including ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Year-End Jewelry Auctions Bring Holiday Cheer, Investment Possibilities
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(Auction)Freeman's American Paintings
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
More than 100 people filled the seats in the salesroom and stood at the back for Freeman's sale of American art on December 3, 2017. Thirty-one of them were successful, and they went home with paintings by Pennsylvania Impressionists, an Andrew Wyeth letter with a watercolor ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
Greenwich, Connecticut
The Greenwich Winter Antiques Show is one event under the aegis of Antiquarius, a suite of events held every December to benefit the Greenwich Historical Society. Its tag line is "Celebrate the Holidays in High Style," and a house tour, the antiques show, and a holiday boutique are traditions ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lizard Man Sells for $43,050
Skinner, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
American Indian and ethnographic art attracted bidders on December 2, 2017, to Skinner's Boston gallery, where bidders came and went according to the kind of objects on the block. The highlight was a 19th-century anthropomorphic figure of a lizard man that brought $43,050 (includes ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McInnis Unearths Warhol Trove
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
An unexpected trove of Andy Warhol material took an unexpected turn at John McInnis Auctioneers' December 1 and 2, 2017, sale in its Amesbury, Massachusetts, gallery. After lifelong Amesbury resident Harriett Woodsom Gould died at age 94 in November 2016, her family ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bid Now: Leland Little's Winter Quarterly Auction
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
Two and a half weeks before the December 2, 2017, catalog sale, Leland Little's online catalog arrived in 20,000 electronic mailboxes. The curious scrolled down the opening page and found a large green button urging them to "Bid Now." Six days ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lamps, Glass, and Jewelry Auction
James D. Julia, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
Not surprisingly, the name Louis Comfort Tiffany dominated the James D. Julia lamp, glass, and jewelry auction on December 1, 2017, in Fairfield, Maine. About 60 Tiffany lamps and chandeliers came up, led by a trio of lamps that topped the sale at $84,700 apiece ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Cyber Security
Computer Column #348
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Hackers recently made major information data breaches at large corporations (www.identityforce.com/blog/2017-data-breaches). Small businesses are not immune. Antiques malls often have computer point-of-sale, inventory, and dealer payment systems that are hackable. Sure, the local antiques mall is not as tempting a target as Equifax or the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)American Folk Art Museum's New Gallery in Long Island City
It's a hop, skip, and a jump from the American Folk Art Museum in Manhattan to its new Self-Taught Genius Gallery in Long Island City, Queens.
Hopping on the number 1 train across the street from the museum at Columbus Avenue and 65th Street, going three stops to 42nd Street, skipping ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Documented Embroidery from the Misses Patten School in Hartford, Connecticut, Returns Home
After a more than 200-year absence, a rare and important silk-embroidered coat of arms has returned home to the Oliver Ellsworth Homestead in Windsor, Connecticut, thanks to the generosity of a descendant of its maker. Crafted in 1801 by Delia Ellsworth (1789-1840), the youngest daughter of Oliver Ellsworth (1745-1807),1 while ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Manhattan Dealer Strikes Plea Deal in Ivory Case
The owner of a Manhattan-based antiques store and his corporation were charged with felonies in connection with illegal ivory sales in New York County Criminal Court in October, according to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC).
Alexander Sakhai and Alexander's Antiques Inc. of 1050 Second Avenue were each ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Long-running Hudson, Ohio, Antique Show to Change Location
Entering its 48th year, the Hudson Antique Show, Hudson, Ohio, is changing venues. The show had been located at the Clarion Inn in Hudson for the past several years, but the hotel recently was sold and will no longer host events. The new location will be the Days Inn in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Holiday Antiques Show Offers Some Show-Stoppers
Williamsburg, VirginiaThe 36th annual Holiday Antiques Show was held the weekend of November 24-26, 2017, at the Doubletree by Hilton, Williamsburg, Virginia. The event has become a mainstay for Black Friday shoppers who wish to avoid the hassle of outlet malls and standstill traffic.
This copybook is dated 1853 and is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Semple Kettle Stand Offered at Williamsburg Holiday Show
Along with offering booths filled with fine antiques, artwork, and collectibles, the 36th Annual Holiday Antiques Show in Williamsburg, Virginia, enjoyed the presence of a piece of American Colonial furniture royalty. Known simply as the "Semple" kettle stand or table, the carved mahogany masterpiece is attributed to Robert Walker of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Glass, Maritime Art, and Americana in Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Estates and collections make up most sales at Marion Antique Auctions in Marion, Massachusetts, bringing to market antique and historical objects and art from the area lately termed the "Southeast coast." For the November 25, 2017, auction at the Marion Music Hall, Frank McNamee and C. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2017
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(Auction)57th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
Having an obscure subject matter on top of a bizarre medium, a painting that sold halfway through the 57th Thanksgiving Americana auction held by Garth's Auctions in Delaware, Ohio, on November 24 offered an interesting analogy of the day itself.
Pennsylvania painting of a man ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Tea Caddy Collection
More than half a century ago my mother, Marnie Bramble, began collecting tea caddies. She often said that as a petite person (5'2"), she was attracted to small things and naturally drawn to the 4" to 5" highly decorative containers used for storing tea. Mother said she acquired her first ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawren Harris "Lake Superior" Sketch Brings $161,000 Canadian
The preparatory work for an iconic 44" x 49 15/16" oil on canvas, Lake Superior, by Lawren Harris (Canadian, 1885-1970) sold for $161,000 in Canadian dollars ($126,309 U.S.), including buyer's premium, on November 23, 2017, at a Toronto, Ontario, auction conducted by Consignor Canadian Fine Art. The estimate was $20,000/30,000 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Manafort Mystery
Editorial
When the federal grand jury's indictment of Paul Manafort and Richard Gates was handed up on October 27, court papers revealed a tantalizing mystery. Manafort, accused of laundering money in offshore accounts and failing to pay taxes on it, had an appetite for decorative arts.
The indictment lists Vendor C as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fendelman and Farrell Join Board of CPWP
Helaine Fendelman and Daniel Farrell have joined the board of directors of the Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP), a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the research and preservation of historic American paint-decorated plaster walls from 1800 to 1860. The mission of the organization is to survey and document paint-decorated ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dave and Debbie Guile, Showcase Antiques of CNY, Little Falls, New York
In the Trade
Dave and Debbie Guile's group shop in Little Falls, New York, doesn't appear to be all that remarkable. Their Showcase Antiques of CNY, which stands for Central New York, has about 100 brightly lit cases and 26 booth spaces. It has a pleasant variety of merchandise, with lots ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art November 2017
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
More than 60 people gathered in the salesroom for Christie's American art auction that took place on November 21, 2017, two days before Thanksgiving. While New York City was inundated with tourists hoping to attend the parade, view holiday windows, and shop, the auction house ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show Series in Boxborough
Gurley Antique Shows has announced a new show series at the Boxboro Regency Hotel in Boxborough, Massachusetts. The shows will be held Sunday, January 7, and Sunday, March 11, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Space is limited. Rachel Gurley said, "We are getting positive feedback from our dealers. The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2017
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)Western Paintings and Sculpture
Bonhams, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
All of the top 20 lots at Bonhams' Los Angeles/San Francisco November 20, 2017, California and Western paintings and sculpture auction were bought by private collectors. What happened to the dealers?
Aspens, Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado (40" x 30") by Colorado artist ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Bonhams
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams held its American art sale on November 20, 2017, the Monday of Thanksgiving week, and a small crowd gathered on the second floor of the Madison Avenue auction house to bid on the 71 lots that were offered. The sale totaled $1,294,750, and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doubleday House Antiques Gallery Holiday Open House
Doubleday House Antiques Gallery in Ballston Spa, New York, will host a holiday open house on Saturday, December 2, and Sunday, December 3, both days from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Additionally, the shop will hold an opening preview evening on Friday, December 1, from 5 to 8 p.m.
"We will ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 2017 Louisiana Purchase Auction
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
In 2017 Neal Auction Company's Louisiana Purchase Auction, a three-day event held November 17-19, fell on a busy weekend in New Orleans. Everyone was talking about the Thursday wedding of tennis star Serena Williams to Reddit cofounder Alexis Ohanian at the ... (Read More)
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