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(Auction)Preserving the History of Mankind
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Auctioneer and company president Kaja Veilleux floridly introduced the three-day auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, as "preserving the history of mankind." It was, perhaps, an overstatement, but not a serious one. The November 17-19, 2017, auction offered nearly 1500 lots of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Morning's Work Leads Sporting Art Auction's $2.5 Million Sale
Cross Gate Gallery/Keeneland, Lexington, Kentucky
Photos courtesy Cross Gate Gallery
It's a natural collaboration for Keeneland-where everyone who is anyone goes to buy the finest Thoroughbreds-and Cross Gate Gallery-where everyone who is anyone goes to purchase the finest sporting art. These Lexington, Kentucky-based businesses first teamed up in 2013 to bring to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art and Antiques at Tremont Auctions
Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts
Antiques from the estate of Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, show promoter, collector, and dealer Sonia Paine, who died last summer at 95, provided several bright spots in the Tremont Auctions November 19, 2017, sale in the Newton, Massachusetts, gallery. Paine, who opened an antiques shop in 1968, was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show
Richmond, Indiana
For anyone driving rural back roads to the Heartland Antique Show in Richmond, Indiana, on the morning of November 18, 2017, something quickly became apparent. It was the opening day of deer season, as evidenced by an abundance of pickup trucks and SUVs edged off country roads near adjacent ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art and Carved Chinese Plaques Set the Pace at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The November 18, 2017, cataloged auction at The Potomack Company was held at the firm's galleries in Alexandria, Virginia. The sale presented a mix of offerings from a broad group of categories, with a concentration of lots from an equally broad selection ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Comic and Disney Characters Star at Milestone Auctions
Milestone Auctions, Willoughby, Ohio
Photos courtesy Milestone Auctions
Vintage comic characters are a perennial favorite. When "the Mouse" is involved, it's a given that interest will follow. Milestone Auctions saw this phenomenon firsthand during its "Hectic Eclectic" vintage comic character event held on November 18, 2017.
Selling were more than 500 lots of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Freeman's
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's marketing focuses on selling collections. "Not only does it create a historical record, it delivers a better financial result" is the pitch of the Philadelphia auction house. Over the last four years, Freeman's has successfully offered large and small collections in separate catalogs. And when ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Little Knowledge and a Little Money Go a Long Way at Farrin's
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Every year for the past two decades or so, Rusty Farrin of Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, has piled together some of the best of a year's worth of gathering for presentation in a pre-Thanksgiving sale, which happened on November 15, 2017. A larger-than-usual crowd perused ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon Art + Design 2017
New York City
The Salon Art + Design, held November 9-13, 2017, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, exploded with color-from the neon shades of yellow, orange, and turquoise on the show's catalog to the deep reds, pinks, and greens of the stones used by jeweler and lead ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Sotheby's
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's American art auction on May 23, 2017, was all about the Rockwells that sold, whereas the sale on November 13, 2017, was all about the Rockwells that were withdrawn by a court order.
No Credit Given (Boy and Shopkeeper) by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), one of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Delaware Antiques Show
Wilmington, Delaware
Was it the buoyant stock market, the promise of tax cuts, realistic prices on dealers' tags in a tax-free state, or the hard work of dealers who reached out to clients ahead of time that that made shoppers ready to buy at the Delaware Antiques Show in Wilmington, Delaware, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Steady Sales at Hunt Country Antiques Fair
Middleburg, Virginia
The 26th Hunt Country Antiques Fair, held November 11 and 12, 2017, at the Hill School in Middleburg, Virginia, was produced, promoted, and managed by Dordy Fontinel Show Management, Inc. Fontinel manages several shows in the mid-Atlantic states, and attendees have become familiar with the consistent quality of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors Propel Fall Signature Toy Sale to $2.6
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions signed off on its November 11 and 12, 2017, Signature sale with the company's highest-grossing sales figures since the glory days of the sale of Donald Kaufman's collection (five auctions held from 2009 to 2011). The 1470-lot barrage of toys, banks, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Most Unusual Sale
Slotin Folk Art, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art
The November 11 and 12, 2017, Slotin Folk Art Auction was particularly strong, with heavy emphasis on African American and slave-related material, much from the Acacia Collection in Savannah and the Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. These lots appeared ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Miniature Portraits Lead at Evans Americana Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 33rd cataloged auction of Americana and fine antiques on November 10 and 11, 2017. These semiannual sales are designed to emphasize items from Virginia and the South.
As is his custom, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 American Art Fair
New York City
The tenth American Art Fair opened its doors to an enthusiastic crowd on Saturday evening, November 11, 2017, ushering in American Art Week in New York City with a private invitation-only preview. The show ran through November 15.
Seventeen dealers of 19th- and 20th-century American art covered the walls ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Rhinoceros Horn
Irish national Michael Hegarty, 40, pleaded guilty on September 29 in U.S. District Court in Miami to fraudulently facilitating the transportation and concealment of a rhinoceros horn libation cup that was smuggled from the United States to Great Britain in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
In mid-April 2012, Hegarty ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dan Morphy: The Man with a Specialized Plan
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
Dan Morphy had the good fortune to grow up in a collecting family. His physician father, Dr. John C. Morphy Sr., and his mother, Janet, took him along on the antiques trail, and Dan began acquiring and dealing his favorite specialties as a very ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Witek Sentenced for Mail Fraud
Daniel Witek, 54, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to time served (six months) by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny on November 8, 2017. He was also ordered to pay $2100 in restitution.
Witek was a volunteer at the Buffalo History Museum in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes at the Winter Antiques Show
Michael Lynch, Lucinda Ballard, and Arie Kopelman.
Arie L. Kopelman, the chairman of the Winter Antiques Show for the last 25 years, was made for the job. As president and CEO of Chanel, Inc. at its New York City headquarters, he is credited with transforming Chanel from a reported $357 million ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hoarder or Collector? Some Readings and Reflections
"Why do you collect all these newspapers?" I asked Uncle Arthur.
Uncle Arthur tilted his head and looked at me curiously from slitted eyes. "I don't collect them."
"Then why do you have so many?"
"I've been busy. I haven't had time to read them."
Uncle Arthur's papers closed around us like a dark ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art, Pottery, and Jewelry Headline Arts of the American West
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Denver, Colorado
Photos courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Provenance packs a punch, especially when discussing artwork being offered up by an institution. Not only do collectors know the items in question were probably handled and cared for properly, said artwork has a documented past.
These attributes added to the appeal of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Long Island Dealer Sentenced to Two Years for Trafficking Rhinoceros Horns
On September 18, Fengyi Zhou of Syosset, New York, the owner of New York USA Antiques, Inc., which specializes in Asian works of art, was sentenced to two years of imprisonment for one count of illegally trafficking endangered black rhinoceros horns.
In court papers, Zhou admitted to purchasing a rhinoceros horn ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Americana Collection of Lynne Dingus
Forsythes' Auctions, LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Forsythes' Auctions, LLC
Dispersal auctions of well-known antiques enthusiasts' collections are always met with mixed emotions. There is the sadness of the person's passing mixed with the realization that what was collected is now going to be broken up. Sometimes, as collectors, we are witnessing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Jewelry and a Painting by John Singer Sargent
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Grogan & Company celebrated its 30th year on November 5, 2017, with an approximately $2.55 million sale, drawn primarily from jewelry and paintings. The auction house is earning a reputation as the bijou auction house in Boston. It's small and located conveniently, and the small size ... (Read More)
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(Show)Mr. "Nice Guy" Manager of Milford Antiques Shows
Milford, New Hampshire
At 7 a.m. on November 5, 2017, I was entering the back door of the Hampshire Hills Athletic Club, not to play tennis but to visit one of Jack Donigian's antiques shows during his 42nd consecutive year of running them in the area, a few miles west of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Constitution Cane Tops Americana Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Collections from all over featured in Skinner's November 4, 2017, Americana auction in its Boston, Massachusetts, gallery, where collectors and the trade vied for good American furniture and other objects. Stephen L. Fletcher, who wears many hats as Skinner's chairman of the board, executive vice president, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Smaller York Show with Serious Buyers and High Quality
Greater York Antiques Show, York, Pennsylvania
The Greater York Antiques Show, held November 3 and 4, 2017, in York, Pennsylvania, was small, with 36 dealers, including a stand for Keystone Auctions and the Landis Valley Farm Museum, down from 84 at Greater York in May 2015, but quality was high, the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)3D Printing for Restoration
Computer Column #347
John P. Reid,
There have been important technical developments in three-dimensional printing by computer since column #339 was published in the March 2017 issue. It is now even possible to 3D print with concrete. A giant printer is wheeled to a site to print garden seats or ornaments ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maryland Woman Convicted of Theft During Cleanup of 2016 Flood
A 35-year-old Taneytown, Maryland, woman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for the theft of jewelry worth over $6200 from an Ellicott City antiques store during the cleanup in the aftermath of a July 2016 flood.
Melissa Lynn Poole entered an Alford plea before Howard County Circuit Court Judge ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2017
Ian McKay,
With the new London season still moving slowly into action, only two of the auctions featured in this month's selection are very recent. However, one of them saw a fairly modern, but already famous pocket watch sold for a staggering sum. The other new season sale covered here, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)To Arms! To Arms! The Greenbacks Are Coming!
James D. Julia, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
James D. Julia's three-day firearms blowout in Fairfield, Maine, October 31-November 2, 2017, featured selections from about ten major estates and collections from across the country and brought in about $15.1 million from weaponry aficionados. A healthy 82% sell-through rate contributed to the success. But ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair Arrested in Stolen Antiques Case
Justan E. Knapp. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mount Vernon's Blue Room Reopens
Here is the Blue Room in 2017.
The Blue Room in the Mount Vernon mansion reopened on October 7 after a seven-month restoration. Guided by new research and investigation, this bedchamber's transformation includes reproduction French wallpaper, cream-painted woodwork, and a bedstead draped in blue-printed cotton.
As the first room at the head ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Swann Galleries Sets Record for a Print by Hopper at $317,000
Swann Galleries set a new auction record for any print by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) at auction on November 2, when the rare etching The Lonely House, 1923, sold for a record $317,000 (includes buyer's premium) to a dealer buying via phone, well above the high estimate of $200,000. It was ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Privileged Life
The Young Collector
We like the new place, it turns out. First of all, most houses built in the 1970s were built by people who had lived in houses from the 1920s, so you don't even have to get out of your chair to find an outlet. There's none of this ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Morristown Antiques Show Discovery Sheds Light on Chase Family Portraits
Treasures turn up at the Morristown Armory Antiques Show. Second-generation antiques and art dealer Butch McGrath and his son, James, offer fascinating and beautiful objects found near their home in Scituate, Massachusetts. Last February, I spotted a handwritten label in their booth identifying material related to the famous American artist/educator ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Freeman's Sale of Rare Pendant Breaks Company Record
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Freeman's Sale of Rare Pendant Breaks Company Record; Debut of Freeman's Live Internet Bidding Platform
Photos courtesy Freeman's
The November 1, 2017, sale of a rare circa 1910 J.E. Caldwell and Co. Belle Epoque diamond pendant, centered by a fancy vivid yellow cushion-cut 10.59-carat diamond, "was a home run" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VADA to Move Annual Show to Vermont Antiques Week
The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association (VADA) will move its annual show in 2018 from July to the fall, becoming part of the slate of shows referred to as Vermont Antiques Week. The show is likely to be held at the Stratton Mountain Base Lodge, Stratton, Vermont, although plans have yet ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Woman Sues Theriault's
A collection of 67 dolls was consigned three years ago to Theriault's in Annapolis, Maryland, a well-known auction house specializing in antique dolls and childhood playthings since 1970. The consignment resulted in no payments until the consignor filed a lawsuit in California.
Bart I. Ring, attorney for plaintiff Phyllis Roberts, a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pook Gives It Back
Downingtown, Pennsylvania, auctioneer Ronald Pook called the other day to say that his crew had made a great find. It was not a Bonnin and Morris pickle dish nor John Cadwalader's sofa.
"We cleaned out an attic of items we can sell in an online sale, and just before closing up ... (Read More)
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(Show)The AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show 2017
New York City
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) put on a new show October 27-30, 2017, at Wallace Hall that overlapped with TEFAF New York Fall, held 18 blocks south at the Park Avenue Armory.
The show was managed for the AADLA by Brad Reh, a show promoter ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Out in the Cold
Editorial
A ruling handed down in a New York court in late September shines a light on a common practice in the trade and offers up a cautionary tale.
In June 1989 Reed Galin purchased a one-third interest in Andrew Wyeth's Ice Storm from his childhood friend and art dealer David Ramus. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Provenance Counts
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Northeast Auctions began as it meant to go for its fall weekend sale, October 28 and 29, 2017, in the Portsmouth gallery. Every seat and some extras were filled. Dealers and collectors were a large presence. The first lot of the first day was a southern ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)"Horology in Art"
The Ward Francillon Time Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts
Since 1980 the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC) has sponsored the Ward Francillon Time Symposium at sites around the country where members meet to compare clocks, view examples of interesting and historic clocks, share new discoveries, and renew friendships. National and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Millbach Sale
John M. Hess Auction Service, Newmanstown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy John M. Hess Auction Service
The large sandstone and limestone house of the miller at Millbach in Millcreek Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, is the finest and best-known example of Pennsylvania German architecture. It was built in 1752 by German immigrant Georg Muller (since ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ohio Country Antique Show
Wilmington, Ohio
Two and a half hours after the doors opened for the fall edition of the Ohio Country Antique show, held October 28, 2017, at Wilmington, Ohio, a man stood in the cold outside one of the entrances, looking at the wooden baker's rack hanging out of the rear of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Seaver & McLellan Antiques, Jaffrey, New Hampshire
In the Trade
A dealer I know who likes large, unusual, striking, or just plain odd pieces suggested that I interview Tom Seaver. When I walked into the Seavers' shop on the very busy Main Street of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, I saw why. Although Tom Seaver, who works with his daughter, ... (Read More)
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(Show)TEFAF New York Fall 2017
New York City
The European Fine Art Foundation's New York shows have grown in stature and have become a brand in the world of art fairs, emphasis on "world." The 95 exhibitors, who participate at the discretion of TEFAF and by invitation, come from Spain, Germany, France, the U.K., the U.S., ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doyle Raises Buyer's Premium
Doyle New York's new buyer's premium began on October 15. The new buyer's premium is 25% on the first $300,000 of the hammer price, 20% on the portion from $300,001 through $3,000,000, and 12.5% on the portion of the hammer price exceeding $3,000,000.
Originally published in the November 2017 issue of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Arms and Militaria at Auction
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
History was on view and for sale at Skinner, Inc.'s October 26, 2017, auction of historic arms and militaria-an auction that kept collectors and representatives of institutions in their seats throughout the sale. Bidding in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery was strong to the end. (All prices given ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wedding Bells to Ring
Maine antiques dealers Dennis Raleigh and Phyllis Sommer have announced their engagement to be married. The wedding date is to be determined.
Originally published in the November 2017 issue of Maine Antique Digest. (c) 2017 Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show with Free Admission
The Palm Beach Art, Antique & Design Show, presented by Palm Beach Show Group, will debut December 15-17 at the new Palm Beach Art, Antique & Design Showroom in Lake Worth, Florida. The Fall Palm Beach design show is the latest addition to the Palm Beach Show Group's portfolio of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Reimagining "The Peaceable Kingdom"
Fountain House Gallery, New York City
In a world filled with strife-hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis, genocide, ballistic-missile launches, terrorist attacks, and political uncertainties-seeking a peaceable kingdom through art might be a soothing antidote.
Thirty-five artists associated with Fountain House Gallery in New York City, which represents artists living with mental illness, were asked ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, November 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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(Fragment)"Kasten from Mid-Hudson Valley Collections"
Historic Huguenot Street, New Paltz, New York, has on display over a dozen American and Dutch kasten, or Dutch-style cupboards, from the museum's permanent collection and through selected loans, in the Jean Hasbrouck House (c. 1721) and Abraham Hasbrouck House (c. 1721-41). The exhibition will be open through December 17.
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Famous Faces
R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts, Manchester, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy R.O. Schmitt
Not from Timemagazine or a Ken Burns documentary, these are the faces of more than 1000 clocks and watches. They were sold at the October 21 and 22, 2017, auction by R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall Monroe Antique Show & Sale
Monroe, Washington
Fall is a time for settling in and reflection. It is the perfect time to explore and seek new treasures to enjoy once winter fully arrives. For those on the hunt for such treasures, many could be found at the Monroe Antique Show & Sale, held at the Evergreen ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Curiouser and Curiouser
Rago Arts, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago Arts
When Marion Harris, a regular exhibitor at the Outsider Art Fair and antiques shows, and her husband, dentist Jerry Rosenfeld, sold their house in Connecticut and moved full time to their New York City apartment, they talked to Miriam Tucker, a partner at ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Boston International Fine Art Show
Boston, Massachusetts
Now a mature 21, the Boston International Fine Art Show (BIFAS) had a decidedly upbeat feel for the October 19-22, 2017, event at the Boston Center for the Arts. The 2016 event fell just before the election, and certain pre-election jitters hung over the Cyclorama. This time was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Collectors' Sale at Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
Photos courtesy Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions held its fall collectors' auction on October 21, 2017, at the firm's Salem, Virginia, gallery. The sale offered a wide variety and an excellent selection of lots from within the expected categories of antiques and collectibles. From a sheer volume standpoint, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cleveland Connections Featured at Fall Sale
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photo courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Fine art featuring works of the Cleveland School of Art or pieces with a Cleveland connection have become Rachel Davis Fine Arts' go-to setup. And why not? Located in Cleveland, Ohio, Rachel Davis knows the history of the area and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Auction of the David and Janice Frent Collection Sees $911,538
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
One down, seven to go. "This was a very successful sale by any measure-number of views, number of new bidders, number of telephone bidders, you name it," stated Tom Slater, director of Americana auctions for Heritage Auctions, in reference to the company's Dallas, Texas, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Arts Auction, Featuring Americana
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
The Kentucky Chippendale secretary desk and bookcase recently sold by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, for nearly half a million dollars offers a glimpse into the narrow yet highly competitive market for the best furniture from the Bluegrass State. Offered during Cowan's October 20 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sammons Indicted
On October 20 Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. announced that art broker Timothy Sammons, 61, had been indicted for stealing millions of dollars through a scheme involving the sale of valuable artwork. The New York State Supreme Court indictment charged Sammons with grand larceny in the first and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Photos and Photo Books, Art and Storytelling
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Auction Galleries
"To collect photographs is to collect the world." Susan Sontag, On Photography (1977)
"Art & Storytelling" was the title Swann photography department head Daile Kaplan gave to the sale of photos and photo books that took place in the auction house's New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Schofield Collection of Political Memorabilia
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
All prices include buyer's premium
By the time Daniel C. Schofield's collection of political broadsides and other memorabilia came to auction at Eldred's auction gallery in East Dennis, Massachusetts, on October 18, the staff had come to refer to the late collector ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture, Decorative Arts, and Silver
Leslie Hindman, Chicago, Illinois
Leslie Hindman's furniture, decorative arts, and silver auction held October 16 and 17, 2017, offered everything from a 135-lot collection of thimbles to a pair of small ship's cannons, that had been fired from the Eiffel Tower to signal daily openings and closings of the 1889 World's ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fine Fall Weekend at Fishersville
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The 61st edition of the Shenandoah Antiques Expo was held October 13-15 at the Augusta Expoland in Fishersville, Virginia. The Fishersville show is organized and managed by Heritage Promotions.
Fishersville is always a good show and a fun experience. Historically, dealers offer a full spectrum of fine ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Show at Thompson's Point
Maine Antiques Exposition, Portland, Maine
After a false start or two, John and Elizabeth DeSimone of Goosefare Antiques and Promotions, Wells, Maine, finally got the Maine Antiques Exposition at Thompson's Point in Portland, Maine, up and running on October 14 and 15, 2017. The building wasn't ready for the first planned ... (Read More)
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(Show)43rd Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
St. Charles, Illinois
The 43rd annual Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show was held October 14 and 15, 2017. It is an event that has become as much a reunion as it is a show, where for decades buyers have returned to see what their favorite dealers bring. Planned and manned by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Take Your Time
Editorial
A local downtown parking space is worth $25,000 a year in local sales dollars, according to the organization Maine Preservation. Parking spaces in Wiscasset, Maine-and those five-figure sales dollars-are scheduled to be eliminated if the Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) gets its way.
Maine Preservation, founded in 1972 to promote and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NYC Architectural Rendering Exceeds Expectations
A 37" x 19" color pencil rendering by John C. Wenrich of the Art Deco skyscraper at 70 Pine Street, a Manhattan landmark, brought $5000 (includes buyer's premium) at Worth Auctions' October 15 sale in Freeville, New York. According to the auction house, the price is a record for the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Timothy Sammons and Timothy Sammons Inc. Sued over Painting
"Sammons is a known fraudster, who has stolen and sold works of art." Those strong words open the summary section of a lawsuit filed in New York on August 7 by Lesley Joan Hambleden against Timothy Sammons and Timothy Sammons Inc. of London. Hambleden is alleging breach of contract, breach ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Argues to Fight Court Case in U.S. Instead of Paris
An aborted deal with a French buyer has David Benrimon Fine Art LLC of New York City asking a federal court to rule that any legal battle should be fought on U.S. soil rather than in France.
On February 21 Benrimon agreed to sell Josef Albers's 1962 Study for Homage to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Controversial California Autograph Law Changed
On October 12 California Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 228 into law, immediately reducing impediments to companies doing business in California. The bill corrects the problems created by provisions in AB 1570, a law regulating signed memorabilia that was passed in September 2016.
AB 1570 enacted new provisions in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Scammer Sentenced
Vincent Lopreto, 52, was sentenced on October 11 to five and a half to 11 years in state prison for creating and selling counterfeit pieces of contemporary art to prospective buyers around the world. The defendant pleaded guilty in New York State Supreme Court to grand larceny in the third ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Mark Thormahlen, Yellow Church Antiques, Millbrook, New York
In the Trade
Mark Thormahlen used to work for the venerable English antique furniture firm Stair & Company on Madison Avenue in New York City (not to be confused with Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York, an auction house), and it shows. His Yellow Church Antiques-housed in a 19th-century church on U.S. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)From the Collection of: Musings on Human Nature and Collecting
You see it at antiques shows, in print ads and auction catalogs, and on dealers' websites-"from the collection of " or "ex-(insert name here)." Sometimes the item is cited as having appeared in a book that displays someone's treasures, and collectors seem to find an object compellingly attractive and precious ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect
A Book Review
Andrew Wyeth: In Retrospect
by Patricia Junker and Audrey Lewis with Henry Adams, Karen Baumgartner, Christopher B. Crosman, Mary Adam Landa, Christine B. Podmaniczky, Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Joyce Hill Stoner, and Shuji Takahashi The Brandywine River Museum of Art and the Seattle Art Museum, in association with Yale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Illinois Man Sentenced on Counterfeit Securities Fraud Charges
Scott Meherg, 36, of Chicago, Illinois, was sentenced to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $3161 on charges involving his possession and use of counterfeit checks.
According to court documents, on four occasions in March 2015, Meherg used counterfeit checks to purchase merchandise at ... (Read More)
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(Show)The ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show
Amherst, Massachusetts
One of the very great pleasures of an antiques show is the freedom to touch the object, to feel its form and surface. What is particularly appealing about the Antiques Dealers' Association of America/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show is color and surface. Dealers bring out their best, and those antiques ... (Read More)
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(Show)Falling for Rhinebeck
Rhinebeck, New York
It was fall; the leaf colors were late; the weather was like summer; but one thing remained constant, the annual fall Antiques at Rhinebeck, managed by Frank Gaglio and Barn Star Productions. Great dealers, great knowledge, sexy merchandise-wait a minute, did I get your attention-yes, sexy.
I do not ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and International Sale
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
The Americana in Pook & Pook's Americana and international sale on October 7, 2017, was a good test of that market. There was plenty of what the trade calls "smalls." Many smalls were Pennsylvania German, and some brought big prices.
Thanks to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Exhilarating" Auction at Wolfs
Wolfs Art Dealers & Appraisers, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Wolfs
Michael Wolf, 71 years young, has no plans to slow down. Wolf, the owner of Wolfs Art Dealers & Appraisers in Cleveland, Ohio, was recently in San Francisco promoting several of the artists the gallery represents; this was only weeks after conducting ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Homeward Bound
The Young Collector
Have you ever seen one of those old submarine movies where the cook is rummaging under bunks for potatoes? Or maybe one where the crew is running out of air, and there are only minutes to spare before everyone suffocates or has a complete mental breakdown? While we ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's American Art
New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's sold $3.5 million in its mid-season American art sale on October 6, selling 114 lots out of 158 offered, for a sell-through rate of 72.2%. The estimate was $2.9/4.4 million.
Highlights of the sale, which attracted a few dozen buyers in the salesroom, included works by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cynthia Herbert Named President of the AAA Board of Directors
Cynthia Herbert was appointed president of the board of directors of the Appraisers Association of America (AAA) effective July 1. Herbert served as vice president of AAA from July 2015 through June 30, 2017, and is president of Appretium, LLC. She is a certified member of the AAA in household ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Quincy Adams Daguerreotype Sells to National Portrait Gallery for $360,500
Photo courtesy Sotheby's
The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., paid $360,500 (including buyer's premium) for a newly discovered half-plate daguerreotype of John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) at Sotheby's sale of photographs in New York City on October 5. The photograph was made in 1843, only four years after the invention ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, October 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.
At the Threshold of Brilliance: The Brief but Splendid Career of Harold ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)After 56 Years, A La Vieille Russie to Move One Block
A La Vieille Russie (ALVR), an art and antiques gallery founded in Kiev in 1851, is moving this fall to a new location a block from its headquarters at the corner of Fifth Avenue and 59th Street in Manhattan. The new gallery, designed specifically to showcase its collection of antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Scoundrel, the Bore, the Madman, and Other Collector Stereotypes in Books and Movies
Early on in Henry James's novella The Aspern Papers, published in 1888, the main character, who is a young, unnamed American writer and publisher, is given a diagnosis by a friend. She calls his obsession with acquiring a certain cache of letters penned by a once renowned, romantic poet, Jeffrey ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Getting Online in the Boondocks
Computer Column #346
John P. Reid,
The Internet is hard to get in the boondocks. Many of us depend on the Internet for news, e-mail, social media, banking, purchases, travel help, research, amusement, and more. Most cell phones can connect to the Internet. However, many applications are difficult or impossible on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Alderfer's Catalog Sale
Alderfer Auction Co., Hatfield, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Alderfer Auction Co.
Sherry Russell, who bought Alderfer Auction Co. last January, sees her job as helping people through life's transitions. "Our job at Alderfer's is finding solutions. We are in the business of selling for people downsizing, settling estates, redecorating, or just wanting to ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2016
A Book Review
American Furniture 2016
Edited by Luke Beckerdite
The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2016, 190 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, 1-800-421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
For more than two decades, Chipstone's American Furniture journal has been the annual publication of record for the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Art Masterpieces in Queens: American Folk Art Museum to Open New Space
The American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) in New York City will soon have space devoted solely to the exhibition of works from its permanent collection. It's located in Long Island City, Queens, at the museum's Collection and Education Center (47-29 32nd Place). The gallery space is 1800 square feet, which ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Vermont Pickers Market
Ludlow, Vermont
When Antiques in Vermont, the final show of Vermont Antiques Week, folded last year after losing its venue, promoters Kris Johnson and Steve Sherhag saw an opportunity. The Vermont Pickers Market show was born.
To create the show, the pair used a page out of promoter Frank Gaglio's show playbook-utilize ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Weston Antiques Show
Weston, Vermont
For the 56th time, the Weston Antiques Show opened its doors to dealers and collectors. The show, held September 29 and 30 with a gala preview on Thursday evening, September 28, was the kickoff for Antiques Week in Vermont, a slate of five shows in four days.
The Weston Playhouse, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sales Success on the Fields of Liberty
Liberty Antiques Festival, Liberty, North Carolina
Commenting on what attracts customers to vendors at the Liberty Antiques Festival is always risky. What appears to be a key to sales success may be confined to a specific time and place. Chance and good luck also play a role in everyday living and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stratton's Swan Song
Antiques at Stratton Mountain, Stratton, Vermont
If all goes according to plan, the Antiques at Stratton Mountain antiques show will cease to exist next year. Its slot in Antiques Week in Vermont will be replaced by the annual show produced by the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association (VADA), likely to be held ... (Read More)
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