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(Auction)Woodburys and Wood Planes at Moore Auction
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
For the cornerstone of his September 30 auction in York, Maine, Hap Moore landed a 77-lot collection of antique tools from the estate of a Wells, Maine, collector, headed by a pair of wooden planes by two of the earliest known American makers.
A molding plane ... (Read More)
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(Show)Original Round Top Antiques Fair Celebrates 50 Years
Round Top, Texas
The Big Red Barn Event Center, home of the Original Round Top Antiques Fair, stands on a hill about five miles north of the town of Round Top, Texas, and half a century removed from the small antiques show that started a phenomenon in the middle of practically ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Ludlow Antiques Show
Ludlow Antiques Show, Ludlow, Vermont
The third antiques show to open during Vermont Antiques Week was the Ludlow Antiques Show, held in the Ludlow Community Center September 29 and 30. Of all the shows held during the week, it's the most low key. There are no walls, carpeted aisles, or five-figure ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Okemo Show
Okemo Antiques Show, Ludlow, Vermont
The 2017 Okemo Antiques Show, held at the Okemo Mountain Resort in Ludlow, Vermont, was the second of the Vermont Antiques Week shows to open, beginning with a preview from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday, September 29. The show continued on Saturday, September 30, from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Family Archive of Pioneer Missionary Correspondence Tops Star-Spangled Printed and Manuscript Americ
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
A ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Brimfield: Yesterday & Today
Brimfield, Massachusetts
I sometimes play a trick on myself when I wake up too early and want more sleep. I imagine I'm lying in my sleeping bag in our old Volkswagen Vanagon at Brimfield and it's time to get up and get ready for the opening of the field where we're ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Art
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
Wheeling into the parking lot for Leslie Hindman's September 27, 2017, sale of American and European art, we saw that every space was filled. We know that the current market for 19th-century paintings is soft. What could explain all the Illinois and out-of-state license plates? Then ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Eliminates Buyer's Premium for Online-Only Sales
In a move designed to attract new buyers, Sotheby's will eliminate the buyer's premium for its online-only sales beginning September 16. The announcement, made in a Form 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission filing on August 22, is "the most noteworthy change," said Tad Smith, president and chief executive officer, in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Edward Albee
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
For three and half hours on an Indian summer morning, Sotheby's seventh-floor salesroom was transformed into theater-one filled with fans, friends, art dealers, and collectors, who came to bid and watch as the collection of American playwright Edward Albee (1928-2016) came to auction. The September ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Columbus Letter Sells for $751,500
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
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(Fragment)2017 ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Returns in New Location
On Columbus Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 7 and 8, the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. (ADA) will bring together some of the nation's finest dealers for its annual art and antiques show featuring early American art, antiques, and design. This year the show will be held in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, October 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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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2017
Ian McKay,
An eight-piece selection of assorted Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities kicks off this month's selection, which also presents a spectacular suit of armour and a miniature portrait that recalls a long-lasting royal love affaire. A real life "American in Paris," pointillist perfection from the brush of Theo van ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago Design Weekend
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
David Rago gave his $6 million, three-day, 1400-lot sale, September 22-24, an A-minus. "Some parts of the market did well, but others were disappointing," he said after selling from five catalogs covering seven segments of the marketplace.
Rago had high hopes for this sale of half ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Kids Are All Here
World Maker Faire, Queens, New York
I went to what I thought would be the antithesis of an antiques show this past fall. The event, on the weekend of September 23 and 24, 2017, in Queens, New York, was the eighth annual World Maker Faire (www.makerfaire.com). For those who have ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Chairs and Coney Island Bathers Lead at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its live fall catalog auction on September 23. As has been the case for some time, The Potomack Company's owner, Elizabeth Wainstein, scheduled the live auction for Saturday with an online-only sale for the following Tuesday, September 26. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The September York Show
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
The 169th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, September 22-24, was the most recent in the long succession of Original York Antiques Shows begun by Mable Renner in 1934, continued by Paul and Dorothy Ettline beginning in 1956, and then taken ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's Americana
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
The week the United Nations convened in New York City to discuss peace and security, climate change, humanitarian aid, human rights, and economic development was not the best time to hold an Americana sale. John Hays, Christie's deputy chairman, apparantly did not realize that Donald ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Worldwide Participation at Bonhams' New York Jewelry Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams' September 19 fine jewelry sale in New York City brought jewelry of many eras and styles to the auction block. At the top was a 16.90-carat step-cut diamond-D color, internally flawless, type IIa-that sold to a private U.S. buyer for $1,807,500 (includes buyer's premium).
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Characterizes Quinn's Fall Auction
Quinn's Auction Galleries, Falls Church, Virginia
Photos courtesy Quinn's Auction Galleries
Quinn's Auction Galleries held its fall cataloged sale of fine and decorative arts at its Falls Church, Virginia, galleries on September 16. The auction combined consignments from its central Virginia location in Louisa with a wide array of offerings already prepared ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wadsworth Atheneum Corrals Remington "Bronco" for $510,000
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Connecticut played a small but noteworthy part in the short life of Frederic Sackrider Remington (1861-1909). The renowned artist briefly attended Yale University, which later gave him an honorary degree, and he briefly lived in Ridgefield, Connecticut, where he died at age 48. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)September Auction of Shaker Objects
Willis Henry Auctions, Hancock, Massachusetts
Part three of the superb Shaker collection of professors Gerald "Jerry" McCue (1913-2011) and Miriam McCue (who turned 100 on November 4) came to market on September 16 at Willis Henry's auction at the Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Massachusetts. It was the final dispersion of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toy Auction
Pook & Pook Inc./Noel Barrett, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook/Noel Barrett
"These days you have to add a fourth 'D' to the reasons for an auction; in addition to death, debt, divorce, add downsizing," said Noel Barrett at the September 15 toy sale he masterminded in partnership with Pook & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Fan Fire IV" Heats Up Weschler's Rockville Debut
Weschler's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Rockville, Maryland
Photos courtesy Weschler's Auctioneers & Appraisers
Weschler's Auctioneers & Appraisers held its first cataloged auction at its new Rockville, Maryland, location on September 15. The sale was a doubleheader of sorts, with two sessions and with the two separate catalogs bound into a single volume.
The morning ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brock Jobe to Discuss C.K. Davis Collection
On Wednesday, September 20, at 6 p.m., Schwenke Auctioneers in Woodbury, Connecticut, will host an "Expert Eye" decorative arts forum program. The speaker will be scholar, author, instructor, and research expert Brock Jobe.
Jobe will discuss recollections of C.K. Davis and his relationship with Henry Francis du Pont, founder and benefactor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Sells Palmatary Map of Chicago, Expands to Atlanta
When Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago offered an aerial pre-Great Chicago Fire view of Chicago in the September 13 sale of fine books and manuscripts, the staff knew that it would do well, but they had no idea how well. So they set what Gretchen Hause, director of fine books ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Ups and Downs of Deaccessioning
The Young Collector
At the time of this writing, it's the middle of summer in a mostly boxed-up house with two bored small children whose entertainment choices seem to be digging in the dirt, riding a tricycle in circles on the deck, reading, coloring, watching whatever PBS is showing, and seeing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Summer Summary of Jewelry Sold at Hindman and Skinner
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Skinner, Inc.
In the last days of summer, auctions at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago and Skinner, Inc. in Boston brought a vast array of fine jewelry to market, including many antique offerings. Each auctioneer held a live sale. Hindman had 1609 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bruce Phillips, Fair Trade Antiques, Heath, Massachusetts
In the Trade
Bruce Phillips didn't get into this business because he loved antiques. He got into it because he loved traveling to faraway places-Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, India-and selling antiques was a way to underwrite the traveling life. "It's an accidental career," he said. He's been doing it for almost ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pure and Simple Show in Indiana Changes Dates
The Pure and Simple Antique Show in Kokomo, Indiana, is changing dates. In 2018 the show will be held on June 23. According to the promoter, the show date is being changed for numerous reasons but mostly because of already established shows in the East.
Bobbie Pries of Westfield Center, Ohio, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eclectic Sale in Cambridge
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
When CRN Auctions' Karin J. Phillips and Carl R. Nordblom put together an auction, collectors and the trade take notice-it's bound to be eclectic. The September 10 sale in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery was just that. Furniture and smalls flourished.
A Boston Classical mahogany bookcase in three parts, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Estates Auction Flexes Its Strong Points
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
While the early fall sale at Neal Auction Company has in the past been a smaller lead-in to the Louisiana Purchase Auction in November, bidders did not hold back in the September 9 and 10 event. Whether going for 19th-century furniture ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Sometimes it just works. That was the case during the September 9 sale of Americana held by Garth's Auctions in Delaware, Ohio. The multi-consignor event featured an assortment as diverse as it was interesting. "The property worked really, really well together," said Jeff Jeffers, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Caren Collection
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's
Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr, a 19th-century French journalist, is best known for tossing around a concept that today is most often expressed this way: "The more things change, the more they stay the same."
That thinking fit in well when Cowan's Auctions sold more than 400 lots ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Museum of the American Revolution
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
If the musical Hamilton is responsible for the current boost of interest in our Founding Fathers, the new Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia, which opened on April 19 (the 242nd anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord), should propel American history to a much wider audience. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Yes, There Will Be a 2018 Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show preview party on April 19, 2018, will take place in its purpose-built tent at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, and the show will continue on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 20, 21, and 22. The tent will be pitched closer to the river than it ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)"American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent"
A Book Review
American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargentby Kathleen A. FosterPhiladelphia Museum of Art, 2017, 496 pages, hardbound, $65.
For those lucky enough to have seen the exhibition of 140 American watercolors at the Philadelphia Museum of Art March 1-May 14, the accompanying huge catalog is a bonus. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cabinetmaking in Rural New England
The exhibition Planed, Grained, & Dovetailed: Cabinetmaking in Rural New England at Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, highlights rarely seen objects and primary source materials from OSV's collections. Centered on three main themes-form, process, and people-the exhibition examines the tools, products, and livelihoods of rural cabinetmakers in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Queens Gallery Owner and Employee Charged with Illegal Trafficking of Elephant Ivory
A Long Island City, New York, gallery owner and a salesperson for the appointment-only business have been charged with illegally selling a sculpture made with elephant ivory. They were charged with selling the sculpture in June to state undercover investigators for more than $2500. In New York, the sale of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Completes the Maine Summer Auction Rush
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maine
Four names dominated the September 2 and 3 end-of-summer coastal Maine auction in Newcastle. One was Robert Foster, the owner and auctioneer who presided over his usual standing-room-only crowd. The others were Vern Broe and Louis Michel Eilshemius with a dash of Louis Vuitton thrown in.
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Soap Hollow Sells at Mishler's
Mishler Auction Service, Davidsville, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Mishler Auction Service
Because it is so distinctive, Soap Hollow furniture makes an impression on collectors. Its bright red color and unique inscription ("Manufactured by...") across the front of a piece make it memorable. On the one hand, it is relatively abundant, perhaps being the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Owners and Store Plead Guilty in New York Ivory Case
Irving Morano, 47, Samuel Morano, 49, and Metropolitan Fine Arts & Antiques Inc. have pleaded guilty in New York State Supreme Court to varying degrees of illegal commercialization of wildlife. They were charged with selling and offering for sale illegal elephant ivory.
As part of their sentence, the defendants forfeited all ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Thinking about Taxes
Computer Column #345
John P. Reid,
The middle of summer does not seem a likely time to think about federal income tax, but April 2018 will be too late. Now is a good time to start planning if any changes in filing procedures are being considered. Antiques collectors and dealers who ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fire Buckets Bring $19,550
A pair of painted leather fire buckets sold for $19,550 (includes buyer's premium) at Central Mass Auctions Inc. in Worcester, Massachusetts, on August 31. The buyer was in the house, and the underbidder was on the phone. The buckets bear the name Lebaron Putnam, the date 1826, and "Prompt in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lady of the Canyon: Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter, Interior Designer, Architect, Collector
I didn't expect to return from a trip to Grand Canyon National Park with a story for M.A.D. readers, but while there I learned about an early interior designer, architect, and collector, Mary Elizabeth Jane Colter (1869-1958), who deserves far more recognition than she has. A significant body of her ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amelia Jeffers Resigns from Garth's and Selkirk
Amelia Jeffers has resigned as president of her family's two auction houses, Garth's in Delaware, Ohio, and Selkirk in St. Louis, Missouri. She stepped down for personal reasons. Jeff Jeffers remains as CEO and lead auctioneer for both businesses.
"My hope would be that I'm not gone from that industry permanently, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Zipps of Crocker Farm: All in the Family
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
Two catalysts were involved in the creation of the Crocker Farm specialty auctions in Sparks, Maryland: the long-held desire of Anthony Zipp to run his own business, and the family's passionate interest in American stoneware and redware. Tony describes how he, his wife, Barbara, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show
Baltimore, Maryland
The Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, held August 24-27, was slimmer this year, down about one-third of the number of dealers from a year ago. The gate was down as well on a weekend with the most glorious weather of the summer. The majority of dealers said selling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Artists Dominate Thomaston Auction
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
This year, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine, expanded its end-of-summer sale to three days, opening the August 25-27 presentation with about 220 paintings and sculptures from Maine artists, some contemporary, some earlier, some living, and some dead. Company vice president John Bottero explained, "We ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Rise and Fall of Political Collectibles
APIC Midwest Regional Show, Indianapolis
Featuring 75 tables of vintage and contemporary memorabilia, the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) held its annual Midwest regional show in Indianapolis on August 26. The event was a microcosm of political collecting and could easily be summarized by a number of bullet points.
* The cycle ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Director of Waverly Rare Books
Catherine Payling, MBE, has been appointed director of Waverly Rare Books, a Quinn's Auction Galleries subsidiary in Falls Church, Virginia. Payling's 25-year career in creative and nonprofit industries includes 15 years as curator/director of the Keats-Shelley House Museum in Rome, Italy and two years as an adjunct professor at Georgetown ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2017
Ian McKay,
A lengthy leonine leader in this month's "Letter" is followed by some miniature masterpieces, which if not shown here "Actual Size" are nonetheless impressive. Russian works of art of various kinds also feature in this month's selection, along with some ancient Roman pool attendants, Sevres and Meissen porcelain, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Permitted but a Pain
Editorial
We received a letter from a dealer who attended an Americana auction in New York that had a large selection of clocks.
"When I arrived on Friday to view the clocks in person, I noted that all the ivory escutcheons for the door keys on the clocks were missing," the letter ... (Read More)
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(Show)Short and Sweet with Ice Cream
Coastal Maine Antiques Show, Damariscotta, Maine
This year the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) produced a show for the 20th time at the Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, Maine. On August 23 MADA and the Damariscotta River Association partnered for the annual Coastal Maine Antiques Show. The former dairy farm has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)1stdibs Changes Its Commission Structure
1stdibs (www.1stdibs.com), an online art and antiques marketplace, announced in July to dealers that it was changing its commission structure. 1stdibs will now charge 15% on the first $10,000 of an order and 5% on the value of an order above $10,000. The firm has been adding a processing fee ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Two New Hires at Morphy Auctions
Lucas Wentz and Russ Withem have joined Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania.
Wentz will serve as director of the company's antique fishing and tackle division. He grew up in a home filled with hunting and fishing antiques and has over a half-century of hands-on experience handling these specialties. His father was a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 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)Wyeth Eclipsed by Prendergast and Others
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Antiques, Rockland, Maine
"I didn't time it for the eclipse, believe me," Bruce Gamage promised, regarding his August 21 summer auction in Rockland, Maine. His larger annual sales are usually hallmarked by items from the Wyeth family of artists, but this time the Wyeth works were eclipsed by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Free Admission to Worcester Art Museum in August
The Worcester Art Museum (WAM) will continue one of its most popular summertime traditions: free admission for the entire month of August. "Free August" includes access for everyone to special exhibitions, the permanent galleries, and WAM's August programming.
"We are delighted to offer free access to WAM again this summer, thanks ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Renewed Energy for Antiques with Fine History
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Ron Bourgeault got things off to a rollicking start at his annual summer sale August 18-20 beneath a tent at Northeast Auctions' Treadwell House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where it felt a lot like the old days. Eight phones jumped for lot one, a 41/2" x ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rockwell's "Tough Call" Study Sells for $1.68 Million at Heritage
Norman Rockwell's 1948 study for Tough Call, printed on the April 23, 1949, Saturday Evening Post cover, sold online for $1,680,000 at Heritage Auctions' Platinum Night Sports Collectibles auction on August 20.
The study depicts John "Beans" Reardon, a Major League umpire, and two of his colleagues, Larry Goetz and Lou ... (Read More)
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(Show)Degrees of Good
Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn, Ellsworth, Maine
The history of Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, goes back about 190 years to when lumber baron Colonel John Black built his monumental 180-acre estate. In 1928 his grandson George Nixon Black Jr. bequeathed the property to the Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Opens Maine's Antiques Week and Closes for $3.8 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
Maine's late summer bundle of antiques shows and auctions that usually happens the last week of August got a kick-start this year when James D. Julia, Inc. moved its centerpiece auction a week earlier to August 16-18 in Fairfield, Maine. Fine arts and antiques department head ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique American Indian Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The origins of the Antique American Indian Art Show date back 39 years when 16-year-old Kim Martindale worked with dealer Don Bennett to put on an antique Indian art show and an antique ethnographic/tribal art show at the Santa Fe Hilton.
Those shows became the Whitehawk shows. After ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Iowa Court Affirms Auctioneer Overcharge
Two courts in Iowa have ruled in favor of a consignor who claimed that he was overcharged. On August 16 the Court of Appeals of Iowa affirmed the 2016 lower court ruling that auctioneer Tom Harris and Tom Harris Auction Center, Marshalltown, Iowa, had overcharged a consignor, Kevin Rowley, who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Straightforward and Simple
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
A dictionary definition of the word "auction" reads "a publicly held sale at which property or goods are sold to the highest bidder." That's it, straightforward and simple. It doesn't say anything about reserves, absentee bidders, or buyer's premium. That's how James and Dale Talbot ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Draws a Crowd
Whitehawk Antique Indian & Ethnographic Art Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Marcia Berridge combined a beloved antique Indian art show with a beloved antique ethnographic/tribal art show to create one mixed show, the Whitehawk Antique Indian & Ethnographic Art Show, held August 11-14 at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Objects of Art Santa Fe
Santa Fe, New Mexico
At Objects of Art Santa Fe, held August 11-13 (with an opening night party on the 10th) at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, the first of three major (mostly) antiques shows that take place in August in Santa Fe, New Mexico, every dealer was hoping for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collections of Americana Offered
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Collections, collections, collections. Skinner's August 13 Americana sale in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery brought antiques from several choice collections. Phone bidders and the Internet were particularly active. Skinner's Chris Fox said before the auction that the sale drew more phone bidders than had been seen in a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 60th Annual NHADA Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
In the sometimes stuffy world of art and antiques, the annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association show is a breezy summer affair. Held annually for 60 years and this year August 10-12, the show has evolved into one of the most important marketplaces ... (Read More)
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(Show)MidWeek in Manchester: Barn Star's Boutique Show
Manchester, New Hampshire
If it's Wednesday afternoon in New Hampshire during the annual Antiques Week events, you must be inside the JFK Memorial Coliseum for the two-day Barn Star Productions show, MidWeek in Manchester, managed by Frank Gaglio.
What really seemed to please patrons were the new booth layouts, the whole Cinderella ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester
Manchester, New Hampshire
In its sixth year, Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair opened to a great crowd on the morning of August 9. (The show continued on August 10.) About 500 people waited for the doors to open at 10 a.m. at the Sullivan Arena of St. Anselm College in ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Bits and Bytes
Computer Column #344
John P. Reid,
This column has dealt recently with heavy topics such as Internet fraud and chain store retail analytics. We will be lighter this month. Antiquers are multifaceted. Their interests go far beyond old stuff. We will list 12 small jobs a computer can do, often at ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Americana Celebration Antiques Show
Concord, New Hampshire
The atmosphere was buoyant from the very beginning at the Americana Celebration antiques show on August 8 in the Douglas Everett Arena in Concord, New Hampshire. Early buyers with their arms full streamed toward the exit. Some went right back for another round of shopping after depositing their ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More Legal Trouble for Antiquorum
On June 2 California collector Behrooz Sarafraz filed suit against Antiquorum, the high-end watch auction house, claiming that he hadn't been paid for his consignment.
According to the suit, Sarafraz consigned a Rolex watch and seven vide poche porcelain plates for a February 23 sale in New York City. He had ... (Read More)
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(Show)Young at Heart: The Deerfield Antique Show
Deerfield, New Hampshire
The show was young, a first-timer for the sister/brother team of Rachel Gurley Libby and Joshua Gurley, children of the late Nan Gurley, longtime dealer and manager of Gurley Antiques Shows, which included Deerfield for several decades. Some of the exhibitors were also young, children and grandchildren of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historian Charged with Stealing Dog Tags
Historian Antonin DeHays, 32, of College Park, Maryland, was charged by federal criminal complaint with theft of government records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
According to the affidavit filed in court, in October 2015 and June 2017, DeHays visited NARA at College Park, Maryland, and allegedly stole dog ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Soul of a House
A Book Review
The Soul of a House: Adventures in Building an Antique Retirement Account by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., 2017, 174 pages, softbound, $13.95.
If you love living with antiques and enjoy the hunt as much as finding the right place for each acquisition, what do you ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Antiques Festival Trimmed Down to Two Days? Don't Bet on It!
Maine Antiques Festival, Union, Maine
The sprawling Maine Antiques Festival sprang up for the 36th year at the Union, Maine, fairgrounds for a three-day run August 4-6. Show master Paul Davis reorganized the 162 exhibitors into a more compact setting by pulling in some of the outliers onto the central field. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Auction Flexes Cross-Category Strength
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
While every auction house likes to have that strong "top-ten" list to display the stars, a sale that demonstrates strength in numerous categories is even better. President John Case spoke at length at the conclusion of Case Antiques' one-day sale on August 5: "We ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale
Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Rafael Osona Auctions
By the time Rafael Osona began his annual Americana auction on August 5, it was standing room only in the auction hall on Washington Street in Nantucket, just a short walk from the ferry landing. The top lot of the auction was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colonial Williamsburg Acquires Tennessee Portraits at Auction
Colonial Williamsburg bought portraits of Thomas Claiborne Jr. and his wife, Sara Lewis King Claiborne, by Ralph E.W. Earl on August 5 at the Case Antiques auction in Knoxville, Tennessee, for $42,000 (see M.A.D., October 2017, p. 27-E). Painted in Nashville in 1817, they are the first Tennessee paintings to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)August Americana Auction
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
In a new twist in the antiques world, Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts, and Decoys Unlimited, Inc., West Barnstable, Massachusetts, have joined forces in a decoy collaboration. The two Cape Cod auction houses, both located along Route 6A ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Weschler's Announces Relocation
Weschler's Auctioneers & Appraisers, LLC has been a Washington, D.C., landmark for as long as anyone can remember. Founded by Adam Weschler in 1890, it is more than a quarter-century older than the Lincoln Memorial and only two years younger than the Washington Monument. Long located at 905 East Street ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lapointe Joins Guyette & Deeter
On June 1 Bill Lapointe joined the decoy auctioneers Guyette & Deeter, based in Saint Michaels, Maryland. According to Guyette & Deeter, he will be focusing his efforts in the New York and New England areas. He will also represent the company at decoy shows and four live auctions each ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Niven Becomes Chairman of Athena Art Finance Board of Directors
Jamie Niven has been elected as chairman of the board of Athena Art Finance Corp., after serving as its first independent director for the past year. Athena offers collectors and galleries the ability to borrow funds using their works of fine art as collateral and seeks to professionalize and provide ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Alice and Ron Lindholm of Right to the Moon Alice Vintage Clothing
In the Trade
You say you're having trouble selling your inventory in today's market? Alice Lindholm has an answer that sure seems to be working for her. She doesn't sell her stuff at all-she rents it.
Lindholm, along with her husband, Ron, runs Right to the Moon Alice in the hamlet of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maryland Man Sentenced to 12 Months for Stealing Art and Selling It
A Rock Hall, Maryland, man was sentenced on June 26 to 12 months in prison for stealing at least 40 pieces of art and taking them to New Jersey to sell them. William C. Reed III, 42, previously pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of interstate ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, August 2017
Ian McKay,
Just a Spoonful of Sherbet...
One of the more unusual and intriguing lots I have encountered in recent times was to be found in a May 24th "Interiors" sale held by Christie's South Kensington-though the lot in question turned out, on closer investigation, to be not quite the rarity ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Seven Days in August
Editorial
With apologies to Virginia, but New Hampshire is for lovers...of antiques.
In this issue of Maine Antique Digest, you'll find a special advertising section for Antiques Week in New Hampshire, the annual August pilgrimage to the Granite State. Thumbing through it, we were struck with what a remarkable event it has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association Scholarship Awarded
The Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the public's knowledge and appreciation of antiques, has awarded its annual scholarship to Stephen McCarty.
Each year, the CCADA provides funds to the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation to provide a scholarship to one or more Cape ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Kathy Wong, fine arts specialist at Bonhams, Los Angeles, called the August 1 California and Western paintings and sculpture auction "good for us." She continued, "Historically, our April and November auctions are the most robust, as spring and fall are the strongest auction seasons. At ... (Read More)
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(Show)Changes to Zoar Antiques Show Bring Great Results
Zoar Harvest Festival and Antiques Show, Zoar, Ohio
New weekend, new look, new record attendance-that about sums up what took place July 29 and 30 when the 44th annual Zoar Harvest Festival and Antiques Show was held in Historic Zoar Village in Zoar, Ohio.
Show manager Steve Sherhag took over managing this ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Newport Antiques Show
Newport, Rhode Island
The Newport Antiques Show was held July 28-30 at the upscale and elegant St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island. It was a perfect venue for this refined antiques show with 41 dealers. The benefit preview, which benefited the Newport Historical Society and the Boys and Girls Clubs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Casablanca" Poster Ties Auction Record
An Italian four-sheet 781/4" x 551/2" poster for Casablanca (Warner Brothers, 1946) tied the world auction record for a movie poster at auction. It realized $478,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Heritage Auctions during its July 29 and 30 movie posters auction in Dallas, Texas. The buyer was not identified.
Believed to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Native American Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Billy the Kid Online Auction House
Antique, vintage, and contemporary Native American jewelry was offered in an online-only auction at Billy the Kid Online Auction House that concluded on July 29. Based in Gallup, New Mexico, the business offers monthly online auctions in this genre through ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Records Fall at Copley Summer Sale
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
By the time auctioneer Peter J. Coccoluto got to lot eight on the first day of Copley Fine Art Auctions' July 27 and 28 sale in Plymouth, Massachusetts, two world records had been achieved. And it just went on from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Three Indicted in Fake Art Scheme
Vincent Lopreto, 52, Marco Saverino, 34, and Paul Motta, 50, have been indicted for stealing approximately $400,000 from dozens of art buyers through an international scheme involving the sale of counterfeit art. The defendants are charged with grand larceny in the third and fourth degrees and scheme to defraud in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's Wants to Cancel Sale, but Buyer Fights Back
A Luxembourg attorney who is also an art collector claims that Christie's is canceling a purchase that he has already paid for because of an unspecified error. In April Philippe Dupont filed papers in federal court in New York to try to force Christie's into arbitration over the cancellation. Dupont ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)What I Did on My Summer Vacation: A Tale of Engine Lathes and Tadpoles
The Young Collector
What would summer camp for adults be like? Probably a lot like the annual Historical Ceramics Symposium, informally known as "Dish Camp," at Eastfield Village in Nassau, New York-meaning people who share similar interests, time spent in nature, good food, and plenty of beer.
After a scheduling conflict prevented ... (Read More)
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