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(Auction)Safford Sleeping Canada Goose Brings $517,500
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
Decoy auctions are collegial events. Collectors from all over know the birds and track them as they pass from collection to collection. Gary Guyette and Jon Deeter, who are Guyette & Deeter, welcome collectors and trade alike to their quarterly events, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doyle Goes After Bidder and the Bank That Vouched for Him
William Doyle Galleries in New York City has filed suit against Brett Stettner, who was convicted of making false bids at several auction houses, and HSBC Bank USA, which Doyle claims vouched for Stettner.
The case goes back to April 16, 2012, when Doyle held an antique watch and jewelry sale. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received and a Film Reviewed
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us (and a review of a film about a folk artist). 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.
Howard Pyle, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gurleys to Launch New Show
Joshua and Rachel Gurley have announced plans to produce a new show, and there's a built-in audience. The first Cornish Antique Show and Vintage Fair will take place on September 30 in Cornish, Maine-the same day as the 28th annual Cornish Apple Festival.
"The Apple Festival is a well-established Maine tradition ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 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)Frick, Morgan, and Neue Galerie Offer Summer Connoisseur Pass
The Frick Collection, The Morgan Library & Museum, and Neue Galerie New York are offering a summer bargain-a connoisseur pass, a special $40 ticket that provides admission to all three New York City institutions until August 31. Tickets became available for purchase on site at each museum on July 1.
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(Fragment)Alleged Head of Wildlife Smuggling Ring Extradited from Australia
On July 24 Guan Zong Chen ("Graham Chen"), a Chinese national, was arraigned in federal court in Boston on charges that he led a conspiracy to illegally export $700,000 worth of wildlife items made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory, and coral from the United States to Hong Kong. Chen was ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 37th Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale
Rockport, Maine
Hot, dry weather is often anathema to Maine antiques dealers and shows. It tends to drive tourists and dealers to the boats and beaches and away from indoor buying venues. But not this time.
The hot, dusty temperatures of one of the driest summers that Maine has had in years ... (Read More)
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(Show)41st Annual Cashiers Antiques Benefit Show
Cashiers, North Carolina
For those in a hurry, here is a quick summary of the 2017 Cashiers, North Carolina, antiques show, held July 21-23.
"Yesterday I sold sixty percent of my booth," said John Cooper of Wilmington, North Carolina. Cooper had to rearrange his booth of Americana for Saturday, July 22, the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Greater Cincinnati-Dayton Antique Advertising Show
Lebanon, Ohio
The Greater Cincinnati-Dayton Antique Advertising Show debuted July 23 at Miami Valley Gaming, a racino west of Lebanon, Ohio. Michael Villamanga of Cincinnati managed the event, which drew about 40 dealers and a total attendance of approximately 200.
Villamanga has collected for 35 years and has sold antiques for three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)North and South: Stellar Stoneware and Redware Hit the Market at Crocker Farm
Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
"This particular auction may make such pieces seem almost commonplace. We can assure you, they are not." Appropriate words, as read in the catalog introduction for Crocker Farm's July 22 sale. The Zipps' summer sale consisted of 622 lots and grossed $1,129,555 (with buyers' premiums). "This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Feast of Smalls at Laughlin's Summer Sale
Laughlin Auctions, Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions
While covering sales at Laughlin Auctions, I have learned that with three auctioneers working simultaneously throughout the building, it is impossible to see it all. No one can be in several places at once, and with only a rough idea of the sequence of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 43rd Annual Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Show
Stratton, Vermont
The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association (VADA) annual show was held July 21 and 22 this year, and for the first time in about 25 years it was back in the Stratton Mountain Base Lodge in Stratton, Vermont. The base lodge sits on Stratton Mountain. It's a very large, sprawling ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dorflinger Punch Bowl Brings $114,000
George Siek ran a successful wholesale supply business in Florida before he retired to Highlands, North Carolina, where he opened the Museum of American Cut and Engraved Glass and shared his passion with visitors for the last 25 years. "I will close the museum in November," said 87-year-old Siek a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scrimshaw Record Set at Eldred's
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
For its annual Cape Cod marine auction under the big tent on July 20, Eldred's in East Dennis, Massachusetts, began as it meant to go on. It was a buying kind of day, and bidders were ready. Eldred's was more than ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in Case of Historical Documents
On July 20 Daniel Witek, 54, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in U.S. District Court. Court papers state that Witek is also known as Daniel Mountbatten-Witek and Walter Payne.
According to the plea agreement, Witek was a volunteer at the Buffalo History Museum in 2013. While volunteering ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Apollo 11 Lunar Bag, Bought for $995, Sells for $1.8 Million
A bag used by Neil Armstrong to bring back to earth samples of lunar material sold for $1,812,500 (with buyer's premium) at Sotheby's on July 20 to a "private American." The estimate was $2/4 million.
Photo courtesy Sotheby's
This wasn't the first time this bag had been offered at auction. In fact, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pretty Things to Kill Folks With
Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maine
Running a tightly focused specialty auction can be a challenge, even for an experienced auctioneer. He runs the risk of not being able to attract a sufficient number of bidders to attain "critical mass" to generate buying enthusiasm, even with ample use of absentee and phone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Tarkington Collection, Part I
Seeck Auctions, St. Louis, Missouri
Photos courtesy Seeck Auctions
Since the start of his career in the 1980s, auctioneer Jim Seeck of Seeck Auctions has had the pleasure of selling some of the finest examples of carnival glass of his career to Carlton and Jane Tarkington.
On July 15, Seeck had the bittersweet ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Annual Textiles and Sewing Auction
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey Evans's experiment with offering a specialty textiles and sewing auction has now completed its second year. The second annual textile and sewing auction was held at the Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates salesrooms in Mt. Crawford, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art and Tribal Art at Cobbs
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy The Cobbs Auctioneers
It was all about art at the midsummer auction at The Cobbs Auctioneers in Peterborough, New Hampshire, on July 15. The top lot was an oil on canvas by Benjamin Champney (1817-1907), Moat Mountain from the Intervale, 1872, in a Foster ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2017
Ian McKay,
There's a definite leaning towards Chinese works of art in this month's selection, with some 2000 words in all devoted to the subject.
Elsewhere, this July "Letter" looks at a canine meteorite, a sumptuous binding for a very special Galileo book, a foxy car mascot, some oddly attractive blue ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The George "Frolic" Weymouth Sale
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Friends and neighbors of George A. "Frolic" Weymouth, who died in April 2016, gathered at Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on Friday evening, July 14, for cocktails and a light supper before a short auction of the remaining contents of Big ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Florida Man Files Suit against Antiquorum
On May 19 Andrew Woods of Fort Myers, Florida, filed a lawsuit against auction house Antiquorum, watch specialists, alleging that he had not been paid for a Patek Philippe watch that he consigned to the firm's December 8, 2016, sale.
The watch appears on the price list as being sold for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stremmel and Overby Move to Dismiss Defamation Lawsuit
"If they can prove the painting is authentic, then they will not have suffered any damages. If they cannot prove the painting is authentic, then they cannot prevail at trial."
That's one of the arguments lawyers made for Peter Stremmel and Stremmel Galleries, Ltd., Mike Overby, and Coeur D'Alene Art Auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lincoln-Hamlin Flag Brings $40,124
An 1860 glazed cotton parade flag reading "For President, / Abraham Lincoln. / For Vice President, / Hannibal Hamlin." sold for $40,124 (includes buyer's premium) at the Hake's Americana July 11-13 auction in York, Pennsylvania. According to Hake's, that's a record price. The estimate was $20,000/35,000.
The buyer was York County, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bonhams Canada Appoints New Director
Kristin Kearney has been appointed director of Bonhams, Canada. Based in Toronto, Kearney will work alongside Jack Kerr-Wilson.
Kearney joined Bonhams as business manager for Canadian art sales in 2007 and has worked on sales in New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. Since 2013 she has been the jewellery specialist ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiques Show Booths: A Style Guide
The Young Collector
At the risk of repeating ourselves, selling antiques is hard work. There's all the driving around and browsing auctions and hauling heavy things in and out and up and down; there's all the calculating of margins and costs; there's the mental load of keeping a rolling sense of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amputation Kits, Once Snarled in Lawsuit, Sell
Two amputation kits that once belonged to Dr. John Warren (1753-1815) sold at Boston-based RR Auction for $104,147.05 (includes buyer's premium) in an online sale that closed on July 12. Two other medical kits were included in the lot.
These kits sold for $104,147.05. Photo courtesy RR Auction.
In 2011 Boston dealer ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Art and Science of the Philosophy Chamber at Harvard
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy President and Fellows of Harvard College
"This exhibition is about a room, a single room," curator Ethan W. Lasser told a group of press people a few days before the May 19 opening of The Philosophy Chamber at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Retail Analytics and a New Service from the USPS
Computer Column #343
John P. Reid, e-mail:
Big retailers have been gathering personal information on each of us for a decade or more. Amazon may know as much about me as I do. Walmart processes more than two million gigabytes of data from one million customer transactions every hour. Some of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Cyd and John Emmons, Gardenalia, Falls Village, Connecticut
In the Trade
What do you do if you want to be a show dealer, but the shows at which you exhibit keep dying out from under you? That's the question that Cyd and John Emmons, who operate their business, Gardenalia, from their home in Falls Village, Connecticut, are pondering these ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jason Busch Appointed Director of Jason Jacques Gallery
Jason Jacques has announced that he has appointed Jason T. Busch as the director of his gallery, located in a townhouse at 20 East 73rd Street in New York City. On his website (www.jasonjacques.com), Jacques calls himself a "pot dealer" and claims he holds the "world's most comprehensive collection" of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four Centuries of Portsmouth Furniture
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Since the publication of the landmark Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast in 1993 and the exhibition of the same name in 1992, dedicated scholars have continued to explore the subject, widening its scope and adding new objects to the canon. The 2017 exhibition Four Centuries ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic Deerfield Acquires Packard Bed Rug
Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts, has acquired an important sewn woolen New England bed rug marked "1801 / Esther Packard." The rug is one of a group of four similar bed rugs, at least two of which have been attributed to members of the Packard family of Massachusetts. The other ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antiques Collectors: My, We Differ!
You know us. We attend antiques shows or study pieces for sale online or see what sold for how much at auctions. Some of us collect Pilgrim or William and Mary, others mid-century modern. Some eschew furniture and love toys, pottery, or glass. Some specialize in paintings. The tent of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ADA Show Moves to Amherst
The Antiques Dealers' Association of America's ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show is moving to Amherst, Massachusetts, 15 miles south of the show's former home, Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts. The show will be held at the Mullins Center on the campus of UMASS Amherst on Columbus Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eldred's and Decoys Unlimited, Inc. Join Forces
Eldred's and Decoys Unlimited, Inc. have formed a strategic partnership. The two firms will work together in the procurement, marketing, and sale of antique and decorative decoys and bird carvings for auctions.
"I have been in this business since the 1970s, and while the passion is still there, I find I ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Alcoholics Anonymous Sues for Return of "the Big Book" Manuscript
Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc. (AAWS) filed a lawsuit in New York State Supreme Court on May 18, demanding the return of the original working manuscript of Alcoholics Anonymous, known more familiarly and even affectionately to sober ex-drinkers as "the Big Book." The heavily annotated draft of what the lawsuit ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brent Lewis Joins Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions has hired Brent Lewis, a 20th-century art and design specialist based in Los Angeles, as its director of design. He is working in Heritage Auctions' Beverly Hills, California, office.
"Brent has worked in the art and design community the majority of his professional career. His passion for mid-century and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Tax Trade-Off
Editorial
In 2015 in Arizona a new state sales tax went into effect, removing the exemption for fine art sales to out-of-state buyers who purchase art in Arizona and have it shipped out of state. The tax added 6.3% to a purchaser's bill. In 2016 the legislature repealed the tax.
In late ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heritage Auctions' Inaugural Chicago Sales
Heritage Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
When Dallas-based Heritage Auctions announced late last year intent to open an outpost in Chicago, jaded survivors of the city's auction scene can be forgiven if some shrugged, rolled their eyes, and wondered "What next?" We've seen them come and watched some go. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in New Jersey
D. Turi Antique Shows will present a new one-day antiques event in Morris Township, New Jersey. The Summer Antiques Expowill take place on Sunday, July 30, at the air-conditioned William G. Mennen Sports Arena. According to Debbie Turi, there will be over 60 dealers showing everything from country Americana to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)"Treasures on Trial"
Treasures on Trial: The Art and Science of Detecting Fakes opened on April Fool's day in the Winterthur second-floor exhibition galleries. The show, running through January 7, 2018, showcases some of the most notorious fakes and forgeries of our time. "The exhibition could not have arrived at a more opportune ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 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)Heritage Auctions' Summer Fine Jewelry Sale
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Jill Burgum, Heritage Auctions' senior director of fine jewelry, was in Chicago for the June 26 summer fine jewelry signature auction, the inaugural sale at that location. We spoke on the telephone after the sale to find out what's happening in the antique and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Dates and Location for 43rd Annual Vermont ADA Show
The 43rd annual Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association (VADA) show will be held July 21 and 22 at the Stratton Mountain Base Lodge in Stratton, Vermont. After a successful run over several years in Woodstock, the show committee has opted for the more intimate space at Stratton. Low ceilings and walled ... (Read More)
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(Show)Optimistic Response to Inaugural Annapolis Fair
Annapolis Summer Antiques Fair, Annapolis, Maryland
The first annual Annapolis Summer Antiques Fair was held June 24 and 25 at The Byzantium events center in Annapolis, Maryland. The show was produced by Dordy Fontinel Show Management and was the logical extension of her successful run of January shows at the same ... (Read More)
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(Show)Goosefare's Very Good, Short Day
Wells Outdoor Antiques Show & Sale, Wells, Maine
It's hard to get better than this-perfect weather, a short day, and good stuff.
On June 25 Goosefare Antiques and Promotions of Wells, Maine, produced a one-day show that was almost directly across the street from its home base. The 17th Wells Outdoor Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Lititz Antiques Show
Lititz, Pennsylvania
The town of Lititz, in the fertile farmland of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has a group of dedicated residents who have preserved the rich history of the area. The year after the Lititz Historical Society was founded in 1961, the society held an antiques show as a fund-raiser, and every ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Primitive Paintings Color Auction
Hap Moore, York, Maine
They weren't the priciest items on the block, but the flavor of Hap Moore's June 24 auction in York, Maine, seemed to emanate from some primitive paintings and a nifty piece of classic Maine painted furniture.
A Prior-Hamblen school portrait of Mercy Dixon of Lebanon, Maine, came with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art at Auction
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
What went wrong and what went right at Bonhams' June 19th Native American art auction in San Francisco?
When asked what went wrong, department director Ingmars Lindbergs immediately answered, "Number forty-five," referring to the current presidential administration. "I was apprehensive before the December auction," he continued, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Charged in Gardner Theft Scam
Anonymous tipsters and digital tracks have led to the arrest of Todd A. Desper of Beckley, West Virginia, on May 22 on fraud charges in connection with a scheme to sell on Craigslist paintings that had been stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in 1990.
Desper, a.k.a. "Mordokwan," 47, was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Anna Pottery Presentation Vase Leads Evans Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 32nd semiannual Americana and fine antiques auction, spotlighting Virginia and the South, on June 16 and 17 at the firm's gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. This sale was a two-day ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Auction Buzzed by Swarm of Dragonflies
James D. Julia, Inc. Fairfield, Maine
The latest James D. Julia, Inc. lamp, glass, and jewelry auction on June 16 in Fairfield, Maine, was all it was cracked up to be and a lot more. It added up to a record for the division at about $4.3 million gross for the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Books and Historical Paper at Auction
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
For the fifth time since 2011, historical paper collector Eric C. Caren auctioned some of his vast and still-growing collection of newspapers, broadsides, and eyewitness letters that get as close as possible to major events of modern history. His most recent offering was the 109 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
The final auction of Swann Galleries' season took place during the afternoon of June 15, and after three and a half hours, $1,471,643 of American art had been sold. The auction was the top-selling American art sale in the department's ten-year history, said ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Overbeck Vase Brings $8750
A 12" high Overbeck art pottery vase sold for $8750 (no buyer's premium charged) during a consignment auction of art and ceramics held by Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers at Richmond, Indiana, on June 15. The vase, which was the top lot of the day, featured carved panels of stylized birds ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Do or Do Not
The Young Collector
Have we mentioned we're busy? Oh, we are. We are so busy. We are trying to run two small businesses and find a house to move into and get a house ready to sell. We are awash in forms and documentation and bank statements and bookkeeping e-mails. There ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wally Bill Hedrick Paintings Lead at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its final sales of the spring season on June 10 and 13. The live sale of approximately 350 lots, offered at the firm's gallery in Alexandria, Virginia, included an excellent mix across all traditional categories. An online-only sale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage vs. Christie's Website Scraping Case Dismissed and Headed to Arbitration
The lawsuit filed by Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, against Christie's and Collectrium, a Christie's company, has been dismissed, and the parties are heading into arbitration on the order of the judge. The judge relied on Heritage's own Website Use Agreement to dismiss the case and move the parties to arbitration.
Heritage ... (Read More)
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(Auction)An Engagement Ring and Artwork at Grogan
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
If you want to become engaged, head to auction. Perhaps not all full-service auction houses perform that extra, but Grogan & Company in Boston did it nicely for a San Francisco couple. Erik Altman and Natasha Sadeghi had been looking for some time for an antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Colonial Club of Fairhaven Sale
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Marion Antique Auctions has established itself as a clearinghouse for antiques along the South Coast of Massachusetts, which spans the cities and towns along the ocean from Wareham to Fall River and includes New Bedford. The auction house's June 10 sale at the venerable Marion Music ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
An ordinary-looking walnut plantation desk with an extraordinary back story was the top lot during the American history sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 9. The desk realized $32,400 (including buyer's premium) because of its connection to Confederate General Robert ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Confederate Flag Ban Suit Settled
The Center for Individual Rights (CIR) reached a settlement with the attorney general of California in early May that guarantees that the attorney general will not use California Government Code section 8195 to stifle legitimate First Amendment speech.
The state of California previously attempted to ban artist Timothy Desmond from displaying ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, June 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.
The Lure of the Key: Knowledge Gathered from Some Thirty-Five Years Collecting ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Morgan Library Acquires Thank-You Letter for Durand's Masterwork, "Kindred Spirits"
The Morgan Library and Museum in New York City has just completed the purchase of the only letter remaining in private hands discussing the commission and gift of the iconic Asher B. Durand painting Kindred Spirits.
The keynote image in the Hudson River school of landscape painting, this majestic oil on ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lenny and Diane Chapman, Wilmington, Vermont
In the Trade
They say that success in business comes from matching your product to your market. It's Business School 101. Yet many of us who've been antiques dealers often overlook this self-evident rule. We sell what we like-indeed, what we love-and hope that others will feel the same, which probably ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)What's in a Name? The Indy Antique Advertising Show
The new owners of the Indy Antique Advertising Show are trying to keep a former dealer at the show from doing business as the Indy Ad Show.
In January, Mark and Nona Wilson of Northstar Collective, Park Falls, Wisconsin, purchased the show from Bruce and Donna Weir of B & D ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Marcy Carsey Collection Is Sold Online
Lark Mason Associates, New Braunfels, Texas
Photos courtesy iGavel
Marcy Carsey is a television producer who with business partner Tom Werner produced The Cosby Show, A Different World, and Roseanne, among other big successes. She has been reaping huge profits on reruns ever since. Carsey discovered country furniture and folk art in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Design Sales
Bonhams, Christie's, Phillips, and Sotheby's, New York City, and Rago Arts, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bonhams, Christie's, Phillips, Rago Arts, and Sotheby's
May and June is the time for the spring editions of the 20th- and 21st-century design sales, a market that covers more than a hundred years of furniture ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)"Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Matisse in the Studio"--The Object as Muse
Photos courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Henri Matisse once told an art critic that during the early hardship years of his career he "detested collections and collectors." The son of seed-shop owners, Matisse (1869-1954) grew up in modest circumstances in a small town in northern France. He carried a disdain ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Free Admission Wednesday Evenings at the Westmoreland
Admission to the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, is now free on all Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m. The new "Free Admission Wednesday Evenings" initiative is sponsored by First Commonwealth Bank and will run until October.
Admission to the museum is normally a suggested donation amount of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art, Pennsylvania Impressionists
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
More than 100 collectors came to Freeman's sale of American paintings on June 4 in Philadelphia to bid on a good selection of Pennsylvania Impressionist paintings and works by American artists active from 1850 to about 1950. With the exception of the failure of a large ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chamberlain Collage Brings $72,000
Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts
Not quite two years old, Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts, knows how to put together a winning sale with few if any passes and a large percentage of lots selling above estimates, some well above estimates. The June 4 sale in the gallery drew a good crowd willing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Audubon Birds Capture Top Billing at Thomaston
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
At Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' auction June 2-4 in Thomaston, Maine, there were no hundred-grand rock stars, but there were plenty of lesser luminaries in the $10,000 to $40,000 range sprinkled throughout the three-day event.
Listed as the "Moses-Torrey-Spear" bust portrait of George Washington, so named ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXVII
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
An Iowa State College vase and a Rookwood plaque each sold for $23,600 (including buyer's premium) during the Rookwood XXVII auction held by Humler & Nolan in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 3 and 4. However, those two pieces of art pottery offered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bertoia's Spring Auction Rests at $1 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey, offered an arresting array of toys, banks, advertis-ing pieces, and doorstops in a manic two-day 1400-lot sale on June 2 and 3 that brought in $1.05 million.
There were over 150 clown and canine-themed comic/character toys, not to mention ... (Read More)
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(Show)Changes in Heartland
Heartland Antique Show, Richmond, Indiana
Changes, yes. Selling the show, no way. There were plenty of items sold during the Heartland Antique Show, held on June 3 on the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Richmond, Indiana. And there was one very notable no-sale-the show itself. That's because Heartland was never on the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vareika Elected to Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame
In the 30th anniversary year of the founding of his gallery in Newport, Rhode Island, art dealer William "Bill" Vareika has been inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame. In 2011 Vareika had accepted a posthumous Hall of Fame honor on behalf of his favorite artist, John La ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Director of High Museum of Art Joins Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Michael E. Shapiro has been appointed as senior advisor, museums and private collections for Leslie Hindman Auctioneers. Shapiro recently retired from his role as director at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. He will work closely with Hindman's six locations, including its Chicago headquarters.
Shapiro joined the High Museum's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Connecticut Ivory Ban Dead
HB 6335, "An Act Prohibiting the Sale and Trade of Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn in Connecticut," introduced in the Connecticut General Assembly in January, failed to make it out of the Judiciary Committee, thus killing the bill for 2017.
Originally published in the June 2017 issue of Maine Antique Digest. (c) ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)VPN as a Security Measure
Computer Column #342
John P. Reid,
We have discussed Internet privacy before. In fact, there is no Internet privacy. Do not say anything online that should not be seen on a billboard or in a letter to the editor. This gets tough when managing finances or running a small business. However, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Miami Beach Show Gets New Name
The Palm Beach Show Group will change the name of the Miami Beach Jewelry & Antiques Show to the Miami Beach Jewelry & Watch Show. The event will be held February 1-4, 2018.
According to the promoters, this name change will more accurately reflect the jewelry and watch dealers represented at ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Brandywine Antiques Show
Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
"It was amazing to see so many dealers at the forty-sixth annual have a decent show, at a time when the market for Americana is the worst it's been during my lifetime," was the comment of one longtime dealer who sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)A "Cool Show-- Rhinebeck Rocks"
Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
The quoted praise in the title above is about as good as it gets, especially coming from a young exhibitor. An older member of the club said, "The best in every category of collecting is here." Exhibitor Michael Friedman stated, "Terrific show, like the old ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Brilliant Idea
Editorial
The industry needs new collectors, and a good way to help accomplish that goal is to hook schoolchildren on history. That's the mission of the Chicago-based nonprofit History in Your Hands Foundation (HIYHF), which was founded last year.
The idea is simple and brilliant. HIYHF provides educators with historical objects to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two-For-One Appraisals
In honor of Canada's 150th birthday, patrons of the 21st Century Flea Market will have the opportunity to have two items appraised for the price of one on Sunday, July 9. You may bring two items, pay $10 for the first appraisal, and the second one is free. And anyone ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques 101
A new program, "Antiques 101" Digging Deeper Tour, debuted on May 13 at the Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum (WDS) in Wethersfield, Connecticut. "Antiques 101" is a workshop-style tour, during which participants can learn some of the basics on how to distinguish authentic Colonial furniture from reproductions. Tickets are $20.
The "Antiques 101" Digging ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hartley Tops Art Auction
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Marsden Hartley was hot at Bonhams' American art auction on May 24. His 1930 oil Landscape No. 39 (Little River, New Hampshire), estimated at $400,000/600,000, attracted bids from two phone bidders who battled for it from the opening bid of $300,000 to the hammer price ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Adds Watch Expert Jonathan Burford to Beverly Hills Office
Heritage Auctions has hired Jonathan Burford as timepiece consignment director for the Beverly Hills, California, office.
"Jonathan has worked in the fine watch and vintage timepiece industry for the majority of his professional career. His luxury lifestyle brand experience includes not just timepieces but also racing and publishing across the U.K.," ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Benton Brings $455,000
The Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' May 24 sale included a Thomas Hart Benton still life from 1962 with a presale estimate of $100,000–200,000 that sold for $455,000 (with buyer's premium) to a Midwest bidder competing against bidders in California and New York.
"Since the Benton still life came from a private collection ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2016
Ian McKay,
Two sales, both of which produced unexpectedly high prices, account for the majority of the lots featured in this month's letter-a Bonhams dispersal of surplus to requirement contents from a lovely Welsh retreat, Glyn Cywarch, and a Sotheby's sale of items from two old Scottish family collections.
Other attractions ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Remington Sculpture Sets Auction Record
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Buoyed by Frederic Remington's three-dimensional, head-on design bronze Coming through the Rye, which sold for $11,223,500 (including buyer's premium), Christie's spring auction of American art on May 23 in New York City totaled $41,315,750. Of the 92 lots offered, 68 sold, for a 74% sell-through ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rockwell
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's spring sale of American art "was all about a Rockwell," said a group of dealers and art advisors who sat through the afternoon sale on May 23. With a sale total of $33,109,125, almost half (or $14,975,000, including buyer's premium) was generated by Norman ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gerald Peters Gallery Sues for Defamation
Art is the ultimate opinion business, but voicing that opinion could lead to legal trouble, as a suit filed in the U.S. District Court in Nevada shows. The case filed on April 28 pits heavyweights in the world of Western art against each other. Gerald Peters Gallery, Inc. has filed ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 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)Indiana Landmarks Seeks Antiques Vendors for Summer Events
Indiana Landmarks, a private nonprofit, is looking for vendors of antiques, collectibles, and architectural salvage to participate in events this summer.
On Saturday, July 15, the sixth annual Treasure Hunt will take place from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., outdoors and inside the Indiana Landmarks Center and on the lawn of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Choice Connecticut Chest at Carlsen Gallery
Carlsen Gallery, Freehold, New York
Photos courtesy Carlsen Gallery
There was a big crowd for Carlsen Gallery's spring auction on May 21 in Freehold, New York. "I thought it was pretty good," said a pleased Russ Carlsen just after the auction. "There was very good interest throughout all areas-rugs, paintings, cut glass, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Celebrates Its 60th Show
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The weekend of May 19-21 marked the 60th edition of the Shenandoah Antiques Expo, held in Fishersville, Virginia. The biannual event has become an antiques mainstay in the mid-Atlantic region. Antiques dealers, collectors, decorators, and browsers all flock to the event. Patrons are assured of a ... (Read More)
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