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(Show)The Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show
Chicago, Illinois
Within the past several years, Chicago collectors have suffered a double whammy of losing two major antiques shows. In 2014 the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Show, a solid annual antiques and art fair (we had covered it since 2007), closed, and in early September 2016 the Chicago Botanic Garden ... (Read More)
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(Auction)An Artistic Spring in the Sales
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
Only a month after its fine art sale (see p. 32-C), New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) presented its two-day May estates auction in a weighty catalog featuring over 1000 lots. All the firm's estates auctions-March, May, July, October, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
"This is the gathering of the clan," said Newbold "Newbie" Richardson, an Alexandria, Virginia, costume and textile appraiser, conservator, and exhibition consultant, while greeting her colleagues, many of them museum curators and authors of books on needlework and textiles, at the fifth annual Penn Dry Goods Market at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Sale of Auction New England
Auction New England, Manchester, New Hampshire
All eyes were on Manchester, New Hampshire, for the May 20 inaugural sale of Auction New England, Jack O'Brien's new auction gallery, where some 152 lots crossed the block. With one exception, a lion stoneware presentation jug, everything was fresh to market from long-term collections ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Zao Wou-Ki Painting Brings $487,500
Photo courtesy Litchfield County Auctions.
A 1951 painting by Chinese-French artist Zao Wou-Ki (1921-2013), Oiseaux dans les nids (Birds in the nests), 16" x 13", sold for $487,500 (including buyer's premium) at Litchfield County Auctions in Litchfield, Connecticut, on May 20.
According to the auction house, the painting came from a local ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting by Theus Breaks Record at Brunk Auctions
A portrait of William Branford (1753-1776) by Jeremiah Theus (1716-1774) of Charleston, South Carolina, sold for $180,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Brunk Auctions' May 19 and 20 sale in Asheville, North Carolina. According to Brunk, this is a new record for Jeremiah Theus at auction, surpassing the previous record of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Fine Art
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
A standing mobile by Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was untitled but garnered much interest and $267,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Skinner's May 19 American and European works of art sale in the Boston gallery. Bidding on the 3" tall mobile opened at $120,000 (est. $100,000/150,000) and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four Spring Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Freeman's, John Moran Auctioneers, Rago Arts, and Dupuis Fine Jewellery
Vacation time while writing this column required e-mail correspondence and telephone interviews for the several sales in this month's column, so thanks go to coauthors Virginia Salem of Freeman's, Philadelphia; Mollie Burns Keith of John Moran ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Edgefield Pots Are Winners
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
The Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society's 47th absentee sale closed on May 27. The prices realized show it was a clear win for the Edgefield, South Carolina, candidates. Notable signed examples by Dave the Slave Drake and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)World-Record Banner Sets the Tone at Americana and Political Sale
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
The interest in politics and the political process is at an all-time high, undoubtedly fueled by the most recent United States presidential election and subsequent discourse concerning the new leaders.
But then again, Monday-morning armchair quarterbacking has been going on for decades, even centuries, where ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pennsylvania Chest Tops Garth's Sale
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Top lots from different sessions had an interesting connection during the sale held by Garth's in Delaware, Ohio, on May 12 and 13. The link-longtime collections. While high-quality items remained in demand, the event underscored the added appeal of desirable antiques that have ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)StuffSavvy Launches
In 1999 auctioneer Leslie Hindman launched Eppraisals.com, a company that offered low-cost and quick appraisals over the Internet. The company had hundreds of specialists in 300 collecting categories to provide information and valuation of art, antiques, and collectibles. Eppraisals raised millions of dollars in venture capital and signed a deal ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Comfortably Numb
The Young Collector
The world is getting smaller. Computers have collapsed distances virtually, at the same time that dropping phone prices have made keeping in touch over long distance easier as well. Our kids will never understand that we had to retrain their grandparents to start calling us before 11. Even ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Red Tag or Dot Means Sold
You've seen it hundreds of times at antiques or art shows, in art galleries too-the red sold tag stuck in the corner of a painting, half visible inside a chest drawer, or stuffed into a crevice of a weathervane. More subtle, and some might argue classier, is the red dot. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rubenstein Pleads No Contest
Art dealer Perry Rubenstein, 63, pleaded no contest on March 30 to charges that he failed to pay more than $1 million to the owners of paintings sold through his gallery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced.
Rubenstein entered his plea to two counts of grand theft by embezzlement. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Revolution at Home: The Muhlenberg Family of Pennsylvania
The town of Trappe in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was named for its tavern. The story, told in the journal of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, is about an English fellow who had stayed too long at John Jacob Schrack's tavern, had a row with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Corporation Pleads Guilty in Ivory Case
In New York state's first Class D felony conviction since new ivory legislation was instituted in 2014, the corporation that owns Landmark Gallery, a Manhattan art and antiques store, pleaded guilty to selling illegal elephant ivory, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced on March 8.
Changes to New York state's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A View of Old Newburyport
A rare daguerreotype from the collection of the Museum of Old Newbury in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is featured in East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., through July 16. The exhibition will be at the New Orleans Museum of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Spring Greater York Antiques Show
York, Pennsylvania
Bob Bockius of Mitchell Displays took over the management of the Greater York Antiques Show when Donna Burk, widow of Jim Burk, decided to retire in 2012 and sell the show. Since then he has put on two shows a year. His loyal core of dealers say they like ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Potter & Potter Takes a Gamble
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
Snug in a corner of an American gambler's chest from around 1880, surrounded by chips, dice, a cigar cutter and holder, playing cards, and a scrimshawed ivory-handled pocket knife, lay an engraved pistol with a mother-of-pearl handle.
"It might be needed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's Scales Back in a Shrinking Market
Citing a shrinking market and an untenable business plan, Christie's announced that it will close its secondary South Kensington salesroom in London at the end of this year and scale back its operations in Amsterdam to two contemporary art sales a year. "The current proposal is to offer a single ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Collected--a Sampler of Books on Collectors and Collecting
A review copy of yet another book on collectors and collecting, Possession: The Curious History of Private Collectors from Antiquity to the Present by Erin L. Thompson, has recently come through my mail slot. Its arrival has prompted me to take a look at the previously published books on this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Ethnographic Art at Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
American Indian and ethnographic art representing an array of collecting arenas was center stage at Skinner's May 5 auction in its Boston gallery, including pottery, weavings, baskets, pre-Columbian art, and Native American objects from the northeastern woodlands and the American plains. Previewers at the sale were treated ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques for the Garden
Antique Garden Furniture Fair, the Bronx, New York
Faux bois is in vogue. Furniture made of concrete that looks like tree stumps and branches was in demand at the 2017 New York Botanical Garden's Antique Garden Furniture Fair. Antiques for the garden and the garden room sold briskly in the Bronx ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Sues in Swastika Flour Bag Flap
It was an antique flour bag that made national headlines. Now the case is heading to court. Nicole Guida, owner and operator of Chic & Unique, Littleton, New Hampshire, has filed suit against Katherine M. Ferrier, alleging defamation, false light, emotional distress, and more.
The case centers on a circa 1900 ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, May 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 Hidden Art: 20th- & 21st-Century Self-Taught Artists from the Audrey B. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)After Three Insurance Companies Deny Claim, Collector Sues His Broker
A consignment gone wrong and the refusal of three different insurance companies to cover a loss has led to a lawsuit filed in California. Entertainment mogul and collector Peter Guber-who has a net worth of $400 million, according to some reports-filed suit against Abacus Insurance Brokers of Santa Monica, California, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring TEFAF in New York City
TEFAF New York Spring, New York City
Some of those who heard about the sublime art environment at TEFAF New York Spring at the Park Avenue Armory asked how an art and antiques show became such a special new experience. "What is TEFAF?" they asked, and how did it happen?
It was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rockwell Study Brings $1.33 Million
Norman Rockwell's study for Triple Self-Portrait, an oil study for the artist's self-described 1960 Saturday Evening Post "masterpiece," sold with buyer's premium for $1,332,500, a new world record for an oil study by the artist, on May 3 during Heritage Auctions' American art auction in Dallas. The buyer was a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bonnie and David Ferriss, Lake Luzerne, New York
In the Trade
In this feature, we've reported on all sorts of strategies that dealers have used to cope with the changing antiques market. But longtime dealers Bonnie and David Ferris haven't felt any great need to devise new coping mechanisms. Today, they do pretty much what they've done since they ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artworks from DuPont Collections Go to Local Museums
When the Hotel du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, was sold to the Buccini/Pollin Group in January, those who are frequent guests at the hotel wondered what would become of the art on the walls. The 103-year-old 217-room hotel will continue to operate under the Hotel du Pont name with all ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ruskin Watercolor Tops CRN Sale
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Karin J. Phillips and Carl R. Nordblom can be depended on to provide bidders with an eclectic range of antiques and art at their CRN gallery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Eclectic was decidedly the word of the day. There was something for everyone. The April 30 sale started ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Something for Everyone Sale
Slotin Folk Art, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art
The April 29 and 30 Slotin Folk Art sale in Buford, Georgia, had a few changes to what has become a very predictable flow of offerings. Previous sales grouped nearly all the pottery lots at the opening of the first day. Perhaps ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Franklin Fire Hat Brings $18,000
A fireman's ceremonial parade hat sold at Kaminski Auctions in Beverly, Massachusetts, on April 30. According to Kaminski, the hat, probably from the 19th century, was purchased at a yard sale in Milton, Massachusetts, and was originally from the Franklin Fire Company of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Made of pressed resin felt ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale in South Carolina
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
The audience at the Wooten & Wooten sale on April 29 in Camden, South Carolina, was in the mood to celebrate accomplishments near and far. They applauded successful bidders whether they were on site, on the telephone, or on the Internet. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Discoveries in Downingtown
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook's combined international and Americana sale on Saturday, April 29, was offered in a slim catalog. There was no Friday evening party followed by an evening session of selling plus an all-day Saturday sale, which has been the usual format ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Backup and Editing PDFs
Computer Column #341
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Computer backup is revisited, and Adobe Acrobat as a universal document format is discussed.
Computer Backup
Our parents said, "Look both ways before crossing the street." Computer columnists said, "Back up your computer." We do not hear that as much these days, but the advice is still ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Robert Cheney Clocks Out
Skinner Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner Inc.
"We're moving forward." Those were the firm words from Skinner CEO Karen Keane. She spoke to me at the April 27 preview of the next day's auction of clocks, watches, and scientific instruments. April 28 was also Robert C. Cheney's final day as department ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hunting Decoys from the Brown Collection
Guyette & Deeter, Inc., St. Charles, Illinois
Midwestern and Canadian decoy enthusiasts had an extra treat when Guyette & Deeter, Inc. brought its 32nd annual spring auction to the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois, April 27 and 28. An annual get-together for collectors and sellers, held in conjunction with ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Ceramics in America
A Book Review
Ceramics in America 2016 Edited by Robert Hunter The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2016, 276 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
Who would think that a journal devoted to ceramic history, archaeological research, technology, social ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Chief Curator of American Art at the Huntington
Chad Alligood. (c) Stephen Ironside/Ironside Photography.
Chad Alligood has been named chief curator of American art at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. Alligood will join the Huntington in late April and will oversee a growing collection, including a newly acquired group of early American ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Leslie Hindman of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
Head of the House
Leslie Hindman always knew that Chicago needed its own auction house. She opened her first salesroom there in 1982. Over 35 years, her company has transformed and grown into a firm of global reach with multiple branches and a schedule of over 60 auctions a year.
How did ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2017
Ian McKay,
High-priced pictures by Titian, Klimt, Sisley, and even Atkinson Grimshaw feature in this month's selection, and are joined in the six-, seven-, and even eight-figure world by a couple of erotically charged sculptures.
Also on offer are rather more prosaic and largely more modestly priced pieces of early furnishings, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Jamaican House Painting Brings $100,000
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's in Philadelphia can be counted on for at least one big discovery in its semiannual Americana sales. It lures the trade and serious collectors from all parts of this country to join the locals at presale exhibitions that are timed to coincide with the two ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Only Ten
Editorial
The City Council of Belleville, Illinois, thinks that antiques stores are a detriment to its municipality. Ditto for art galleries.
In late March, the city council overwhelmingly voted to limit to ten the number of business licenses for selling secondhand goods within the city limits. Secondhand goods include used clothing, electronics, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Abundance of Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
An abundance of opportunities to purchase a wide range of styles of jewelry and watches in a broad array of prices could be found at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' fine jewelry sale on April 23 and 24, fine timepieces sale on April 25, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Features at Rhinebeck Show
Barn Star Productions' Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck Show and Sale will take place on Memorial Day weekend, May 27 and 28, in Rhinebeck, New York. Approximately 125 exhibitors will fill three huge buildings with folk and fine art and American and European antiques.
A gourmet food truck court will be new ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 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)Buccellati Silver and a Bird Fly at Gamage
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Auction, Rockland, Maine
"The silver is going to speak, because there's a lot of rare Buccellati in the sale," Bruce Gamage predicted before his April 24 auction in Rockland, Maine. Italian goldsmith Mario Buccellati opened his business in 1919 in Milan. Over the years, he expanded with outlets ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)DC Big Flea & Antiques Market Adds Modernism Show
The April 29 and 30 DC Big Flea & Antiques Market will have a special attraction-the 34th Washington Modernism Show, produced by Jim Linz of the Art Deco Society and featuring over 50 dealers and several special exhibits. The special exhibits include two modern trailers from the latter half of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal's April Estates Auction: A Spring of Simple Treasures
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy Neal Auction Company
At the Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, emphasis is often placed on big events in the fall, especially the annual Louisiana Purchase Auction. The April 22 and 23 spring estates sale, however, offered many remarkable examples of 19th-century furniture and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show is alive and well. It has been resuscitated by the management team of Diana Bittel and Karen DiSaia, working with volunteers led by Anne Hamilton, Nancy Kneeland, and Nancy Taylor. They made certain that the right dealers exhibited and the right people came ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.2 Million Photography Sale Offers Americana from Ansel Adams to Anonymous
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Ansel Adams, one of the 20th century's greatest and most revered American photographers, once famously said, "The negative is the equivalent of the composer's score, and the print the performance." Swann's photography department, headed by its longtime specialist Daile Kaplan, drove home the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cloisonne Chinese Bottle Vase Realizes $812,500
A Chinese cloisonne bottle vase offered on iGavel (www.iGavel.com), estimated at $400/600, finished at $812,500 (includes buyer's premium) when the sale closed on April 20. The 10" tall vase, dated as 18th/19th century, was being offered by Quinn's Auctions, Falls Church, Virginia. Quinn's sale of 466 lots realized a total ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Wilkes and Liberty No. 45
Robert Hunter, collector, dealer, and editor of Ceramics in America, has always had an interest in historical ceramics. When he learned that Woolley & Wallis in Salisbury, U.K. was offering a 5" tall creamware mug with a portrait of a bewigged, red-robed, and cross-eyed fellow with words in a banner ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes to California Autograph Law Clear Committee
It was a law passed with good intentions but little notice and even less foresight.
When Governor Jerry Brown of California signed into law on September 9, 2016, a bill that amended a state law that tightly regulated the sale of signed memorabilia, it sent shock waves through the industry. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Custer's Last Stand, Again
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
Before his firearms auction in Fairfield, Maine, April 11-13, James Julia remarked, "We've sold more guns that came off that [Little Bighorn] battlefield than, I think, more than everybody else combined." A pistol with a connection to the Battle of the Little Bighorn contributed significantly to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arrests Made in Kansas Aggravated Robbery
Three arrests were made on April 13 in connection with an aggravated robbery incident in Garnett, Kansas, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
On Wednesday, April 12, at approximately 11:30 p.m., the Garnett Police Department responded to a report of an aggravated robbery at Papa's Front Porch Antiques, 618 East ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Virtual Visit with Attos Antique and Estate Jewelry, Portland, Maine
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Attos Antique and Estate Jewelry
This month we view the antique jewelry market from the perspective of a jeweler and store owner, Attos Santana, and his company, Attos Antique and Estate Jewelry in Portland, Maine.
During the February storms that happened in Maine the week of Valentine's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Allen and Wyckoff of Raccoon Creek Sentenced
In a plea deal, George Allen, 63, and Gordon Wyckoff, 67, of Reading, Pennsylvania, who called their business Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge, each pleaded guilty on February 13 to charges of failing to make required disposition of funds received. Allen and Wyckoff were accused of taking antiques on consignment ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Buyer's Premium
Editorial
Buyer rewards programs have been used with credit card companies, hotels, airlines, restaurants, and other businesses for years. Now Kagin's Auctions of Tiburon, California, is extending an offer to buyers at auction.
The numismatic firm has announced the implementation of the Kagin's Auctions Loyalty Program. All purchasers will be entitled to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings
Bonhams, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"Numbers wise, we did pretty darned good," said department director Scot Levitt about Bonhams' April 11 auction of California and Western paintings and sculpture, held simultaneously in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. Levitt continued, "We were trying to bring in $2 ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 AD20/21 Show
Boston, Massachusetts
One decade in and moving right along, Fusco & Four's AD20/21 returned for its tenth year at the Cyclorama in Boston's South End April 6-9. The show has become the showpiece of Boston Design Week, also a Fusco & Four venture, which draws greater attendance each time. The 12-day ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Part Two of Mittler Collection Sold
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Whales and birds and a bit of everything else, in a mere 1500 lots, were the draw at Eldred's three-day sale of Americana and maritime art April 6-8 in the East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery. The array of material provided something for every taste, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sands Point Painting Tops Sale
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The most recent catalog sale at The Potomack Company was held on April 8 at the firm's facilities in Alexandria, Virginia. This sale had no specific theme but offered a cross section of all familiar categories.
If there was a dominant category, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
Without provenance, it's just a bunch of rocks. That's the gist of what auction house owner Wes Cowan told a full gallery of potential bidders at the start of a sale of American Indian and Western art, held by Cowan's on April 8 in ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 Chester County Antiques Show
Malvern, Pennsylvania
More paintings and prints than furniture sold at the 35th annual Chester County Antiques Show, which filled the riding ring at the Phelps School with a real, old-fashioned antiques show on April 8 and 9. The preview on April 7 that benefited the much-loved Chester County Historical Society was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's American Art Department Appointment and Promotion
Christie's has appointed Will Haydock as head of department for American art. He joined the American art department at Christie's in May 2014 as specialist head of sale. Since then, he has been responsible for notable auction consignments, including Norman Rockwell's Country Editor, William Bradford's Midnight Sun, The Arctic, Thomas ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fortuna Breaks the Million-Dollar Mark, Eyes Growth
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Fortuna Auction, Inc.
Fortuna Auction, Inc., held its spring jewels auction on April 6 in New York City, and the record-breaking sale surpassed the $1 million mark in prices realized.
The top lot of the Fortuna auction was "a beautiful pair of perfectly matched sugarloaf cabochon rubies. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Fine Art Spring Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Swann had a lot to celebrate on April 6 when collectors and dealers gathered in the salesroom on East 25th Street to bid on paintings and sculptures from 1863 to 2013. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the family-run auction house, as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle's spring sale of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts on April 5, including 96 lots from the collection of Willa Kim and William Pene du Bois, totaled $976,802 with a sell-through rate of 85%. As is the case at many auction houses, online sales ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kneeland and Adams Cabinet Shop Records Found
A 270-page ledger kept by Hartford, Connecticut, cabinetmaker Lemuel Adams (1769-1850) has been discovered at the University of Miami by Kevin G. Ferrigno, according to a press release from Historic Deerfield. The Adams ledger provides a record of the cabinetmaking business in Hartford during the 1790s.
Historic Deerfield associate curator Christine ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Gurley Show at Deerfield Fairgrounds for Antiques Week in New Hampshire
Joshua and Rachel Gurley, the children of Nan Gurley (1943-2016), have announced that the New Deerfield Antique Show at the Deerfield Fairgrounds, Deerfield, New Hampshire, will be held on Monday, August 7, the beginning of Antiques Week in New Hampshire.
The fairgrounds in Deerfield were not used for Nan Gurley's show ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Longstanding Vermont Antiques Week Show Changes Name, Moves to New Location
A Vermont Antiques Week show is moving and getting renamed. Antiques in Vermont, which had been held at the Riley Rink at Hunter Park, is moving to the Mountain Lodge at Okemo in Ludlow, Vermont, and the show will now be known as the Vermont Pickers Market. The previous promoters ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Society of the Cincinnati Cup and Saucer Brings $51,600
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
A Chinese export two-handled cup and saucer with an impressive early American history was the highlight of the Northeast Auctions' April 2 sale at Treadwell Mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when it sold for $51,600 (includes buyer's premium) against the estimated $8000/12,000. Collectors ... (Read More)
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(Show)Johnson's Next-to-Last Monroe Antique Show and Sale
Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, Washington
Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end; great stories we wish to go on forever. The same can be said for antiques shows. For some, the beginning, middle, and end are almost one and the same. For others that have stood the test of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Herter Brothers Servers Lead Farmer Auction
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
Photos courtesy Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia, held its spring catalog auction on April 1. This was the first of the firm's sales that I had attended since it was acquired by Jarrod Hines. Hines purchased the auction business from Will Farmer effective August 1, 2016, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In the Details and the History
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
Hap Moore is in his 31st year of antiques auctioneering, and he's hit a comfortable stride. He holds auctions only every few months, but they usually feature items of strong historical interest, centered particularly on the southern Maine and New Hampshire region. This year apparently ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herter Brothers Servers Sell at Farmer Auctions
For more than two years, Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia, has been systematically liquidating a large consignment from the estate of W.P. Henritze (d. 1959), a Roanoke, Virginia, entrepreneur and real estate investor, who had moved to the area from West Virginia in the early 1900s. Early on, Henritze purchased the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cast-Iron and Steam Toys
Pook & Pook, Inc. with Noel Barrett, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett
Eberhard Luethke's collection of steam engines and Stephen Sachs's collection of cast-iron toys offered by Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on March 31 and April 1 was a test of two ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pennsylvania Representatives Introduce Ivory Legislation with Antiques Exemption
On February 2 two members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Madeleine Dean and Tarah Toohil, announced that they would soon introduce legislation "prohibiting the import, sale, purchase, barter or possession of ivory or rhinoceros horn."
When the text of the proposed law was published on February 23, it included an ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Simple Is Best
Computer Column #340
John P. Reid,
About 1960, the aerospace industry coined the acronym KISS for "keep it simple stupid" (no comma) and insisted it in no way implied the listener was stupid; rather the opposite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle). We computer users need to remind ourselves of the KISS principle.
Speech-to-text smartphone app taking ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Heroes of the Slavery Era Are Standouts at $1.2 Million African Americana Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
"How do you come back from that?" Jenelle Watler, Swann's operations director and one of its auctioneers, asked her audience after the applause ended. She had just hammered down a previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman for $161,000 (including buyer's premium) in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's to Open New Location in Los Angeles
In April Christie's will open a new 5400-square-foot two-story flagship location in Beverly Hills, California. The auction house says there is growing demand among Los Angeles-area collectors for greater access to buying and selling opportunities, fine art advisory and appraisal services, private selling exhibitions, auction highlight tours, and art-related estate ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Arrested in Antiques Mall Burglary
On Thursday, February 16, at approximately 8:48 p.m., officers with the Harrisonburg (Virginia) Police Department responded to the Rolling Hills Antique Mall at 779 East Market Street for what has been investigated as a commercial burglary. Officers on scene were able to view security footage showing the suspect entering the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Nancy McClelland's Homage to George Washington and Old New York
On January 22, 1932, more than 3000 luminaries from the arts, academia, politics, design, and New York society gathered at the Waldorf Astoria for the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects' annual ball. Departing from the society's usual Francophilia, the theme was "A Pageant of Old New York," in honor of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Rules in Basquiat Case
On February 27 Judge Charles E. Ramos ruled in favor of Michael P. Schulhof in his suit against art curator and consultant Lisa Jacobs of New York City. Schulhof alleged that Jacobs had skimmed $1 million off the sale of Future Sciences Versus the Man by Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rosetta Stone Sketchbook by Tompkins H. Matteson Rediscovered
From my point of view, 2016 was the year for the prominent American genre and historical painter Tompkins H. Matteson (1813-1884).1 In the March issue of Maine Antique Digest I spotted a small advertisement by Axtell Antiques (p. 12-CS) offering a self-portrait of the artist as a young man. With ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctionata Files for Insolvency
Online auction house Auctionata (www.auctionata.com) filed for insolvency on March 1. "Our business operations will discontinue," an e-mail from the firm read.
The firm, based in Germany, had tried to find financing. On February 1 Auctionata had sent an e-mail stating that the firm had filed for preliminary insolvency on January ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Man Charged with Interstate Transportation of Stolen Print
Gerald Garrett, 58, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was charged on February 28 with the interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the theft of a signed LeRoy Neiman print of Muhammad Ali from the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky.
If convicted, the defendant faces a maximum possible sentence of ten ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 74th Raleigh Antiques Extravaganza
Raleigh, North Carolina
For 40 years, lifelong friends Alice Adams and Susie Clodfelter have run the Antiques Extravaganza of North Carolina. When they began, they were running an antiques shop in Tobaccoville, North Carolina, and bemoaned the absence of a quality antiques show in Winston-Salem. One of them said, "Let's start ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toy, Train, and Holiday Auction
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions offered eclectic enticements-toys, trains, teddy bears, and holiday treasures-at its Vineland, New Jersey, gallery on March 25.
A departure from its two- to three-day format, the aptly named "Signature Sale" was a single-day sprint. This lightning round proved to be an even ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Material in Demand
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
The Zipps of Crocker Farm held their first sale of 2017 on March 25, consisting of 541 lots. "Besides the first lot, we were really pleased with the results," stated Tony Zipp. That lot was a very large and unique double-sided stoneware face pitcher ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Enameled Tiffany Box Erupts at Quinn's
Quinn's Auction Galleries-Central Virginia, Louisa, Virginia
Photos courtesy Quinn's Auction Galleries-Central Virginia
Quinn's Auction Galleries-Central Virginia held its spring fine and decorative arts auction on March 25 at the firm's facilities in Louisa, Virginia. The sale was relatively small, with only 359 lots, but it offered a good mix of traditional antiques ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bring the Brink's Trucks and the Fire Extinguishers
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
All the gold (leaf) objects were glittering, and phone and Internet bidding was hot as auctioneer Sam Cottone burned through the pockets of successful bidders in a $2.1 million sale of 418 lots on March 25 in Geneseo, New York. The first 30 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Estates Auction
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Auctioneer John McInnis culls items with rich local history from northern Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire collections and estates, so when he advertises an auction at his gallery in Amesbury, Massachusetts, every seat is filled-and then some. He established that pattern early in his 35-year career, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chait Indicted in Smuggled Rhinoceros Horns Case
Jacob Chait, 34, who served as the head of acquisitions and auctioneer of I.M. Chait, a gallery and auction house in Beverly Hills, California, appeared on February 21 in Manhattan federal court in New York to face charges of conspiring to smuggle rhinoceros horns, in violation of the Lacey Act. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Story of a Shingle-Style House with Secrets
Photos courtesy Jane Goodrich
The drawing on the cover of The House at Lobster Cove is a quick sketch done by one of Kragsyde's architects, Robert Swain Peabody, circa 1885. It is housed in the files of Boston Architectural College, unidentified, but Jane Goodrich is more than confident that it's Kragsyde. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)John Krynick and Francis Nestor of Cottage+Camp, North Egremont, Massachusetts
In the Trade
People end up in the antiques trade for all sorts of reasons. When it comes to John Krynick and Francis Nestor of Cottage+Camp, North Egremont, Massachusetts, the explanation is straightforward. "If we didn't have the business," Nestor said, "we'd probably be hoarders. We can't get away from it. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, April 2017
Ian McKay, ... (Read More)
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