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(Fragment)Jonathan Fairbanks to Receive AD20/21 Lifetime Achievement Award
Jonathan L. Fairbanks. Ian Justice photo.
The tenth anniversary AD20/21 Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Jonathan L. Fairbanks at the gala preview of the AD20/21 show in Boston on Thursday evening, April 6. The show, which includes the Boston Print Fair, features close to 50 modern to contemporary exhibitors.
Art, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)What a Wonderful World
The Young Collector
The walls start to close in around the end of January each winter. It's a tiny house. We've all been together unrelentingly since Christmas and without large-scale diversion since about two weeks after Christmas when the toys lost their luster (and their pieces). We have eight enormous windows, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, April 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)ACC Grant
To encourage new research in the field of ceramics, the American Ceramic Circle awards annual grants to individuals to provide assistance for costs associated with scholarly research that reflects the general interest of the members. Grant amounts vary depending on the project, but do not exceed $5000 and are not ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Feel-at-Home Show
Genesee Country Antique Dealers Association, Pittsford, New York
After 42 years of Genesee Country Antique Dealers Association (GCADA) shows, exhibitors and patrons really do feel at home, said exhibitor John Westerberg of Yankee Peddler Bookshop, Sodus Point, New York, when asked for a reason for the show's longtime success and his ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Part Online Bottle Auction
American Bottle Auctions, Sacramento, California
Photos courtesy American Bottle Auctions
It was one of those quotes that a person might dismiss as mere platitude. "The future of the Western bottle world looks really bright and rosy," said Jeff Wichmann, owner of American Bottle Auctions, Sacramento, California, following a two-part absentee sale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Boutique Sale of Design
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's in Philadelphia offered 57 lots of 20th-century design on Sunday, March 19, from a small, well-designed catalog, and it was not ignored. There were buyers in the room, online, and on phones, and some bids had been left with the auctioneer.
Tim Andreadis, head of sale, said the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)No Provenance, No Problem
Willis Henry Auctions, Rockland, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Willis Henry Auctions
All 53 lots of military watches and instruments sold strongly, without reserves, at Willis Henry Auctions on the afternoon of Saturday, March 18. The Commander William R. Bricker single-owner collection was offered live at the DoubleTree by Hilton in Rockland, Massachusetts, but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Analyze the country Americana sale held in Delaware, Ohio, by Garth's Auctions on March 18, and three things stick out. 1) When it comes to furniture, sometimes brown is beautiful. 2) In an already soft market for Oriental rugs, too much is certainly not a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Laughlin Auctions Marks a 30-Year Milestone
Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions, Inc.
Laughlin Auctions, Inc. held its 30th spring auction on March 18 at the firm's High Street Galleries in Edinburg, Virginia. Hoyle, John, and Duane Laughlin continued their string of simultaneous, multi-auctioneer sales with an overflow standing-room-only crowd in attendance.
There is no formal catalog at a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Free-Blown Tableware Demands Attention
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
Norman C. Heckler knows bottles-antique glass bottles, to be more precise-and it is easy to see why. Having founded Norman C. Heckler & Company in 1987, he and his staff have set about establishing this company as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia in April
Put Philadelphia on your April calendar. A lot will be going on there.
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show, a benefit for Penn Medicine, will be held April 21-23 with a preview party on April 20. As it was last year, the show will be in a purpose-built tent at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)60th Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show
St. Charles, Illinois
We think we found a new first for antiques. It happened when we went to an antiques show, and ticket buyers were gifted with something free. That was new to us, and it transpired as first arrivals were offered a piece of cake at the 60th Spring Fox ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Police Raid Antiques Shop in Worcester, Massachusetts
On March 10 members of the Worcester Police Vice Squad executed a search warrant at Unique Finds, an antiques shop located at 1329 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.
According to police, a search of the premises produced 100 acetaminophen pills, 71 Suboxone strips, 23 individually knotted bags of heroin, eight Concerta ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil's Dictionary of Antiques Collecting: Part 4
This is the last installment of "The Devil's Dictionary of Antiques Collecting." What a wondrous language we use. And perhaps more technical and mysterious than we realize.
Polychrome-This is one term that is relatively easy to parse. Poly means "many" and chrome (chroma) indicates "color." So why not call a carved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brandy Culp, New Curator of American Decorative Arts at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Brandy S. Culp has been appointed to the position of Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. She will begin work at the museum in late February.
"Joining the team at America's oldest continuously operating art museum is an opportunity one ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Arrested in Art Theft
Two men have been arrested in connection with an art theft that occurred in December 2016 at Art Avenue in Sarasota, Florida. Anthony J. Larson, 30, of Sarasota, and Rex L. Ballinger, 29, of Sarasota, were each charged with grand theft. Larson was recognized by a resident who called the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Learns of Fake, Refunds Buyer, and Sues Consignor
Sotheby's filed suit in January in U.S. District Court in New York seeking to recover money paid to Lionel de Saint Donat-Pourrieres of Luxembourg, who consigned a painting that has turned out to be a forgery.
The painting, Saint Jerome, was attributed to the circle of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cabot Mill Antiques Passes $1 Million per Annum Sales Milestone
Multi-dealer Cabot Mill Antiques in Brunswick, Maine, announced on December 31, 2016, that it had passed $1 million in sales per annum. Customers William and Kristen Wing, owners of Worth & Wing, an architectural and interior design firm based on Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, purchased an 1891 Stanley brass-bound level, a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 ADAA Art Show
New York City
The Art Show, the Art Dealers Association of America's annual show, shone brightly this year. The art was the star. The unfussiness and quiet elegance of the booths in the Park Avenue Armory's Drill Hall allowed showgoers-and there were thousands each day from March 1 to 5-to remain ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Myrick Scrimshawed Tooth Brings $110,700
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Bitter cold in Boston was no deterrent to bidders at Skinner on March 4 for the Americana sale in the Boston gallery. Staff members found themselves bringing out extra seating to accommodate everyone in the gallery.
Many came to observe and participate in the sale of scrimshaw from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Long-Lost First Franklin Broadside Acquired by Penn Libraries
Aquila Rose, a 28-year-old Philadelphia poet and pressman, died in 1723. That same year Benjamin Franklin broke his indenture with his brother, left Boston, and stopped in New York to see if the printer William Bradford had a job for him. Bradford did not have a job, but he told ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Marni Bakst, Oh Antiques, Verbank, New York
In the Trade
During the many years that we've published this feature, we have interviewed well over 100 dealers, yet we have never encountered one who, to the best of our knowledge, was a Ruby Lane seller. Now we have. She's Marni Bakst, who sells from her early home overlooking a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lunders Give Another $100 Million-Plus Gift to Colby College
Colby College in Waterville, Maine, has received another gift of more than $100 million from Peter and Paula Lunder in support of the Colby College Museum of Art. The gift will add nearly 1150 artworks to the museum's collection and will launch the Lunder Institute for American Art.
The institute will ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, March 2017
Ian McKay,
The longest piece in this month's "Letter" mixes up one artist's impressions of windy days in Tangier and on a Scottish golf course with another's take on a curiously dressed young player of kolf.
Other items feature sunrise over Mount Fuji, a miniature selfie, papal rings, views of Manila's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Retha Walden Gambaro, Native American Sculptor
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
On February 28 The Potomack Company held an online sale of Native American artwork and artifacts. Of the 236 lots offered for sale, 180 were from the studio and collections of Retha Walden Gambaro and Stephen A. Gambaro. This report focuses on ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)2016: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
We normally pause after the holidays and reflect on the year behind us. That's not so much because it's the end of the year, but mostly because we're usually lying in bed sick, sure we're going to die, and it seems like a good use of time to ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Three-Dimensional Printing and Antiques
Computer Column #339
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Three-dimensional printers controlled by a personal computer are well established. Owning one is the dream of many computer buffs, but there is surprisingly little mention of their use for making missing parts in antiques restoration. Perhaps there are reservations about the authenticity of such repairs, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Morristown Armory Antiques Show
Morristown, New Jersey
The armory in Morristown, New Jersey, a cavernous space just outside of town, was the site for JMK's winter antiques show held February 25 and 26, over a balmy weekend. The twice-a-year show draws regional dealers, many of whom have remained loyal participants in promoter Allison Kohler's events. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 16th Annual Madison Antiques Show & Sale
Madison, Georgia
The end of February is not usually spring, even in central Georgia, but azaleas and other spring flowers were blooming all around the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center in Madison, Georgia, home of the 16th annual Madison Antiques Show & Sale.
This February 23-25 show was small by any measure, with only ... (Read More)
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(Show)Haeger Potteries Auction
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Deciding to close Haeger Potteries in 2016 after 145 years was a difficult decision for Alexandra Haeger Estes, great-granddaughter of the founder of the East Dundee, Illinois-based company, but it was eased somewhat by watching people line up for the remaining pieces ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barn Star Will Manage Adirondack Museum Show
The 25th annual Adirondack Museum Antiques Show and Sale on September 15 and 16 will have new management-Barn Star Productions and Frank Gaglio.
Featuring more than 50 exhibitors, the event started over 25 years ago and has attracted collectors seeking rustic, camp, Native American, and Adirondack furnishings and accessories in an ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Collections Add Interest and Bring Good Results
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
On February 22, Doyle New York gave us hope that winter would eventually come to an end in the form of its fine jewelry sale, the catalog for which was graced with colorful pieces of jewelry in bright spring colors. Featuring jewelry from the collections of Mrs. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Indy Ad Show Ownership Change
The Indy Antique Advertising Show has been sold, and the new owners plan to move the event out of Indianapolis this fall.
Bruce and Donna Weir of B & D Promotions, Effingham, Illinois, sold the show on January 7 to Mark and Nona Wilson of Northstar Collective, Park Falls, Wisconsin. Also ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bad Guys Make Good
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
The bad guys took top billing at Cowan's Auctions on February 21 in Cincinnati, Ohio, in a sale that featured property from N. Flayderman & Co. Although there were selected additions, the Flayderman material, from Americana to firearms, clearly highlighted the action.
E. Norman Flayderman ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Big Comeback
Editorial
Americana staged a big comeback in January, much as the New England Patriots did in Super Bowl LI.
The auction numbers help tell the story. Sotheby's brought 1300 lots of Americana to market in six catalogs and hauled in $19.378 million for its Americana Week totals, the highest number for the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
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)Appraisers Association of America Honors Jeffrey Deitch
The Appraisers Association of America will present art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch with the 2017 Award for Excellence in the Arts at the 13th annual award luncheon on Wednesday, April 19, at the New York Athletic Club in New York City. Introductory remarks will be made by artist Jeff ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Indian Art Show/Marin
San Rafael, California
Colorado dealer Steve Begner praised producer Kim Martindale for "getting the crowd out." As a Bay Area resident, I found ads and promotions for the 33rd annual American Indian Art Show/Marin, held February 17-19, unavoidable. Was this different from past years?
"Completely," said Martindale. "We had a lot more ... (Read More)
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(Show)Jenkins Adds It All Up at the Fairgrounds
The Nashville Show, Nashville, Tennessee
The Nashville Show is the largest of three events that bring together hundreds of dealers and collectors for an extended antiques weekend every February in Tennessee. The old Music Valley and Tailgate designations for Jenkins management events have been united under this umbrella title, and, frankly, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)SEWE Auction a Success for Guyette & Deeter
Guyette & Deeter, Inc., Charleston, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
The Southeastern Wildlife Exposition (SEWE) was the place to be in February for those who desire fantastic decoys. Guyette & Deeter, Inc. offered more than 280 lots during its Saturday, February 18, auction at the SEWE. The sale total was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hal Hunt: Master of His Territory
Hal Hunt Auctions, Northport, Alabama
Photos courtesy Hal Hunt
"Unique" is an overused word, but over time the Hal Hunt American Antique Museum Auction every February has become a one-of-a-kind event. First of all, there is its dedication to one particular antiques specialty-the heavily carved furniture produced in the United States between ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Copley's Winter Sale of Sporting Arts Makes $1.4 Million
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Charleston, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Fine art, bronzes, and vintage fishing gear followed by an extensive array of vintage and contemporary decoys composed the Winter Sale 2017 hosted by Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC on February 17 at the American Theater in Charleston, South ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buffalo Pottery Has Special Appeal
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
On February 17 Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held a little sale at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. I refer to the sale as "little" for two reasons. This was a single-theme sale, and it consisted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Michigan Art Dealer Sentenced to More Than Three Years in Prison
Eric Ian Hornak Spoutz, a.k.a. "Robert Chad Smith," a.k.a. "John Goodman," a.k.a. "James Sinclair," was sentenced on February 16 to 41 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan for wire fraud charges arising out of his sale of dozens of forged artworks purportedly by renowned American artists ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of Tennessee Antique Show: Second Edition Moves to New Wilson County Expo Center
Lebanon, Tennessee
The second edition of the Heart of Tennessee Antique Show, under the enthusiastic management of Katherine Bovard, presented two changes from last year's debut. Most important was the move to the recently completed, neo-farm-style Wilson County Exposition Center, just off Interstate 40 in Lebanon, Tennessee, on the eastern edge ... (Read More)
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(MAD News)Kenos Resolve All Legal Matters
Leigh and Leslie Keno, well-known figures in the antiques world, have resolved all four of the legal claims against them. The twins were involved in four separate lawsuits, each with a similar charge: the Kenos were accused of buying multiple lots at auctions and failing to pay the auction houses.
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tobacco Figures Smoking Hot at Thomaston
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Superlatives were easy to come by at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' February 11 and 12 auction in Thomaston, Maine. President and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux called it "the biggest and best of this kind of stuff we've had in twenty-five years." He was referring to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
A single-owner collection of American Indian art that was offered at Skinner on February 10 in the Boston gallery was a mighty tempting treat for collectors and dealers. The Philip and Patricia Marco collection was begun in the mid-1980s after Patricia Marco made a visit to a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Winter Auction Bangs Out Over $3.2 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
James Julia took a leave of absence for a few months before the February 9 and 10 auction in Fairfield, Maine, to be with his wife, Sandy, as she was being treated for a potentially devastating illness. As of this writing, the report is that Sandy ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Asked to Decide Who Owns a Tiffany Light Fixture
On February 28, 1976, five lighting fixtures designed and made by Louis Comfort Tiffany were stolen from the Belasco Theatre in New York City. The crime-reported to police-was never solved. Forty years later, one of the lighting fixtures may have surfaced.
In June 2016, Thomas Stein, a project manager for the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Photo Editing and E-Mail Scams
Computer Column #338
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
There is an impressive new photo editor on the market at a reasonable price. We will also describe websites that warn of computer scams. (Subscribers reading the digital edition can click on the cumbersome website URLs below.)
New Photo Editor
We often have said that photo editing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Sues Christie's
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, has accused Christie's and Collectrium, a Christie's company, of "scraping" the Heritage Auctions website to appropriate information and images without permission. It's no minor manner. Heritage alleges that approximately 2.7 million of the more than 11 million listings that were on the Collectrium website have been ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association Awards Cultural Enrichment Grants
The Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the public's knowledge and appreciation of antiques, has announced the 2016 winners of its Cultural Enrichment Grants.
Through its Cultural Enrichment Grant Fund, the CCADA seeks to promote a better understanding of Cape Cod's history and heritage by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gems and Art
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
The weight of the February 5 sale at Grogan & Company in Boston, Massachusetts, was on the carats-of diamonds, that is, as bidders pursued over 120 lots of jewelry. Art took a bit of a backseat to the sparkle.
The highlight was the 9.19-carat pear-shaped diamond ring ... (Read More)
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(Show)The York Show: Signs the Market is Getting Stronger
The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show, York, Pennsylvania
Ninety-eight dealers exhibited at the 168th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale at Memorial Hall East on the York Fairgrounds in York, Pennsylvania, February 3-5. On Friday, a large crowd from all parts of the country came to shop. Show manager Melvin ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antique Sporting and Advertising Show
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
A poster for Blue Jeans, a 1917 silent movie, likely went unnoticed by many shoppers at the 15th annual Antique Sporting and Advertising Show, held February 3 and 4 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The one-sheet depicts a loose interpretation of "The Great Saw Mill Scene," in which the movie's villain ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Chris and Joe Brennan, Salisbury, Connecticut
In the Trade
Joe and Chris Brennan have clearly been successful in catering to the second-home needs of the New Yorkers who spend weekends in Connecticut's prosperous Litchfield Hills. Their rambling home is stuffed with early furniture and blends comfortably with its well-appointed Colonial neighbors on Salisbury's main thoroughfare. Chris is ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Objects Less Fortunate
The Young Collector
Last month we talked about poverty and the related stigma of being poor, speculating on how it might affect the attitudes of modern Americans toward antiques. Yet poverty and the reactions to it don't happen in a bubble. As with racism and many other -isms, they become institutionalized ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Anna Pottery Discovery
Brothers Cornwall Elihu Kirkpatrick (1814-1890) and Wallace Kirkpatrick (1828-1896) began the Anna Pottery in Anna, Illinois, in 1859. They are famous for their pig-form flasks and snake-infested jugs incised with temperance inscriptions warning of the evils of alcohol. The community-minded brothers took their civic responsibilities seriously; they were active in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bookbinder Booked, Convicted, and Sentenced to Prison
Michael Chrisman, an Ohio bookbinder, has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for stealing nearly $500,000 from his Atlanta business partner in a bookbinding project. The defendant sent false invoices claiming that he completed more than 70 sets of replica Gutenberg Bibles, but he failed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Hudson Hewn"
Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now by Jennifer Carlquist, curator at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York, is the catalog for the tenth annual exhibition at Boscobel, which was held April 16 through August 14, 2016. The annual exhibition usually focuses on the historic art of the region ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Specialists Share Favorites from 2016 Sales
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
As an end-of-the-year wrap-up, we asked jewelry specialists what they liked best that sold at auction in 2016 and to tell the stories of those choices. We thank them for their thoughtful responses, which include stories of jewelry from a full spectrum of historical eras and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Society of the Cincinnati Plate Leads at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its midwinter catalog sale in three stages. The gallery sale took place on January 28 at the firm's facilities in Alexandria, Virginia. On January 31, an online-only sale was conducted. That sale highlighted items from the estate of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2017
Ian McKay,
Antiquities are very much in evidence in this "Letter" and not all of them confined to the principal piece on "Antiquities...." Look out also for an Egyptian funeral boat and a well-documented but still mysterious Roman intaglio ring that made a huge sum.
A revolver that recalls an infamous ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Calder Mobile Tops Art Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) garnered top honors at Skinner's January 27 auction in its Boston gallery when his 53/4" high standing mobile from about 1965, an untitled sheet metal, brass, wire, and paint construction (est. $150,000/250,000), sold for $471,000 (including buyer's premium). The catalog cover lot, it had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alderfer Auction Has Been Sold
Sherry S. Russell is the new owner of Alderfer's Auctioneers and Appraisers in Hatfield, Pennsylvania. "I could not be happier to pass the gavel to Sherry," said Sandy Alderfer, CEO of Alderfer's. "She will carry on the Alderfer legacy with a commitment to our local community and will be a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diverse Sale in Chicago
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
We'll say this for the furniture, decorative arts, and silver sales at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers: whatever you're looking for in those categories, it's bound to end up there sooner or later. For example, the January 24 and 25 sale included a set of 11 American Empire ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)What's in a Name?
Editorial
We've heard all kinds of ideas to help revitalize the antiques industry, but Paul Fuller of Paul Fuller Promotions, Waldoboro, Maine, has a novel idea to help his 50-dealer event in Bath, Maine. He's dropping the word "show" from the title, rebranding the event as the "Bath Antique Sale."
Why?
"The change ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Clifford Wallach to Curate Americana Auctions for Jasper52.com
Tramp art dealer and author Clifford A. Wallach has joined Jasper52.com (www.jasper52.com), a website featuring weekly online auctions of curated items from auction houses and dealers. Wallach, who has more than 30 years of industry experience, will be leading efforts within the Americana, folk art, and tramp art categories.
Founded in ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, February 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.
A Guide Book of Morgan Silver Dollars: Complete Source for History, Grading, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Morrison Heckscher Receives the Henry Francis du Pont Award
Morrison Heckscher, curator emeritus of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture, and a longtime trustee of Winterthur, was celebrated at a festive dinner in the Winterthur Gallery Rotunda on December 3, 2016. The event was attended by approximately ... (Read More)
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(Show)Three-Day Show in Third Year at Wallace Hall
Wallace Hall Art, Design & Antiques Show, New York City
In its third year, the three-day Art, Design & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall, held January 20-22, continues to evolve as a destination not only for those from the Upper East Side of New York City but also for visitors who ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 25th Outsider Art Fair
New York City
Celebrating its 25th year, the Outsider Art Fair drew record crowds January 19 through 22 at the Metropolitan Pavilion, a venue that is easy to get to on West 18th Street in Manhattan. Owned and managed for the last few years by Outsider art dealer Andrew Edlin's Wide ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of the Katz Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
When Ralph Katz retired from his medical practice in Buffalo, New York, he and his wife, Susanne, moved to a 1950s house in New Hampshire, where they lived with their collection of American folk art until they downsized and moved to a retirement community and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The E. Newbold and Margaret du Pont Smith Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
American furniture and paintings from the collection of the late E. Newbold and Margaret "Peggy" du Pont Smith, which sold at Sotheby's on Saturday afternoon, January 21, had been assembled over two generations. Peggy Smith's mother, Margaret W. Lewis du Pont, left some of her ... (Read More)
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(Show)NYC Big Flea
New York City
Faced with having to change her show's venue on very short notice, manager Dee Dee Sides scrambled and was able to pull off her NYC Big Flea January 19-21 in the Hammerstein Ballroom at the Manhattan Center on West 34th Street.
Sides received notice from her original venue, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"C" Is for Collections
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
Collectors know what they are looking for-a chance to acquire outstanding examples from an extraordinary collection. For those interested in southern furniture, regional paintings, and Outsider art, the Case Antiques auction on January 21 was a perfect opportunity, as almost 950 lots crossed the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Clock Brings Nearly $1 Million
A rare 18th-century English-made pagoda-form automaton musical clock, produced for the Chinese Qing Imperial Court, sold for $998,250 (including buyer's premium) at Fontaine's Auction Gallery's antiques and fine art auction on January 21 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The 50" tall clock weighs 100 pounds. It is raised on a large black wooden ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, February 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)The Bertoia Sculpture Market
Harry Bertoia's sculptures are more often sold at 20th-century design sales, but now, nearly 40 years after the artist's death, Sotheby's held a special Bertoia sale on November 16, 2016, at 3 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon during the week of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art sales in New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portrait by Ammi Phillips Leads Americana Auction
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
When people walked into Christie's salesroom on the morning of January 20, Barack Obama was still president. By the time they walked out hours later, Donald Trump had taken the oath of office.
Divided America outside. Divided Americana inside.
The headliners did just fine, but middle-level antiques ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Iris Schwartz Collection of Silver
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Iris Schwartz got hooked on silver after she saw the work of Hester Bateman (1708-1794) and realized that a woman ran a London silver workshop in the middle of the 18th century. Schwartz soon decided to specialize in American silver. Over a period of 30 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Various-Owners Americana
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
In addition to five single-owner sales presented in five catalogs, Sotheby's offered 415 lots of property from various owners in one fat catalog. On Friday afternoon, January 20, after the single-owner sale of silver from the collection of the late Iris Schwartz, Sotheby's put the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Silver, Porcelain, and Prints
Sotheby's, New York City
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After selling 270 lots of silver from the collection of the late Iris Schwartz in a single-owner sale on the morning of Inauguration Day, January 20, Sotheby's offered more silver from various owners on Friday afternoon followed by Oriental carpets, Chinese export porcelain, and prints.
Dealers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Parker Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
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On January 19 at Sotheby's sale of the collection of the late George S. Parker II, a "very fine and rare William and Mary walnut chest of drawers" made in Pennsylvania sold in the salesroom for $32,500 (with buyer's premium) to Delaware dealer James Kilvington. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2017 Americana Week Roundup
When descendants of Alexander Hamilton realized that the musical Hamilton brought American history into pop culture, they knew it was time to sell their family archive of letters and documents and called Sotheby's. The Hamilton papers became the theme of Sotheby's Americana Week sales and gave a boost to a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show 2017
New York City
The Winter Antiques Show, the grande dame of antiques shows, now in its 63rd year, was bedecked with giant digital snowflakes high on the walls and with real flowers on the floors and chandeliers. The show is like a dowager-elegant and traditional. The energy of her youth, when ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Altmayer Sale
Christie's, New York City
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After the final tally was counted, it was clear that the family and estate representatives of the late Jay P. and Nan Altmayer had made a tough but profitable decision. They had turned down an offer of $4 million cash for the contents of Palmetto ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Porcelain at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
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A collection of 17th-century "Hatcher cargo" porcelain was the first part of Christie's Chinese export porcelain sale on January 18 in New York City. Back in 1984, Christie's held a landmark sale in Amsterdam that offered Chinese porcelain from a 1640s shipwreck that had been ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair
New York City
The opening moments of the five-day New York Ceramics & Glass Fair on the fourth and fifth floors of the Bohemian National Hall at 321 East 73rd Street in New York City on Wednesday afternoon, January 18, were as competitive as at an auction. The major collectors and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Alexander Hamilton Papers Sold
Sotheby's, New York City
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Sotheby's successful sale of the Hamilton-Bowdoin family archive of Alexander Hamilton letters proved that Hamilton is no longer a neglected Founding Father. Ron Chernow's prize-winning best-selling biography in 2004 put Hamilton in the light. Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway musical Hamilton, which won 11 Tony Awards, added ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Graves and Jobe Accept Wunsch Awards
On January 18 the Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts was presented to Leroy Graves and Brock Jobe at a packed ceremony at Christie's in New York City. The annual award was created by the Wunsch Americana Foundation to continue the legacy of renowned collector Martin ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Very Young Collector
She was a Chicagoan, who lived with her mother, great-grandmother, and a reddish-orange Pomeranian dog named Tiny Tim. Her name was Susan Parker, and in the spring of 1941 she developed a passion for Currier & Ives. She was ten years old.
While looking at material in an archive housed at ... (Read More)
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(Show)Washington Winter Show Continues with Style
Washington, D.C.
The Washington Winter Show celebrated its 62nd year over the weekend of January 13-15. This marks the seventh year that the show has been held at the Katzen Arts Center on the campus of American University.
The longstanding event benefits three Washington, D.C., charitable organizations: the Founders Board of St. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Antiques and European and Asian Furniture and Decorative Arts
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
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The first sale each year for Garth's Auctions in Delaware, Ohio, tends to be not only a mixed affair but also a mouthful. Described by the company as offering "American Antiques and European & Asian Furniture & Decorative Arts," the January 14 event included all ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Fine Art
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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Pook & Pook held a winter sale on Friday, January 13, and luckily it did not snow. James Pook decided to sell 341 lots in one long Friday evening sale, knowing that many in the trade and some collectors were headed to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic New England Receives Grant for Royal Barry Wills Associates Archive
Historic New England has been awarded a Museums for America grant for $150,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to support a two-year project to catalog, clean, rehouse, digitize, and provide online access to the Royal Barry Wills Associates Archive.
This collection documents the history of the Boston-based ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Charged with Selling Stolen Art
On December 9, 2016, Leon Zinder of Forest Hills, New York, was arrested and charged with selling stolen art.
U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a statement, "As alleged, Leon Zinder stole works of art worth more than $600,000 from his employer and then sought to sell them through a flea ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buttersworth Tops Doubleday Collection Sale at Doyle
Three marine paintings by James Edward Buttersworth (British /American, 1817-1894) and one pair attributed to him were part of the sale of the collection of Nelson Doubleday Jr. at Doyle in New York City on January 11.
This signed oil on canvas by James E. Buttersworth, Yacht Racing off Sandy Hook, ... (Read More)
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