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(Fragment)Simon Wills Joins Garth's and Selkirk
Simon Wills, formerly of Christie's in New York City, has joined Garth's Auctioneers and Appraisers (Columbus, Ohio) and Selkirk Auctioneers and Appraisers (St. Louis, Missouri) as account and business development manager as well as fine art specialist and consignment representative.
Wills's career spans a decade of serving in various roles at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Mike Winslow, Clarendon Springs, Vermont
In the Trade
Someone just entering the antiques trade today might not realize this, but-once upon a time-it was lots of fun. When Mike Winslow, who thinks of himself as a "classic Vermont picker," reflects on the business as it was in the 1970s, '80s, and '90s, he recalls the carefree, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Pleads Guilty to Trafficking in Rhinoceros Horns
Fengyi Zhou, 49, of Syosset, New York, the owner of a business that specializes in Asian works of art, pleaded guilty on November 29, 2016, to trafficking illegally several horns from endangered black rhinoceros.
Zhou pleaded guilty to a one-count charge of wildlife trafficking in violation of the Lacey Act.
In papers ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Sixth Annapolis Antiques Show
Annapolis, Maryland
The sixth Annapolis Antiques Show was held January 7 and 8 at the Byzantium, an events center in Annapolis, Maryland. Thirty-nine dealers offering an excellent selection of antiques, fine art, collectibles, and curiosities set up in the multipurpose venue on the grounds of Sts. Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox ... (Read More)
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(Show)Hudson Antique Show Provides Fresh Start to 2017
Hudson, Ohio
It takes a brave soul to host any kind of event in northeast Ohio in January, let alone an antiques show. Dealers do not want to drive for miles cross country on ice or through snowdrifts with their precious cargo. There is no joy in loading and unloading merchandise ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Power of White Flour
Editorial
For the antiques trade, social media has been a boon. Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have broadened the reach of dealers. But as Nicole Guida, an antiques shop owner in Littleton, New Hampshire, found out, social media is a double-sided sword.
A visitor to Guida's shop, Chic & Unique, took exception to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New England Toy Train Exchange Auctions Closes Doors, Faces Lawsuit and Complaints
On November 8, 2016, the estate of Dwight A. Ingalls filed a lawsuit against NETTE Auctions, Inc., Donald Karagianes, and Naomi Karagianes. NETTE Auctions is also known as New England Toy Train Exchange.
According to the suit, the estate consigned a collection of antique model trains and paraphernalia in June 2016, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Portrait of Deborah Bloomer DuBois Is Restored
A 19th-century oil on canvas portrait of Deborah Bloomer DuBois at Historic Huguenot Street (HHS) in New Paltz, New York, has been restored, thanks to funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Greater Hudson Heritage Network Conservation Treatment Program.
"Yet to be attributed to a specific ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Experimental Glass U.S. Penny Sold for $70,500
The only known surviving intact experimental all-glass penny, manufactured in 1942 as a possible alternative to copper that was needed during World War II, sold for $70,500 (includes buyer's premium) in an auction in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, by Heritage Auctions on January 6. The buyer was an American collector bidding ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Classical Splendor
Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House by Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley and Peggy A. Olley Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2016, 160 pages, hardbound, $35 plus S/H from Philadelphia Museum of Art, (http://store.philamuseum.org) or (800) 329-4856.
The Waln house was a block and a half west of the State House ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Right Picture but Wrong Label Leads to Lawsuit
Is it the picture or the label? That's the central question in a lawsuit filed in federal court by AMW Art Advisory, a business located in Cyprus.
According to the suit, AMW attended an art fair in Miami, Florida, in December 2015. In the booth of Armand Bartos Fine Art was ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2017
Ian McKay,
A Chinese musket and a Persian tile are among the more costly items in this month's "Letter," not to mention a Gaudi bench that led a selection of "Historical Design." Some curious gogottes, reading requisites and a discreet comfort station, an American in Paris, an elegant Indian stork, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil's Dictionary of Antiques Collecting: Part 3
This is part three of "The Devil's Dictionary of Antiques Collecting," based on the satirical thesaurus The Devil's Dictionary, originally published in 1906 as The Cynic's Word Book, written by Ambrose Bierce, an American author and journalist. I can never reach Bierce's level of witticisms and satire of common English ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Rings in the New Year
Robert L. Foster Auctions, Newcastle, Maine
Robert Foster opened the new year just as he's done for the past several decades-with a January 1 auction in Newcastle, Maine. In a way, this one was an extension of his September 2016 auction, in that it was paced by a field of about ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Poor State of Affairs
The Young Collector
In the wake of the election-which is the most political thing we intend to say in this column, so come on back here for a minute!-we have read any number of think pieces on the various strains of rural, southern, working-class, urban, and minority poverty; picked through myriad ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)End of the Chicago Botanic Show and the Birth of a New Chicago Show
Chicago-area and tristate collectors in tune with the old adage "When one door closes, a window opens" can take heart following the close of a popular antiques event.
In early September 2016 the Chicago Botanic Garden notified exhibitors that the annual spring show focused on garden antiques and held there for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Portland Museum of Art Announces Generous Gift
The Portland (Maine) Museum of Art (PMA) received the largest matching gift in the museum's history, the institution announced on December 8, 2016. Five million dollars will be donated to the PMA by longtime American museum benefactors Judy and Leonard Lauder to support the museum's endowment.
The PMA director position will ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Securing Art and Antiques with Technology
Computer Column #337
John P. Reid,
It would be nice if digital methods could help recover stolen antiques. Apple, Android, and other smartphones and tablets have loss protection. A properly configured mobile device can accept a command over the Internet to wipe its memory and periodically signal its GPS (Global Positioning ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 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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(Feature)Americana Week in New York City: Selling History
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(Issue Story)Americana Week, New York City, 2017
Go to Americana Week 2017 story
Download Americana Week 2017 Calendar of Events printable pdf
Tuesday, January 17
Noon, Sotheby's, George S. Parker II Americana Symposium, RSVP: (212) 894-1099.
6 p.m., Sotheby's, Americana Week Reception, RSVP: (212) 894-1099.
Wednesday, January 18
10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Christie's, Chinese export art.
2 p.m., Sotheby's, Alexander Hamilton: An Important ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Louisa May Alcott Manuscripts Go to Concord Free Public Library in Private Sale
Concord, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts and Concord Free Public Library
Over 500 pages of original working manuscripts by Louisa May Alcott, one of America's best-beloved 19th-century authors, have been sold in a private deal brokered by Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts of New York City to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Turnbull Jewels Perform Well
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Joseph DuMouchelle
Joseph DuMouchelle's jewelry sale on December 15, 2016, was held at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City and simulcast to Birmingham, Michigan, where "twenty-five-plus phone workers" took the bulk of the bids, according to Melinda Adducci, G.G., vice president of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair Arrested for Selling Fake Gold Bars
On October 27 search warrants were executed by the Delaware State Police Financial Crimes Unit with the assistance of the Ocean View Police Department, which resulted in the apprehension of two suspects and the seizure of counterfeit gold bars.
On October 24 detectives from the financial crimes unit had initiated an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Sells a Spice Chest
A small valuables chest, offered as the first of ten lots of furniture at the end of a sale of mostly paintings from the estate of Andre and Nancy Brewster of Maryland, was not overlooked on December 15, 2016, at Freeman's in Philadelphia. Cataloged as a William and Mary spice ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England" Wins Historic New England Book
The 22nd annual Historic New England Book Prize has been awarded to Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England by Christine Hadsel. Suspended Worlds is a celebration of the many historic theater curtains in northern New England and their part in community activities and entertainment. The curtains were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Acquires Mei Moses Art Indices
Sotheby's announced on October 26 that it had acquired the Mei Moses Art Indices, which will now be known as Sotheby's Mei Moses. The indices use repeat sales-the sale of the same object at different times-to track changes in value. Through this acquisition, "Sotheby's has unique access to an analytic ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Rare Bradstreet Table and the Italian Glass Record Holder
It is always news when a discovery is made. A John Scott Bradstreet (1845-1914) Lotus table with an elaborately carved square top, marked with Bradstreet's painted emblem and the date 1903, was discovered in a Sotheby's design sale catalog and bought for $125,000 (includes buyer's premium) by the Leeds Art ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)For Your Reconsideration
The Young Collector
Sometimes people ask what it's like to write a column, to come up with something new to talk about each month. That, we say, is easy. That it's just about having opinions, of which we are not short, and, hey, you know, being right all the time! So ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)PAAM Adds Hoppers to Permanent Collection
The Provincetown (Massachusetts) Art Association and Museum has acquired 96 drawings by Edward Hopper, 69 drawings and watercolors by his wife, Josephine Hopper, and 22 diaries dating from 1933 to 1956 that chronicle the Hoppers' lives. The donation was made through the generosity of Laurence C. and J. Anton Schiffenhaus ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Fall Full of Sales
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
Auctions in New Orleans usually feature material from notable estates, which are highlighted in the catalog's opening tributes. While continuing the diversity of these major 1000-plus-lot events, New Orleans Auction Galleries has begun to add specialty auctions as well. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cowan's Americana
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
A grouping of mirrors offered in the last half-hour of a cataloged Americana sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, on December 10, 2016, were a good reflection of the strong bidding experienced throughout the day.
Described as primitive, the four mirrors included a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fenimore Art Museum Attendance Up 42.8%
The Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, New York, saw a 42.8% increase (as of September 14) in paid individual visitors during the summer with the help of exhibitions featuring famous names such as Ansel Adams, Toulouse-Lautrec, and James Whistler-among others.
"An average of 7440 people visited the museum each month since ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sean Scherer of Kabinett & Kammer, Andes, New York
In the Trade
Maybe this is just a coincidence. Or maybe it's a trend. For the second time in as many months, we have visited open shops that are the primary outlets for their owners who don't do shows and don't do lots of business on the Internet. The one other ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maryland Man Admits Stealing Works of Art and Selling Them in New Jersey
On October 26 William C. Reed III, 42, of Rock Hall, Maryland, pleaded guilty to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property. Reed admitted to stealing at least 40 pieces of art and taking them to New Jersey to sell them.
Starting in June 2013, Reed was employed as a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)George Eastman Museum Collections Now Accessible Online
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York, has launched a new platform that allows public online access to more than 250,000 objects from its collections (www.eastman.org/collections-online). Objects from the museum's photography, technology, and George Eastman Legacy collections are now searchable, and more objects from the museum's holdings are being ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Five Institutions Awarded Frame Conservation Grants by Eli Wilner & Company
Eli Wilner & Company, New York City restorers and makers of fine art frames, has announced the recipients of the 2016 Museum Frame Conservation Grant Awards.
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, was awarded a grant for the restoration of the original frame on Lady Judith Maxwell, a circa 1790 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2016
Ian McKay,
A rather unusual "Letter" this month. With many of the early season London sales given over to modern and contemporary art, I thought it might make a change to tackle something different. Noting that Bonhams had held quite a lot of car, motorcycle, and general automobilia sales in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art Auction
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
All prices include the buyer's premium.
When asked about the state of the market after the Native American art auction at Bonhams in San Francisco on December 5, 2016, department director Ingmars Lindbergs replied, "I could sell jewelry forever. Jewelry sales transcend politics and economic concerns." ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Philadelphia Impressionists
Freeman's, Philadelphia
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Twice a year, in December and June, when Freeman's holds American paintings sales, local collectors fill the salesroom. Some come to bid on the early lots of landscapes, still life, illustration art, and sculpture, but most of the early lots go to phone bidders or bidders online. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Louisiana Purchase Auction: History, Art, and Artifacts
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
The Louisiana Purchase Auction is a special event on the annual calendar at Neal Auction Company in New Orleans, and collectors expect a lineup of great estates and six-figure fireworks. From December 2 through 4, 2016, the three-day sale offered more than 1200 lots. Although ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Noel Barrett and Pook Toy Sale
Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Noel Barrett's first toy sale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, since he hooked up with Pook & Pook last summer was a mixed Santa's sack that took two sessions to unpack on December 2 and 3, 2016, the first weekend in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pitchers, Hats, and Light Bulbs Grab Collectors' Interest
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
With a sale total of $1,777,834 and a sell-through rate of 93%, the December 3, 2016, Americana and political auction presented by Heritage Auctions' historical department was a solid success. It comprised two catalogs: one for the Scott W. Dolson collection of political Americana, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Painted Furniture at Hap Moore
Hap Moore Antiques Auction, York, Maine
When it comes to painted furniture, Hap Moore's December 3, 2016, auction in York, Maine, could have been a primer on what's hot and what's not. Blue was red hot. Muddy brown was not. And red had a mild case of the blues. Size definitely ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Kentucky by Design" Wins Alice Award
Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture, edited by Andrew Kelly and sponsored by the Frazier History Museum, has been named the winner of the Alice Award, given by Furthermore Grants in Publishing. Furthermore is a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and is concerned with nonfiction book ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2016 Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
Greenwich, Connecticut
With its stone walls, front doors, store fronts, and barns lavishly decorated for the holidays, Greenwich, Connecticut, in December is an ideal place to hold an antiques show. Covering 50 square miles that reach from the Long Island Sound to the backcountry properties with multiple acreage, the town embraces ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)On the Up and Up
Editorial
It's getting more expensive to buy at auction in New York City.
On November 13 Sotheby's raised its buyer's premium. Buyers will now pay 25% on the hammer price up to and including $250,000; 20% on the hammer price from $250,001 to $3,000,000; and 12.5% on the portion of the hammer ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York City Auction Houses Must Reveal Irrevocable Bids in Post-Sale Reporting
On September 9 a letter from the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs confirmed that New York City auction houses must reveal irrevocable bids in post-sale reporting.
"The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) writes...regarding whether the sale price disclosed by an auctioneer pursuant to Section 2 125(a) ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
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.
Meanderings of a Quilt Collector / Les Vagabondages d'une collectionneuse de Quilts ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)London Gallery Files Suit against Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonne
From 2009 to 2013 the Mayor Gallery of London sold 13 works by Agnes Martin (1912-2004), who was an Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist painter. When those artworks were submitted to the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonne, they were all rejected, causing Mayor Gallery to issue some refunds. There are some big ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Some Softness at the Top
Seeck Auctions, Mason City, Iowa, and Kansas City, Missouri
Photos courtesy Seeck Auctions
When I contacted Jim Seeck in June 2016 to get a pulse on what might be his top carnival glass sale for the year, I was looking at the International Carnival Glass Association's July 16 sale, a collection of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Art and Industry: The Furniture Trades in 18th- and 19th-Century Rhode Island
"American furniture has been studied for a hundred years, and Rhode Island furniture has been an obsessive part of the story," said Philip D. Zimmerman on September 15 to an audience of 300 in the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall at the opening of the 2016 Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Files Suit against Brewer Auctioneer
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation recently referred a number of cases to the Maine attorney general's office for disposition. In response, the attorney general's office has filed a civil action in Kennebec County Superior Court against Maine auctioneer Jeffrey S. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rago Expands into New York and Connecticut
Rago Arts and Auction Center, a full-service auction house in Lambertville, New Jersey, with annual sales of $33 million, is expanding its reach into Westchester County, New York, and Connecticut by adding a dedicated representative to the region.
Jennifer Pitman, formerly head of sale, silver, at Christie's in New York City ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 35th Annual Holiday Antiques Show
Williamsburg, Virginia
The 35th annual Holiday Antiques Show in Williamsburg, Virginia, was held at the Williamsburg Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center, November 25-27, 2016. The annual show is one of those seasonal events that is well worth putting on the calendar. The Holiday Antiques Show is always held the weekend following ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Nautical Estates Auction
Polly Warren Antiques, Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Eighty-four-year-old Polly Warren of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, has collected antiques for most of her life. As a child she spent summers in Chatham, Massachusetts, where she visited often with her summer neighbor Elmer Crowell in his East Harwich studio. She was permitted to watch him work but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mostly Nautical
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Marion Antique Auctions moved its November 26, 2016, sale to the Music Hall across from the harbor in downtown Marion, Massachusetts. The setting was slightly crowded but appropriate to the antiques offered, as most had a local or coastal connection.
Once known as Veterans' Hall, the 125-year-old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)56th Annual Thanksgiving Auction
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
There was a bit of a twist to the 56th annual Thanksgiving sale held by Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, on November 25, 2016. While there was plenty of Americana served to a standing-room-only crowd, there was also something not usually on the plate-an unusual ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years of Growing Up
At the landing of the stairwell on the second floor of the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, past three brightly colored kites that seem to lead the way, visitors step into An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years of Growing Up. Curators Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis, known to Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Producing an E-Book
Computer Column #336
John P. Reid, e-mail: jreid@dca.net
Let's write a book. Book writing, publishing, and marketing has drastically changed since the arrival of the computer, word processors, the Internet, and online selling. Antiques dealers and auctioneers produce catalogs as books. Books about antiques are written by knowledgeable collectors and dealers.
Eight of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Patricia Kane to Receive ADA Award of Merit
The Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA) has announced that the 2017 Award of Merit will go to Yale University Art Gallery Friends of American Art Curator Patricia E. Kane. She will receive the flame finial prize at a dinner on Friday, April 21, at the Philadelphia Antiques Show at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Record for Canadian Work at Auction
On November 23, 2016, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Toronto, Ontario, sold Lawren Harris's Mountain Forms for $11,210,000 ($8,330,180 U.S.) and set a new auction record for a Canadian work of art. The buyer was not identified. The price, which included the buyer's premium, more than doubled the previous art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Hands Up!" Goes Way Up
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's made a big bang with N.C. Wyeth's "Hands Up!" when it sold for $4,951,500 (with buyer's premium) at its American art sale on the morning of November 22, 2016. It established a world auction record for the artist.
The top lot of the sale, setting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Sale
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams was the last of the auction houses to hold its American art sale right before the Thanksgiving break. Coming at the end of an event-filled week, the Tuesday afternoon auction on November 22, 2016, saw some competitive and active bidding in the salesroom.
"It felt ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Calendar of Rare Canadian Antiques
The Bytown Antique and Bottle Club (BABC) of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada has published a 2017 calendar in celebration of Canada's 150th birthday. The 32-page calendar features color photographs of rare Canadian antiques from local Ottawa collections, some of which have never been published before. Many of the antiques featured in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Kenos Fail to Honor Settlement with Kamelot
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2016
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)Sotheby's American Art
New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
There were about 75 people in the salesroom at Sotheby's on November 21, 2016, for the American art sale. Buoyed by glasses of champagne and white wine, the crowd gathered a little before the 4 p.m. auction to chat about the state of the art market, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Keeneland and Cross Gate Gallery Collaboration Reaps Rewards
Lexington, Kentucky
Photos courtesy Cross Gate Gallery
Advertising. Social media. E-mail lists. The task of bringing the consumer to the product can take many paths. Every auction house's advertising and marketing department takes on this challenge with each event.
"How do I get what I have for sale in front of those who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
All prices include the buyer's premium.
"There still seem to be plenty of buyers," said California paintings specialist Scot Levitt after his November 21, 2016, auction at Bonhams, Los Angeles. (The sale was also simulcast in San Francisco.) "They bid online, on the telephone, and in ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2016
New York City
With the suspense from the presidential election over, the four-day semiannual American Art Fair, held November 18-21, 2016, saw brisk sales and was well attended.
"It was a sea change," declared dealer Thomas Colville of New York City and Guilford, Connecticut, who sold several things and kept adding more ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nashville Big Flea Antiques Market: Strong Dealers, Diverse Offerings
Franklin, Tennessee
Even for well-established show organizers, debuting a new show in a fresh venue can be a challenge. But Marthia Shaw has the benefit of a strong background in the business, for she is the daughter of Joan D'Amore and has grown up amidst the family's D'Amore Promotions events. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thomaston: Its Own Tough Act To Follow
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
It would have been a Herculean task for the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, to top its August end-of-summer blowout, where a single-owner art collection copped over $1.5 million and boosted the total much higher than that. It ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Boston Home Decor Show
Boston, Massachusetts
For exhibitors and visitors at the Boston Home Decor Show, in its third year at Boston's Cyclorama building in the South End, the theme was juxtaposition-the sublime mix of antiques with the contemporary. Antiques and art met contemporary home design. There was much evidence overall of such blending, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twelve Chairs and Some Meaty Portraits
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Presidential election uncertainty hung over the salesroom at Skinner on November 19, 2016, for its Americana sale and inspired more than a few furtive glances around the gallery, where a decent audience was seated. The show went on and very well too, although one can't help suspecting ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show, Fall Edition
Richmond, Indiana
There was a problem at the fall edition of the Heartland Antique Show, held November 19, 2016, on the Wayne County Fairgrounds at Richmond, Indiana. A number of them, actually. But it wasn't the show that was at issue.
The challenges, so to speak, were found in the booth of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shattering the $3 Million Glass Ceiling
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
For the first time in the company's history, James D. Julia's lamp and glass section-now officially expanded to the lamp, glass, and fine jewelry division-held an auction that raked in over $3.4 million. They did it on November 18, 2016, in Fairfield, Maine, and they did ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's
Items related to early American figures, the American West, and the Civil War all drew considerable interest during the American history sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 18, 2016.
The top lot at $36,000 (includes buyer's premium) was a sixth-plate tintype of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Some Martin Brothers Birds Sold in Dallas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Nine leering, smirking, sneering, mean, sly, and eccentric salt-glazed stoneware Martin Brothers birds came to market at Heritage Auctions' November 18, 2016, 20th-century design sale and accounted for three of the top five lots and five of the top ten. Even though most of the birds were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Vintage Dresses and a Rare Discovery
Augusta Auction Company, New York City
Photos courtesy Augusta Auction Company
As part of an estate consignment of Chinese clothing, employees at Augusta Auction Company of Bellows Falls, Vermont, received the surprise of their lives. Upon emptying out the contents of a suitcase in a country house in Vermont, they discovered at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Twice a year, in November and April, Freeman's, America's oldest auction house, sells Americana. The sales are scheduled just after two major antiques shows that focus on American furniture and decorations, the Delaware Antiques Show in November and the Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show in April, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Fall Start" Toy Auction Makes a $1.9 Million Landslide
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions' three-day "Fall Start" outing November 11-13, 2016, in Vineland, New Jersey, included highly diverse entries with pedigree. Continuing on an unabated hot streak, Bertoia Auctions saw estimates dissolve like snowflakes. This perennially popular fall classic happened to fall two days after ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Wes Cowan of Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
"Head of the House" is a new feature that explores the founder, forte, and future of major American auction houses. In his or her own words, the current president is asked to explain how the business began, which specialties have been most successful, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon Art + Design 2016
New York City
Thirty-six hours after Donald J. Trump became president-elect, the fifth edition of The Salon Art + Design opened at the Park Avenue Armory. Located ten blocks and two avenues from Trump Tower, the armory was transformed by 55 exhibitors into a showcase of exploration for the November 10-14, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Margot Johnson Is Back
Eight years after Margot Johnson closed her gallery at 65th Street and Lexington Avenue and announced her retirement, she is back in New York City with a new gallery at 17 East 70th Street specializing in furniture and decorative arts made for the Gilded Age in the last half of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Delaware Antiques Show 2016
Wilmington, Delaware
"The press got the election wrong, and you guys are wrong about brown furniture-it's doing very well," said Woodbury, Connecticut, dealer David Schorsch, who was showing for the first time at the 53rd annual Delaware Antiques Show and watching brown furniture sell like hot cakes.
No one, dealers or market ... (Read More)
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(Show)New U.S. President, New Location Complicate New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show
New York City
The Palm Beach Show Group's New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show opened in a new venue the day after the U.S. elected a new president. It was an adjustment for all.
After being denied a contract to renew his show at the Park Avenue Armory, Scott Diament, president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Slotin Folk Art: A Mix of Art and Art Forms
Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
Folk artists come and go, and collectors and buyers come and go, but the Slotin Folk Art auctions keep presenting a broad range of material ranging from masters that sell for five digits to new discoveries that sell for moderate ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bedford Antiques Show
Bedford, New York
Debbie Turi's Bedford Antiques Show was "a darling show with good quality," remarked an attendee early on the first morning of the weekend show, held November 12 and 13, 2016, at Historical Hall on the Old Post Road in Bedford, New York.
Nineteen dealers set up shop on both ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Corkscrews
At an online auction of corkscrews sponsored by ICCAuctions, LLC, a rare German Langenhan spring corkscrew, one of only two known, sold on November 13, 2016, for $25,376.62 (no buyer's premium charged). For many years, German corkscrew collectors have searched for a Langenhan spring corkscrew, patented in 1878, and known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Cutwork Leads Evans Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 31st semiannual Americana and fine antiques auction at its Mt. Crawford, Virginia, gallery and showrooms on November 12, 2016. Over the past several years Evans has used this event to ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques Week in Central Illinois
Arcola, Arthur, and Tuscola, Illinois
Smack dab in the middle of practically nowhere, Antiques Week in Central Illinois has slowly been gaining a reputation in recent years. Not that there isn't a bit of confusion in the midst of it all. Consider this: the semiannual event consists of five antiques shows ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collector's Collection Sells for Bargains
John McInnis Auctioneers, Newburyport, Massachusetts
There's nothing like an on-site sale in a Federal house in a seaport town, especially when the owner was a collector's collector. That's what John McInnis Auctioneers delivered in three parts on November 11, 2016, in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
The house was owned by Frank E. Miller (1923-2014), ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ward Brothers Decoy Nearly Doubles Auction Record
The top decoy in Guyette & Deeter's annual fall decoy and sporting art auction on November 10, 2016, in Easton, Maryland, was a "hump back" style pintail hen by the Ward brothers. It sold for $201,250 (includes buyer's premium), a world auction record for the Ward brothers. The estimate was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Offenses Stemming from Smuggling Narwhal Tusks
Gregory R. Logan, 59, of St. John, New Brunswick, a retired officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine on September 28 to ten money-laundering offenses. Logan was indicted in November 2012 and charged with conspiracy, smuggling, and money ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Gary Taylor, Bloomin' Antiques, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
In the Trade
There was a time back in the 20th century when it was not remarkable to find an antiques shop on your average New England village green. In fact, you almost expected it. A local shop that stocked a general line of what the locals lived with (and died ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leroy Graves and Brock Jobe to Be Awarded Wunsch Award
Peter Wunsch oversees the Wunsch Americana Foundation, which was founded in 1946 by his father, collector Eric Martin Wunsch (1924-2013), for the purpose of preserving America's art history. Wunsch has announced that Leroy Graves and Brock Jobe will share the fifth Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Legislation Introduced to Prohibit Sale of Purple Hearts
Representative Paul Cook, a Republican from California, has introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress that prohibits the sale of any Purple Heart medal presented by the government to a wounded service member or the service member's family.
The "Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act" is named for Private Corrado ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greater York Antiques Show
York, Pennsylvania
The Greater York Antiques Show on November 5 and 6, 2016, in York, Pennsylvania, took the focus off the upcoming election for a few hours for those who love the treasure hunt a good antiques show provides. A steady crowd arrived on Saturday, creating energy during the first few ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2016
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
Humler & Nolan's holiday sale, held November 5 and 6, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio, was characterized by confirmation rather than surprise, as bidding followed a pattern well established over recent years.
"The low end's dead. Good stuff sells," said Riley Humler, the company's ... (Read More)
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