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(Auction)Shaker Bench Brings $33,600
Willis Henry Auctions, Hancock, Massachusetts
Hancock Shaker Village in Hancock, Massachusetts, was the bucolic site of the Willis Henry Shaker sale on September 10 that drew a crowd to the tent just off the entrance to the village. Bidders and curious museum visitors studied objects for sale during the preview and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mid-Century Furniture, Books, and Fine Art Highlight Quinn's Sales
Waverly Rare Books and Quinn's Auction Galleries, Falls Church, Virginia
Photos courtesy Quinn's Auction Galleries
On September 8 and 10, Quinn's Auction Galleries conducted two separate sales. Both sales took place at the firm's Falls Church, Virginia, salesrooms.
On September 8, the firm's Waverly Rare Books division offered 402 lots covering a wide ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Willard Clock Tops Hap Moore Auction
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
Hap Moore is willing to travel great distances to fill his York, Maine, auctions. But often his best selections come from close to home. His September 10 offering contained a good mix of items from both far and near.
Clocks by Ephraim Willard (b. 1755) are ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Developments in Hillsborough
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little
A number of new developments highlighted the September 9 catalog sale at Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina. First was the catalog. This was the first time that the catalog for one of Little's major sales was available only online. Auction houses ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gagosian Gallery Settles $4.28 Million Tax Bill
On July 19 Gagosian Gallery agreed to a $4.28 million settlement following an investigation into sales tax collection practices. Gagosian Gallery has galleries in New York City, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, London, Paris, Geneva, Rome, Athens, and Hong Kong.
"There is one set of tax rules for all, and that ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Harmer Johnson to Receive Belmont Society Award
The Belmont Society Award is presented to a member who has made a significant contribution to the Appraisers Association of America (AAA) over the course of 25 years or more. The name comes from the Belmont Plaza Hotel, where the association's members met monthly from November 1958 to circa 1973.
The ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiq-onomics, Part Two
The Young Collector
So, where were we? Oh, yes! Last month, when we left our fictional auctioneer/dealer hero(ine), he or she was at the bottom of an enormous fiscal hole just about to have the glimmering light of entrepreneurship cruelly snuffed out by the hulking evil Free Consultation and his henchmen ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Robert Ross, Ross Bros. Antiques, Haydenville, Massachusetts
In the Trade
When you stop for gas at your local Xtra-mart or Kwik Stop, you might also buy a quart of milk or a bag of chips or a six-pack. You can't do that at Robert Ross's Sunoco station in Haydenville, Massachusetts. You can get your gas there all right ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Colors, Rare Forms, and a Food Jar Headline Absentee Auction
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Heckler
One of our best sales ever," was how Norman C. Heckler, Sr. described the absentee Auction 141 hosted by Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut, that took place between September 5 and 14. Offered were excellent and some unique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ownership of Cincinnati Art Galleries Changes
Cincinnati Art Galleries was sold to David Hausrath on July 15. The gallery was founded by the Sandler family. Randy Sandler, who has been involved in the art business for the past 37 years, will stay on as a consultant for three years. Employees at Cincinnati Art Galleries will remain, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Court Cupboard Sells for $18,400
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
It was a great day for lovers of period American furniture and fine jewelry at William Smith's Labor Day antiques auction on September 5, held at the company headquarters in Plainfield, New Hampshire. The hall was packed full of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Little Girl and Lots of Cats at Foster's Auction
Robert L. Foster Auction Co., Newcastle, Maine
When Robert Foster runs his traditional end-of-summer auction in Newcastle, Maine, held this year on September 3 and 4, it's a "clean the place out down to the walls" event. Unlike what happens at some other large Maine auctions, virtually everything sells. Of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Classical Splendor
"Post Palladian Modernism" could be the alternate title for Classical Splendor: Painted Furniture for a Grand Philadelphia House, an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) September 3 through January 1, 2017. It will showcase the elegant and graceful streamlined furniture designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe and made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hindman Expands to Scottsdale
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is expanding its regional reach to Scottsdale, Arizona. Headquartered in Chicago, the auction house has five other locations: Denver, Colorado; Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Naples and Palm Beach, Florida; and St. Louis, Missouri.
Logan Browning has been hired as the director of business development for the Scottsdale location. Browning, a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Luman Reed's Service Goes to N-YHS
The Old Paris porcelain dining service owned by Luman Reed (1787-1836), a wealthy dry goods merchant and a pioneering patron and close friend of preeminent American artists Thomas Cole (1801-1848), Asher B. Durand (1796-1886), and William Sidney Mount (1807-1868), has been purchased from family descendants and donated to the New-York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidding the Old-Fashioned Way on a Major Art Collection
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Over $1 million wouldn't be a bad total for the entire Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' August 27-29 event in Thomaston, Maine. But $1.6 million was, by my estimate, the total for what Thomaston Place brought in from just a single midwestern consignor. It was a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Be There
Editorial
While walking around a recent show, I found something I wanted to purchase for my wife. It was exactly what she had been looking for to grace the walls of her office. Looking it over, I found there was no price tag and no information. Nothing.
I thought I'd ask the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)London Company Pays $2 Million for Artwork but Still Waits for Delivery
London firm Blue Art Limited agreed to buy a piece of contemporary art from New York City dealer David Zwirner in June 2014, according to a suit filed in the Supreme Court of the State of New York. The price tag was $2,000,000. Blue Art Limited claims to have paid ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Show 2016
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
This show reflects the market," said Scott Diament, the energy behind the Palm Beach Show Group, which has transformed what was once a giant flea market and antiquarian book fair into the fancy upscale Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show.
This 36th annual show ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, September 2016
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.
Imagining Ichabod: My Journey into 18th-Century America through History, Food, and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Anchors Maine Auction Week at over $5 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
For the last several decades the keystone of Maine's unofficial antiques auction week in August has been James D. Julia's multimillion-dollar blowout. This year it happened August 24-26 in Fairfield, Maine, and included about 2000 lots that made over $5 million in sales, with about three-quarters ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Penniman Portraits Acquired by Old Sturbridge Village
Tilly and Caroline Hathaway Mead by John Ritto Penniman, each 21" x 18", oils on board, painted in Hardwick, Massachusetts, in April 1831. Photos courtesy Bernard & S. Dean Levy.
Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, has acquired two portraits painted by John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841). The portraits, dated 1831, are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Yes, There Will Be Another Philadelphia Antiques Show
On August 4, Penn Medicine gave show managers Diana Bittel and Karen DiSaia the go-ahead to put together the 55th Philadelphia Antiques Show. "They had asked us to do a feasibility study, which we did, and when we told them that fifty-four of fifty-eight dealers who showed last April said ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2016
Ian McKay,
The most expensive item in this month's selection, by far, is one of the old masters featured, Rubens' Lot and His Daughters, and the pictorial content also includes a 17th-century "selfie." Antiquities get the most extensive coverage, in words and pictures, but to these I have added some ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers, Toronto, Canada, Online-only Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
There has been a shift in the marketing of jewelry at auction in the last few years. Many auction houses have added Internet-only sales, particularly for the more affordable tier of the market and/or of targeted sales of collections from a well-known single owner or single designer. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pook & Pook to Sell Jewelry in Delaware Tax Free
Pook & Pook, the auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, has announced a collaboration with Stuart Kingston Galleries in Wilmington, Delaware, for a tax-free sale of jewelry and paintings on Saturday, November 19.
James Stein, who with his son Edward runs Stuart Kingston Galleries, a jewelry and fine arts business started by ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association Show
Coastal Maine Antiques Show, Damariscotta, Maine
Weather-wise, one could hardly ask for a better day for the August 24 running of the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) show on the spacious grounds of Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, Maine. The sun was beaming down but not too hot on the scores ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Next on the Block
Gurley Collection to Be Sold on Site
Show promoter and dealer Nan Gurley of Parsonsfield, Maine, who died in March, was a stalwart of the business. The Gurley family has announced that they will be selling Gurley's collection at the house she loved in North Parsonsfield.
"We believe there is no more ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rhode Island Furniture
Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650-1830, the first major exhibition of early Rhode Island furniture in half a century, opens at the Yale University Art Gallery on August 19 and continues through January 8, 2017. It will present the most comprehensive survey of Rhode Island furniture ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana Auction
Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers, Richmond, Indiana
Furniture largely ruled the day, but good smalls held their own during the country Americana auction conducted by Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers in Richmond, Indiana, August 23. It was the second of three sales from the collection of Kim Walker of Brookville, Indiana. The event ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 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)Late Summer Sale in Maine
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Antiques, Rockland, Maine
Each year during the last full week of August in Maine, two reliable things always happen. First, the mornings get noticeably chillier. It's startlingly predictable and clearly marks the beginning of the end of summer. Second, the week is filled start to finish with auctions ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Summer Weekend Auction
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
Northeast Auctions' "Summer Weekend Auction" was the last event in New Hampshire's annual August American antiques marathon. After a ten-day preview, when many who came to the Granite State for the shows in Manchester and Concord the week before made a pilgrimage to ... (Read More)
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(Show)"We're Selling Stuff!"
Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn, Ellsworth, Maine
"The stuff" is the best stuff you'll find in Maine. This is the show to which a carefully selected and strictly limited number of dealers bring their A+ game. The Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn, Ellsworth, Maine, got its start in 1937, and with ... (Read More)
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(Show)"Pure" Antique American Indian Show Continues to Grow
Antique American Indian Art Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
In Native American art parlance, the Antique American Indian Art Show's origin myth starts decades before the show made its debut in Santa Fe's El Museo in the Railyard. The show's inspiration dates to 2014, when Kim Martindale, the man who started ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Play Conservatively on an "Is It or Isn't It?" Stickley Chair
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
At the Charles M. Talbot auction on August 16 in Turner, Maine, if you closed your eyes and clicked your heels, when you opened your eyes again you might have thought you'd gone back to the 19th century. The auction was held in the dooryard ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Long May She Wave
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Mercer Museum
Long May She Wave: A Graphic History of the American Flag,an exhibition at the Mercer Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, that opened on July 2 and continues until November 6, is more than a stunning graphic history of the American flag; it is a celebration of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Orleans Auction Galleries Sues Kenos; Stair Galleries Files Suit Against Leslie (Updated)
Update: This suit and all others have been settled and dismissed. For more: http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/news/kenos-resolve-all-legal-matters
On July 13 Leigh and Leslie Keno, well-known figures in the antiques world, said they were in the process of selling a multimillion-dollar Modernist painting privately. Part of the proceeds, according to the brothers, would be used ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shute Portrait Brings $339,000
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Blue was the color of summer at Skinner's August 14 and 15 auction in Marlborough, Massachusetts, where portraits and objects in cerulean tones prevailed. Bidders had an array of early portraits from which to choose.
The runaway highlight was an 1832 portrait of Electa Snow Pierce (1817-1849) of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Endless Treasures
Whitehawk Antique Indian & Ethnographic Art Show, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Once the pioneer of August antique Indian art shows in Santa Fe, New Mexico, then the gold standard, now the granddaddy, and still a strong contender, the Whitehawk Antique Indian & Ethnographic Art Show had a great run in Santa ... (Read More)
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(Show)Objects of Art Santa Fe Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Kim Martindale conjured the idea for his Objects of Art show years ago, which was "to display objects from different cultures and different time periods and present them as art," or, to quote coproducer John Morris, "a very solid show where people can have very high odds ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2016 New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association Show
New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
Anyone who thinks enthusiasm for Americana has waned was proved wrong at the 59th annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association show at the Radisson Hotel Manchester, August 11-13. The first collectors in the long line waiting for the doors to open at 10 a.m. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Passion for Collecting: Part II of the Estate of Candice B. Groot
Treadway Toomey Auctions, Oak Park, Illinois
When Treadway Toomey Auctions in Oak Park, Illinois, held the first in a projected series of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Farmer Joins Freeman's
Virginia appraiser and consultant Ken Farmer has been retained as a consultant to Freeman's Auction of Philadelphia, according to a press release. Farmer will focus on helping to develop the company's presence throughout the Southeast. His primary focus will be securing property for consignment and helping with Americana sales.
Farmer will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Connecticut Man and New York Dealer Plead Guilty
Two men have pleaded guilty to hiding assets from the court. On May 19 antiques dealer Henry Neville, former president of the New York City operations of Mallett plc, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to obstruct justice, obstruction of justice, conspiracy to commit bank fraud, bank fraud, and false statements. On ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Voters Approve Changes to Wiscasset, Maine, Traffic
Wiscasset, Maine, is known for its many antiques shops. It's also well known as a traffic bottleneck in the summer months. Antiquing in Wiscasset, Maine, is going to be more difficult in the future, according to several dealers in the small town.
On June 14 Wiscasset voters were asked to decide ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Betsey Telford-Goodwin, Rocky Mountain Quilts, York, Maine
In the Trade
Why, you may ask, is a business with the name "Rocky Mountain Quilts" located in York, Maine? There's a long answer (which needn't detain us here) and a short answer. The short answer is simply that owner Betsey Telford-Goodwin was homesick. She had grown up in Chestnut Hill ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Web Resources for Researching Antiques
Computer Column #332
John P. Reid,
There are Internet resources for researching antiques of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
When the Old Was New
Auction-goers and pickers in rural areas often buy today's antiques that were sold new a century ago in mail-order catalogs. Mail-order sales were made easier in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester
Manchester, New Hampshire
Passionate collectors and dealers in Americana who gather annually in August in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration: "I Always Wanted a Fancy Show"
Concord, New Hampshire
She always wanted a fancy antiques show, and she got one on Tuesday, August 9, in Concord, New Hampshire. But she, Nan Gurley, longtime collector, dealer, and show manager, was not there in person, just in spirit. As her daughter Rachel told us, her eyes filling with tears, ... (Read More)
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(Show)MidWeek Antiques Show Moves Back to Manchester
MidWeek in Manchester Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
One of the first things that show promoter Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions said to us as we entered the JFK Memorial Coliseum in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 9, the setup date for the MidWeek in Manchester Antiques Show and, coincidentally, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Boynton Beach Sees Antiques Stores as Key for Growth
Editorial
The City Commission of Boynton Beach, Florida, a city of approximately 69,000 residents, should be congratulated. It has recognized that antiques shops and consignment stores can help boost the economy in cities.
On July 5 the City Commission approved relaxed rules regarding antiques stores and consignment shops. The new rules are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Notre Dame Sued over Purportedly Stolen Collection
A collection of pre-Columbian artifacts at the University of Notre Dame's Snite Museum of Art, Notre Dame, Indiana, includes stolen property according to a Pennsylvania man who is suing the university. Notre Dame and the dealer who sold the collection to the university deny the accusation.
Scott Leff, the son of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The GSA Goes after Another Painting
Collector Myron Kaplan paid $57,500 for Abstraction #6 by Ad Reinhardt (1913-1967) at Sotheby's on November 20, 1997. The 161/4" x 20" oil on canvas was estimated at $15,000/20,000, and the provenance in the catalog noted that it was "acquired directly from the artist."
In May 2016-almost 20 years after he ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Promoter and New Look for Zoar Harvest Festival & Antiques Show
Zoar, Ohio
The 43rd annual Zoar Harvest Festival & Antiques Show had a new look and a new show promoter for the August 6 and 7 event. Since 2008, Jan and Dick Wilks had ably brought wonderful dealers and antiques to Zoar, but with their decision to retire from managing the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Enormous Gets More Enormous
Maine Antiques Festival, Union, Maine
Paul Davis's centerpiece show, the three-day Maine Antiques Festival in Union, Maine, held August 5-7, is back on a solid upswing again.
In its second consecutive year of renewed growth, about 45 new dealers brought the total to just under 200 exhibitors, still down from its peak ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Useful Dictionary of Canton Forms
A Book Review
Collecting Canton: In Pursuit of the Best by Gail and Rich Mellin, with Erica Mellin Scioscia Mellin's Antiques Publishing, 2015, 167 pages, hardbound, $165 postpaid from Mellin's Antiques, (203) 938-9538 or (www.mellinsantiques.com).
After purchasing two dinner plates in the 1970s, Gail and Rich Mellin fell in love with blue ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Firehouse Antiques Expands
Firehouse Antiques in Galena, Maryland, is expanding and has purchased a Victorian building at 100 North Main Street, adjacent to its current location at 102 North Main Street. The 150-year-old Victorian building has served as a country inn, store, and residence and will now be home for antiques offered by ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
A Book Review
Photos courtesy New-York Historical Society
Making It Modern: The Folk Art Collection of Elie and Viola Nadelman
by Margaret K. Hofer and Roberta J.M. Olson
New-York Historical Society, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2015, 375 pages, hardbound, $65.
A current exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) has taken on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Paintings
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Summer on Cape Cod attracts tourists, vacationers, and antiques shoppers. Thus was the case for Eldred's August 3-5 auction of over 1400 lots of American furniture, decorative accessories, and paintings at the East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery. Bidders assembled beneath the striped ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawsuit over Picasso Sculpture Settled
The lawsuit filed in January by Gagosian Gallery of New York City against Pelham Europe, Ltd. involving the sale of Pablo Picasso's 1931 sculpture Buste de Femme (Marie Therese) has been settled.
"We are pleased that the dispute between the Picassos and Pelham has been settled and Mr. Black will receive ... (Read More)
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(Auction)French House Contents Tent Auction
William A. Smith, Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith
On August 5 William A. Smith sold the contents of the French House, a lifelong accumulation of American 18th- and 19th-century country antiques, under a tent in Plainfield, New Hampshire. A top lot at the auction was a Civil War powder ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, August 2016
Ian McKay,
There is a fair amount of sculpture and not a little bare flesh-carved and painted-in this month's "Letter," and with other stories headed "The Red-Haired Girl..." and "Bronzed Beauties..." I might be accused of being single-minded in my pursuit of subjects for this selection. I plead coincidence, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Director of Warhol Museum Joins Sotheby's
Eric Shiner, director of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, will join Sotheby's this September. Based in New York City, Shiner will enter Sotheby's fine art division as a senior vice president focused on private sales of 20th- and 21st-century art.
Shiner's new role follows eight years at the Andy ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Americana Week Show in New York City
A new show will be added to the calendar during Americana Week in New York City next January when dealer and show manager Debbie Turi introduces Antiques Folk Art Design NYC, to be held at the Prince George Ballroom at 15 East 27th Street.
The venue, approximately 8500 square feet spread ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Action Comics" #1 Brings $956,000
A 1938 copy of Action Comics #1 featuring the first appearance of Superman sold for $956,000 (includes buyer's premium) at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, on August 4.
It came from the collection of a comic book fan from the East Coast, who had purchased it from a dealer in the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)More Genres of Posters Than There Are Peanuts in a Snickers Bar
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
At the semiannual auction of vintage posters at Swann Galleries in New York City on August 3, there were more genres of posters than there are peanuts in a Snickers bar. About 576 lots were offered for sale, and four auction records were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Buyers Buoy Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"As always," Scot Levitt, Bonhams' California and Western paintings specialist, was "nervous" before his August 2 Los Angeles/San Francisco auction. Levitt was gratified and sometimes surprised, however, by the sale's strong prices; sales totaled $3.3 million (includes buyers' premiums). Levitt was especially ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Finale for Farmer
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
Photos courtesy Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions held its summer catalog sale on July 30 at the firm's gallery in Salem, Virginia. The event marked the firm's final sale. Earlier in the month Will Farmer announced that he had reached an agreement to sell his business to Jarrod Hines, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Austin's Antiques Sold and Renamed
Peter Austin sold Austin's Antiques co-op in Chichester, New Hampshire, on June 1 to Cathy Consentino and Thomas Thompson, two longtime dealers. Austin had owned the business for 23 years.
"After a lot of thought, the name is being changed to Thos. Bartlett Antiques & Oddments," Consentino wrote. "The layout has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The 60th Anniversary of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM) in Williamsburg, Virginia, is kicking off its diamond anniversary in 2017 with the loan exhibition at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory, January 20 through 29. The oldest continuously operating museum in the United States dedicated solely to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 42nd Annual VADA Show
Antiques & Art in Woodstock, Woodstock, Vermont
A couple of the exhibitors at the Antiques & Art in Woodstock show (also known as the VADA [Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association] show) on July 30 and 31 asked not to be identified before they answered questions about how well they'd done at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)National Insulator Association Convention Show
Muncie, Indiana
"What's an insulator?"
The question came from my 22-year-old daughter. She's not dumb. The kid attends a prestigious liberal-arts college and scored fives on the AP calculus and chemistry exams at the end of high school, so she has a brain. But she has also spent a lifetime in a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Auction Finds Success with Well-Documented Estates
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee, had its most successful sale ever by employing its dual strengths, offering 19th-century regional material of intense local interest, while presenting Asian, European, and 20th-century lots with broad international appeal. The July 30 sale offered close to 1000 lots in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 35th Convention Auction of the International Nippon Collectors Club
Chandler's International Auction and Estate Sales, Cary, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Chandler Eshleman
On July 30 the International Nippon Collectors Club (INCC) concluded its 35th annual convention in Cary, North Carolina, with a sale of the beloved porcelain. Most of the 470-plus lots were consigned by INCC members. Additional Nippon pots were ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiq-onomics, Part 1
The Young Collector
When Andrew began his life in the auction business, he was excited. He was fresh out of graduate school at Winterthur and the University of Delaware, where he'd spent hours in quiet, climate-controlled, well-lit rooms reviewing individual pristine, iconic Americana objects at his leisure. Then he showed up ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minnesota Dealer Pleads Guilty in Ivory Case
Antiques dealer Jay Anthony Anderson, 66, of Wabasha, Minnesota, pleaded guilty on June 7 in federal court to smuggling elephant ivory. He was charged on May 16 with knowingly importing and exporting objects made from elephant ivory in violation of the laws and regulations of the United States, including the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Porcelain, No Simple Matter
The Frick Collection in New York City has published Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection, which accompanies the year-long special exhibition of the same name, exploring the complex history of making, collecting, and displaying porcelain.
The 34-page booklet includes installation photographs, a complete exhibition checklist, and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoys at Auction
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The festival of feathers capped at the Guyette & Deeter sale July 26 and 27 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where about 600 lots brought just shy of $3 million (including buyers' premiums). As do Ted and Judy Harmon, whose Cape Cod auctions are highly social ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show Manager for Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
Slated for August 6 and 7, the 43rd annual Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale in Zoar, Ohio, will be managed by Steven Sherhag of Canfield, Ohio.
"Since 2008, dealers Jan and Dick Wilks have done a superb job managing and promoting Harvest Festival," said Jon Elsasser, president of the Zoar ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2015
A Book Review
American Furniture 2015Edited by Luke Beckerdite The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2015, 241 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
Collectors and students of American furniture look forward annually to the publication of American Furniture, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Anonymous Donor Gifts Ohr Vase
The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, has acquired a piece of George Edgar Ohr ceramic art pottery from an anonymous donor. According to the museum's director, Kevin O'Brien, "Although the museum has been fortunate enough to receive gifts of Ohr in the recent past, it's always a special ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arion's Delaware Coast Antiques Show & Sale Canceled
Promoter Melvin L. Arion has announced that the 20th annual Delaware Coast Antiques Show & Sale will not be held this year. The cancellation is due to major construction at the Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The event is normally held the first weekend after Labor Day (this year ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Tenth Newport Antiques Show
Middletown, Rhode Island
The Newport Antiques Show, July 22-24, which celebrated its tenth year, continues to attract local collectors and summertime residents. Attendance appeared to be down this year, but "the show holds its own," said Delaware dealer James M. Kilvington, who has exhibited here for six years.
Held in the ice ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indian Hill Antiques Fair
Cincinnati, Ohio
Indian Hill Antiques Fair was under new management during the 34th annual show, held July 24 in northeastern Cincinnati. Doug Supinger took over for Ray and Kathy Mongenas, who started the event for the Indian Hill Boosters Association and managed it through last year.
While the Mongenases took pride in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Sporting Auction
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
The festival of feathers continued on July 24 with Copley Fine Art Auctions' tenth annual auction in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where collectors of decoy and sporting art assembled while artworks and birds moved from one collection to another.
Bird carvers were and remain sportspersons, careful observers of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three-Ring Auction: Carnival, Wild West, Circus!
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter
The posters, banners, and other circus memorabilia auctioned on July 23 at Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago offered a glimpse into a world that has all but disappeared-the latest sign being that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey has cited ... (Read More)
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(Show)Goosefare's Camden-Rockport Show
Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale, Rockport, Maine
The Goosefare Antiques and Promotions Camden-Rockport Historical Society antiques show, held this year on July 23 and 24 at coastal Maine's Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport, Maine, its 36th year, is rapidly building toward icon status.
With temperatures in the high 80s, the first ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 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)Lincoln Goose Flies High at Summer Sale
Decoys Unlimited, Hyannis, Massachusetts
Decoy auctions aren't like other sales. They are more like reunions or conferences. Snippets of conversations relate to matters such as the best place to buy glass eyes, who is selling what bird, the surface of a particular bird, who has his or her eye on what ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Blanket Statement at Farrin's
Farrin's Country Auctions holds two or three sales every month at its home base in Randolph, Maine. A regular crowd (including me) has been showing up for decades to paw through furniture, folk art, china, flea market culch, artworks, and various forms of hidden treasures.
Rusty Farrin's offering on July 20 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Hope Antiques at 40
On July 4 Edwin Hild and Patrick Bell celebrated 40 years in the antiques business. The story of their Olde Hope Antiques in New Hope, Pennsylvania, documents the evolution of the market for what used to be called country antiques into that catchall category called "folk art" over the last ... (Read More)
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(Auction)First Annual Textile and Sewing Auction
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its first annual textiles and sewing auction on July 16 at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. Specialty auctions are not surprising. We are used to special sales of categories such ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dave Jar among Rarities at Crocker Farm
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
"It is a great southern piece," proclaimed Tony Zipp when describing a very rare alkaline-glazed stoneware jar inscribed "Dave / Jan 13 -1862 / Lm" that Crocker Farm sold for $40,250 on July 16.
The company's stoneware and redware sale of 493 lots grossed $928,803 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ross Perot's U.S.S. "Constitution" Flag Will Be Conserved for New Display
A rare 19-star flag that once flew on the U.S.S. Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is being conserved by Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts. The flag is owned by Texas billionaire and former U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, who received it as a birthday present from his ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Bitter Bottle Battle
After almost 150 years, excavating a latrine under one of the more than 100 saloons that operated in Virginia City, Nevada, during the Gold Rush produced some interesting artifacts-a pottery cribbage board, a spittoon, fluted stemware, and several Dr. Wonser's U.S.A. Indian Root Bitters bottles, among other items. Upon learning ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Sale in Canada
Tim Isaac, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
All prices in Canadian dollars
Tim Isaac changed his auction venue from the Algonquin hotel in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, to the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick, for his annual summer sale on Monday, July 11. It did not ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2016 National APIC Convention
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
The 2016 national convention for the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) was held from July 6 to July 10 at the Harrisburg Hilton Hotel in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The APIC holds its national convention every two years. "Usually in election years our membership goes up a few hundred," remarked president Ron ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Draper Descendants Sale
John McInnis Auctioneers, Hopedale, Massachusetts
John McInnis Auctioneers' July 8 sale on the grounds of the home of William and Nancy Gannett in Hopedale, Massachusetts, told the story of a family and a town. In 1816 farmer Ira Draper patented the improved fly shuttle that allowed weavers to run two power ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)GSA Goes After New Deal Painting Offered on eBay
"This [was a] non-identifiable piece of trash that I turned into a gleaming piece, and the government decides they want it," said art dealer Matthew Schwartz of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Schwartz was speaking about 1934 Farmer, a large oil on canvas by John D. Slavin that he offered on ... (Read More)
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