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(Fragment)Two Americana Dealers Take Leave of Absence from Winter Antiques Show
Summertime seems to be a time for decisions. Peter Eaton and Joan Brownstein have decided not to do the Winter Antiques Show in January. "We are not dropping the Winter show; we are taking a year's leave of absence for medical reasons. Joan had four vertebrae fused two weeks ago, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)James Gallagher and Ruth Zager, North Norwich, New York
In the Trade
The antiques trade has a well-deserved reputation for being a textbook example of capitalism in the raw. There's little regulation; there's lots of gossip; and there's certainly no shortage of sharp practice. There are times when one might be tempted to rank antiques dealers below even politicians, used ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2016
Ian McKay,
Chinese works of art, mostly in the ceramics line but with one little ivory figure and a couple of big wooden screens included, provide a run of way over estimate results and most of the higher priced items featured in this month's "Letter." Elsewhere, we have a few ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Church Yard
South Salem, New York
Spread out on the grounds of Stevens Memorial United Methodist Church were almost 70 dealers who spent their Fourth of July toiling while taking in the sunshine and good cheer an outdoor show can create. Managed by Frank Gaglio's Barn Star Productions, the one-day show is a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rivera Painting Sold Privately for $15,750,000
Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957), Baile en Tehuantepec, oil on canvas, 79" x 641/2", signed and dated 1928. (c)2016 Banco de Mexico Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, D.F. / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Baile en Tehuantepec, painted by Diego Rivera (Mexican, 1886-1957) in 1928, has been sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Books and Equestrian Art Sell
Gibson Auction Inc., Orange, Virginia
Photos courtesy Gibson Auction Inc.
On successive Saturdays, June 25 and July 2, Gibson Auction Inc. held noteworthy auctions at its salesroom in Orange, Virginia. Those two auctions were my introductions to the Gibson operation. I have been aware of the firm's existence, but until these two ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Books and Manuscripts Sell at Gibson Auction
On July 2 Gibson Auction, Inc. in Orange, Virginia, offered a relatively small group of rare books and manuscripts for sale without reserve. The bulk of the lots came from the estate library of the Craige family of North Carolina and Virginia and had been collected over three generations.
The high ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Consignment Auction
Davies Auctions, Lafayette, Indiana
It was business as usual during the sale held by Davies Auctions on July 2 in Lafayette, Indiana. Headlining the auction was material from Jeff and Emily Walton, formerly of Jenera, Ohio, who recently retired from the antiques business. The last event for the couple was Ohio ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques at Magic Mountain Is Now Antiques at Stratton Mountain
The Vermont Antiques Week show formerly known as Bromley and most recently as Magic Mountain is now Antiques at Stratton Mountain. The show will be held at the Stratton Mountain base lodge in Stratton, Vermont, October 1 and 2.
Owner and manager Greg Hamilton met with Stratton base lodge officials and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Palm Beach Show Group Expands into Fine Craft Market
The Palm Beach Show Group is expanding its show roster by taking over ownership and production of the Palm Beach Fine Craft Show. Elizabeth Kubie, the previous owner of the well-established Fine Craft Show, is retiring but will act as a consultant to the Palm Beach Show Group, which "intends ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Woman Sues over Unpaid Rockwell Consignment
On May 16 Ashleigh Adamec of California filed suit in New York alleging that the estate of her father had yet to be paid for a Norman Rockwell painting sold by Illustration House in New York City in 2008.
In 2008 Donald A. Adamec (1937-2013) had consigned five paintings to Illustration ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Weathervanes: Three Centuries of a Pennsylvania Folk Art Tradition
Photos courtesy Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum
The current exhibition at the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has every schoolchild in Lancaster County looking up at church steeples, the cupolas of public buildings, and roofs of barns and shops hoping to find weathervanes. Their parents will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hobcaw Barony Gets Back Some Pictures
Some long-missing artwork has been returned to Hobcaw Barony in Georgetown, South Carolina, the winter estate of Belle W. Baruch (1899-1964), eldest daughter of Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965).
M.A.D. first reported on the missing items in 2003 when Charleston, South Carolina, antiques dealer Samuel Eugene "Sammy" McIntosh II was arrested and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Okemo Show Changes Hands
Kris Johnson, owner of Tex Johnson & Son Antiques, and Steve Sherhag, owner of Early American Antiques, have purchased the Vermont Okemo Antiques Show from Don and Pat Clegg. The 2016 show dates are September 30 and October 1. For show information and advance ticket sales, contact Kris Johnson at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Consolidates Southern Offices
Freeman's, the Philadelphia auction house, is consolidating its two Virginia offices into one location at 5401 Patterson Avenue in Richmond. "Though we will no longer have a physical location in Charlottesville, our staff is dedicated to the region and will continue to offer the same world-class auction services that we ... (Read More)
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(Show)Locust Grove Antiques Market
Louisville, Kentucky
Locust Grove, the 55-acre national land-mark in Louisville, Kentucky, isn't a hard place to find. Well, normally not. A couple of left turns here, a right turn or two there, and, ta-da, you've arrived.
However, getting to the Locust Grove Antiques Market on June 26 was another matter-at least for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Carved Panel Tops Cambridge Auction
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Billed as a summer melange, CRN Auctions' June 26 sale certainly was that. It ran the gamut from exceptional 18th-century American furniture to a 1917 case of Kentucky bourbon to a set of eight etched glass wineglasses with green stems that sold for $60. And mannequins-more on ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Round Lake Antiques Festival
Round Lake, New York
This is a story and sale that never goes away. Round Lake, New York, has been having outdoor shows for 44 years, and there does not seem to be any end in the future. What is different is the dealers, and I must say the quality and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Marion Antique Auction
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
When Frank McNamee and David Glynn hold a Marion Antique Auctions sale in Marion, Massachusetts, dealers and collectors take note. The sales are often a blend of area estate antiques and quirky material relating to the history of New Bedford and other seafaring communities along the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Melange of Merchandise
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
There seemed to be a bit of an identity crisis at play during the sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati on June 24 and 25. The print catalog clearly categorized the auction as "Fine and Decorative Art," while the online catalog called it ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, July 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.
American Patented Nutmeg Graters, 1854-1935...Plus! by Carol J. Bohn (Heritage Printers, 2015, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Flying the Antiques Flag
Thanks to the Connecticut legislature and to some activism by Karen Reddington-Hughes of Abrash Galleries, Woodbury, president of the Woodbury Antiques Dealers Association, shops that are part of the Connecticut Antiques Trail will be able to fly a flag to inform customers of their location, despite local flag and sign ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Lititz Antiques Show
Lititz, Pennsylvania
For 54 years, the Lititz Historical Foundation has held an antiques show on the last weekend in June to benefit the 1792 Johannes Mueller House. It is Lancaster County's oldest show, and for the second year it was held at the Warwick Middle School, an air-conditioned space with good ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Lessons Learned
The Young Collector
In April Andrew debuted as an antiques dealer. He discovered many things, including the fact that one of his favorite antiques-related jokes is true: Two antiques dealers were stranded on a desert island. Business was brisk. Ba-dum-bum.
The Ohio Country show, managed by Bruce Metzger of Queen City Shows ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Collection of Joan Rivers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's held two sales of the personal property of Joan Rivers: a live auction on June 22 with 204 lots from Rivers's Manhattan penthouse, and an eight-day online-only sale of 77 lots that included antique jewelry, designer clothing, and handbags and concluded on June 23.
Gemma ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association Announces Scholarship Winner
The Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the public's knowledge and appreciation of antiques, has awarded its annual scholarship to Abigail Feliciano of Centerville, Massachusetts. Each year, the CCADA provides funds to the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation to provide a scholarship to ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Conservation and Restoration
Computer Column #331
John P. Reid,
A recent column discussed computer software to help furniture restorers make precision woodworking drawings. The software is available online. There are other online aids to antiques restoration and conservation. (The cumbersome URLs are listed by number in the "Websites" sidebar. Subscribers can click on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Elmore Wins One in Harvard Suit
On May 19 a federal judge handed New Mexico dealer and author Steve Elmore a partial victory in his legal battle against Harvard University. United States District Judge Robert C. Brack ruled against Harvard's claim of copyright infringement on some of the images used in Elmore's book.
"Mr. Elmore and Harvard ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chait Gets a Year in Prison and a $10,000 Fine
Joseph Chait, 38, of Beverly Hills, California, the senior auction administrator of I.M. Chait Gallery, was sentenced on June 22 to one year and one day in prison and a $10,000 fine for conspiring to smuggle wildlife products made from rhinoceros horn, elephant ivory, and coral with a market value ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Show in Virginia Beach
D'Amore Promotions is adding a new show to its 2016 lineup. The Virginia Jewelry, Art, & Antiques Show will be held August 5-7 at the Virginia Beach Convention Center and will feature more than 100 dealers. It will be the largest antiques show in the Hampton Roads area, a metropolitan ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 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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(Issue Story)Uncertain No More
Editorial
It isn't perfect, but the new federal rule regarding African elephant ivory should bring a sigh of relief from the antiques trade. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), which issued the final version of the rule on June 6, will make dealers and collectors jump through a lot ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cut Glass Urn Stars at Tremont Sale
Tremont Auctions, Newton, Massachusetts
For the June 19 summer sale in their Newton, Massachusetts, gallery Tremont Auctions' principals Brett Downer and Douglas W. Stinson, both seasoned professionals in the business, rounded up solid material from Boston-area estates and collections. Bidders filled most of the seats in the gallery, with many others ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Good Day for Southern Furniture
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its semiannual Americana and fine arts sale on June 18 at the firm's gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. These sales are commonly referred to as Evans's southern sales, as there is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Military History Saluted at DownEast Auctions
DownEast Auctions, Portland, Maine
American history and military esoterica combined for a good presentation in Portland, Maine, on June 18. Auctioneer Mark Bradstreet and his wife, Linda, operate DownEast Auctions in Searsport, Maine. They moved this sale to Portland to accommodate a larger number of attendees. The move didn't appear to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)From Geometric Abstraction to Symmetrical Utility
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
"Do you want to see the Pol Bury?" asked auctioneer Jeremy Wooten. The kinetic wood and nylon wire wall sculpture by Pol Bury (Belgian, 1922-2005) was listed in the catalog for Wooten & Wooten's June 18 sale in Camden, South Carolina, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
Oley, Pennsylvania
The colors of hooked rugs and quilts were as rich and vibrant as those on the painted surfaces of chests, dry sinks, boxes, and baskets at the 12th annual Antiques in the Valley show held at the Oley Middle School in Berks County, Pennsylvania, on June 17 and 18.
There ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In the Abstract, Moore Auction Looks Good
Hap Moore, York, Maine
Except for a collected lot of 14k gold brooches with assorted stones that topped out at $7475 (including buyer's premium), Hap Moore's June 18 auction in York, Maine, was anchored around a pair of dissimilar 20th-century abstract paintings that hailed from opposite sides of the globe.
Moore had ... (Read More)
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(Auction)It's Lights Out at $2.8 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
Referring to the wide variety of offerings, with estimates ranging from $50 to a quarter of a million, at his June 16 and 17 lamp, glass, and jewelry auction in Fairfield, Maine, auctioneer Jim Julia noted, "You can't go anyplace on the planet earth and see ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bill to Increase Reward for Reporting Ivory Violations Fails to Pass
A bill that would have authorized rewards of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a person guilty of a felony or misdemeanor related to the sale of ivory and of rhinoceros horns passed the New York State Assembly on June 15. It did not ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Final Federal Rule for Antique Elephant Ivory Released
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(Fragment)D-Day Flag Brings $514,000
A 48-star United States flag, 30" x 57", that led American troops to Utah Beach in France on D-Day, June 6, 1944, complete with a bullet hole from a German machine gun, realized $514,000 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, on June 12. The buyer was Bert Kreuk, a Dutch ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old West Auction
Brian Lebel's Old West Auction, Fort Worth, Texas
Photos courtesy Brian Lebel's Old West Auction
Still headlining events today, Annie Oakley continues to draw a crowd. At Brian Lebel's Old West Auction on June 11 in Fort Worth, Texas, cowboys, cowboy-wannabes, and lovers of anything and everything Western turned out in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Artworks and Flora Danica Bolster June Auction
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
If there is such a thing as a celebrity auctioneer, those who attended The Potomack Company's recent sale were treated to just that. Because of a scheduling conflict, Patrick O'Neill, the firm's longstanding man with the gavel, was not at the podium. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burton Antiques Market Thrives in Its 55th Season
Burton, Ohio
The weather: no one likes to talk about it, but everyone does where shows held outside are concerned. The Burton Antiques Market, held twice a year at the Geauga County Fairgrounds in Burton, Ohio, lives and dies by the weather, and it isn't just a topic of rain or ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The "Lamb," a Rare Medal, and an Expensive Parrot
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
The best items performed a bit of a balancing act during the American history sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati on June 10.
On one side of the scale, the auction's most anticipated lot, a presentation sword and archive of Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rudolph Lux: Some Very Bad News but Some Good News, Too
After publication in the September 2015 Maine Antique Digest of the article "There Was No One Like Rudolph T. Lux, Ever," readers and friends have provided new facts, which this article incorporates.
For example, the morning edition of the New Orleans Republican of July 14, 1868, reported the following: "Attempted Assassination. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Ceramics in America
A Book Review
Ceramics in America, edited by Robert Hunter. The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2015, 216 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
Ceramics in America is the annual Chipstone journal intended for collectors, historical archaeologists, curators, dealers ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer-Aided Design
Computer Column #330
John P. Reid, < jreid@dca.net>
Antiquers occasionally need drawings or plans. Instruction to a woodworker for making a replacement part for furniture restoration is one example. A three-dimensional layout for a show booth is another.
Many Tools
Computer-aided design (CAD) has been a major software tool in manufacturing and construction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Picasso, Allegedly Stolen--Hidden in Plain Sight
The buyer did his homework but could end up holding the bag, a bag that costs $500,000.
On May 7, 2013, Sotheby's offered a 14" x 71/2" oil on canvas by Pablo Picasso, Tete (Portrait de Marie-Therese), estimated at $700,000/900,000. The catalog listed the provenance as Knoedler Gallery, Laurence Tisch, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wyeth: The Art of Timeless Design
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's held a dedicated sale of just over 200 lots of 20th- and 21st-century furniture and design objects that were amassed by dealer John Birch of the store Wyeth in downtown New York City. It took place the afternoon after Sotheby's design auction session in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana in Southern California
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
All prices include buyer's premium
Brooke Sivo, who is the specialist for American furniture and decorative arts for Bonhams in Los Angeles, said he was pleased with the results from the June 7 and 8 auction, titled The Elegant Home. The auction offered "a broad spectrum of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art at Auction
Bonhams, San Francisco
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"The market has been suffering in some areas," said Jim Haas, the Native American art specialist at Bonhams, while discussing his June 6 and 7 auction in San Francisco. These areas he mentioned include historic pottery, weavings ("classic blankets and serapes"), and California baskets ("but not ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Long and Winding Road
The Young Collector
There are people you like and people you love. For people you like, you return calls, pick up their mail every now and then when they're out of town, send them a card at the holidays, and like their photos on Facebook. For people you love, well, you ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXVI
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
It was one of those "the water's fine, come on in" kind of auctions when Humler & Nolan held its summer sale on June 4 and 5. In usual fashion, the company offered nearly 1500 lots in multiple sessions: keramics, art glass, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Alasdair Nichol called his June 5 American paintings sale at Freeman's "An American Dream" and put an N.C. Wyeth picture of a happy American family on the cover. He had high hopes after his record-breaking $4 million sale in December 2015. That was when he sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lady Washington Plate Soars
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
A historic plate was the subject of intense bidding in the gallery and on the phone when it opened at $15,000 at Grogan & Company's sale on June 5 in the Boston gallery. It raced to $244,000 (includes buyer's premium) against the estimated $25,000/50,000. The 9?" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Randi Ona, Wayne, New Jersey
In the Trade
Randi Ona knew early on that she liked antiques. As a girl, she spent weekends with her grandparents in Paterson, New Jersey. "My grandmother loved antiques," Ona recalled. "We'd go to tag sales every week." Paterson had been home to some great silk mills during the heyday of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Sale
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Quiet but dedicated Massachusetts conservationist and philanthropist Erhart Rudolph Muller (1909-2015) and his wife, Ruth Tate Atwood Muller, began collecting Shaker art and artifacts in the 1940s. Ruth, who had arrived in the 1940s at Harvard, Massachusetts, as a librarian and married Erhart, died at 97 in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago's Spring Design Sales
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
David Rago sold 20th- and 21st-century design from three catalogs on June 4 and 5 in Lambertville, New Jersey. It was the first of the June design sales, followed by Sotheby's, Christie's, and Bonhams in New York City and Wright in Chicago. This sale went ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vending Machine Restorer Banned from Operating in North Carolina
A restoration company that repeatedly failed to complete work or return antiques to consumers is temporarily banned from operating in North Carolina, the state's Attorney General Roy Cooper announced on April 28.
"Taking money from consumers and then failing to finish the job is simply the wrong way to do business," ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Fails to Pay Tax, Pays Huge Settlement Instead
A settlement with Aby J. Rosen, a collector of contemporary art, has been adjudicated for his failing to pay millions in sales and use taxes on art acquisitions made by his companies. Rosen will pay $7 million following an investigation by the New York Attorney General's office.
A major figure in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Imaginary Conversation Leads to a Proposed "Collector Code of Conduct"
Opinion
I imagine a well-known antiques dealer saying, "I think every dealer hopes for knowledgeable collectors who look for a win-win situation and have the means to follow through. Anyone who deals in retail finds most people desirable to deal with. Yet there is a segment that makes it so hard ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antiques in 2 Barns
Jennifer Sabin is stressing the basics when she debuts Antiques in 2 Barns, a small, one-day show on Wednesday, September 14, at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Hilliard, Ohio. The timing takes advantage of buyers in the area for the Springfield (Ohio) Extravaganza later that week. The shows are 35 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Hong Kong and New York City have seen much of the major saleroom action in recent times, though by the time this issue appears, London will be fully up and running again. A couple of personal favourites from the Impressionist and Modern picture sales held in London in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Sales Executive Settles Tax Case
Art sales executive Victoria Gelfand, whose companies failed to pay New York sales and use tax on more than 30 works of art purchased by her companies, has agreed to pay the state $210,000 in sales and use tax combined.
From 2005 through 2013, Gelfand employed two companies to engage in ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Strength and Splendor
A Book Review
Strength and Splendor: Wrought Iron from the Musee Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen, edited by Anne-Charlotte Cathelineau. The Barnes Foundation, 2015, 176 pages, hardbound, $32.50 plus S/H from the Barnes Foundation, (215) 278-7000 or (www.barnesfoundation.org).
Strength and Splendor is the illustrated catalog for an exhibition of 150 pieces of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fifty Years and Downsizing
Dana Tillou and his wife, Catherine, at the 2015 Antiques at Rhinebeck.
After having an art and antiques gallery for the past 50 years at 417 Franklin Street in Buffalo, New York, dealer Dana Tillou is moving. Not far, about two miles, to a smaller venue, where his gallery size will ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2016 Brandywine Show
Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
The Brandywine River Museum of Art Antiques Show is a Memorial Day weekend tradition as firmly rooted as putting out American flags. Dealers at the 45th annual show, held May 27-30, brought mostly Americana and antiques from Europe or Asia that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three-Day Sale in May
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
With three days and over 1300 lots, John McInnis Auctioneers' Memorial Day weekend (May 28-30) auction in the Amesbury, Massa-chusetts, gallery had something for everyone and then some. Prices were up, down, and all over the place.
Day one was given over to 153 lots of timepieces ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dunning Still Life Tops Two-Day Sale
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
The William A. Smith auction gallery in Plainfield, New Hampshire, was packed with customers for the two-day Memorial Day weekend antiques auction on May 29 and 30. William G. Smith has been steadfast in his refusal to use Internet ... (Read More)
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(Show)Randolph Street Market Festival: Opening Weekend 2016
Chicago, Illinois
To the annals of great impresarios through history, add Sally Schwartz, the founder and driving force behind and still major-domo of the Randolph Street Market Festival in Chicago's West Loop. Flo Ziegfeld and Sol Hurok, eat your hearts out!
For the May 28 and 29 opening of the seasonal outdoor ... (Read More)
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(Show)Thumbs-up at Rhinebeck Show
Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
It was thumbs-up for the quality, presentation, variety, and dealer knowledge at Barn Star Productions' twice-a-year Antiques at Rhinebeck show at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York, a historic town along the Hudson River, south of Albany and north of Manhattan, on May ... (Read More)
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(Auction)March Auction Features Variety and Value
Laughlin Auctions, Inc., Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions, Inc.
Laughlin Auctions, Inc. was founded in 1986 by three brothers, Hoyle, John, and Duane Laughlin, and its first sale was held over that year's Memorial Day weekend. Each year since, the firm has held an annual spring auction, and this year's, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buttocks Leads to Citation, Citation Leads to Lawsuit
A painting of a woman with bare buttocks by contemporary artist Tom Dash (b. 1975) resulted in the Borghi Fine Art Gallery in Englewood, New Jersey, receiving a written complaint, alleging a violation of the city's nudity code.
Now the city is the subject of a federal lawsuit filed by the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eldred's Opens Satellite Office in Connecticut
The Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc. opened a new satellite office at 5 Roosevelt Avenue in Mystic, Connecticut, on May 9. The new office will be open Tuesdays and Wednesdays and by appointment for antiques and fine art appraisal and consignment services.
"This is an ideal location to service our existing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, June 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.
Some Kind of Good by Mark Clay Grove (Spitfire Publishing, LLC, 2015, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Emancipation Proclamation and 13th Amendment Sell Together for First Time
Sotheby's, New York Cit
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's offered an engrossed (handwritten) vellum copy of the 13th Amendment, one of only 14 such Lincoln-signed copies known, on May 25 at a sale called "Two Centuries of American History." The document that abolished slavery in the United States sold to well-known philanthropist David ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Fest 2016 Canceled
The 2016 Folk Fest, a folk art and Outsider art show in Atlanta set for August, has been canceled because of the loss of the lease by the operator of the exhibit hall that was home to the show. The sudden announcement caught many by surprise.
This decision was made shortly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Berkshire County Craftsman and His Contemporaries: The Newell Family
When assisting Joshua Lane, former curator of furniture at Historic Deerfield, with the "Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture" project, I realized that the majority of cabinetmakers covered in the 2013 exhibition Furniture Masterworks: Tradition and Innovation in Western Massachusetts were not from Berkshire County, Massachusetts. That same year at the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 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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(Fragment)White's Auctions Opens New Gallery in Middleboro, Massachusetts
White's Auctions is opening a new auction hall in Middleboro, Massachusetts. The new gallery is approximately 3000 square feet, well lit, air conditioned, and handicap accessible. The building also has warehouse storage and shipping spaces as well as a loading dock. This new auction gallery is located just outside Middleboro ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buy-In Numbers
Editorial
I attended an auction last month that struggled. Lot after lot was passed, but many in the audience had no idea. The auctioneer, deft at using chandelier bids to try to move a lot up to the reserve, relied heavily on buy-in numbers when a lot was passed. A buy-in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Reflects the Market
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
As a general rule, gardeners like rain, antiquers do not. The 58th Shenandoah Antiques Expo at the Augusta Expoland in Fishersville, Virginia, would have been a gardener's delight. The weekend of May 20-22 was a rainy one. When I visited the Fishersville show on Saturday, I ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ring of the Lords
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
At the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Scranton Sale
Skinner, Inc., Killingworth, Connecticut
Hardly anyone was absent. The May 21 on-site sale of the collections of Killingworth, Connecticut, dealer Lewis Scranton packed the tents with collectors and dealers, some of whom had not been seen in the salesrooms in decades. Dealers, all of whom know and respect Scranton, an 11th-generation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portraits of Women and One Lovely Mare Star
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
The May 21 and 22 New Orleans Auction Galleries estates sale was a banquet of furniture, jewelry, and decorative arts, but once again fine art from a major paintings collection brought the highest prices of the weekend. With over ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dave the Slave Pot Brings $206,800
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
The absentee sale conducted by the Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society (SFPCS) that closed on May 21 had 289 lots, but most of the bidding activity and dollars were focused on just four pots by Dave the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marklin "Amerika" Steams to a Record $271,400
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
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An enthusiastic, rollicking crowd convened at Bertoia Auctions' Toy Shoppe sale on May 20 and 21. They helped pull off, in Jeanne Bertoia's words and in racetrack parlance, a trifecta. The $1.4 million run at the Vineland, New Jersey, auction house made it ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chinese Clock Brings $1,270,500
An antique Chinese animated triple fusee bracket clock estimated at $500,000/750,000 sold for $1,270,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Fontaine's Auction Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on May 21. It was the top lot in a sale that grossed approximately $2.5 million. The buyer was in the room but asked not to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Huge Sale from the Descendants of Artist J. Alden Weir
Boyd Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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On May 20 and 21, Boyd Auctions sold property for the descendants of J. Alden Weir in a monumental sale at the Frank Jones Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Weir (1852-1919) was an American Impressionist painter, a member of the Cos Cob art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)George Schastey, Maker of Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age
The most publicized decorative arts exhibition this season, Artistic Furniture of the Gilded Age at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which opened on December 15, is being held over until June 5. More than 170,000 people have seen it and will now recognize the name George Schastey as a competitor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Noel Barrett and Ron Pook Join Forces
Ron Pook (left) and Noel Barrett
Pennsylvania auctioneers Noel Barrett and Ronald Pook have announced a new collaboration. Barrett will be staging his annual fall auction of an eclectic mixture of vintage toys and other items at Pook's facility in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, his first foray after rolling his Bucks County auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Hung horizontally or vertically, Georgia O'Keeffe's Lake George Reflection was a favorite during American paintings week in May. It is a large painting, 58" x 34", and Christie's showed it both ways as the folding frontispiece in the catalog for the May 19 sale. For ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two by Sargent Top Sotheby's Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
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Sotheby's 6 p.m. American art sale on May 18 began with champagne. Collectors toasted two extraordinary paintings by John Singer Sargent-Staircase in Capri, painted in 1878, and Poppies, painted in England in the summer of 1886.
Sargent painted Poppies in a garden in the Cotswolds as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Auction of American Art
Bonhams, New York City
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Twice a season, in December and May, collectors, curators, and dealers come to New York City to immerse themselves in American art. Auction houses hold lectures and cocktail parties to be sure that collectors get to the previews. Private dealers participating in "Just Off Madison" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)University of Hartford's Plan to Sell Political Memorabilia Ignites Criticism
It's a collection rivaled only by the Smithsonian Institution, the owners say, and if all goes according to plan, it will be hitting the market. The University of Hartford's collection of political memorabilia-posters, banners, textiles, prints, medals, pottery, glassware, snuffboxes, ribbons, and torchlights, possibly as many as 60,000 objects-will be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Rockwell Kents Top Portsmouth Auction
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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There was something for everyone at Northeast Auctions' May 15 sale in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where buyers showed up and bought from the extensive range of objects offered. Prices were all over the place, with some lots selling under the money and others ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art of Design Then & Now Show
New York City
Fifteen dealers hopped on the bandwagon to exhibit at the first The Art of Design Then & Now show, held at the Bohemian National Hall on New York City's Upper East Side, May 13-15.
The new show, put together by longtime show manager Marty Ellis, who is based in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Penn Dry Goods Market Antiques Show and Sale
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
The fourth annual Penn Dry Goods Market Antiques Show and Sale, held May 13 and 14 at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, was a grand gathering of those who appreciate textiles. Collectors, quilters, and embroiderers met curators, authors, and researchers and enjoyed two days of ... (Read More)
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