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(Fragment)Former Executive Arrested and Charged with Conspiracy, Obstruction, and Fraud
"This type of scheming only ends in handcuffs." That's what Diego Rodriguez, assistant director in charge of the New York field office of the FBI, had to say about the arrest of Robert A. Olins, 58, on August 26 in West Hartford, Connecticut. Olins was charged with conspiracy, obstruction, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2015
Ian McKay,
Lemurs amuse the Duchesse de Choiseul's country house guests but Cathedrale the ram disgraces himself in the first of this month's pieces. Atmospheric, lamplit, moonlit and even softly sunlit, but usually damp canvases of Atkinson Grimshaw-"Grimmy" to one well-known admirer-contribute to the picture content, along with my old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's American Art
New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's American art sale held on the last official day of summer, September 22, 2015, offered 102 lots of paintings and sculptures. At the end of the two-hour afternoon sale, auction records had been made for four artists-Armin Hansen (1886-1957), Edward Middleton Manigault (1887-1922), B.J.O. Nordfeldt ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Quinn and Farmer Dissolve Relationship
Paul Quinn and Ken Farmer have announced the dissolution of their jointly owned firm, Quinn & Farmer Auctions, LLC, effective September 30.
Readers may recall the history of this three-year relationship. Quinn and Farmer had joined forces in October 2012, and in doing so formed a loosely configured network of auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Million-Dollar Rembrandt That Turned Up in New Jersey
A small (121/2" x 10") painting, cataloged as "Triple Portrait with a Lady Fainting, 19th Century, Continental School," had a $500/800 estimate but sold at a Nye & Company auction in Bloomfield, New Jersey, for $1,087,500 (includes buyer's premium) on September 22 to a bidder on the phone. The bidder ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Arrested for Burglarizing a Florida Antiques Shop
According to authorities, antiques shops in Manatee and Sarasota Counties in Florida have been experiencing a rash of burglaries.
On September 22 Michael Linsey Gambuzza, 45, was arrested in connection with a burglary at an antiques shop in Manatee County. When arrested, he had "burglary tools" and a handwritten note listing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, October 2015
Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Colored or Clear, Great Glass Sells
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
Condition, color, form: When it comes to acquiring the best of the best in early glass, bottles, flasks, and more, these are the criteria for determining worth. Well, sometimes.
The catalog cover of Norman C. Heckler & Company's auction ... (Read More)
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(Show)Adirondack Museum Antiques Show and Sale
Blue Mountain Lake and Indian Lake, New York
Photos by Betty Flood and Angelo Dounouclous
The Adirondack Museum Antiques Show and Sale in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, began on Saturday, September 19, and ran through Sunday, September 20. There was a benefit preview and early buying on Friday, September 18, from ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hindman Jewelry Sales Bring $8.52 Million
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
LeslieHindman Auctioneers offered the single-owner sale of jewelry from the estate of Rita Dee Hassenfeld on September 16 and an important jewelry sale on September 17 and 18. "We had three days of sales, covering 1685 items. For all three sales we did 92% sell-through, and the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Larry and Jake Show
L.T. Auctions, St. George, Maine
Lawrence Trueman has been in the auction business for a long time, operating L.T. Auctions since 1988. He and his wife, Diana, have settled in St. George, Maine, where they purchased the Echo Hill function hall, and that's where the hammer comes down now.
By the way, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Manuscript Book by Furniture Maker, Mormons, and More at Americana Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
A manuscript book of furniture designs and other details by an early 18th-century Philadelphia joiner was sold in New York City at Swann's printed and manuscript Americana sale on September 17. Ledgers, yes. There are numbers of those by furniture makers of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lifetime Collection of Katie and Dennis Spann
Mike Clum Auctions, Rushville, Ohio
Photos courtesy Mike Clum Auctions
When the collection of the late Katie and Dennis Spann of Knoxville, Tennessee, was offered by Mike Clum Auctions on September 17 outside of Rushville, Ohio, the sale drew a full house of buyers who were attracted by the strong mix of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crystal Bridges Buys Top Lot at Sale of Maya Angelou's Art Collection
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann
Forty-four artworks from the personal collec-tion of Maya Angelou (1928-2014), poet, playwright, autobiographer, essayist, and performing artist, were auctioned before a joyful, jam-packed audience at Swann Galleries in New York City on September 15 for a total of nearly $1.3 million. Fourteen of the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Reward Offered for Two N.C. Wyeth Paintings
Go, Dutton, and that Right Speedily.
The Encounter on Freshwater Cliff
It's a bizarre tale involving a one-time child actor, a reality television producer, a fictitious trip in a Bentley to a stolen goods warehouse, a Texas police officer who nearly recovered millions in stolen art, and possibly a five-figure reward.
The FBI ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lackluster Interest at American Indian Art Sale
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
The empty spaces in the parking lot at Bonhams were the first clue about the possible success of the September 14 American Indian art auction of the collection of Mario Luraschi that was due to start in ten minutes. Inside the San Francisco salesroom, there ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Active Buying at CRN Sale
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Buyers packed the salesroom for the September 13 sale at CRN Auctions in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The audience was active and plentiful, and the phones were abuzz, as were absentee bids. Auctioneer Carl R. Nordblom told M.A.D. that Internet buying accounted for around 36% of sales.
As is usual ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Catalogs and Back-to-Back Auctions in Columbia
Charlton Hall Auctioneers, West Columbia, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Charlton Hall
Those who stayed for the entire two days, September 11 and 12, at Charlton Hall Auctioneers received a catalog for "International Antiques" and another for "Style + Design" lots. Most lots in the style and design catalog were estimated at under ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Art and Design
Treadway Toomey Auctions, Oak Park, Illinois
Carefully built collections made the day for the September 12 sale at Treadway Toomey Auctions, Oak Park, Illinois. According to house specialists, interest generated by the dispersal of those collections resulted in a strikingly high sell-through rate. Fine art specialist Joe Stanfield called the sell-through ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Salmagundi Club Completes Renovations
A partial view of the Salmagundi Club of New York City on lower Fifth Avenue. As with many buildings in Manhattan, scaffolding hides part of the structure.
Club president Robert W. Pillsbury, known as "one of the left-handed Bobs," is shown preparing his copper plate to be printed on one of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana
Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
A portrait of a man by self-taught Alabama artist Bill Traylor (circa 1854-1949), mixed media on paperboard, sold for $31,200 (includes buyer's premium) to top the country Americana sale held by Garth's Auctions on September 11 in Delaware, Ohio.
Although sources disagree on his birth and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Hunger for 20th-Century Artworks Continues
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Twentieth-century works were once again in high demand at Skinner. Prints by Andy Warhol, Edward Hopper, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Ed Ruscha, and Frank Stella all did well at the fine art sale in the auction house's Boston gallery on September 11. So did a ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, September 2015
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.
Soldier, Engraver, Forger: Richard Brunton's Life on the Fringe in America's New ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Finish
Auction Law and Ethics
We've been looking at certain consignment contract terms and why they are of particular importance to auction consignors. This month we'll complete our review of these terms and consider several negotiating points consignors should know and use to their advantage.
Auctioneering
People generally don't like conflict and the tension ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vilinsky Is New Director of 20th-Century Decorative Arts & Design at Bonhams New York
Beth Vilinsky has been appointed director of the 20th-century decorative arts and design department at Bonhams in New York City, effective immediately. Vilinsky will oversee all facets of the department's strategic development and administration. Her focus will be on expanding and curating auctions, including Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Tiffany, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Amanda Bury, Cazenovia, New York
Amanda Bury.
Bury's home and shop.
A packed corner in the shop.
Bury's side patio from which she sells her garden items.
Two Mexican silver necklaces. The one with the black ribbon is an "armadillo" necklace by Hector Aguilar, $2650. The scroll-link necklace from the 1940s is by William Spratling and is priced at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Proposed Rule Change for Elephant Ivory; Antiques, Defined by ESA, Are Exempt
When it comes to federal restrictions on ivory, there's good news.
On July 25 President Obama announced that the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing revisions to the African elephant rule under Section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act (ESA). The new rules would prohibit most non-antique interstate ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Utilizing the Internet When You Move
Google Earth can show neighborhood details down to parked cars, a tennis court, and a swimming pier on the nearby river.
Computer Column ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Smith's Labor Day Auction
William A. Smith Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William Smith
"It was a fabulous sale. We had a great crowd," declared a member of the William A. Smith auction staff the day after Smith's annual Labor Day sale on September 7. Much of the material offered at this Smith auction was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Packs 'Em in Again!
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maine
As Robert Foster summed up his September 5 and 6 auction in Newcastle, Maine, it was "a hell of a sale." Nobody packs a gallery like he does, and his Labor Day weekend offerings always produce wall-busting crowds and noteworthy sales results.
Australian-born Martin Lewis (1881-1962 immigrated ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Appreciation
Editorial
During the second weekend in August, Maine Antique Digest set up a promotional booth at the Maine Antiques Festival, promoter Paul Davis's signature show in Union, Maine. The three-day show, once home to approximately 380 dealers, has seen the number of dealers decline in recent years because of the economy, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
A Book Review
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky by Gaylord Torrence Skira Rizzoli and the musee du quai Branly, 2014, 320 pages, hardbound, $65
The landmark exhibition The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky was at the musee du quai Branly in Paris from April to July 2014, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Classical Collection and New Faces at the Winter Antiques Show
New York City dealer Carswell Rush Berlin is selling a private collection of Classical furniture and period decorative accessories including some rare lighting. "It came from a southern mansion. The collectors are simply downsizing," he said. Berlin is not running an auction or devoting a stand to the collection at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The New Selkirk Faces Lawsuit over Use of Name
In September 2014 Amelia and Jeff Jeffers, owners of Garth's Auctions in Ohio, announced they were expanding and had bought the assets associated with the defunct Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers in St. Louis, Missouri, including company names and other intellectual property. "We were interested in a name that has an incredible and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Chihuly Company Employee Charged with $3 Million Art Theft
A former Chihuly company employee is accused of stealing more than $3 million worth of artwork by Dale Chihuly. Christopher Robert Kaul, 38, has been charged with theft in the first degree and trafficking stolen property in the first degree.
According to papers filed by Scott R. Peters, a deputy prosecuting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Art Is the Main Thing at Thomaston
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
By my count, Maine's solid six-day block of auctions in the last week of August brought in over $7 million in total sales. Of that, about $2 million was claimed by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on August 29 and 30 in Thomaston, Maine, where it ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)We Must Be Mistaken
The Young Collector
In 2001 the University of Michigan Health System launched a new program, and a study to track the results followed. The idea was simple. Healthcare workers were encouraged to report any mistakes or errors and were given a step-by-step guide to navigating that process, from telling families and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A $4.8 Million Four-Day August Auction
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
As always, James D. Julia's four-day summer sale, held August 25-28 in Fairfield, Maine, was the centerpiece of Maine's auction-filled last week in August. Only about 600 of the 2600-plus lots on offer didn't change hands, and some of the misfires were on the top end ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Expands to the Netherlands
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has joined forces with the Dutch auction house MPO Auctions to form Heritage Auctions Europe, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Amsterdam expansion comes at the same time as Heritage's recently announced Hong Kong expansion.
"Heritage is a growing global brand," said Cristiano Bierrenbach, vice president of Heritage ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Taking Care of Antique and Vintage Jewelry
This circa 1920 Art Deco platinum filigree pendant set with onyx and diamonds has a harder component-diamonds- and a relatively soft, porous component-onyx. Follow Pomphrett's suggestion from the turquoise and gold earrings (see next page) and take the "most gentle cleaning" route. Use a soft, dry brush to wipe off ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bonhams to Move Furniture and Decorative Arts Sales to Los Angeles
Bonhams will focus its furniture and decorative arts sales in its Los Angeles and New York City galleries. Staff will remain in San Francisco to offer valuations and advice on American and European furniture, decorative arts, ceramics, clocks, and silver.
"We've reviewed the sales results on the West Coast, and we ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Metropolitan Glass Club Is Now Art Glass Forum | New York
The New York Metropolitan Glass Club has changed its name to Art Glass Forum | New York. The new name better reflects the organization's "leading role as an advocate for the glass arts and the study of historic, contemporary, and collectible glass," according to an e-mail from forum president Paul ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wyeth Letter Tops Ten Grand at Gamage Auction
Bruce Gamage, Jr. Antiques, Rockland, Maine
Bruce Gamage's August 24 auction in Rockland, Maine, kicked off a solid week of end-of-summer sales in Maine, as Gamage played to a huge standing-room-only crowd in the spacious Elks Lodge.
Often it seems that everything with the Andrew Wyeth name attached to it has big ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Charged with Homicide
Eli M. Goodrich, 26, of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, was arrested on August 4 and charged with murdering his father, Alan Goodrich, 67. Alan and his wife, June Goodrich, operated Goodrich Antiques and Folk Art in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, with their son Eli.
According to published reports, Eli is accused of stabbing his father ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Baltimore, Maryland
The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, held August 20-23 this year, was really four shows in one: a jewelry show, an antiques show, an art show, and a book fair. For 35 years, it has presented a huge variety of wares from all parts of the world. When the Palm ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2015
Ian McKay,
Summer sales have filled my pending files with all sorts of riches and oddities that will feature in both this and future issues. The picture sales I have largely held over for next month's "Letter," though Klimt, Degas, and Goya do make an appearance here. Elsewhere you will ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antique American Indian Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
"Stronger than last year," said coproducer/owner Kim Martindale (with John Morris) about the Antique American Indian Art Show Santa Fe, held August 17-20 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in the Railyard District. The show was born in 2014 out of Martindale's deeply felt belief that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry at a One-Day Maine Antiques Show
An 1860-70 sterling silver chatelaine with sterling implements (thimble case, thimble, pincushion, patch box, stamp box, and an enamel and gold watch with pearl) was $1295. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Coastal Maine Antiques Show at Round Top
This portable desk box has about 20 compartments, brass and ivory hardware, star and fan inlays, and some cryptic symbolic inscriptions inside that give no clue to its origin. Malcolm and Marnie McFarland of Orr's Island, Maine, asked $1250 for it.
Joe Bent of Nobleboro, Maine, brought a lidded pewter coffeepot, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Talbot Auction in Turner: Where a Buck Is Still Worth a Buck
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
Hey, how about this for strange? You go to an auction, right? And you bid $100 for an item. Then you actually pay $100 for it. Weird, huh? But that's what happens at Charles M. Talbot Associates auctions in Turner, Maine. At the company's August ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
In August there were at least four must-see shows in Santa Fe: two at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center located near the downtown Plaza and two at El Museo de Cultural, located in what PR people call the "arty" Railyard District, as well as several others ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)There Was No One Like Rudolph T. Lux, Ever
These Custer vases came to market in 1995 at Butterfield & Butterfield and sold for $46,750 the pair. Later they failed at Heritage Auctions in 2010 but were rescued by private treaty for $53,999, the current record. Miscellany and steamboats, however, seem to hover at middle four-figure prices. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Baten, Blum, and a Bevy of Bids
The Colchester, Connecticut, cherry block- and shell-carved chest-on-chest, 74" high and 401/4" wide, attributed to Samuel Loomis (1770-1800), sold for $408,000 to Colchester, Connecticut, dealer Arthur Liverant of Nathan Liverant and Son, who held his cell phone to his ear, underbid by a telephone bidder. The price was a good ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 22nd Annual Folk Fest
Atlanta, Georgia
Taking a hint from P.T. Barnum, the "World's Greatest Folk Art Show and Sale" took place in Atlanta August 14-16. Going well beyond Barnum's three rings, the 2015 Folk Fest featured 86 dealers and artists occupying nearly 150 booths.
Attendees at the 22nd annual Folk Fest were greeted at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Still the Jewel in the Crown
Woodlawn Museum Antiques Show, Ellsworth, Maine
The stately Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, is a fitting location for Maine's cream-of-the-crop antiques show, held this year from August 12 through 15 under a gargantuan tent on the old homestead's spacious back lawn. Reportedly it took a work crew a solid ten days ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fifth Annual Objects of Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The annual Objects of Art show, owned and produced by Kim Martindale and John Morris (M2), has grown into one of August in Santa Fe's most popular shows with both exhibitors and collectors. Mounted at El Museo in the Railyard District, the show has an eclectic mix ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Harry Hartman Collection, Part II
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Conestoga Auction Company
At the second part of the Harry Hartman estate sale at Conestoga Auction Company, part of the Hess Auction Group, in Manheim Pennsylvania, on August 14 and 15, a 4" high kugel in the form of a blue ribbed pear sold on ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Tips for Touchscreens
Touchscreen artificial nails are shown laid on a smartphone. The ridge seen on the middle one completes the electrical circuit between the artificial nail tip and the user's cuticle.
Computer Column #320
John Reid,
Most of us are multilingual and may not realize it. Versatile musicians know that the fingering is different ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Father, Son, and Daughter Plead Guilty in Fake Peter Max Case
From left: Leslie Roberts (left) and his wife, Silvia, with Peter Max when Max in the Grove opened in 2009. Photo courtesy Coconut Grove Grapevine.
It was a family affair.
Miami, Florida, gallery owner, Leslie Roberts Jr., pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of mail fraud and was sentenced ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Scientist Helps Team Discovering Why Matisse's Brilliant Yellow Is Fading
An international team of scientists that includes Winterthur Museum's senior scientist Jennifer Mass, Ph.D., has announced new findings on why a bright yellow pigment favored a century ago by master artists such as Henri Matisse fades to a drab beige. The study, published in the June 2015 issue of Applied ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Maine Antiques Festival: 34 Years and Counting
Union, Maine
The gravitational tug of the Maine Antiques Festival in Union, Maine, held this year from August 7 through 9, pulls in dealers from across the country and Canada. And like planets orbiting the sun, sales and mini-flea markets spring up alongside the roads to the fairgrounds, hoping to distract ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ellie Hoover Walker Collection Buoys Auction
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Massachusetts native Ellie Hoover Walker (1924-2015) began collecting and dealing in antiques in Ohio in the 1950s. She specialized in New England and Pennsylvania Dutch antiques, and over the years refined her collection to the point that when it came to market at Skinner's August 9 sale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Westmoreland Museum of American Art Honors Richard M. Scaife
The board of trustees of the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg, Pennsylvania, recently voted unanimously to rename the director/CEO position held by Judith O'Toole as the Richard M. Scaife Director/CEO.
A 2005 recipient of the museum's Westmoreland Society Gold Medal as "Distinguished Patron," Scaife supported the museum during his ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Prioritizing Change
The Young Collector
We all know about opinions. As the old saying goes, opinions are like dirty socks. Everyone has them, and they all stink. Turns out, we seem to feel the same about priorities, which makes sense because priorities are a more visible reflection of opinions, opinions in action, if ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New Hampshire Dealers Association Show, 2105
This Pennsylvania schoolhouse quilt in fine unwashed condition, circa 1890, was $5950 from Richard Axtell of Deposit, New York. It sold and was replaced at the show with a similar one.
This mahogany chest of drawers, made in coastal New Hampshire, 1800-10, is by an unidentified maker whose works are in ... (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 on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Homes Down East: Classic Maine Coastal Cottages and Town Houses by ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
Show manager Karen DiSaia worked hard and kept smiling. She clearly loves to manage antiques shows.
This is what antiques shows are about. Collectors and dealers are shown looking over Peter Eaton's make-do chair.
James William Lowery of Baldwinsville, New York, asked $19,500 for this walnut Dutch cupboard from Pennsylvania, 1800-20, ... (Read More)
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(Show)MidWeek Antiques Show
Peter Baker Antiques is based in Elgin, Quebec, and he presented fine Canada-made furniture such as the 12' refectory table on trestle legs and with partitions for place settings. It was from a convent and priced at $12,000. The Quebec-made bird weathervane, circa 1890, was tagged $1850, and a Quebec-made ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Five Auction Records Realized Among 700 Vintage Posters
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann
An unprecedented 700 posters were offered for bidding at an auction of vintage posters at Swann Galleries, New York City, on August 5. Five of these posters set auction records-three Art Nouveau posters, one World War I poster, and one international vintage racecar ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frame Consignments--Risk Free
Eli Wilner & Company, New York City, has a new program to provide frames at no upfront cost to consignors of artwork. According to Wilner, "In order to participate in this program, the owner of the artwork must agree to purchase the Wilner frame, but the payment is only due ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Negotiate
Auction Law and Ethics
We are nearing the end of a long series I have been writing about consigning valuable property to auction. The length of this review reflects the importance of the process and the points, issues, and strategies that it includes. My goal is to help consignors make successful ... (Read More)
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(Show)Desserts at Deerfield
New to the show was Adam Irish of Old as Adam, Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Here he is showing off his prize vintage umbrella, circa 1903, from New Hampshire, priced at $375. He has had a shop since 2012 in Portsmouth but has been collecting antiques for 20 years. His business ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings
Bonhams, Los Angeles and San Francisco
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams' California and Western paintings and sculpture specialist Scot Levitt said he was "pleasantly surprised by the results of our August fourth auction. We had the highest percentage of lots sold in years, with all of the high-price paintings finding new homes. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Auction in Manchester
This 19th-century miniature portrait of a young lady in a black dress and tartan shawl was signed near the left shoulder "G.L. Saunders 1845." It sold for $20,000 (est. $1000/2000) on the Internet, underbid by a phone bidder. The portrait was found in the church rectory in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fred Ponton's Cane Collection
Wickliff Auctioneers, Carmel, Indiana
Photos courtesy Wickliff Auctioneers
Late during a specialized cane auction on August 1 in Carmel, Indiana, a man sitting at a table near the back of the room began muttering in frustration as he was outbid by one particular buyer. "This is ridiculous," he said, just loud enough ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jeff and Holly Noordsy, Cornwall, Vermont
Jeff and Holly Noordsy in front of some of their favorite glass.
Pair of rearing horse andirons, circa 1930, $795. The rear supports for the log rests are in the shape of horseshoes.
Portrait of a boy with a gun, complete with shot bag and silver-mounted powder horn. The stretcher is yellow ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Legislation to Protect New York Art Authenticators Passes Senate
"Art authenticators are critical to preventing art forgery and fraud. However, very expensive lawsuits have deterred these experts from rendering their opinions to the point of disrupting commerce," explained New York State Senator Elizabeth O'Connor Little.
Little said the point of the legislation she sponsored was "to establish protections under the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Julia Sells Antique Advertising, Toy, and Doll Division to Morphy
Fairfield, Maine, auctioneer James D. Julia has sold his firm's antique advertising, toy, and doll division to Dan Morphy Auctions LLC, Denver, Pennsylvania.
"For nearly 30 years, we have been a major force in the antique toy, doll and advertising world, but as of recently, we have had a couple of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The 15th Anniversary of the National Museum of American Illustration
Norman Rockwell's 1963 portrait of John F. Kennedy, a study for the April 6, 1963, Saturday Evening Post cover, sold for $900,000 to an anonymous collector. National Museum of American Illustration photo.
Evangeline Lilly (right) is shown accepting her American Civilization Award on stage with Judy Goffman Cutler and Laurence Cutler. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Colonial Masterpiece Brings $218,300
Two full pages in the catalog were devoted to the 44" x 43" x 23" walnut desk by cabinetmaker Robert Walker that sold for $218,300 (est. $150,000/250,000). The large batwing brasses were original. See story for details.
These large (22" tall) cast bronze figural andirons by Louis McClellan Potter (1873-1912) got ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gelston Running Curlew Brings $258,750
This running curlew by Quogue, Long Island, carver Thomas Gelston was once in the collections of folk art legend Stewart Gregory and Dr. Lloyd Griffith. Estimated at $95,000/125,000, it sold to collector Cap Vinal for $258,750, underbid by the phone. According to Jon Deeter, there were five bidders on it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Paintings, and Maritime Art
Robert C. Eldred & Co., East Dennis, Massachusetts
The highlight of Eldred's three-day outdoor auction of Americana, paintings, and maritime art held July 29-31 in East Dennis, Massachusetts, was a 7" high sand art apothecary bottle by Iowa artist Andrew Clemens (1857-1894). It depicts a vessel and has the name "Clara ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Expands to Hong Kong
Kenneth Yung.
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has announced that it will open an office in Hong Kong in late 2015. Heritage has hired Kenneth Yung as its director of Asian operations. The company is finalizing its plans to acquire space in the city and will hold its first auction in December.
"Heritage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bill to Outlaw Possession of "Big Five" Species Introduced, Passed by NY Senate, but Then Recalled
On April 7 New York State Senator Tony Avella introduced a bill that would ban the import, possession, sale, or transportation in New York of the "big five" African species, the African elephant, African lion, African leopard, black rhinoceros, and white rhinoceros.
The bill would amend current state law by including ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Items as diverse as a lock of Mozart's hair, an Olympic torch, and a goggle-eyed figurine from ancient Japan feature in this month's selection. Japan also provides a wonderful screen recalling an early encounter with the "Southern Barbarians"-the Portuguese in this instance. This month's "Letter" also offers perfume ... (Read More)
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(Show)Round Lake Antiques Festival
Barbara Milano, owner of Milano's Treasures and an exhibitor at the Gristmill Antique Center, Troy, New York, had a great Saturday. She posed with an old outhouse seat from an upstate New York barn, which she said had been well used. Milano also displayed a set of books on the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln Hen Tops Decoy Auction
Decoys Unlimited, Hyannis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Decoys Unlimited
For sure the best auctions on the circuit are those of decoys. The summer sales, two-day affairs, feature all manner of delectation-in addition to the fine feathers for sale. This summer decoy sales ran for five days straight, back-to-back and sometimes simultaneously, in an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Group Shop Owner Reaches Plea Deal
The owner of Derby Antiques and More, LLC, Derby, Kansas, reimbursed some of her former clients more than $13,000 on June 15 as part of plea negotiations with prosecutors. Sandra Ostrander pleaded guilty to three counts of theft in return for a recommendation that she be placed on probation and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Newport Antiques Show 2015
Middletown, Rhode Island
The Newport Antiques Show, held July 24-26 for its ninth year, competes for attention from many other events held near the "City by the Sea" on sun-kissed summer weekends. Activities including music festivals, golf tournaments, weddings, sailboat races, and country club soirees fill the calendars of potential showgoers.
This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.6 Million Decoy and Sporting Art Auction
The Anthony Elmer Crowell preening wood duck was the highlight of the auction and realized $210,000.
Albert Elmer Crowell's miniature green heron, 4 1/4" x 5 1/4" pictured left, carved around 1930, was estimated at $1000/1500 and brought $5100. His miniature bluebill drake is at 1 1/8" x 2 1/8" one ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Coeur d'Alene Art Auction Exceeds $23 Million Mark
Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
Photos courtesy Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
Classical Western and American artworks are synonymous with the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction. For more than 25 years the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction has offered up stellar examples not only by iconic past masters but by in-demand contemporary artists as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nelson Lots Top Massachusetts Auction
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
When Marion Antique Auctions announces one of its twice yearly sales, collectors and dealers mark their calendars. Much of what passes through the auction house is fresh to the market; much of it has area provenance. Much relates to the maritime heritage of the area.
Frank McNamee ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Emerald Bay" Brings Gold
Gustave J.S. White, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
It was all about paintings at the Gustave J.S. White sale on July 25 at Michael R. Corcoran's Newport County Auction Gallery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. As fixtures on Aquidneck Island (the island that includes Newport, Portsmouth, and Middletown) Corcoran and his staff are positioned ... (Read More)
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(Show)"'Pretty Good' Is the New 'Great' in the Antiques Business"
Michael and Lucinda Seward of Pittsford, Vermont, showed this painting by Lucy H. Doane, who died in 2010 at the age of 101. Born in Nahant, Massachusetts, Doane lived, painted, and taught art in Vermont and Massachusetts. The 211/2" x 271/2" boating scene was $1250.
Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, brought ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Simple Goods Show in Ohio Changes Hands
The Simple Goods antiques and primitives show in Mansfield, Ohio, has been sold to Massachusetts antiques dealer and show promote Kris Casucci, who with her husband, Paul, and Pennsylvania antiques dealer Christina Hummel owns Walker Homestead in Brookfield. Hummel and her husband, Scott, own Primitive America Antiques in Pennsdale.
Casucci and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dolphin Promotions to Manage 40th Annual Pineapple Antiques Show
Dolphin Promotions has been selected by the Rotary Club of Sarasota Sunrise Foundation to manage the 40th annual Pineapple Antiques Show to be held March 12 and 13, 2016, in Sarasota, Florida. The show will feature 40 dealers. The two-day event will be held at the renovated Sarasota Municipal Auditorium, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic Deerfield Acquires 1803 Tall-Case Clock
Tall-case clock by William Lloyd (1779-1845), 1803, Springfield, Massachusetts, cherry, white pine, sumac, birch, brass, iron, bitumen, and enamel. Historic Deerfield photo
Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts, has acquired a Springfield, Massachusetts, tall-case clock made by cabinetmaker William Lloyd (1779-1845). The case, made in 1803, had been on loan to Historic ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Army of One
Editorial
You can't fight City Hall, or so the old saying goes.
Don't tell that to Karen Barchi, owner of Bay Avenue Antiques, Barnegat Township, New Jersey. She's on the verge of victory.
Last year the Barnegat Township Committee passed a "Secondhand Dealers" ordinance that put severe restrictions on antiques dealers in the ... (Read More)
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