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(Auction)Carousel Fails to Sell at Auction
The 1922 Spillman Engineering Co. menagerie carousel.
The restored sign of the maker.
Goat from row 9, made in 1885 by Dare's New York Carousel Manufacturing Co.
Leaping pig from row 3, made in 1875 by Chanvan Co., France.
A collection of McDonald's memorabilia that included (not shown) Mayor McCheese, whose head was a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Raleigh's Summer Show
The eight tumblers on a Rogers silver tray ($285) are old Waterford in the Alana pattern. Robert and Sharon Kurschner of Sterling Treasures, Camden, South Carolina, were asking $985 for all eight. The carafe ($164) is not Waterford. The silver primrose tray at the back is $325.
Jane Lavinder of Lavinder ... (Read More)
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(Show)Goosefare Antiques Show at High School Hits Middle Age at 35
Patricia Ann Breame of Woodstock, Maine, offered an unusual form of Sheraton dressing stand for $2300. It has upper and lower drawers, a protruding upper section, and brown and black pinstriping over an old mustard-yellow base. It was signed "J. BROWN" in heavy slashes of black paint. Her best news ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Elephant Stampedes to $166,750, Leading Crocker Farm Summer Sale
Leading off the sale was this 141/2" high four-gallon stoneware jar marked "WEST TROY / N.Y. / POTTERY" and depicting an elephant in profile. The large design took up a big portion of the jar's front. The decoration was done using slip-trailed and brushed techniques. The elephant has boot-like feet ... (Read More)
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(Auction)July Estates Auction Balances Live and Online Platforms
The son of freed slaves, William Edmondson (1874-1951) worked hard at service jobs in Nashville until receiving what he considered a God-sent calling to become a sculptor at the age of 57. His medium was limestone; his tools were a hammer and railroad spike. In 1937 he was the first ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chappaqua Antiques Show Canceled for 2015
The Chappaqua Antiques Show, which has been in existence for 46 years in the tiny hamlet in northern Westchester County, 40 miles from New York City, has been canceled this year. Organized by a team of over 100 volunteers under the aegis of the New Castle Historical Society (NCHS), the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stewart Coin Silver Trophy Breaks Record
George W. Stewart Kentucky coin silver trophy. Photo courtesy Brunk Auctions.
Collectors and museums battled in the home stretch to win a coin silver trophy by George W. Stewart (c. 1820-c. 1875) at Brunk Auctions on July 16 in Asheville, North Carolina. The undated trophy was not associated with a particular ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Financial Troubles of Broker/Consultant Create Avalanche of Legal Action
A broker and consultant's financial troubles have led to three lawsuits, and he figures prominently in other suits where he is not named as a defendant. London resident Timothy Sammons and his dissolved firm, Timothy Sammons, Inc., are facing suits in U.S. federal courts and a New York state court. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bonhams in Sydney, Australia Sells Lockwood de Forest Collection
In oil on a 91/2" x 14" card, this painting by Lockwood de Forest II is initialed, dated, and inscribed "Ulwar L de F 93." It brought $2717.
A late 19th-century carved teak vitrine, designed by Lockwood de Forest II and made for him in Ahmedabad, India and assembled in New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Pottery Sale for the New Collector Generation
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
Not every Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society (SFPCS) absentee sale can offer a $100K-plus "Dave the Slave" decorated pot. Then again, few collectors can even think about bidding on such an item. The most recent SFPCS sale, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Bill Johnson Collection
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Bill Johnson began collecting as a schoolboy-with clocks. And by the time the Berwick, Maine, native died at an auction last year, his gleanings occupied 15 acres along Route One in Wells, Maine, in his very own Johnson Hall Museum. The museum embodied Johnson's appreciation of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sue Cummings and Glynn Marsh Collection
Jerry Stichter Auctioneer, Inc., Troy, Ohio
Textiles played a considerable role when auctioneer Jerry Stichter held a one-owner sale on July 11 in Troy, Ohio. The latest in a series of auctions, it included material from Sue Cummings and Glynn Marsh, whose interest in collecting antiques came honestly, according to Stichter. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Badger Portraits Donated to Portsmouth Historical Society
The six portraits were last seen in Portsmouth when Ron Bourgeault and Northeast Auctions sold them at the Sawtelle sale in Portsmouth on August 17, 2014. They sold for $30,000. Pennington photo.
Six folk portraits of the Badger family, likely painted by Jonathan Treadwell, have been donated anonymously to the Portsmouth ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner?
The Young Collector
For much of western history, the dining room, even remotely as we know it, did not exist. For centuries, virtually all spaces in the homes of common folks, and even to some degree those of "uncommon" folks as well, were multifunctional. Even in the wealthiest of homes, manor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Private Sale of the Meriwether Lewis Pipe Tomahawk
A presentation pipe tomahawk, originally owned by Captain Meriwether Lewis (1774-1809) and possibly carried during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, has been sold privately in a deal handled by Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio. The identities of the parties were not disclosed nor were the terms. However, company president Wes ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Misfiled
Editorial
The Boston Public Library-called one of the five most important libraries in America by historian David McCullough-alerted authorities in April that two prints were missing from its extensive collection of more than 200,000 pieces.
Adam and Eve by Albrecht Durer (German, 1471-1528), 1504, and Self Portrait with Plumed Cap and Lowered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stone Book Find
In the April 2015 issue Maine Antique Digest published my article detailing stone books. I just bought a terrific stone book related to the Civil War that might be of additional interest to readers.
Most carved stone books that are believed to have been done by soldiers during the Civil ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Don Olson, Rochester, New York
Don Olson
Hollow-cut silhouette by the so-called Puffy Sleeve Artist circa 1830. The subject is in a teal-blue dress. "The color of the dress is really electric. It makes it special." Olson said, adding, "It demands attention. It's early; it's color; it's me." The brass frame is probably original. Olson had ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Church Yard
A partial view of the field shows the "Kettle Korn" booth and two customers carrying their new garden loveseat.
Vin and Margaret Rowan of Fenwood Studio asked $3400 for this pie safe made from walnut. The punched tin doors allowed pies to cool while keeping the bugs away. On the top ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)San Francisco Shop Sued over $1.36 Million Worth of Antiques; Shop Countersues
It was a chandelier that started it all.
A lawsuit-moved from California state court into federal court-details a $1.36 million antiques deal. The buyers claim they bought overpriced replicas and imitations. The sellers claim the buyers owe them money and that an ex-employee is trying to extort money from them.
It all ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Work
Auction Law & Ethics
"Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it." ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A $100,000 Eagle Finial
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading directly to the recovery of a Napoleonic finial stolen during the famous theft in 1990.
On March 18, 1990, a pair of thieves, dressed as Boston police officers, entered the museum and stole 13 works ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show Will Return
Yes, there will be a 2016 Philadelphia Antiques Show. Penn Medicine agreed on May 30 to move forward with a 2016 Philadelphia Antiques Show managed by Diana Bittel and Karen and Ralph DiSaia. The 2016 Philadelphia Antiques Show will open with a preview party on Thursday evening, April 14, 2016, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Auction of World War I Posters
Guernsey's, New York City
Photos courtesy Guernsey's
Guernsey's of New York City presented an auction of patriotic posters over two days, June 30 and July 1, with 705 posters offered on the first day and 605 posters offered on the second. This was an unreserved auction with many lots opening for bidding ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Richard Mellon Scaife Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
When the late billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife's Nantucket house sold in December 2014 for $27.1 million, it set a real-estate record for the island. Selections of the furnishings of the five-bedroom, 6000-square-foot house on 1.5 acres were offered at Christie's in New York City in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dolphin Promotions to Produce New Hillsborough Antiques + Art + Design Show
Dolphin Promotions has been selected to be the new producers of the Hillsborough Antiques + Art + Design Show to be held three times per year at the San Mateo Event Center, San Mateo, California. Formerly known as the Hillsborough Antiques Show, the event will benefit United Veterans Services (UVS). ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, July 2015
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.
100 British Chairs, edited by Adam Bowett (Antique Collectors' Club, 2015, 144 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bunch Sells Raccoon Creek Inventory
Rufino Tamayo (Mexican, 1899-1991), oil on canvas, Abstract Portrait, signed and dated "'71" lower left and signed on the back, 183/4" x 221/2", sold on LiveAuctioneers for $35,090 (est. $20,000/40,000)-that is $29,000 hammer plus 21% premium. According to the consignor, he had purchased it from an estate sale in St. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Negative Archive Deal
The business plan was straightforward: Digitize hundreds of thousands of vintage news and celebrity negatives and slides, try to sell licensing rights, and set up a site on eBay to sell 450-500 prints a week.
Such sales were predicted to generate between $10,000 and $15,000 per week, a pace John M. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association Awards Scholarship
The annual scholarship of the Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the public's knowledge and appreciation of antiques, has been awarded to Kimberly Thompson.
The CCADA provides funds to the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation each year to provide a scholarship to one or ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fierce Storm Hammers Maine Show
It poured. It blew. The sides of the 120' tent kept flying up. It was a losing battle; the tent came down later in the day.
The New England maple and pine chest with a secret molding drawer, circa 1780, was $1750 from Martin Ferrick of Lincolnville, Maine. The miniature chests ... (Read More)
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(Show)Locust Grove Antiques Market
Antiques are one attraction, while the property is another. A National Historic Landmark, Locust Grove sits on 55 rolling acres south of the Ohio River, part of the original 694-acre farm established by William and Lucy Clark Croghan in 1790. Lucy's brother was George Rogers Clark, who founded Louisville and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Collections Shine
An inspired view of fishermen at The Cove in Ponce Park on the coast of Florida south of St. Augustine by South Carolina artist William Aiken Walker (1838-1921) was the top lot of Neal's June sale. With bidding from eight phones and the floor, the 61/2" x 121/2" 1895 oil ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More of the Merrill C. Berman Collection
Described by Heritage Auctions as "simply the finest political campaign banner in collectors' hands," the Polk and Dallas double-sided jugate banner from the 1844 campaign was first shown publicly when it was the cover art for the 1984 exhibition catalog ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The John Michael Kauffmann Estate Sale
The imposing 17th-century carved oak tester bed was carved elaborately in the Elizabethan style and sold for $7762.50.
This copy of Henry David Thoreau's 1864 The Maine Woods is from a small edition produced by Ascensius Press in 1998, when the letterpress printer and publisher Scott Vile was in Portland, Maine. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cheap History and Expensive Other Stuff
This Patek Philippe & Co. 18k yellow gold minute repeater pocket watch topped the sale at $14,375. The company still produces such intricate timekeeping gems.
Gustav Stickley #636 oak library table with a stretched leather surface, 48" diameter, $8050.
The 27" long 19th-century Black Hawk running horse weathervane in a mottled patina, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Accessibility
This LED-backlit large-print keyboard is easily read in the shadow on the right side.
Computer Column #319
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Accessibility is important socially and legally in today's world. Handicapped parking, wheelchair ramps, and an American Sign Language translator at a political speech are familiar sights. Access to computers for everyone ... (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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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2015
Ian McKay,
This month's selection, which I came to realise during the course of my research marks 30 years of these "Letters," is largely dominated by matters military. Arms and armour associated with Tipu Sultan, the "Tiger of Mysore," provide the lion, or tiger's share of the words and pictures, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Yes, There Are Treasures to Be Found
This mask sold for $380,621.
This Kota reliquary figure sold for $6,172,827.
Photos courtesy Christie's
A Tlingit mask from the Northwest Coast of America, striking in its expressiveness and rare iconography, sold at Christie's in Paris on Tuesday, June 23 for $380,621 (includes buyer's premium), more than four times its high estimate ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rockwell's Kennedy Portrait to Be Sold on July 30
Norman Rockwell's Portrait of John F. Kennedy, painted for the April 6, 1963, cover of the Saturday Evening Post,will be auctioned on July 30 at the 15th anniversary gala for the National Museum of American Illustration (NMAI). The auction will be held in the garden at Vernon Court, 492 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The June Auction
The high lot of the sale was the platinum, onyx, turquoise, and diamond sautoir, 381/2" long including the tassel, most likely made by Boucheron, as it was signed indistinctly "B...ron Paris." Estimated at $2000/4000, it brought $84,000 from a New York diamond merchant who is also a collector, and he ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antiques in the Valley Show
Farmer David Tuttle of Oley, Pennsylvania, said he bought these mittens in Vermont-"I like textiles"-and asked $335 for them. He sold a woolwork picture, six pieces of redware, and a sculpture of a train wreck made from wooden patterns from an iron-molding shop.
David Tuttle asked $625 for this dollhouse. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spitler Chest Achieves Record Price
The high lot of the Evans sale was something of a foregone conclusion. The Johannes Spitler paint-decorated yellow pine blanket chest enjoyed pride of place in the salesroom and was the object of most of the presale conversation. The chest has a hinged rectangular lid with applied edge molding. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Cincinnati
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
Cowan's Auctions had another go at an Americana-only auction on June 20 in Cincinnati. It was something the company last did in April 2014. The results this time around were once again encouraging, and Kirstie Craven, coordinating specialist for Cowan's fine and decorative arts ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Spitler Chest Brings $356,500
A yellow pine blanket chest decorated in paint by Johannes Spitler (1773-1837) and called the "Long Family Spitler blanket chest" sold at auction for $356,500 (includes buyer's premium) on June 20 at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The buyer was a southeast Virginia collector.
Jeff Evans said, "To ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Winds Up the Toy, Doll, and Advertising Game
This Caille "Busy Bee" trade stimulator, fresh to the market, brought $26,662.50. Julia photo.
Accompanying this Arcade Manufacturing Company model of a 1930s two-tone black and sea-foam-green Buick sedan was a vintage tin sign (not shown) reading "MEN AT WORK Except WHILE BUICKS ARE PASSING." The pair went for $6517.50.
The Dent ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Evolution of Washington, D.C.
A Book Review
The Evolution of Washington, D.C.: Historical Selections from the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection at the George Washington University by James M. Goode George Washington University, distributed by Smithsonian Books, 2015, 192 pages, hardbound, $40.
James Goode, historian and curator of the Albert H. Small Washingtoniana Collection, has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bunch to Sell Raccoon Creek Inventory
Photo courtesy William H. Bunch Auctions & Appraisals.
"Game on," said Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, auctioneer William Bunch on June 5. Bunch was confirming that his firm, William H. Bunch Auctions & Appraisals, has been tapped to sell at auction the assets of Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania. Raccoon ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maid of Dreams Tops Auction
The top lot was this Edward S. Curtis orotone, Maid of Dreams,which was signed on the lower right "Curtis LA c" and numbered "R8-09." According to notes from the catalog, it retains its original Curtis frame that measures 121/2" x 103/4". It sold for $6300 (est. $5000/7000).
This silver-mounted violin bow ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rittenhouse Tall Clock and Jonas Weber Box Sell at Conestoga
This paint-decorated small trinket box by Jonas Weber, often called Jacob Weber, 1820-40, 2 3/8" x 4 1/8", is painted green and decorated with a red house and yellow trees on the front, tulips on the sides, and a flower and corner fans on the top. It sold on the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Summer Show in Winnetka
Zane Moss of New York City had been a fixture at NSADA shows. For this show, he brought the 19th-century mahogany apothecary chest, with original labels and knobs, priced at $4750, topped with a 19th-century Staffordshire lion priced at $575 and four rare circa 1850 Bewlay's covered jars with labels, ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Country Gathering
Pam Bauer of P.L. Greene Unique Identities, New Haven, Missouri, is no stranger to A Country Gathering. "I've been here from the start," she said. Fresh to the market was an 1860s pie safe in old paint with eight punched tins, priced at $850. It had been acquired in Pennsylvania ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barbara Boardman Johnson and Kelly Kinzle Added to New Hampshire Dealers Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association's 58th annual New Hampshire Antiques Show will be August 6-8 at the Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire. It will feature 67 exhibitors, including two new ones: Barbara Boardman Johnson of Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire, and Cave Creek, Arizona, and Kelly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Expands Again in New York City
Heritage Auctions is expanding its New York City offices at 445 Park Avenue (at 57th Street). The addition of more office space on the building's 15th floor will free up street-level floor space to expand public displays from Heritage's different auction categories, including sports memorabilia, rare coins, comic books, entertainment ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Auction
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
In the closing minutes of the American history sale held by Cowan's Auctions in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 12, a cabinet card that sold for $300 (including buyer's premium) said something about this genre of material that has served as the foundation for the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Landmark Antiques Shop Closes
An 8' high x 12' wide x 15" deep Honduras mahogany showcase from the Scotland Silver Shop in Edinburgh sold to a bidder in the room for $3125 (est. $3500/7500). All the showcases have glass shelves and lighting.
Another Honduras mahogany showcase, this one 7'3" high x 5' wide x 14" ... (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.
Highlights of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Burglary at Vintage Vendors in Florida
On Wednesday, June 10, employees at Vintage Vendors in Fernandina Beach, Florida, encountered an individual they thought to be suspicious for several reasons. The man arrived at closing time with a box of antique items and attempted to sell the items to the store employees. The employees declined to ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2014
A Book Review
American Furniture 2014 Edited by Luke Beckerdite The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2014, 298 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
American Furniture 2014, edited by Luke Beckerdite and published by the Chipstone Foundation, uses ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Skinner Live Auction in Boston, Online Sales, and Open for Business in NYC
I was watching the Skinner auction online when this signed Howard & Co. antique sapphire and diamond ring from the Lanier family of Indiana and New York came up. It was prong-set with a cushion-cut sapphire measuring approximately 9.82 x 9.10 x 6.60 mm and weighing 5.43 carats framed by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Scrimshaw Collectors Association Comes Out against Scrimshaw Legislation
The Antique Scrimshaw Collectors Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of the trade, collection, and study of antique scrimshaw, issued a press release on April 30 "calling upon legislators to withdraw or amend pending legislation that prohibits and criminalizes the free exchange of 19th-century whalemen's folk ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)More Questions Than Answers
The Young Collector
Recently on Facebook, home of nuanced discussions, there has been a great deal of discussion about the sale of the Allen H. Eaton (1878-1962) collection at Rago Auctions in Lambertville, New Jersey. For those of you who avoid Facebook and prefer to use your Internet for looking at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic Deerfield Awarded $3000 for Needlework Conservation
"The Death of Absalom" (left) by Lois Breck (1738-1789), circa 1755, Boston, polychrome silk embroidery, gouache paint, black satin weave silk ground, metallic-wrapped silk thread. John W. and Christiana G.P. Batdorf Fund. "The Apiary" (right) by Betsy Knox (b. 1791), circa 1804, Deerfield, Massachusetts, polychrome silk embroidery, watercolor, white plain ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century Decorative Arts and Some Mid-century Modern
This is a 6" square Marblehead tile, decorated with trees reflected in a pond by Arthur Baggs (1886-1947), circa 1908, stamped with a ship mark and "MP," and with original paper labels including a handwritten one that reads "Marblehead Pottery Bo't from Tiffany & Co Aug, '08 $5." It sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionist Paintings
Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945), "However at last I taught him to call me by my name very familiarly," oil on canvas, 24 3/8" x 261/4", signed with monogram bottom left, $353,000 (est. $80,000/120,000) to a bidder on the phone. An illustration for Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, published in 1920 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXV Auction
Rookwood Black Iris scenic vase, Kitaro Shirayamadani, 1907, decorated with five barn swallows flying through trailing boughs of English ivy on a black ground, 143/4" high, a few tiny lines of crazing, $49,450.
Rookwood mouse paperweight, Kitaro Shirayamadani design, cast in 1936, later Goldstone glaze, 3 1/8" high, excellent condition, $2645. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Ridgewood Art & Antiques Show
Turi's inaugural show in New Jersey took place on two floors of the Woman's Club of Ridgewood.
Debbie Turi's booth greeted showgoers in the front lobby of the Woman's Club of Ridgewood. As the manager of the show, she wore two hats, so she hired a helper to assist in her ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Ceramics in America 2014
A Book Review
Ceramics in America 2014 Edited by Robert Hunter The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2014, 266 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
Ceramics in America 2014 reads like a tenth anniversary celebration, but this journal, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wild, Wonderful West Celebrated at Lebel's June Events
This circa 1910 Cherokee bandolier bag, 81/2" square, having a beaded strap with flowers, leaves, symbols, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show
This cherry sugar chest with an inlaid eagle, Kentucky or Tennessee, circa 1810, was $14,500, and the 19th-century carved and gilded eagle, in the manner of John Bellamy or Samuel McIntire, was $6800 from Sharon and Claude Baker of Hamilton, Ohio.
Ohio one-door cupboard in original red and mustard paint, circa ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fred Oster Joins Freeman's to Launch Auctions of Musical Instruments
Frederick Oster owns Vintage Instruments in Philadelphia, America's largest and most eclectic shop specializing in old and antique acoustic (not electric) musical instruments. He has appraised musical instruments on the Antiques Roadshow for the last 15 years.
"For years, Alasdair Nichol, Freeman's vice president in charge of paintings, another regular on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Personal Collection of Helen Frankenthaler Sold
The top lot of the sale was this outstanding Cartier 18k yellow gold and diamond ring. It is faintly signed "Cartier," and according to notes from the catalog, the diamond weight is approximately 2.65 carats. The ring opened with a left bid of $14,000 and sold quickly to a couple ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Skinner, Inc. Opens Office in New York City
Boston-based Skinner, Inc. is opening a regional office in New York City that will provide "convenient access to the full range of Skinner consignment and appraisal services, as well as the auction house's esteemed staff of experts," a press release states.
Karen Keane, CEO of Skinner, Inc., said, "Establishing a base ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Blind Spot
Editorial
We were a more than a little surprised at the anger generated by Rago Arts' proposed sale of art, crafts, and photographs collected from Japanese internment camps after World War II. The Lambertville, New Jersey, auction house faced a firestorm of national criticism for offering the lots and was ultimately ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Bargain
Auction Law & Ethics
The first day in contracts class our professor introduced the course like this: "The subject is contracts. Contracts are important. A contract is an agreement between two or more parties that creates, changes, or ends a legal relationship.
"We're going to study contracts and issues related to them. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Committee Approves Changing California Secondhand Dealers Laws
On April 28 California Assembly Bill 1182, a proposed change to regulations for secondhand dealers, was approved by the Assembly Business & Professions Committee in a 14-0 vote. It removes unnecessary regulatory burdens on secondhand dealers that were created by an existing law. The measure was sponsored by the California ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Harvard Art Museums
An aerial view of the Harvard Art Museums demonstrates the relationship between the new museums and its neighbor the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts. The ramp from the Carpenter Center has been extended to meet the Prescott Street entrance of the Harvard Art Museums. Photo by Peter Vanderwarker.
The Harvard ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Atlantic City Antiques Show Announces New Permanent Home
The Atlantic City Antiques Show is permanently moving to the new Waterfront Conference Center at Harrah's Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Allison Kohler, president of JMK Shows, announced on April 7.
"This has been a long and challenging journey to arrive here," said Kohler in a statement. "The past ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Change to California's Resellers Law Approved by State Assembly
On June 1 the California State Assembly unanimously approved AB 1182, a measure to remove some regulatory burdens on secondhand dealers created by existing law. The bill was sponsored by the California Association of Resellers, ReUsers and Buyers (CARRB). The vote was 79-0; there was no opposition.
CARRB chair Allen Michaan ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Native American Art
This Haida gold bracelet made by Bill Reid (1920-1998) sold for $62,500 (est. $50,000/80,000) to a private collector, an overseas phone bidder who was not from Canada, Haas emphasized.
San Francisco, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams' June 1 Native American art auction in San Francisco totaled close to $1.2 million (including buyers' premiums).
Bonhams' ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thomaston Place Springs Forth with a Man from Greece, Flowers from China, and an Indian Maiden
Two Chinese cloisonne jardinieres, holding contemporary jade plants and standing on form-fitting carved hardwood stands, $33,350. Thomaston Place photos.
Bronze Age Cycladic alabaster male figure, $20,125.
This original Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) etching and drypoint of the Mennonite minister Cornelis Claesz.Anslo (1592-1646) was signed within the image and dated 1641. Anslo was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Orleans Auction Galleries Presents the Classical Style of Don Didier
Top lot of the sale was a large allegorical painting alluding to the defense of Liberty by a united and vigilant citizenry. A handsome figure of Athena with shield and spear stands at center right. Bearing the date 1784, in the time of the Dutch Republic, the work by decorative ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Purple Flask Has Collectors Green with Envy
Photo courtesy American Glass Gallery.
In every category of collecting something will come along that will cause others to ooh and ahh and say, "Wow, that's a beauty."
At the May absentee bottle auction held by the American Glass Gallery (AGG) was a J R & Son scroll flask made by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Agnes Martin's "Blue Flower" Makes a Cool $1.5 Million
Blue Flower by Agnes Martin (1912-2004) sold to a New York dealer for $1,539,000 (est. $1,500,000/2,000,000). Dated 1962, the collage of oil, glue, nails, and canvas is on canvas stretched over an 11 5/8" x 11 3/8" panel. Many of the artist's works look minimalist, but she considered herself to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Establishes the Charles F. Montgomery Director
Henry Francis du Pont (left) and Charles F. Montgomery (right), Winterthur Museum's first director. Image courtesy Winterthur.
On May 29 the Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library announced it had received a $5 million endowment to fund the Charles F. Montgomery Director of Winterthur, in honor of the institution's first director (1954-61). ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals Expands into the Nashville Area
Knoxville, Tennessee-based Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals has opened an office at 116 Wilson Pike Circle, Suite #102, in Brentwood, Tennessee, a suburb of Nashville. The office will handle consignments from Middle and West Tennessee, southern Kentucky, and northern Alabama, along with appraisals, and will serve as a display ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Introduces Jewelry Repair Legislation
Jewelers in New York would be required to return to the customer who brings in an item for repair any portion of jewelry removed from an item during its repair, according to legislation sponsored by Assemblywoman Earlene Hooper (D-Nassau). According to the legislation introduced in early March, the jeweler must ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Convicted
On May 19, after a three-week trial, a federal jury convicted art dealer and real estate investor Luke D. Brugnara of mail fraud, wire fraud, false declarations to a court, and escape.
Brugnara, 51, of San Francisco, was originally charged with fraud on May 27, 2014. Brugnara had refused to pay ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Online Research
A modern painting of a 19th-century ship raised questions of historical accuracy.
Computer Column #318
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Research is one of the most valuable uses of the Internet. Some people are born researchers, but most of us learn the methods and tools by experience. A small research project of mine will ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2015
Letter from London
Ian McKay, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Better Business Bureau Issues Warning
The Better Business Bureau (BBB) of South Carolina is warning consumers to be on the lookout for a company called Memento Antique and Estate Liquidators, also known as Red Wagon Estate Sales.
According to the BBB, "Consumers are alleging they hired Jeffrey R. Moore to host estate sales to help liquidate ... (Read More)
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(Show)Everyone Loves a "Comeback Kid"
The booth of Missouri Plain Folk, Sikeston, Missouri. The dealers said that this "Rhinebeck was a show that matters. There is energy and diversity, and it looks great."
American Spirit Antiques, Shawnee Mission, Kansas, featured formal furniture, such as a $16,000 Connecticut Queen Anne highboy and a $7500 Classical wood and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Reproductions Attract Interest
Pennsylvania joiner Eric Jacobsen made the 1998 replica of the Rhode Island mahogany Chippendale chest-on-chest from the Kaufman collection, which is now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Jacobsen said it's one of his favorite pieces, and he bought it back for $13,200.
This 351/4" high x 40" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2015
Judy Friday, hooked rug pillow, 17" x 17".
-Through June 6 -Old Lyme, Connecticut
The Cooley Gallery announces Many Facets, an exhibition of new paintings, weavings, and textiles by Judy Friday. Friday is also a sculptor and a photographer, and a gallery press release notes that she "confounds her audience by being ... (Read More)
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(Show)Brandywine Show 2015
Mark Allen sold these two figural food choppers on opening night. He said they had just arrived from France where they were made from 1850 to the 1940s. Prices for all the choppers he brought ranged from $1850 to $3000. The highest price was for the circa 1850 birds.
Ed Weissman ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Festival of Antiques Announces New Starting Time
The ninth annual June Festival of Antiques in Mullica Hill, New Jersey, will have a later start this year; gates will open at 10 a.m. on June 13. The one-hour later start will allow travel time for dealers and show patrons coming from long distances, said promoters Tracy Dodge and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Man Arrested for Cemetery Desecration
Kristopher K. Komaromi.
Kristopher K. Komaromi, 24, of Coxsackie, New York, was arrested on May 22 and charged with three counts of cemetery desecration in the first degree, a class E felony. According to the New York State Police, during the week of April 27, Komaromi allegedly stole numerous concrete flower ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
There was good competition for this Classic Navajo pictorial man's wearing blanket, Four Corners region, made of handspun wool in natural ivory, dark brown, and indigo blue and raveled bayeta in lac and cochineal red, 76" x 53". It sold on the phone for $250,000 (est. $60,000/100,000), underbid in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eaton Collection of Native American Art and Western Paintings
Indians Riding through the Canyon of Chelly (A Turn in the Canyon de Chelly) by Edgar Alwin Payne (1882-1947) is a 30" x 34" oil on canvas, signed (lower left) and inscribed on the back "Canyon de Chelly." It sold to a bidder standing at the back of the salesroom ... (Read More)
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