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(Auction)American Art and Visions of the West
Above: The Cliffs of Green River, Wyoming, painted in 1896 by Thomas Moran, sold in the salesroom to dealer Mike Frost of J.N. Bartfield Galleries, New York City, who bought it for a client. The 20" x 30" oil painting, as well as Green River (below), had been acquired by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Sale
The cover lot of the sale was this Newell Convers (N.C.) Wyeth (1882-1945) illustration from James Fenimore Cooper's novel The Deerslayer. The 40" x 32" oil on canvas sold for $1.325 million (est. $400,000/600,000) to a phone bidder. It was the fifth-highest auction price for the artist. Wyeth was commissioned ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Auction
The Bookworm (Man with Nose in Book) by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), signed lower left, oil on canvas, 32" x 26", painted for the August 14, 1926, cover of the Saturday Evening Post, $3,834,000 (est. $1.5/2.5 million) as an anonymous gift to the Grohmann Museum at the Milwaukee School of Engineering. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Benton Brings $1,052,500
Discussion by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) sold for $1,052,000. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
When the hammer came down May 20 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago on Thomas Hart Benton's 1967 Discussion, the 16" x 20" painting became the tenth Benton painting to sell for over $1 million. The final ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sentences Handed Down in Rhino and Ivory Smuggling Case
On May 20 Christopher Hayes, president and owner of the Elite Estate Buyers Inc. auction house in Boynton Beach, Florida, was sentenced in federal court in Florida to 36 months in prison followed by two years of supervised release for his role in the illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Warshawsky Collection
The top lot of the sale was this circa 1910 Oriental Poppy floor lamp, bought by dealer Sandy van den Broek for a client. She paid $1,066,000 for the lamp. It was estimated at $400,000/ 600,000. She fought off bids from two phone bidders and one in the salesroom. The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Spencer Gordon and Mark McHugh, Spencer Marks, Ltd., Southampton, Massachusetts
Mark McHugh (left) and Spencer Gordon.
A portion of the Spencer Marks research library and office. There's even a section of books devoted exclusively to heraldry for deciphering the coats of arms that often appear on silver. Mark McHugh said, "When we built this, we used library specs so the floors ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chair-Table Looks Pretty Good on the Surface
The round chair-table displays a pristine, untouched surface and even a telltale oily spot where someone rested his head after dinner. It brought $7762.50.
Bidders loved this old Maine eider decoy in well-worn black and white paint, chasing it all the way to $2300.
A small (roughly 11" x 12") oil ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lincoln Portrait Banner Sets Record at Heritage Auctions
Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions.
A political banner for Abraham Lincoln's 1864 presidential reelection campaign set a new record when it sold for $106,250 (includes buyer's premium) during the Heritage Auctions Americana and political auction on May 18 in Dallas, Texas.
Small in size at 9" x 181/2", this record-setting flag features the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clocks, Watches, and Antiques at Schmitt Spring Sale
The highlight of the two-day sale was this 80" high E. Howard & Co. No. 60 regulator wall clock that sold for $40,500.
This man's minute-repeating chronograph was the highlight of the watches when it sold within estimate for $16,312.50. It was made by London makers Nicole, Nielson & Co. for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Harry Hartman Sale
This rare Soap Hollow miniature blanket chest attributed to John Sala, with the initials and date "JKM 1851," is grain-painted and has gilt stenciling with a central horse and rider with a bird atop the rider's head, flanked by urns of flowers, and with a checkerboard band border and a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Washington Crossing the Delaware" Goes from White House to Winona, Minnesota
Photo courtesy Minnesota Marine Art Museum.
On March 22, the Minnesota Marine Art Museum in Winona, Minnesota, unveiled the 401/2" x 68" version of Emanuel Leutze's 1851 masterpiece Washington Crossing the Delaware, perhaps the most famous and iconic American painting.
It was acquired by Mary Burrichter and Robert A. "Bob" Kierlin, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Announces Acquisitions
Winterthur recently announced two important acquisitions.
John Shearer Chest Made for Salome Kramer
At the Furniture Forum (March 4-7) Winterthur announced the purchase of a chest of drawers made by John Shearer (worked 1790-1820) for Salome Kramer of Frederick County, Maryland, in 1809. Shearer signed the walnut, oak, and poplar chest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ohio Valley Auction
River landscape after Cornelius Ver Bryck (1813-1844), oil on canvas, signed "T. C- / from an outline by C. Ver Bryck," 12" x 18" plus frame, inpainting to about 10% of the surface, $46,800.
Banjo clock, circa 1825, cherry and pine, scenic and foliate-decorated tablets, gilt surface, restoration to gold ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sandy Doig, Somers, Connecticut
Sandy Doig in his basement workshop. In good weather he works in his barn. He thinks the two-drawer stand is from the south shore of Massachusetts. "It has the thinner stock that they use there." He's asking $450 for it. "Eight years ago it would have been nine hundred," he ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Masters 2015
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, New York City, took a large booth located at the front of the show. Displayed on the wall are a set of five terra-cotta reliefs by Carl Milles (1875-1955), The Muses, circa 1935, each 151/2" x 10", priced at $125,000. In the center is a 1934 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Sales Tax Affecting Galleries in Arizona
A group of Scottsdale, Arizona, art gallery owners say they are being crippled by a sales tax that kicked in at the beginning of this year. The new regulation adds the transaction privilege tax (TPT), Arizona's sales tax, to fine art sales to out-of-state buyers who purchase the art in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo Just Gets Better and Better
Don Toth of Richfield, Ohio, trades as Parkside House Antiques. Toth set up on the infield and offered this group of Americana items. The honey-color dry sink is constructed of pine and features a high back with a shelf and two drawers. The sink was tagged $825. The wooden toolbox ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Sells von Eldik Collection on Site in Virginia
The high lot of the von Eldik sale came from the fine arts category. This pair of large oil on canvas naturalistic scenes is by Peter Caulitz (German, circa 1650-1719). First is an avian group with strutting cocks, hens, turkeys, and pigeons in a yard before a stone dwelling. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Grass Valley Old West Show
Jeff Holabird of Western Americana, Reno, Nevada, was asking $8000 for this circa 1872 pocket watch made by a Virginia City, Nevada, jeweler.
Helena, Montana, dealer Don Grimmer was exhibiting but not selling this vintage advertising bulldog, something he had long coveted at Desert John's Saloon Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"May We Play" Sale
Stutz coupe, Gendron, circa 1926, pedal car, pressed steel, 281/2" long, ex-Don Kaufman, near mint, the sale's top seller at $22,420.
This Batman car by Yanoman, Japan, zoomed to $10,030, doubling the high estimate.
Broadway & Central Park omnibus, George Brown, 1880s, painted tin, 121/2" long, $10,620.
Electric Packard pedal car, American National, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Political Memorabilia Worth $120,000 Stolen
Police are still looking for a break in a case involving the theft of political campaign memorabilia, worth about $120,000, taken from a locked ballroom at the Met Troy, in Troy, Michigan. The burglary at the hotel occurred between 11 p.m. on May 8 and 6 a.m. on May 9, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Dealer Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Smuggling Rhino Horns, Ivory, and Coral
Xiao Ju Guan, aka "Tony Guan," 39, of Richmond, British Columbia, was sentenced on March 25 in United States federal court to 30 months in prison for smuggling rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory, and coral from the United States to Canada. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Laura ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Resale Royalty Act Loses in Court Again
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit handed Christie's, Sotheby's, and eBay a victory when it ruled on May 5 that California's Resale Royalty Act was unconstitutional, as applied to out-of-state sales conducted by out-of-state agents.
California law requires that "whenever a work of fine art is sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Beacons Bring $27,000
These maritime beacons, made of copper and brass, have plaques reading "The Patent Lighting Co., Ltd. Hayes England." The cut-crystal Fresnel lens prisms are set into bronze frames. With hinged and vented tops and hoisting rings, the beacons opened at $15,000. Bidders from the Internet and phone competed until the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Perfume Bottle Auction Brings $533,724
This 1957 Christian Dior limited-edition presentation perfume bottle, "J'appartiens a Miss Dior" (I belong to Miss Dior), sold for $66,000. The buyer was an Asian collector. The 71/4" high figural bottle and stopper are thick-walled frosted glass with enameled details; the bottom label is numbered "CCXLII (242)" and, according to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Faberge Cane Tops Spring Auction
The top lot of the auction, this fabulous Faberge cane with a handle of nephrite, gold, diamonds, and a ruby realized $11,800 (est. $10,000/15,000). Sweetening the deal, its 1/2" ringed gold collar was marked with a pre-1884 St. Petersburg city touch, with "56" (14 karats), and with "EK" for Faberge ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pure and Simple Antique Show
Shenandoah Valley pie safe, Rappahannock or Culpeper County, Virginia, grain painted, four tins, $2800 from Bob and Carole Closser of Red Kettle Antiques, Carthage, Indiana.
"Rabbits for Sale" sign, $110 from Tim and Charline Chambers of Missouri Plain Folk, Sikeston, Missouri.
Uncut hooked rug pattern, "E.S. Frost & Co. Biddeford, ME / ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Historic East Berlin Antiques Show
Mark Wannemacher of East Berlin, Pennsylvania, asked $975 for this copper kettle made by John Kidd in Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1796.
Lynne Oppenheimer of Ivy Hill Primitives, Langhorne, Pennsylvania, asked $965 for the very large English pewter plate, 1720-40; the punched tin lantern was $385; the soapstone inkwell, $195; the stoneware ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Changes Afoot for Sotheby's Boston Office and for Its Former Director
William S. "Bill" Cottingham. Litwin Media photo.
Cottingham Fine Art, 671/2 Chestnut Street, Boston. Schinto photo.
One day in mid-January a sign maker put up new signage on the 19th-century carriage house at 671/2 Chestnut Street at the foot of Beacon Hill where Sotheby's regional Boston office had been located for the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greater York Antiques Show 2015
The line was long on Friday. The weather was too gorgeous on Saturday for a really big crowd, but the right people came, and business was done.
Kelly Kinzle of New Oxford, Pennsylvania, offered this Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, walnut Dutch cupboard, fresh to market, for $14,000.
Ruth Rogers of School House Farm ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Listen
Auction Law and Ethics
Right out of law school I was routinely in court to appear on some motion or another-occasionally to try a small case. Despite the theory, philosophy, public policy, published opinions, moot court, and all the rest that constitute the law school experience, the real world is where ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ADA Online Show
The Internet has changed the antiques business in many ways. For example, the Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA), founded in 1984 with the object of making the buying and selling of antiques more professional, held its third three-day online show April 28-30. The online shows are designed to enable ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Stages of an Antiques Collector's Life--A Curious Journey
Some people never lose their innocence to passion. Sometimes collecting antiques never gets into one's blood. Not all collectors reach the final stage of their journey; people stop at different way stations to full-blown accumulating insanity. For others, collecting antiques can be a life journey. Like those fabulous characters in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Crossing the T's and Dotting the I's
Editorial
While on a cruise in 1999, Mattie King and her husband (now deceased) went to an auction conducted by Park West Galleries, Inc. They bought a complete set of Salvador Dali's Divine Comedy prints, spending $165,000. The set came with a certificate of authenticity and appraisals.
Ten years passed and King ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings Auction Brings Highest Total in 16 Years
Old Coast Road, 30" x 36", by William Wendt (1865-1946), which had a two-page spread in the catalog and was pictured on the back cover as well, broke the million-dollar mark, selling for $1,565,000 (est. $400,000/600,000). This painting was on the cover of Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kennedy Blanket Brings $14,400
This navy-blue lap robe embroidered with the presidential seal, one of two from the presidential limousine of President John F. Kennedy, sold to a Texas museum for $14,400. McInnis photo.
This Federal period portrait miniature of a gentleman, 3" x 21/4", in a 14k gold frame in the original presentation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Unusual Mix of American, Continental, and Asian Objects
This riverine landscape by French artist Charles Francois Daubigny (1817-1878) came from a New Jersey collection and sold for $38,400. The painting retained a paper label of the Parisian gilder and framer on the back. CRN Auctions photo.
A Connecticut collection of Latin American items was also the source of this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Auction Tops $1 Million
Martin Ramirez (1895-1963), Caballero, graphite on paper, 25" x 231/2", $44,400.
The single lot by Minnie Evans (1892-1987) sold for $30,000. From the artist's personal collection, it had been displayed in the 1986 exhibition Heavenly Visions: The Art of Minnie Evans at the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh. The exhibit ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique Garden Furniture Fair
Cherry Gallery, Damariscotta, Maine, had a welcoming booth.
A new paint collection, inspired by the New York Botanical Garden, was introduced at the Antique Garden Furniture Fair. The NYBG partnered with paint manufacturer Prestige; purchases of the paint, available on Amazon.com, support the garden.
Francis J. Purcell displayed lanterns, carriage lamps, Art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Insurance for Conceptual Art
Crystal & Company has partnered with AIG Private Client Group to create a new insurance solution for collectors with conceptual art collections, according to a press release.
Conceptual art, the company said, is focused more on the idea being expressed, while the form and material are secondary. A certificate is provided ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in Ridgewood, New Jersey
Debbie Turi is managing the first annual Art & Antiques Show at the Ridgewood Woman's Club in Ridgewood, New Jersey, on June 6 and 7. Turi has previously teamed up with Brad Reh to run a couple of shows: the Art, Design, and Antiques Show at Wallace Hall during Americana ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)TV Guide (to Antiques)
The Young Collector
Librarians get asked lots of odd questions-can you help me find the red cookbook I was looking at last week, what foods float, am I divorced? (yes, seriously, all of those)-but many of them would say their favorite question comes when someone just wants a good book to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Anne and Jeff Miller Sale
This oil on canvas view of St. Joseph's Academy, Emmitsburg, Maryland, mid- to late 19th century, with buildings including a church in the landscape, was bought at Northeast Auctions by Milly McGehee in 1998 for $27,600. Fifteen years later it sold for slightly less-$26,400 (est. $8000/12,000) to Lititz, Pennsylvania, dealer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pastels Rule the Day
This Northwood ice-blue stippled Strawberry ruffled bowl with a basketweave back sold for $18,000. Ice blue is among the rarest pastel colors, and this bowl further had a mix of unusual features of a basketweave back and stippled treatment. The bowl was the top-selling lot of the auction.
Northwood stippled Strawberry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Texans' Clock Collection Sells in Massachusetts
Peter Sawyer took home this Joseph Nye Dunning wall clock for the second time. It has an eight-day time-only weight-driven brass movement typical of banjo-style wall clocks, but the shaped mahogany case is distinctive and especially attractive. It made $30,750. Two other rare Dunning clocks also brought strong prices.
One of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Property from the Oprah Winfrey Collections
At $45,000, The Little Mother by Hovsep Pushman was the top lot. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.
Some things are simply unexplainable. The set of six rabbit placeholders, estimated at $100/200, sold at $531. Hindman photo.
Visually striking, the circa 1900 Viennese ebonized dressing table measured 28" x 271/2" x 193/4" and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Joseph T. Butler
Study St. Malo #11, a delicate 101/2" x 13" (sight size) oil on panel by Maurice Prendergast, circa 1907, signed lower left, had a provenance from the estate of the artist and Mrs. Charles Prendergast. It is a very fine example of the landscape panels he made in France when ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Metro Show Canceled for 2016
For the last four years, on the first weekend of Americana Week in New York City in January, the Art Fair Company has promoted the Metro Show (renamed this year Metro Curates) at the Metropolitan Pavilion at 125 West 18th Street in Chelsea. In a letter to exhibitors in mid-March, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)North American Decoys at Auction
The $69,000 preening scoter by Maine carver Augustus Wilson, from the last quarter of the 19th century, has carved eyes and an inlet head. The form demonstrates a crossover with folk art and highlights a growing direction in decoy collecting. Guyette & Deeter photo.
These three Mason's Decoy Factory plaques are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Whitaker's Spring Couture Auction
Christine and Charles Whitaker hold a 19th-century embroidered linen liturgical vestment, probably Greek, which was embroidered with mythical birds, animals, and figures. Estimated at $200/400, it sold for $2040.
A highlight of the sale was a group of 18th-century stomachers and corsets. A stomacher is a decorated triangular panel that fills ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Drawings, and Sculpture
LeRoy Neiman's Football Star Constellation (35" x 24") was the top lot of the sale, bringing $430,000, way over its estimate of $40,000/60,000. It sold to an American private buyer on the phone. It was signed, dated "'78," and inscribed "Louisiana Superdome / Super Bowl XII / Denver Dallas 1-15-78." ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Show to Be Revived
After the 2015 Philadelphia Antiques Show was canceled, Anne Hamilton and Nancy Kneeland from the volunteers and Richard Worley and Joan Johnson, the current and past chairs of the Antiques Show Advisory Committee, met to focus on the possibility of a 2016 show.
Catherine Sweeney Singer and the committee of four ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Visual Art and the Urban Evolution of the New South by Deborah ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's Sale Indicates Market Uptick
There was competition on the Internet and on the phone for this circa 1800 Federal inlaid mahogany tall-case clock by Samuel Breneiser, Adamstown and Reading, Pennsylvania. It has a scroll top with inlaid rosettes and brass ball and spire finials, a painted iron face inscribed "Samuel Breneiser, Reading," moon phases, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry at Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Doyle New York, Doyle Beverly Hills, and John Moran Auctioneers
The top lot of the Doyle April 22 sale was this pair of Cartier Art Deco platinum, diamond, and carved emerald and ruby "tutti frutti" pendant ear clips measuring 2 1/8" x 9/16". The pair was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Chester County Historical Society's 33rd Show
Dutch Delft garniture, late 17th century, was $6000 from Mark Allen.
Christopher T. Rebollo Antiques, North Wales, Pennsylvania, offered this Chester County tall chest of drawers, 73" high x 42" wide x 21" deep, with the initials "M.P." It is walnut with poplar and lightwood inlay, 1780-90, and has an unusual ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Fresh Maentel, Painted Furniture, and a Valley Forge Sign
Across the Canal by Edward Redfield (1869-1965), a 26" x 32" oil on canvas, signed lower left, was a gift of the artist to Charles F. Bockmann, grandfather of the consignor. It sold to a phone bidder for $132,000 (est. $40,000/80,000).
Pennsylvania painted poplar chest of drawers, circa 1815, with original ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Round Lake Antiques Festival Gets New Promoter
The Round Lake Antiques Festival in Round Lake, New York, has a new promoter, Michael Green of Fairground Shows NY, who is best known for promoting the Washington County Antique Fair.
"I plan on doing some aggressive advertising and lots of person-to-person marketing. I like to go around to other shows ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ivory Fight Moves to the States
With the implementation of the federal law banning the sale of ivory still unclear, the fight has moved to the state legislatures. New legislation has been introduced in at least 14 states; New York and New Jersey already have ivory bans in place.
In many instances, the language of the bills ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Raise the Speaker's Roof
The Speaker's House as it looks today: the outline of the general store added by Frederick Muhlenberg in 1782 is visible on the gable wall. Photo courtesy Gavin Ashworth.
The Speaker's House in Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, needs a roof. It is the house where Frederick Muhlenberg lived when he served ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Wilton Spring Antiques Show
Dealer Eve Stone of East Haven, Connecticut, writes a bill of sale to the man standing behind her.
A woman from Wilton holds a ship diorama she had just bought at from Joseph Collins of Middletown, Connecticut. It was heavy so she was resting for a minute in Nancy Fishelson's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Sale Two Years in the Making
Shultz included three pieces of Soap Hollow furniture in his sale. The best was the 1867 chest of drawers (above right) stenciled "Manufactured by Jeremiah Stahl." Shultz bought it out of a house in Windber, Pennsylvania, about 25 years ago. In my index, none of the ten signed Stahl chests ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quinn & Farmer Sale Tops $1Million
The high lot of the sale was this pair of Chinese square stools. The stools, 17th/18th century, are constructed of huanghuali, a member of the rosewood family, long associated with fine Chinese furniture. The stools exhibit a square seat frame with an ice-plate or floating edge with a soft mat ... (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)Furor Causes Rago to Withdraw Japanese Internment Camp Objects
Two of the lots pulled from the sale. The oil on canvas by Estelle Peck Ishigo (1899-1990) depicts "disloyal" Japanese Americans leaving Heart Mountain for Tule Lake, California, at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, September 21, 1943. Signed, it measures 20" x 24". The chair was handcrafted of scrap lumber and kobu ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Indiana's Religious Freedom Restoration Act
When state legislators passed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) in Indiana, the immediate firestorm of outcry burned all the way down to the antiques industry. Promoter Jon Jenkins felt the heat.
Among other shows, Jenkins manages the monthly Indie Arts & Vintage Marketplace in Indianapolis. Because of RFRA, he immediately ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Oglebay Institute's 61st Annual Antiques Show & Sale
Rick Fleshman of Fleshman's Antiques leans on an Empire tiger and burl maple server featuring its original swirl glass handles. It was priced at $2150.
Langhorne, Pennsylvania, dealer Linda Grier, who offered formal and primitive country items, put this pair of 19th-century settle benches with mortised construction smack in the middle ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall-Case Clock Expands Scholarship in Lower Southern Piedmont
Note the fine reeded panels on this circa 1815 tall-case clock attributed to James Mattison, Anderson County, South Carolina. See article for the full story. Dealer Keith McCurry bought the Mattison clock for $22,800 (est. $4000/6000). It was the top lot of the sale.
Provenance was conspicuously displayed on the face ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bedford Spring Antiques Show
A circa 1900 still life by Emile Godchaux (1860-1938) was available from David Brooker Fine Art, Southport, Connecticut. Brooker said he bought it at an estate sale in Larchmont, New York, and was asking $12,500 for the 45" x 35" oil.
These Chinese watercolors on pith paper of fruits and vegetables, ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Book and Ephemera Fair for NYC
The New York City Book and Ephemera Fair will have its debut on Saturday, April 11, at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola's Wallace Hall on Park Avenue. The fair will host more than 50 dealers and is designed as a satellite event of Rare Book Week, the annual spring ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)David McCullough Receives ADA Award of Merit 2015
David McCullough and Arthur Liverant.
America's best-known historian, David McCullough, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and winner of two National Book Awards, received the Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA) Award of Merit on Saturday evening, April 11, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was the first time the ADA ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Gather
Auction Law & Ethics
"Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things."
Canadian author Janette Oke needed just nine words to explain why some of the biggest blunders are committed and to warn others that unrestrained enthusiasm can lead to the same mistakes. Impatience is seldom the right path for an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Central Plains wool dress, thread-sewn navy wool, ten rows of dentalia create the yoke, sunburst designs on sleeves, 51" long, fourth quarter of the 19th century, $18,000.
Crow beaded hide rifle scabbard, sinew-sewn, beaded using white, dark blue, light blue,red white-heart, greasy yellow, pea-green, and pink beads, red wool strips, 41" ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)In Defense of Pattern Glass
The Young Collector
What a winter. Everyone seems to be talking about the weather. We've been lucky here, keeping mostly warm and never losing power-until the day after Hollie wrote this sentence. There's hardly an experience more jarring to young Americans than losing power (unless perhaps losing Internet access), especially to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
This original Colt Texas Paterson .36-caliber revolver with a 71/2" octagonal barrel and matching serial number 718 on the barrel and cylinder has a folding trigger, and the barrel is marked "Patent Arms M'g. Co. Paterson, N.J. - Colt's Pt." The cylinder roll is engraved with a scene of a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ellis Antiques Show Closes Again
Changing demographics have killed off another venerable antiques show. Boston's Ellis Memorial Antiques Show saw 49 years as the city's premier antiques show before closing up shop in 2008.
It was picked up and run as the Ellis Boston Antiques Show in 2011 by producers Tony Fusco and Bob Four of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lowdown on Highboys
This tiger maple Queen Anne highboy, attributed to New Hampshire furniture and clock case maker David Young, showing Dunlap influence around the carved molding and cornice, sold for $34,500.
This 19th-century trade sign reading "7 MILES TO BACONS / JEWELERY [sic] STORE / 8 CENTRAL ST. / DOVER, N. H." made ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Was in the Air for Couture and Vintage Fashions
Bidding opened at $2500 for a Fortuny stenciled velvet gown of a golden ocher silk velvet tabard with Persian pattern gold stenciling. The gown has peach pleated silk sleeves and dress side panels enclosed with Murano glass beads and silk cord loops. In very good condition and labeled "Mariano / ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Temporary Location for Cahoon Museum
The Cahoon Museum of American Art has a new temporary location: 30 Bates Road in Mashpee Commons North (in the former New Balance space), Mashpee, Massachusetts.
The museum's permanent location at 4676 Falmouth Road in Cotuit is being restored and a new addition is being built. The permanent location will reopen ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Cindy Johnson, Dater House Antiques, Troy, New York
Cindy Johnson.
Dater House Antiques is on Route 2 a few miles east of Troy, New York.
A partial view of Johnson's shop.
Mortars with pestles: left, $195; right, $169. "They're always good sellers," Johnson said.
Quilted skirt or petticoat in tones of brown and plum with green and white flowers, $235.
Two-part stepback cupboard ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nantucket Antiques Show Rebranded
The Nantucket Antiques Show, held annually for 35-plus years, has been rebranded as the Decorative and Fine Art Show Nantucket. The dates and location of the show remain August 7-10 at the Nantucket High School, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Jerry Ritch, a second-generation antiques dealer and a 50-year veteran of the show circuit, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Liberty in the Spring
Old Salem, Inc. staff member Tyler Cox operates Stepback Antiques in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He brought what he called "a make-do" primitive two-door cabinet with white wash. "If you like primitives, it appeals," said Cox of the $399 cabinet.
With vestiges of its original red paint, this Sky King velocipede was ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Data Disposal, Backup Power, and Mobile Web Sites
Sanding away all or part of the label to the center hole makes a CD or DVD unreadable by identity thieves.
Computer Column #316
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Disposing of data CDs with sensitive information, Internet survival in bad weather, and adapting a Web site for mobile devices will be covered.
Shred CDs and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Paintings, and Sporting Art Sold on the Cape
This 1900 Elk Buffalo by New York artist Henry Merwin Shrady (1871-1922) sold for a record price of $276,000. The buffalo stands ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Enjoys Solid Spring Sale
This oil on canvas is attributed to the circle of Gaetano Lapis (Italian, 1704-1776). The painting depicts the central encounter in the story of Armida and Rinaldo from the poem by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Armida is shown as she approaches the sleeping Rinaldo. Her intent is to kill Rinaldo; instead ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Editorial
Tiny Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, has a big problem, and the administration thought it had a perfect solution.
The problem is the Vining Collection, approximately 7000 rare books and artifacts given to the college by the family of Edward Payson Vining in 1921. Proper care for the collection is costly, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A New Location for Chelsea Clock Company and a Second Edition of Its History
One of the new photographs in the second edition of the Demeters' book is a vintage image showing Joseph H. Eastman (1843-1931), founder of the Chelsea Clock Company's immediate precursor, the Eastman Clock Company. Eastman, who trained as a watchmaker as well as a clockmaker, fitted his clock movement with ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bowmanville Antiques & Folk Art Show: Fragments of Living Canadian History
Fairfield Antiques, Kingston, Ontario, offered the folk painting of the Yankee whale fishery for $1800. It dated from the second half of the 19th century (ex-Rod Brook collection). The six-board blanket box hailed from the Niagara Peninsula via the Bill Hogan collection and dated from the second quarter of the ... (Read More)
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(Show)It Was an Interesting Time
Customers filled the floor on Saturday afternoon. One thing that pleased the dealers was a steadier than usual second-day flow.
This custard glass dresser set with its mustard-colored decoration on white shows a little wear, but for a set from the 1890s, once proudly gracing someone's boudoir, that is to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hot Prices for Barkley Hendricks's Cool Portraits and Norman Lewis's Abstractions
Barkley L. Hendricks (b. 1945), Steve, 72" x 48" oil, acrylic, and Magna on canvas, 1976, $365,000.
Boy and Sheep under a Tree by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) sold within estimates to a collector for $245,000. The 17 3/8" x 27" oil on canvas is signed and dated ("1881").
Cathedral, Norman Lewis ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Forty Years of Sommer
"I have a wonderful relation with the dealers who are in the shop. I like what they see and buy and bring in. I'm spoiled," said Phyllis Sommer.
The next time you're driving on Route 1 into Searsport, Maine, take heed of the 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign as you're approaching ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Church Painting Brings $353,000
The star lot of the sale, Frederic Edwin Church's View of Baalbek, circa 1868, sold on the phone to the Detroit Institute of Arts for $353,000. The 91/2" x 20" oil and pencil on heavy card had an estimate of $80,000/120,000. The painting had descended in the family of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The New York Sale
The "most emblematic of New York's emblems" is how the auctioneer described Frederic Auguste Bartholdi's La Liberte eclairant le monde or Statue of Liberty. This parcel-gilt bronze with a dark green patina, 112 5/8" high, was cast in 2010 as part of an edition of 12 from the plaster in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Midweek Antiques Show Confirms Opening Hours
Barn Star Productions' 22nd Midweek Antiques Show, now held in Concord, New Hampshire, during Antiques Week in New Hampshire, is adjusting the opening hour for the August 4 and 5 show.
"Last year we moved our Midweek Show to Tuesday following the Americana Celebration Antiques Show, launching Antiques Week with two ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Wes and Shelley Cowan's Stereoviews
View of the 1882 lynching of Francisco Tafoya, also known as Navajo Frank, the photo by F. E. Evans of East Las Vegas, New Mexico Territory, imprinted description on reverse, minor spotting to mount, and very faint discoloration from the top edge, $2640. The text noted: "Francisco Tafoya / A ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rediscovery: Henry Grant Plumb, Master of Arts and Letters
Henry Grant Plumb self-portrait, circa 1910.
Henry Grant Plumb to his family, Paris, May 11, 1875. The vignette on the first page shows the artist and a friend sketching in the Bois de Boulogne.
Untitled, watercolor on paper, circa 1874, 14" x 10".
Lake Champlain from Basin Harbor, 1910-20, oil on artist's board, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
You know what they say about the early bird. Folks were lined up before the 10 a.m. opening, some with empty shopping carts.
This campaign desk made by Kittinger Furniture Co., Buffalo, New York, was available from Harris Art and Mid-Century Antiques, Natick, Massachusetts. It was tagged $2850, and it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old New England Prizes
An 18th-century New England desk-on-frame in maple with tiger maple and chestnut secondary wood, 351/2" x 32" x 16", sold on the phone for $7080 (est. $2000/3000). It had been passed down through the Solomon Lincoln family, early settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts, and distant relatives of Abraham Lincoln.
The early 19th-century ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries
Left to right: Tony Fusco, coproducer of AD20/21 and Boston Design Week, is pictured with Robert Campbell, recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ted Landsmark of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and Julie Burros, chief of arts and culture for the city of Boston.
As show managers, Tony Fusco and Bob ... (Read More)
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