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(Fragment)Free Admission to Those under 18 at Rhinebeck Show
The Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck show on May 25 and 26 will offer free admission to anyone under 18. The Memorial Day weekend show, produced by Barn Star Productions, will be held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York. The entire show will be held indoors. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Ringing the Warning Bell
On the lawn of a Maine historical society sits a bronze bell cast by the Revere Foundry in Boston. The foundry cast over 900 bells between 1792 and 1843, and 24 of them are in the state of Maine. This particular bell was originally hung in a church, but when ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Boscobel House and Gardens Raising Money to Fix Library Ceiling
During the evening of April 16, the plaster ceiling of the library room at Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York, collapsed without warning. According to a press release, no one was in the building at the time, but the incident caused major damage to the library, its contents, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the Attix Collection
Locati LLC, Pineville, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Locati LLC
C. Thomas Attix Jr. (1927-2012) was a passionate collector who liked wood, silver, and Oriental rugs. A corporate lawyer for RCA, the father of four bought carefully, filling his house in New Jersey with furniture made in the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. He ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$10,000 Bucher Box Tops Auction
Horst Auctioneers, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Horst Auctioneers
Horst Auctioneers in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, has been in business since around 1900. According to the history the company posts on its website, which calls the firm "The Voices of Experience," A. A. Landis, Timothy and Thomas Horst's great-grandfather, began calling auctions at the turn ... (Read More)
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(Show)Great Picking at Gilmanor Farm
Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
The weekend of May 17 and 18 marked the 12th installment of the Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show. The biannual event is held at Joel Gilman's Gilmanor Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia. The show is still feeling its way as it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Haley Toy Collection Surpasses $2.48 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Back in the late 1960s and early '70s, purchasing older items was a completely different animal than it is today. Pre-Internet collecting meant days were spent on the road tracking down antiques shops, visiting advanced collectors who had already acquired what you desired, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Barry D. Hogan's Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
The catalog for the sale of Barry D. Hogan's collection is the most recent addition to a long shelf of catalogs for single-owner estate sales of mostly Pennsylvania folk art and what used to be called "country furniture" that the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June2024
Louise Nevelson, Royal Tide I, 1960, painted wood, 7'2" x 40" x 8". Gift of Peter and Beverly Lipman. Photo courtesy Storm King Art Center by Jerry L. Thompson, (c) 2022 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
-Through June 9 -Waterville, Maine
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern Design at Auction
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
Auctions reflect the taste of the minute. The Rago sale of modern design May 16 in Lambertville, New Jersey, and the contemporary glass sale that followed on May 17 are good examples.
The two sales covered a broad range of 20th-century design. David Rago said his ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Horse-Racing Trophy Leaves Other Silver in the Dust
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A superb selection of silver, including pieces from America's Colonial period and an extensive selection of enameled silver figurines from the Tiffany & Co. circus collection, was featured in Heritage Auctions' May 16 sale of fine silver and objects of vertu. The auction included ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Record for McElwain Painting
Cordier Auctions in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, achieved a new world auction record for New Mexico landscape painter Louisa McElwain (1953-2013). During Cordier's May 16 auction, McElwain's Song of the High Desert sold for $48,360 (includes buyer's premium). The buyer was a private collector from Texas. The previous record for a McElwain ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sherman Collection Anchors Civil War and History Auction
Fleischer's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Fleischer's Auctions
Fleischer's Auctions held its Civil War and African American history auction May 14 and 15 in Columbus, Ohio. This spring premier sale featured more than 500 historical items that generated a total of over $2 million in prices realized, far exceeding initial expectations.
The auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Stellar Selection of Art
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Works of American art continue to be in demand among art lovers and collectors, who are willing to pay top prices to own pieces by their favorite artists. The May 15 American art "Signature" auction by Dallas-based Heritage Auctions presented a stellar selection of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2024
New York City
Seventeen dealers set up booths for the 17th edition of the American Art Fair, held May 10 to 14, and offered works in all genres. The fair "is unique in choosing to focus exclusively on historically important artists," wrote Thomas Colville of Thomas Colville Fine Art, who established ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Fishersville Show
Fishersville Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The 72nd biannual Fishersville Antiques Expo was held May 10 and 11 at the Augusta Expo Event Center in Fishersville, Virginia. Very few things have changed at Fishersville over the years. There are three constants regarding the show that probably go without saying: If you are ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 25th Annual Grass Valley Old West Show
Grass Valley, California
At the booth of Sierra Gold & Coin, Grass Valley, California, gold nuggets from Nevada County were priced at $12,000, while the bear-claw necklace with a nugget centerpiece on a 14k gold chain was $17,000.
The Old West Show has been held at the Nevada County Fairgrounds, which is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)May Auction Extravaganza
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
Called the "May Auction Extravaganza," the May 11 sale held by John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury, Massachusetts, was certainly that. The more than 660 lots had few reserves and took hours to sell. Most of the 19th-century Continental lots came from the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Important Maritime Scholarship the Order of the Day
Scrimshaw & Nautical Antiques Show, New Bedford, Massachusetts
An antiques show of 14 dealers is hardly inspiring, except when it's the 12th annual Scrimshaw & Nautical Antiques Show, put on by the Antique Scrimshaw Collectors Association (ASCA) in New Bedford, Massachusetts, May 10.
The show was rolled into the 33rd Scrimshaw & ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stack's Bowers Acquires World Banknote Auctions
Stack's Bowers Galleries has acquired substantially all of the assets of World Banknote Auctions. Dennis Hengeveld, founder of World Banknote Auctions and a renowned authority in rare paper money and world coins, will join Stack's Bowers Galleries' team of specialists.
"Under the leadership of Dennis Hengeveld, World Banknote Auctions has achieved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kirkland Museum and Denver Art Museum Merge
On May 9 the Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art and the Denver Art Museum (DAM) announced a merger. The Kirkland Museum will become the Kirkland Institute of Fine & Decorative Art at the Denver Art Museum and will add to the DAM's collection its own collection of decorative ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, May 2024
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Forger Sentenced
Earl Marshawn Washington, 61, previously a resident of Honolulu, Key West, Las Vegas, and other places, has been sentenced to 52 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud.
According to United States Attorney Gerard M. Karam, at the time of his guilty plea in July 2023 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Suspects Arrested in Stansbury Home Burglary
On February 20 the Chico (California) Police Department was contacted regarding a burglary that occurred at the Stansbury Home, a historical landmark in Chico that contains artifacts and historical items. It was reported that thousands of dollars worth of antique items were stolen and the property was vandalized.
According to the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)25-Year-Old Coastal Maine Show Changes Location
The Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) was recently informed that it could not hold its August Coastal Antiques Show at the usual location at the elementary school in Damariscotta because of upcoming building renovations. The MADA board voted on April 3 to move the show to the Medomak Middle School, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Sketch of Continental Soldiers and Camp Followers Given to Museum
When Matthew Skic, the Museum of the American Revolution's curator of exhibitions, visited New York collector Judith Hernstadt last summer, he noticed a small ink drawing on the wall over her desk. "My jaw dropped because it depicted a soldier wearing a hunting shirt, the kind of linen shirt worn ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques At The Tavern Continues to Shine
Hanover, Virginia
Hanover Tavern Foundation presented its annual antiques show at the historic tavern in Hanover, Virginia, May 3-5. Dubbed Antiques At The Tavern, the event has quickly grown into one of the mid-Atlantic's destination events. Although the show is small, with space for only 20 dealers, the foundation's executive director, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Single-Owner Sale Is a Winner
Tremont Auctions, Sudbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Tremont Auctions
This watercolor of a Bermuda cottage, 133/4" x 193/4", by Boston artist Henry Webster Rice (1853-1934) was a highlight of the images of the island. It sold for $2074 (est. $1000/1500).
A single-owner collection of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Spring Extravaganza" Sale at Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Marion Antique Auctions held its "Spring Extravaganza" sale May 4 in the Marion, Massachusetts, gallery. The sale was live, with about 60 bidders in the room at various times. Staff were on the phones and executing left and online bids. Collections from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Exceptional Art in Remarkable Condition
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
Grogan & Company's May 4 fine art sale in its Beacon Hill gallery in Boston was an especially pretty sale with especially disparate offerings. President and fine art director Georgina C. Winthrop told M.A.D. that the results were a 92% sold rate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and the Ohio Valley Auction
Amelia Jeffers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers
A two-day sale of Americana, which included a revival of the Ohio Valley session previously held by Garth's Auctions, was conducted by Amelia Jeffers May 3 and 4 at The Barn at Stratford, Delaware, Ohio. Having nearly 1000 lots, the auction realized $912,000, according ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art Sale at Shannon's
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers
Three lots sold at $100,000 (including buyer's premium) and over, and many other lots brought multiples of their estimates at Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers' May 2 auction in the Milford, Connecticut, gallery, making for a $2.5 million sale. The auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Looted Artifacts Discovered and Returned to Okinawa
Photos courtesy FBI
Cleaning out the personal effects of a loved one after their passing almost always results in finding some sort of treasure. For most folks, it's a personal treasure. For one family in Massachusetts, the treasure was international and cultural in nature.
While cleaning out their father's estate, the family-who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams offered 90 lots at its spring American art sale in New York City May 1. The sale totaled $4,201,008 (with buyers' premiums), and the sell-through rate was 80.85%.
The top-selling lot of the sale was New Mexico Recollection No. 8 byMarsden Hartley (1877-1943), which sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Weekday Online Sales and Live Gala Previews
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
For auctioneer Leland Little, the days of large in-house audiences at weekend sales are over. His auctions now are smaller, weekday online affairs. Large gatherings in his gallery are for community events, lectures, and previews of upcoming sales.
In keeping with that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Francis Crespo
If there were a congeniality award for folk-art and antiques dealers, Francis Crespo of Francis Crespo Folk Art & Antiques, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, would certainly be in the running.
"Those who are passionate do well," stated the affable dealer, who travels to and exhibits at between 18 and 22 shows a year. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)History Lessons for Sale
Freeman's | Hindman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's | Hindman
Americana sales at Freeman's | Hindman often provide some history lessons. The most recent yearly spring Americana sale, held April 30, the Tuesday after the Philadelphia Show, provoked active bidding on some historical relics that had remained in the family of Benjamin ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dover Show Offers Free Admission after 9 a.m.
The year's first Dover Antique Show and Vintage Market at the Dover Elks Lodge, Dover, New Hampshire, will be May 18. The show will run once a month until September. Promoted by Gurley Antiques Shows, the show now will feature free admission after 9 a.m.
According to promoters Josh and Rachel ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changing of the Guard at Nye & Company
Nye & Company, the Bloomfield, New Jersey, auction house, has been sold. The new owner is Andrew Holter, who after eight years in the American furniture department at Christie's rejoined Nye as head of business development seven years ago, a position he held from 2004 to 2008.
"We have finished paying ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia Show, which filled the purpose-built tent on the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) on the last weekend in April, kicked off with a crowded and festive preview party on Thursday, April 25. The show continued through Sunday, April 28.
Since its move to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Mid-Atlantic Festival Continues to Grow
Mid-Atlantic Antiques Festival, Poolesville, Maryland
The fourth installment of the Mid-Atlantic Antiques Festival was held April 27 and 28 at Aix La Chapelle Farm, a working farm located in the outskirts of Poolesville, Maryland. The farm's owners, Joy and Jon Siegel, are the developers and promoters of the festival.
The festival is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Slotin Auction Surpasses $1.7 Million
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Auction
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia, continues to generate interest for self-taught art, works that might not always have been well received or considered worth recognizing. Not only is this genre now considered cutting edge, but new discoveries keep popping up and finding their way to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Objects Associated with Presidents Spur Bidding
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Important historical artifacts associated with the assassinations of two American presidents led Heritage Auctions' recent Americana and political "Signature" auction. A rare first printing of the reward poster for the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and a Bible used nearly 100 years ... (Read More)
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(Show)Loyal Sellers and Buyers Make for a Good Crowd
Earlier Times Antiques & Folk Art Show, Millersburg, Ohio
Earlier Times Antiques & Folk Art Show was held at the Holmes County Fairgrounds in Millersburg, Ohio, April 26 and 27. The semiannual event featured 34 dealers. "Spring is always a little lighter," said promoter Cheryl Williams. Her husband, Kent, added that ... (Read More)
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(Show)Simply Irresistible Show in Ohio
Simple Goods, Berlin, Ohio
The lights went out about an hour and a half into the spring edition of Simple Goods on April 27. At the time, the Heritage Community Center, located a few miles north of Berlin, Ohio, was filled with dealers and shoppers at the semiannual antiques show, known ... (Read More)
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(Show)Two Days at the Liberty Antiques Festival
Liberty Antiques Festival, Staley, North Carolina
Photos by Pete and Donna Prunkl
M.A.D. has covered the April or September opening at the Liberty Antiques Festival for the past 19 years. This year's spring opener was Friday, April 26, or "Retirees' Day," in the words of one dealer. This year, accompanied by my ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Duck Doubleheader
Guyette & Deeter/North American Decoy Collectors Association, Lombard, Illinois
One early spring doubleheader highly anticipated by outdoor enthusiasts throughout the U.S., most especially in the Midwest, doesn't happen in baseball. It is the annual two-day Guyette & Deeter auction in Lombard, Illinois, held along with a multi-day large and eclectic show ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Give and Take
Beneath the Surface
You can set your watch by it. The days begin to lengthen, Daylight Saving Time kicks off, daffodils poke up, buds pop out, and the real March Madness begins-last-minute donation appraisals.
A flurry of phone calls starts to come in from people who donated items to museums last year ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A New Connecticut Show
After four decades of hosting the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show, the Haddam Historical Society, in partnership with Goosefare Antiques & Promotions, is launching a new expanded show focused on a younger audience seeking quality and more affordable antiques.
The Connecticut River Valley Antiques and Historic Homes Show-scheduled for October 19 and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2024
Definitely Desirable but Not Exactly an Open Book
As a book man at heart, I found it hard to resist front, back, and side views of the lot featured. It was offered in a February 21-23 sale held by Dore & Rees of Frome in the county of Somerset-one that dispersed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Illustration Art
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
The enduring appeal of illustration art was evident at Heritage Auctions' recent auction of original works from famous illustrators whose works have adorned the covers and pages of magazine covers and pulp fiction novels and who have created pinup portraits and posters.
The Dallas-based auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
On April 23 at Bonhams' auction of California and Western art in Los Angeles, total sales came to $2,500,000. Director of fine arts Scot Levitt commented, "This auction solidified the age-old adage that the cream of the crop always finds a strong market. Paintings such ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hirsch Is New Owner of Dallas Auction Gallery
Prominent antiques dealer and appraiser Reyne Hirsch is the new owner of the Dallas Auction Gallery and aims to attract a younger generation of buyers to collecting antiques and fine art.
Hirsch was already co-owner of the nearby Patrick Jones Gallery, specializing in contemporary and modern art, when she received a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Things Come in Small Auctions
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Antiques, Rockland, Maine
Photos courtesy Bruce Gamage, Jr., Antiques
Good things come in small packages. And good things come in small auctions too. The April 22 auction held in Rockland, Maine, by Bruce Gamage, Jr., Antiques didn't yield any five-figure megastars. But it did produce lots of collector and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antiques with a Side of Sausage Gravy
Imagine an antiques sale with 600 to 700 objects that draws a huge crowd, and in only a half-hour everything except seven things is sold. The sale is restocked and virtually sells out again. Amazing, right?
You could be excused for being skeptical of such a feeding frenzy, but according to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collections Fill Three-Day Auction
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc., Epping, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Inc.
Excellent collections make for excellent auctions. Devin Moisan's three-day online auction held April 19-21 included not one but two such entities. Spread out over three days, the 1200-lot sale took some time to sell. The quality of the collections ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of Americana at CRN
CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions, Inc.
CRN Auctions' April 21 sale in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery drew on several area collections, including that of Alan A. Varteresian (1934-2023) of Boston, who seldom missed a CRN sale. A knowledgeable collector of Persian carpets, Varteresian had gathered an enviable selection ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Hermann Antique Show
Hermann, Missouri
The annual Hermann Antique Show, which leans heavily toward country antiques and Americana, was held April 20 in Hermann, Missouri. In its 43rd year, the event prides itself as "Missouri's oldest and longest running antique show" and "the oldest continuously running antique show in Missouri." Understand, however: none of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 2024
Photo courtesy Morris Museum.
-Ongoing -Morristown, New Jersey
Musical Machines & Living Dolls: Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata from the Murtogh D. Guinness Collection at the Morris Museum features 150 mechanical marvels that span 400 years, including a miniature music box that fits into an 18k gold ring and the enormous Poppers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sgraffito Mug Brings $40,000
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
The April 18 and 19 "Americana and International" sale at Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, followed the traditional Pook format. A printed catalog came in the mail a few days after it was posted online with more information and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern American Art at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
The second edition of Christie's dedicated modern American art sale took place April 18, and the results were positive.
"It's working," said Paige Kestenman, senior specialist of American art, while touring Christie's Rockefeller Center galleries with Maine Antique Digest. The rooms were filled with 105 examples ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pursuit of Beauty
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A stellar selection of renowned Tiffany Studios decorative lamps and works of art glass accompanied a collection of spectacular Steuben Aurene glass and a group of rare whimsical Victorian-era art pottery that together highlighted Heritage Auctions' April 18 "Pursuit of Beauty: Art Nouveau, Art ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art Including Sporting Art and Dogs in Art
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle held its annual sale of fine art including sporting art and dogs in art live in its East 87th Street salesroom in New York City Tuesday, April 16. A handful of bidders came and went during the two-and-a-half-hour auction. The sale offered a section ... (Read More)
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(Show)Hundreds of People, Thousands of Toys
Greater Boston Antique and Collectible Toy Show and Sale, Dedham, Massachusetts
The spring edition of the Greater Boston Antique and Collectible Toy Show and Sale was held Sunday, April 14, at the Holiday Inn Boston-Dedham Hotel and Conference Center in Dedham, Massachusetts. Hundreds of collectors, buyers, and sellers convened, trading up ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Warhol Silverspot Tops Barridoff Sale
Barridoff Auctions, South Portland, Maine
Photos courtesy Barridoff Auctions
On Saturday, April 13, Barridoff Auctions, South Portland, Maine, offered 280 lots of paintings, prints, and photographs to what nowadays would be considered a large crowd of retail buyers and the trade. It was not a sale of high-powered artworks-only 15 lots sold ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Hays Appears in Newly Released Movie
The film Upgraded is a 2024 American romantic comedy directed by Carlson Young and starring Camila Mendes, Archie Renaux, Marisa Tomei, Lena Olin, and John Hays, deputy chairman of Christie's Americas.
The 104-minute movie is the story of Ana (Camila Mendes), an ambitious intern dreaming of a career in the art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Accused Murderer Sentenced in Fake Art Case
Brian R. Walshe, 49, of Lynn, Massachusetts, was sentenced on February 20 to 37 months in prison and three years of supervised release. Walshe was also ordered to pay restitution of $475,000. In April 2021 Walshe pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud, interstate transportation for a scheme ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Americana Sale at Doyle
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Only at Doyle on Manhattan's Upper East Side can you buy a sterling silver child's highchair tray, a silver dog bowl, and a silver terrapin tureen and soup bowls in an Americana sale. The April 10 sale featured paintings, prints, furniture, silver, and decorative art. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings and Prints at Doyle
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle held its semiannual sale of American paintings and prints live in its salesroom on East 87th Street in Manhattan Wednesday, April 10. Only a few bidders were present. Most of the sales went to online bidders. The auction also featured American furniture, silver, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Arrest Warrants Filed for Pair
On December 10 the York County (Maine) Sheriff's Office responded to an antiques business in Arundel, Maine, for the report of a theft. The business reported that over $9000 of jewelry had been stolen.
During the course of the investigation, persons of interest were identified as Pardelian Muntean (a 21-year-old male) ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Mystery Novels of George Sims
It's the first 60 characters that count. That's what the LiveAuctioneers guy said. Search engines give weight to the first 60 characters, so listings should be front loaded with the most important keywords. Well, OK. I'll have to go back and do some rearranging. Better search engine optimization (SEO) might ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Acquires Philadelphia Tea Table
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has acquired one of the finest scalloped-top Colonial tea tables, the gift of Barbara L. and Theodore B. Alfond. Made in Philadelphia around 1775, it was sold at Christie's January 19, 2001, consigned by a descendant of Gouverneur Cadwalader, whose mother, Christine Biddle, had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Garth's Dissolution Underway
On January 4 Garth's Auctions, Inc., filed for judicial dissolution in the Court of Common Pleas in Franklin County, Ohio. According to the complaint, "Garth's is insolvent, the property and assets of said company are insufficient to pay all of its debts and it cannot meet its obligations as they ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Back to the Beginning
Beneath the Surface
Twenty years ago in February, we were going to Nashville to plug an auction house. To be honest, we had no idea what we were doing in any strategic sense. Literally, someone just said, "You should go to the shows in Nashville. Here's a credit card!" The goal ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Found Object Show/art without intent
New York City
The Found Object Show/art without intent is a show about patina, said Adam Irish of Old as Adam, an antiques dealer from Providence, Rhode Island, who manages the event.
Found objects were not intentionally made by the maker to be "art." However, with time, the objects take on beauty, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Natural History, Maps, Books, and Furniture
Arader Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Arader Galleries
More than 50 years ago, in his junior year at Yale University, Graham Arader began selling maps from his dorm room. Eventually he discovered the works of John James Audubon and Pierre-Joseph Redoute, and now he has the world's largest inventory of rare ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Era for American Ceramics
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
"This was our third-highest-grossing sale to date," stated Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm following the family operation's spring sale, which made $1,753,470 (including buyers' premiums). There were 525 registered bidders for the spring auction. The absentee-only sale ran from March 27 through April 5 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nor'easter Fails to Dampen Maine Show
Scarborough High School Vintage and Antique Show & Sale, Scarborough, Maine ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Homegrown Show Keeps Growing
Greater Rochester Spring Antique Show, Henrietta, New York
After a few inches of white stuff on the ground the night before and after a earthquake hit another part of the state about 200 miles away but before the big total eclipse (which was covered by clouds), the Greater Rochester Spring Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dave, Lanier, and Friends in Georgia
Cagle Auction Company, Bogart, Georgia
Photos courtesy Cagle Auction Company
Located just outside of Athens, the town of Bogart, Georgia, at the base of the foothills of the Appalachians, is home to Cagle Auction Company. Rivers and creeks in this area of the Piedmont are rich with the clay deposits essential for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Director of Bayou Bend
Dr. Daniel Kurt Ackermann has been named director of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the house museum for American decorative arts of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).
Dr. Ackermann comes to Bayou Bend after a career of 16 years at Old Salem Museums & Gardens and the Museum ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale of African American Art
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
For its April 4 sale of African American art, Swann Galleries offered 239 lots of paintings, watercolors, prints, photography, and sculpture and featured a special evening session called "Art for Life" of contemporary works sold to benefit the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.
The sale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Ownership of Fiddlers Antiques Show
The Fiddlers Antiques Show in Nashville, Tennessee, has been sold to Mark and Jill Mattingly of Chrisman, Illinois. The long-running event, which takes its name from the Fiddlers Inn motel where dealers sold from their rooms, had most recently been owned by Bill and Kay Puchstein since 2020. The change ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Celebrating the Beauty of Life at Home
A Book Review
This book isn't about antiques, though there are lots of antiques on almost every page, and it's not about old houses, though most of the houses are old, and if they're not old, they feel old in that lovely, comfortable way an old house feels. The owners of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Democracy in America
Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, presented by the Smithsonian's Museum on Main Street in cooperation with the Museum Association of New York (MANY), examines the nearly 250-year-old American experiment of a government "of, by and for the people" and how each generation continues to question how to form "a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2024
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rooms That Tell America's Story
A Book Review
We often think of the many spectacular rooms of the White House when we imagine our leaders greeting those of other countries such as presidents and prime ministers, heads of states, secretaries of state, and diplomatic ministers. But before a visit to the White House, most foreign dignitaries ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show
The Philadelphia Show on the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, held during the last weekend in April (April 25-28), is where 41 dealers in American, European, and Asian works of art hope to find the next generation of collectors and to reconnect with the passionate antiquarians who ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with John Nye
(On March 25th, it was announced Nye & Co. had been sold to Andrew Holter)
Born in Boston and raised in Lexington, Massachusetts, when the aesthetic of furnishing a room was pairing an Oriental rug with mahogany furniture, John Nye-outdoorsman and owner of the auction house Nye & Company in Bloomfield, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century Design
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
The Chicago auction house bearing his name that John Toomey founded in 1987 has traditionally been a source for fine examples of Arts and Crafts design. First based in Oak Park, a Chicago suburb eight miles from the city's Loop and closely ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Richard Margolis Collection: Part One
Stack's Bowers Galleries, Costa Mesa, California
The Richard Margolis Collection: Part One
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Stack's Bowers Galleries
The John Stewart at Stony Point medal sold on the phone for $900,000 to a collector who needed it to complete his set of Comitia Americana medals. The Comitia Americana series includes 11 medals ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Buy the Dip
In this issue we complete our coverage of Americana Week in New York City, a bellwether event. By crunching numbers and looking at past sales, one thing stands out-prices of antiques are lower. The elite, high-powered, and fresh stuff ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Baltimore Sideboard Gifted to MESDA
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is the recipient of an inlaid sideboard made in Baltimore, Maryland, between 1800 and 1815, a gift of Beth and Stanley Weiss from the Stanley Weiss collection. "In the early nineteenth century, Baltimore's craftspeople produced some of the most sophisticated inlaid Neoclassical ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Eclectic Estate of John Long
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
On March 23 Hilliard & Co. offered 319 lots selected from the estate of John Long (1932-2023) of Louisa County, Virginia. The sale was held at Hilliard's gallery in Madison, Virginia. Items were sold in real time using the firm's familiar format, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Changes in Collecting
Donley Auctions, Union, Illinois
Photos courtesy Donley Auctions
For the gray-haired stragglers at the preview of Donley Auctions' March 23 sale in Union, Illinois, it was the stuff of dreams. They had been collecting model trains, die-cast cars, Cracker Jack toys, dolls, and other vestiges of their childhood for years and couldn't ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, April 2024
The Whole Booke of Psalmes, London, Company of Stationers, 1643.
-Through April 13 -New York City
Judging a Book by Its Cover: Bookbindings from the Collections of The Grolier Club, 1470s-2020 highlights selections from seven centuries of the Grolier Club's collection of bindings. The exhibition explores the history of decorated bindings, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at New England Auctions
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
New England Auctions called its March 21 auction in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery "Celebrating Country Americana," and it featured handmade and beloved objects. Many were made out of love.
Noticeable among the nearly 400 lots was the selection of textiles and related objects ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brunk Sells Property from the Brooklyn Museum
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
The March 20 auction at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina, of deaccessions from the Brooklyn Museum in New York City included architectural woodwork from four period rooms along with furniture and decorations made in the 17th through the 20th centuries. Most were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The "Collect: Americana" Sale
Freeman's | Hindman, Philadelphia
Photos courtesy Freeman's | Hindman
"Collect: Americana" at Freeman's | Hindman, Philadelphia, March 20, was pitched to those who can afford to spend a few hundred or a few thousand dollars on furniture and decorative arts. Freeman's has had success with its "Collect: American Art" sales scheduled on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Show Supports Boosters
Duxbury Spring Antique Show, Duxbury, Massachusetts
Duxbury, Massachusetts, a seaside town 35 miles south of Boston, was established in 1637 by settlers of nearby Plymouth. Residents have traditionally been cognizant of the town's deep maritime and agricultural history.
The 41st annual Duxbury Spring Antique Show, held March 16 and 17, was an ... (Read More)
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