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(Auction)Estates and Collections Contribute to Auction Success
Portraits did well in the January sale. Ralph Eleaser Whiteside Earl (1788-1838), son of Connecticut painter Ralph Earl, came to Tennessee in 1817 to paint Andrew Jackson. This couple by the younger Earl sold for $24,780 (est. $6800/8400). The sitters, the Reverend Hardy Cryer and his wife, were a handsome ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Indiana Art and Something from Singapore
This landscape by Theodore Clement Steele shows his home, House of the Singing Winds, in the background. The oil on canvas brought $44,800.
Singapore Malay Culture by Cheong Soo Pieng, a mixed-media on board composition, sold online for $83,375.
Photos courtesy Wickliff & Associates Auctioneers
An oil painting by Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926), ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2015 Winter Antiques Show
The very rare New York gate-leg table in untouched condition with original butterfly hinges, old finish, and no restoration, red gum, 273/4" high, 52" wide open, 431/2" deep, was from Queens County, Long Island. An identical table from the same workshop is pictured in Dean Failey's Long Island Is My ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's Various-Owners Americana Auction
Three phone bidders competed for this pair of oil on canvas portraits by Robert Feke (1707-1752) of Mr. Tench Francis (333/4" x 253/4") and his wife, Elizabeth Turbutt Francis (331/2" x 261/2"). Painted in Philadelphia, circa 1740, the portraits descended in the family of their daughter Anne and sold on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lancaster County Desk-and-Bookcase Tops Christie's Americana Auction
The Chippendale carved cherrywood desk-and-bookcase, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, circa 1785, 921/2" x 421/4" x 22 1/8", sold for $665,000 (est. $400,000/600,000) to collector Peter Wunsch in the salesroom, underbid by a collector on the phone. It came from the collection of the late Bertram and Trish Coleman of Bryn Mawr, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Nutt Collection of American Furniture and Decorative Arts
Rare Chinese export porcelain American market punch jug, early 19th century, 9" high, painted with a portrait of George Washington in an oval surrounded by a gilt band and bead border, the surround repeated on the opposite side enclosing a monogram "BH," the gilt band repeated around the rims and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Phone Bidders Tango for Sunlight in the Studio
Sunlight in the Studio by Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861-1948) sold for $219,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). The signed and dated ("1888") oil on canvas measures 18 1/8" x 22 3/16" without its period frame. Sold along with this lot was a group of books and ephemera about World's Columbian Exposition (1893), where ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)iGavel Opens a Texas Branch
iGavel founder Lark Mason (right) and his son, Lark Mason III, at the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair in January. Lark Mason III has joined the firm and will head up the iGavel branch in Texas.
iGavel (www.igavel.com) has opened a branch in New Braunfels, Texas.
Lark Mason Sr., founder of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Metro Curates
Gemini Antiques, Oldwick, New Jersey, sold this equestrian cast-iron trade sign, made for the Cincinnati Stove Works company, circa 1901; the asking price was $28,500. The 36-drawer chest, possibly from a hardware store, with original ivory paint and dovetailed construction, also sold. It was tagged $18,500. The tramp art wood ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Teapot by Paul Revere Jr. Brings $233,000
Each of these Martele silver figural ewers, marked for Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, 1912, in baluster form, is decorated with fluid leaves and waves. One is chased with Poseidon holding his trident and has a cast merman-form handle; the other is chased with a mermaid holding a clamshell with pearls ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Wunsch Award, Now a January Tradition, Honors Arnold Lehman and Chipstone
Arnold Lehman is shown accepting the Wunsch award.
Jonathan Prown, director of Chipstone.
Peter Wunsch (left) and Christie's John Hays.
Christie's hosted the third annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts on January 21, honoring Arnold L. Lehman, the retiring director of the Brooklyn Museum in New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fraktur: Four Exhibitions, a Catalog, and a Conference
Drawing of a woman on horseback, circa 1775, attributed to the Sussel-Washington Artist (active 1760-85). Watercolor and ink on laid paper, 8" x 6 3/8". Promised gift of Joan and Victor Johnson.
Drawing of Adam and Eve, 1834-35, attributed to Samuel Gottschall (1808-1898). Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 8" x ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, February 2015
Ian McKay,
Joseph Mallord William Turner's Rome, from Mount Aventine, the 361/2" x 491/2" oil of 1835 that at Sotheby's on December 3 sold for $47.4 million. In the last 15 years of his life, Turner was enormously experimental and this work, produced when he was 61, just at the ... (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 Web site ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Shared Legacy
Book Review
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with contributions by Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi, and Ralph Sessions Art Services International and Skira Rizzoli, 2014, 256 pages, softbound, $65.
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with essays by Avis Berman, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)What's Your Niche?
A low-cost 7" tablet computer running Windows 8.1.
Computer Column #314
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Antiquers may want to identify their personal niche in the computer world. Personal niches are changing as hardware and software rapidly evolve. Let's look at the whole picture and identify the range of niches.
Big Computers
The really big ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels Sale Caps a Year of Stellar Results
This circa 1920 signed Tiffany & Co. platinum, moonstone, and sapphire brooch designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany sold to a phone bidder for $62,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). It was accompanied by an AGL report stating that the sapphire is of Ceylon origin, with no indications of heating. Sotheby's, New York.
When Lisa ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Elise Abrams, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Elise Abrams's shop is just north of Great Barrington on Route 7. Part of it was originally a Dairy Queen.
Elise Abrams.
A very partial interior view.
Abrams said a service like this (which is for 12 although only eight are set up) averages about $300 per piece.
Art Deco Czech geometric cut ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)2014: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
It's a fitting thing to be wrapping this up on New Year's Eve, that night when we indulge ourselves, overindulge ourselves, in any number of ways including nostalgic reflection. Sometimes, like in the afternoons of wet fall days or in the sticky middle-of-summer mornings (or anywhere on Interstate ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Make a List
Auction Law and Ethics
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
I've long liked that Mark Twain line, and the message rings true for selecting the "right" auctioneer versus just any other. When a consignor seeks to hire an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Farnsworth Extends Shaker Exhibition
Due to the popularity of the exhibit, and to facilitate an increase in school group visits, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, will be extending the exhibition The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World through March 8. The show of approximately 100 works opened in June 2014.
Drawn primarily ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Dozen Dealers to Launch Weekly On-line Antiques Show
Tuesday at noon. That's the day and time a group of 12 dealers want antiques buyers to remember. Every Tuesday at noon (Eastern time), a batch of fresh antiques will go on line at the soon-to-be-launched Web site 1st N Line (www.1stnline.com), a new on-line weekly antiques show.
The idea ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Appraisal Radio Show Seeks Guests
Author, auctioneer, appraiser, and home downsizing specialist Michael Ivankovich's "What's It Worth? Ask Mike the Appraiser" radio show has been extended by popular demand to a full hour. The show airs live on Friday mornings on WBCB 1490 AM in the greater Philadelphia area from 9 to 10 a.m. Ivankovich ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Event at the New Jersey Home Show
JMK Shows' new three-day event, Decorating with Antiques, will be held March 6-8 at the New Jersey Convention Center in Edison, New Jersey. It will be a new feature of the New Jersey Home Show, New Jersey's largest event of its kind.
The collaboration between Allison Kohler, owner of JMK Shows, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Digitized Wallpaper
For the past two years, Historic New England has been cataloging and digitizing its wallpaper collection. More than 6000 samples have been electronically cataloged and are available on line (www.WallpaperHistory.org). The collection includes rolled, flat, oversize, and three-dimensional materials, which each require unique handling and digitization methods.
The project makes accessible ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)County Unfair
Editorial
Want to sell a highboy in Hauppauge? A sideboard in Southampton? A bookcase in Brookhaven? If so, you need a pay for a license. That unwelcome news is rippling through Suffolk County, New York, the fourth-largest county in the Empire State and home to almost 1.5 million people.
A county ordinance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Charged with Money Laundering
Art dealer Nathan Isen, 61, of Villanova, Pennsylvania, was charged on January 8 with one count of money laundering. According to court papers, Isen is accused of selling 12 pieces of artwork in 2012 in exchange for $20,000 in cash, for the purpose of laundering the $20,000, which he understood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chinese Steel Company Plunges into Chinese Ceramics Investment, Faces Lawsuit
China Gerui Advanced Materials Group Ltd. (CGAM) made a staggering announcement on September 4, 2014. Buried in a long press release announcing second-quarter financial results, the Chinese steel producer revealed it had paid $234 million in cash for a collection of 206 pieces of Chinese porcelain.
The company claimed it was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cowan's Acquires Little John's Auction Service
Cowan's Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, has acquired Little John's Auction Service of Orange, California. Completed in January, the deal makes Cowan's the third-largest auction house of antique firearms in the United States. It brings together two companies with more than 60 years of combined experience and more than $600 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nashville in Transition: Year without a Heart
The announcement last year that the 33rd edition of the well-known Heart of Country Antiques Showwould be the last saddened collectors and dealers for whom the event had become a festive annual reunion. The Opryland Hotel in Nashville, once merely large, had more than tripled in physical size during the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Convicted Art Dealer's Release Revoked
Two things not to do after pleading guilty to fraud in connection with the sale of fake artwork are to sell more artwork and to edit the Wikipedia page of a witness who testified before the grand jury. Those things constitute what the United States Attorney in Connecticut claims art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Raccoon Creek Antiques and George Allen Stave Off Sheriff's Sale by Declaring Bankruptcy
On January 19, Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, LLC and dealer George Allen each filed for bankruptcy in federal court in Pennsylvania. The January 19 bankruptcy filing stopped a January 20 sheriff's sale that would have been conducted by the sheriff of Berks County, by order of the Court ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Lebanon Antique Show Finds a New Home, but for How Long?
A variety of coverlets and quilts were displayed by the Warren County Historical Society, which hosts the Lebanon Quilt & Fabric Arts Show each March.
This 50" wide end-of-the-line trolley bench from Marietta, Ohio, had a back that flipped from one side to the other. Judi and Bob Fryer of Fryer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Surprises at Pook & Pook
Sheet copper butterfly weathervane, late 19th century, attributed to J.W. Fiske & Co., New York, 221/4" high x 251/2" wide, sold for $90,000 (est. $4000/8000) to a collector in the salesroom, underbid by Oliver Overlander. It's a very rare form, and according to the condition report, the surface has been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Semi-Positive Bidding on Negatives
It's fun to look at the players in static poses that were intended to appear dynamic. This Jack Doran Old Judge glass negative took top price honors for the negatives at $5635. Saco River photo.
Three Ty Cobb T206 cards. Above: Sweet Caporal Cigarettes, graded very good, $1840. Below left: El ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Florida Auction House and Company President Plead Guilty to Wildlife Smuggling Conspiracy
Elite Estate Buyers Inc., doing business as Elite Decorative Arts, an auction house located in Boynton Beach, Florida, and the company's president and owner, Christopher Hayes, pleaded guilty on January 14 in U.S. District Court in Miami to an illegal wildlife trafficking and smuggling conspiracy. The auction house and Hayes ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 60th Washington Winter Show--a Winner
Janice Paull of Portimao, Portugal specializes in English ironstone china and 19th-century European ceramics. The large tureen by Hicks & Meigh dates from the first half of the 19th century. It was priced at $3000. The large vase on the top shelf, left, circa 1820, was tagged $700. The ornate ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Goes After Ivory
Add California to the list of states attempting to stop the trade of antique ivory. California Assembly Speaker Toni G. Atkins introduced a bill on January 7 to close loopholes that she claims "prevent the effective enforcement of existing California law prohibiting the sale of ivory." Senator Ricardo Lara is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Calendar Clock Brings $27,600
The 24" diameter D. J. Gale's rosewood calendar clock was untouched and sold to a dealer in the gallery on the phone with a client for $27,600.
The painted cast-iron Kewpie doll arcade target (34" long) with ten figures was rare and sold for $4887.50. McInnis photo.
A Newburyport mahogany bowfront chest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Furniture by Thomas Nisbet Tops Auction
From the Ritchie family came a mahogany desk made by Thomas Nisbet & Son for the New Brunswick Legislature and inscribed in pencil "Alan Joseph Ritchie, Newcastle, NB." The desk made $2800.
Indian Town at the Foot of Main Street, Saint John, New Brunswick, a 12" x 16" gouache signed by ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Annual Augusta New Year's Day Show
Preliminary drawing of the Mystic Whaler, a 78' long schooner designed in 1963 by V.B. Crockett in Camden, Maine. It was $50 from dealer Dana McKinney of Rockland, Maine.
The sign from the early 1940s was for the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barber Shop Quartet Singing in America. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Crowd Sees Red at Foster's
Connecticut Valley Chippendale four-drawer chest in dry red paint, $1980.
Stepback mahogany Sheraton chest with uniform matching graining on the drawer fronts, full spiral-turned columns, and hints of tiger graining on the top edge, $990.
A 6'5" x 4'6" Navajo rug showing kachinas, sun symbols, and several animal pictographs rang out ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show for Sturbridge
The inaugural Central Massachusetts Antique Show at Sturbridge will be held on December 31 and January 1, 2015, at the Sturbridge Host Hotel and Conference Center in Sturbridge, Massachusetts. Over 75 dealers are expected to exhibit.
On Wednesday, December 31, there will be evening hors d'oeuvres, a reception with entertainment, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, May 2015
by Ian McKay,
This May selection kicks off with a double MM, a sighting of a "Moon Maiden," and there are more Ms in a charming Exmoor landscape by Munnings and a mosaic mask that turned Greek tragedy to saleroom joy.
A wonderful collection of old carriages and sleighs; an Egyptian ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Design Sales of December
A phone buyer and a man in the salesroom vied for this table by Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). The bidding continued for several minutes, with the phone buyer eking out the win by $50,000. The Goodyear table, made by Noguchi in 1939 for A. Conger Goodyear of Old Westbury, New York, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Celebration of Music: A Bravo-Worthy Sale of Manuscripts and More
A leaf from part of Mozart's Serenade in D Major for orchestra, K. 185, realized $209,000 (est. $200,000/300,000). The two pages, approximately 6 2/3" x 81/2" each, are from the working manuscript. A leaf from this same serenade sold at Sotheby's in London on November 27, 2013, for GBP200,500 ($325,111).
A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Spend Big for Einstein, Lincoln, Jefferson, & JFK
An eight-page manuscript draft for a scientific paper signed by Albert Einstein was the sale's top lot, bringing $180,000 (est. $120,000/180,000). The subject is his unified field theory, which was an attempt to unify his general theory of relativity with Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. The latter theory was named for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Americana Week in New York City 2015
Download printable Americana Week 2015 Calendar of Events (pdf)
Crouch-Jordan-Bacon family mahogany scalloped- and tilt-top tea table, Philadelphia, 29" high x 37 3/8" in diameter, with rococo carving on its shaft and knees, to be offered January 31 at noon at Keno Auctions. The estimate is $800,000/1.2 million.
Spending Americana Week in ... (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 Web site ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
Many of our book reviews are shorter than usual this month to allow us to squeeze in as many books as possible. Whether you're looking for last-minute gifts or just some good reading for yourself, you'll find many interesting choices below. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)When Couples Collect-A Most Interesting Dance
It's time someone takes a look at the issues that pop up when partners collect. Maybe new collectors and experienced collectors will feel less idiosyncratic, less silly, and more as if "we are not the only ones," and perhaps gain a useful idea or two.
Most of what I have read ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2015
Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Yet again I have been defeated in my attempts to find something appropriate and Christmassy to illustrate and describe in this last "Letter" of the old year, so all I can do here is wish M.A.D. readers, one and all, a Happy Christmas and a Good ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bruce Gimelson, Garrison, New York
Bruce Gimelson with a blow-up of one of his favorite snapshots. It shows him at five years old with his father. Young Bruce is holding a Lionel train car (mint-in-box). He said he was running down the hill to trade it to another kid for four baseball cards. His father ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Less Frustrating Computing
A search for computer files containing the text "tinkerware."
Computer Column #313
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
The last few columns have dealt with heavy topics like moving all our software to the Internet or editing Web pages from a tablet. This month we will suggest little steps that make computers less frustrating.
Search Tools
We ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Black Friday Blues
The Young Collector
Maybe it's just the holidays combined with the rush of birthdays (both our kids have birthdays later in the year), but we are currently working on a theory about why younger people don't want old stuff. It's because they don't want any stuff.
We can understand how you'd think ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Decide
Auction Law & Ethics
When I went to law school, my goal was to become a trial lawyer. I wanted to do what I saw the lawyers on television and in the movies do. Things like cross-examine witnesses, make objections, and argue before juries. It seemed so exciting and was in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stained-Glass Windows Lead to Court Fight
It can be a dealer's worst nightmare-making a five-figure purchase for stock that turns out to be stolen. The nightmare has turned to reality for a Minnesota dealer. He has been arrested and jailed twice, been charged with a crime, spent $60,000 in legal bills, and is knee-deep in a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Musselmans of Murrell: Pioneer Dealers in Pennsylvania German and Early American Antiques
Clayton (1880-1939) and Ada (1885-1946) Musselman on the side porch of their home in 1909.
Clayton Musselman and Ada Musselman and their ten-year-old son, David, are shown standing next to their new Ford Model T truck. According to Spohn's research, the Musselmans bought the pine hanging cupboard with rattail hinges in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Flamingo Eventz Assumes Management of Poster Fairs and Changes Location for New York City Show
Flamingo Eventz, LLC, a show management company based in Rochester, New Hampshire, has assumed management of the New York, Chicago, and San Francisco International Vintage Poster Fairs, previously managed by David Pollack and Gail Chisholm.
"There will be no disruptions in operation of the shows as a result of this arrangement," ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barn Star to Mount New Show in Rhinebeck
When the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair was canceled in October 2014, there was an opportunity to revive a long-running show. At least three show promoters were interested in taking the show's dates-Memorial Day weekend and Columbus Day weekend-at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York.
The Dutchess County Agricultural Society's board ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The British Invasion
Editorial
The British are coming-and they want young dealers.
A group calling itself Antiques Young Guns U.K. was founded in 2011 by three veterans of the trade: Gail McLeod of Antiques News & Fairs, George Johnson of Lady Kentmores, and TV presenter and author Mark Hill. The group's goal is to foster ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)St. Monica Society Antique Show Celebrates 50 Years
In these days of disappearing and contracting antiques shows, the St. Monica Society Antique Show has persevered. The show held in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, is run entirely by volunteers and will celebrate its 50th anniversary this year.
Traditionally held on Valentine's Day weekend, the show this year will be held on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Amicable Split-up of The Philadelphia Print Shop
For over three decades, Donald H. Cresswell and Christopher W. Lane have been partners in The Philadelphia Print Shop, founded by the two in 1982. On December 31, 2014, they will be partners no more.
"We found having two shops in two states was not practical," said Don Creswell at The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Atlantic City Antiques Show Announces New Dates, Location
The 2015 Spring Atlantic City Antiques Show, produced by JMK Shows, will return to the Atlantic City Convention Center in Atlantic City, New Jersey, with new dates: Saturday and Sunday, April 11 and 12. The show originally had been scheduled for March 21 and 22 at the Trump Taj Mahal, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tricorn Hat and Hatbox Returned
The simple tricorn hatbox with a tricorn hat inside that sold to a phone bidder at Pook & Pook for $22,800 (est. $500/1000) on October 4, 2014, has been returned to the auction house.
"The box turned out to be made of red pine and therefore English; the hat inside ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Orleans Auction Galleries on the Move in the New Year
In 1991, a new auction house opened at the corner of Magazine and Julia Streets in New Orleans with Jean Vidos as president and a crew of veterans from the antiques trade. After the firm fell into bankruptcy in 2011, Houston businesswoman Susan Krohn purchased the New Orleans Auction Galleries ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CCADA Awards Cultural Enrichment Fund Grants
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(Fragment)Dealer Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud and Is Barred from Selling Submarine
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(Fragment)Aspen Gallery Accused of Underpaying Consignor
Aspen Art Gallery, Inc. and its owner, Damian Guillot, are being sued in Pitkin County District Court in Colorado, accused of underpaying a consignor. Denver-based artist Nada Mirat, professionally known as Nadaleena Mirat Brettman, filed the suit in November 2014, charging civil theft, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Old Pawnbroker/Secondhand Dealer Laws Can Still Bite
For almost three decades, we have been reporting on the increasingly popular practice by municipal and legislative entities of bundling the sellers of collectibles and antiques with pawnbrokers and junk dealers for licensing purposes and as a source of revenue. The predilection of the latter groups, whether real or mythical, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Elephant Weathervane Brings $20,060
An elephant weathervane, $20,060. Photo courtesy Locati Auctions.
An early 20th-century elephant-form copper weathervane, estimated at $1500/2500, sold for $20,060 (includes buyer's premium) at the conclusion of an on-line auction conducted by Locati Auctions of Maple Glen, Pennsylvania (www.locatiauctions.com). The auction closed on December 15, 2014.
The two-dimensional weathervane depicts a walking ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Jersey Man Files Suit against Raccoon Creek Antiques
On December 15, 2014, Thomas Marshall of Monroe Township, New Jersey, filed suit in federal court against Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, LLC and the two owners: well-known dealers George Allen and Gordon Wyckoff.
According to the suit, Marshall's now-deceased wife had been a longtime customer of Raccoon Creek, buying ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Grogan & Company Holds Sale in New Boston Gallery
The new Grogan & Company gallery on Charles Street, Boston.
Lucy Grogan is vice president and gallery director of Grogan & Company.
Michael B. Grogan is the president and chief auctioneer of Grogan & Company. His wife, Nancy H. Grogan, is the vice president of the company they began back in 1987-also ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings and Jewelry Rule in Columbia
Shortly after bidding opened at $7500, a phone bidder jumped the bid on Conrad Wise Chapman's View of Monterey, 1865, to $30,000. At the end, auctioneer Ronald Long was asking for $5000 increments. A New York collector bidding on the phone bought the 81/4" x 321/2" oil on canvas for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quinn & Farmer Sale Led By a "Really Heavy Desk Thingy"
This Sculpture Front cabinet by Paul Evans (1931-1987) is signed and dated 1968. The cabinet is constructed of welded, torch-cut, and polychromed steel and brass, with a thick slate top. The piece has three doors with external hinges. The pair of doors on the proper left open to reveal two ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hooper Family High Chest Sells for $257,000
Photo courtesy Christie's.
The Hooper family mahogany Chippendale chest of drawers, made in Massachusetts, 1770-90, from the estate of Eric Martin Wunsch, sold on the phone at a Christie's "Exceptional Sale" at Rockefeller Plaza in New York City on December 11, 2014, for $257,000 (including the buyer's premium). The chest was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Authorities Seek Buyer of Stolen Sign
Lt. Col. Bobby Webre of the Ascension Parish Sheriff's Office in Louisiana is asking for the public's assistance in locating a Denham Springs, Louisiana, man wanted on charges of purchasing a stolen antique sign and refusing to return it to authorities.
On December 11, 2014, Chad Prejean was arrested for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.37 Million Indian Arts Sale
Mother's Blessing, a 22" high x 33" wide bronze by Allan Houser (1914-1994), sold to an Arizona collector for $35,000 (est. $20,000/30,000).
A Northwest Coast raven rattle, 13" long, sold to an East Coast dealer for $62,500 (est. $20,000/40,000).
A 6" high x 251/2" diameter Apache tray sold for $15,000 (est. $7000/10,000) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionism
Six phone bidders competed for The River Road by Daniel Garber (1880-1958). The 30" x 28" circa 1940 oil on canvas was signed "Daniel Garber" on the bottom left. In a Bernard Badura frame, the painting sold to a collector on the phone for $327,750 (est. $150,000/250,000).
Newell Convers Wyeth ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Ownership and Strong Victorian Sales for Farmer
The high lot of Will Farmer's sale was this elaborately carved parlor table by John Henry Belter. The mid-19th-century table is in the Victorian Rococo Revival style and features what appears to be its original turtle-form marble top. The base is heavily carved and pierced laminated rosewood. The skirt features ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"The House Is Out" and Other Hillsborough Stories
At $44,840, this 100" x 46" x 22" Roanoke River basin Chippendale china press was the sale's top lot. It was purchased above its $20,000/30,000 estimate by a floor bidder from Virginia.
Ernest Trova (1927-2009) was noted for his "Falling Man" series of armless, pot-bellied male figures in paintings, prints, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Robert and Elaine Dillof Collection
Grueby Faience Company vase decorated by Ruth Erickson (1883-after 1932), carved and applied vertical leaves, suspended matte green glaze, incised artist's initials, illegible date, 22" high, minor glaze chipping to foot, very good overall, $20,740. This was the vase discovered in the lobby of a hotel in Southwest Harbor, Maine. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Picker of the Year at Mebane
There is a tear in this 18" x 123/4" oil on canvas profile portrait of a young girl by Czech artist Vaclav Brozik (1851-1901). The painting opened at $500, a long way from where it stopped-$6710.
There was a fair amount of foxing to this Currier & Ives lithograph titled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Toy Sale
This Marklin Rocket engine with train cars is a toy version of Stephenson's Rocket, which was not the first steam locomotive but was the most advanced of its day. It was in service through 1840 and influenced steam locomotive construction for 150 years. Marklin's Rocket is the only commercially produced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Absentee Advertising Auction
Dr. A.C. Daniels veterinary cabinet for dog and cat remedies, lithographed tin, 20" x 13 1/8" x 5 3/8", well-done restoration to side panels and back, $7015.
Beacon Oil sign, double-sided porcelain, 30" diameter, scattered chips on the back, $6440.
Pe-Ru-Na catarrh cure pocket mirror, celluloid, depicting a woman in a low-cut ... (Read More)
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(Show)Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
This mid-19th-century English burl walnut canterbury, circa 1850, was $3450 from Zane Moss Antiques, New York City.
New to the show, Nancy Steinbock Vintage Posters, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, displayed this scene of Newport Harbor, circa 1915, from the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Boston. She asked $3600 for the 29" x 41" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tailor's Dummies by Henry Koerner Brings $270,250
Tailor's Dummies, $270,250. Photo courtesy Dirk Soulis Auctions.
The Bailey epergne, an extremely rare piece of R.S. Prussia porcelain, brought $19,550. When Helen Bailey of Kirksville, Missouri, showed up with this piece at the 1987 R.S. Prussia convention in St. Louis, it was the only R.S. Prussia epergne known to exist ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Second to Isaac Newton, First at Christie's
Title page of the 1673 Horologium Oscillatorium... by Christiaan Huygens. Photo courtesy Christie's Images Ltd. 2014.
We do not know if the anonymous high-bidder loves early books, clocks, physics, annotated authors' copies, Latin texts, or history of science artifacts, but he or she now owns one of the most important objects ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Richard Scaife American Art Collection Divvied Up
Christmas came early to two Pennsylvania museums. On December 3, 2014, the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg announced that they had begun the process of dividing up the art collection of Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Holiday Antiques Show
Here is a nice 18th-century New England shoe-foot cupboard. It was prominent in the booth of Chris and Karen Doscher. The Doschers are from Wallkill, New York, and trade as Witt's End Antiques. The piece is constructed of white pine, with a red-washed surface. The storage unit features two paneled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)54th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Landscape of the Mather farm near Lebanon, Ohio, attributed to Marcus Mote (1817-1898), oil on canvas, unsigned, 30" x 40", plus its original frame, minor repairs, $12,500.
Inlaid Chippendale blanket chest, Pennsylvania, dated 1818, walnut with tulip, star, and fylfot inlay, 291/2" high x 491/2" wide, period brasses, old finish, small ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Gold Rush" at Printed Manuscript and Americana Sale
A patriotic letterpress broadside stating the articles of agreement for the Continental Navy's U.S.S. Columbus, with attached manuscript signature lists, sold for $62,500. The broadside proper, printed in Philadelphia on November 15, 1775, is 18" x 14". With the list attachments, dating through January 19, 1776, the whole measures 361/2" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hollywood at Auction
This studio 58-key piano on wheels with wood and plastic keys was likely manufactured by Kohler & Campbell (1927) and was pulled from the Warner Bros. prop room for Casablanca. It realized the highest price of the "There's No Place like Hollywood" auction. It sold on the phone for $3,413,000. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings and Sculpture
E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), Sunny Morning, St. Tropez, oil on panel, 13" x 161/4", sold to a private collector in southern California for $281,000, far above its $60,000/80,000 estimate.
Granville Redmond's Fishermen and Fishing Boats on the Shore, oil on canvas, 12" x 16", sold for $75,000 (est. $40,000/60,000) to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Short, Stout, and Very Expensive Little Sugar Pot
Rare slip-decorated redware sugar pot, 18th century and very likely from one of the potteries in Charlestown, Massachusetts, $14,375.
Saved from potential oblivion in a landfill somewhere, this 601/4" x 323/4" 18th-century trade sign on a wooden shingle turned into one of the sale's leaders at $16,100.
There wasn't much information ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
Bruce Emond of Village Braider, Plymouth, Massachusetts, offered works by still-living artist Claire Harootunian, who once taught at Syracuse University, including a course titled "3-D Design." The rusted iron standing triangular sculptures were tagged $2900 each.
Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre vase, $7000 from Seaway China Company, Dania Beach, Florida.
The shades and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Movie Poster: $478,000
$478,000. Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions.
The only known copy of the United States release one-sheet from the 1927 lost cinema classic London After Midnight (MGM) sold for $478,000 (includes buyer's premium) in Heritage Auctions' November 22, 2014, vintage movie posters auction in Dallas. That price establishes a new record for a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)E. Howard & Company Wall-Hanging No. 47 Astronomical Regulator Brings $356,950
This clock sold for $356,950. Photo courtesy Fontaine's Auction Gallery.
One of three known E. Howard & Company No. 47 wall-hanging astronomical regulator clocks sold for $356,950 (includes buyer's premium) at a clock and watch auction held November 22 and 23, 2014, by Fontaine's Auction Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christian Icon Tops Hap Moore Auction
Paul Philippe bronze sculpture of a Turkish Dancer with Parrot, $6555. Hap Moore photo.
Enamel and bronze Christian table icon, $7590.
Surf fishing scene by Emile Albert Gruppe, $4140.
Five-drawer country Chippendale tall chest in a nice grungy red paint, with at least two replaced wooden knobs and an extended bracket base with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal's Louisiana Purchase Auction: The Main Event
Cover lot, top of the chart, and undisputed star of the sale, the 1791 portrait of English physician Dr. Robert Dow by Jose Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (c. 1750-1802) was purchased for a nice round $250,000 by a local collector after spirited bidding. New Orleans was a sophisticated ... (Read More)
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