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(Auction)U.S. History Auction
Gardner's Photographic Sketch Book of the War, two volumes having a total of 100 albumen photographs by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) and others, first edition, scuffing to the covers, minor problems with the endpapers, light wear and foxing to the pages, $144,000.
Revolutionary War naval document, the official record of a May ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bunny Mellon's Americana
A pair of 7" long Chelsea asparagus tureens and covers, circa 1755, sold for $118,750 (est. $20,000/30,000). Each is realistically modeled as a bundle of asparagus tied at either end. They have a red anchor mark and the number 17 on the base of one and 15 on the other. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Brenner Estate Collection Marks End of John Russell's Material Legacy
A photograph of one room of the Russell-Brenner residence.
This Dehua porcelain 34" high standing figure of the bodhisattva Guanyin from 17th-century China, bearing the "fisherman" mark to the upper middle back, sold for $7425. It was a gift to John L. Russell from Mrs. Beardmore, sister of Lady Allen, Montreal.
D. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
Georgia O'Keeffe, Jimson Weed/White Flower No. 1, oil on canvas, 48" x 40", painted in 1932, sold on the phone for $44,405,000 (est. $10,000,000/ 15,000,000) to benefit the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum's acquisition fund. This iconic painting is a closeup of a delicate flower made monumental, filling the canvas, and is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Bellows Tops the Bonhams American Art Auction
Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927), The Red Bonnet, oil on canvas, 20" x 15", sold on the phone for $149,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). The catalog notes reveal that "aside from a few self portraits and portraits of friends, solitary figures are not common in Potthast's oeuvre."
Several phone bidders competed for this untitled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings at Christie's
Study for Dinner for Threshers by Grant Wood (1891-1942), charcoal, pencil, and chalk on brown paper laid down on paper, 18" x 72", executed in 1934, was sold for $1,565,000 (est. $1.5/2.5 million), a record for a work on paper by the artist. It's a study for the finished painting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sporting Art Auction Brings Bounty
The Horse Race, N.C. Wyeth (1882-1945), oil on canvas, 401/4" x 321/4", an illustration for James Boyd's novel Drums, earned $488,750 (est. $550,000/650,000) after the auction. The painting was for the passage "Cursing and whipping like a madman, the scarlet jockey drew up on the turn, hung knee to knee, ... (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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(Computer Article)Web Site Editing on Mobiles and Tablets
The beginnings of a Web page composed on a tablet computer.
Computer Column #312
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Many things that used to be done on computers can be done today on tablets and sometimes smartphones. Creating and editing Web sites are among these. Editing is done through tools that actually exist only ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
Printed Textiles: British and American Cottons and Linens, 1700-1850 by Linda Eaton (The ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Four Centuries of Quilts
A Book Review
Four Centuries of Quilts: The Colonial Williamsburg Collection
by Linda Baumgarten and Kimberly Smith Ivey
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, in association with Yale University Press, 2014, 368 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from the Colonial Williamsburg, (757) 565-8450 or (www.history.org/Publications/books/index.cfm), or from Yale University Press, (800) 405-1619 or (http://yalepress.yale.edu).
Two ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay,
With the new season sales getting well into their stride as I write, the high summer sales remaining in my files must be largely cleared away in this "Letter." This selection therefore devotes quite a bit of space to the old master drawings and watercolours to which, in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)John Bourne of Pittsford, Vermont
John Bourne is shown with a friend.
The English glider horse is named Piper. The base has the maker's plaque, which reads, "'Piper'/ J. Collinson & Sons/ Liverpool, England." It's $1250. Bourne said, "I like horses," and pointed out that Piper is so heavily constructed that "this one would hold me."
A ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare for Value
Auction Law & Ethics
Value doesn't exist for those who don't see it.
"Where are you taking that stuff?" my colleague asked a truck driver preparing to haul a trailer load of material away from the plant where we worked. Between college and law school, I worked for Westinghouse Electric Corporation.
"To the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Pickups, Pumpkins, and Popovers
The Young Collector
Ah, time again for our annual fall pilgrimage to the ADA Deerfield Show and the holy shrine of autumn, the Connecticut River valley. Andrew feels very lucky to work in a business and for a company that allows us a long weekend in New England every year in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Crowds Everywhere for Vermont Antiques Week Shows
Weston Antiques Show, Okemo Antiques Show, Ludlow Antiques Show, Magic Mountain Antiques Show, and Antiques in Vermont
The managers and organizations running the five shows held during Vermont Antiques Week, October 2-5, had to be satisfied with the attendance this year. The selling floors of all were filled within minutes ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heritage Sells $7.3 Million of American Art
Tom Lovell (1909-1997), Captain Murie's Pawnees,oil on canvas, 23" x 401/2", signed and dated 1983, sold on the phone for $161,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). It illustrates a military story from the early history of Nebraska known as the Battle of Plum Creek, from 1864. Lovell won a gold medal from the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John M. Hess Auction Service and Conestoga Auction Company Join Forces
Two large auction companies-John M. Hess Auction Service and Conestoga Auction Company, both based in Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania-recently entered into a joint venture, joining forces, yet will remain under each existing company's banner.
"It was just finalized on Friday," said Jeff DeHart, president of Conestoga. "The merger seemed like a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Americana Week Shows Tweak Names
Two shows that are part of Americana Week in New York City have slightly changed their names.
Liz Lees and Meg Wendy have announced that they have changed the name of the New York Ceramics Fair to the New York Ceramics and Glass Fair.
"With glass being recognized as an established art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Furniture Restorers Charged with Scams in the West
Parker County Sheriff's Sgt. Randy Branum inventories one of three storage units filled with stolen antique furniture.
Over the last several months, police in communities in Texas and Colorado reported several incidents of fraud and theft by furniture restorers and refinishers.
Parker County, Texas, sheriff's office investigators received at least 11 complaints ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Northeast Auctions Drops New Hampshire Antiques Week Sale in Manchester
Hints of coming changes occurred even as Ronald Bourgeault was holding his big Americana sale at the Center of New Hampshire Radisson Hotel in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 2 and 3 of this year. (See M.A.D., October, p. 30-E.) A friendly runner tipped us to the news during inspection ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Low Society
Editorial
It's no secret that collecting habits have changed, but rarely has there been such stark black-and-white evidence. A recent letter sent to members of the Antiquarian Society of California details the shift.
The Antiquarian Society of California is no fly-by-night organization. It was formed in 1953 when Gregor Norman-Wilcox, curator of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)B Is for Buttersworth, F Is for Forgery: Solve a Maritime Art Mystery
From the Mariners' Museum Web site: "The Mariners' Museum is taking a stand against crime with its latest exhibition.... Hidden in plain sight among 35 paintings by 19th-century maritime artist James Edward Buttersworth is a modern forgery. Museum visitors will become detectives as they examine the paintings for style and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Kenny Leaves the Met
Peter Kenny, a longtime curator and administrator of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, will join Classical American Homes Preservation Trust (CAHPT) as co-president with Margize Howell, the foundation's current executive director. Richard H. Jenrette, founder and chairman of CAHPT, announced that the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Eight Valkyrie Sisters
What did he know and when did he know it?
Was he aware that the New York Yacht Club had received a challenge for the America's Cup dated March 19, 1889, from the Royal Yacht Squadron on behalf of Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl of Dunraven ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2014
Louis Salerno of Questroyal Fine Art, New York City, asked $975,000 for A Side Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona by Thomas Moran (1837-1926). The 14" x 20" oil on board was dated 1905; on the back is inscribed "A Side Canyon/ Grand Canyon, Arizona /T. Moran for G. Moulton."
Proserpine by Hiram ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Wall Plaque Sells for $57,600
The Chinese painted porcelain wall plaque, from the collection of Alma Cleveland Porter, brought $57,600.
This Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) oil on canvas portrait (32" x 27") of Elizabeth Hardenbergh DeWitt went to a collector for $33,600. Northeast Auctions photo.
The pair of Dutch Delft chargers, 1690-1700, depicted Queen Mary II and William, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nautical Antiques Sold in Boston
This lighthouse beacon was described in the catalog as "monumental." It had a huge 500 mm Fresnel lens of cut crystal set into a bronze frame. It had been converted to AC current with a light fixture but also was supplied with an AGA gas burner. Measuring 52" tall and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Babbitt and Hyde Family Artifacts at Auction
An 18k gold or better three-piece Victorian mourning suite in a relief ram's head motif produced the biggest price of the sale at $4600.
A full-plate daguerreotype of the family of Edwin and Elizabeth A. Hyde sold for $2875.
Gamage had high hopes for this Victorian American walnut and marble bedroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sells Americana from Virginia and the South
The high lot of the Evans sale was this folk art fraktur birth and baptismal certificate. The document is dated February 12, 1819, and is inscribed with the name Anna Magdalena Scherertz. The fraktur is watercolor and ink on paper and attributed to the so-called Wild Turkey Artist of Wythe ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show, Fall Edition
Six flow blue bowls in the Conway pattern by New Wharf Pottery, $45 each from John Wanat of Indianapolis, Indiana.
English watercolor of a gentleman and a dog, $795 from Inez Allen and Nan Donovan of City Mouse Country Mouse Antiques, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Eight-gallon crock, Albany slip, stenciled in yellow with "S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Max Berry Banks and Toys Top $3 Million
Clown on Bar, C. G. Bush Co., circa 1880 ex.-L.C. Hegarty, tin and cast iron. Ingeniously, when placed in the clown's hand, the coin's weight causes the figure to lean forward; the coin drops into the bank's base while the clown continues a full rotation of the bar. It brought ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
This tip-top table, made in Nantucket, of maple and birch, 1815-30, with an old red finish, a three-piece top, turned pedestal with an urn, and spider legs with reeded edges, was 29" high x 271/4" wide x 17" deep. It was $3800 from W.M. Schwind, Jr. He said it was ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon: Art + Design
Arlie Sulka of Lillian Nassau LLC, New York City, who specializes in Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany Studios, has expanded into mid-century modern furniture and design. For example, the 1966 walnut slab shelf (left) by George Nakashima holds three Tiffany Favrile pots from 1905-10 and an Edmond Lachenal piece from ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2015 BIFAS
Principle Gallery, Alexandria, Virginia, and Charleston, South Carolina, showed work by Geoffrey Johnson (b. 1965), including Three Buildings in Gold (48" x 36"), a 2014 oil on panel that was priced at $19,500.
Back Bay, Boston, dealer Martha Richardson showed Father and Child Reading, a 141/2" x 91/4" x 83/4" bronze ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Pennsylvania and Americana Auctions
Crewelwork work bag panel, "Jane Hoopes / October 13 1768," Goshenville, Chester County, Pennsylvania, 291/2" x 193/4", ex-Price estate, $7500 (est. $2000/3000) to a phone bidder. A woolwork sampler that sold at Skinner in November 2006 records her parents' names, John and Christian, and the name of the Hollis School ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chanel and the Beatles' Psychedelic Apple Boutique Score High
This Chanel black silk chiffon full-length bias-cut Chantilly lace gown from the 1930s has lace insertions in the bow and ribbon patterns, a low V back, shoulder capelet, and narrow chiffon and lace streamers attached to the sides by the hips. Lined in black silk charmeuse with a deep lace ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2014
Rookwood Uranus Tiger Eye vase, Albert Valentien, circa 1899, cranes in flight, 181/2" high, several in-the-making base chips, $35,650.
Rookwood Iris glaze vase with gold-plated silver overlay at the rim, Albert Valentien, 1904, three life-size irises in bloom and two buds, the overlay engraved with a floral design, 141/2" high, uncrazed, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hold an Auction and They'll Come
While calmly preening herself, this early 1900s eider hen carved by Gus Wilson became the top-priced lot of the sale at $43,200. Slotin photo.
Four Joseph Yoakum lots drew aggressive bidding from phone and on-line bidders and far exceeded estimates. He worked primarily in colored pencil with occasional pastel or ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bids in Toyland
Despite some loss to the multicolored enamel paint, the 61/2" x 41/2" x 41/4" rare still bank of an unspecified "City Bank" building with a mansard roof and chimney opened the sale at $4740 (est. $1500/2500). Julia photo.
Ives Blakeslee painted palace still bank with light apple-green paint, $18,367.50.
"Walking Down ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three Days and 1500 Lots Later
The top lot of the entire three-day event was this 17-jewel stainless steel Rolex Oyster chronograph, model 6238, serial number 866399. It closed out at $29,900. Thomaston Place photo.
The fully detailed whalebone prisoner-of-war ship model sold for $17,250.
Not extremely old, but this has flash and style. The 20th-century carved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Delaware Antiques Show of 2014
The paint-grained corner cupboard was $35,000; the large basket on top, $850. The Dexter horse weathervane by Cushing and White, $19,000, stands on a Shaker bench, $1450. Above is a sign from a Chatham, New York, tavern, "T. Hoag's Stage House," with the state seal of New York. It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Latin-Americana Library of W. Michael Mathes Sells for $1.2 Million
What is believed to be the first book written by a native of Mexico to be printed in Europe sold to a phone bidder for $17,500 (est. $10,000/15,000). Published in Perugia in 1579, it is Rhetorica Christiana,a manual about Mexican culture intended to instruct missionaries. The author, who also engraved ... (Read More)
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(Show)The IFPDA Print Fair 2014
Diana, 2014, the latest print by Alex Katz, made its debut at the IFPDA fair. Printed in an edition of 70, the 36 5/16" x 37 3/8" four-color linocut was $8250 (framed) from Mary Ryan Gallery, New York City, whose booth was accumulating red "sold" dots.
The NY Satellite Print Fair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Giant Clock and a Giant Clamshell
This Tiffany & Company mahogany floor clock sold for $98,400 (est. $90,000/ 120,000). It is in a 119" tall case, attributed to R.J. Horner & Company, with a three-train eight-day movement, attributed to J.J. Elliott of London, and nine tube chimes marked "Walter H. Durfee" of Providence, Rhode Island. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)Average Can Be Good
Roberta and David Keyes of Vintage America Antiques, Gig Harbor, Washington, returned for their second time at the show. They brought diverse and delightful offerings. Gig Harbor is on the west side of the Puget Sound, as is Bremerton, where this World War II-era sign originally hung to entice sailors ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 46th Annual Chappaqua Antiques Show
These mid-19th-century chairs of tiger maple and bird's-eye veneer and a cane seat were available from Kelyn Antiques, Pawling, New York. Jane Lynn said she found the chairs in New York but believes they are from New England. She asked $265 for the pair.
Samet Durmus of The Golden Horn, a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greater York Antiques Show
Kelly Kinzle of New Oxford, Pennsylvania, had a big stand up front on the left of the show entrance with a Centennial quilt made of nine printed bandannas on the outside wall ($7500).
Cheryl Mackley of Red Lion, Pennsylvania, sold the two baskets at top and the sampler. The small ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Iron, Bone, and Americana
Nine phone bidders chased three unsigned paintings by Thomas Chambers (1808-1869). The 18" x 24" oil on canvas view of New York harbor (shown) with Castle Williams on one side and Staten Island on the other brought $25,830. Castles of the Mind, 22" x 30", from 1845-60 is an exotic ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art Dealer William "Willie" Postar's Eclectic Estate Sells to Savvy Crowd
Charles-Francois Daubigny (French, 1817-1878), given the English title Bucolic Riverscape with a Rowboater, 10" x 141/4", oil on wood panel, $11,875 (est. $1000/2000) to an Internet bidder.
Grogan & Company appraisal consultant Bob Carroll is shown with Butchered Animal by Hyman Bloom (1913-2009). The 70" x 401/4" oil on canvas, 1953, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Wilton Fall Antiques Market
These carved boxes with bears from Quimby's Chocolate Company of California were available from Marc Witus of Gladstone, New Jersey. The brown bear was $1850, and the white one, $2450. The Victorian still life on the wall was $1250.
A 19th-century bench with a broad walnut seat and pine back was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Important Virginia Stoneware Crock with Horses Trots to $92,000
This 131/2" high two-gallon stoneware jug, stamped "Cowden & Wilcox" of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, set a new auction record for Pennsylvania stoneware, selling for $97,750 (est. $20,000/30,000). It was bought by a private Pennsylvania collector. "There were a lot of people interested. I believe above fifty," said Tony Zipp following the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Horology Auction Earns Nearly $1.1 Million
The E. Howard & Co. No. 6 Regulator figure-eight clock, eight day, time only, and with a weight-driven movement, was in fine original condition and sold for $40,250. The case is walnut.
The 75" walnut, walnut veneer, and burl Seth Thomas Regulator No. 19 was made for the Santa Fe Railway ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful Fall Auction
These cups had sold at Sotheby's, Hong Kong, in April 1996. The 2" high x 31/2" diameter cups were made for Yung-Cheng, as marked on the bottom. They became one of the highlights of Stair's auction, selling for $23,000.
The pair of Chinese export porcelain dogs, 7" x 51/2", with detail ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Florida Auction House Charged with Wildlife Trafficking
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(Auction)The Lodge Estate Sale
One of the "Twin Greeks" on Main Street, Nantucket, the former residence of Katherine and John Lodge, and one of two of the last houses built on the island by a whaleman.
A 15" x 9" sampler wrought in 1766 by Elisabeth Hadwen (1755-1842) in her 12th year sold for $8260. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 Ellis Boston Show
Knollwood Antiques, Village of Thorndike, Massachusetts, had an 1824 map of Rome, printed in 16 panels, newly conserved, mounted, and framed, that dominated the booth.
Katherine Houston Porcelain, Boston, offered a variety of naturalistic pieces.
Bridges over Time, Newburgh, New York, offered a mid-century pair of T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings armchairs with leather strapping. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
This 1920s birdhouse from the East Coast of the United States was made with several doors to let the birds inside and out. From Il Segno del Tempo, Milan, Italy, it was priced at $3500.
Kathleen Taylor of The Lotus Collection, San Francisco, had this circa 1900 hand-painted white cotton cloth, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"M85" Tops Art Auction in Portland
Charles Henry Niehaus (1855-1935), John Paul Jones, an 181/4" tall bronze, sold for $20,400 to an absentee bidder.
Bernard Boutet de Monvel (French, 1881-1949), 1900, a 1251/2" x 931/2" oil on canvas, sold for $14,400 to a phone bidder.
Bernard Boutet de Monvel's companion painting, titled 1930, also 1251/2" x 931/2", ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 40th Annual Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show and Sale
Verdigris Antiques, Evanston, Illinois, brought a selection of late 19th-century tinsel reverse-painted art. The large ship was $750. The others were $650. Seller Jerry Greenblatt told us the art was an approved pastime for young ladies of the era.
The riveting three-masted ship in a hand-carved wooden case came with new ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arts and Crafts to Modern Masters
Two phone bidders wanted this drop-front rotating desk by Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) of Buffalo, New York, circa 1898, early in Rohlfs's career. There are similar desks in a number of museums and private collections. The unmarked 561/4" x 251/4" x 24" desk sold for $255,750 (est. $45,000/65,000). The price may ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Children and Animals Are Seen and Heard
This ink on paper poem was painted by noted calligraphic artist Qi Gong (Chinese, 1912- 2005). It is his rendering of a poem that was originally from the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The 40" x 13" painting is mounted as a hanging scroll. The poem sold to a telephone bidder for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Riddle of the Sphinx
Photos courtesy John W. Coker Auctions, Ltd.
One of 19 reverse-painted and scenic glass lamps from the estate of the late Elizabeth and Donald Bates of Seymour, Tennessee, was impossible to miss. Sold by auctioneer John W. Coker on site in Seymour, Tennessee, on October 18, the lamp had a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Allen Victoriana Collection
All 770 clocks from the Greensboro (North Carolina) Clock Museum were sold at auction in the 1980s. This black onyx clock may have been one of them. A note from the museum stated that the clock was made circa 1855 and displayed the figure of Jean Racine, a royal historiographer ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Haughtons' International Fine Art & Antiques Show
The booth of Imperial Fine Books, New York City, beckoned showgoers to enter.
Douglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago, brought fresh stock and sold. Seen here is a collection of 20th-century Nigerian glass bead and cloth caps, coronet, crown, and footstool, ranging in price from $3800 to $12,500. Sales included a New Mexico ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Science Fiction Art Torpedoes the Galaxy with Impressive Bids
A 36" x 72" acrylic on canvas by Robert Theodore McCall (1919-2010), entitled Earth Orbit 98, 1977, brought the highest price at the auction. Signed and dated lower right, this painting from the Norman Jacobs/Starlog collection sold within estimate for $245,000 and set an auction record for the artist. Provenance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)On-Line Exhibition of Printed British Pottery and Porcelain
A comprehensive on-line exhibition of Printed British Pottery and Porcelain will be launched on October 17. This joint project of the Northern Ceramic Society and the Transferware Collectors Club relates the remarkable story of the production of printed pottery and porcelain in Great Britain from 1750 to 1900. Designed for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pook & Pook's On-line Country Sale
Five tin, iron, and wood coffee grinders, 19th century, the tallest 10", sold for $400 (est. $150/200).
Primitive wood dulcimer, 19th century, 301/2" long, sold for $492 (est. $50/100).
A large group of copper cookware, including two roasting pans and five saucepans with lids, sold for $861, the top price in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Leslie Hindman Auctioneers' Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts
The monumental English carved oak tall-case clock standing almost 11' high was consigned by a corporate collection. It has a rich provenance and even louder strike, and it was the sale's top lot at $110,500.
Decorative arts director Corbin Horn told us that presale interest was high on the 19th-century ... (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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(Computer Article)Cloud Computing
Painter of clouds John Constable (1776-1837) could not have known that 200 years later copies of his works could be purchased from a computer cloud.
Computer Column #311
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
We have mentioned cloud computing in the past. Many large businesses prepare and store all their records and documents using programs ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, November 2014
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
Bernard Langlais at the Colby College Museum of Artby Hannah W. Blunt ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2014
Ian McKay,
Now Showing and Coming Soon
I started out with every intention of including old master drawings from the London summer season in this month's selection, but then having tackled the Russian pictures first, gone on to add the Ceres rings for something very rare and much more recent, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Leslie Fliegel Lost and Found: His Work through the Lens of Time
Fig. 1. Cecil Crosley Bell (1906-1970), Subway, oil on canvas, whereabouts unknown. From the on-line blog by Bas van Houwelingen of the Netherlands.
Fig. 2. Leslie Fliegel's Clothes Line Fantasy, a circa 1950 oil on canvas, 44" x 37", from a private collection, is currently on exhibit at Connoisseur Gallery, Bedminster, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Michael Weinberg, West Pelham Antiques, Pelham, Massachusetts
Michael Weinberg with his miniature basket collection, some of which are for sale. "I do occasionally take one to a show," he said. They range between $50 and $200.
A tea caddy with inset panels of sampler pieces, one of which is dated 1804. He thinks the caddy may be from ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)False Advertising
The Art of Marketing
It occurred to me the other night while reading a magazine and seeing an ad that I'll classify as being very deceptive that it is very rare to see deceptive advertising in the antiques business, and so I say bravo! It's so nice not to see ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Prepare to Get Ready
Auction Law & Ethics
"Before anything else, preparation is the key to success." Alexander Graham Bell-engineer, innovator, inventor, scientist, and inventor of the telephone-is credited with that chestnut, and truer words he never penned. An alternate version I was taught as a young lawyer is this: "Preparation is nine-tenths of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Owners of Garth's Auctions Buy Selkirk's Assets
Assets associated with Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers, St. Louis, Missouri, including company names and other intellectual property, have been purchased by Legacy Group STL, Inc., which is owned by Jeff and Amelia Jeffers. The couple, who also own Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, are revitalizing the longstanding Selkirk brand as Selkirk Auctioneers & ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)There and Back Again
The Young Collector
Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience, even a difficult one, just to be able to have the satisfaction of utilizing what you learned from the awkward, inefficient way you did it the first time. Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience because you're Homer Simpson and you ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Moving Company Adds Appraisals to Client Checklist
Aware that moving antiques, fine art, and collectibles requires special care, T-N-T Moving Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina, has upgraded its moving policy to include current appraisals in its client checklist.
T-N-T Moving Systems co-owner Todd Koepke said, "You see appraisal values change over time, so it's important that when we do ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic New England Awards Book Prize
Historic New England has awarded its 20th annual book prize to Curiosities of the Craft: Treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Collection by Aimee E. Newell, Hilary Anderson Stelling, and Catherine Compton Swanson, and "With Eclat": The Boston Athenaeum and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)What Price History?
Editorial
An off-the-cuff remark from Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman should be troubling to those in the antiques business. When asked about the cost of restoring almost 40 chairs original to the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, the governor said there were better uses for the taxpayers' money and that he would ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mount Vernon Selects Senior Curator
Susan P. Schoelwer has been appointed the Robert H. Smith Senior Curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon. Schoelwer has served as Mount Vernon's curator since 2010. In that capacity she has overseen the recent refurnishing and reinterpretation of George Washington's "New Room," the reinstallation of the greenhouse slave quarters, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Tillou Gives Glass to Carnegie
From left: A pillar-molded celery glass of yellow glass, blown with eight ribs, tooled at the rim to produce a wavy effect, with an applied circular stem and foot, ground pontil mark, 1840-70, 91/2" high x 5 3/8" diameter; pitcher of white, red, and blue glass, blown in white, trailed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vintage Marketplace and Grand Rapids Antiques Market Combine for Show in January
The Grand Rapids Antiques Market in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the popular Vintage Marketplace are joining forces this year, creating a bigger weekend of antiques shopping.
Vintage Promotions, producer of the Grand Rapids Antiques Market, will team up with Jenkins Management, producer of the Vintage Marketplace, which is held in Tennessee, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Alleges He Was Sold Two Tiffany Fakes
Florida collector Alfred A. Turner Jr. spent $100,000 in 2012 to buy two Tiffany lamps from Buffalo, New York, dealer Lawrence Ludtka, who calls his shop Larry's Antiques. After Turner was rebuffed when he tried to consign one of the lamps to auction, he had them both evaluated and became ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gruppe Groupies Head for Farrin's
A 9" x 12" oil on canvas of three fishermen on a rocky ocean coast was titled on the back Bass Rock Fishermen and signed lower right "Chas. P. Gruppe." Charles Paul Gruppe (1860-1940) was progenitor of the artistic Gruppe clan that included his sons Emile, Karl, and Paulo and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fewer Participants, Still Top-Quality Merchandise at ADA Show
The 141/2" high early 19th-century sheet-iron door handle backplate in the form of a fiddler is a Connecticut piece, said Greg Kramer of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, who priced the unusual find at $2250.
The Colonial Revival spinning wheel settee, offered by A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, was found ... (Read More)
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(Show)Strong Sales at a Wet Fishersville
Garland Grimm commented that since his signs were meant to hang outside, the rain was not a problem for his inventory. The Fishersville, Virginia, dealer offered this array of signs at his infield booth. The Studebaker Erskine sign is perhaps the most scarce. Studebaker manufactured the Erskine for only four ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art at Auction
Pint-size sand bottle by Andrew Clemens (1857- 1894), one side with design lettered "Our Emma / 1884," other side with a floral design, unusually large at 9" high, $19,200.
Pictured is one of a pair of 18th-century English Chinese Chippendale mirrors by George Godley of Winchester, 65" x 261/2". Of carved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-American Art Sale Features Richard A. Long's Collection
Elizabeth Catlett's Singing Head of circa 1977 is carved tropical wood with painted details. It is 161/4" x 8" x 71/2" and sold for $125,000 (est. $120,000/ 180,000).
An institution paid $57,500 for Vernon by William E. Artis (1914-1977). The 1946-50 terra-cotta sculpture is 22" tall, including its base. It is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Guns Fire Off at Julia's for $19.3 Million
Like numerous other lots in the auction, this cased Mannlicher pistol, serial number 231, purported to have belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, had to be sold while waltzing carefully around the murky new ivory laws. The unremoveable and intricate ivory inlays meant that it could be sold, but the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Majolica at Auction
This 13-piece German majolica zoomorphic kitchen canister set, circa 1900, sold for $10,800 (est. $3000/5000) on the phone. The mother duck "Oil" canister stands over her kitchen staff with their contents written across their bellies. It may be the only set to survive. Strawser.
This important Minton majolica turquoise-ground flat iron ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Millersburg Glass Association Auction
This rare purple pitcher in the Multi-Fruits and Flowers pattern sold for $11,500, despite having damage on the handle.
There are perhaps ten tankards known in the Morning Glory pattern. This example in marigold sold for $17,000.
This purple giant rose bowl in the Hobstar and Feather pattern brought $4100.
These marigold Hobstar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Snake, an Eagle, and More Americana
Rare Japanese Meiji period painted-iron articulated snake, probably Myochin school, 62" long, sold for $90,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). The buyer left a bid with the auctioneer, and it was underbid on the phone.
Wilhelm Schimmel (1817-1890) of Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, carved and painted spread-wing eagle, 9" x 121/4", with an untouched polychrome ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 63rd Fall Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Show
Seller Gloria Lyon of Lyn's Antiques, Eagle River, Wisconsin, was a farm girl, so she pointed out components of the charming 1920s carved toy wooden vehicles found in Northwoods Wisconsin. The $325 brewery wagon at rear with four horses has barrels plus a man standing on the back. The $175 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Sues Harvard over Sale Cancellation
In 2011, Boston dealer John Curuby consigned four medical kits-two from the 18th century and two from the 19th century, both in wooden cases-to Grogan & Company. Before the kits could be sold, Harvard University intervened and convinced Grogan to cancel the sale. On October 3, 2014, Curuby filed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
Joseph Whiting Stock (1815-1855) portraits of Mary Wilcox and her younger brother Francis (who died in 1844 at ages four years and two months and two years and four months), 25" x 201/4" and 25" x 20 1/8", sold for $46,875 (est. $25,000/45,000) to the American Folk Art Museum.2
Phone bidding ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biography of an Object Writing Contest
Garth's third annual Biography of an Object writing contest kicked off on October 1. "The entries last year were tremendous," said contest sponsor and founder Amelia Jeffers, president of Garth's Auctioneers, Delaware, Ohio.
The idea grabbed the attention of Jeffers while assisting her daughter with a school assignment. "I remember entering ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The American Museum of Folk Art Purchases Stock Portraits at Doyle New York
Photo courtesy Doyle New York.
In 1845 Joseph Whiting Stock (1815-1855) painted posthumous portraits of Mary Wilcox and her younger brother Francis (who died 140 years ago at ages four years, two months and two years, four months). The works were commissioned by the children's father, Philo Franklin Wilcox, a wealthy ... (Read More)
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