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(Fragment)Keno Auctions' Contemporary Art and Design Sale
Ruth Asawa (Japanese-American, 1926-2013), hanging five-lobed continuous form with spheres inside four of the lobes, two of the inside spheres containing spheres within them, circa 1954, iron and brass wire, 103" high, diameter at base 21", sold for $329,000 (est. $100,000/200,000). There are a number of Ruth Asawa sculptures at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Warden Family Americana Sale
The auction's top price of $16,250 (est. $5000/ 7000) was paid for this 27" x 22" oil on canvas portrait attributed to 18th-century English painter John Wollaston.
This 131/2" x 12" second half of the 18th-century family record for Moses Chase and Susanna Kelly of Deerfield, New Hampshire, painting on paper, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Planes and the Plain-speaking American
This No. 1 Stanley smooth plane, with spring-lever cap, rosewood open handle, and cast rib in front of the throat is in immaculate condition. "Bailey" on the box refers to Leonard Bailey, who in 1855 had invented and patented the definitive method of securing and adjusting the cutter. When the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Learning the ABCs at Cottone's Auction
This 19th-century sterling silver covered tureen, 65.8 ozt., 9" x 13" x 10", opened at $10,000 and sold for $25,300 to a collector on the phone.
An Internet bidder from the South took home this Pablo Picasso pitcher, Bearded Man's Wife, 1953, 15" high x 11" wide, in excellent condition, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indy Antique Advertising Show
Battery-operated Fred Flintstone on Dino by Marx, with the original box, $650 from Darryl McKinney of Monroe, Ohio, who promotes the Cincinnati Antique Toy and Advertising Show.
Mechanical store display, "Look for Mazda GE on the Bulb," depicting a woman whose arm moved to point at a light that turned on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Yarns of a Summer Day by Henry Farny (1847-1916), gouache on paper, 1894, 111/4" x 153/4" (sight), $310,000.
Apache figural tray basket, a central flower radiating light and dark petals, surrounded by ten humans, ten dogs, and five wolves, circa 1900, 193/4" diameter, $22,140.
Navajo Late Classic woman's dress, black and red, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Closet Safe Door Turns Up in York
The discovery of a closet safe door with the words "Henson's Improv'd Closet Safe" punched in the tin on the bottom panel, a punched-tin portrait of George Washington in the middle panel, and a punched-tin star-in-circle design on the top panel was the biggest discovery at Melvin Arion's Original ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Triple Portrait Sells for $15,000
This unattributed 29" x 311/2" oil on canvas portrait of three children, bearing an American Folk Art Gallery label on the back of the frame, sold in the room for $15,000 (est. $7000/10,000) to collectors Michael and Suzanne Payne. The Paynes recognized it as a work by upstate New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Prints and Drawings: A Green-Haired Muse and Black-and-White Images of Manhattan
Shadow Dance by Martin Lewis (1881-1962) fetched $42,500. The 1930 drypoint and sand-ground print from an edition of 109 is 91/4" x 103/4". This was not the first time that the print has done very well at Swann. The auction house set a still-standing record when it sold a copy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Outsider Art, and Folk Art
The Crowninshield family mahogany bombe chest of drawers, Marblehead, Massachusetts, circa 1770, 331/4" high x 40" wide x 22" deep, appears to retain its original cast brass hardware and sold on the phone for $581,000 (est. $300,000/600,000). Other bombe chests from this group have sold for $2,023,500 at Christie's in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction in Cambridge
The 61/4" x 101/4" unframed moonlit scene of ships under full sail, with one flying an American flag, by James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894) came from an Arizona estate and sold to a Worcester, Massachusetts, dealer for $11,400.
The 171/4" x 231/4" watercolor on silk mourning picture had gold foil decorations and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Mansions Antique Cane Collection
Defensive canes take many forms. The simplest are either swords or knives housed in the cane shaft. This exceedingly rare French cane, circa 1870, saw short production because of numerous accidental injuries to the owners. With razor barbs, this example was the sale's highest-selling lot at $8160 (est. $4500/6000).
Dating ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Iconic Names Generate Strong Bids
The 1964 offset lithograph Liz by Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is a very well-known image, but Davis was not sure which edition it was. Signed in pen and having some minor handling creases, the 21 5/8" x 22" image (22 1/8" x 221/4" sheet) must have been from a desirable edition. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)An Expressionist's Flowers, a Sargent Head, and a Girl Smelling an Apple
The unsigned 22" x 171/4" oil on canvas study of a man's head by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), circa 1878, inscribed on the stretcher 182 and 4242, sold for $243,000.
Apple Perfume by Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942) brought $65,190. The 22" x 18" oil on canvas is signed and dated 1911, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Harvest Sale Totals $837,000
The sale's top entry, a Rock and Graner (Germany) battleship, circa 1900, hand painted, came from a European estate, had been proudly possessed by one family for nearly a century, and was essentially original and exceptional. Measuring 19" long, it sold for $30,680 (est. $35,000/45,000).
Keystone (U.S.) "Ride 'Em" Coast-to-Coast bus, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Art, Antique, and Jewelry Show
Banners outside the Park Avenue Armory announced the show. The new owners, the Palm Beach Show Group, blanketed Manhattan with advertisements, banners, and tickets.
This stretch Lincoln was available to shuttle showgoers between the armory and the Asia Art Fair at the Bohemian National Hall farther uptown.
John Atzbach Antiques, Redmond, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chinese Vase Brings $24,723,000
The Qianlong period imperial vase became the most expensive object sold at an auction in New England when it brought $24,723,000. Skinner, Inc. photo.
A monumental (383/4" x 103/4") Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period fencai vase became the highest-grossing object sold at auction in New England and achieved the highest price ever ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Silver in the Met
A Book Review
Early American Silver in The Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Beth Carver Wees with Medill Higgins Harvey
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, distributed by Yale University Press, 2013, 328 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (800) 468-7386 or (www.store.metmuseum.org), or from Yale ... (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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(Young Collectors)Gone to Carolina
The Young Collector
We never take vacations. Oh, we go places, quite often, but almost always "There's just this one stop I need to make in Hingham" or "It will only take five minutes, but we've got to deliver this five-hundred-pound corner cupboard, and I said we'd help her get it ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Building Customer Loyalty
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of promoting your business in a 21st-century way. This month I'll move over to another topic-building customer loyalty.
It is rare that a business can survive without loyal repeat customers. Loyal customers are certainly your most valuable asset. If you can build ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Lots and lots of good things fill my pending files and will continue to feature in these reports even when the new season sales get up and running. Two of the London summer highlights, a Rysbrack bust of Franklin and a Gilbert Stuart portrait of a Mohawk chief, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)The Next Question
Auction Law & Ethics
The University of Alabama Crimson Tide has a well-earned reputation for its large and rabid fan base. We sometimes travel to football games where Bama is the visiting team and find that those wearing crimson and white far outnumber the home team's fans. Alabama is important to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Phil Warish, Blue Farm Antiques, Franklin, New York
Phil Warish.
Phil Warish's new shop on Main Street in Franklin, New York.
A view in Warish's new shop in Franklin, New York.
A weathered marble bust of Napoleon, $1200. "It's a lot more interesting because of its flaws instead of being hindered by them," Warish remarked. It originally lacked a base, so ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Loyalty Software
A demonstration e-mail newsletter created in LoyaltyABC.com Preferred Customer Club Marketing System.
Computer Column #310
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
There are several short topics this month.
Loyal Customers
The August 2014 edition of this column mentioned two antiques mall accounting computer programs that originated in the 1980s and are still going strong. Many other good ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
Books Received
by M.A.D. Staff
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.
"I Am Busy Drawing Pictures": The Civil War Art ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rustic Antiques in New York
Dealers Jon Magoun of South Paris, Maine, and Bob Ross of Florence, Massachusetts, with Magoun's dome-topped trunk, which sold for $1250.
Bob Ross had this Old Town canoe with sail priced at $3800.
John Provo Rustic Antiques, Plymouth, Minnesota, had Old Hickory table lamps priced at $795 a pair. Adirondack ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rhinebeck Antiques Fair Canceled
The Rhinebeck Antiques Fair scheduled for October 11 and 12 in Rhinebeck, New York, has been canceled. The cancellation occurred after the advertisement appearing on page 2-D in this issue had been sent to press.
Originally published in the October 2014 issue of Maine Antique Digest. (c) 2014 Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Banning the Ban
Editorial
Here are two numbers to know: H.R. 5052 and S. 2587.
They are two identical pieces of legislation that have been introduced in Congress and would roll back the new federal rules regulating trade of ivory. The proposed law is called the "Lawful Ivory Protection Act of 2014."
In the House, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Providence Auction Gallery to Launch
A new auction house, the Providence Auction Gallery, will hold its first sale on November 9. Partners in the fledgling venture include entrepreneur Kevin Bruneau, featured on the PBS television show Market Warriors; Louis Grande, Esq., an antiquarian and collector of 18th- and 19th-century American furniture; and Jeffrey Shore, whose ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Seeking Information about "Old-School Dealer" Mrs. Walter S. Sands
The photograph, inscribed "Mrs. Sands," is rubber stamped on the back "photo by/ P.A. Beaudoin/ St. Augustine, Fla." Several times in the inventory books is the notation "Just back from Florida."
Mrs. Sands?
Mr. Sands?
Page from one of the inventory books.
Included with the books and booth photo was this group shot inscribed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Museum for Red Wing Pottery
A new museum has opened in the Mississippi River town of Red Wing, Minnesota. Its creation comes from the efforts of the Red Wing Collectors Society Foundation and the more than 100 volunteers who donated nearly 10,000 hours of time and expertise to the vast project. A large number of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal's September Sale: A Preview of Coming Attractions
The top lot by far was one of Charles Giroux's rare Louisiana landscapes, a 24" x 34" bayou scene with a Creole cottage, which brought $155,350 (est. $40,000/60,000). Other works by the French-born artist, active in New Orleans 1868-85, are a related 1860 view of a bayou plantation at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Goddess of Harvest Bowl Tops Auction at $52,500
This Fenton Goddess of Harvest bowl in blue with a candy ribbon edge sold for $52,500. The Goddess of Harvest pattern is extremely rare, and the bowl is the only example known in blue.
This rare aqua opalescent Northwood Poppy Show plate brought $24,000.
Holly is one of Fenton's more desirable patterns, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Cache of Harry Allen Davis Artworks Sold
Harry Davis is shown in front of his painting Harvest Dinner, which won the Rome Prize. The work is now in a private collection. The photo is from 1939.
The Nisbit-Koch House, Evansville by Harry Davis, acrylic on canvas, 40" x 46", signed, dated '75, $6720. The back had a tag ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The John Snyder Sale
A 19th-century Chinese Manchu woman's ceremonial headdress, richly decorated with blue enameled and gilt metal, mounted with tourmaline, jade, pearls, coral, and rubies designed as flowers and phoenixes and butterflies, 7" tall x 12" wide, sold on line for $22,990 (est. $10,000/20,000). According to John Snyder's colleague Peter Seibert, Snyder ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collectors Sue over Missing Warhol "Shoes"
Amy Koler and Stephen Meyer, collectors from St. Petersburg, Florida, filed suit in Maricopa County Court in Arizona on September 10, claiming that an Andy Warhol screenprint they had left with a gallery for safekeeping was sold without their knowledge or approval. They are alleging fraud, conversion, negligence, negligent misrepresentation, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Massachusetts Court Sets Safeguard for Artist-Consigned Art
On September 9, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the highest legal authority in the state, answered a question asked by 14 artists and their legal team. The question: to whom does the art belong when a gallery owner goes bankrupt-the owner of the gallery or the artist who created ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)E. E. Finch: A Puzzling Folk Artist
In our September article "Great Buckskin Shirt Brings Great Big Bucks" (p. 30-C), we pictured a portrait by itinerant portrait artist E. E. Finch, noting that "little is known about Finch, and even his first name is lost to history."It turns out more than a little is known, as Marius ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Successful September Auctions in Chicago and Boston
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Skinner and Leslie Hindman
I'm back to covering auctions again after spending the last couple of months attending and writing about antique and vintage jewelry sold at shows by dealers. These are two of the ways we learn about what's happening in the market and about ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Times and Good Buys at Mason Sale
The Asbestos brand sad iron case includes two sizes of irons and a detachable handle assembly. The kit is housed in a finger-jointed wooden box and displays a patent date of May 22, 1900. The case and contents sold for $104.50 (est. $50/125).
Here is one selection from the group of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana at Garth's
Acoma pot signed by Marie Z. Chino (1907-1992), polychrome grid design, possibly 1940's, 71/2" high x 9" diameter, slight wear and minor rim flake, $4500.
One-piece corner cupboard attributed to the Ralph family of Sussex County, Delaware, early 19th century, pine with old green paint, elaborate molded and carved decoration, 87" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stick with Hap Moore
This handmade wooden walking stick, with a connection to Abraham Lincoln via an embedded metal plate reading, "From fence rail Abraham Lincoln split in Decatur, Ill. on his father's farm and made at Niantic, Ill. by Franklin A. Pickering in 1865," sold for $6325.
Peggy Bacon gouache of a coastal ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cowan's Inaugural Auction in Cleveland
Circa 1900 brewing company sign showing a bird's-eye view of "The John Wagner Sons Br'g. Co. / Sidney, Ohio, U.S.A.," color lithograph on paper, 221/2" x 331/2" (sight size) plus frame, toning and minor foxing, top of frame scratched, $7200.
Late 19th-century American Star high-wheel bicycle by H.B. Smith Machine Company, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dealers and Collectors Super Selective at Shaker Sale
The sisters cupboard over drawers in original bittersweet red-orange paint has some great features: there are two original pegs on each side, original brass knobs, and the original iron key in a concealed hiding place. Read the story to discover why that key nearly drove Will Henry mad. The cupboard ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Three Lots Top $100,000 at Willis Henry's Shaker Sale
The $206,500 washstand. Photo courtesy Willis Henry Auctions.
It was all good for auctioneer Willis Henry of Marshfield, Massachusetts, at his annual Shaker sale under a tent at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 6.
Three pieces of furniture sold for over $100,000. The highest-priced lot, a New Lebanon, New ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Folk Art Festival
Sacramento contemporary folk artist Susan Arnot makes everything at her booth by "lots of cutting, sewing, gluing," she said. Her best seller was "the Little Black Cat Theater."
Karen Pierce of Cottage Creek Antiques, Reno, Nevada, was asking $15 for this 10" diameter old egg basket filled with painted mini gourds. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back-to-Back Sales for John McInnis
The North Carolina secretary-desk by William Seay dated from about 1790. It sold to a bidder from the South for $51,750. McInnis photos.
The China trade portrait of the American ship Julia A. Brown off Hong Kong sold on line for $4255.
The 19th-century bicycle repairing sign (10" x 36") with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ruling in Private Provenance Case
On September 4 in U.S. District Court in Dallas, Chief Judge Sidney A. Fitzwater filed a memorandum order and opinion that severely reduced the award that art patron Marguerite Hoffman had won at trial only months earlier. The case involved Hoffman's desire to keep the sale of a painting private.
In ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week News: One Show Canceled and a New One to Debut
U.S. Antique Shows announced on August 27 it has postponed the 2015 Armory Antique Show because the National Guard has scheduled a drill at New York City's 69th Regiment Armory over the weekend previously held for the show and a suitable alternative venue has not been found.
"Upon learning of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)All in the Family
This primitive portrait of a young Marcia Ingraham, circa 1823, was solidly attributed to John Brewster via style and recorded family history and had a $15,000/25,000 estimate. I counted at least eight phone bidders in play as it opened for $50,000, and most were still hanging in as it passed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Draw of Houdini
This is the archive book about the 1902 trial in which Houdini was victorious in a slander lawsuit against a German cop and newspaper editor. It includes a 50-page trial transcript in German (and an English translation) and documentation of his demonstration of escaping from handcuffs. The book sold for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garrett Klinger's First Sale in New Location
The 19th-century yellow Staffordshire child's tea set sold in the salesroom for $2850 (est. $1600).
An English delft blue and white bottle-form vase with Chinese decorations, 101/4" high, with rim chips noted in the catalog, sold on line for $1320 (est. $150).
The 18th-century English delft urn-shaped vase with Chinese decoration sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cowboys and Indians
The Bronco Buster by Frederic Remington was produced by the Roman Bronze Works and marked "75." It bought $138,000, the top price at the auction.
The late 1890s or early 1900s Sioux Indian vest with nearly complete beadwork coverage on brain-tanned deer hide sold for $34,500.
A French Romanesque (12th century) bas-relief ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Portrait Brings $413,000
Photo courtesy Caddigan Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc.
Auctioneer Joan Caddigan of Caddigan Auctioneers & Appraisers, Inc., Hanover, Massachusetts, had heads swiveling in disbelief at an August 23 on-site auction in South Paris, Maine, when a single primitive portrait closed for $413,000 (including buyer's premium).
A combination of history from the Cummings/Ingraham family, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Coca-Cola Calendar Brings $210,000
Near-mint 1900 Coca-Cola calendar featuring image of Hilda Clark, $210,000. Morphy Auctions photo.
A Grapefruitola ceramic syrup dispenser in the form of a grapefruit, in near-mint condition, commanded $66,000 (est. $15,000/ 25,000). Morphy Auctions photo.
At Morphy Auctions' August 22-24 sale in Denver, Pennsylvania, a near-mint-plus Coke calendar from the year 1900, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Sideboard, circa 1885, probably by Pottier and Stymus, with inset ceramic tiles by John Moyr Smith (1839-1912), $18,000 from John Orban of Cadiz, Ohio.
Large centerpiece silver bowl, Kalo Shop, Chicago, initial "G," 1920s, $6900 from Spencer Marks, Southampton, Massachusetts.
David Brooker of Woodbury, Connecticut, brought Fag & Curly, 40" x ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Dealers at the Coastal Maine Antiques Show
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
The Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) held its annual single-day show on August 20, a week earlier than in past years, in hopes that summer residents and vacationers would attend. The show benefits MADA and the Damariscotta River Association and is held at Round Top Farm in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Coastal Maine Antiques Show
Armillary spheres were designed to illustrate the sun, moon, and other astronomical bodies in relation to the earth. Gary Hume of Wells, Maine, re-creates them out of 19th-century parts. This one was formed from a side piece of a grinding wheel, an old iron wheel, and other parts, and it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Four Days and $5.7 Million Later
Waldo Peirce's oil on canvas of the Coast Guard at "the Silver Slipper," Key West sold for $48,585, and Don Ernesto Con Una Bonito capped the Peirce artworks at $53,325.
A 24" x 20" oil on canvasboard by Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968) of a forest waterfall sold for $31,995. Julia photo.
This not-so-little ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique American Indian Art Show Santa Fe
This circa 1920 Apache basket was priced at $5800 at the American Indian Shop, Fresno, California. Bryan Taylor, "the basket guy," said, "I did well buying and selling-selling jewelry and little things, and buying baskets-eight so far!"
Ramona Morris of Delaplane, Virginia, was asking $20,000 for this Plateau woman's dress, 1850-70. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gamage Sale Marks the Beginning of the End of Summer
Connecticut silk embroidery by Emily Chandler, descending through the original family to the consignor, $27,600.
John McCoy (1910-1989) broke with his family's business tradition to follow his passion for art. He married Andrew Wyeth's sister Ann and often painted with Andrew in Maine and Pennsylvania. This roughly 24" x 18" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Thistles & Crowns: The Painted Chests of the Connecticut Shore
The cover of the catalog Thistles & Crowns features a detail of the Old Saybrook Historical Society's chest. The 72-page softbound volume with 74 full-color illustrations is available from the shop at the Florence Griswold Museum, 96 Lyme Street, Old Lyme, CT 06371, or on line (www.FlorenceGriswoldMuseum.org). The price is ... (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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(Issue Story)How "Bucket Town," the Book and Exhibition, Came to Be
The green-painted covered box is 6" long and was the first piece sold at the sale of the Richardson collection at Willis Henry Auctions on November 19, 2011. David Schorsch, on the phone, paid $3861 for the box. Derin Bray spoke about that piece recently. "The box that David acquired ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Arts and Crafts Metalwork
A Book Review
"These Humbler Metals": American Arts & Crafts Metalwork from the Two Red Roses Foundation
by David Cathers, Jonathan Clancy, and Susan J. Montgomery
Two Red Roses Foundation, 2014, 280 pages, hardbound, $45 postpaid in the U.S. from Two Red Roses Foundation, (http://tworedroses.com/newbooksforsale.php) or (727) 943-9900; Florida residents add sales ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay,
Early European glass and slipware; a pocket watch with a naughty Napoleonic association; a maternal model; cats and goats; fishy aromas; bats and baccy jars-all find a place in this month's selection. My original plan was to include items from the latest round of Russian sales in London, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)The Big Question
Auction Law & Ethics
My Momma is forever asking me, "How do you think of all the things you write about?" Experiences, imagination, inspiration, news, requests, and you name it all play a revolving role in bringing topics to my attention that I share with you in my column. This month ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Sorry for the Convenience
The Young Collector
When Nora was born in 2010, Hollie's coworkers at Prices4Antiques.com offered the very generous gift of diaper service. We were grateful, but we were initially also a little surprised. Now, that might shock some people who have us accurately pegged as folks who at least try to be ... (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.
Clothing & Textiles of the Fur Trade by James A. Hanson, edited ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)The Art of Being Found
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of automated bidding services for eBay. This month I'll cover the importance of promoting your business. If your customers can't find you through your marketing activities by either the products you sell or your business name directly, you are going to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Robert Girouard, West Granby, Connecticut
Rob Girouard with some of his favorite glass.
Mid-19th-century conical amber quart bottle with pulled white loopings, attributed to the Whitney glass factory in southern New Jersey, $2000. Girouard said, "In all my years I've only seen one other. It sold at auction in south Jersey for about thirty-five hundred [dollars]."
Midwestern ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Old Technology in a New World
A plug-in external hard drive can back up all files on an old or new computer in a few hours unattended.
Computer Column #309
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
New developments in computers come so fast that there is danger of being caught with obsolete technology. Nowhere is this truer than in recordkeeping.
The inventory ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show for Brooklyn
On September 12-14, show promoter Marvin Getman will unveil his new show, the Brooklyn Antiques and Book Fair at the new Brooklyn Expo Center in Brooklyn, New York.
"Brooklyn is a fresh hot market, and everyone seems to want a piece of it. Many of the 105 dealers from all over ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Matching Grant for Cahoon Museum
The Cahoon Museum of American Art in Cotuit, Massachusetts, has received a $1 million matching grant. This grant will double gifts to the capital campaign-but only until the deadline of August 30 or until the $1 million fund is gone, whichever comes first. To give, contact director Richard Waterhouse at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Big Flea Comes to the Big Apple
D'Amore Promotions will hold its first NYC Big Flea Market on September 27 and 28 at Pier 94 in Manhattan.
"Our shows are unique in that you can buy something amazing like a vintage handbag or jewelry for twenty dollars, or you can spend tens of thousands of dollars on a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dealer Does the Right Things, State Wrongs Him Anyway
Editorial
New York City art dealer Richard L. Feigen & Company, Inc., in business since 1959, knows how to do the right thing.
On September 9, 2003, Feigen paid $2,325,000 for a purported Max Ernst painting, Floret;the signed painting came with extensive provenance and authentication written by Werner Spies, an Ernst expert. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Six Major Auction Houses Join Forces to Launch Bidsquare, a New On-line Bidding Platform
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(Fragment)Former Chairman of Christie's Takes the Helm at Phillips
Edward Dolman has been appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Phillips. Dolman spent 27 years at Christie's serving in many capacities, including chairman, CEO, managing director of Christie's Europe, managing director of Christie's Americas, and managing director of Christie's Amsterdam.
Dolman left Christie's in 2011. He was appointed director of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes at James D. Julia, Inc.
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(Fragment)Morphy Auctions Acquires Victorian Casino Antiques
Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, has acquired Victorian Casino Antiques (VCA), an auction house in Las Vegas, Nevada, that specializes in vintage gambling/coin-op machines and antique advertising. Terms of the deal were not announced. Victorian Casino Antiques' long-established corporate name will be retained, with the new tagline "a Morphy Auctions ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Invaluable Files Trademark Lawsuit
Will Internet users confuse AuctionZing with AuctionZip? Are "zip" and "zing" synonymous?
Yes, according to a lawsuit filed by Invaluable, LLC and AuctionZip, LLC against Storage Unit Auction List, LLC, which does business as AuctionZing and auctionzing.com. The suit was filed on July 21 in federal court in Boston.
Invaluable (once known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Revolutionary War Map Tops Portsmouth Auction
The top lot of the sale was the 16" x 301/4" hand-drawn map of the Battle of Monmouth by Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy (1746-1804), the cartographer and aide-de-camp of Marquis de Lafayette. It was estimated at $90,000/150,000, but a private collector, bidding by phone, had to pay $486,400 to own ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show
Navajo rug specialist Eric Phillips of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was asking $48,000 for this 1910-20 large Zia jar, 17" tall x 22" diameter. "The show was well attended," Phillips told M.A.D., "with a lot of interest in everything. I sold more historic jars than Navajo weaving."
This circa 1900 Apache figural ... (Read More)
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(Show)21st Annual Folk Fest
Jackie Haliburton's memory paintings focus on hats and body shapes within a southern African-American community. Butt Stop is typical of her work. She asked $1500 for this large (3' x 8') acrylic on canvas.
The artist John "Cornbread" Anderson was widely represented at Folk Fest. His 36" square oils on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Objects of Art Santa Fe
Michael Smith, who has a gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, was asking $18,500 for this large (74" x 46") circa 1920 Navajo weaving of a Hopi kachina. Smith said he'd met "a lot of people." By the day after the opening, he'd sold "a nice painting," but "business ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Crown Jewel of Maine Antiques Shows
A $10,000 American celestial globe stood prominently with show newcomer Michael Corbett of The Federalist Antiques, Kenilworth, Illinois. Standing on a tripod pedestal with paw feet and acanthus leaf carvings on the knees, it was made by T. M. Bardin of London in the early 19th century.
Robert Foley of Gray, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 Great Southwestern Antique Show
An anonymous buyer seemed entranced by the items in Susan Swift's space. She and Erich Erdoes do business in Santa Fe under her name. That buffalo robe, circa 1890, was a magnificent $25,000. The beaded and quilled bags to the right were $7500 each.
John Durbin of Redding, California, displayed this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Scores Big with Americana
A SkinnerLive! Internet buyer won this 57" high polychromed and carved figure of an Indian princess figure by Samuel Robb of New York City for $92,250. Skinner sold a quite similar Indian princess figure on October 20, 2011, for $71,000.
Polychrome painted carved "black dandy" tobacconist figure, wearing wildly painted clothes, ... (Read More)
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(Show)"Only the Good Ones Is Still Here!"
Not too long ago somebody paid $2200 at auction for one of these Johnson's Peacemaker Coffee advertising tins in the form of a log cabin, so you better grab this one from Paul and Nancy Hahn of Country Things, Bowie, Maryland, for $1300. It was dated 1915. The Johnson-Layne Coffee ... (Read More)
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(Show)Most Attendance, Most Sales: It's All Good at NHADA Show
Offered by Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York, a Pennsylvania carved walnut figural watch hutch, circa 1800, with George Washington as subject. It's 151/2" tall and was priced at $15,000.
The yellow-painted dressing table, probably from Portsmouth and 1810-20, is an eye-dazzler. It's 62" tall overall and about 36" wide. Russ and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pickers Market 2014
The Pickers Market filled the Everett Arena and was open for shopping from 2 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 7.
The pond boat was $825, and the Adelphi Hotel sign was $3995 from Antiques at 30B, Cambridge, New York.
The shelf was $300, the books ranged from $100 to $425 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
The Collector's Fair transformed the ice rink.
Shaker specialist John Keith Russell of South Salem, New York, asked $1500 for the second-smallest New Lebanon production chair, circa 1875 (left). The tilting ladder-back chair was $3600 (center). The two-slat chair is a child's chair. The Shaker broom was $1250.
Kelly Kinzle of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of Vintage Posters Skyrockets into Immortality
A 37" x 27" condition A recruitment poster by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) that depicts a young woman in uniform, considered at the time of its design in 1915 to be a provocative and daring World War I image, went to an Internet bidder and set an auction record at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Quadricentennial of Captain John Smith's Landing, 1614-2014
Crowd at the top of Wharf Hill during the tercentennial celebration. The woman with dark sweater left of center is George Bellows's wife, Emma. Jenney collection. Courtesy Monhegan Island Art and History Museum.
Monhegan Cornet Band, 1914. In the front row, left, is George Bellows. Courtesy Monhegan Island Art and History ... (Read More)
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(Show)Barn Star's Midweek Antiques Show
The aisles were crowded at Midweek after the doors opened.
Randi Ona of Wayne, New Jersey, offered miniature cloth-covered books that ranged in size from 11/2" to 2". The old shelf was $296, and the collection of books, $3500. The two rattle balls underneath were $825 the pair. One rattle ball ... (Read More)
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(Show)Dependable Deerfield
Betty Anne Lavallee of Hampton, New Hampshire, offered red and blue hula hoops, vintage dresses, flags, and signs, all popular at Deerfield.
Cottage & Camp, Philadelphia, showed a huge store scissors sign, $285, checkerboard, left, $275, signs, and yes, a life ring.
This eclectic booth can only belong to David Ramsay of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Jersey Bans Ivory Sales--Antique or Not
On August 5, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law legislation that criminalizes "importing, selling, or purchasing any ivory or rhinoceros horn product" in New Jersey. The new law allows no exemption for antique ivory.
The bill's primary sponsor, Senator Raymond J. Lesniak, said, "There was tremendous thought given to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Art Summer Auction
A Normandy Farm (233/4" x 283/4") by Guy Rose sold for $275,000 (est. $300,000/500,000). The buyer, from northern California, is a longtime collector of Guy Rose and a longtime buyer at Levitt's auctions. Even at this price-or especially at this price-Levitt called this a relative bargain. "A good buy for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Suspects in Auction House Theft Arrested
The Delaware State Police have arrested two suspects involved in a burglary at Wilson's Auction in Lincoln, Delaware, on August 4.
Within hours of surveillance photos of the two subjects being released to local news outlets and social media, their identities were revealed to detectives who began looking into the incident. ... (Read More)
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