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(Auction)Summer Americana Sale Reveals Market Weaknesses
Porcelain by the Tucker and Hemphill China Factory of Philadelphia has always been eminently collectible. This pair of pitchers, each 91/4" high, appeared to be in mint condition and bore the incised initial "W" for factory modeler Andrew Craig Walker. China and glass authorities Gary and Diana Stradling chased the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln Campaign Flag Leads Heritage/APIC National Convention Auction
The top lot of the sale, this Lincoln and Hamlin campaign flag was 81/4" x 13" and made of glazed cotton. It boasted 31 stars in the canton and was inscribed on the stripes "For President, Abram Lincoln. For Vice President, Hannibal Hamlin." Retaining bright colors, the flag apparently saw ... (Read More)
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(Show)Eldred's Americana and Paintings
What's a summer sale on Cape Cod without a sprinkling of Ralph Cahoon (1910-1982) paintings? The dock scene, on the left, realized $29,500; the fishing scene on the top right, Sea Siren, 14" x 18", brought $11,800. At bottom right, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.2 Million Decoy Sale
This black duck by Shang Wheeler of Stratford, Connecticut, was carved as a presentation piece to author Eugene V. Connett. A phone bidder paid $115,000 (est. $65,000/85,000) for it. The underbidder was also on the phone. That price is a new record for a Shang Wheeler, according to Deeter.
One ... (Read More)
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(Auction)When the Flock Landed in Hyannis
The widgeon drake by Joseph Whiting Lincoln, one of only two such examples by Lincoln in such fine original condition, brought a record $97,750.
A notation beneath the left breast of the proud preening widgeon by Crisfield, Maryland, carver Lem Ward revealed its title, "Sunbathing-Lem Ward-1969-1 of 50." It fetched $18,400. ... (Read More)
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(Show)VADA Show Returns for Fifth Year in Woodstock
Shown by The Red Horse Antiques, Bridgewater, Vermont, was this large rocking horse that originated in Belgium and is mid-19th century in age. Loads of wear attests to its popularity with uncounted generations of children. Its price was $1950.
There were 18 sales in the Beginning Collector Booth, where everything was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Calligraphy and Fine Art Lead the Way
The high lot of the sale was this pair of calligraphy scrolls by Cai Yuanpei (Chinese, 1868-1940). Cai was a renowned education reformer and served as president of Peking University, 1916-23. The scrolls are written in seven-character standard script calligraphy and mounted for hanging. Each scroll measures 50" x 111/4". ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Auction 2014
The 18th-century spice cabinet on turned ball feet and in old green paint, 211/4" high x 191/2" wide x 101/2" deep, attracted much interest because it was believed to have local origins. It sold for $33,925.
This Provincetown, Massachusetts, street scene by Henry Hensche (1899-1992), oil on canvas, 23" x 27", ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$330,000 Wilson Merganser Tops Auction
Star of the day, and a record breaker, was this red-breasted merganser drake by South Portland, Maine, maker Gus Wilson, which had been seen at previous auctions. This time out it sold for $330,000 to Colin McNair's phone bidder who also bought the Wheeler preening canvasback. Copley photo.
An active phone ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The New York Antique Jewelry and Watch Show
New York City
Attending the New York Antique Jewelry and Watch Show, held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City on July 25-28, and viewing the myriad offerings was quite an experience-a colorful, shiny, dazzling one. I can hear the R.E.M. song now, as I think back on all the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 Newport Antiques Show
This 100- to 120-year-old horizontal wool rug from the north of China was on display by Karen and Ralph DiSaia of Oriental Rugs Ltd., Old Lyme, Connecticut. It measures 3'9" x 5'10" and was priced at $2800. A security guard at the show walked by the booth and asked the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garth's Branches Out
Three-piece silver tea set, monogrammed and with applied birds and trees, Chinese, early 20th century, "T & C" hallmark, dents, $3240.
Steuben glass vase with an etched abstract and geometric decoration over "F. Leger," signed, New York, circa 1939, 111/2" high, the original presentation and shipping boxes with Steuben labels, minor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Non-Paying Bidders Sued
On June 11 and 12, Peter Chang and Cheng Gang Cao, both of Los Angeles, California, were the winning bidders on 33 lots totaling $1,633,515.50 (includes buyers' premiums) at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, according to the Chicago-based auction house. The pair has paid only $162,500 and refused to pay any more, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crocker Farm's Tenth Anniversary Sale
This five-gallon 151/2" tall stoneware churn decorated with a rare slip decoration of four marching Civil War soldiers sold for $402,500 (est. $25,000/35,000). The buyer was New York City folk art collector Jerry Lauren bidding by phone. The underbidder was collector Adam Weitsman, also bidding by phone. Probably from Fort ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Case Antiques July Auction: Two Major Sales a Year Proves a Winning Formula
Many people grew up with the distinctive views of New England life painted by Charles Wysocki (1928-2002), who began his career as a commercial artist working in the advertising field. Among the lots drawn from the 20th-century art collection of Stephen and Lisa Steiner Small of Nashville was this Wysocki ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Virginia Pie Safe Brings $102,500
Photos courtesy Burt Long.
There are two punched tins featuring a profile of Andrew Jackson, flanked by two swords.
Four of the tins in the door read "Hero! of Orleans."
A pie safe in blue paint with 12 tins, featuring the profile of Andrew Jackson, the owner's name, "Hero! of Orleans," and more, ... (Read More)
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(Show)M.A.D. and Goosefare: Running for 40 Years
Show Meisters John and Elizabeth DeSimone of Wells, Maine, offered a large inlaid table with a spectacular flame-grained mahogany surface, surrounded by bird's-eye maple inlays, for $1600. The five caned chairs weren't an exact match for the table, but they were pretty close, and they were $385.
A fine country Chippendale ... (Read More)
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(Auction)National Association of Aladdin Lamp Collectors 42nd Annual Gathering
Bringing $300 at the auction was this Aladdinite paper shade, #681, for the Model 12 floor lamp. NAALC photo.
Never put into production, this Aladdin prototype lamp with a metal base and a font in green glass sold at the auction for $1700. Leigh Spargur photo.
The high-selling lot in the auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Woelbings' Toy Stoves Heat Up Toy Sale
This Marklin three-piece tin windup train set with O-gauge engine, tender, and a Speisewagen dining car sold on the phone for $6000 (est. $400/600), underbid in the salesroom.
A set of 12 carved and painted wooden soldiers, probably from a skittles set, each 61/2" high, sold on the phone for $2880 ... (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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(Show)Scott Antique Market: You Can Get Anything You Want
Don Scott still enjoys the excitement on the show floor during the monthly market he established in Atlanta over 25 years ago. He takes care of business in a comfortable office filled with antiques and artifacts.
Roy Bird of Ironwood Restorations, McConnells, South Carolina, specializes in pocket watches and railroad watches, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Moderate to Top-Tier Sales at Doyle New York, Skinner, and Bonhams
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Just before the start of summer, Skinner, Doyle New York, and Bonhams offered at auction jewelry that realized prices in the hundreds to the hundreds of thousands of dollars. There was something for just about every buyer at each level of the market. It was difficult to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Marion and Dennis Vasse, Au Fil de l'Eau Antiques, New Berlin, New York
Marion and Dennis Vasse. Dennis built the springhouse behind them.
The Vasses' Gothic cottage in New Berlin, New York.
Their pasture and animals across the road. During our interview, Dennis suddenly jumped up, bolted out the door, and ran across the road to this field. "We have a fox problem," Marion said. ... (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.
The World Is an Apple: Still Lifes of Paul Cezanne, edited by ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Sniping
The Art of Marketing
For the last two months I've covered the topics of selling and buying through eBay. You'd think I'd had enough, but because something interesting happened to me with one of my purchases on eBay a few weeks ago I'm going to stay on the topic.
I bought an ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Slow, Deliberate, and Careful
Auction Law & Ethics
Consigning property to auction is a simple process, until it's not. The "not" often arises when least expected and can come from something unforeseen. A reader wrote me about a situation that illustrates this point. I've edited her letter.
"Dear Mr. Proffitt,
"I consigned an item to auction and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
Chinese works of art, including the most expensive hinge you are ever likely to come across, open this month's selection, with teapots, modern aeroplanes, portrait miniatures, a planetarium, posters, Prague street scenes, and a couple of snuffboxes adding to the mix.
The Qianlong white jade Imperial hinge fitting sold ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Heirloom Quality
The Young Collector
We've talked before about our guilty pleasures in terms of collecting. We have others: eating marshmallow fluff from the jar, putting the windows down with the heater running on cool evening drives, and bad television. One of our guilty pleasure TV shows is Hoarders (or Hoarding: Buried Alive ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiquer Pioneers
In 1989, editing was done in WordPerfect 5.1 and other word processors with memorized control key combinations or menus pulled down by control keys.
Computer Column #308
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Computers are essential tools for most antiquers, but that was not always true. Sam Pennington (1929-2008), founder with his wife, Sally, of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Allison Kohler of JMK Shows Will Work with Rhinebeck Antiques Fair
Allison Kohler, president of JMK Shows, will begin working with the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair as an associate in promoting the 38-year-old show.
According to Kohler, she recently met with the producers of the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair and discussed the challenges of sustaining shows and creating new promotion techniques.
"The Rhinebeck Antiques Fairs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)U.S. Antique Shows Hires New Sales Manager
U.S. Antique Shows has hired Debbie Puccio as sales manager. Puccio will be located at the company's headquarters in Naples, Florida, and brings more than 15 years of experience in sales and business development to her position. As sales manager, Puccio will be responsible for leading efforts in securing dealers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Editorial
Buy the best you can afford. That's long been a maxim in the world of art and antiques, and for someone who Forbes estimates is worth $3.2 billion, it should be an easy principle to follow.
Not so for California real estate developer Igor Olenicoff. Olenicoff and his company, Olen Properties ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grant for Contemporary Fraktur Exhibition
The Free Library of Philadelphia has received a $360,000 grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Exhibition and Public Interpretation program in support of its upcoming Framing Fraktur contemporary art installation and exhibition organized by curator Judith Tannenbaum.
Taking inspiration from the library's extensive and rare Pennsylvania German fraktur ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CCADA Awards Annual Scholarship
Each year, the Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA) provides funds to the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation to give a scholarship to one or more Cape Cod Community College graduates who will be pursuing additional studies in the field of art, history, and the decorative arts. This year, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Flags from the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment of the Continental Line
During Antiques Week in New Hampshire, a side trip to the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord will provide a glimpse of New Hampshire's role in the Revolutionary War. On display at the society's headquarters are two flags from the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment of the Continental Line. The flags ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Civil War Soldier's Skull Pulled from Maryland Auction
A Maryland auction company was unprepared for the negative public reaction that erupted when a Civil War soldier's skull was set to be sold on June 3. The remains had been found decades ago at the former site of a field hospital used after the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tom Miano, Founder of Serious Toyz, Joins Morphy Auctions
Tom Miano.
Tom Miano of Serious Toyz has joined Morphy Auctions, based in Denver, Pennsylvania, as its pop-culture expert. Miano will be responsible for acquiring consignments and managing sales of vintage toys and pop-culture collectibles, starting with a September 6 auction of character, postwar, and space toys.
"Tom's auction house, Serious ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jacobsen Reviewed
Herbert D. Maxwell, four-masted schooner, 28" x 48", oil on canvas, signed "Antonio Jacobsen, 31 Palisade Avenue, Hoboken, NJ, 1905." In March 1912, she sank in Chesapeake Bay after a collision with the steamship Gloucester5 with the loss of four lives. Photo courtesy Vallejo Maritime Gallery, Newport Beach, California.
An article ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jewish Folk Art Samplers: A Trip to Amsterdam and Germany Answers Some Questions
Darning sampler, dated 1809, the maker is "MH." The Hebrew alphabet appears two times-the top line and again the sixth line. Martin Ex thinks the letters at the end of the Hebrew alphabet on the top line may be a name, a group of initials, or something in Yiddish. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ty Cobb Tin Sells for $18,720
The Ty Cobb tobacco tin, one of fewer than 20 known to exist, drew only two bids and went for $18,720 (est. $30,000/40,000).
The 12" beer tray advertising C. Eulberg & Sons pilsener beer of Galena, Illinois, went to an on-line bidder for $2700, way above the $100/200 estimate.
A glossy 30" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders See Less Than Seymour in Sideboard but See More in Table
Possibly a John and Thomas Seymour Federal mahogany sideboard. It was not one of their best works but still was strong enough to draw $4025.
The rustic round glass-topped Adirondack table topped the sale at $11,500.
A Sheraton sewing table in brown mahogany with bull's-eyes over the turned and reeded legs hit ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dawn of the Planet of Hounds and Horses
The sale's top lot was Run to Earth by John Emms (British, 1843-1912). It was sold by Sotheby's in 2005 and was included in a New York exhibition early in 2014. Elizabeth and Graeme Lang of Lexington, Kentucky, purchased the 36" x 281/2" oil on canvas for $59,000 (est. $40,000/60,000).
Anyone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Final Single-Owner Historic-Documents Auction Is "White Glove" Sale
A group of eight letters and documents by American and English writers including Jack London, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, and Rudyard Kipling sold for $16,800 (est. $5000/8000). London's letter to a high school friend says in part that he often harks back to those teenage years, "but the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collectors of Americana Shop in London
$7,051,842.
$826,795.
Serious collectors of Americana found some treasures to bid on in London this summer. Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Mohawk Chieftain Thayendanegea, known in English as Joseph Brant (1742-1807), sold at Sotheby's old masters sale on the evening of July 9 to an American private collector for GBP4,114,500 ($7,051,842) including ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Times Change, and the Cobbs Change with the Times
This 1861, 3" wrought-iron Civil War ordnance rifle by the Phoenix Iron Company, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, led the auction at $37,200.
Two similarly sized 10" x 16" oils on canvas by Frank Henry Shapleigh (1842-1906) each show a farmyard scene viewed through a typical Shapleigh perspective from a shadowy barn interior. At ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Three-Day Maurice "Jake" Day Art Show
Fuchsia Flyers, a 201/2" x 161/2" watercolor by Jake Day, 1950-70.
Maurice "Jake" Day of Damariscotta, Maine, is best known for his work on the Walt Disney movie Bambi as well as magazine and book illustrations and whimsical paintings of woodland animals. He also carved sea shanties and birds out ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes at the Met
Morrison H. Heckscher retired on June 30 after 13 years as head of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. He served a total of nearly five decades at the Met. Heckscher's new title became Curator Emeritus of the American Wing on July 1, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Locust Grove Antiques Market
Construction on the brick house at Locust Grove began in 1790. It's the centerpiece of the historic property, which hosts the antiques show twice a year. The house, outbuildings, and visitor's center are open during the show.
The parlor on the second floor of the main residence at Locust Grove features ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 14th Annual Wells Outdoor Antiques Show & Sale
A very fine set of small individual spice boxes, nestled in a larger box, was offered by William Nickerson Antiques, Orleans, Massachusetts, for $240. The maple and tin set dates to about 1870 and features eight circular spice boxes with labels for ginger, mace, mustard, pepper, allspice, nutmegs, cloves, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal Summer Sale: A Box of Surprises
Blue dogs have been turning up regularly at auction in the year following the death of Louisiana artist George Rodrigue (1944-2013). The Yellow Robe of Texas, signed and dated 1991 and 20" x 24", ranks with the most appealing. The June sale cover lot-first time a Rodrigue has appeared there ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The 18th Dish Camp at Eastfield Village
Odd things of ceramic interest show up on the tables in the 1836 church where lectures are held.
This shows a mix of pottery wasters from a pit in Burslem, Staffordshire, England with extant examples and some re-created examples made by Don Carpentier to match, using his one-of-a-kind rose and crown ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Appellate Court Rules in Case about Thomas Cole's "Portage Falls on the Genesee"
A June 28, 2013, decree of the Surrogate's Court, Cayuga County, New York, denied the motion of the Fred L. Emerson Foundation, Inc. to dismiss the petition for appointment of an administrator, and granted "Letters of Administration" to the petitioner, limited to enforcement of a charitable gift under the last ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$210,000 Paid for Painting by Georgia Peanut Farmer
Presidents from Millard Fillmore to Barack Obama are represented in this once-in-a-lifetime collection of books authored by or written about a U.S. president. Some of these books are rare or came from the presidents' personal libraries. The set includes the signatures of the following: Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pennsylvania State Legislators Flunk History
The Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill in early June, and Governor Tom Corbett signed it on June 26, designating the Piper J-3 Cub and the Pennsylvania long rifle as the state's official aircraft and firearm. Unfortunately, the legislators got their facts wrong about the rifle. Newspapers in Lancaster and Allentown ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts
James Buttersworth, the America's Cup yacht Vigilant (with two spectator steamboats to the left and with the runner-up yachts to the right), oil on canvas, 20" x 30", signed lower right. Buttersworth's best paintings may, indeed, be his largest, like this exciting panorama; it brought $305,000.
Name board, Velocity, 61/4" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bracket Clock Is a Real Show-Stopper
The high lot of the Evans sale was this unassuming bracket clock by Samuel Betts of London (active 1645-73). The clock features an engraved brass dial signed "Samuel Betts Londini," with a double-fusee movement, dating from the mid-17th century. The case is ebonized wood resting on a separate base. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 42nd Annual Round Lake Antiques Festival
Ken Woodbury of Keene, New Hampshire, exhibited more wind-up cylinder and disc phonographs than usual. "I brought a good variety of horns but ran out of space to properly display them," said Woodbury.
Three high-priced burl bowls were in the booth of Kay Riordan Roffe of Williamson, New York. The largest ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of the Shenandoah Valley Antiques Fair
Pete Turner hails from Concord, North Carolina, and trades as P & P Treasures. His booth offered an unexpected combination of vintage advertising signs and face jugs. Here is a selection of Turner's signs: Chicago Southern Transportation Company, $175; Valvoline, $410; NFBPWC, $325; Martin Senour Paints/NAPA thermometer, $100; a square ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
The paint-decorated bed (against the wall in back), all original and complete with side rails, was $1450 from Raccoon Creek Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania. The early 19th-century banister-back day bed from New Jersey was $2400, and the folk art cradle, $1250. In the cradle, the lithographed cloth cats cost $175 each, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rhode Island Auction
The New England Queen Anne highboy, circa 1760, went for $7200.
John Howard Benson's drawing of the courthouse in Newport sold for $3600.
The Massachusetts Chippendale chest sold for $5400 to the trade.
Two Chinese export porcelain garden seats fetched $4800.
Boston artist William Edward Norton's ship's portrait sold for $4800.
An early pair of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Strengthens Ivory Law
New York Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, chairman of the Environmental Conservation Committee, said on June 18 that an agreement has been reached to restrict the market in New York for ivory articles and rhinoceros horns. The bill prohibits transactions involving these materials with very limited exceptions and increases the criminal and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Early Cropsey Painting Discovered
Photo courtesy Freeman's.
Not every American painting is sold in American paintings sales. Lot 110 in Freeman's "European Art and Old Masters" sale on June 17 in Philadelphia was cataloged as "British School (19th Century) 'Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England,' located verso, 22" x 34", oil on canvas laid to panel." The ... (Read More)
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(Feature)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)The Keys to a Revolution
The three Bastille keys.
Jean-Pierre Houel (1735-1813), Vue d'un cachot de la Bastille a l'instant ou lon delivre les prisonniers, ... (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.
Start with a House: Finish with a Collection by Leslie Anne Miller, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Pictures and Music
A picture being cropped and edited on the tablet computer on which it was taken.
Computer Column #307
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Photo Editing
Good pictures sell good antiques whether on line, in a catalog, or in person. Last month we suggested ways to prevent camera shake when pictures are taken with a tablet ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)All in One Week: Heritage, Phillips, and Freeman's Hold Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
According to oral tradition, this circa 1773 diamond, enamel, gold, and silver 31/4" x 31/4" commander's breast pin of the Order of Charles III, Spain, descended from Manuel de Amat y Junient, to whom it was presented in 1773. According to the Heritage catalog, the "Royal ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)MFA, Boston Acquires Cuban Chest for Art of the Americas Wing
Dennis Carr, the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the William J. Fitzgerald Gallery with the Cuban chest of drawers (comoda), 1750-1800, 45 7/8" x 681/2" x 35 1/16", mahogany, Spanish cedar (Cedrela odorata), and silver hardware. Henry H. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Barbara Ardizone, Salisbury, Connecticut
Barbara Ardizone with her "protector" Kobi.
Ardizone's home (and B & B, and antiques inventory storage unit, and doggy B & B) on Main Street in Salisbury, Connecticut.
The frame and the painting of the cat playing with a ball of red wool are priced separately. The frame with faux maple graining ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Sweet Charity
The Young Collector
We always end up in the bar. It never fails. After any forum, conference, or show, in the bar you'll find a motley assortment of dealers, collectors, auctioneers, and the various colorful folks they seem to attract dissecting the recent event, solving the problems of the business, venting ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Putting Others First
Auction Law & Ethics
"There is no right way to do the wrong thing."
I'm not sure who minted that nugget. The first time I recall reading it was in an article penned by my friend Mark Rogers of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and published by the National Auctioneers Association. Rogers was ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Buying through eBay
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of selling through eBay. This month I'll cover buying through eBay. There have been many discussions over the years in the form of letters to the editor concerning buying and selling on eBay. Going through back issues and my recollections, there ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
Islamic and Indian works of art account for a fair proportion of this month's selections, but an iconic ice-axe, Crusader swords, a geochronoscope, a billiards table, peacocks, a man-powered spinning reel, Lalique glass vases, 20th-century prints, and Spindrift, a lost clipper, are also on the bill of fare.
A: ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner's Andrews Sale Sets Unanticipated Records
No one was terribly surprised when the first lot offered, this lidded wooden pail made in Canterbury, New Hampshire, brought $11,070. The pail has choice yellow paint and all the quality construction details Shaker collectors prefer. Skinner CEO Karen Keane, sitting at the rear of the phone bidders group, held ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MESDA Journal Article Reveals Tennessee's Earliest Documented Cabinetmaker
Corner cupboard by Moses Crawford, 1790-1800, Knox County, Tennessee. Walnut with yellow pine and tulip poplar; 1011/4" x 561/2" x 231/2". Collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), Acc. 5422.
The identity of Tennessee's earliest known cabinetmaker, documented in the region at least 20 years before statehood, has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA's Coastal Maine Antiques Show One Week Earlier
The tents will be going up one week earlier this year.
The Maine Antiques Dealers Association's (MADA) 17th annual Coastal Maine Antiques Show will be held Wednesday, August 20, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, Maine. This year's show will take place one week earlier ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colby College Museum of Art to Present Bernard Langlais Retrospective
Bernard Langlais, Around Four, 1959-62, painted wood, 72" x 48" x 2". The Bernard Langlais Collection, Gift of Helen Friend Langlais.
This summer, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, will present a scholarly retrospective of the work of the artist Bernard Langlais, whose estate Colby College received as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Sarasota Winter Art & Antiques Show
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(Issue Story)More Firearms to Market?
Editorial
A bill introduced in Congress on May 28 would modify the definition of an "antique" firearm and would mean the trade in many firearms would no longer be controlled by federal law.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 defined an antique firearm as any "manufactured in or before 1898." The GCA ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heart of Country Antiques Show Is No More
In late May, Susan Kramer Hunkins of Kramer Hunkins & Associates, the co-owner of the popular 33-year-old Heart of Country Antiques Show in Nashville, Tennessee, announced that the February 13-15 show was their last. Susan and Steve Hunkins are the daughter and son-in-law of Elizabeth "Libby" and Richard Kramer, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Expands to St. Louis
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is expanding into the St. Louis area. The firm will open a new auction facility at 32 North Brentwood in the heart of Clayton, Missouri.
"We have received so many wonderful consignments of fine art, jewelry, and decorative arts from the St. Louis area; it only makes sense ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William B. Earley Joins Gateway Gallery Auction
William B. Earley has joined Gateway Gallery Auction LLC, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, as specialist consultant for antiquarian and out-of-print books. Earley, with nearly 40 years of experience in the fine book and manuscript field, will be responsible for assessing and cataloging rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, as well as local history ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Allman Promotions Assumes Management of Salt City Antiques Shows
Steve and Judy Allman of Allman Promotions LLC have assumed the management of the Salt City Antiques Shows in Syracuse, New York. "The Salt City Antiques Shows will continue in their original format and will be advertised and promoted in the tradition and to the standards established by its founder, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stebbins Clock on View at Historic Deerfield
The circa 1800 Stebbins family tall clock, bought by Philip Zea, president of Historic Deerfield, for $185,000 at a Sotheby's sale on January 24, is now on public view in its original home, the north parlor of the Stebbins House at Historic Deerfield, Massachusetts.
The clock, made by Aaron Willard ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design
Paul Evans (1931-1987), Paul Evans Studio, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1969, welded and polychrome steel, 23k gold leaf, laminate, welded signature "Paul Evans 1969 D," 25" x 821/2" x 19", from the collection of Dorsey Reading, sold for $219,750 (est. $100,000/125,000), a record for a horizontal Evans steel-front cabinet, the third-highest ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burton Antiques Market
Leisa Kirtley of Western Reserve Antique Shop, Canfield, Ohio, consistently presents a great mix in her dealer display. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Local History Boosts Folk Art and Furniture
This oil on canvas portrait of an unknown subject was attributed to French Classical portraitist Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805). The attribution came from a pair of ink inscriptions on the back that also mentioned that the painting came from the collection of Professor Armando Perera of Rome, Italy. The painting clearly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collector-Friendly Southern Pottery Sale
At $25,300, this rare Salem, North Carolina, cast redware fish flask was the top-priced lot in this sale. In the society's over 40 sales and 20 years of auctions, this is only the fifth such example offered. Extremely detailed scales, fins, gills, and eyes are protected by a generously applied ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Going West" Goes Up
This lithograph sold for $78,600. Photo courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts.
At Rachel Davis Fine Arts on June 14 at the Works on Paper auction, a lithograph by Thomas Hart Benton, Going West, sold for $78,600 (includes buyer's premium) to an on-line bidder. The print, signed and numbered "29" in pencil, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Auction
California gold rush-era pocket watch, 14k yellow gold Girard Watch Company hunter case, circa 1850, ornate floral pattern engraving on the outer case along with eight California ore samples encased in glass on the front cover and surrounded by eight alternating inlaid panels of moss agate and California quartz, $37,600.
Flute ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Art Deal Gone Wrong: Dealer Sued and "Buyer" Indicted
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Files Suit against Christie's, Ex-Employees
What are three experts worth? About $60 million in lost profits and damages, claims Heritage Auctions.
The Dallas-based auction firm filed suit against Christie's on June 13, claiming that the venerable auction house stole Heritage's "complete Luxury Accessories business group" when three former employees defected to Christie's. The former Heritage employees ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Book & Ephemera Fair Folds after Opening Night
A strange thing happened at the Flamingo Eventz Philadelphia Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair at the Sheraton in downtown Philadelphia on Friday, June 13. Greg Gibson of the Ten Pound Island Book Company wrote about it in his weekly blog (http://bookmanslog.blogspot.com). "After setup and opening night at the Philadelphia Vintage ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Half Bear, Half Bull Market for Bears
This black mohair Steiff bear, with red-rimmed eyes, symbolizes mourning for the victims of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. It sold for $35,550.
This circa 1910 golden mohair Steiff teddy came with a fully functioning growler, a photo of the two children who first owned it, and a letter of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts in Hatfield
A collection of 474 early 19th-century plaster intaglios, mounted in 25 volumes in the manner of Giovanni Liberotti, displayed in half vellum volumes against green marbled paper, and each volume with a manuscript list inside the front cover, sold for $9945 (est. $8000/10,000).
Paul Weber (1823-1916), Scene in Dolwyddelan Valley, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)After Almost 20 Years in the Suburbs, Grogan & Company Moves to Boston
Nancy, Lucy, and Michael Grogan.
An auction house that has been based in Boston's southwestern suburbs for almost two decades is moving into the city. Grogan & Company has bought a piece of real estate at the foot of Beacon Hill and is transferring its operation there. On June 11 the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Roundup of Design Sales in June
Bonhams held the first sale of the week. Sales from its 227 lots of decorative arts totaled $1,443,750. This circa 1910 Tiffany Studios Favrile glass and patinated bronze Laburnum table lamp, estimated at $250,000/350,000, sold on the phone to the trade for $425,000. Frank Maraschiello, director of the 20th-century decorative ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Tale of Two Art Sales
Truckin by William T. Williams (b. 1942) went to an unnamed institution for $137,000 (est. $75,000/100,000). The 84" x 60" (7' x 5') acrylic on canvas was signed, titled, dated 1969, and inscribed on the stretcher bars. June 10.
Southern Landscape by Walter Williams (1920-1988) sold to a collector for $81,250 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Memorial Service For John J. Snyder Jr.
A memorial service for John J. Snyder Jr. will be held on June 8, at 2 p.m., at Rock Ford Plantation, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For more information, call (717) 392-7223.
Originally published in the June 2014 issue of Maine Antique Digest. (c) 2014 Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Wild Cherry, signed lower right, a 28" x 30" oil on canvas in a Newcomb-Macklin frame, $230,500. Painted in 1928, it had been acquired in 1931 by Mr. and Mrs. James Hillman of Pittsburgh. Garber wrote to James Hillman's wife, Margaret, describing Wild Cherry: "The scene is ... (Read More)
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