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()A Book Review: Ceramics in America 2012
A Book Review
Ceramics in America
Edited by Robert Hunter
Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2012, 196 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com)
Ceramics in America, the scholarly journal edited by Robert Hunter and published by the Chipstone Foundation, widens ... (Read More)
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()Forty M.A.D. Years: Million-Dollar Americana Lots Sold at Auction since 2004
Million-Dollar Americana Lots Sold at Auction since 2004
Tall-case clock made by Peter Stretch, Philadelphia, 1740, in a mahogany case, $1,688,000 to Winterthur. A record for an American clock at auction. Sotheby's, October 28, 2004.
Japanned high chest, 1735-39, signed by Rob Davis, $1,876,000 to a dealer on the phone. A record ... (Read More)
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()Forty M.A.D. Years: Folk Art Lots over $500,000 Sold at Auction since 2004
Folk Art Lots over $500,000 Sold at Auction since 2004
Johannes Spitler hanging cupboard, $962,500, a record for American painted furniture, to David Schorsch and Eileen Smiles. Green Valley Auction Company, Mt. Crawford, Virginia, November 13, 2004.
John Haley Bellamy monumental-size eagle with "God Is Our Refuge and Strength" on the banner, ... (Read More)
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()Forty M.A.D. Years
See Americana Lots over One Million Dollars Sold at Auction since 2004
See Folk Art Lots over Five-Hundred-Thousand Dollars Sold at Auction since 2004
In November 1973, Sam and Sally Pennington launched Maine Antique Digest from their kitchen table in Waldoboro, Maine. Since its first issue M.A.D. has been the publication of ... (Read More)
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()A Primer on Pricing
The Art of Marketing
For the last three months I've covered the topic of advertising. Now it's time to change gears and move on to another very complex topic-pricing.
Someone once said, "An item is worth whatever someone is willing to pay for it." I've found that in the antiques business this ... (Read More)
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()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.
American Decoration: A Sense of Place by Thomas Jayne (The Monacelli Press, 2012, ... (Read More)
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()Wi-Fi and Finders
One of several flea market finding apps available for Android and Apple iOS smartphones.
Computer Column #299
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Cell phone Wi-Fi at antiques shows, auction finders, and finders for flea markets and yard sales are this month's topics.
Wider Wi-Fi
In the April issue we reported on the increasing use among antiques ... (Read More)
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()Just Another 'Ectomy
Auction Law & Ethics
A lot of folks complain about auctioneers. Auctioneers have complaints too.
Remember when you were a kid and another youngster came along and grabbed something that should have been yours. Maybe it was the next ride down the sliding board that a line-cutter snatched from you. Perhaps it ... (Read More)
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()The Morgan/Van Wickle Pottery: A Case of Mistaken Identity
This rare 1817 Bissett crock has been attributed to the Morgan-Van Wickle pottery for years. The blue flower on the reverse side of the crock and the coggle are identical to the decoration found on the Sim sherd in the Monmouth County Historical Association's collection. Photographs of the crock are ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings by Calder among Top Lots of $2.1 Million Sale
Attributed to Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), The Cunera Tower, Rhenen sold for $96,000 (est. $3000/5000). The 17" x 27" oil on panel was the top lot of the sale.
Eastham by Alexander Calder (1898-1976), 31" x 23", gouache on paper, signed and dated "Sandy Calder Eastham 1949," $72,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). That's ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Thank you
Editorial
This issue of Maine Antique Digest marks the 40th anniversary of the publication. The first edition of M.A.D.-a scant 28 pages with a newsstand price of 50cents and a yearly subscription cost of $5-was published by founders Sam and Sally Pennington in November 1973.
We want to mark this anniversary by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Elizabeth Lees and Meg Wendy Partner for New York Ceramics Fair
Elizabeth Lees announced that she has formed a partnership with Meg Wendy to produce the 2014 edition of the New York Ceramics Fair, January 22-26. It will mark the 15th anniversary of the fair, which focuses on ceramics and glass from the 17th through the 21st centuries. The show is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts
The presentation of the second annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts will be held at Christie's in New York City on January 22, 2014.
This year's award recognizes the dedication and contribution of three major collectors and philanthropists to the preservation of American decorative arts. Linda ... (Read More)
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()Willard House and Clock Museum Hosts Exhibit of Rare Musical Tall Clocks
Christian Eby, ten-tune musical tall-case clock with highly inlaid cherry case, Manheim, Pennsylvania, circa 1804.
The Willard House and Clock Museum in North Grafton, Massachusetts, is hosting Keeping Time: Musical Clocks of Early America, 1730-1830, an exhibit of nearly three dozen early American musical and chiming clocks. These fully functioning ... (Read More)
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(Show)Museum and Collectors Help Spark ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show
Elliott and Grace Snyder of South Egremont, Massachusetts, showed this Moore County, North Carolina, stand in poplar with a red paint finish and a Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts label in a drawer. It's 263/4" high and $9500. The 91/4" diameter round box, paint-decorated on a yellow ground, is ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2013 Ohio Country Antique Show
Made of painted wood, the double-sided "Ice Cream Social" sign was priced at $450. The bonnet chest in walnut had cherry drawer bottoms and was $795. The items were shown by Joseph Jarvis of Jarvis Antiques, Georgetown, Kentucky. "Smalls are doing good, but the big stuff didn't move today," he ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blue Plate Special and Oriental Buffet
This 1883 Royal Worcester plate is 7 7/8" in diameter and is intricately honeycombed and hand painted and has a center scene of a gilt mountain landscape in Oriental style attributed to George Owen. It closed at $20,400.
This Chinese Kangxi period water pot, cataloged as in the taibo zun form, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Price Paid for Almshouse Painting
This oil on tin by Charles C. Hofman (1821-1882), labeled and titled in the painting Views of the buildings & surroundings of the Berks County Alms House, has a central oval bird's-eye view of the complex within an ornate border surrounded by eight smaller vignettes of the outbuildings and with ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo Slogs through a Rainy Weekend
Tom and Mary Jo Riggs are from Greensboro, Maryland. They trade as Country Sampler Antiques and are proud that they have "the biggest truck in the parking lot." The couple has configured a very large box truck to function as both their motor home and cargo carrier. The Arts and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful Sale in Spite of Storm Delay
President Ashton Thomas said the auction house likes to schedule fine jewelry on Sunday morning, just to wake everyone up. Top lot of the entire sale was this platinum and diamond ring with a central stone of over 10.46 carats flanked by smaller baguettes. The ring sold for $196,800. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fred Thompson Hand-Colored Photo Brings Thousands
$3520. Photo courtesy Michael Ivankovich.
At Michael Ivankovich's October 11, 2013, auction in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a Fred Thompson hand-colored photo sold for $3520 (includes buyer's premium).
Fred Thompson was a photographer from Portland, Maine, who, like his contemporary Wallace Nutting, sold hand-colored photos during the early 20th century. Thompson visited Nutting's Southbury, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Avenue Antiques, Art & Design Show
Bridges Over Time, Newburgh, New York, sold several pieces of furniture including a petrified wood table with an iron base to a design firm. In the above picture is a bronze sculpture on a Formica base by Elizabeth Strong-Cuevas, a great-granddaughter of John D. Rockefeller. The asking price was $9500. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fifty Shades of Blue
Three phone bidders competed for this historical blue Staffordshire Mt. Pleasant Classical Institute plate, 10 5/8" in diameter, impressed "Clews," one of three known examples, and in excellent condition. It sold for $21,330 (est. $4000/6000).
This 9 1/8" x 113/4" Staffordshire Baltimore platter sold on the phone for $7110 (est. $2500/3500) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Printed and Manuscript Americana: Maps, Memoirs, and Mug Shots
This album of 31 photographs of a whale hunt and other scenes of Inupiaq village life sold to a dealer for $18,750 (est. $2000/3000). Suzanne Rognon Bernardi and her brother, Jack Rognon, were the photographers in Wales, Alaska, in 1901-02. Pictured are two Inupiaq hunters butchering a whale.
The top lot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two More High-Flying Folk Art Lots
Underbid by a collector, Todd Prickett of C.L. Prickett Antiques, Yardley, Pennsylvania, paid $545,100 for Views.... Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.
In an upcoming issue, we'll have a closer look at two auctions that added to the list of folk art lots that have sold for over $500,000. At Pook & ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Los Angeles Antiques Art + Design Show 2013
A.G. Rizzoli is an artist whom Bonnie Grossman of Ames Gallery, Berkeley, California, discovered in 1990. A woman came to the gallery with four color drawings and 39 assorted pieces on vellum to sell. "I bought them all," said Grossman, and there have been numerous shows of his work in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)J. Garland Warren's Country Store Collection
This 35" x 47" sign for Armour's pork and beans, embossed tin in a wooden frame, late 19th or early 20th century, brought $2585 (est. $600/1200).
This 58" high Royal Crown Cola sign of enameled tin, early 20th century, sold for $1058 (est. $250/500).
This 71/2" x 59" wooden sign with "Oliver ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Potomack Company Sale Tops $1.4 Million
The high lot of the Potomack Company sale was this carved sandstone head of a bodhisattva. The 10" high head is thought to have come from cave 17 at the Yungang Grottoes in Datong, Shanxi Province, west of Beijing. More than 50,000 pieces of carved art were found in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Millersburg Glass with a Twist
The glassmaker threw it all at this purple Four Pillars vase, twisting the body, flattening the rim, and swinging it out from its original 7" length to 12". A one-of-a-kind whimsy, it sold for $1607.
An outstanding piece of Millersburg, this 11" purple Peacock at Urn tri-corner bowl combined a rare ... (Read More)
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(Show)Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Association Antiques Show & Sale
All WADA show/sales feature an educational exhibit prominently displayed as one enters the show. At this event, Debbie and Dick Griem of Kiel, Wisconsin, shared their impressive collection of antique firefighting memorabilia. That's Debbie standing by part of the display. We saw several showgoers stop to chat and share experiences ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Thoughts on Old Things: Four Centuries of Furnishing the Northeast
This chest of drawers from Montreal, 1780-90, butternut and white pine, was a gift of Miss Dorothy Buhler in memory of Sarah M. Gilbert; a gift of Estelle S. Frankfurter; and gift of the John Gardner Greene estate by exchange. The MFA notes that the chest's facade in the shape ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The "Charged Up" Charger
This 15" high x 17" long standing temple kylin censer, in cast bronze with cloisonne and gilt decorations, was from a Baltimore estate. The price was an early indication that Orientalia buyers were tuned in, as one paid $50,600 for the piece.
On the very last page of the 76-page sale ... (Read More)
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(Show)Vermont's Antiques Week: Five Shows in Four Days-The Chase Was On!
From October 3 to 6, a determined group of antiques seekers traversed the byways and highways of south-central Vermont in pursuit of antiques, preferably antiques that were fresh to the market and in as-found perfect condition with great original surfaces, priced at under the market prices. Never mind that the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Norman Lewis Painting Sells for a New Record
A new price record for the artist was set for Norman Lewis (1909-1979) when this circa 1957 untitled 49" x 63" oil on linen canvas sold to a collector for $581,000 (est. $250,000/350,000).
Head by Elizabeth Catlett (1915-2012), a 1947 terra cotta painted dark brown, measures 11" x 6" x 81/2". ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"New" Farmer Auctions Holds Inaugural Catalog Sale
This seven-piece sterling silver tea service is marked "Tiffany & Co./ Makers/ Sterling Silver/ 925-1000/ M." The set includes a kettle on warming stand, coffeepot, teapot, covered sugar, creamer, an open waste bowl, and tray. The kettle, coffeepot, and teapot are fitted with pear wood handles. The tray measures 261/2" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More American Tools Sold Abroad
The first known mention of a toolmaker in an American context occurs in 1752 in plane-maker Francis Nicholson's will. This plow plane bearing his stamp brought $6748.
This finely proportioned crown molding plane in birch, stamped "N. Potter" and attributed to Nathaniel Potter of Lynn and Leicester, Massachusetts, sold for $10,310.
End ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Elizabeth Furnace and the Stiegel-Coleman House and Furnishings
This oil on canvas portrait of Anna and Harriet Coleman by Thomas Sully, painted between November 2 and December 18, 1846, with the monogram "TS," 451/2" x 351/2", sold for $145,000 (est. $40,000/50,000) to one of Bill Coleman's daughters, underbid by a private collector.
This blown glass pattern-molded cobalt pitcher, said ... (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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(Fragment)Lauritzen Gardens Show Advisory Committee
The Lauritzen Gardens Antique & Garden Show has announced the inception of a national advisory committee comprising renowned design experts. Advisory committee members will help provide insight into current trends, recommendations for keynote speakers, direction on featured antiques dealers and ideas, and inspiration for the show. Members include Jeffrey Bilhuber, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie's
This circa 1750 Queen Anne walnut compass- seat side chair has carving by a contemp- orary of Samuel Harding, who carved architect- ural ele- ments at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall). It sold for $579,750 (est. $200,000/300,000) to a phone bidder, underbid on the phone by New York City ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Bonhams
This maple desk-on-frame, probably Massachusetts, 1680-1710, 40" high x 26 1/8" wide including molding, has an Israel Sack provenance and is illustrated in Albert Sack's Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (1961) as an example of "best" form. It sold on the phone for $37,500 (est. $10,000/15,000).
This pair of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bankruptcy of Lender for Pledged Art and Antiques Leads to Arrests
A grand jury in the San Jose Division of U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, indicted Anthony Barreiro and Ernest Ray Parker, alias Ray Parker Gaylord and Ray Gaylord, on September 25, 2013, for a total of 12 counts of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's Posts $5.8 Million Fall Sale
Queen Anne walnut compass-seat side chair, circa 1750, with carving by a contemporary of Samuel Harding, who carved architectural elements in the interior of the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), sold for $579,750 to a phone bidder, underbid by dealer Leigh Keno on the phone. It was from the estate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Goodyear Collection at Auction
William Hart & Son created a series of five episodes of boxing squirrels in the 1850's. The squirrels are stuffed. Each box is 143/4" x 19" x 7". A set was displayed at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851. Interestingly, the squirrels wear gloves, which became mandatory only after 1867 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Variety Prevails at Quinn & Farmer Sale
The high lot of the Quinn & Farmer sale was this pair of Nakashima Conoid chairs. Oral history has it is that these chairs were ordered directly from the Nakashima studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania. George Nakashima (Japanese/American, 1905-1990) is frequently referred to as the father of the American craft ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian & Western Art
Crow Encampment by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas, signed, 22" x 261/2" plus original southwestern frame, relined, otherwise in fine condition, $309,000.
Red River Metis quilled-hide knife sheath, 131/2" long, with an unmarked Sheffield-made dag knife, circa 1830, $54,000. Sinew-sewn on softly tanned buckskin and quilled using porcupine quills ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fitz Henry Lane Sells for $1.3 Million; Dance Collection Leaps and Soars
Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector from the South for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was inscribed to the artist's close friend: "...F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A Souvenir of our excursion to Penobscot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Skinner Sells a Fitz Henry Lane View for $1,384,000
Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was signed and dated "FH Lane 1862" on the front and inscribed on the reverse: "... F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Thieves Hit Antiques Center
Police are looking for the public's help in trying to identify three people who stole an estimated $10,000 in antique silver flatware from the Cambridge Antiques Center in Cambridge, New York, on September 18 at about 4 p.m. Thieves took from a locked case more than a dozen Tiffany and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Indian Lake
Jon Magoun of South Paris, Maine, had a large 30" x 40" Indian wool basket for $900; an Indian dual-colored drying basket, 24" x 21", for $395; a Penobscot decorated wall basket for $185; a rocking chair by Snowcraft Company, Norway, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
This month's "Letter," I indicated last month, might include quite a few paintings and drawings, some clocks, some silver, and a few furnishings. There are indeed a number of old master drawings and a few Dali concoctions in this "Letter," along with a superb bronze and a lot ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Hunterdon County Clock Case and the Enigmatic John Guild
Fig. 1A. Cherry tall-case clock made for Judge Joseph Reading, attributed to John Guild. Courtesy of the Sully Historic Site, Chantilly, Virginia, Fairfax County Park Authority Resource Management Division Historic Collections, Sully Foundation, Ltd.
Fig. 1B. Signature on the dial of figure 1A, "Joseph Reading Hunterdon County New Jersey."
Fig. 1C. Pediment ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Old Tools and New Methods
Portion of an ad hoc collection catalog of old tap dance books created with spreadsheet software.
Computer Column #298
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
Favorite old software tools and changes in the way software is sold are covered this month.
Old Tools
Tablets and smartphones are taking over jobs once done by desktop or laptop computers. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)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.
Art of Katahdin: The Mountain, the Range, the Region by David Little (Down ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Battle over Cole Painting Heads to Court
The estate of William H. Seward has filed a petition to force the Fred L. Emerson Foundation to return Thomas Cole's Portage Falls in the Genesee to Auburn, New York. Raymond "Ray" S. Messenger, a great-great-grandson of William H. Seward, filed the petition in Surrogate's Court, Cayuga County, against the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)You Get What You Need
The Young Collector
Nora has started her first year at college, and Nat is a junior in high school who is excited about getting his driver's license in a few months. OK, Nora just turned three, and Nat is getting really good at sitting upright (meaning he's mastering the first skill ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Steve Erenberg, Radio Guy, Peekskill, New York
Steve Erenberg with his son Dan who handles much of the work for their Early Electrics lighting venture.
Work proceeds on Erenberg's gallery space. His son Dan designed the metal panels of the circular staircase.
The building at 115 North Water Street in Peekskill that is scheduled to house Erenberg's new gallery ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Hot, Hotter, Hottest
Auction Law and Ethics
There's an old saying that "it takes a thief to catch a thief." While that might be true, sometimes a U.S. magistrate judge can serve the purpose-at least in determining that there was a thief.
Clayton Pennington, editor of M.A.D., wrote an interesting article in the August issue ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Advertising and Blogging
The Art of Marketing
For the last two issues I've covered advertising. I've received many comments and questions about this topic, so I've decided to keep it going again this month and answer a question about blogging.
A few years ago I saw an ad in Maine Antique Digest in a special ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arts and Crafts, Fine Art, and 1950's and Modern
John Lennon's complete 1970 Bag One portfolio of 15 lithographs and carrying bag, from an edition of 300, went to a London buyer at $47,580 (est. $12,000/18,000). Treadway/Toomey photo.
This 71/4" high Arequipa Potteries vase, signed and numbered 283, has a green matte finish with two-color squeeze bag decoration. It ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kaminski Auctions Sets Up in Manhattan
The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center at 1050 Second Avenue, New York City, has added Kaminski Auctions to its roster of nearly 100 high-end antiques dealers.
Kaminski Auctions, located on the first floor of the center in Gallery #28 on the street level, will be offering a free appraisal service every ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barn Star Assumes Management of Armonk Antiques Show
The Brynwood Golf and Country Club in Armonk, New York, will be the new home of the Armonk Antiques Show, according to Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions, who has assumed the management of the approximately 30-year-old show. According to Gaglio, the new venue will allow for a preview gala, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cameron Joins MaxSold
Boston-area auctioneer and auction house owner Tonya A. Cameron is joining the management team at MaxSold, a Canada-based firm that specializes in on-line estate and business liquidation auctions. In her capacity as regional manager for MaxSold in New England, Cameron will be visiting with clients at their homes or business ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Funny Business
Editorial
Getting hoodwinked at an auction is no laughing matter, but we must admit that we chuckled at a story coming out of Australia.
According to a local television station, an auction buyer paid around $300 for a signed print by Modernist artist Margaret Preston (1875-1963) at a sale conducted by Arthouse ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jenkins Management Cancels Fall Nashville Show
Jenkins Management has canceled its fall 2013 Nashville, Tennessee, antiques show: Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show and the Vintage Marketplace. The February 13-15, 2014, show will still be held but at a different venue-the Nashville Expo Center at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. For the past two years, the show has been ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Walcher Joins Toomey
John P. Walcher has joined the staff of John Toomey Gallery in Oak Park, Illinois, as head of silver and decorative arts. For the last four years, Walcher has worked in the furniture and decorative arts department at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago, where he recently organized the successful 767-lot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Major Theft at National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
1903 Belmont Stakes trophy, won by Africander.
1903 Brighton Cup trophy, won by Hermis.
1923 Grand National Steeplechase trophy, won by Sergeant Murphy.
1914 Brook Cup Handicap Steeplechase trophy, won by Compliment.
1905 Saratoga Special trophy, won by Mohawk II.
Five historical trophies were stolen during a three-minute burglary at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Willis Henry Sells McCue Collection and More
Here's a rare maple rocking chair made at Union Village in Ohio. The more common (but still rare) version has turned posts with the familiar symmetrical pommels or finials at the top and arched-top slats. This version in thin bittersweet orange paint has the thinned-down posts and notched-end slats. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)John Alexander Ltd. Empties Warehouse
This English metal-mounted and carved mahogany display cabinet by George Washington Jack for Morris & Co., circa 1890, stamped "Morris & Co., 449 Oxford St. W. 1783," sold for $4600 (est. $10,000/15,000). Levitties said he thought it was worth $40,000 at the top of the market.
Pair of Danish teak and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana Sale at Garth's
Two-piece apothecary or store chest with 63 drawers, pine with old gray paint, 19th century, 811/2" high x 87" wide, $3916.
Gasoline sign, single-sided, wood in original blue paint with white letters and black trim, first half of the 20th century, 16" x 86", wear and some losses, $3290.
Patriotic pitcher with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pook's First Toy Auction
This Dark Town Battery cast-iron mechanical bank, manufactured by J. & E. Stevens Company, sold for $3318 (est. $1500/2500) to an absentee bidder. A fine example might sell for $10,000 or $12,000, and the auction record is $27,500 for an exceptional one.
This carpenter-made 223/4" high cast-iron and wood three-story burning ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Educational Series to Fund Winterthur Scholarships
Matthew Quinn, vice president of Quinn's Auction Galleries, introduces speaker Ken Farmer at the 2012 ISA FAE symposium. Image courtesy of Quinn's Auction Galleries.
The Foundation for Appraisal Education (FAE), the fund-raising arm of the International Society of Appraisers (ISA), has announced the establishment of a scholarship program at Winterthur Museum, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster's Two-Day Event
The portrait of the American schooner Jonathan Chase sold for $6050.
This blue historical Staffordshire platter with an Oriental scene of birds and pagoda-type buildings in the center panel sold for $660.
This two-part Federal secretary with matched crotch mahogany-veneered drawer fronts, brass pulls, and doors with four arched glass panels sold ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry at the Annual Show in Damariscotta, Maine
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos by David Vickery
It was sometimes difficult to get a word in edgewise without interrupting jewelry sales at the Maine Antiques Dealers Association show at Damariscotta River Association's Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, Maine, on August 28. It was a glorious day, and the word from Roger ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Don't Forget to Sign up for the 2014 Antiques Trade Directory!
To sign up for the Maine Antique Digest 2014 Antiques Trade Directory,please click here.
If you would like to look through our 2013 Antiques Trade Directory, please click here.
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(Feature)Deadline Approaching for the 2014 Antiques Trade Directory. Sign up Today!
Deadline: September 13, 2013! Sign up for the Maine Antique Digest 2014 Antiques Trade Directory.
If you are an antiques dealer, an auctioneer, or a show promoter, you should be part of the Maine Antique Digest 2014 Antiques Trade Directory. This helpful volume will be bound separately and included with our ... (Read More)
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()Rockwell Kent Painting a Big Hit
Fourteenth-century carved marble plaque, attributed to Tino di Camaino, $109,250 (est. $10,000/15,000).
West Greenland Landscape, 1929, a 28" x 34" (sight size) oil on canvas by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), more than doubled its estimate to sell for $172,500.
Francis Augustus Silva (1835-1886), a view of Brace Rock, off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, watercolor ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Danish Settee Tops Maine Auction
The top lot of the Keating sale was a Niels Vodder/Finn Juhl settee that sold for $15,525. The modern pieces at the sale came from a Cape Elizabeth, Maine, home, that was furnished on one floor with traditional antique furniture and on the other floor with Modernist designer furniture. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show 2013
Arcadia Fine Arts, New York City, offered Paul Rousso's super-size money. Five Grand from NY (bottom), 50" x 75" x 7", was $16,900. (The $1000 bill was $15,900.) Rousso makes wall pieces and free-standing sculpture of large sheets of acrylic, on which he transfers high-resolution prints of paper money from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Four Days and $5.8 Million
This oil on canvas portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale brought $130,350. Sisco photo.
This Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze image of Shadakshari Avalokitesvara, a primary representative of Buddhist compassion ("Lord of the Six Syllables"), brought $438,450.
This 143/4" diameter Ming Dynasty porcelain bowl brought $124,425. Sisco photo.
This relatively small (3" tall) Chinese ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gamage Kicks Off Maine's Auction Week
Andrew Wyeth's sketch of his home on Benner Island, Maine, served as a preliminary study for his tempera painting Otherworld. The sketch, photo, and handwritten note together brought $14,375.
This little piggin went to market and brought home lots of bacon. This piggin form with the upright "lollipop" extended stave is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Making Art Out of War: "Photography and the American Civil War"
Unknown artist, after an 1860 carte de visite by Mathew B. Brady (circa 1822-1896). Presidential campaign medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (Hamlin on reverse, not shown), 1860. Tintypes in stamped brass medallion. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, The Overbrook Foundation Gift, 2012 (2012.12). Image: (c) ... (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 Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty by Michael Findlay (Prestel, 2012, 208 ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Encryption
A mobile file encryption app.
Computer Column #297
by John P. Reid, E-mail: jreid@dca.net
Most of us are careful to protect sensitive material on our desktop computers. A list of Internet passwords, business records, or banking information can be encrypted and password protected by most word processors including Microsoft Word and the free ... (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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(Auction Law and Ethics)Whose Blood?
Auction Law & Ethics
Auctioneers get excited when they have a chance to put "blood in the water" for an auction. This auctioneering expression refers to alerting prospective bidders that a seller is in trouble and must sell. The message has considerable drawing power, so it is important for bidders and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
As the summer season of London sales draws to a close, I find my "waiting for report" files bursting at the seams-as ever. Over the coming months, I will work through them, and forthcoming "Letters" will include lots of paintings and drawings, plenty of clocks, some good silver, ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Successful Advertising
The Art of Marketing
Last month I began to cover the topic ofadvertising. Because it is such a large and complex topic, I've decided to continue on that same theme this month. Advertising plays a crucial role in persuading your target customers to buy from you. Companies spend millions of dollars ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)In Conversation: Modern African American Art
Gordon Parks (1912-2006), Harlem, circa 1948, gelatin silver print. (c)1948 Gordon Parks Foundation.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), Moon Masque, 1971, oil and collage on canvas.
John T. Biggers (1924-2001), Shotgun, Third Ward #1, 1966, tempera and oil on canvas.
Robert McNeill (1917-2005), New Car (South Richmond, Virginia), from the project "The Negro in ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Just Be Yourself
The Young Collector
Let's talk for a minute about Brimfield. No, not that one, another one (named for that one), a little farther west: Brimfield, Ohio.
Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it. Most people haven't. Brimfield, Ohio, gets lost easily, pinched as it is between the suburban sprawl that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Barbara Boardman Johnson, Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire, and Cave Creek, Arizona
Barbara Boardman Johnson in New Hampshire.
Johnson's shop Pewter & Wood in Enfield, New Hampshire. It's on a dirt road, just like her place in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Eight bottle dolls (actually, one is mounted on a tin can rather than a bottle). "They're under $350 each," Johnson said.
Interior views of Johnson's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont's Bromley Mountain Show Moves, Changes Name
The Bromley Mountain Antiques Show is moving a few miles east on Route 11 to Magic Mountain base lodge in Londonderry, Vermont, and will now be known as the Magic Mountain Antiques Show.
The show is still part of Antiques Week in Vermont and will join four other shows-the Weston Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Figure Out the Ending and Win a Free Lunch
Ann Smith of West Coast Antiques, Portland, Oregon, buys The Portland Payoff at a book signing at the July summer Expo Antiques Show.
Robin Williams, owner of Hampshire Antiques Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, has published a second novel, The Portland Payoff,whichfeatures dealers from Regency Antiques in Vancouver.
According to Williams, "This story ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Setting the Table
Editorial
On July 18 Detroit, one of largest cities in the United States, declared bankruptcy. The filing was made on the advice of Kevyn Orr, the emergency manager of the city, who was appointed by Governor Rick Snyder.
Orr is faced with a monumental task-the Motor City is estimated to be in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jason T. Busch Appointed Deputy Director of the Saint Louis Art Museum
Jason Busch in 2010.
Jason Busch will join the Saint Louis Art Museum in Saint Louis, Missouri, as deputy director in October. He will oversee the curatorial, exhibitions and collections, and education and public programs divisions. Busch, who turned 39 in July, is currently chief curator and the Alan G. and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Annual Maritime and China Trade Auction
"It's going to a great home," said Bourgeault after knocking down the painted silk 16" x 14" mourning escutcheon (hatchment) that was part of the elaborate funeral of Thomas Hancock in August 1764. It had descended in the Hancock family, spending years folded up and in a closet before being ... (Read More)
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(Show)Twenty Years of Folk Fest
An unusual group of ten characters made from roots, limbs, sawdust, and glue date from the late 19th century. They were offered only as a group for $9900 by Don Schweikert of Hickory, North Carolina.
Mary Proctor was surrounded by her work in her booth that was set up like a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Scherenschnitte to Shipwrecks: The Annual Ellsworth Antiques Show
The impressive silkwork and oil painting, featuring a velvet hull and silk sails, by Thomas Willis in 1909 was in great condition and considered one of his best examples. It was priced at $12,500. The 1930's New England gilded fish weathervane was $6400, and the painted New England faux tiger ... (Read More)
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(MAD News)Manions International Auction House Faces Lawsuit over Consignor Funds
Erlene W. Krigel, acting as the trustee in the bankruptcy case of collector Harold Ross Henshaw (1938-2013), filed suit in federal court in Missouri on August 13 against Manions International Auction House in Kansas City, Kansas, and against its president and chief operating officer, Joseph Tucker (a.k.a. Jody Tucker). Manions, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Park, Backus, and Thieme Pace McInnis Sale
Small (41/2" x 51/4") oil painting by Korean artist Park Soo-Keun (1914-1965), $119,025.
Anthony Thieme oil on canvas, White Birches in an Autumn Landscape, $21,850. McInnis photo.
Albert Ernest "Bean" Backus (1906-1990), oil on canvas of a Florida landscape, $20,700.
The original paint of the matching flame graining on the drawer fronts was ... (Read More)
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