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()Rare New England Furniture Form Stars at Americana Sale
This 231/2" high chip-carved spoon rack with crusty black paint carried an estimate of $800/1200, but there was a lot of interest in the early accessories, and $9000 is what it took to buy it. Stephen Corrigan of Stephen-Douglas, Rockingham, Vermont, took it home.
Although it was clearly a good day ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antique Indian Art Show
Marcy Burns American Indian Arts, New York City, was asking $19,000 for this circa 1895 Hopi jar attributed to Nampeyo, from the Dwight and Lorraine Lanmon collection. Burns called the show "wonderful," adding that the show was "well attended by collectors in a buying mood."
These circa 1890 Arapahoe moccasins cost ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William and Mary Winner
This walnut William and Mary period escritoire or fall-front desk is perhaps the only surviving American-made example of the form. It was the top-priced lot at Skinner's Americana auction in Marlborough, Massachusetts, on August 10. Dennis Carr, curator of American decorative arts and sculpture at the Museum of Fine ... (Read More)
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()The Adirondack Museum Show
Ronald Wells of Binghamton, New York, featured a circa 1760 fruitwood settee with a caned seat and back for $2800. The horse oil painting, Black Runner by Edward L. Ulrich, 1933, was $5200, and the etched bronzed cocktail table, signed "Mark D'Haehehens" and dated 1979, was $18,500.
Loose Moose Antiques in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kiowa Cradleboard Brings $103,500
Early 20th-century Native American Kiowa cradleboard, $103,500.
Early 1900's Sioux traditional style saddle drape, sinew-stitched with lazy stitch beading, $4600.
An early 20th-century Native American Kiowa cradleboard with beaded accents and original boards sold for $103,500 (with buyer's premium) at the "Best of Santa Fe 2013" sale held August 9 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Smaller but Still the Biggest
Dennis Raleigh of Wiscasset, Maine, always brings some great upscale stuff to this show. This year, he had a 19th-century patriotic drum for $3400 decorated with an American flag with a non-official star field of about 45. "It was made in Cleveland," Raleigh confirmed via a "sunbeam" hole in the ... (Read More)
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()Pickers Market to Remain a Friday Event
Michael Hall came from Nashville, Tennessee, and it was his first time exhibiting at the Pickers Market. "It was a long way for me to go from Nashville to do the show. I think a lot of customers didn't go to the show or left town before Friday...This is the ... (Read More)
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(Show)2013 Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
Strangers from Hopiland, 103/4" x 93/4", was Gustave Baumann's "favorite" woodcut, according to Steve Stoops of Stevens Fine Art, Phoenix, Arizona. It was priced at $25,000.
At the booth of Gallery Tribal, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Robert Fiedler was asking $2200 for this early 20th-century Urhobo (Niger Delta) canoe carrying shark ... (Read More)
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(Show)NHADA Annual Show: "There's Nothing Like This Show Anywhere in America!"
Meryl Weiss of American Classics, Canaan, Connecticut, showed the 8' long demilune Windsor-type bench with rush seat, circa 1900; price was $950. The view of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, was painted by Elisa R.F. Lancaster and given by her in 1896 to her native town of East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Big Crowds at Antiques in Manchester
James William Lowery of Baldwinsville, New York, featured this over 7' long hooked rug that was inspired by Edward Hicks but oddly reminiscent of the jungle paintings of Henri Rousseau. Lowery called this "a folk art masterpiece." It dated to the 1860's, Lowery said, and was found in Scriba, New ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midweek's Anniversary Party, Celebrating 20 Years
Nancy Fishelson, who shared a booth with Robert Perry Antiques, asked $3600 for her two-sided optometrist's sign. Fishelson of Orchard Park, New York, who has an interior design business, said the sign's other side is less faded, but she prefers the one displayed. Fishelson's early 20th-century rooster weathervane, found in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fifteen of Top 20 Posters Go to Collectors
This 391/4" x 291/4" condition B+ framed poster from 1917 with the iconic image of Uncle Sam by James Montgomery Flagg (1870-1960) opened for bidding at $8000 and closed above estimate at $14,400. It sold to a collector, produced the day's top auction price, and set an auction record. Not ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty to Wildlife Smuggling Conspiracy
Qiang Wang, a.k.a. Jeffrey Wang, 34, a New York antiques dealer, pled guilty on August 7 in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to smuggle Asian artifacts made from rhinoceros horns and ivory and to violate wildlife trafficking laws. Wang was arrested in February 2013 as part of Operation Crash, a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings Auction
Wind-swept Pines (15" x 18") by Guy Rose brought the auction's highest price, $374,500 (est. $150,000/250,000). Prior to this auction, it had been bought "long ago, and has been in a private collection on the East Coast," said Bastian. "It has been essentially untouched, and Rose continues to be the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Low-Pressure, High-Value Show
And they're off, moving at a good pace around the bend and up the hill to the first buildings of the show.
This child's settle with lift seat, 33" high x 42" long, from Mary de Buhr of Downers Grove, Illinois, was $3700. Always stop by her booth to get a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Fine Arts, and Marine Auction
This vivid oil on masonite by Anne Ramsdell Congdon (1873-1958) of Nantucket was offered early in the Osona sale. It was signed and dated on the lower right, "Anne Congdon, 1940." A very similar picture is in the Nantucket Historical Association collection and is illustrated in Picturing Nantucket on page ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Great Southwestern Antique Show
This booth featured some santos, religious paintings on tin, not in great condition but representative of a folk art tradition common in the Southwest. The prices were between $150 and $250.
This was the distinctive booth of Joseph Alphabet of Newport Beach, California. The Chinese heads on the top shelf are ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire with $2.3 Million Sale
Collector and dealer Gary Green of Moravia, New York, chased this 47" long copper and zinc sulky, horse, and driver weathervane until it was his for $49,200, the auction's top price. The weathervane had a history of ownership by the Paul Weld estate and Connecticut dealer Jeffrey Tillou.
A noted New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Currier & Ives Ships at Northeast Auctions' Annual Summer Auction
Clipper Ship "Racer," large folio, $840. James Buttersworth, recently arrived from England, was recruited in 1852. He did the clipper yacht Architect in that year for Endicott but then joined Currier with Flying Cloud. He would remain a Currier stalwart into the 1870's. Shown here is the clipper ship Racer ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Northeast Auctions Starts Antiques Week in New Hampshire with $2.3 Million Sale
These oval portraits by Rufus Porter of five members of the Bartlett family of Massachusetts brought $25,200.
This 91/2" high Liverpool jug with an image of a member of the Boston Fusiliers sold for $11,400.
This Benjamin Frothingham-labeled Chippendale mahogany slant-lid desk with a reverse serpentine front brought $42,000.
Photos courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Duck Dynasty
This 1890's black-bellied plover by A. Elmer Crowell of East Harwich, Massachusetts, appeared on the cover of American Bird Decoys by William J. Mackey Jr., published in 1965. Estimated at $125,000/175,000, it sold for $214,000 to Charleston, South Carolina, dealer Tom Reed, who calls his business American Sporting Classics. Reed ... (Read More)
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()Stoneware and Pottery Auction
"G.W. Hubacher, Dry Goods &c., Clarington Ohio," eight-gallon crock stenciled with a shield-breasted, spread-winged eagle and having freehand cobalt lines, $5170. It previously sold at auction for $9000 hammer.
Two-piece birdbath with embossed birds at the bottom, diffused blue and white, unmarked, 93/4" high, $3080.
"From W. H. Mallory, Clarington, Ohio," six-gallon ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Dust Jacket" Plover Brings $214,000
$214,000. Pennington photo.
A black-bellied plover by A. Elmer Crowell that appeared on the cover of William J. Mackey's 1965 book American Bird Decoys sold for $214,000 (est. $125,000/175,000) on August 1 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, at Guyette, Schmidt & Deeter's annual summer two-day auction.
The plover was part of the Carolyn ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Roadshow "Golden Ticket" Sweepstakes
Antiques Roadshow, PBS's most-watched ongoing prime time series, is offering "Golden Ticket" sweepstakes entrants a chance to win a VIP trip for two to the Roadshow event in Richmond, Virginia.
The grand prize includes round-trip transportation for two adults to Richmond; hotel accommodations for two consecutive nights; a VIP entrance for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Catherine Sweeney Singer Named Director of the Philadelphia Antiques Show
Catherine Sweeney Singer at the 2009 American Art Fair in New York City.
On July 31, the board of the Philadelphia Antiques Show an- nounced the appointment of Catherine Sweeney Singer as the show's director, which is a new position for the show. Sweeney Singer will be working with the exhibitors, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Paintings Sale on the Cape
Norman Rockwell's Study for Lunch Break with a Knight was signed on the lower right. It had been featured on the cover of the November 3, 1962, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. The lot included a framed copy of the magazine cover. It came from a private Massachusetts collection. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ira Hudson Decoys Lead Sporting Art Sale
The top decoy lot, which sold at $207,000, was this red-breasted merganser pair by Ira D. Hudson (1873-1949) of Chincoteague, Virginia.
This brant by Harry V. Shourds (1861-1920) of Tuckerton, New Jersey, sold for $57,500 (est. $25,000/35,000).
This circa 1920 bluebill drake by Joseph W. Lincoln (1859-1938) of Accord, Massachusetts, went for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Auctioneer Sentenced on Fraud Charges
Robert W. Duncan, former owner and auctioneer of Bob Duncan and Associates in Council Bluffs, Iowa, was sentenced on July 30 in federal court to four years in prison, followed by five years of supervised release. Duncan, 55, entered a guilty plea on March 12 to defrauding the Social Security ... (Read More)
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()Strong Dealer Buying at Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Annual Show
Mill Brook Antiques, Reading, Vermont, reported very good preshow sales. In fact, most dealers said there was a lot of action at setup, some of which we witnessed. This labeled Grenfell mat is 21" x 331/2" and was priced at $1950.
Holden Antiques, Sherman, Connecticut, showed a painted game board, 36" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Salt, Pepper, and Sugar Shakers Sell High
Mt. Washington Glass Company fig- or beet-shaped sugar shaker, in cased cranberry with polychrome floral decoration, dating to the fourth quarter of the 19th century, 3 7/8" high. The shaker was in remarkably good condition and came from collection of Richard "Dick" and Mary Ann Krauss of Clyde, Ohio. It ... (Read More)
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()The Weaver Collection of Americana and Folk Art
This 36" high painted lift-top blanket chest proved to be the auction's biggest draw. With two false upper drawer fronts on a simple cutout base, it was missing the pulls on the two lower drawers, but bidders loved the faded, dry but original blue paint. It started easily at $2000, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)July Sale at Garth's
Buddha hand, brown and white jade, Chinese, 18th or 19th century, 3" high, $14,100.
Carved circular ink stone showing a body of water, a building, and two birds in flight, possibly nephrite jade, Chinese, Qianlong period, signed by Zi Gang, 33/4" diameter, rim flakes, $30,550.
Pair of monumental seven-light silver candelabra marked ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Newport Antiques Show
G. Sergeant Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut, asked $14,500 for this 51" diameter single-board Sheraton breakfast table; it sold. Gary Sergeant said he also sold a mid-18th-century George II English inlaid walnut chest (not shown); the asking price was $18,000.
Diana H. Bittel of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, asked $9500 for this late 19th-/early ... (Read More)
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(Show)Strong Market for American Brilliant Cut Glass at ACGA Convention
This very rare Quaker City three-piece revolving punch bowl in the Roosevelt pattern, 22" tall x 16" diameter, from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armed RobberSentenced to 91/2 Years in Prison
On July 23, Robert A. Fiolka, 69, of Staten Island, New York, was sentenced to 114 months in prison for his role in the robbery of Blue Stove Antiques in Fair Haven, New Jersey.
Fiolka previously had pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an information charging him ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Numerous New Records Set at July Ceramics Sale
The William Morgan circa 1822 stoneware cooler from Baltimore brought the second-highest price ever paid for stoneware at auction. It sold for $230,000 (est. $30,000/50,000) to dealer Todd Prickett bidding by phone, underbid by collector Adam Weitsman in the salesroom.
This important early Manhattan stoneware jar, just 51/2" high, made by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings and Southern Furniture Are Highlights
Master cabinetmaker Jesse Needham (circa 1774-1838) had close ties to Quaker families in Randolph and Guilford Counties in North Carolina and influenced many Piedmont furniture makers of the day. The scalloped frame with slipper feet is typical of his work. This 691/2" x 23" x 44" chest-on-frame by Needham was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Art at Auction
This diminutive framed oil on canvas, 12" x 16", was presented on the second day of the sale and was the top lot. A classic yacht racing scene, signed on the lower right "J.E. Buttersworth," it was painted by American master James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894). It had impeccable provenance-it had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alderfer Elected President of National Auctioneers Foundation
Sanford L. Alderfer was elected president of the National Auctioneers Foundation board of trustees. He was installed at the National Auctioneers Association international conference and show in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 18.
Alderfer is president of the Sanford Alderfer Companies, Hatfield, Pennsylvania. He is active in the National Auctioneers Association and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Adell Venus Collection of Miniatures
We knew the minute we saw it that the 11/4" wide walnut-cased drafting set by William R. Robertson (est. $200/400) would sell high, but the $18,750 result floored us. Bearing a tag on the underside engraved with the maker's name and inscribed 1993, the chest has two rabbeted drawers. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Harrisburg Auction
One of the last lots on day six was this small, cased pocket pistol believed to have been owned by Doc Holliday. It is thought that the pearl grip broke off during a brawl he had with his common-law wife. It sold for $62,500. Pass photo.
An odd lot was this ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Micah Williams, Portrait Artist
Clarkson Crolius (1773-1843) by Micah Williams, pastel on paper, 28" x 24", circa 1817, possibly done in the Cheesequake area, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Clarkson worked in the stoneware pottery business begun by his grandfather Johan William Crolius in New York City, but Crolius potters may have run the Morgan ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Furniture 2012
A Book Review
American Furniture 2012
Edited by Luke Beckerdite
Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2012, 192 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
The latest edition of American Furniture, the annual armchair symposium, presents five papers by a diverse group ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)More than Blue and Gray: The Civil War and American Art
Albert Bierstadt, Guerrilla Warfare, Civil War, 1862, oil on panel, 151/2" x 18 5/8". The Century Association, New York, New York.
Conrad Wise Chapman, The Flag of Sumter, October 20, 1863, 1863-64, oil on board, 111/2" x 151/2". Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia, 0985.14.37l. Photography by Alan Thompson.
Frederic E. Church, ... (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)John Gallo, Otego, New York
John Gallo with best friend Bella, a four-year-old half golden retriever and half poodle.
Cute circa 1930 hooked rug in shades of yellow, Indian red, ... (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.
Classic Modern: The Art Worlds of Joseph Pulitzer Jr. by Marjorie B. Cohn ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Editing and Printing with Smartphone and Tablet Apps
A Microsoft Word document being edited on a 7-inch Android tablet.
Computer Column #296
John P. Reid, E-mail: jreid@dca.net
Android and iOS tablets and smartphones are doing some jobs such as document creation and editing which were done previously by desktop and laptop personal computers. There are minor difficulties. First, editing spreadsheets and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Spring Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Spring auctions held at Joseph DuMouchelle, New York City; John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, California; and Skinner Inc., Boston, take center stage this month.
This circa 1900 gold oval pill box, 2" long, has guilloche red enamel on a sunburst background on the hinged cover with a central double ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Think No Half Thoughts
Auction Law & Ethics
Many people are prone to not thinking issues through thoroughly. Prospective auction consignors can be particularly guilty of this when they get hung up worrying about selling prices for their property. Consider what a potential consigner said to me.
"I've thought it through and decided not to have ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
The Russians, back in some strength in the London salesrooms, along with some exceptional glasswares, make up the bulk of this month's "Letter," but also included are an avian cigarette lighter, Iznik water bottles, Running before the Trades with a Nova Scotian marine artist, another set of library ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Grace Hudson's Little Mendocino and Its Many Copies
Grace Hudson, Little Mendocino, (#5), 1892, oil on canvas, 36" x 26". California Historical Society, Gift of the San Francisco Art Institute, the Bridgeman Art Library.
The Carpenter family, circa 1873, Aurelius O. Carpenter, photographer. Standing at rear, May Carpenter. Seated, left to right: Helen, Grant, Frank, Grace, and Aurelius Ormando ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Keys to a Successful Ad Campaign
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic ofcreating an effective Web site. This month we will begin to review another marketing tactic, which I am sure is front and center in everyone's mind-advertising. By now you should have laid the groundwork for an effective advertising campaign through developing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Customer Stops Payment on a Check, Determined Dealer Fights Back
If your bank informs you that a customer's check has cleared, can a purchaser still stop payment by closing the account? As West Palm Beach, Florida, dealer Penelope Williams discovered this spring, the answer is yes.
Williams's business is called Penelope's Past Antiques; her customer was a dealer from Toronto, Ontario, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Ten for Ten
The Young Collector
Time flies. It really does. Except when it's 5:30 p.m. and you've been up since 6 a.m. and home with two small children, one who doesn't need to nurse and needs to sleep but wants to nurse and doesn't want to sleep, and the other who does not ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wistar Bottle Returned to Wistar Institute
Richard Wistar's bottle. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ATADA Scholarship Fund
The Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA) has established a scholarship in Native American art studies in honor of Jim and Lauris Phillips. Donations of up to $2000 will be matched by ATADA. Longtime ATADA member Jim died in December 2012, and Lauris died on June 18.
In June 2012, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Atlantic City Antiques Show Moves to Trump Taj Mahal Casino
The Trump Taj Mahal casino and hotel will be the new home of the Atlantic City Antiques Show, according to the promoter of JMK Shows. The next show will take place on March 8 and 9, 2014.
"We feel partnering with the prestigious Trump name and brand is the perfect fit ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CCADA Awards Annual Scholarship
The Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the public's knowledge and appreciation of antiques, announces the award of its annual scholarship to Martha's Vineyard resident Daniel Flynn.
Each year, CCADA provides funds to the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation to provide a scholarship to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lawsuit Filed in U.S. over English Purchase Dismissed
A federal judge in California has ruled that a lawsuit filed in California regarding a painting purchased at Sotheby's in London has no place in the U.S. courts.
United States District Judge Richard Seeborg dismissed a lawsuit filed by California collector Steven Brooks, who bought Allegorical Portrait of a Lady as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)SOFA Sold
Atlanta-based show management company Urban Expositions has acquired the Sculpture Objects Functional Art + Design Fair (SOFA) from The Art Fair Company. Urban Expositions is building a division specializing in art fairs, and SOFA Chicago is its first such acquisition.
The Art Fair Company will continue to run the fair during ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colonial Williamsburg and MESDA Announce New Partnership
While some museums and historical societies are merging, two leading decorative arts institutions in the South are embarking on a new partnership. The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Old Salem, North Carolina, have entered into a five-year agreement ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wallace Nutting Collectors Club Elects Vice President
Sharon Lacasse of West Barnstable, Massachusetts, owner of Sharon Lacasse Antiques, has been elected vice president of the nationwide Wallace Nutting Collectors Club. Lacasse has been an active member of the club for 25 years and a trustee for the past ten years. Although she is a general antiques ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Collectors Should Go Heavy in Old Glass
Opinion
If you have been thinking about expanding your collecting interests, maybe now would be a good time to start buying good antique glass, some collectors suggest.
Remember when the stock market was down, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 11,000, friends said to invest, but you had cold feet? The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Clear Winner
Editorial
A letter to the editor in the June issue of M.A.D. from collector Baron Perlman, drawing attention to the opening hours of the Midweek Antiques Show in Concord, New Hampshire, and Antiques in Manchester on August 7, has generated plenty of controversy, judging from the reaction we've gotten here.
In 2012, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Carlson & Stevenson's Newest Show Gets Lucky
Lewis Scranton of Killingworth, Connecticut, said he found this wicker carriage in a corn crib recently and described it as being in "unbelievable" condition. His under-$600 asking price was nearly unbelievable too.
Quiet Corner Antiques, Sterling, Connecticut, showed some traditional country Americana. The stretcher-base one-drawer table in red paint was $3500. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art
Friends Forever by Demetre Chiparus (Rumanian, 1886-1947) is a 25" tall (including base) bronze and ivory sculpture on textured marble. It is signed and has a foundry mark of "L.N. Paris J.L." It brought $60,000.
Coucher de soleil sur la mer (Italie) by Ivan Federovitch Choultse (Russian, 1874-1937) is 171/2" square ... (Read More)
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()Banksy Shows Up at Neal
French Opera House, New Orleans by William Woodward (1859-1939) is a vivid Raffaelli crayon sketch on board, 131/2" x 91/2", and was the top lot of the sale, going to a collector in the room who won against the phones. The final price was $95,600, well above its conservative $18,000/25,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gould Sells the Holden Holdings On Site
Paint-decorated trunk in yellow and green floral and geometric designs, $16,100. Gould photo.
Tiny two-fingered and red-painted Shaker box, $10,350. Gould photo.
Bidders loved the pristine original surface on this 16" x 143/4" checkerboard with a blue and white playing field ringed with black and red pinstriping. They chased it all the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)George Washington Gets a Presidential Library
The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association announced on July 11 that it exceeded an ambitious $100 million capital campaign goal. The association raised more than $106 million in just over three years to build and support the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.
Located just outside the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Taylor Sentenced to 71/2 Years in Prison and $1.2 Million in Restitution
Matthew Taylor, who sold paintings stolen from a Los Angeles art gallery and took elaborate steps to avoid paying taxes over several years, was sentenced on July 11 to 90 months in federal prison for the art-related and tax offenses.
United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt ordered Taylor, 45, of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Metropolitan Museum of Art to Be Open Seven Days a Week Starting July 1
In late March, the Met announced that beginning on July 1 the museum will open to the public seven days a week, for the first time in 42 years. The new schedule will go into effect for both the museum's main building on Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in Manhattan ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)First Newspaper Printing of Declaration of Independence Sells for Record $632,500
A copy of the first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence sold for $632,500 (est. $500,000/750,000). This printing by Benjamin Towne on July 6, 1776, was preceded only by the official broadside published by John Dunlap on the day before. The newspaper is four 8" x 101/2" pages. The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Surprises at Cobb Auctioneers and Canadian Cultural History at Dupuis
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
All prices include the buyer's premium
This Cartier, Paris, diamond men's tuxedo set, in white gold or platinum, is set with small diamonds on an opalescent stone. One cufflink back is not signed and is probably a replacement; the two smallest button backs are not signed and are ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Laudholm Farm Show
Woodview Antiques, Sandwich Village, Massachusetts, offered this primitive cranberry table and scoop from the Gristmill Hiller Farm, Rochester, Massachusetts, for $595.
Woodview Antiques asked $285 for this 19th-century nicely grained spice cupboard with seven drawers.
Tom Joseph of Limington, Maine, offered this late Federal mahogany fold-over card table with crotched mahogany bookmatched ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Virginia Pottery Record Set at Americana Sale
The high lot of the Evans sale was this grapefruit-size (5" high with 41/4" diameter rim) salt-glazed stoneware honey or sugar pot. The compressed ovoid form displays a stencil signature, "Emanuel Suter," within a freehand cobalt feather design in the center of the body. The reverse features a large brushed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln and the Colonel
From the 1840 campaign, this William Henry Harrison silk flag shows Harrison's log cabin and cider barrel symbols, which some consider to be among the most effective political logos in the history of American campaigning. Collectors have always prized 1840 flags with this design above those with the candidate's portrait. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Round Lake Antiques Festival
Robert Schicke of Reclaimed Memories, New Jersey, offered a school desk priced at $125, a jockey doorstop at $185, a coat tree for $105, and an oak rocker for $185.
Matthew Gosch of North Tonawanda, New York, found this beautiful tiger maple and cherry one-drawer stand and priced it at $325. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Sale
"The Same Old Coon/ Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" flag, 1844 presidential campaign, previously unknown, printed silk in red, white and blue, 241/4" x 29", $49,350.
Gen. R.E. Lee and Staff by Mathew Brady, albumen photograph, 81/4" x 7" plus mount and frame, $19,975.
Carte de visite of First Lieutenant Holman S. Melcher, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Little Things Mean a Lot-Big Things Bring More
This is the fortune telling Esmeralda machine that brought $43,845.
The Mutoscope Multiscope allows several viewers to watch the show. It brought $34,020.
This Western Union Automatic Self-Winding Ticker was probably used as late as the 1940's to report stock quotes, and later on reported news and sports information. Standing on an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)June Toy Soldier Auction Brings in over $600,000
Britains Exploding Trench with flag, non-cataloged item without set number, originally sold at Hamleys Toy Store, with original box and in excellent condition, sold for $6720. The label is a reproduction copy.
Britains factory sample card with musicians from the very rare Band of the Royal Marine Light Infantry set, issued ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Washington Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Fake Chihuly Art Glass
Two of the pieces that Little claimed were by Dale Chihuly. Immigration and Customs Enforcement photos.
In U.S. District Court in Seattle on June 19, Michael Little, 35, of Renton, Washington, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with advertising and selling fake Dale Chihuly art glass. Little had bought pieces ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)South Korea Hosts American Art
The Cadwalader furniture and Charles Willson Peale's portrait of John Cadwalader, his wife, Betsy Lloyd and daughter, Anne, in its newly restored frame, are on view at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Photo courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Charles Willson Peale's portrait of John Cadwalader, his ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A New Cornerstone
A Book Review
Woods in British Furniture Making, 1400-1900: An Illustrated Historical Dictionary by Adam BowettOblong Creative Ltd. in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, 2012, 368 pages, hardbound, $180 plus S/H from the University Press of Chicago, (www.press.uchicago.edu) or (800) 621-2736.
As a furniture person and as a resident of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Custom Apps
An Android app element that searches lists being programmed in MIT App Inventor.
Computer Column #295
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
There are many ways that custom apps for smartphones and tablets could be useful in the antiques world. A dealer could make the shop inventory, location, hours, and contact information available to mobile ... (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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(Feature)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.
Columbia's Daughters: Girlhood Embroidery from the District of Columbia by Gloria Seaman Allen ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors) Listing or Capsizing?
The Young Collector
We live and die by lists-mostly die, it seems-but at least we do it in an orderly fashion! Nowhere is this truer than with our annual planning of the Midwest Antiques Forum. Four years ago, when the folks at Prices4Antiques.com (www.p4a.com), Hollie's employer, said they thought the Midwest ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Affordable Jewelry & Watches
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
When a press release arrived broadcasting the news that "The Mid-Market Struts Its Stuff in Rago's Big $1.8 Million April Auction Weekend" after we had decided to feature affordable jewelry at auction (hovering around $1000 and under) this month, it seemed the planets had aligned to support ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
There is much Meissen in this month's selection-the all-Meissen "Delphinium" and Marouf collections sold by Bonhams and the magnificent Meissen menagerie that made up the main portion of a Sotheby's sale that dispersed property from the collections of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie.
Add to that an Iron Age ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Face behind the "Faceman"
Auction Law and Ethics
Templeton Peck. Do you remember him from the 1980's? He was the slick con man on The A-Team TV series (1983-87). Peck was such a pretty boy he was often called "Faceman." I always liked the show and often recall the wry-smiling Faceman when I think of ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Web Site Marketing
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of creating quantifiable and achievable marketing goals. This month I highlight the benefits of developing and maintaining an effective Web site. This is a very broad topic that I may come back to in the future because there is much in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pryor Dodge: The Bicycling Collector
Pryor Dodge in his SoHo loft in April 2013. The bicycle on the wall, patented by John McCloskey of Ontario, Canada, in 1896, has a one-piece bentwood hickory frame. Schinto photo.
Dodge on Rue Saint-Vincent in Montmartre in 1971, just a few months after he bought his first high-wheel bicycle and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dave, Dan, and Lorraine Braskie, Quaboag Valley Antiques Center, Palmer, Massachusetts
From left: Dave and Dan Braskie. (Lorraine was off on the day we visited.)
Exterior of the group shop.
One of the crowded no-nonsense aisles in the Quaboag Valley Antiques Center.
The furniture section of the center. Much of it is devoted to Dan and Dave's inventory.
Oil on canvas painting of a red ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Proposed Sale of Thomas Cole's "Portage Falls on the Genesee" Argued in Court
In May, acting Surrogate Court Judge Thomas Leone appointed the Reverend Ray Messenger, a descendent of William H. Seward, as administrator of the estate of William H. Seward III for the purpose of enforcing the will's charitable intent.
Judge Leone heard arguments for over an hour from Messenger's attorneys, attorneys for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show Discontinued
After 26 years, the Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show & Sale has been discontinued. The annual event had been a principal fund-raiser of the Methodist Hospital Task Core. This year's show was held March 7-10. According to Rod Lich, who promoted the event for the past seven years, the task ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gardening by the Book
Priscilla Susan Falkner Bury, from A Selection of Hexandrian Plants, Belonging to the Natural Orders Amaryllidae and Liliacae, London, 1831-34. Collection of the Garden Club of America.
The Garden Club of America (GCA) is 100 years old. Since its founding in 1913, it has maintained a significant library, which is celebrated ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Update Regarding Sotheby's Sale of American Folk Art Museum Gifts
Sotheby's still hasn't announced whether it will offer the 212 once-promised gifts of Ralph Esmerian to the American Folk Art Museum at an auction in December 2013 or in January 2014, as we reported in our last issue (see M.A.D., June 2013, p. 12-A). Both dates were suggested in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grand Rapids Antiques Market Sold
Vintage Promotions, LLC, the producers of the Dallas Vintage Clothing and Jewelry Show, Vintage Garage Chicago, and other events, has purchased Vintage Life Expo, also known as the Grand Rapids Antiques Market.
Cecily Near, who produces and manages the show, has agreed to continue her involvement in the show's planning and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)GLM Acquires the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory
A widely circulated rumor was confirmed on May 20 when show producer GLM announced it had acquired the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory from Stella Show Management Company.
The Pier Antiques Show, one of New York City's largest, is held semiannually in March and November at Pier 94 ... (Read More)
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