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(Issue Story)The 1%'s 18%
Editorial
The superrich really are different, if numbers released by the Singapore-based firm Wealth-X are to be believed. A report released on June 5 claims that the world's top ten billionaire art collectors have an average of 18% of their net worth tied up in their art collections.
The number one collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George
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(Fragment)Saline Antiques Market to Fill Ann Arbor Gaps
The new Saline Antiques Market will be held June 15-16, July 20-21, August 17-18, September 14-15, November 17, and December 8 at the Washtenaw Farm Council Grounds in Ann Arbor, Michigan.According to a press release, when the promoters of the Ann Arbor Antiques Market chose to refocus their efforts to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Coping with an Antiques Paradigm Shift
Landschaft mit Vulkan (Landscape with Volcano), 301/4" x 281/2", by Franz Sedlacek (Austrian, 1891-1945) sold for $188,800. It was the sale's top-dollar painting. In 1927, the year he painted Landschaft, Sedlacek joined the Viennese Secession, a group generally opposed to academic art. He also worked in the New Objectivity ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts
Sable Antelope from the "Canopic Jar" series by William Morris (b. 1957) is hand-blown glass. The neck interior is inscribed "William Morris 1995." The overall height is 48" and the diameter is 12". It sold for $290,500 together with a copy of the original 1995 invoice from the artist's studio. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
There were a dozen stoneware pitchers with cobalt decoration for sale at various booths. Ruth Rogers asked $3095 for the stoneware pitcher; the redware plate with a dragon design was $1490.
Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania, asked $6800 for this Pennsylvania floral hooked rug in red, green, white, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Studios, Decorative Arts, and Design
The indoor flock of sheep by Francois-Xavier Lalanne, Moutons de Laine, was designed in 1965 and executed in 1975 of wool, wood, and aluminum. Ex-Andy Williams collection, it sold on the phone for $987,750 (est. $500,000/700,000).
This flock of sheep by Francois-Xavier Lalanne can reside outside. Ex-Andy Williams collection, Nouveaux Moutons ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's 20th-Century Design
This circa 1905 Tiffany Studios Poppy table lamp, leaded glass and patinated bronze, sold in the salesroom to McClelland + Rachen, New York City, for $209,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The 201/2" diameter shade is impressed "TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1531-17." The base is impressed "TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/366" and is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design
This is the Cappello del Doge vase by Thomas Stearns, 1961-62. It is hand-blown opaque and transparent glass, 53/4" high, produced at Venini in Murano, Italy. The underside is acid-etched with "venini/ murano/ ITALIA," and it sold for $60,000 (est. $16,000/18,000). According to catalog notes, during his apprenticeship and subsequent ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Auction (Freeman's)
George Sotter (1879-1953), Covered Bridge, Winter, signed bottom right, oil on canvas, 22" x 26", $122,500 (est. $50,000/80,000) to someone who left a bid with the auctioneer.
Frederick R. Wagner (1861-1940), Steel Mills Pittsburgh, signed bottom left, oil on canvas, 56" x 68", $46,875 (est. $20,000/30,000) to a buyer in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New California Country & More Antiques Show
This Tesuque bowl was priced at $3900 by Barbara Miles of Miles & Miles Trading Co., Pacifica, California, who was exhibiting at the show for the first time. How did she know about the show? "I read about it on the Internet."
Dealer Lise Thomas of Modesto, California, whose vintage Mexican ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Catalog Sale
High lot of the Potomack sale was this ancient Roman marble bust from the first century. The sculpture depicts Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus and mother of Gaius or Caligula. The bust is life size, 14" x 81/4" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago's Design Auctions in June
In a rare armadillo form for a glazed stoneware vessel for flower arrangement, this 1890 pot, 41/4" x 81/2" x 31/2", is signed "R.W. Martin + Bros." for Robert W. Martin. It sold for $43,750 (est. $15,000/20,000).
George Ohr (1857-1918) made this 91/4" x 41/4" pot, with in-body twist and folded ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Burton Antiques Market
Funky is prevalent at Burton. Made of wood and hand painted, the trio of stage props for an off-Broadway production of Carousel was offered at $850 by Ken and Jan Silveri of Hawks Inn Antiques, Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The couple had found the set in Buffalo, New York.
A bit of rain ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
The small seating area by an exit was a nice idea. Items from The Century Shop, Louisville, Kentucky, included a pair of Black Forest carved panels, circa 1850, priced at $1850, and a Gothic Revival pier mirror, 63" high, with original gilding, for $6000.
Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, brought ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sonoma Dealer Arrested for Fraud and Other Charges
On June 5, police deputies in Sonoma, California, arrested 51-year-old antiques dealer Dwayne Robert Kershner. According to authorities, Kershner had been operating an antiques consignment shop named Front Door Antiques at 201 W. Napa Street in the Sonoma Marketplace shopping center. The business suddenly closed up shop at the end ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Auctioneer Denied License Renewal, Fined $12,500
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers voted unanimously in August to deny a license renewal to Angela Nevells of Blue Hill, Maine, to impose fines totaling $12,500, and to seek relief for the victims of Nevells's multiple violations of law.
The board found that Nevells, who has a Blue Hill ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Orders Return of Colonel Rush Hawkins's Tiffany Sword
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
Photo courtesy Mike Cohea/Brown University.
On June 4, United States Magistrate Judge Douglas E. Miller ruled that a Tiffany presentation sword and scabbard that was purchased by a collector in 1992 had been stolen from Brown University in the 1970's. The judge ordered its return to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biography of an Object Writing Contest
The second annual Biography of an Object writing contest kicked off on June 3. "We were thrilled with the response last year," said contest sponsor and founder Amelia Jeffers, president of Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers in Delaware, Ohio. "We received over 100 entries from all over the United States, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Indian Art Sale Brings $2.25 Million
This 6 1/8" high John Tiktak stone sculpture sold to a Canadian collector for $43,750 (est. $20,000/40,000). Haas said a colleague at Bonhams, Ingmars Lindbergs, is "striking out into Inuit material. I never handled much of it before, but the very best artists can do very well. We invite more ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wyeth, Vroman, and Landesio Pace Thomaston Sale
This carved wooden fruit display opened the auction and blew away the $600/800 estimate when it sold for $6785.
India ink drawing by Andrew Wyeth, In the Georges Islands, $60,375.
Oil on canvas ship portrait of the Alfred Keen by Rockland, Maine, artist James Gardner Babbidge, $13,800.
Sometimes good period furniture seems on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXIII, Art Glass 2013, Keramics 2013
Once the property of the czar of Russia, this is a 6" x 31/2" (closed), 6 5/8" (open) St. Petersburg triptych. The painting depicts the resurrection of Christ with angels and two frightened guardsmen. In a gold-washed silver and enameled case, it is in excellent condition and sold for $57,500.
This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Pottery for Sale
Combining an early Daniel Seagle salt-glaze pot with incised historical reference to an event took this Lincoln County, North Carolina, pot to $17,050. It is quite possibly a presentation piece.
The Meaders name is synonymous with face jugs because of Lanier's fame with this form. Lanier's brother Edwin also produced face ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association June Show
The iron and marble table with original paint was $1850; the pair of paint-decorated chairs at the table was also $1850; the mermaid in the compote was tagged $1250; and the compote full of shells was $1450 from Jewett & Berdan.
The flow blue Indian pattern covered tureen was $360, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Mike and Marianne Wilson Sale
This cherry accountant's desk dated 1841 was attributed to western Pennsylvania and has original ocher swirl paint decoration. It has a slant lid and four recessed panel doors with two panes each and rests on high, turned feet. "It has powerful paint," stated the private buyer. It sold for $18,880.
The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Heartland Antique Show
Susie and Rich Burmann of New London, New Hampshire, asked $16,500 for the Pennsylvania or Ohio paint-decorated blanket chest, dated 1833, and $7800 for the 291/2" long copper prancing horse weathervane with an iron head, late 19th century.
Blue and white coverlet with a corner block lettered "RY/ By D.I.G./ 1839," ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Earl Davis Wins in Suit Connected to Salander-O'Reilly
Here at M.A.D., we never know where a phone call from a reader might lead us. A call during the early summer of 2007 from a subscriber on the West Coast illustrates that point perfectly. Los Angeles art collector Maurice Katz was having trouble collecting a $32,000 debt owed to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marilyn Monroe Trumps Everyone in Manuscripts Sale
Marilyn Monroe's undated letter to Lee Strasberg sold for $156,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Written in pencil, it is a wrenching cry for help.
Andrew Jackson wrote these three pages on October 20, 1819, on the justification for his complicated Indian removal policy. The recipient was Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee, whose state ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Memorial Day Sale in Portsmouth
Small picture, huge price. This 83/4" x 163/4" oil on panel, The Beach at Trouville, signed by French painter Eugene Louis Boudin (1824-1898), sold to a phone bidder for $542,400, smashing the $90,000/150,000 estimate. The bidder was on the phone, underbid by another phone. It was dated 1880 and inscribed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Memorial Day Sale Attracts the Faithful Despite Cold Snap
This is how the Hannan merchandise (plus a few similar additions) looked as it was displayed in one of the rooms in the reconstructed French house. Now imagine about 20 would-be buyers squeezed into the room and see what it was like during Saturday and Sunday mornings' inspection periods. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)Combing the Christie Classic for Collectibles
Ken Aubrey of Ottawa, Ontario, asked $350 for this 1950's pedal car in green, yellow, and black by an unknown maker.
Bisback Family Antiques sold a circa 1880 file cabinet with 32 drawers from the Ayton, Wellington County, Ontario, municipal office for $2650. An artist needing storage space bought it.
George Lehto ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fearless Followers Forever
Edward and Lillian Miller of Pioneer Folk Antiques, Ellsworth, Maine, have a good eye-well, actually four-and they spot the whimsical and the colorful, such as this metal tractor part, $450, that looks almost like spokes of a game of chance, and the 1940's metal "Candy-Soda" sign, $675.
This wonderful old 1840's ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show
This is a rare 18th-century brass dog collar for Israel Morris's dog with his address on it, 67 S. Second Street in Philadelphia. Having a lock but missing the key, it was $1100 from Tucker Frey.
Steven Still of Manheim, Pennsylvania, asked $5400 for this set of six birdcage bamboo ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Racing Icon's Awards Sold
First presented at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909, two years before the debut of the Indianapolis 500, the Prest-O-Lite trophy was eventually incorporated as an award for the Indy 500. Nine engraved silvered plaques commemorate winners and various driving accomplishments, such as lap leaders, from 1910 through 1940. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hopper's "Blackwell's Island" Sells for $19.1 Million
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Blackwell's Island, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 341/2" x 591/2", painted in the fall of 1928, sold for $19,163,750 (est. $15/20 million). The subject-the island in the East River now known as Roosevelt Island-embodies the quiet tensions of Hopper's best work. In 1928 it was the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Auction (Sotheby's)
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925), Marionettes: Behind the Curtain, oil on canvas, 29" x 20 7/8", painted in 1903, sold for $5,205,000 (est. $5/7 million) on one bid to a buyer who had placed an irrevocable bid.
Max Weber (1888-1961), Soloist at Wanamaker's, 291/4" x 181/2" gouache on paper laid down on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), Chef, watercolor and ink on paper, 131/2" x 10", signed lower right and bearing estate stamp (on the reverse), sold for $7500 (est. $3000/5000).
Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), New York Harbor, oil on canvas, 311/2" x 44", ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Andy Williams's Navajo Blankets and Arts of the American West
This Northwest Coast polychrome wood headdress (est. $175,000/225,000) sold for $425,000 to Vancouver, British Columbia, and New York City dealer Donald Ellis, bidding in the salesroom. At 101/2" high, it has flaring nostrils and exaggerated wide-set, pointed oval eye rims beneath thick arching brows. It is painted in black with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Charged with Tax Crimes
Art dealer Glafira Rosales of Sands Point, New York, was arrested on May 21 for filing false tax returns and for failing to disclose foreign bank accounts to the IRS.
Rosales allegedly failed to report at least $12.5 million from the sale of works purported to be by celebrated Abstract Expressionist ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)GLM Acquires the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory
Show producer GLM has acquired the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory from Stella Show Management Company in a deal announced on May 20.
"Following the recent addition of the Miami National Antiques Show to our annual events, the acquisition of these established shows in New York further strengthens ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques Seekers Flock to CRN's Gallery for May Sale
This ornately carved Chinese hardwood center table stood in the front gallery throughout three days of inspection, and most passed it by on their way to look at the other offerings. The right people, however, looked at it. When it came up for bid on Sunday afternoon, the 331/2" high ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Major Nashville Estate Leads Sale
For the catalog, Case had photographed the Simon Willard of Roxbury tall-case clock from every possible angle in its assembled state as well as broken down into its component elements. The lot had been well advertised, and it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A "Rainy Night" and Then a Rainbow
Louis Remy Mignot (1831-1870), Rainbow over a Lake in the Hudson River Valley, or possibly Close of a Showery Day, Lake George, 16" x 24", oil on canvas, monogrammed and dated "M 62," $120,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Schinto photo.
Lesser Ury (1861-1931), Rainy Night, Berlin, 411/4" x 263/4", oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Seventh Annual Ohio Valley Auction
Sawbuck table in mixed woods, three-board top, 19th century, 29" x 72", old refinish, $4406.
Reward of merit folk art bookplates, attributed to Ohio, watercolor and ink on paper, both in the same hand: One with a bird facing right on a branch, signed and dated "Benjamin Florey 1837" on the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Springfield Antique Show & Flea Market Extravaganza
American art pottery is always available at the Extravaganza. These Rookwood Vellum glaze scenic vases offered by Jack and Luane McAuliffe of Fancy That Antiques, Marshall, Michigan, ranged from $2200 to $4900 each.
Traditional antiques can be found at the Vintage Marketplace. Tricia Le Tempt of The Red Door Antiques, Eddyville, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Reborn "Burk" York Show Does a Test Run
Richard Axtell of Deposit, New York, tagged his circa 1905 Weller pot, depicting Indian Chief Pontiac and signed by artist "L.J. Burgess," $12,500 (left). The one on the right, depicting Indian Chief Joseph, was also $12,500. They were purchased from Weller in 1905. The Plume & Atwood library lamp was ... (Read More)
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(Show)East Berlin Show Hits Its Sweet Sixteen
This sailor's valentine was $3300 from Troy, Ohio, dealers John and Ellen Williams.
Local East Berlin dealer Andrea Hollenbaugh priced her assembled collection of 15 early printed cloth dolls and animals, mostly Arnold Print Works, at $2400.
Bill and Betty Annable of Oberlin, Ohio, were new to the East Berlin show this ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rebel Collector Embraces Loisaida and Graffiti Art
John Axelrod and his Australian terrier, Myrna Loy, with (untitled by the artist) Subway Door by Lee Quinones (b. 1960). The work is acrylic, oil stick, and spray enamel on a 373/4" x 271/4" section of a wooden New York City subway door. "This was part of a door between ... (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.
New Views of New England: Studies in Material and Visual Culture, 1680-1830, Martha ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiques Apps
Stoneware crocks in an on-line auction viewed on a small Android tablet.
Computer Column #294
by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
In the last year this column has commented often about the rapid rise of mobile computing-of the use of smartphones for more than phone calls and of tablet computers. Mobile computing is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Prior Knowledge
A Book Review
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
by Jacquelyn Oak and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Fenimore Art Museum, 2012, 64 pages, softbound, $29.95 plus S/H from Fenimore Art Museum (www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/museumshop) or (888) 547-1400.
When an auctioneer must catalog a small unsigned flat-painted portrait of a man, woman, or child, he ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Jewelry Auctions
Alexander Eblen said that this Victorian yellow gold, pearl, and shell cameo brooch was beautifully crafted. "With shell, you're dealing with a material that is most common in cameos, so it gets the least respect; however, when you have a really finely carved one, and it's something out of the ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Creating Goals and Improving Web Traffic
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of setting a budget to cover the most essential marketing items that you need. This month we will review creating achievable goals. Once your core strategies have been set, you've completed your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, and you ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)High Noon for Consignors
Auction Law & Ethics
Transparent is not a correct adjective for the auction process. Murky is close. Midnight is the truth. When I serve as an auction consultant to consignors, this is the message that I continually emphasize.
Since April, we have been considering the lack of transparency in auctions and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
Time passes, as they say, and in preparing this month's reports I became only too aware that a few clocks I meant to include in earlier "Letters" were still on my files. Those clocks were accompanied in the waiting room by Chinese works of art sold in the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Samuel Prince, Master Cabinetmaker in Revolutionary New York City
Figure 1. Royal Gazette, June 27, 1778.
Figure 2. Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, April 22, 1773.
Figure 3. Bureau chest of drawers, or Beau Brummel, labeled by Samuel Prince, circa 1770, mahogany, poplar, brass (replaced), mirror glass, height 333/4", width 40", depth 22". Museum of the City of New York, New York City, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rebekah Milne and Seamus McCance, At Home Antiques and Gallery, Kingston, New York
Two generations. On left, Seamus McCance with partner Rebekah Milne, who's next to her parents, Jim and Judy Milne.
Exterior of the shop at 81 Broadway in Kingston.
A view of the shop's 30' ceilings.
Rustic hand-hewn farm table, $2850; set of seven reproduction Windsors-one arm and five sides-$3250; 1970's red tableware, $20 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Things Are Looking Up
The Young Collector
We've pretty much given up complaining about wanting to talk to real people, haven't we? After lots of complaining in the 1990's about the growing numbers of "Push one for..." phone systems, we've just sighed and gone on about our business. The Internet, most would say, has ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Solomon Bell Cats Bring $73,000
Earthenware cats with lead and manganese glaze. "These are probably the best example of Strasburg, Virginia, redware figures that have ever been offered or sold in public," the buyer told us. Photo courtesy Burt Long.
A pair of redware cats made by Strasburg, Virginia, potter Solomon Bell sold for $73,000 (no ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Are Massachusetts Show Exhibitors Due a Dose of Philadelphia-Style Tax Medicine?
A fresh threat from a state taxation entity has emerged to bedevil show dealers, many of whom have not yet recovered from the Philadelphia dispute that cost them dearly last year.
The Philadelphia episode occurred when exhibitors at past shows began receiving dunning notices from a collection agency seeking retroactive "business ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Recipient of the 2012 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
A Book Review
Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 by Maurice Hillis Maurice Hillis, 2011, 570 pages, hardbound, GBP60 plus S/H from (www.TheLiverpoolPorcelainBook.weebly.com)
In his foreword to this groundbreaking tome, Geoffrey Godden leaps from his long-occupied English porcelain pedestal to exclaim, "This is the most welcome and eagerly awaited of books." Godden, who is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stoneware Jug with Acrobats Goes to New York State Museum
A Fulper Brothers four-gallon stoneware jug depicting acrobats, offered at the 2013 Winter Antiques Show in New York City for $295,000, is now part of the Weitsman Collection of American Stoneware at the New York State Museum (NYSM) in Albany. It was acquired for the museum by stoneware collector ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Needlework from Hunterdon County, New Jersey
When Dan Campanelli sold his Halloween collection at Noel Barrett's in 2003, he said that he and his wife, Marty, were changing the direction of their collecting. Now we know that their next passion was samplers. When they bought an old house in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, they narrowed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vazzana and Steele to Assume Cord Shows
From left: Ed McClure, Beth Steele, Rich Vazzana, and Vivien Cord.
Cord Shows Ltd. events will be assumed in 2014 by the father/daughter team of Richard Vazzana and Beth Steele of Ridgefield, Connecticut, according to Vivien Cord, president of Cord Shows Ltd., and her partner, Edward McClure.
Cord and McClure will continue ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More on Rockwell's Willie Gillis: Package from Home
Drama surrounding the sale of Norman Rockwell's 1941 painting Willie Gillis, Package from Home appeared to sputter to a close in mid-April when Chicago auctioneer Sean Susanin chose a curious way to announce that he had sold the painting for $1.75 million. That sum is millions below the $3/5 million ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Trail to Follow
Editorial
The antiques business could use a helping hand, and Connecticut State Senator Rob Kane is trying to get his state to lend one.
Kane, a Republican who represents the 32nd District, which includes Woodbury and ten other towns, has sponsored a bill in the General Assembly to expand the existing Connecticut ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The London Foundling Hospital's Textile Tokens, 1740-70
John Styles, a research professor in history at the University of Hertfordshire in the U.K. and an honorary senior research fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, researched ordinary people's clothing for his book The Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England, published in 2007. Very ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Arader Offers Audubon Prints and More in Unusual Auction
Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Hoop Petticoat Narcissus, Narcissus bulbocodium, watercolor on vellum, 183/4" x 141/4", signed lower left, $61,000 (est. $40,000/50,000). It had a retail price of $175,000.
Snowy Owl, Plate 121, sold for $134,200 (est. $100,000/150,000), the auction's highest price.
Pierre-Joseph Redoute, Intermediate Daffodil, Narcissus radiatus, watercolor on vellum, 183/4" x 141/4", $48,800 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Expensive Corkscrews Sold On Line
B. Wilhelm corkscrew, $21,100.
Durand 1879 French patented rack and pinion corkscrew, $18,500.
The antique corkscrew collecting community conducts on-line auctions with an all-volunteer effort at ICCAuctions. During the sale that closed on May 11, a B. Wilhelm 1885 U.S. patent corkscrew, found 20 years ago in a Los Angeles antiques mall, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Faithful Show Up in Droves at Wayside Inn Antiques Show
Diana Bittel of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, picked up this pair of shellwork pictures in England recently. She said she'd owned a pair by the same hand 20 years or so ago. The circa 1840 pictures are 171/2" tall x 12" wide. Bittel asked $12,000 for the pair.
Brian Cullity of Sagamore, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo
This hooked rug was found in the booth belonging to a Fishersville regular, Jim Fisher of Fairfield, Pennsylvania, who trades as Plain Dealer. The folky rug features a clipper ship flying an American flag as it sails toward a harbor with a lighthouse. The rug was $395. The group of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Washington Tops in Texas Auction
Rembrandt Peale, Martha Washington, circa 1856, oil on canvas, 361/2" x 29", signed lower left, inscribed on the back "Mrs. Martha Washington (1795) / Painted by / Rembrandt Peale / with improvements From / Original by Ch's W. Peale / Philadelphia," $158,500.
Rembrandt Peale (1778-1860), George Washington, circa 1856, oil on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inuit Art Auction
An artist from Arviat known only as Susan carved her Mother and Child of stone. It has a simplified, proud stance and rightfully earned $312 (est. $300/500). Auctioneer Duncan McLean thought it "quite a lovely little piece," and it is.
Joe Talirunili (1893-1976), Povungnituk, is most famous for his carvings of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Balancing Act Perfected
As the fashion for Orientalism flourished in England, talented artist David Roberts (1796-1864) went on a painting expedition to record monuments and scenes of daily life in the Middle East. His travels resulted in the 240 plates that illustrate The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, with Egypt and Nubia, published ... (Read More)
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(Show)Pure and Simple Antique Show
The smaller hatbox, marked for C.B. Platt, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, has an illustration of a beaver and was $495. The larger hatbox, showing birds in a tree and lettered "Tappe/ 9 West 57," was priced at $325 and sold during the show by Bill and Terri Baxter of Baxter Auction Gallery, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.5 Million Toy Auction
Marklin, Germany, Pabst beer railroad car, gauge 1, early 1900's, 101/2" long, $21,240, the same price achieved by another elusive Marklin beer advertising car (not shown), Schlitz of Milwaukee, 10" long.
The truly memorable Marklin, Germany, U.S.S. Maine battleship, first series, 1902, 30" long, crested as Bertoia's two-day topper at $64,900.
Voltamp ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Show NYC
Shows are where collectors meet. New York 20th-century silver collector Margot Grant Walsh talks with Philadelphia silver collector Robert Taylor in the booth of Massachusetts dealer Spencer Marks.
The Manhattan Art & Antiques Center stand offered a variety of material from ten dealers. In the case to the right is a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Horn of Plenty
This powder horn sold for $74,750 at Cowan's Auctions on May 1. "It was one of a few map horns that detailed British ships in the New York harbor and the number of guns on each," said Jack Lewis, Cowan's director of historic firearms and early militaria. Cowan's photo.
A bit ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Class III Collection of Richard Wray
French model 1914 Hotchkiss machine gun, 8 mm caliber, made in 1918, having a very rare early flash hider, excellent condition with light patina, matching serial numbers, on an omnibus mount with anti-aircraft extension and vertical fire bracket, $9775.
British MkII Bren gun, .303 British caliber, made by Inglis in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Robust Sale of Paintings
E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969) did not sign this painting, but her card was affixed to the back and her style is certainly clear. The Senora's Garden, 30" x 26" (est. $200,000/300,000), sold to a collector in Carmel for $722,500. Scot Levitt, department expert at Bonhams, called it "the best work ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Canes at Auction
The large elephant ivory handle of Bacchus and a maiden on this cane is 4" high and 21/4" at its widest point. The cane is 353/4" long overall, probably English, and circa 1880. The handle depicts Bacchus being given a goblet of wine by a nude maiden who holds onto ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Glass Show Now Includes Ceramics
Over the past 36 years, the Westchester Glass Club's annual Collectors Show and Sale has been devoted solely to high-quality glass, but this year the show will expand to include quality ceramics.
Glass of all periods, including early blown, mold-blown, and pressed as well as studio art glass, brilliant cut, Depression ... (Read More)
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(Show)Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
American Garage, Los Angeles, California, asked $2500 for the 1920's double-sided sign in original condition from Illinois; $6800 for the circa 1850 Pennsylvania dry sink with a high-cut splashboard; and $5500 for the circa 1900 crowing weathervane rooster with a marble eye and original paint. On the wall, the circa ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction of the Contents of the World
This French Empire-style mahogany and ormolu-mounted telephone sold to a phone bidder for $10,200 (est. $300/500). Including its eagle finial, it is 181/2" tall. It was marked "Ste. Indlle. des Telephones/ 25, Rue du 4 Septembre, Paris/ Systeme G. Bailleux/No. 15528."
This Dr. T.J. Eckleburg-esque optical trade sign sold for $3690 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Barridoff's Spring Sale of Fine Art
View of the Barred Islands II by Fairfield Porter (1907-1975), a 1965 oil on masonite, 19" x 29", sold for $24,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). Barridoff had sold the same picture on August 6, 2004, for $18,720 to a Falmouth, Maine, collector.
Dockside by Anthony Thieme (1888-1954), 25" x 30", oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana
William Tylee Ranney (1813-1857), Tories with a Prisoner, circa 1857. This 141/4" x 171/4" oil on canvas has had a long exhibition history and has been published in a catalog of Ranney's works. With a Spanierman Gallery provenance, it sold for $43,750 (est. $20,000/30,000).
This 6" x 41/2" cased image of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques Seekers Crowd the Spring in New Hampshire Antique Show
This tavern table with an oval 351/2" x 261/2" two-board top has widely splayed legs and tiny feet; it was $2500. The handled tin pot with side pouring spout, all in orange paint and with a label attesting to the fact that it came from the collection of Mr. and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Quinn & Farmer Gallery Catalog Sale
The high lot of the Quinn & Farmer sale was this massive (99" x 72" x 22") carved Renaissance Revival oak server. The three-section piece dates from the last half of the 19th century and exhibits extensive and elaborate carving. The lower cabinet has four doors enclosing storage shelves; the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Masters Are Hot-Others Not
Four Sam Doyle paintings on found metal sold. Dr. Buz Halo, 41" x 25", also had a conch shell "held" to the ear. Accompanied by Doyle's original 1984 bill of sale and his legal agreement with Dr. Regenia Perry to be his agent, the lot brought $34,500 (est. $10,000/15,000).
With ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale
Berks County, Pennsylvania, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Community Connections Add Spice to the Mix
Top lot among the donated works sold to benefit WLAE-TV, the local public broadcasting station, was 7th Ward Cinderella, a 40" x 30" oil on canvas by James Michalopoulos (b. 1951). It brought $15,375.
One of the many 20th-century artworks that did well was this atmospheric Man in Blue, Playing a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Harbinger of Prosperity?
This 28" x 42" portrait of the clipper ship Harbinger by Montague Dawson (British, 1895-1973) sailed away to a new owner for just above the low estimate at $126,000. Check the body of the article to find out more about the post-auction activity that made this sale special.
This 6" high ... (Read More)
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(Show)Chicago Botanic Garden Antiques & Garden Fair
By the time we arrived, Trace Mayer's eye-catching "tree" fashioned of details from picture frames looked rather spotty. Thanks to Mayer, we have this cell phone image taken before viewers bought off portions of the design.
Artisan Ben Caldwell of Nashville, Tennessee, has repeat buyers who return for his unique copper ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana at Freeman's
Two phone bidders competed for the Patton family 13-star American Revolutionary War flag, 211/2" x 383/4", with blue wool canton and 13 five-pointed stars in a 4-5-4 pattern appliqued on both sides, 13 white and red wool stripes, and cotton hoist inscribed "Natt. Ames. of England, March. 26 1784"-all hand ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Couture and Vintage Clothing Sale Held at New Venue on Central Park West
Ah, Paree! This circa 1911 two-piece empire waist evening gown by Mme. Jeanne Paquin (1869-1936) came from the Brooklyn Museum and was of a black silk net over ivory silk satin, with a black velvet sash and bow, all beaded with white and jet beads. Despite some tears in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bully for You, Peter Scanlan
Collector C. Peter Scanlan (1941-2012)
This signed real photo postcard of President Theodore Roosevelt brought $1140 (est. $800/1200). Scanlan collection.
In Memory of My Darling Wife Alice Hathaway Roosevelt and of My Beloved Mother Martha Bulloch Roosevelt sold to a collector for $38,400 (est. $25,000/35,000). It was printed by G.P. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's to Sell Esmerian Folk Art--Maybe
Friday, March 22, was not a particularly auspicious day for the higher-ups at Christie's. That was the day a U.S. Bankruptcy Court Southern District of New York judge gave a trustee the right to choose Sotheby's to auction the bulk of a collection that had been promised to the American ... (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.
Romantic Spirits: Nineteenth Century Paintings of the South from the Johnson Collection by ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Search Engine Stategies
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Computer Column #293
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
There are many reasons an antiquer might need an Internet search. Often it is to find comparable prices for an object at hand. Authentication, identification, history, provenance, or conservation information are other reasons.
Often this column blithely ... (Read More)
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