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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)George Raymond Huey
George Huey is shown holding a carving of a whistler (goldeneye). The photo was taken outside his home on Bradford's Point Road. Private collection.
This photo is included in the Coast Guard's collection of town fishermen. Huey is shown holding the carving of "Bernarr Macfadden." Photo by Carlton Simmons from a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Steve and Lorraine German, Mad River Antiques, North Granby, Connecticut
Steve and Lorraine German.
Two baskets. The smaller one has very straight sides and a high kick-up in the bottom. Underneath there is a faint pencil inscription: "Percy Butterfield/ Dec. 25, 1886." Lorraine said that there's a record of a Percy Butterfield born near Lewiston, Maine, on Christmas day 1885. She ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)A Cloudless Sky...Not
Auction Law & Ethics
In recent years, the public has clamored for increased accountability from our industries, institutions, and arms of government. Progress has been made, but much remains to be done. Last month, I wrote about the lack of transparency that plagues auctions. There's nothing clear about the auction process-not ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
One of the attractions that John Woodman Higgins promised visitors to his museum when it opened in 1931 was a wing dominated by "100 Steel Knights." A dozen or so of those steel knights were in the London sale and three of them sold up ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Establishing a Marketing Budget
The Art of Marketing
Last month we further investigated who your real competition might be. This month we look at starting to set aside a core budget to cover your most essential marketing needs.
A good marketing strategy is always to add your personal touch and to establish good ongoing relationships with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Yale University Art Gallery Is Ready for Visitors
From left: the Louis Kahn building; the Old Yale Art Gallery, designed by Egerton Swartwout in 1926; and Street Hall, designed by Peter Bonnett Wight in 1866 on the site of the first Yale Art Gallery, built in 1832. They ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rules to Live by
The Young Collector
Andrew's dad, Bob, has been working on his legacy-a list of his personal rules for life, success, general happiness, and whatnot. This started with Andrew's grandfather Frank. Near the end of his life, he was riding in the car with Bob, and he said, "You know, I think ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Ruby Lane Launches Real or Repro Web Site
Ruby Lane, the on-line retail marketplace for antiques, collectibles, art, and jewelry (www.rubylane.com), has launched a new Web site, Real or Repro (www.realorrepro.com) to help buyers and sellers recognize how to spot fakes and reproductions.
Real or Repro offers an extensive, free library of articles, information, and photographs on thousands of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lutiger Joins Palm Beach Show Group
Laurette Lutiger has joined the Palm Beach Show Group as show director. Launching a Chicago office, Lutiger will establish dealer participation, assist with production of the Palm Beach Show Group shows throughout the U.S., and manage show acquisition and development.
"What attracted me to the Palm Beach Show Group was the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg Move One Block North
On April 6, the Brooklyn Flea in New York City celebrated the fifth anniversary of its inaugural market-when nearly 20,000 people showed up at a Fort Greene schoolyard on a chilly early spring day with a strong chance of rain. The weather held out, word spread, and five years later ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Clarion and Folk Art to Be Digitized
The American Folk Art Museum in New York City has been awarded funding necessary to digitize and make fully accessible 115 issues of The Clarion ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Dates and New Name for Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
The 2013 Greenwich Winter Antiques Show, Classic to Contemporary, produced by Barn Star Productions in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society, will be held December 6-8 at the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.
In 2012 the show was called Antiques and Art Avant Garde Greenwich and took place ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)David Jackson Joins Garth's
Firearms and English furniture and decorative arts specialist David Jackson has joined Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio.
A native of Lancashire, England, Jackson holds a bachelor's degree with honors in fine arts valuation from Southampton Solent University in Southampton, England. He successfully attained his degree while continuing a 25-year career ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Retired Antiques Dealer Publishes Mystery
Mary Kane of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, retired from Mary's Memories, and her friend Evelyn Saunders have published an e-book, Colorblind in Philadelphia.
The plot revolves around the theft of a rare alexandrite ring from a booth in an antiques show held in a posh center city hotel. Alexandrite exhibits a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Clars Auction Gallery Expands to the Pacific Northwest
Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, has announced its expansion to the Pacific Northwest. Its new operation is centrally located in Vancouver, Washington, just north of Portland, Oregon. Clars brings to this market a world-class fine art and antiques auction house that will serve the needs of those looking to sell ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Men Facing Charges for Stolen Artifacts
In July 2012, an officer with the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Regional Municipality conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in Fall River, Nova Scotia. During that stop, the officer seized a document that was later identified as an original letter written by Major General James Wolfe in 1758. The initial ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Man Sues after Discovering Painting Has Hermann Goering Provenance
The question of provenance is at the center of a legal battle in California. Collector Steven Brooks of San Francisco paid GBP57,600 (approximately $106,796) for a painting by French painter Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771) at Sotheby's old master paintings sale in London on July 8, 2004. Cataloged as Allegorical Portrait ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Foot for Penn's Desk Found
William Penn's desk is in the Logan Room at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Photo courtesy The Library Company of Philadelphia.
British furniture historian Adam Bowett shows that the old foot fits into William Penn's secretary desk. Photo courtesy The Library Company of Philadelphia.
The small replacement foot and the original, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Named a Legendary Landmark
From left: Honorees Leslie Hindman, John McCarter, and Joan Ahrens (representing Target Corporation). Diane Alexander White Photography photo.
After decades of selling venerable objects, the shoe is now on the other foot for Chicago auctioneer Leslie Hindman. This is the year that Hindman became-at least officially-venerable.
Named a 2013 Legendary Landmark ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Deaccessioning and Due Diligence
Editorial
Antiques dealers can make good money recognizing valuable objects that have been overlooked. That's why flea market tables and auction previews are scrutinized so thoroughly.
Officials in Muskegon, Michigan, failed to realize that furniture from the Hackley Public Library-a stately Richardsonian Romanesque-style building of Maine granite and Marquette sandstone erected in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Early Illinois Folk Art 1825-1925
Two-piece hollow cast-iron bull with black and white paint, sometimes known as a "Baloney Bull," manufactured by the Simpson Windmill and Machine Company.
The DuPage County Historical Museum in Wheaton, Illinois, opened the exhibition Early Illinois Folk Art 1825-1925 on April 13. The exhibit, which offers the opportunity to examine the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mary Blood Mellen Painting Tops Marine Auction
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Ship Departing Coastline, an oil painting, was attributed to Mary Blood Mellen (1819-1886), a student of Fitz Henry Lane. The painting depicts a ship flying the American flag and the owner's blue pennant. In the background the shoreline has a church, homes, and a lighthouse. In a wonderful ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Portsmouth Furniture at Hap Moore's Auction
New Hampshire card table in birch with exaggerated top contours and reeded and turned legs, one of which needed some tightening, $3450.
Federal card table by Judkins & Senter of Portsmouth, $7015.
Empire folding card table in a heavily grained tiger maple, $1150.
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
Hap Moore's April 13 auction ... (Read More)
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(Show)"Antique City" Fun Fair
The Philip Rauch Fieldhouse is located on the Lehigh University campus near the athletic fields and facilities. It is outside the town of Bethlehem and convenient to major interstate highways. The university is roughly 80 miles outside of New York City and 70 miles outside of Philadelphia.
The crowd was still ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Antiques Show
Peter Eaton of Newbury, Massachusetts, asked $28,500 for this Federal clock from central or western Massachusetts, 1810-15. It is 96" tall and all original except the finials; it has an old surface. The seven-drawer cherrywood Connecticut River Valley tall chest with cove-molded top was $14,500.
Steven Still of Manheim, Pennsylvania, offered ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Book Fair's Shadow Show
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A first edition of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, offered for $3500 by Resser-Thorner Antiques, Manchester, New Hampshire, was not only signed by Toklas and by the book's author, Gertrude Stein, it also had Man Ray photographs of the two women and their apartment at 27 rue ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
Doug Ramsay of Hadley, Massachusetts, asked $3600 for the 1930's car weathervane; $1250 for the hooked rug; $2650 for the painted chest; and $650 for the iron duck on it. The druggist sign on top was $1750; the bellows, $350. The carving of a black man was $3800, and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Antiques Week Events
There are plenty of events during the 2013 Antiques Week in Philadelphia to keep collectors and dealers busy.
Stenton Symposium
The Stenton Symposium, "Philadelphia & the Frontier: Urban & Vernacular Furniture in the Early Eighteenth Century," will be held Thursday, April 11. The sold-out program was rescheduled after Hurricane Sandy caused its ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rare Books in the Big Apple
Jeremy Markowitz (left) and Tom McLaughlin of Donald A. Heald Rare Books, New York City. Their natural history offerings included a first elephant folio of The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America by John James Audubon and Rev. John Bachman, price on request.
The first book illustrated by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Francis Crick's "Secret of Life" Letter Sets Record
Seated in the Christie's salesroom (from right) are Francis Crick's son, Michael, a video-game inventor (www.wordzap.com); Michael's daughter Kindra Crick, an artist (www.kindracrick.com); two unidentified women; James D. Watson; and an unidentified man. While the bidding took place, Michael snapped photographs of the auctioneer, room bidders, and phone bid-takers. Afterward ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction House Owners Arrested for Offering Elephant Footstools
Mary Jo Garlo, 60, and Peter Francese, 70, owners of Great American Auction Service, Inc., Hyde Park, New York, failed to obtain a permit from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) before offering in an auction two stools made of elephant feet. On April 10, New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maureen O'Sullivan Stars in Devin Moisan Auction
Half-sheet poster, 22" x 28", for The Grapes of Wrath, $5175. Moisan photo.
Otto Henry Bacher oil on canvas of "Desdemona's Palace" in Venice, Italy brought $6900.
The scrubbed-down top and carriage of this New England Queen Anne drop-leaf table appeared to have started life together. The maple table with rule-jointed leaves ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doyle Sells Diego Giacometti Console Table for Record $1,762,500
Console table by Diego Giacometti (Swiss, 1902-1985), bronze and glass, signed "Diego" and monogrammed "DG." The 313/4" x 67" x 15" table was accompanied by a certificate from James Lord; a letter from Pierre Matisse to Serge Matta, the French fashion designer for whom this table was made in 1975; ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collector's Mementos of Nicholas & Alexandra on the Block
A 61/2" x 81/2" circa 1905 gelatin silver print of the Russian imperial family aboard their yacht Standart brought $2640 (est. $1000/1500).
A 1912 menu from the yacht made $2160 (est. $500/700). It was signed by dinner guests.
This 6 5/8" x 31/2" circa 1907 photogravure of Empress Alexandra Fyodorovna in ... (Read More)
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(Show)If You Fill It, Will They Come?
This vividly colored print was in the booth of Chloe and Jim McKinney of Chloe's Antiques and Fine Collectibles in the Seattle area. It quickly caught the eye of one passerby and sold early in the show. The 48" x 48" framed artist's proof, signed "Tarkay," was priced at $750. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Paintings, and Decorative Art Sold on the Cape
Cape Cod artist Ralph Eugene Cahoon (1910-1982) painted this seaside scene with three sailors carrying two mermaids in nets. In the background a train pulls into an active seaport. A hot air balloon, often seen in Cahoon's paintings, is in the sky. The painting sold quickly at $22,420 (est. $15,000/20,000).
This ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Show
Paul J. DeCoste Antiques, West Newbury, Massachusetts, offered a large collection of early wine glasses, which he said he had bought at Skinner. The earliest have baluster stems; later ones have air twist stems. Champagne glasses were $500 and $600 each; engraved glasses, $700 and $800 each; and common ones, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
Eastern Plains three-bladed knife club, 39" long, circa 1870, $180,000. The club has beveled edges and a serrated back ridge. The haft is painted in red, blue, and yellow pigment and studded with tacks. Four open hands or paws and four stylized thunderbirds are carved on opposite sides of club. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Tosses Lawsuit over Detroit Institute of Arts Admissions Policy
On April 3, Judge John C. Foster of the Macomb County (Michigan) Circuit Court dismissed a lawsuit filed against the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) over its admissions policy.
On August 7, 2012, voters in the Michigan counties of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb had approved a ten-year millage increase to support ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Antiques and Folk Art Show Celebrates Its 40th Anniversary
David and Mary Jo Field of Croydon House Antiques, Enterprise, Ontario, offered this circa 1890 Cree chief's jacket with blue, yellow, and green beads, horse hair, and ermine pelts for $7500.
Clay and Carol Benson of Port Hope, Ontario, had no trouble selling this open-top dish dresser, Nova Scotia, circa ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decision Reached: Sotheby's to Sell Esmerian Folk Art Bonanza
It's as final a word as any could be about the often up-in-the-air business. Sotheby's will offer the 212 pieces of folk art formerly at New York City's American Folk Art Museum at a public auction at the end of this year or early in the next. The possibility that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Every Picture Tells a Story
Pablo Picasso, Visage au nez noir, 13" high white earthenware clay pitcher, 1969, decoration in engobes (slip glazes) of black, green, blue, white, and red, engraved by knife under partial brush glaze, marked "Edition/ Picasso/ 122/200/ Madoura," stamped "Edition/ Picasso" and also "Madoura/ Plein Feu" on bottom, $48,400.
Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902), ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toys Main Attraction of Third Lambert Auction
An early 18th-century cherry Bible box in its original dry surface with a carved pinwheel in the center of the lid and carved star in each corner stole the show when it went from an opening bid of $1000 to close at $11,000. Collector Cliff Stanton, phoning from Florida, bought ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Double Bogey
Two of the early standouts in the African sale were these bronze ancestral plaques from Benin dating to the 16th-18th centuries. The one on the left, with three young men in high relief, 171/2" x 141/2", sold for $17,250. Right, a bronze guardian plaque of three warriors, each carrying a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Homecoming for Top American Tools Sold Abroad
Said to be the earliest documented American plane maker, Francis Nicholson (1683/4-1753) worked as a joiner in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, before setting up shop in Wrentham in 1728. The first known mention of "toolmaker" in an American context occurs in 1752 in Francis Nicholson's will. This molding plane bearing his stamp ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Casablanca Poster Sells for $107,550
$107,550. Heritage Auctions photo.
A six-sheet movie poster for Casablanca, one of just two copies known, sold for $107,550 (includes buyer's premium) in Heritage Auctions' March 23 and 24 movie poster auction in Dallas, Texas. The sale totaled approximately $1.72 million.
Grey Smith, director of movie posters at Heritage, said of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Repaired Butter Churn Brings $19,500
$19,500.
A rare circa 1825 N. Clark & Co. (Nathan Clark, Athens, New York) six-gallon salt-glazed stoneware butter churn, decorated with a large cobalt deer and tree, brought $19,500 (no buyer's premium charged) at Rhonda's Auction and Event Center in East Bloomfield, New York, on March 23. According to the auctioneer, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sales Offer Some Gems in New Brunswick
This Thomas Nisbet card table in mahogany also sold for $15,000. Tim Isaac Auctions.
This Irving tanker truck made by Otaco Limited Co., Orillia, Ontario, in the 1950's fetched $1200, and the Lincoln Van Lines/ Trans Canada Service truck made $130. Kevin Bond Auctions.
This Thomas Nisbet sofa table in mahogany and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Auction
Patriarchs of the Grove, an oil on canvas by William Wendt (1865-1946), was on the back cover of the auction catalog and on a full page inside. The 40" x 50" picture was consigned by the family of the original owners, Mr. and Mrs. Alvah Strong of Rochester, New York. ... (Read More)
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()Trustee Teitelbaum and Judge Drain Arrange Fate of Esmerian Collection
On Friday, March 22, a meeting was held in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, New York, before Judge Robert Drain. The reason for the meeting was to hear arguments, pro and con, concerning the liquidation trustee's motion to award the auction of the Esmerian collection to Sotheby's.
Ralph Esmerian ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sales Stronger Than Ever at Sixth AD20/21 Show-Finally
(From left) AD20/21 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award winner John P. Axelrod; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston curator Nonie Gadsden; and Boston Architectural College President Theodore C. Landsmark. For many years, Axelrod has had a close association with the MFA, Boston, acting as an overseer and donor. The Art of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early Black Panther Banner Achieves Stunning Results
This 33" x 24" cloth banner sold to an institution via an agent for $43,200 (est. $2500/3500). It is a rare relic of the earliest days of the Black Panther political party and movement, founded in Lowndes County, Alabama, in 1966.
A manuscript search warrant for five runaway slaves sold for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Appreciating an Important Contribution to Our Musical Heritage
If you sauntered down the quaint cobbled streets of London, England in the late 18th/early 19th centuries, you would have passed by a large number of musical instrument makers. Shops such as Jacob Erat & Sons, Dodd & Sons, Sebastian Schwartz, Schwieso & Grosjean, J.C. Schwieso, J.A. Stumpff, and the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
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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(Computer Article)Point-of-Sale Tablet
This laptop for writing sales slips at shows might be replaced soon by the tablet computer on the left.
Computer Column #292
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
The world is periodically turned upside down by new technology, such as Gutenberg's printing press and Watt's steam engine. The automobile, airplane, radio, television, and computer radically ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Antiques Show Solves Some Tax Problems
Philadelphia, looking for ways to raise revenue, is collecting obscure back taxes plus interest from antiques dealers who participate in shows in that city.
First targeted were dealers who exhibit at the venerable Philadelphia Antiques Show, the fund-raiser for Penn Medicine, the healthcare part of the University of Pennsylvania, the largest ... (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.
A Handsome Cupboard of Plate: Early American Silver in the Cahn Collection by ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Point, Click, Bid!
The Young Collector
We're not lazy people. Trust us. In the past 48 hours we have gone to two grocery stores, the post office, the gas station, the pet store, and the bakery; worked on four upcoming lectures; made the necessary preliminary notes for this column and cranked out 800-plus words; ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Scouting the Competition
The Art of Marketing
Since beginning this column several months ago, I've received a fair number of open-ended questions, all of which I have answered as quickly as possible through e-mail. Answering individually has not been an easy task, so I thought I might spend some time in the column discussing ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)No Transparency at the Block
Auction Law & Ethics
Every time I pick up a paper or click on the news, someone is calling for transparency in something. Critics and the media demand transparency in this and that. The public wants transparency in everything-except their individual affairs. Transparency shows up time and again in discussions of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
From the portraits of two beautiful women whose lives followed very different paths, this month's selections move on to include Dr. Heller's "silver lexicon," blacksmithies and white owls, masterpieces of 18th-century French furniture making, overweight cattle and pigs, beautifully engraved glasses, and something to bring a smile to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)John Fignar of Saratoga Springs, New York
John Fignar is shown with the slot machine he bought in Las Vegas that got him hooked on gambling antiques. It's a Pace "Saratoga" model machine made in 1937. In addition to being a slot machine, it also includes the world's easiest pinball game, which you had to "succeed" at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Crolius Heart-Shaped Inkstand Gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photo courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The William Crolius incised and cobalt blue decorated heart-shaped inkstand on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the past 22 years has recently been made a promised and partial gift to the institution. Purchased by Pennsylvania collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Country Show: Under New Management and New Name
Sandy Raulston and Ted Birbilis, owners of Roadside America in Pasadena, California, have taken over the management and promotion of the California Country Antiques Show in Los Altos, California. The show, now renamed the New California Country & More Antiques Show, will be held on June 9 and October 20.Raulston ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's and Sotheby's Change Buyers' Premiums
On February Christie's and Sotheby's announced new buyers' premiums.
Christie's new buyer's premium in the United States is 25% of the hammer price of each lot up to and including $75,000; 20% of the hammer price from $75,001 up to and including $1,500,000; and 12% above $1,500,000.
Sotheby's new fees are 25% ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Taxing Problem
Tax authorities in Philadelphia, in a clumsy and shortsighted move, have decided that dealers exhibiting at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, one of the most prestigious shows in America, are tax scofflaws who haven't been paying enough tax to the city (see Lita Solis-Cohen's report on page 12-A). The city is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$20 Million Thomas Cole in Crate
In February the Seward House Museum and the Fred L. Emerson Foundation jointly announced that Thomas Cole's landscape Portage Falls on the Genesee, 84" x 61", had been removed from the museum and was going to be sold.
The Fred L. Emerson Foundation, incorporated in Delaware in 1943, was the former ... (Read More)
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(Show)Connecticut Spring Antiques Show in the Armory a Hit with Exhibitors and Visitors
No, it's not an Oreo cookie! This 2 5/8" diameter carved walnut butter print, or stamp, came from the collection of Frederick S. Weiser, a Lutheran pastor and authority on Pennsylvania German culture and artifacts who died in 2009. The print is sitting on page 123 of Weiser's Butter Prints ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wootens Succeed at Debut Sale
This circa 1830 15-gallon stoneware storage jar signed by Harvey Drake of the Edgefield District, South Carolina, was the top lot of the sale at $168,000. See story for details.
A circa 1830 hunt board from Forsyth County, North Carolina, 41 3/8" x 541/4" x 191/2", was the top furniture lot ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garth's Country Americana Auction
Soap Hollow blanket chest by Peter K. Thomas, dated 1862, poplar with its original stenciled decoration and red ground, trimmed in black and yellow, 28" high x 471/2" wide, missing escutcheon inlays, replaced period glass pulls, $14,460.
Decorated Chippendale blanket chest, Pennsylvania or Virginia, dated 1791, pine and poplar, original paint, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Opens New Facility
This 36" x 36" silkscreen was the second Andy Warhol print offered at the sale. This image uses a photograph of flowers as its basic design. It is brightly colored with hot pink, yellow, and light blue blossoms and with green as the background. Signed by Warhol in graphite, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buyer's Premium Dropped for Attendees of Cast-Iron Concept Sale
Hubley coupe, 63/4" long, $1003.
Excellent Kenton vehicles abounded. This sprinkler tank truck, 7" long, made the biggest splash at $1534.
Kenton city bus, 6" long, $1100.
Arcade yellow cab panel van, 8" long, restored, $1200.
From a bumper crop of farm equipment, three tractors, 51/2" to 8" long, sold for $1000.
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Tiffany and Colman Furniture at Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers
This exquisite Tiffany and Colman primavera wood table, a masterpiece of Gilded Age craftsmanship, fetched $70,800 (includes buyer's premium).
These Tiffany and Colman side chairs were in decent dry, untouched condition. Unlike the table, they possessed their original brass and glass ball feet and sold for $53,100 (est. $30,000/40,000).
Most people ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Special Carnival Glass
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(Auction)Don't Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
This Gorham Versailles pattern service in sterling, owned by the Bonbright family of Flint, Michigan, features more than 430 pieces, weighs 556.45 ounces, and came in a three-drawer mahogany campaign-style chest. The service sold at the top end of its high estimate for $18,000.
A swallow-tail American cavalry guidon with 35 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indy Antique Advertising Show
Ron and Bridget Fugate of Middletown, Ohio, who are retiring from the antiques business, were setting up at their last Indy Antique Advertising Show. The painted wood Burma Shave sign behind them was tagged $150, while the embossed metal Professional Barbers Association sign cost $195.
Pepsi-Cola and Hires double soda fountain ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Skinner's Jewelry Auction Signals Continued Market Strength
When this circa 1900 Art Nouveau pate-de-verre and opal pendant, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lots of Bang for 13 Million Bucks
This one-of-a-kind engraved and gold-inlaid lightweight Winchester model 1886 lever-action rifle, made for automobile pioneer John Francis Dodge, brought the top price of the sale, $333,500. Julia photos.
This cased model 1893 Borchardt pistol by Loewe, serial number 22, featured two-piece walnut checkered grips numbered to match the pistol and various ... (Read More)
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(Auction)March Sale Features Powerful Silver and Furniture Lots
It's not common to have an object sell at auction for $100,000 over its high estimate, but this circa 1740 silver salver by George Ridout of New York City did just that. One of five lots with a Livingston family provenance, the 141/4" wide, 63-ounce, pre-Revolution salver brought $159,300 from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art Auction
The Kentucky Arsenal by Paul Sawyier (1865-1917), oil on canvas, signed, 20" x 24" (sight), plus frame, $84,000.
Lonesome Pine Trail by Robert Burns Wilson (c. 1851-1916), watercolor on paper, signed, 22" x 101/4" (sight), plus frame, $10,200.
Shoveling Snow by Paul Sawyier (1865-1917), watercolor on paper, signed, 18" x 101/2" (sight), ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 56th Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show
Neil Zuehlke of Hartland, Wisconsin, was one of two sellers set up in the atrium behind an entry display. Zuehlke and his wife said they liked their spot and that separation from the main rooms was just fine with them. The location brought many visitors. Their 1880's hotel sign was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Alexandria Celebrates 17 Years
This assortment of lusterware pitchers and pictorial children's cups was found in the booth of Bill Shaeffer Antiques, Glyndon, Maryland. The prices ranged from $175 for the smaller mugs to $600 for the large pitcher.
Stuart Nordin Design, Alexandria, Virginia, offered these framed black-and-white prints. They are not dated, but they ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show
A New Dress for the Empress by Jennifer Mujezinovic of Bloomington, Indiana, a 48" x 24" oil on canvas with collage, was offered by the artist and sold during the preview party.
This Danish peg tankard by Holm, circa 1910, late Renaissance style, .830 silver, was $2600 from Bradley M. Bloom ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Armory Show at Piers 92 and 94
Babel (Stockholm Type), 2013, by Charles Lutz was based on Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes first exhibited in the 1960's. Armory Show guests were encouraged to take home a box.
Luminous Words, digital lighting books, by Airan Kang, a Korean artist, were offered for $5000 apiece at Bryce Wolkowitz Gallery, New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four Centuries of Massachusetts Furniture
Ron Bourgeault of Northeast Auctions is shown with ten students who were fortunate to get Bourgeault Scholarships to the Winterthur Furniture Forum. Some were scholars and some were cabinetmakers.
Boston japanned furniture at Winterthur: the Pimm high chest, a clock, and a chair.
Boston seating furniture at Winterthur. The chair to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art Show
Jean Arp (1886-1966), Ganymede, 1966, $500,000 from Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York City.
Menconi & Schoelkopf Fine Art, New York City, sold New Orleans #8 (left) by Ralston Crawford (1906-1978), 1957, 281/4" x 233/4". St. Anne Street (right), 24" x 18", oil on canvas, was $185,000.
The images of fencers by Eadweard ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Class-Action Lawsuit Filed over Admissions to the Met
An 1878 lease agreement requiring free admission to the Metropolitan Museum of Art (MMA) in New York City on most days of the week is being violated, according to a class-action lawsuit. The suit, filed on March 5 by Filip Saska, Tomas Nadrchal, and Stephen Michelman, claims that the Met ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Andy Williams Folk Art Collection and Other Good Stuff
The pair of Ward brothers (Lemuel T. and Stephen) widgeon decoys had "Mackey Collection" stamps. William F. Mackey Jr. was the author of American Bird Decoys (Bonanza Books, 1965), where the drake of this pair is illustrated on page 147. Mackey's superlative collection was sold in the 1970's through the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Springfield Hog Brings $35,650
This stoneware flask signed "The Springfield Hog. from Kirkpatrick/ Anna, Ills May 21 1871" is unusually large for the form at 83/4" long. It sold for $35,650 (est. $30,000/40,000) to a collector from Pennsylvania bidding in the room. Both ears had chips; otherwise, the flask was in good condition. "The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Solid Sale for Rago
This massive Teco vase by Fritz Albert, 221/2" high and decorated with irises, was made in Terra Cotta (Crystal Lake), Illinois, circa 1905, and is stamped "Teco" twice. It sold for $212,500 (est. $35,000/45,000).
Rare seven-handled Grueby vase, Boston, circa 1900, 103/4" high x 81/2" wide, marked with circular Grueby stamp, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)U.S. Attorney Files Forfeiture Complaint for $15.77 Million in Vintage Photos
On March 1, United States Attorney for New Jersey Paul J. Fishman announced that he and Assistant U.S. Attorney Marion Percell filed a complaint on February 22 in the U.S. District Court of New Jersey for forfeiture of more than 2200 pieces of art-mostly vintage photographs-from Green Diesel, LLC, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)World at War Auction
German World War II Luftwaffe bomber clasp and day fighter clasp, excellent condition, $862.50 the pair.
Original U.S. McClellan saddle restored circa 1980 by Hank Kluin of Burgess and Company, Red Bank, New Jersey, replicates the M-1885 pattern cavalry saddle, with Kluin-made accessories, unused, very good to excellent condition, $920.
British Boer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nineteenth-Century Antiques Sold in Alabama
All-original R.J. Horner nine-tube mahogany grandfather clock decorated with carved cross-armed full-bodied maidens down both sides of the case's front, $86,250.
Circa 1880 Pottier and Stymus Neo-Grec ormolu and porcelain-mounted sideboard with parcel-gilt and ebonized marquetry inlay, $63,250.
Signed George Jones 10'6" monumental walnut regulator clock with carved deer head and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Art of the Americas
John Molloy Gallery, New York City, was offering this 19th-century Northwest Coast drum for $1100. Molloy said, "Sales were spirited at a new, recent-level high."
Heidi Becker of Eugene, Oregon, priced this 1920's Plateau parfleche from her own collection at $950. "I used to use it to pack my clothes," she ... (Read More)
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(Show)An All-American Success
A well-weathered biplane weathervane soared over Woody and Nancy Straub's booth. Tagged $695, it flew back to Florida with the Straubs.
Mario Pollo of Bearsville, New York, offered three chests. From left: a cherry wood-grained panel chest on turned legs was $2350; a dovetailed sea chest with beckets and a painted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Esmerian Case: Sotheby's Moves to Quash Bankruptcy Trustee's Order
Three documents were filed with the clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, at just before 4 p.m. on February 19,beating a filing deadline of 5 p.m. by a little more than an hour. With those filings, the fate of the Ralph Esmerian folk art collection ... (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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(Fragment)Black Powder Exempt from New York Gun Law
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(Fragment)What Happened in New York City during Americana Week
Christie's deputy chairman John Hays shows the Townsend signature on the bottom of the top drawer of the mahogany block-and-shell bureau table that brought $2,210,500 from a phone bidder.
James Buttersworth painted "Flying Cloud"on her record breaking voyage to San Francisco around Cape Horn in 89-days, April 20th 1854. It ... (Read More)
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