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(Computer Article)Tablet Computers
The Maine Antique Digest digital edition is shown being read on an Android tablet computer with a 7" diagonal- measure screen.
Computer Column #291
Tablet computers are coming into their own after a decade of false starts. They have a definite place in an antiquer's computer world, with a few specific ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Inside the Bunker
Auction Law & Ethics
"Please Mister Postman, look and see if there's a letter in your bag for me."
The Marvelettes, 1961.
Mr. Postman delivered the following letter from a reader:
"Hi, Steve, I am writing about an issue that has bugged me for a while. Sometimes bidders can bid on line in 'live' ... (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.
Canadian Folk Art to 1950 by John A. Fleming and Michael J. Rowan ... (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)Nancy Douglass, Willow Spring Perennial Antiques, Clifton Park, New York
Nancy Douglass has a particular fondness for ceramics and carries substantial amounts of majolica, Roseville, Wedgwood, mochaware, and Staffordshire. The two majolica plates on the top shelf are George Jones and sell in the $800 to $1500 range.
Here is an overall view of Douglass's booth at the Stone Soup Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
Russian pictures and works of art provide the main story in this month's selection, but a Raphael drawing is the big money lot-by miles. This month's letter also wonders at the adventurous life and loves of Lady Jane Digby; admires a games board that even on the ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Competition and Conversation
The Art of Marketing
I have received many questions since my first article, so starting this month I've selected a question to answer that has broad relevance across the M.A.D. readership (no names will be used). No business question can be answered simplistically as there are always many factors to consider, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Yorkshire Potteries
A Book Review
The Yorkshire Potteries
by John D. Griffin
The Leeds Art Fund, 2012, 440 pages, hardbound
Much of the ceramics used in early America came from Staffordshire and other regions of Great Britain. Much has been written and published about the potteries and products of Staffordshire from the 17th through 20th ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Young Collector: Gray Matter
The Young Collector
We've become a sound bite society. Actually, that's kind of a sound bite itself. The term dates to the 1980's during the Reagan era, when the nightly news was undergoing a dramatic makeover. Maybe it was residual news fatigue from the constant crisis state of the early ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA Provides Grant to Friendship Museum
From left: Harry Hepburn, Margaret Gagnon, Gordon Winchenbach, Pat Jameson, and Elizabeth DeSimone.
The Friendship Museum of Friendship, Maine, has been awarded a grant of $1500 from the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA). Museum president Margaret Gagnon and treasurer Gordon Winchenbach accepted the check, presented by MADA president Elizabeth DeSimone, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hearing for Proposed Sale of Esmerian Folk Art Postponed
There was no January 29 hearing regarding a possible sale of the folk art assets in the matter concerning Ralph Esmerian and the American Folk Art Museum. That date originally had been proposed by liquidation trustee Jay Teitelbaum, in papers filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Did Rockwell's Willie Gillis, Package from Home Sell or Not?
Willie Gillis, Package from Home. Susanin's photo.
The highly publicized sale of a Norman Rockwell painting for $2.8 million in Chicago may or may not be a done deal. The painting portrays Willie Gillis, a fictional character created by Rockwell, as an enlisted man carrying a food package from home. Close ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)In Connecticut, Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be
Getting a loan against your Lichtenstein or borrowing against your Bricher in Connecticut might require plenty of paperwork and a potential loss of privacy, but the percentage you pay on the loan would be regulated.
A little-noticed law, "An Act Establishing a Fine Art Secured Lending License," passed last year and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Cabin Fever Show a One-Day-Only Hit
There were lots of old friends among those who were first to enter the show.
Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, is the shop of Vermont ADA president Greg Hamilton. His 191/2" x 231/2" (sight size) oil on canvas landscape is signed by Walter Farndon (1876-1964) and tagged $9500.
Colt Barn Antiques, Townshend, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of Country in Nashville: Stars Align on Valentine's
After the preview party crowd poured in through the doors, Susan Kramer Hunkins took a moment to smile with relief by the big azalea heart at the entrance. The 32nd edition of Heart of Country Antiques Show was open for business.
Glen C. Rollins of Cat's Cradle traveled to Nashville from ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show: Traditional and Vintage Broaden the Appeal
Two Rivers Mansion is on the McGavock Pike, located between Nashville and Hendersonville. David McGavock began building the mansion for his bride in 1859. It was completed after the Civil War. It remained in the family until the last heir died in 1965, and it became a public property. For ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-American Art: Landscapes, Cityscapes, Dreamscapes
Up Balls by William T. Williams (b. 1942) went to an institution for $120,000 (est. $75,000/100,000). The 1971 acrylic on canvas, at 84" x 60" one of the biggest pieces in the sale, had been deaccessioned by the AT&T corporate art collection in New York City. It came to this ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fiddler's Antique Show: Filling Up Nicely, Thank You
Susan's Antiques, New Cumberland, West Virginia, had paintings of bucolic landscapes and pleasantly pastoral pearlware. The peddling couple at left was $1800; the bocage group at center, $725; and a figure of Hope with her anchor, $500.
Rebecca and Greg Brown of Lagrange, Indiana, brought a lot of smalls and carefully ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts
The Mark Fritz collection included several articulated wooden artist's mannequins. The tallest, a French figure, 311/2" high, sold for $15,000. Department manager Corbin Horn credits the result to height and great patina. Hindman photo.
As a sale surprise, it's hard to beat the result for an Italian marble figural group from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Unclaimed Property Highlights Million-Dollar Sale
The James Spence-authenticated 1787 land deed signed by Benjamin Franklin from the Pennsylvania Treasury Department's Bureau of Unclaimed Property consignment sold for $13,200 (est. $7000/10,000).
A Standard Model A talking machine sold for $540 (est. $300/400).
This "Hershey's Velvet Sweet Chocolate" sample label is possibly one-of-a-kind and may have never gone ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)February Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry and Gemology
Photos courtesy Sotheby's, Doyle New York, and Freeman's
Three sales in February offered jewelry ranging from modest to extravagant to buyers shopping for Valentine's Day. Sotheby's sale of "Important Jewels" was on February 7 and included the higher-priced jewels (though the offerings were more moderate than the stellar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art Nouveau Posters Bring High Bids and Four Auction Records
This 1896 condition A/A- matted and framed poster, 22" x 17", by Alphonse Mucha advertises Job cigarette rolling papers. Conceived and sold by Jean Bardo, a baker in Perpignan, France, the rolling papers were offered in small packets, and Bardo wrote his initials on the packets, with the "J" and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Editorial: Sign and Sell
Editorial
Sign and Sell
Dan Miller, the controller for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, should heed a judge's ruling and sign an auction contract allowing the deeply indebted city to auction off the Western artifacts it owns.
In 2011, the city council voted to sell what remained of the $8.3 million worth of objects that former ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heavyweight Bible Stolen from Church Recovered by Dealer
by David Hewett
A church in St. Louis, Missouri, that had been the victim of numerous thefts over the past two years got nailed again just before Christmas. Thieves took material intended for needy neighborhood families, cash and gift cards worth $1100, and food items from St. John's Lutheran Church on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pearls and Paintings Pace the Pack
Bidders chased this circa 1890 primitive New England oil on tin sporting scene, 21" x 36", well past the $1000/1500 estimate to $5922.50. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bronze Dogs Find Good Home at Boston Museum
The sale's pair of bronze Great Danes by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973) lay at the feet of previewers in Skinner's Boston gallery on the night of Robin Starr's gallery walk. Each is approximately 27" x 53" and signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist "Anna V. Hyatt/ Auvers-sur-Oise 1907." ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winter Edition: Arion York Show Delivers Quality
A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, asked $3500 for this Grenfell Mission rug of a sailing ship at sea. The tiger maple Sheraton chest of drawers was $5400, and the circa 1880 cow weathervane was $25,000.
Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, had this western Pennsylvania or Ohio ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Outsider Art Fair
Tanner-Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, offered the Obama Chair, a basswood carved chair, 2012-13, for $4800. Hidden under the seat, to be turned up or down, "depending when you need them," is a set of carved testicles. The artist, Lonnie Usrey, a dairy farmer from northwest Arkansas (and Angela Usrey's uncle) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Screen Gem
Korean folding longevity screen, 18th or early 19th century, ink and mineral pigments on silk or linen, $603,750.
A pair of 18th-century carved cinnabar vases with red poppies on a yellow ground easily passed the $800/1200 estimate, starting at $5000 and finishing at $9200.
An eight-piece Aesthetic Movement walnut parlor suite by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wedgwood Exhibit at Thayer Public Library
The Thayer Public Library in Braintree, Massachusetts, has an exhibit of Wedgwood ceramics through February. Installed by Ron Frazier, a former president of the Wedgwood Society of Boston and a former president of the Braintree Historical Society, the exhibit features Wedgwood from the company's earliest production in the 1750's to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum to Lose 212 "Gifts" of Esmerian Folk Art to Bankruptcy Pool
by David Hewett
On December 26, 2012, bankruptcy liquidation trustee Jay Teitelbaum filed documents in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, that, if approved by Judge Robert Drain, would quiet the multiple claims of ownership of approximately 363 pieces of folk art, most of which are now in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Book and Ephemera Fair in Philadelphia
Flamingo Eventz, LLC will launch a new vintage book and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heavyweight Bible Stolen from Church Recovered by Dealer
by David Hewett
A church in St. Louis, Missouri, that had been the victim of numerous thefts over the past two years got nailed again just before Christmas. Thieves took material intended for needy neighborhood families, cash and gift cards worth $1100, and food items from St. John's Lutheran Church on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lily-Pad Pitcher Brings $40,900
From left: $40,900 and $11,200.
A medium blue circa 1852 Lancaster Glass Works type 1 crossed lily-pad pitcher, 81/4" high, sold for $40,900 (includes buyer's premium) when Glass International closed its latest absentee auction on December 1, 2012. According to the auction house, the price is the highest paid to date ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dolphin Promotions Sells Miami National Antique Show
Dolphin Promotions, Inc. sold its Miami National Antique Show to U.S. Antique Shows, a division of GLM and organizer of the Original Miami Beach Antique Show, in a deal announced on January 27.
The Miami National Antique Show features 150 exhibitors annually. Now in its 36th year, it is one of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting of Fort Macomb in Louisiana Sells in Tennessee
This is an oil on panel depiction of Fort Macomb, originally built to defend New Orleans. The painting attracted multiple phone and Internet bidders and sold for $29,250. The artist was George David Coulon (1822-1904) of Louisiana. It measured 15" x 21" (sight 11" x 17"). The painting is ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Only Stella Show in Town
Chuck White of Warwick, New York, had several weathervanes lining his booth walls, and this quill example, by J.W. Fiske, caught the eye. Made in the 19th century, it was priced at $9000. "It's in untouched condition," he said.
You didn't need a mirror to see that this mermaid, priced at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's Americana
Benjamin Henry Latrobe (1764-1820), A View of Mount Vernon with the Washington Family on the Terrace, signed and dated along the bottom, "Benjamin Henry Latrobe nat. del. [delineated from nature], July 16, 1796," watercolor and pen and ink on paper, 16 3/8" x 24", consigned by a descendant of John ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winter Antiques Show 2013
Peter H. Eaton and Joan R. Brownstein of Newbury, Massachusetts, sold the tall grain-painted chest (left) and the 12-panel chest under the pair of portraits by Ammi Phillips, from the artist's "Border" period, of Ashbel Stoddard and Patricia Bolles Stoddard. The Rhode Island gate-leg table was $48,000. The compass-seat chair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Important Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts
There are three other paintings of Flying Cloud by James Buttersworth (1817-1894). Although he never dated his work, he did produce an N. Currier lithograph of Flying Cloud in 1852, in partnership with Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. (1816-1886). Brown was a potential rival who did a clipper ship, Comet, for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie's
Edward Hicks (1780-1849), Penn's Treaty, oil on canvas, 173/4" x 233/4", with the words "Penn's Treaty" in gold on the mahogany frame, sold for $2,546,500 (est. $600,000/900,000), the highest price of Americana Week. It has not been seen in New York since 1977 when it was shown at Hirschl & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana at Bonhams
The $3000/5000 estimate was quickly eclipsed by bidders both on the phone and in house for a painted and parcel-gilt urn that took off, ultimately selling for $152,500 to a phone bidder. It was Russian Imperial Porcelain, dated 1830 in Cyrillic, 211/2" high, and decorated with a young woman sewing ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Metro Show 2013
This 50" x 131" cotton textile painted with natural dyes from the Huari culture of Peru was carbon dated to A.D. 850 and was $350,000 from William Siegal Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Eric Garduno said that it is the finest he has ever owned.
The Weiss twins, Leon and Steven, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Other Events in New York City during Americana Week
James Kochan of Frederick, Maryland, is shown next to a 34" x 52" oil on canvas by John Jenkinson, A Private Armed Vessel Arriving at Liverpool, that was tagged $65,000. "It looks like a Robert Salmon," said Kochan, noting that Jenkinson and Salmon were contemporaries in Liverpool, England. Jenkinson, however, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sendak Sale: Where the Wild Things Were
A first edition of Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are sold for $18,000 (est. $10,000/15,000). It was signed and inscribed with a drawing of a wild thing. The book tells the tale of a boy named Max, who has a tantrum and gets sent to bed without his supper. Obedient, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Changes in Seattle
These Aboriginal shields were offered in the on-line catalog, but a sale was negotiated prior to the auction. They ended up going to a museum in Sydney, Australia for $25,000.
These Japanese Kamakura wood masks were housed in stacking lacquer boxes with signed lids (not shown). The wooden masks are large ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Keno Sells Americana
This 1760-80 Massachusetts 323/4" x 34" x 203/4" mahogany serpentine chest of drawers sold on the phone for $117,800 (est. $50,000/80,000), the top lot price of the sale.
John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841) of Boston painted the 1818 burning of Boston's Exchange Coffee House and signed and dated it on the lower ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ceramics Fair 2013
The Bohemian National Hall is a perfect place for the New York Ceramics Fair.
A chorus of Martin Brothers bird tobacco jars were (from left) $50,000, $35,000, $32,000, $90,000, and $55,000 from George Kingham of Kinghams Art Pottery, Ltd, Gloucestershire, in the Cotswolds, U.K. One sold! The second from the right ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Copley's Winter Sale
This preening eider drake decoy by Augustus "Gus" Aaron Wilson (1864-1950) of Maine, circa 1900, sold in the salesroom on one bid for $172,500 to New York City collector Jerry Lauren. The estimate was $150,000/250,000. O'Brien called it "one of the finest traditional Maine decoys ever offered at auction." A ... (Read More)
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(Show)Lebanon Antique Show
Eastern Tennessee pie safe, circa 1850, having geometric-punched tins on the front and sides, $1950 from Klint Griffin of Props, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee.
Agata tumblers made by the New England Glass Company, $495 each for examples without handles and $995 for the handled, were from Ed and Bonnie Jordan of Victorian ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Inaugural Jewelry Show Successful
White deer ring, $14,000 from Manya & Roumen Jewelry. Photo courtesy Manya & Roumen Jewelry.
JMK Shows and Events held its new jewelry show on January 19 and 20 at the Pratt Mansions on Fifth Avenue, New York City. Signed pieces from Tiffany, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, and Buccellati ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Horst Sale Highlights Both Franklin and Berks County Material
The Isaac Stahl redware pot, dated 1939, with an applied multi-petaled rose, foliage, and open vertical twist handles sold for $1500. In very good condition, it had a small spot of glaze loss on one petal.
This circa 1840 wallpaper-covered hatbox, 171/2" wide x 14" x 13", with a Lancaster County ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: 2012: The Year in Review
Another year gone already? Wow, they go so fast, especially when one notes that this time last year the small person who lives in the house was the only small person, unable to walk, unable to use fork or spoon, and able to say only about a dozen words. Now, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philip Weiss Auctions Rebuilds after Hurricane Sandy
Both the business and the residence of Philip and Emily Weiss on Long Island, New York, were hit hard by Hurricane Sandy. Philip Weiss Auctions had staged monthly auctions out of its Oceanside gallery for more than 25 years.
"The business took a direct hit, and our home sustained a good ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Patrick Orbe Joins Morphy Auctions
Patrick Orbe.
Art dealer Patrick Orbe has joined Morphy Auctions as special consultant to the company's fine art department. Orbe will oversee all fine art consignments, assessing and cataloging works for authenticity, attribution, condition, and value. Also, he will manage all consignor and buyer relationships that pertain to fine art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MAM and NEMA Partner for Joint Membership Program
Maine Archives and Museums (MAM), Maine's only membership organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the state's collecting institutions, has announced a new membership collaboration with the New England Museum Association (NEMA). Any all-volunteer organization that is a member of MAM is entitled to a one-year complimentary membership at NEMA. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Antiques Roadshow" 2013 Tour Announced
Antiques Roadshow, PBS's highest-rated ongoing prime time series, has announced its summer 2013 tour and that it is increasing the tour by two cities and the overall number of new episodes in its 18th season to 35.
"By adding more cities to this year's tour, Roadshow's fans will get their fill, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)About the Names of Boats, Pilot Boats in Particular
"Electus Comfort-Beau Brummel of the Sea/ Captain of the pilot boat J.F. Loubat No. 16-Captain Comfort was in active service 42 years." From the booklet, p. 19: Cigars, "plug hats, and frock coats constituted the au fait apparel for a Sandy Hook pilot. On shore the pilot invariably was the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Interesting Antiques Web Sites
WPA poster, 1938, available from the U.S. Library of Congress' Prints and Photographs Division with digital ID cph 3b49049.
URLs for Web sites mentioned in column.
1. www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/wpapos2. www.folkartmuseum.org3. www.roughandtumble.org4. www.pinterest.com/stlyn/repurposed-antiques5. www.youtube.com6. www.video.about.com/antiques/Repurposing-Antique-Items.htm7. www.retrash.com/repurposed-usb-typewriter8. www.pinterest.com/nyssamahree/cute-antiques9. www.folkpotterymuseum.com10. www.hagley.org/library11. www.metmuseum.org/collections12. www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care13. www.emuseum.history.org
Computer Column #289
Interesting Antiques Web Sites
by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
It has been a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)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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(Fragment)Deaccessioning
Opinion
Deaccessioning
by Isabelle Douglas Seggerman
Through all of my life I have been acquiring. As a child I collected Ginny dolls, then Toni and Madame Alexander dolls. When I was a teenager I accumulated clothes, beaux, Lester Lanin beanies, and sailing trophies. During college, my collections revolved around good art and art ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Yaffe Meets Rabizadeh
Auction Law and Ethics
Yaffe Meets Rabizadeh
by Steve Proffitt
When present meets past, as Yogi Berra said, "It's deja vu all over again," or something like that. This happened when Yaffe met Rabizadeh-but with opposite results.
-A Costly Walk
May 11, 1984, was a good spring day in Richmond, Virginia. Across the street from ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Mary and Bob Fraser, Chester, Vermont
In the Trade
Mary and Bob Fraser, Chester, Vermont
by Frank Donegan
Mary and Bob Fraser.
Exterior view of the shop. A lot of work went into making it look as if nothing much was done to this barn.
A partial view of the Frasers' shop.
Another view of the shop.
A ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Risky Business
The Young Collector
Call it sentimental reflection brought on by our new arrival (Nathaniel Byrne, or Nat, as we call him, arrived on November 16 at 2 a.m., and we're all fine and deeply in love already), but sometimes we like to look at Nora and joke about how she came ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)How Do You Feel?
Auction Law & Ethics
By Steve Proffitt
Remorse can be a good or bad thing. The answer is often a matter of circumstance. Bidding and buying at auction is not such a circumstance-more on that shortly.
The dictionary defines "remorse" as "a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs." ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
Filing copy pretty much on Christmas Eve for this issue, I find my files bursting with good things for report over the coming months, but the two principal items in this "Letter" feature original book illustrations for the exceptional collection formed by film director Michael Winner, and ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Marketing: Getting Started
The Art of Marketing
by Al Kenney
What exactly is marketing? The short answer: marketing is an activity that should be constant, evolving, and at the same time constantly experimental. Marketing involves research, strategy, pricing, promotion, and more. It's promoting your product or service so potential customers find out about it by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)David Petrovsky, Claverack, New York
David Petrovsky.
Petrovsky uses two-thirds of the depot in Claverack, New York, as his showroom and the rest for storage.
Petrovsky attributed this armchair to architect Leopold Eidlitz, who worked on the New York State Capitol in Albany. He says he has seen a line drawing by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)December Sales: A Dizzying Array of Dazzling Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc., Sotheby's, Christie's, Rago Arts and Auction Center, Bonhams, and Doyle New York
It wasn't easy to keep track of antique jewelry auction results in December. They happened in rapid succession throughout the holiday season. They happened while I was preparing to go on vacation! ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Detroit's Duty
Editorial
Detroit's Duty
On August 7, 2012, voters in the Michigan counties of Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb narrowly approved a ten-year millage increase to support the Detroit Institute of the Arts (DIA), providing the needy institution with a steady supply of tax dollars and ensuring its survival.
The property tax-a 0.2 mil levy-amounts ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Original Apple 1 Computer Sells for $640,000
Photo courtesy Auction Team Breker.
Original Apple 1 Computer Sells for $640,000
by Richard de Thuin
An original Apple 1 computer, one of six prototypes in fully working condition from a total of 200 Apple 1s that were ever made, sold for $640,000 at Auction Team Breker, specialists in technical antiques and fine ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Close Look at Edward S. Curtis
A Book Review
A Close Look at Edward S. Curtis
by Jeanne Schinto
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtisby Timothy EganHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012, 384 pages, hardbound, $28.
On April 10, 2012, at Christie's in New York City, a complete set of Edward S. Curtis's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fenichell Joins Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Fenichell Joins Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jill Fenichell has been appointed vice president and will head the newly formed ceramics department at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. She will split her time between the newly established Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates New York office and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Forty-Year Member of NHADA Resigns, Quits Annual Show
Forty-Year Member of NHADA Resigns, Quits Annual Show
by David Hewett
Longtime show exhibitor and member of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) Peter Eaton of Newbury, Massachusetts, has resigned from the association, which automatically ends his 40 consecutive years as an exhibitor at the show that gave birth to Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Texas Desk and Pottery Donated to Bayou Bend
Rare Texas Desk and Pottery Donated to Bayou Bend
A labeled Adolph Kempen writing desk and approximately 150 pieces of early Texas pottery have been given to the Bayou Bend Collection in Houston, Texas, by philanthropist and collector William J. Hill.
"For decades, Mr. Hill has been a major advocate and benefactor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pook & Pook to Sell Pastor Weiser's Pennsylvania German Collection
Pook & Pook to Sell Pastor Weiser's Pennsylvania German Collection
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Auctions are often much more than listings of property for sale; they can be rites of passage, a chance for friends and colleagues to remember a collector. Such is the case of the sale of decorative arts from the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Increases Dividend and Accelerates Payment of Two Quarters of Dividends
Sotheby's Increases Dividend and Accelerates Payment of Two Quarters of Dividends
The board of directors of Sotheby's declared an accelerated first and second quarter of 2013 cash dividend totaling $0.20 per share of outstanding common stock. This $0.10 per share per quarter dividend reflected a 25% increase from the previous quarterly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Sultan and a Sultana
Panel of stereoview (1897) Dedication of Grant's Tomb-the Yacht Sultana. Only sold by Griffith & Griffith, Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Liverpool, England. This stereoview was possibly taken by William Rau (1855-1920) of Philadelphia, who worked periodically for Griffith & Griffith.
A nearly identical photo of the Sultana attributed to John S. ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)The Art of Marketing
The Art of Marketing
by Al Kenney
I'm an avid antiques collector, not a dealer, and a professional marketer with a diverse career. I've worked for many global corporations marketing many major household brands as well as for small start-up companies. I've owned an international strategic marketing firm and marketed to people ... (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.
Mahogany: The Costs of Luxury in Early America by Jennifer L. Anderson (Harvard ... (Read More)
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(Auction)George Washington Slept Here...Really!
Quarter-plate daguerreotype of the historic Jenks Tavern in Spencer, Massachusetts, $7150.
A half-plate ambrotype of the same Jenks Tavern in a period gutta-percha frame, $6875.
Competition was stiff for Maine eider decoys. Above, the eider decoy in the original well-worn paint sold for $3850. Below, one with some small damage ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column for Antiquers: Making Posters
Computer Column #290
by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
A poster being designed in free Scribus page layout software.
Posters are useful to antiquers. A poster in a show booth can publicize a dealer's Web site, Facebook account, or merchandise too large to bring to the show. A collector might make a poster ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Weiser Collection and More at Pook & Pook
Fern Isabel Coppedge (1883-1951), oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Special Sale of Americana
Late 19th-century full-bodied cow weathervane in copper with verdigris surface, attributed to New York, 271/2" high x 431/2" long, bullet holes and surface damage, $24,675.
Paint-decorated poplar blanket chest with original pinwheels and flowers on a red ground, dated 1835, Centre County, Pennsylvania, 251/2" high x 49" wide, repaired hinge rail, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)36th Anniversary Antiques and Collectibles Auction
This 1967 Amphicar, along with another (not shown), came from an estate in Valparaiso, Indiana. The family had originally bought eight. In the process of being restored, this vehicle sold for $31,165. The other brought $18,250. Kraft photo.
Thirty-five issues of Playboy magazine from a private collection excited buyers. This January ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Page County Cupboard Brings $80,000
A one-piece walnut corner cupboard was the center of attention at the January 12 sale at Laughlin Auctions, Inc. in Edinburg, Virginia. Family history has it that the cupboard was built circa 1814 and was among the original furnishings of a home built by John R. Bruner.
Bruner had served ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Season's Opener at Hap Moore
One of the top lots of the sale was this 10'5" x 7'1" Sarouk carpet with a russet field and blue border. It sold for $6210.
This primitive 18th-century sawbuck table with a single wide board top and breadboard ends sold for $3565.
This Ethan Allen running horse weathervane with a molded ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Thrill of the Chase: Antiques of the Sporting Life
Karen DiSaia (right), manager of the show, is shown with Claudia Pfeiffer, the George L. Ohrstrom Jr. Curator, National Sporting Library and Museum, Middleburg, Virginia. The display behind them features the early 20th-century English sterling silver centerpiece on a marble base that was used on the cover of the show ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)PADA Makes Grant to Grey Art Gallery
For the past 19 years, the Private Art Dealers Association (PADA) has made a grant to an outstanding institution in the arts. The 2012 recipient, the Grey Art Gallery of New York University, received its award at the annual dinner of PADA, held at the Lotos Club in New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Indiana
Stepback cupboard, the upper portion having a pair of four-pane doors over a fall-front door concealing a storage area, in original crusty red paint, said to be from Oldenburg, Indiana, $1100.
Pair of portraits of a lady and a gentleman, pastel on paper, 1830-40, $1100.
New England Chippendale tiger maple tall chest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Happy New Year's Day At Foster's
This Louis Vuitton traveling wardrobe opens to reveal an abundance of drawers and hanging compartments and sold for $8800.
This Enrico Caruso caricature of fellow Italian tenor Dante Del Papa and a book entitled Caricatures of Caruso (not shown), published in 1908, which includes a very similar caricature of Del Papa, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)First of Multi-Part Single-Owner-Historical Documents Sale Achieves $6 Million
The sale's top lot, going at $336,000 (est. $200,000/300,000), was this four-page autograph letter in French signed by Vincent van Gogh. Written in Saint-Remy de Provence on January 20, 1890, to "M. & Mme. Ginoux," the letter discusses illness, the artist's and Madame Ginoux's. "Less than seven months before his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Woman Pleads Guilty in Connection with Theft of Franklin Bust
Andrea Lawton, 46, of Mobile, Alabama, pleaded guilty in federal court in Philadelphia on December 18, 2012, to one count of interstate transportation of stolen property in connection with the theft on August 24, 2012, of a rare bust of Benjamin Franklin by Jean-Antoine Houdon, valued at approximately $3 million.
Lawton ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.com
Before launching into this month's selection, which is strong on antiquities but also includes two forgotten Dollies, two Russian posters, two Chinese flutes, two naval frigates, one Charles X box, one warming tapestry, and an old model medical aide, may I, as usual, wish M.A.D. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Chess Table Sells for $109,250
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(Book Review)Books Received
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.
Maine and the Sea: 50 Years of Collecting at Maine Maritime Museum ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design of the 20th Century
This rare Tiffany Studios Trumpet Creeper lamp sold for $914,500 (est. $400,000/600,000) to an American private collector. It was highest auction price for Tiffany in December 2012. The 1902-06 lamp has a large Tree base. The leaded glass and patinated bronze shade is impressed "Tiffany Studios/ New York/ 346-1" and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Book and Manuscripts Sale: Paper and Plastic
The scarce first newspaper printing of the Declaration of Independence, very likely the second printing overall (preceded only by John Dunlap's official Congressional broadside), sold for $722,500 (est. $300,000/400,000). It was within a bound full year's run of the Pennsylvania Evening Post, published in Philadelphia.
This is the entire King James ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Greenberg Collection of Art Deco
Jean Dupas, Allegorie du Tissu, circa 1937, 381/2" x 128", oil on canvas with silvered wood frame. It sold for $1,650,500 (est. $150,000/250,000) to an American private collector. It is the final preparatory painting for a mosaic executed by Dupas for the Pavillon du Textile at the 1937 Paris Exposition ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Art
Ballerina at Barre, a circa 1959 bronze and polished aluminum sculpture, 15" high, by Enzo Plazzotta (1921-1981) sold for $6000 (est. $2000/4000).
Nine works (one shown) by Edouard Leon Cortes (1882-1969) were offered. Flower Market at the Madeleine, a circa 1955 oil on canvas, sold above high estimate for $35,000.
Though ... (Read More)
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