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(Auction)Quinn & Farmer Offer New Approach to Old Game
This redhead duck decoy is attributed to carver B.P. Holland and probably dates from the 1930's. Holland practiced his craft in the Back Bay area along the Atlantic coast at the Virginia and North Carolina border. The decoy measures 9" x 13" x 7" and exhibits cracks and chips associated ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Quinn & Farmer Debut with Record-Setting Southern Clock
Photos courtesy Quinn & Farmer.
by Walter C. Newman
When I spoke with Ken Farmer at the final cataloged antiques and collectibles auction at his Radford, Virginia, facility in October 2012, he reminded me to make plans to attend the November 3, 2012, inaugural catalog sale of the newly formed Quinn & ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Art of the Hunt: Martha's Vineyard Decoys
The museum gallery on opening night of the exhibition. Photo courtesy Martha's Vineyard Museum.
Chris Murphy, guest curator of the exhibition. Penny Uhlendorf photo. Courtesy Martha's Vineyard Museum.
"I went to go look at a few decoys that someone called me about recently," Chris Murphy said. The person ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Sue and Bear van Asch van Wyck, Washington, Connecticut
Sue and Bear van Asch van Wyck.Some figural items, from left: 19th-century bronze putto after Verrocchio, $5800; cast-iron bust of Lord Byron, $2000; Italian carved wood painted and gilded eagle with a 5'10" wingspan, $7500.English diorama with hand-carved coach and horses, $1200.Still life of flowers, oil on panel, 17th-century Dutch, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Jewelry and Gemology: Two Jewelry Auctions
A Victorian 14k yellow gold, emerald, and diamond serpent bracelet, containing one oval step-cut emerald and two rose-cut diamonds set in an engraved serpent head with a body consisting of pivoting gold links with chain attached to the tail, sold for $1586 (est. $600/800). Leslie Hindman photo.An Art Deco platinum ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Small People, Big Changes
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondThe world would be a better place if doing the right thing were always synonymous with doing the easy thing, but it isn't, and nowhere is this more apparent than parenting. OK, maybe the words "easy" and "parenting" shouldn't even appear in the same sentence, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Down the Rabbit Hole with Lewis Carroll Collectors
In the late 1980's, Macmillan found in a bank vault all but one of the 91 original boxwood engravings for Tenniel's illustrations of the Alice books. They made 250 copies, using an electrotype of the missing engraving to complete the set. This is Christopher Morgan's copy of one of those ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Burning Love for Elvis Fuels Heritage Auction in Memphis
A surprising standout in the sale was this stand-up movie lobby advertising figure for Love Me Tender, Elvis's first movie. The rare piece of ephemera roared past the opening bid of $1250 to $20,000. Heritage Auctions photo.An icon of the King's style, this pair of "Tiger Man" sunglasses with yellow ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine's Little Gem
A circa 1850 cast-iron garden dog with a great original painted surface, by the Gray Foundry of Poultney, Vermont, was $16,500 with Hilary and Paulette Nolan of Falmouth, Massachusetts.Roger Williams of Boathouse Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine, had this $4800 gilded 48" pilothouse eagle, created around 1950, perched dramatically atop a tall ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stitches in Time: Bucks County Needlework Samplers
Adam and Eve sofa by Marie Loncoske Davis (1908-2007), upholstered 1970-71, ebonized wood, bronze ormolu, linen, wool yarn, and metallic thread. Davis wrote about this sofa, "Everything is nice on top, with Eve minding her own business - riding a giraffe, and Adam playing ball with monkeys (using an apple). ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern Sale at Rago
Designed by Paul Evans for Directional in 1972, this metal cabinet is bronze composite, painted wood, and metal, and has a slate top. The 32" x 971/2" x 22" cabinet is signed "PE 72." It sold for $25,000 (est. $9000/12,000).
This 1965 hanging wall case by George Nakashima is made from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Christopher Forbes Collection
The 511/2" high side chair made by Dard Hunter for his own use before he went to work at the Roycroft Shops in 1904 is constructed of oak and has its original leather upholstery with copper tacks. It bears a coat of arms and a carved inscription on the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received: Brief reviews of antiques and fine art books recently published
by M.A.D. StaffThese 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.For Kith and Kin: The Folk Art Collection at the Art ... (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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(Show)Folk Fest: The Same but Different
For many years large turned wooden bowls by Edward Moulthrop were the standard for this form. In this example his son Philip formed stock from cut sections of pine branches in resin and then turned and shaped the bowl. This pine branch mosaic bowl was $6500 from Robert Reeves of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Susan Tooth Brings $139,200
This Napoleonic prisoner-of-war bone ship model, circa 1810, was an elaborate and fine model of a 78-gun ship-of-the-line with a planked and pinned hull with baleen gunwales and bone gun carriages and a finely carved polychrome stern. The model measures 10" high x 11" long, and the glass dome display ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector and His Nonprofit Foundation Tangle in Court with Gallery Dealers---Again
by Clayton PenningtonA voracious collector who bought over $11 million worth of art claims he was "overcharged" by 30% and is bringing the matter to court. Collector Richard C. McKenzie Jr. of Greenwich, Connecticut, and the foundation he established and fully funds, Seven Bridges Foundation, Inc., filed suit in federal ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Cheryl and Paul Scott Sale
The gilt copper and zinc lyre-form bannerette weathervane, 591/4" long, was the second lot in the Scotts' collection and carried a $3000/5000 estimate, but the phones quickly pushed it to $10,073. Paul Scott said that he'd given Stephen Fletcher provenances for the pieces, thinking it would lighten up the sale. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Autumn Auction of 20th- and 21st-Century Design
Frederick Hurten Rhead's 203/4" square four-part tile panel with a peacock is one of two such panels that were a gift from Rhead to his friend, and Weller Pottery colleague, Levi Burgess for his Zanesville, Ohio, house. They were installed facing each other. This one was removed from the house ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comWith this month's "Letter," I have just about cleared all my summer sale files and moved into the new season, and the resulting mix includes a musical elephant and a slice of toast, Scots and skylarks, cricketers, sundials, and a revolver with an alarming design fault.
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(Show)The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
Buffaloe Hunting, an 1844-45 hand-colored lithograph by George Catlin (1796-1872), cost $12,000 at Arader Galleries, San Francisco.A very large zebra mask from the Sukuma people of Tanzania was priced at $7200 at Kip McKesson African Art, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanThe first weekend of the Santa ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: The Loaner
The pawnshop is going highbrow. A press release from the collateral loan company borro (www.borro.com) recently caught our eye. The company, with offices in London and Manhattan, gives short-term loans against fine art, antiques, luxury cars, wine, and other valuables. According to a CNN report in June, customers can borrow ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Krupp 5CM 50 mm mountain howitzer, 291/2" rifled barrel with front sight, metal carriage with iron-banded and wood-spoke wheels, accompanied by tools, trail handle, 24 brass shell casings in a Krupp box, 30-plus projectiles, and a mold for projectiles, $34,500.
Cased Webley-Fosbery target revolver, .455 Eley caliber, 71/2" barrel, marked "Webley-Fosbery" ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Giant Opening Night
This circa 1920 wood weathervane of a dog resting on a shotgun, with untouched, original paint, from American Garage, Los Angeles, cost $13,500. Michael Ogle said business was "really good."
These late 19th-century Odd Fellows badges cost $2400 for the group at Galen Lowe Art and Antiques, Seattle.
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Inventing the Modern World
by Lita Solis-CohenInventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World's Fairs, 1851-1939by Jason T. Busch and Catherine L. FutterCarnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, in association with Skira Rizzoli Publications, Inc., New York City, 2012, 304 pages, softbound, $45.World's fairs-there were 92 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lee B. Anderson Sale
Meeting between General Clive and the Nawab Mir Jafar after the Battle of Plassey illustrates the dominance of the British East India Company in South Asia for a century. It relates to a series of four decorative canvases painted in 1762 by Francis Hayman for the Rotunda of Vauxhall Gardens. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Labor Day Weekend Show in York
This unusual pair of Amish repurposed lift-top cigar boxes with paint decoration attributed to Leah Zook Lapp, dated 1942, was $780 from Alice and Art Booth of Wayne, New Jersey.Stephen-Douglas Antiques, Rockingham, Vermont, offered this early applique rug for $9500.York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassThe 159th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cleveland Connection Attracts Collectors
Clyde Singer (1908-1999), The Old Swimming Hole, 1937, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 46" x 401/4", very good condition, $27,140. Exhibited: Clyde Singer's America, Canton (Ohio) Museum of Art and Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 2008-09; Illusions of Eden: Visions of the Heartland, Columbus ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 38th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
As we stopped to admire the country cupboard with original paint from Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania, waves of lookers came to run their fingers over the surface and admire the bubble glass. Described as "High Country circa 1830," the piece was $28,800. The scalloped bentwood folk ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Amorsolo and "Exceptional" Paintings Top Cobb Sale
This 16" x 19" oil on canvas by Filipino artist Fernando Amorsolo, signed and dated "F. Amorsolo/ Manila 1941," sold for $29,900.
Oil on canvas horse portrait by Richard Stone Reeves of the racehorse Exceptional, sold for $10,350. Charlie Cobb noted, "This was one of his earlier paintings."
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(Auction)Heckler Sells More Flasks from Lane Collection at 100th Absentee Auction
This "extremely rare" (McKearin description of 1941) decorative pint flask (GX-25) by the Pitkin Glass Works, Manchester, Connecticut, 1815-30, was the highest-priced piece in the sale. The vessel is medium yellow-olive color with medallions and diamond-shaped diapering, sheared mouth, and pontil scar. A highly collectible flask and probably the rarest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lamps Light Up, but Big Bird Doesn't Fly
A 25" x 30" oil on canvas of the rocky Maine shoreline by Newell Convers Wyeth was the top seller at $48,750.
Tiffany Studios Venetian table lamp with a black-eyed susan shade, with a Tiffany Studios impression on the base, and a shade tag reading "Tiffany Studios New York" that the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Auction Record for Scrimshaw
This 8" long scrimshawed tooth by the so-called "Pagoda Artist" or "Albatross Artist" sold for $324,000 to a Michigan collector sitting in the audience. The underbidder was on the phone. The price establishes a new auction record for scrimshaw, breaking the $303,000 paid for the same tooth in 2005. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Auction Houses Must Reveal Consignor's Name to Buyer
by David HewettThe opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department on September 19 was explicit and to the point: "While it may be true that auction houses commonly withhold the names of consignors..., this Court is governed not by the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting Sale Aids Disabled Jockeys
From left: Terri Moyers, Nedra Matteucci, and Jim Parks of the accounting and consulting firm CBIZ MHM LLC, who conducted the drawing. Chrystina Geagan photo.Nedra Matteucci Galleries, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: A Sense of Place
One of the rarest and most coveted objects in the antiques market today might be a venue to hold a show.It seems there has been more news than ever before about antiques shows being uprooted, relocated, and canceled. In this issue, we report that two shows-Arts of Pacific Asia in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Let My People Recline
$40,625.An Egyptian Revival bone-inlaid mahogany chaise longue, almost identical to one used in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, estimated at $1500/2500, sold for $40,625 at Doyle New York's Belle Epoque sale in New York City on September 17. The panels of the chaise longue are decorated with seated pharaonic ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mid-Atlantic Merger: Quinn's and Ken Farmer Team Up and Acquire Harlowe-Powell
Ken Farmer (left) and Paul Quinn.Quinn's Auction Galleries of Falls Church, Virginia, is aligning with Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals of Radford, Virginia, to purchase the Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The new firm officially launched on October 1. When first making the announcement, they referred to the new ... (Read More)
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(Show)New and Improved Los Angeles Antiques Show
A first-time show exhibitor, Jon Eric Riis of Atlanta, Georgia, is a tapestry artist whose work is in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. With this opulent jacket-those are hundreds of pearls-using traditional and contemporary imagery, he crafted a stunning visual, priced ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Show in Saratoga Springs Sparkles
Tramp art specialist Clifford Wallach of Manalapan, New Jersey, featured a tramp art desk, $7500; a large mirror, $2400; a small mirror, $550; a lighthouse, $1295; and a gilded dressing table with a regal stand, $5800.Charles Washburne Antiques, Solebury, Pennsylvania, had two large Minton majolica shells for $7885; two round ... (Read More)
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(Show)Optimism Reigns at the Shenandoah Antiques Expo
One thing you can always find at Fishersville is a piece of "project" furniture. This walnut blanket chest pushes the boundaries of just how much of a project one may be willing to undertake. It was in the booth of Larry and Linda Fox. The Foxes are from Valencia, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Kip and Judith Coburn, Wood Bull Antiques, Milford, New York
Kip and Judith Coburn. That's their dog Bo'sun (as in "boatswain") with his back to the camera in the foreground.Entrance to Wood Bull Antiques.Nicely polished cast-iron stove, $650; stenciled and rosewood-grained rocker, $235.A small portion of the chair inventory.The "drafting" room is filled with architectural antiques and frames. The calipers ... (Read More)
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(Show)Gaglio Conquers Concord, Drawing a Big, Buying Crowd
James B. Grievo of Stockton, New Jersey, sold the 18th-century New Hampshire chest-on-frame to a collector. The unsigned tall clock sold to a dealer visiting the show. Grievo said he also sold "many, many smalls. It was one of the best shows I've ever had. I don't think [the distance ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Townsend Collection, Part 2: Prehistoric Native American Art
The 3 7/8" long porphyry birdstone known as the "Smithsonian Bird," found in Vernon County, Wisconsin, appeared to be bid to $725,000 over the phones but did not sell (see text).Described as "the best of its type," this 4 1/2" x 3 1/4" Wisconsin wing bannerstone of porphyry, in good ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Ceramic Sale at Crocker Farm
Starting the sale was this rare stoneware jar with open handles and stamped "Coerlears Hook" and "N.York" along the rim. A very early piece, it turned up not long ago at an estate sale in South Carolina. Made in Manhattan by African-American potter Thomas Commeraw, this 11 5/8" tall two-gallon ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Black with a Gold Strake: An Exercise in Ship Identification
by Sam Davidson and James ShuttleworthThe Liverpool artist John Hughes (1806-1878/80) painted ship portraits mainly for visiting American captains. Consequently, although well represented in today's American collections, his works are seldom met with in the U.K., where he has been slower to gain recognition. In May, one of his typical ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts with a Dose of History
Top lot of the sale was the Shenandoah Valley bookcase on bureau. It sold for $93,600 to a private collector, edging out a southern museum, which had pursued the lot for its permanent collection. Sporting an old untouched surface, the case piece was attributed to the Frye-Martin cabinetmaking school ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bigger and Better Deerfield
The "Murray's" store sign from Maine was $1750 from Bill Quinn of Alna, Maine. Quinn also had a huge grain bin, "fresh from Maine," priced at $1850.Weathervanes and checkerboards and a circa 1900 carved carousel cat ($3700) were all from William Gittes of Barrington, New Hampshire. The tin vane (center) ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show for Greenwich, Connecticut
A new show, Antiques & Art Avant-Garde Greenwich, will launch December 14-16 at the recently renovated Eastern Greenwich Civic Center in Greenwich, Connecticut. The show is a fund-raiser for two Fairfield County organizations, the Bruce Museum and the Greenwich Historical Society. The show will be managed by Frank Gaglio.The event ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Summer Americana, Paintings, and Sporting Auction
This stunning 11" x 131/2" white-line color woodcut print by Provincetown, Massachusetts, artist Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956) was in remarkable condition. In vivid blues, greens, reds, yellows, and browns, signed and dated 1931, Sail Boat sold for $106,200 to a bidder at the sale.Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusettsby ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Wistar Bottle: A Cautionary Tale
by Lita Solis-CohenA federal grand jury in Philadelphia is hearing testimony regarding a glass wine bottle with the initials "RW" that was made at the Wistarburgh Glassworks in the mid-18th century and has been on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) for over 20 years. According to an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Seibert Named New Executive Director of the Millicent Rogers Museum
by Lita Solis-CohenPeter Seibert has been named the new executive director of the Millicent Rogers Museum in Taos, New Mexico. The museum focuses on the Native American, Hispanic, and artistic traditions of northern New Mexico."I was blown away by the incredible collections that were assembled by Millicent Rogers and her ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whimsical Carnival Glass Vase Brings $50,000
Jim Wroda Auction Service, Millersburg, Ohio
by Nick Sabo
Photos by Sean Hoxworth
A giant rosebowl in green sold for $32,000. It is prized for its outstanding green color and blue iridescence.
This Hobstar and Feather vase was a whimsy made from a giant green rosebowl. The only such whimsy known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Good Day to Buy
Two bidders on the phones and two bidders in the salesroom vied for this 33" x 40" oil on tin View's of the Buildings & Surroundings of the Berks County Almshouse by Charles C. Hofmann (German-American, 1821-1882). Dated June 6th, 1879, the central bird's-eye view is surrounded by six vignettes ... (Read More)
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(Show)Weston Perseveres with Aplomb
Joy Ruskin Hanes and Lee Hanes of Hanes & Ruskin Antiques, Old Lyme, Connecticut, called this the Rolls-Royce of baby carriages. Made in Gardner, Massachusetts, by the Heywood family of manufacturers and dating from the 1860's-90's, it was priced at $475.
Offered by Robert Perry Antiques, Orchard Park, New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Earthenware Kitten Roars at Evans Sale
This molded and decorated earthenware cat figure is small (5" x 21/4" x 31/2"), but it set the tone for the Evans sale. The figure has a solid body and a lead and manganese glaze over a yellow slip wash. The seated cat with its tail wrapped over its haunches ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Pickers Market
Alan R. Pereske Antiques, Lake Placid, New York, had this double-sided "White Birches" camp sign, made from birch bark, for $1095.Doris Marks of Doris Marks Antiques, New Hampshire, is shown with some hand-hooked mittens she said were made in Maine or the Maritimes, probably in the late 1880's or a ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Learning Linux
Ubuntu desktop with the application launcher on the left side and the Pinta picture editor in use.Computer Column #286by John P. Reid, e-mail: jreid@dca.netThis column sometimes states that a particular service or software product is available for Windows, Linux, and Apple computers. About 78% of us use a Microsoft Windows ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Annual Maine Antiques Festival
This wonderful document box in grain-decorated red, brown, and ocher wavy comb pattern, with a red-painted interior, was $395 from Roger and Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.A dramatic nautical oil on canvas by James Hamilton (Irish-American, 1819-1878), After the Gale, was $14,500 with Day's Antiques, Brunswick, Maine. Hamilton painted ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques on the Green
Within an hour of opening, the outdoor market was crowded.John Rudie shows the $35 tip-up ice fishing pole from the 1950's. The short pole has a carved wooden body, twine string line, and a cork bobber.John Atkin Antiques, Glen Ellyn, brought the circa 1780 painting tagged $495. A 1780-1820 mirror ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Maine Antiques Festival: Selling Jewelry in a Tricky Retail Market
Jan and Lou smile for the camera. Jan is holding "a piece of nice sterling that is in a completely different price range, at about one hundred fifty dollars." Lou remarked, "We enjoy the business; we enjoy being with people; we enjoy life." Sounds like a good mantra, and it's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.975 Million Sale Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire
The 103/4" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Sweet Sorrow
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the auction business, one occasionally hears references to the Three D's. For decades, that was shorthand for the three most likely ways collections came to auction: death, divorce, disaster (some say disease or debt). People might sell a couple of pieces for other reasons, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McInnis Empties a "Rusticator" Cottage
Oil on canvas by Abbott Fuller Graves, titled Dividing the Shares, 32" x 46", sold for $26,450. The subjects were a Kennebunkport fishing captain and his crew. Left to right, they were identified as Captain Henry S. Ward, Frank Emery, Tom Basey (seated), a Mr. Pitts (standing, smoking a pipe), ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tin Circus Wagon Caps Julia Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction
This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Arts of Pacific Asia Canceled for 2013
New York Arts of Pacific Asia will not be produced in 2013 because a suitable venue for the show is not available during Asia Week New York. The 11th floor of the Merchandise Mart's facility at 7 West 34th Street, which had been the show's venue since 2009, is being ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.975 Million Sale Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire
The 103/4" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Program in New England Studies, June 2012
The 1784 Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. George Washington was entertained at the house in 1789 but slept elsewhere. In keeping with HNE's policies of expanding the appeal and uses of historic properties, the house is available for weddings and functions, and it offers temporary exhibits in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tin Circus Wagon Caps Julia Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction
This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Lititz Antiques Show's 50th Anniversary
Penny Thomas of Bear, Delaware, said she is known as the queen of smalls. "I don't go to auctions, but I find great things at shows and markets," she said. She offered a collection of rolling pins; the Shaker crimper, $65, was used to cut cookies; another crimper from Pennsylvania ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Chase Tigers and Other Animal Art
Roused, a Tiger and Tigress, Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1925), 1912, oil on canvas, 24" x 39", $333,500 (est. $150,000/ 250,000).Home of the Big Horn, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 16" x 20", $97,750 (est. $60,000/90,000).Mount Assiniboine, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 91/2" x 11", $14,375 (est. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Homefront & Battlefield
Homefront & Battlefield: Quilts & Context in the Civil War by Madelyn Shaw and Lynne Zacek Bassett (American Textile History Museum, 2012, 231 pp., softbound, $39.95 plus S/H). To order, call the museum at (978) 441-0400, ext. 247 (Monday and Tuesday) or ext. 243 (Tuesday through Sunday). Photo of quilt ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 38th Annual Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Show
The 30" x 52" hooked rug depicting a barnyard scene with a rooster was $895. The small trunk painted to resemble rosewood was $595. Both were offered by Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire.This Boston Classical mahogany drop-leaf table, 72" long x 44" wide when open, is an unusual ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Anne-Imelda Radice Appointed Director of the American Folk Art Museum
by Lita Solis-CohenAnne-Imelda Radice has been named the new director of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. After a long career in Washington, D.C., she took the helm the second week of September.Dr. Radice served as director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under Presidents ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farmer Sale Survives Storm and Videotape
This 19th-century Wythe County, Virginia, pie safe is constructed primarily of cherry and measures 451/2" x 531/2" x 19". The two-board top is pine over the cherry case. Each end panel features two joined punched tins, and each door has four joined tins. All of the tins exhibit a central ... (Read More)
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(Show)Adirondack Museum Antiques Show
Tom Baker and Barbara Boardman Johnson had a "Fresh Seafood" sign that sold; an early tin gold-mining pan for $45; and green-painted fish decoys for $395.Jane Langol had an assortment of Weller, Roseville, and Robinson Clay Products pottery. The umbrella stand was $390; a green vase with a flower, $435; ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Accord" Revived with the Help of Dealers
Pictured are the Bob Withington pier table, Arthur DiMambro's painting Pheasants and Plums, and the glass wine fountain lent by Bill Schwind.Thomas B. Johnson, former curator of the Museums of Old York in York, Maine, and Mary P. Harding, curator of the George Marshall Store Gallery, a property of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Art of Thomas Nisbet
A selection of chairs by Thomas Nisbet reflect the various forms popular in the early 19th century.This sofa shows the high-quality carving often seen on Nisbet furniture.The banquet table in mahogany shows great proportions and has typical rope-turned legs with ebonized ring turnings.The label of Thomas Nisbet & Son was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Attendance Up at New Hampshire Antiques Show
Scott Bassett of the Peter Sawyer firm unveils the rare Aaron Willard shelf clock they kept covered until the doors opened at 10 a.m. It was available for $55,000.After the show had closed, Peter Sawyer said, "We had a very good show, [selling] two bureaus, two tall clocks, a candlestand, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: In Search of Balance
by Steve ProffittMaybe it is a result of having seven children. Maybe it is because I will soon have four of them in college at the same time. I have been asked often to represent or consult with various parties involved in auction situations by auctioneers, sellers, bidders, and buyers. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Dingman Collection: A $9.8 Million Joy Ride
This 1939 Ford Deluxe station wagon, one of the most desirable Ford woodies, with hydraulic brakes and gleaming bird's-eye maple panels, sold for $247,500.Dingman's top seller, a 1936 custom Ford cabriolet with coachwork by Glaser, made $396,000.A 1937 Ford half-ton pickup V-8, one of two trucks in the sale, embraced, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Awards Tennessee Family $320,000 for Missing Lighthouse Clock
by David HewettOn June 28, Judge Arnold Goldin, a chancellor in the Chancery Court of Shelby County, Tennessee, entered an Order of Final Judgment in favor of Richard C. Rogers and Margaret Ann Rogers of Memphis, Tennessee.Goldin declared that Baltimore, Maryland, antiques dealer and Antiques Roadshow appraiser J. Michael Flanigan ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester
Taken from the bleacher seats in the JFK Coliseum, about an hour after the 3 p.m. opening on Wednesday, this photo shows that the joint is still jumping. The last time the coliseum was used for an antiques show, it had way too few exhibitors among huge areas of curtained-off ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Barnes in Philadelphia: Reservations Required
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. (c)2012 Tom Crane.Room 18. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. (c)2012 The Barnes Foundation.Room 13. Photo by Ryan Donnell. (c)2012 The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia.View of the Light Court, looking east. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. (c)2012 Tom Crane.Le Bonheur de vivre Room. The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia. (c)2012 Tom Crane.Cocktail ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Americana, Paintings, and Sporting Auction
This stunning 11" x 131/2" white-line color woodcut print by Provincetown, Massachusetts, artist Blanche Lazzell (1878-1956) was in remarkable condition. In vivid blues, greens, reds, yellows, and browns, signed and dated 1931, Sail Boat sold for $106,200 to a bidder at the sale.Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusettsby ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comThere is something of a picture gallery feel to this month's selection, which focuses principally on the hugely successful old master sales of London's summer season, but making up the show are two singing sculptures, some incomparable chess pieces, an ivory Virgin and Child, and a very ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Autumn Hartford Antiques Show Canceled
The Autumn Hartford Antiques Show has been canceled, according to an e-mail from promoter Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions. The show lost its venue after the sale of the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford in September 2011."It is with great disappointment and nearly a year of exhaustive searching that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diverse Pottery Sale at Crocker Farm
Gorsuch Barn has been transformed by the Zipps. Since the family now owns their own facility, they have diversified and have started holding general antiques sales. Karl Pass photo.One of the rarest items ever sold by Crocker Farm was this stoneware face pitcher attributed to Samuel Bell, likely Strasburg, Virginia, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's 20th-Century Design Sale
Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, aluminum Stoel, 27 3/8" x 193/4" x 193/4", $470,500 (est. $100,000/150,000) to a German dealer in the salesroom who said he was bidding for a private European collector. The handmade chair was produced from a single sheet of aluminum in 1960-62 by Gerrit Rietveld, Wim Rietveld, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fox and Grapes Dressing Table Acquired by PMA
"The Fox and the Grapes" dressing table, 1765-75, mahogany, yellow poplar, white cedar, yellow pine; brass; ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History, Including the Civil War
From the collection of artist Bradford Edwards, 282 Vietnam War-era Zippo lighters were offered together. Passed during the sale, they sold after the auction for $35,250.Robert Linn with two assistants and a stereo-view camera, photographed by I.H. Bonsall, circa 1863, 103/4" x 81/2" plus mount, labeled "Point Lookout, Lookout Mt./ ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Smithsonian Buys a Benjamin Franklin Suit
Photo courtesy Smithsonian National Museum of American History.The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History is adding to its permanent collection a three-piece suit worn by Benjamin Franklin during his diplomatic trip to France in 1778, which resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Alliance. The suit had been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Design at Bonhams
Pair of Tiffany Studios leaded glass and faceted Favrile glass windows, 1899-1918, in the original iron frames with latch, 44 3/8" x 36", $21,250 (est. $4000/6000).Dale Chihuly, "Persian" series seven-piece set in emerald green with lemon lip wrap, 2000, blown glass, largest piece 10" high x 22" wide x 21" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Design at Christie's
Phone bidders competed for this Isamu Noguchi unique fossil marble table designed for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dretzin in 1948-49. The 131/4" high x 49" wide x 44" deep table sold for $2,882,500 (est. $800,000/1.2 million) to a phone bidder who also bought the Noguchi chess table. Christie's called the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-/21st-Century Design Sale
Frances Rocchi Saturday Evening Girls large (31/2" x 121/4") bowl with roosters in cuerda seca on green ground, Boston, 1909, $96,875 (est. $17,500/22,500) on the phone. It is incised "Early to bed & early to rise makes a child healthy, wealthy & wise" and signed with the bowl shop mark ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art at Bonhams
A Zuni jewelry set of a necklace and earrings made by Dan Simplicio and Leekya Deyuse sold for $12,500 (est. $6000/9000) to a dealer from the East Coast.A Chumash polychrome basket sold on the phone for $35,000 (est. $40,000/60,000). Bayuk collection.Bonhams, San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy Bonhams"If we'd had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont's Scrap Dealer Law Snares Antiques Dealers
by David HewettOn July 1 a new law, Act 167, regulating scrap metal processors, went into effect in Vermont. Governor Peter Shumlin signed the legislation on May 18. (Act 167 had been H.699 as it made its way through various committees in the house and senate.) It had been introduced ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Celebrates Anniversaries
by Lita Solis-CohenWinterthur is celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture (WPAMC), originally known as the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture (WPEAC), and the 40th anniversary of the Winterthur-University of Delaware Program in Art Conservation (WUDPAC) with an exhibition that highlights the accomplishments of ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: A Powerful Triplet
by Steve ProffittThese days the postman most often delivers electronically. A nice man sent me this e-mail: "In a recent issue of M.A.D., there was an article on an auction in which a piece of art sold for more than a million dollars. A well-known dealer, who did not have ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Round Lake Antiques Festival
Paula Sophoclides of Recollections, Canandaigua, New York, specializes in decorative quilts, English porcelains, and early furniture. She showed a pink circled quilt for $275 and a navy blue garland of flowers quilt for $235.Michael Albanese of Kendall, New York, specializes in baskets from Peru and the Southwest, priced from $200 ... (Read More)
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