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(Auction)Evergreen: Gustav Stickley at Treadway-Toomey
A 1901 Gustav Stickley library table, a variation of model no. 454, with original leather top, inverted tapered legs, through-tenon construction, two drawers with original iron hardware, a central blind drawer, and original finish and tacks, brought $390,400.John Toomey Gallery displayed the 1901 Gustav Stickley library table front and center ... (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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(Auction)Evergreen: Gustav Stickley at Treadway-Toomey
A 1901 Gustav Stickley library table, a variation of model no. 454, with original leather top, inverted tapered legs, through-tenon construction, two drawers with original iron hardware, a central blind drawer, and original finish and tacks, brought $390,400.John Toomey Gallery displayed the 1901 Gustav Stickley library table front and center ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Epperson Estate Sale
"D-Lish-Us Gum" vending machine, 1cents, cast iron with a porcelain-on-steel nameplate, $7300.Turtle made by Uhl Pottery Company, marked on base, the largest size produced, $1700.Stoneware Christmas tree holder marked "Red Wing Union Stoneware Co., Red Wing, Minn., Patent Applied For" and "Christmas Tree Holder," $900.Wheel-type nutmeg grater, 7" long, $100.Woodmanse ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Epperson Estate Sale
"D-Lish-Us Gum" vending machine, 1cents, cast iron with a porcelain-on-steel nameplate, $7300.Turtle made by Uhl Pottery Company, marked on base, the largest size produced, $1700.Stoneware Christmas tree holder marked "Red Wing Union Stoneware Co., Red Wing, Minn., Patent Applied For" and "Christmas Tree Holder," $900.Wheel-type nutmeg grater, 7" long, $100.Woodmanse ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fishersville Celebrates Golden Event
Klint and Billie Griffin of Props, Mount Pleasant, Tennessee, specialize in southern pieces, Americana, and primitives. They said they emphasize items with original surfaces. On the right are six graphite and colored pencil drawings created by a child. Each of the pictures is related to the railroad or steam-power engines, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Material Culture's First Auction in Philadelphia: Splash, Dash, Panache
The Delaware consignors of Standing Nude with Back View had purchased the painting from Chinese artist Guo Runwen (b. 1955) at his Guangzhou studio in 1998. The work brought $27,450, one of the highest prices in the sale. Material Culture photo.The initial sale included an extensive selection of textile lots, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Metropolitan Museum Announces 6.28 Million Attendance
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City announced on July 16 that 6.28 million people visited the Met during the fiscal year that ended on June 30. The number, which includes attendance at The Cloisters museum and gardens, is the highest recorded since the Metropolitan Museum began tracking ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Jewelry Sales Reveal Surprises
Antique Jewelry and Gemology
Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers held a sale on June 10 in Toronto, Canada. Duncan Parker, vice president, specialist in jewelry, who is new in this role but not to the jewelry market, offered valuable information on the sale and the current market.
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers held a fine ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country
Tom Baker of Soquel, California, the show's former producer and promoter, asked $265 for this circa 1930 double-sided painted roadside sign from Litchfield, Connecticut. Baker said he'd had so many sales, he "almost sold out."This unsigned folk art still life of grapes in a basket, reminiscent of the wine country, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The South Street Connection: Joseph Smith, John Hansen, Conrad Freitag, Elisha Baker, and Antonio Ja
Ship Wide Awake, built by Perine, Patterson & Stack, colored lithograph, by Nagel and Weingartner, artist J. Hansen, on stone by Charles Parsons, circa 1863. Photo courtesy The Old Print Shop.
Pilot boat Centennial 7, oil on canvas, by Elisha Taylor Baker. Photo courtesy Christie's.
Pilot boat Washington 22, oil on canvas, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
Because the Mart houses designer showrooms, three booths showcased in-house talent. This is the "Designing with Antiques" space of Ramsey Jay Prince Designs.This vignette booth highlights the work of designer M. Grace Sielaff.Designer Summer Thornton used classic antiques in her vignette.Zachary Skarda of Skarda Gallery, Grafton, Wisconsin, brought an array ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Four Collections in Two Days at Pook & Pook
A full page in the catalog was dedicated to this Fairfield Porter (1907-1975) oil on canvas, White Lilies, done in 1964. The 151/2" x 141/2" painting sold for $35,550 (est. $15,000/25,000). Selig collection.Four Continental miniature watercolor-on-ivory female portraits realized $504 (est. $200/300). Gohn collection.This New England Federal mahogany sofa, circa ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mixed Response to New Summer Date for Museums of Old York Antiques Show
by Rose SafranThe Old York Antiques Show in York, Maine, a small boutique show with a select group of dealers, was held this year on July 21 and 22 during the height of the southern Maine coast's popular summer tourist season.For four years, the show had been a September event, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Roger Tory Peterson Paintings, Drawings, and Photographs to Be Sold
Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), whose field guides turned three generations of Americans into birdwatchers, painted the illustrations of birds, placing from six to 16 images on a page in a large (roughly 18" x 12") format that was then reduced to fit the pocket-size field guides.Two hundred of these paintings ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Protect Yourself
Kraken Investments is learning an expensive lesson. The firm, owned by Israeli art dealer Dr. Ronald Fuhrer, is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with its principal place of business in Jersey, Channel Islands. It lost an appeal in court, and now a $9.5 million painting Kraken owns may be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Matthew Saxton, Alstead, New Hampshire
Matthew Saxton.
Saxton's home just off a dirt road in Alstead, New Hampshire.
Saxton sells a lot of house parts and stores them in this outbuilding. Pre-1850 doors sell in the $25 to $190 range. Floorboards generally are in the range of $4 to $6 per square foot. "I also sell a ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: In the Belly of the Beast
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIt was bound to happen eventually, we suppose. Everyone slips up. Everyone gets desperate. Everyone needs a new mattress sometime.With the end of a second pregnancy ahead, Hollie was done sleeping on an old mattress. (Did we not mention that? Bean is going to be ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
Suzanne Sarvari Crofoot chats with Hinsdale, Illinois, decorator and art dealer Sheryl Srivastava. They're admiring the pair of late 19th-century European carved pine putti hanging at right foreground ($4700). Note how they hang in opposite poses. Taking them from the wall, Crofoot showed how lightweight they are.The embroidery is a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burton Antiques Market Brings in the Buyers
Rick and Becky Coffin of Ludington, Michigan, had a huge space under the grandstands that they filled with large country furniture, primitives, and stoneware. Most impressive were the seed counters. An all-original 15-drawer Sherer seed counter, 8'2" long x 30" deep x 34" high, found in an old hardware store ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charles F. Hummel Recognized
Photo courtesy Winterthur Museum.In recognition of his significant contributions to the museum profession, Charles F. Hummel, curator emeritus of Winterthur, received the 2012 Award for Distinguished Service to Museums from the American Association of Museums at its annual meeting held April 28-May 2 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.Hummel received the 2012 Allied ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sale at Phillips
Francois-Xavier Lalanne set of four sheep, 1996-99, made of epoxy, stone, and bronze, the edition produced by Landowski Fondeur, France, $746,500 (est. $350,000/500,000). This set has number 79 from an edition of 250 rams, and numbers 91, 122, and 205 from an edition of 250 ewes. The ram is 361/2" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Jade and American Marine Folk Art Pace the Auction
This Chinese carved jade ruyi scepter sold with its matching hardwood base for the day's top money, $25,300.A broadside proclaiming President George Washington's 1789 visit to the city of Boston and organizing a parade of artisans and merchants in his honor sold for $2875.Competition was intense for this compartmented box ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mastro and Others Indicted by Grand Jury
On July 25 the U.S. Department of Justice announced that William Mastro and others had been indicted by a federal grand jury. Mastro, 59, of Palos Park, Illinois, was charged with one count of mail fraud. He owned Mastro Auctions until 2004 and was its chairman and chief executive officer ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Free Software and Storage
This column was edited in Microsoft Word (leftmost), LibreOffice Writer, and Google Drive on a remote computer.by John Reid, jreid@dca.netThere are two subjects this month: free office software and free on-line file storage.-Free SoftwareWe have reported often on free open-source software. It is developed and maintained by large, usually international, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Ready for Rediscovery: The Connoisseur
A first edition copy of The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell, Jr. (b. 1924). Other books by Connell include Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn, a unique and brilliant work of history that became a bestseller when it was published in 1984, and the novels Mrs. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Heartland Antique Show
A blue and white spongeware pitcher, unusually small at 41/2" high, was tagged $975 but offered at $750, and a Peacock pitcher in diffused blue and white was tagged $795 but offered at $595-both from Gregg Ellington of Wilmington, Ohio.This hooked rug showing two American flags and the date 1904, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"The Trail Boss" Tops Art Auction
The cover and star lot, The Trail Boss by William Herbert "Buck" Dunton (1878-1936), oil on canvas, 36" x 24", sold to a bidder on the phone with specialist Thomas De Doncker for $234,000 (est. $200,000/300,000). "I thought the hammer price of two hundred thousand was a bit low. I'm ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Asian and Fine Art Pace Thomaston Auction
Top money of the sale went for this 20" x 25 1/2" (sight size) oil on panel of The Rape of Europa by Flemish baroque artist Hendrik van Balen (c. 1575-1632), signed and dated 1610. With a repaired and retouched crack in the panel, it sold for $21,850.Zitan wood and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Case Auction in Knoxville: Right Balance for the Future
This large E.A. Lanceray (1848-1886) bronze showing the capture of a wild horse was part of a group of decorative arts that attracted international buyers. Sold at $39,440 (est. $10,000/15,000) to a Russian bidder, the composition was the top lot of the June sale. A smaller Lanceray bronze (not shown) ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tudor Place Seeks Votes to Help Restore Washington's Camp Stool
In May 1776, General George Washington ordered 18 camp stools from an Irish upholsterer in Philadelphia for his Revolutionary War "marquee," the tent in which he slept and conducted business. Only a few of those folding seats survive today in public hands, and just one, at Tudor Place Historic House ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: A Forger Tells His Tale
by A.J. Peluso, Jr.Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forgerby Ken PerenyiPegasus Books, 2012, 314 pages, hardbound, $27.95.This is a fascinating, well-told memoir about a prodigy who, as a young adult, accidentally discovered his remarkable artistic talent-the ability to successfully copy anyone's work with technical, aesthetic, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
Ruth Rogers of School House Farm Antiques, New Holland, Pennsylvania, offered kugels, or German Christmas balls, priced from $50 to $1500.This never-used rag rug in blues, yellows, and orange, 11' long x 3' wide, was $95 from Dennis Moyer of The Pennsylvania Farmer, Zionsville, Pennsylvania.William and Teresa Kurau of Lampeter, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Brandywine River Museum Show Marks Its 41st Year
During preview night, the courtyard outside the museum was set with a bar and food stations. Other catered stations were on each floor inside the museum.The Norwoods' Spirit of America took out a full-page ad in the show catalog for this framed needlework sampler. It reads "Brandywine March 1798" and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Auction
The Naskapi painted hide hunting coat, in the manner of an 18th-century riding coat, has a high collar, narrow waist, and flaring peplum. It's made of tanned caribou hide and painted in red, cream, and black. The front and back are decorated with symbols, probably of caribou. Estimated at $250,000/ ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sizzling Sale
This unusual carved and painted trade sign was found in an abandoned building in Newark, New Jersey. It appears to be an address, "41144," formed by the carved and painted black musicians and dancers. "Good Policy to Trade at the Hub" is written below the address. It measures 31" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Moody Maine History Is the Mainstay
As far as we can tell, this is only the fourth example of the first edition of The American Coast Pilot, dated 1796, to come to the auction market. It had the original owner's inscription on the front endpapers, "Lemuel Moody's 1796/ Portland." It sold for $48,875, the top price ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Claus Toy Boats Rule the Waves
Marklin New York Series II clockwork battleship #1092/115, circa 1905, with gilt embossed figurehead, 271/2" long, $109,350.
The auction's top performer, a Marklin Providence clockwork tinplate paddle-wheeler #1071, 1900-02, with captain on the foredeck, 26" long, went at $247,250.
Marklin battleship Maryland #5128D/9, circa 1915, flies U.S. flag, modeled after a proposed ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Life Not Quite Forgotten
I believe no one really "owns" anything-we are simply caretakers for objects from the past that we hope will be cared for by others in the future. My experience with a recent antique purchase has only strengthened my hope that others will one day care for my treasured objects as ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Stopping Fakes
Too often government hinders the antiques and collectibles trade. M.A.D. has reported on dozens of pieces of well-meaning legislation aimed at stemming the sale of stolen merchandise-often called secondhand dealers laws-that sweep up legitimate, lawabiding dealers into a nightmare of regulations and paperwork.The Stolen Valor Act, passed in 2006 with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Whim Museum's 26th Antiques Auction
The highlight and highest price of any lot of this year's auction (and all previous Whim Museum auctions) was this 36" x 48" painting by Dove, Under the Xmas Lights. The painting depicts a bird's-eye perspective of the waterfront area and Strand Street in Frederiksted (one of two towns in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Bill Not Paid in Full Leads to Court Action
by Daniel GrantThe upside of the increasingly global art and antiques market is that dealers, galleries, and auction houses in the United States and Europe have been able to find new buyers on every continent (but Antarctica), which has helped buoy their revenues at a time of sluggish economic growth ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Art Double-Sided Trade Sign Surfaces
Photo courtesy Conestoga Auction Company.by Karl H. PassA 19th-century large double-sided trade sign reading "A. SCHEFFMAN'S/ MEAT MARKET" sold for $41,300 (includes buyer's premium) on July 28 at Conestoga Auction Company in Manheim, Pennsylvania.The three-part wooden sign is composed of ribbon-shaped banners above and below a central oval image depicting ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doyle Sells Silver Tankard for $46,875
Photo courtesy Doyle New York.by Lita Solis-CohenWho says the market for first-rate silver is moribund? When Doyle New York miscataloged a rare early 18th-century New York tankard as an "English silver tankard/ Marked VPD," noting that the marks were "unascribed" and dating it "18th/19th century," those in the know thought ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Connecticut Spring Antiques Show Will Return to Connecticut
The Connecticut Spring Antiques Show will return to its longtime home at the Hartford Armory for the 2013 show on March 16 and 17. The 40-year-old show serves as a showcase for pre-1840 American furniture and decorative objects. It garnered national attention in March of this year, when it was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Better Protections for Consignors of Art Passed in New York Legislature
by Betty FloodLegislation to amend the New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, in relation to consignments of works of art to art merchants by artists and their successors, has been passed by the New York State Legislature.The purpose of the bill, according to a memo posted on line by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Victoria Mansion Unveils Restored Pompeian Bathroom Suite
Before and after photographs of the Pompeian bathroom suite in the Victoria Mansion.Visitors this summer to Portland, Maine's Victoria Mansion will be able to see the completed restoration of its unique Pompeian bathroom suite. After a year and a half of work, conservator Gianfranco Pocobene and his team have returned ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Cane Auction
This ivory-handled cane has a Classical nude kneeling on a pedestal. The shaft of the cane is 38" long and made of Coromandel. It is circa 1860, possibly English, and sold for $8050. The 1 1/8" quartz handle of this rosewood cane depicts a furry-faced cat with cabochon sapphire eyes ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Paintings Auction
Early Morning Sunlight, Spring by Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965) came to auction from Canada. Signed at lower right and inscribed "Early Morning Sunlight, Spring $5000" in pencil on the upper stretcher, the 50" x 56" oil on canvas in its original Harer frame sold for $362,500 (est. $300,000/ 500,000) to ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: To the Capstone
by Steve ProffittDr. Phil appeared on one of the televisions at the gym as I scanned the channels. I paused long enough to hear him say, "Every relationship is a negotiation. As long as the relationship continues, so does the negotiation." That is certainly true, and it does not matter ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Steven and Hilary Eklund, Tandem Antiques & Design, Jefferson, New York
Hilary and Steven Eklund. Hilary said of the objects on the shelf behind them, "That's our collection. It's the stuff nobody buys anymore."A group of mid-century modern objects. From left: a throw pillow in shades of violet, orange, and blue, $50; a set of six glass candleholders, designed by Jens ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sapphires Hot, High-End Signed Pieces Still Highly Sought, and Premiums Paid for Quality
This Art Deco Cartier Kashmir sapphire, platinum, and diamond ring sold at Freeman's on June 4 for $206,500 (est. $20,000/30,000) after competitive bidding. The mixed-cut sapphire weighs approximately 6.7 carats and is prong-set and flanked on either side by three petite round-cut diamonds. The ring is signed by the maker ... (Read More)
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(Show)NYC20
The tent to the left of the Metropolitan Opera House in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center was a good venue for the show. It was light and airy and accessible with easy in and out for dealers. This fresh venue on the West Side of New York City attracted a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings at Bonhams
Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Spring Planting, Stony Ridge, circa 1947, signed lower left and titled and inscribed on the stretcher, oil on canvas, 25" x 30", $242,500 (est. $200,000/ 250,000).Valley Landscape by John Frederick Kensett (1816-1872), monogrammed and dated "JFK '53," oil on canvas, oval, 131/4" x 10", $37,500 (est. $20,000/30,000) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Bridle Path, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 23 3/8" x 42 1/8", $10,386,500 (est. $5/7 million) to James Hill acting for a private collector. Painted in April 1939 and set in Central Park, it shows three riders about to enter the Riftstone Arch with the Dakota ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Donna Burk's Spring York Show
Richard Axtell of Deposit, New York, had an unusual Pennsylvania glazed redware fat lamp for $6500; a double-sided wooden butter print for $750; and a New England carved hickory busk board for $1150.Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine, asked $4800 for this mounted, vibrantly colored hooked rug with a house and a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Matthew R. Isenburg Photography Collection Sells Privately for $15 Million
A half-plate (41/4" x 51/2") daguerreotype by John Plumbe Jr. (1809-1857) shows the eastern elevation of the U.S. Capitol in the winter of 1846. It is one of three; the other two are at the U.S. Library of Congress and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.A circa 1854 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comThis month's selection tees off with items from "Origins of Golf," a Christie's sale of the collection of Jaime Ortiz-Patino, but here "G" also stands on this occasion for Gaiety Girls, a favourite Great Dane, and Glass-both medieval gilded and the Lalique variety. A varied bill of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Smiles in the Land of Oz
Loretta Johnson promotes the show and owns Cobweb Antiques, one of the few stand-alone antiques shops in Monroe, Washington. This parasol from the 1962 World's Fair in Seattle, Washington, is in great shape and retains its bright color, and all of the icons shown and listed on its surface are ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The "Pure and Simple" Antique Show
In cut paper with watercolor highlights, this work was tagged $4200 by David L. Good Antiques, Camden, Ohio. A similar example may be found in The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876 by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester.If a hooked rug can have spooky eyes, this one did. Dating to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early American Antiques and Decorative Arts
Inlaid serpentine-front Hepplewhite sideboard, probably New York, circa 1795, mahogany and pine, with inlay of sawtooth trim, small flowers, and 14 ovals, 411/2" high x 753/4" wide, with two short splits on top, several small veneer repairs, and brasses replaced in new holes, $5287.50.Pie safe in poplar, with diamond-pattern tins, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Resale Royalty Law Has Little Effect on Market Abroad
by Daniel GrantWasn't the sky supposed to fall? The United Kingdom's six-year-old artist resale royalty law, which requires that a percentage of the profit of a secondary market sale of art be paid to the creative artist or, since the law was expanded in the beginning of this year, to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barry Landau Gets Seven Years for Document Theft
by David HewettOn Wednesday, June 27, 64-year-old Barry Landau was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore Division, to serve seven years in federal prison and pay roughly $46,000 in restitution for the theft of thousands of documents from historical societies, museums, private and public libraries, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Donald Ellis Buys Navajo Blanket for $1.8 Million
$1,800,000. Photo courtesy John Moran Auctioneers.by Lita Solis-Cohen"I nearly stopped at $1.4 million, but then I bid one more, and it was mine," said Canadian dealer Donald Ellis on the phone waiting for a plane to Vancouver.The night before, he had paid $1.8 million for a first-phase Navajo chief's blanket ... (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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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Cataloging a Collection On Line
by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netThis column has often discussed software for cataloging antiques collections. A few services now provide cataloging that is totally on line: no software is needed on your computer except your Internet browser, and no data is stored on your computer.This makes things easier in several ways. ... (Read More)
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(Show)NYC20
The tent to the left of the Metropolitan Opera House in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center was a good venue for the show. It was light and airy and accessible with easy in and out for dealers. This fresh venue on the West Side of New York City attracted a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Cautious Sale
Described by the cataloger as a "mysterious creation," this early Edgefield, South Carolina, slave-made face jug is thought to have been made for the maker's pleasure rather than as part of his production. Unusual and haunting, it was the sale's top seller at $38,500.Signed "LM May 13 1863 Dave," this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Palm Beach Show Group Acquires LA Show
The Palm Beach Show Group has acquired the Los Angeles Art Show from the Fine Art Dealers Association (FADA), according to a press release.The acquisition, which closed June 13, includes the Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Modern & Contemporary and the Los Angeles Fine Art Show: Historic and Traditional. A ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Emancipation Proclamation Broadside Sells for $2,085,000
A broadside copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, 213/4" x 171/4", on J. Whatman watermarked paper, sold to David Rubenstein for $2,085,000. It is dated January 1, 1863, but was printed and signed in 1864, "Abraham Lincoln" as president, and co-signed by William Seward as secretary of state and John Nicolay ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Keno Auctions' Successful Small Sale
Four phone bidders and dealer Andrew Schoelkopf in the salesroom competed for The Otter Cliffs, Mount Desert Island, Maine by William Trost Richard (1833-1905), 1866, oil on panel-backed canvas, 361/4" x 29", signed and dated lower right. Estimated at $40,000/100,000, it sold for $235,600 on the phone. Keno said it ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Salesman's Sample Barber Chair Takes Off
$47,150. Cottone photo.by Fran KramerIt was the wild, wild West at Cottone Auctions in Geneseo, New York, on June 23-not because of the American Indian artifacts and the Winchester rifles, but because of a very rare chair. A Victorian period salesman's sample barber chair, 25" high, made of quartersawn oak ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Young Collector: From House to Home
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSo, where were we? (No, really, where were we? We usually can't remember.) That's right-our panel discussion in Chicago as part of the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair. During the discussion, it came up that we (the antiques business and the American people) don't have ... (Read More)
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(Show)Quality Smalls Sell in a Big Way at Chagrin Falls
Dogs continue to be a collecting favorite. This set, priced at $79, was not only adorable, but affordable. The three mugs were each adorned with a dog decoration- a bulldog, a whippet, and a Jack Russell terrier-and the pitcher featured a whippet. The set was in the dealer space of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Barridoff Sale: New Time and Location
Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Shadow Pattern, oil on canvas, 25" x 30", $49,200 (est. $15,000/25,000).William Morris Hunt (1824-1879), The Promised Land (The Ferry to Appledore), oil on canvas, 181/2" x 24", failed to sell (est. $75,000/125,000). Elowitch reported that it sold after the sale for $80,000.Andrew Winter (1893-1958), Gulls at Monhegan ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale at Christie's
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(Fragment)The Other Ruling of the Supreme Court--Lying Not a Crime, Stolen Valor Not Dead
by David HewettPoliticians and media around the country waited anxiously for the June 28 announcement from the Supreme Court: would the justices uphold the Affordable Care Act, President Obama's health care reform, or would they declare it unconstitutional? They upheld it, almost totally.It was another ruling announced on June 28 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)10/10: The Collector's Auction
Philadelphia cherrywood card tables with a drawer and trifid feet are a rare form; only four are known. Circa 1760 and 29" x 183/4" x 161/2", this example sold for $13,200 (est. $9000/12,000) to a phone bidder, underbid in the salesroom.Walnut dressing table with trifid feet and carved shells on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Stopping Fakes
Too often government hinders the antiques and collectibles trade. M.A.D. has reported on dozens of pieces of well-meaning legislation aimed at stemming the sale of stolen merchandise-often called secondhand dealers laws-that sweep up legitimate, lawabiding dealers into a nightmare of regulations and paperwork.The Stolen Valor Act, passed in 2006 with ... (Read More)
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(Show)East Berlin Show Hits 15
Early buyers on the Thursday evening preview prepare for the doors to open. Mostly York show dealers and out-of-town collectors shop preview night.Claudia Collins of Groundhog Hollow Antiques, Felton, Pennsylvania, had a booth next to Stephen Burkhardt. The two Pennsylvania country dealers are brother and sister. She priced the mirrored ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More Fresh Goods at Moore's
These two oils on canvas by Scott Leighton of Maine and Massachusetts evince his expertise as a horse trader and as an artist. The oil on canvas of a young couple in a riding cart brought $3680. The smaller portrait of two horses sold for $1035.A cast-iron fire pumper in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Heritage Center of Lancaster County Has Closed; Quilt Museum for Sale
This well-proportioned circa 1800Pennsylvania walnut two-part Dutchcupboard is over-painted with an oldocher grain-decorated surface. It is83 1/4" high x 47 3/4" wide and sold for$16,590 (est. $5000/10,000) to dealer Philip Bradley, underbid by dealer Jamie Price. It was deaccessioned by the Heritage Center of Lancaster County and sold by Pook ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tramp Art Collectors Speak
"As a young collector there are many opportunities where I could focus my attention as I build a collection that is interesting and meaningful to me. There is, I think, a 'voice' that imbues tramp art. It is the voice of artists who are energized through the expression of their ... (Read More)
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(Show)Third Annual Wayside Inn Antiques Show
Thomas Schwenke of Woodbury, Connecticut, wanted $13,500 for the 1820-25 English Regency carved and figured mahogany drum table with a dark brown, gilt-tooled leather top, figured mahogany edge banding, and alternating real and sham drawers. The chairs around the 48" diameter table were rare Sheraton carved mahogany examples. The one ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Memorial Day Weekend Sale Does Just Fine
When Ron Bourgeault offered this hand-drawn map of the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, which took place on June 28, 1778 (for more on that event, read the story), he mentioned that it had been found folded up in a shoebox. A phone bidder took it at $76,700.The biggest surprise ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Asian Art Tops Auction in the Big Easy
Top lot of the auction was this brilliantly colored Chinese cloisonne incense burner with a Qianlong mark (1736-95) that surpassed its $8000/12,000 estimate to reach $51,660.Covered with imperial dragons and clouds, this 18th-century yellow silk woman's robe sold for $7995.Dating to the 18th century, this Chinese folio with brocade cover ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Clockmakers of Flemington, New Jersey: 1788-1840: Part II
Figure 10A. Tall-case clock, Richard Hooley, Flemington, New Jersey, circa 1815. Photos courtesy Anne Thompson, Flemington, New Jersey.Figure 10B. Hood of figure 10A.Figure 10C. Nolen & Curtis dial. It is 1815-20 based on minute markers, spandrels decoration, and absence of the painted gilt circle just outside the hour chapter ring.Figure ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Washington Commemorative Perpetual Calendar Watch Paper
Figure 1. Uncut George Washington watch paper showing an obelisk in a peaceful garden setting with an image of George Washington and the inscription "There is Rest in Heaven." To the right is a perpetual calendar that is set from the back by sliding the inserted paper strip up or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Sultry Night" Court Fight
Martha Nesbit Frankwicz of Madison, Wisconsin, assumed that her Grant Wood oil painting, Sultry Night, was hanging safely in a college museum-until she was told it was up for sale. Now the 82-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare her the rightful owner and return the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Books Received
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.Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Washington's Annotated Constitution Returns to Mount Vernon
Left, George Washington's handbound and annotated copy of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and first Acts of Congress, 1789, 12" x 7 1/2", sold to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association for $9,826,500 (est. $2/3 million). Right, the title page, with Washington's signature. Photos courtesy Christie's.Each year George Washington's Mount Vernon ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ohio Valley and Americana Auction
This decorated stoneware churn, made in Summit County, Ohio, 1865-80, is possibly the work of William McBurney. It depicts a bird holding a banner reading "Akron Ohio" and the name "D.S. Alexander" under the rim. With some chips and cracks, it sold for $28,200.My Home by Elijah Pierce (1892-1984) of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector Files RICO Lawsuit against Knoedler Gallery
In February 2007, collector John D. Howard visited the Armory Show in New York City where he was shown a Willem de Kooning landscape in the booth of Knoedler & Company, New York City. Four months later, he paid $4 million for it.In a civil racketeering complaint filed in federal ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at the Arena: A New Maine Antiques Dealers Association Show
A sculptural wrought-iron wall planter priced at $485 and two 6' tall wrought-iron torchiere floor lamps wired for bulbs and tagged $595 graced the booth of Alden House Antiques, Belfast, Maine.The Thomas W. Lawson is identified as the only seven-masted schooner ever built. At the time she was launched in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The January Americana Pier Show is No More
After a run of 20 years, the January Pier show has been canceled by Stella Show Management Company. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Swann Has Best-Ever Book Department Sale
The top lot, going in the room for $90,000 (est. $4000/6000) to a major collector of historical documents, established a new auction record price for an autograph letter signed by Jonathan Trumbull Jr., George Washington's aide-de-camp. The buyer's underbidder was another collector seated adjacent to him. "The two stared each ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art Auction
Polish Sleighing Party by Jan Van Chelminski (Polish, 1851-1925), oil on canvas, signed and dated 1886, a snow scene with soldiers on horseback, 191/2" x 291/2", craquelure and slightly darkened varnish, $27,025.Kentucky State Agricultural Society coin silver award pitcher, marked "W. Adams" of New York, having chased and repousse landscapes, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian Art
Kwakwaka'wakw ceremonial feast bowl carved of cedar to depict Dzunuk'wa, 19th century, 361/2" long, $111,625. Comanche child's doll cradle, sinew-sewn hide tinted red, blue, and yellow, cast brass bells and German silver disks, wooden slats painted red and blue with brass tacks, with porcelain-faced doll with cloth body, fourth quarter ... (Read More)
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