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(Feature)Shop News
New Shop in the Adirondacks Expands. Over 20 dealers opened a new shop in February in the lower Adirondacks, The Antiques Market Place. It is located at 1066 Route 9, Queensbury, New York, just south of Lake George, and hours are daily, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Because of brisk ... (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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(Auction)Dr. Werner Muensterberger's African Art Collection
Werner Muensterberger's Collecting: An Unruly Passion was first published in 1994 by Princeton University Press. Copies are available on Amazon (www.amazon.com) and other used-book Web sites. One must get to the end of the book to discover the doctor believed that collecting, if kept within bounds, could be a healthy ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Mobile Antiques Web Sites
Newport, Rhode Island, antiques shops listing as seen on an Android smartphone.Computer Column #263by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netThe value of Web site ownership to antiquers was discussed in the last two columns along with steps for creating mobile versions of Web sites. This month some interesting mobile antiques Web sites ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fire Screen "Possibly" Going Back to White House
The 471/2" x 27" carved giltwood fire screen, possibly by French cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellange (circa 1760-1844), sold to an unidentified phone bidder for $22,420 (est. $2000/4000).Still Life by Anton Faistauer (1887-1930), an important Austrian Modernist, sold for $112,100 (est. $30,000/40,000). The 26" x 35" oil on canvas makes evident that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Box-Lot Blue Pickle, "Wonderfully Imperfect" Stirs Fuss on eBay
Kim Kokles is shown holding his new blue pickle with an old favorite-a colored-enamel back bar bottle, a "Yellowstone Whiskey" with a full-color view of the grand falls. Most of the bottles represented in his bar bottle collection have color depictions relating to the product brand. This photo, Kokles added, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rhinebeck Antiques Fair: July Show Canceled and Fall Date Changed
by Fran KramerAt press time, Rhinebeck Antiques Fair manager Bruce Garrett said that the dates for the October 2012 show have "a 99.9% chance" to be changed from the Columbus Day weekend dates of October 6 and 7 to October 13 and 14. The show's Web site indicates the "new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MESDA Journal Moves On Line
The Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) is releasing its Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts in a new on-line format. The Journal of Early Southern Decorative Arts was established in 1975 as a print publication and over the years has published seminal articles in the field, providing an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Resale Royalty Act Ruled Unconstitutional
by Daniel GrantThe California Resale Royalty Act (CRRA), which requires the payment to artists of 5% of the profit when their work is sold on the secondary market and either the seller resides in California or the sale takes place in California, was passed in 1976. CRRA was struck down ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Whitaker Couture Auction Filmed by Bravo
Estimated at $800/1200, the Chinese embroidered throne cover, 18th or 19th century, sold for $33,600. The 411/2" x 511/2" yellow-gold silk tapestry was elaborately embroidered with a gold dragon in couched metallic threads surrounded by cloud bands and Buddhist symbols enclosed by a border of chrysanthemums within couched gold thread, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NEA Grant to Help Winterthur Digitize
The Winterthur Museum is one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Works grant. Winterthur will use the grant to scan, photograph, and digitize its collection of prints, maps, watercolors, and other paper arts.With the grant, Winterthur will employ ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Outsider Art Fair Moves to New Location
Sanford L. Smith's Outsider Art Fair in New York City will take place January 31-February 3, 2013, at a new location in Chelsea: Center548 (548 West 22nd Street), the former DIA Center for the Arts.In a press release, Smith wrote, "Twenty-one years ago, when the Outsider Art Fair debuted at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Summer Writing Contest with an Antiques Twist
A 19th-century doll carved from a bedpost is one of seven items suggested for the "Biography of an Object Writing Contest." Visit the contest page on Garth's Web site for a complete list. Contestants may also select their own object by utilizing a 30-day trial membership offer from Prices4Antiques.com, an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lily Pad Master Salt Sells for $38,700
Yellow olive-amber master salt, 21/2" high, circular bowl with folded rim, body decorated with superimposed gather, tooled into a type 2 lily pad design, applied funnel foot with folded rim, tubular pontil scar, attributed to the Lancaster Glass Works, New York, circa 1852, possibly the work of John Lambrix, ex-David ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)James Johnston's Composite Audubon
Full-sheet composite.by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Antique Nature PrintsPrint dealer James Gilbert Johnston, who has a shop in Birmingham, Alabama, and a Web site (www.antiquenatureprints.com), is proud of a discovery he made in November 2010. Viewing a Skinner auction catalog on line, he found an undercataloged Audubon print."Lot 628 looked strange, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Is the Spice of Success
Marklin (Germany) stationary traction engine steam toy, early 1920's, the crown jewel from the late Klaus Grutkza's steam toy collection, base 141/2" x 26", $19,550.Hubley Popeye on motorcycle, cast iron, 1928, includes factory tag, ex-Bob Brady, 63/4" long, $19,550.Arcade parlor coach, cast iron, circa 1926, deemed the finest example known, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Tool and Its Money
This Stanley No. 340 furring plane was the top money-getter at $10,350.This open screw thread micrometer is in "like-new" condition, despite the patent date of April 23, 1878. It was patented by George M. Pratt of Middletown, Connecticut, and produced by the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"We went to Europe and well, bought a few things for the house," The Chinqua-Penn Sale
*Margaret "Betsy" Penn, as quoted in the Leland Little catalog.This is the front entrance to Chinqua-Penn as seen from the pagoda. The Penns purchased the Chinese carved stone Ming Dynasty style Spirit Road animals-the camel on the left and the reclining horse on the right-in China in 1923. The camel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall Clock Leads Rhode Island Auction
A trip to a home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, was the source of this stunning tall clock with a Goddard case and brass dial that read "Thos. Stretch Philadelphia." The clock features a classic Goddard-carved shell and measures 101" tall. It opened with a $10,000 bid and, with several phones ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Sale Deemed "Robust"
Southern Plains Indian Warrior by Henry F. Farny (1847-1916), a 16" x 11" gouache on paper, sold for $362,500 (est. $100,000/150,000) to a dealer in Santa Fe who was on the telephone. When he heard the opening bid of $100,000, he immediately bid $200,000. Levitt said the "very rare" painting ... (Read More)
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(Show)Woodstock Antique Show Reborn
Kelly Taylor of Kelly Taylor's American Country Antiques, Davenport, Iowa, stands by a $6300 early American lounging sofa of poplar, pine, and chestnut with original surfaces and exposed base construction. Dating it to around 1810, based on the square nails used, Taylor thinks it functioned as a resting spot at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)East Meets West on the Shores of Lake Pontchartrain
Top lot of the sale was this pair of simple, elegant Chinese huanghuali stools from the New Orleans estate of Irene S. Chandler that sold for $69,310 (est. $10,000/15,000).Distinguished by its unusual subject matter, a very large (431/2" x 663/4") painting of Prisoner's Escort, A Scene from the Crimean War ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Orientalia Still Hot
Eighteenth-century Japanese wooden Buddha, seated in the lotus position on a lotus-shaped giltwood base, $7475.There didn't seem to be one particular standout in this small collection of four miniature jade carvings, all in white or celadon nephrite jade. The largest was only about 2" long. They obliterated the $300/600 estimate, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Coca-Cola Soda Fountain Wows at Auction
The marble soda fountain built by the Liquid Carbonic Company for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893 sold for $5,175,000 to an anonymous phone bidder. The front counter is 3'6" high x 21' long, and the back bar is 10' high overall x 19'9" long.The work involved to ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Marburger Farm Antique Show
This lovely pre-Civil War pull cart is all original except for its new canvas canopy. Dick and Mary Flynn of Country House Antiques, Marshall, Michigan, brought it for their 35th trip to Marburger, saying "It's one of our best shows...plus the people are so nice!" They priced it at $1895.Mary ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Paperwork Loss Leads to Lawsuit
by Daniel GrantBad things sometimes happen to art-a guy puts his elbow through the canvas, an assemblage sculpture is carted out with the trash, a bronze is stolen to be melted down, things get dropped and break, a Picasso gets spray-painted-you name it. Here's a new twist. Nothing happened to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Clockmakers of Flemington, New Jersey: 1788-1840 Part I, The Early Years
Figure 1A. Emma Jo (Thompson Bousquet) Langerak setting her watch to the Thomas Williams tall-case clock with engraved brass dial. The beveled glass in the trunk door is a later addition. Originally this clock had a solid walnut tombstone-shaped door. Photo was taken circa 1920 in Pella, Iowa, and is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Charlottesville Antiques Show on Ice
Roger D. Winter offered these two ship portraits, the S.S. Sheldrake and the S.S. Kirk Lee, both cargo steamers. Both are circa 1910. They were marked to sell as a pair for $2500. The large crab trade sign dates from the 1930's and was originally used at a Camden, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pook Kicks Off Antiques Week with Strong Sale
The consensus was that this pastel portrait of a young woman wearing a lime green dress, a black lace shawl, and fashionable hair jewelry and holding a book was one of the best portraits by New Jersey artist Micah Williams (1782-1837). It sold for $59,250 (est. $20,000/30,000). The buyer was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: A Heavyweight Weighs In
In our April issue, Pennsylvania dealer Kelly Kinzle bought a fullpage color ad and published an essay titled "Because I Like It." It caught many people's attention. Kinzle wrote, "As I walk through my gallery and assess my inventory, I can say unequivocally that buying, owning, and handling these pieces ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Gail Lettick, Pantry & Hearth Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut
Gail Lettick.The 1775 barn.Sawbuck table with chestnut base, original red stain, and scrub top, $3000. "It's from Howard and Priscilla Richmond's kitchen," Lettick said. The set of four bow-back Windsors, black over salmon, is $3200.An early Plymouth County, Massachusetts, six-board chest in original red paint with gouge carving on the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show
Cari Cucksey owns Re.Purpose, a shop in Northville, Michigan, but she is best known for her HGTV series Cash & Cari. It was her first time setting up at the show.European paintings offered by Ken Kelleher of Kelleher Fine Art, Twain Harte, California, included Le Jeu de Dames by Auguste ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rhinos and Cinnabar and Giraffes, Oh My!
When the consignor acquired Howard Sykes's property and safari collection, the collection was displayed in the property's "Game House," specially designed and built to house and display the specimens collected on a 1937 safari. Remember, the giraffe is 16'3" tall. Photo courtesy Katherine van Diest.The high lot of the sale ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Perfume Bottle Sells for $63,600
$63,600The International Perfume Bottle Association (IPBA) recently concluded its 24th annual convention in Jacksonville, Florida, where members from 19 countries converged to share their collective interest. The keynote address was provided by award-winning perfume bottle designer Marc Rosen, author of the recently published Glamour Icons: Perfume Bottle Design.One of the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
Sold for $230,510 in a Bonhams sale of May 17 was an intricately worked cloisonne enamel and partial plique a jour bowl, roughly 71/2" square and 33/4" deep. The work of Ando Jubei and dating to the Meiji period (1868-1912), the bowl with its base decoration of a swimming carp ... (Read More)
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(Show)Schaut's Fun Fair "Antique City" Hits Bethlehem
A line was evident most of the morning on opening day Saturday outside the Rauch Fieldhouse. Early buyers' time was from 8 to 10 a.m., and regular show hours ran from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.Show manager and promoter Norm Schaut is shown standing outside the fieldhouse, where he stated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The North American Indian Sets Record at Nebenzahl Library Sale
The top lot of the sale at $2,882,500 was Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian in 20 volumes and 20 portfolios. Its intent, in Curtis's words, was to document "the old time Indian, his dress, his ceremonies, his life and manners." Between 1896 and 1930, he photographed every major ... (Read More)
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(Show)First NHADA Show on a College Campus
About noon on Sunday, the show had been open for two hours, and there were still shoppers on the floor. Not bad. We've seen shows at comparable times that were empty after the first shoppers hit the floor and left. Those places looked like ghost towns. There was a decent ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Like a Museum for Sale
From the Buechner estate, this signed oil by Jules Joseph LeFebvre (French, 1836-1911), Diana, Chasseresse, sold for $97,750 (est. $20,000/40,000) to a European collector.The William Bradford (1823-1892) painting of a sailing vessel with icebergs was in original condition and never had been on the market before. It opened at $50,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Four More
by Steve ProffittLife is full of negotiations.A young fellow had just gotten his driver's license. He asked his daddy, a pastor, if they could discuss his using the car. His daddy took him to his study and said, "I will make a deal with you. If you bring your grades ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 23rd Street Armory Show
Scottish silver quaich, $225 from Martin Chasin of Fairfield, Connecticut, who said he sold silver and Bohemian glass and had a good show.Michael Leslie of Port 'N Starboard, Falmouth, Maine, offered an oil painting on canvas of the Boston tugboat Sylvester L. Ware off Minot's Ledge by Solon Francis Montecello ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's April Americana Sale
Fresh to market, this yellow pine blanket chest, painted with a stylized design of hearts, tulips, leaves, and birds in red, white, and black over a blue over red ground, was attributed to Johannes Spitler (1774-1837), Massanutten, Page County, Virginia, circa 1800. It descended in the Latham family of Rappahannock ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Secondhand Dealers Law Nearing Completion by Legislature
by David HewettCalifornia's omnibus bill licensing dealers and buyers of secondhand merchandise and requiring electronic reporting of all purchases is called AB 391, "Enhanced Tracking of Stolen Property." It was first placed before the California Assembly in 2011 and is nearing final approval.The bill was introduced by Dr. Richard Pan, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Brilliant Cut Glass Bowl Brings $65,000
American brilliant cut glass three-color cut to clear bowl in the Montrose pattern by Dorflinger, $65,000.An American brilliant cut glass three-color cut to clear bowl by Dorflinger in the Montrose pattern sold for $65,000 (no buyer's premium charged) at an auction held March 10 by Woody Auction in Kansas City, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Splendid Splinter Sale: Ted Williams Collection Sold at Fenway Park
Babe Ruth single-signed baseball inscribed to Ted Williams, $195,500.Ted Williams's 1949 Most Valuable Player award, $299,000.Ted Williams's 1957 Babe Ruth "Sultan of Swat" crown, $230,000.An auction of Ted Williams's personal collection took place April 28 at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts. Conducted by Hunt Auctions of Exton, Pennsylvania, the auction ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Midwest Musings
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond Nora (a.k.a. Bean) is quite the jet-setter baby or would be if we ever did anything as glamorous as "jet" anywhere. Instead, she's usually gazing contentedly out the windows of a big white Ford van at the landscape of I-70 (71, 77, 80, 90, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2012 Philadelphia Antiques Show: A Successful Move
Angel Gabriel weathervane made by Mr. Whelden of the Whelden & Fisher tin shop for the Wesleyan Seminary, formerly the First Methodist Church, Springfield, Vermont. Circa 1846, it was sheet iron and copper with iron bracing and with traces of yellow sizing with old leaf and a lead-coated wooden ball ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Front Row Couture and Vintage Clothing Make a Statement
Bidding opened at $2500 for this iconic Satellite cape by Pierre Cardin, Paris (1967). The cape was prominently displayed during the preview as an enticement to throw caution to the wind and bid handsomely. Bid they did too-two phone bidders went at it until a third phone rang up at ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received: Brief reviews of antiques and fine art books recently published
Books Receivedby 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. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Two Jewelry Auctions and Nature Transformed
A circa 1915 Art Deco diamond and sapphire bracelet, 61/4" long, having a navette-shaped central panel with old-European-cut and rose-cut diamonds weighing approximately .70 carat and caliber-cut sapphires in platinum-topped 14k yellow gold, with gold link strap, 4.9 dwt., sold for $2125 (est. $600/800).According to Sarah Churgin, "Not a big ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring at the Original Round Top Antiques Fair
This pair of Chinese jesters once belonged to "Doublemint Twins" Mary and Candice Prather, who are now 95 years old, according to J. Frederick Cain of Naples, Florida, who priced the jesters at $750 for the pair.It's "simply the best," said Fred Cain of this 19th-century hooked rug. Depicting two ... (Read More)
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(Auction)SOP, Simple as ABC
Best in show-a late 19th-century oil on canvas of the Dexter, with a painted title identifying the captain as P. H. Taylor and the date as 1871. It sold for $3025 (having previously sold at Cyr Auction Company for $8050 in November 2008).Robert Atkinson Fox (Canadian, 1860-1935) was a prolific ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art and Frames
Hand-carved gilded frame, 12" x 101/2", with shell motif and C-scrolls, one area of gilding loss to inner molding, $2950.Done in egg tempera on masonite in 1951, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charges Against New Hampshire Auctioneer Dismissed
by Elizabeth DinanA New Hampshire judge dismissed assault and imprisonment charges that had been filed against auctioneer Stephen Bennett because the alleged victim failed to appear in court in time for a scheduled trial.Police had alleged that Bennett of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, assaulted and imprisoned the owner of an S.F.M. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Indiana and Other American Art at Auction
This is the exterior of Arch at Chatham, the brick building constructed as St. Joseph's Hall in the 1890's. Johnson photo.When the building was renovated a ceilingwas removed, leaving exposed trusses thatgive the auction floor a distinctive look.Johnson photo.My Garden by Ada Walter Shulz (1870-1928), oil on board, 14" x ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Cry Lawsuit Decision Reversed
by Betty Flood and Alyssa PlockIn a unanimous decision the New York State Court of Appeals has reversed, with costs, the 2010 Appellate Division decision and reinstated the order of the Surrogate's Court in the case of David Mirvish vs. Hanno Mott.The decision by Judge Susan Read revolved around the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Confusion in California! Slawinski's Gets Its Ivory Back but Ban Still in Force
by David HewettThe California law banning the sale of material originating from animals and fish listed in the federal Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act has run into its first roadblock.The antiques industry was largely unaware of the Golden State's regulation banning the sale of those items ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Grievos Sell Their Collection
This stoneware jug was made in New Haven, Connecticut, 1825-30. It is signed "Made by Absalom Stedman" and has an incised cobalt-decorated American eagle with a striped shield breast. It was exhibited at the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in 1975, and its provenance includes the Preston Bassett collection, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Julia's Opens Satellite Office
Fairfield, Maine, auctioneers James D. Julia has opened a new satellite office at the 1790 House at 827 Main Street, Woburn, Massachusetts. Two specialists have been added to man the new office: James Callahan, who will serve as Julia's director of Asian arts, and Martin Willis, who will serve as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fall Dates Added for Atlantic City Antiques Show
The Atlantic City Antiques Show, produced by Allison Kohler of JMK Shows, will add a fall version. The October 13 and 14 show will be held at the Atlantic City Convention Center, One Convention Boulevard, Atlantic City, New Jersey.According to Kohler, requests for a new fall show came from customers ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes in Christie's American Paintings Department
Eric Widing, most recently the head of the American paintings department at Christie's, has joined the team of senior business-getters in the Christie's Americas chairman's office as a deputy chairman.Widing joined Christie's in 1998 and has been in the appraisal business since 1981. From 1996 to 1998, he was an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cape Cod Libraries Suffer Rash of Book Thefts
by David HewettIf there is anything that's persistent in the world of antiques and collectibles, it's the problem of thefts. Last year it was valuable historical documents from all over the East Coast; this year it's valuable collectible books from public libraries on Cape Cod.Last year the thieves were noted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Change of Ownership of Auction Gallery in New Orleans
On June 1, the assets of New Orleans Auction Galleries, Inc. (NOAG) were sold in a small private auction held in the law offices of New Orleans attorney Stewart Peck. The selling price was $1.3 million. The new owner is Cakebread Art Antiques Collectibles, Inc., owned by Houston, Texas, businesswoman ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Sale in Chicago
Top lot of the sale at $91,500, the French bronze and ivory by Demetre H. Chiparus (1886-1947) also decorated the catalog cover. Titled Les Amis de Toujours, the circa 1925 piece showed a woman flanked by borzoi hounds. Set on an onyx base, the almost 25" tall statue topped a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: You Can Fight City Hall
A few months after the western Massachusetts town of Great Barrington passed a secondhand dealers bylaw in 2010, antiques dealer Paul Kleinwald spoke at a town selectmen's meeting. "I told the town they could have a bylaw, but I'll be damned if I'm going to abide by it. This is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Swann Broadens Market for African-American Fine Art
Charles White's J'Accuse! No. 10 (Negro Woman) sold to a dealer on the phone for $204,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). The 1966 charcoal on paper in tondo form is 28" x 28".Harper's Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) by Kara Walker went to a collector at $120,000 (est. $75,000/100,000), a new ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Has a Blast with Guns
Virtually every one of the 52 items listed in the Class III category sold within or above estimates. Top, the Colt Thompson M1921AC submachine gun, serial number 6884, with all internal parts manufactured in 1921, in a purple felt-lined case, sold for $37,950 (est. $20,000/30,000). The 1919 Colt B.A.R., serial ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Object of History: Colonial Treasures from the Massachusetts Historical Society
MHS president Dennis A. Fiori with his wife, Peggy Burke, executive director of the Concord Museum. Schinto photo.
Oil on canvas portrait of Dorothy Quincy (1708/9-1762), wife of Edward Jackson, a Boston merchant and manufacturer. It was painted in Boston circa 1720 by an unidentified painter. Quincy's great-grandson Oliver Wendell Holmes ... (Read More)
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(Feature)More New Kids on the Block at Bowmanville Show
One of Ben Lennox's favorites was this set of about 25 soldier figures from the 1960's to '80's, $2800 the set or priced individually. Steve Harris displayed a number of crocks and jugs on a plant shelf. His least expensive one was a cracked redware jar at $65, and his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record $402,900 Stoneware Jug Is Top Lot at Grievo Sale
Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.by Lita Solis-CohenPotter Absalom Stedman's masterpiece, a stoneware jug incised with a large American eagle holding an American flag, sold for $402,900 (includes buyer's premium) at Pook & Pook's sale on May 5 of the collection of Mr. and Mrs. James Grievo.Four phone bidders and an ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Bankruptcy Trustee Goes after Transfers
The "Grand Reopening Sale" for New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG), November 30-December 2, 2012, was featured in M.A.D., March 2013, p. 16-D. The previous business bearing that name had run into financial problems and declared bankruptcy on April 1, 2011. That filing is still open and being conducted by Judge ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Encouraging Signs Emerge at Potomack Auction
When I first saw this scroll in a showcase at the Potomack gallery, I thought it was a roll of wallpaper. Boy was I wrong. The handscroll, Travelers in Landscape, an ink and light color on paper, mounted on silk brocade, dates from the first half of the Qing Dynasty ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: William Lohrman Antiques, New Paltz, New York
Bill Lohrman.Lohrman's home in New Paltz overlooking the Shawangunk Mountains. He built the house with a carpenter 32 years ago. "It has the same floor plan as the 'Stencil House' at the Shelburne Museum," he said. When you're inside, you assume it's made up of early architectural parts. Doors, woodwork, ... (Read More)
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(Show)International Art & Antique Fair: A Lot of "Luxe"
Once a supermarket, the Naples International Pavilion is now a venue for events such as the Naples International Art & Antique Fair.The lobby entrance to the show was like a Hollywood movie set.Pier & Co., Naples, Florida, sold this marble-top Empire pier table tagged $2850.Ed Weissman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Time and Again
The Tiffany Moorish clock (left) varies from the version sold at Leighton Galleries (right) in condition and minor decorative details; the Briley clock brought $91,875, and the Leighton clock brought $8500. Was it the same clock? The clock at the Briley sale had a new finial, new bosses added to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Doyle
This oil on canvas portrait of a young girl with a coral necklace, 26" x 213/4", inscribed "No. 56" and signed "R. Rowley" and dated 1826 on the back, painted in a trompe l'oeil frame against a green ground and in a simple black frame, sold for $40,625 to an ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Converting Web Sites for Mobile Viewing
Computer Column #282by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netA photo of a smartphone viewing a mobile Web site is shown to scale with its corresponding desktop page.Creating a Web site for an antiques dealer, collector, or organization was discussed in the last column. Adding a mobile version of the site can increase ... (Read More)
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(Show)First-Ever Connecticut Show in Massachusetts Goes Smoothly
How would you celebrate your 80th birthday? Henry T. Callan of East Sandwich, Massachusetts, chose to do just what he has been doing for the last 45 years: set up and sell at an antiques show. Callan carries an inventory of Chinese porcelains, Battersea boxes, and needlework samplers. His take ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Art and Design
Unsigned and from an edition of 250, Pablo Picasso's Le Repas Frugal, a circa 1904 etching on Van Gelder paper from "La Suite des Saltimbanques," Bloch 1, fetched $158,600. Treadway/Toomey photo.Joe Stanfield of the fine arts division told us that not one domestic bidder showed interest in Street Scene by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antique Jewelry and Gemology: Flurry of Sales, Including Cowan's Inaugural Jewelry Auction
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(Show)A Successful New Look for Richmond Show
Piccolo Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Wiltshire, England, offered this oil on board by Harold Newton (1934-1994), Light Breeze along the Shore, of a windswept beach with clouds building in the distance, signed but not dated. Newton was one of the central figures among the loose-knit group of painters known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Estate of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Unrepentant Collector
The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes. A complete profile of the man, "God and Harvard" by Robert S. Boynton, appeared in The New Yorker on November 11, 1996. It coincided with publication of Gomes's best-seller The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart (1996). In that profile it's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sister of Artist Theodoros Stamos Files Suit
by Daniel GrantThe modern-day Laocoon might say: Beware Greeks bearing friendship.Zacharias Georgiou Portalakis, a Greek stockbroker and art collector, was a patron and perhaps friend of painter Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997). After the artist's death Portalakis developed a strong friendship with the artist's sister and estate executor, Georgianna Savas, who lives ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Seven More to Know
by Steve Proffitt>A young friend ready to fly the nest with a new bachelor's degree sent me a joke about a college graduate's first job interview. Near the end of the meeting, the hiring manager asked, "What starting salary are you thinking about?"The young man confidently replied, "Something around $125,000 ... (Read More)
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(Show)20th- and 21st-Century Art and Design in Boston
The booth of Center Street Studio, Milton Village, Massachusetts, on gala night. Nine Black Poppies by Richard Ryan (b. 1950) is partially seen at right, blocked by the couple standing near the daffodils on the table. A woodcut printed on natural Kozo paper, it measures 54" x 40" (image), 60" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Marine Straight Edge Rules Moore Auction
The unique sailor-made straight edge in whalebone with relief-carved decorations and an inscription dated 1833 and ascribing it to a sealer in a cave on Cape Pillar in Tierra del Fuego sold for $8050.There was a lot of speculation on this unsigned marine painting. Might it be a Clement Drew ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fisk University and Crystal Bridges Museum to Share Stieglitz Collection
by Daniel GrantEnding a six-year-old saga, the Tennessee Supreme Court refused an appeal from the state attorney general to overturn an appellate court ruling that would permit Nashville-based Fisk University to sell to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, a 50% stake in a 101-piece art ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comThe very rare Chelsea white porcelain head of a child that I previewed and illustrated in the April issue failed to sell on the day, but as promised, this month's "Letter" does contains some fine Meissen and Capodimonte pieces from the Barilla collection.It also includes relics and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Southern Sells
Part of a stack of early blanket chests offered by Michael Rainey Antiques, Beaufort, South Carolina. At the top is an English miniature secretary, circa 1880, marked $1750. Next down is an Athens, Georgia, 1800's pine chest priced at $1200 that sold. This chest was lined with early Athens, Georgia, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art Nouveau Posters and a Few Auction Records
"Reverie" from 1897, one of Alphonse Mucha's most popular designs, exists in several variations, and as the catalog states, "Champenois capitalized on its popularity and sold it to many different clients, always imprinting the new firm's name on the image." This variant sans text was sold by La Plume to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Withdrawal from Auction Leads to $58 Million Lawsuit
by Daniel GrantThe stakes increased for Sotheby's and artist Cady Noland with an amended lawsuit filed on April 9 in the Supreme Court of the State of New York by Manhattan art dealer Marc Jancou, seeking $58 million in damages, resulting from the auction house's withdrawal of a screen print ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Ceramics in America 2011
by Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2011Edited by Robert HunterChipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2011, 220 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com)Some scholarly journals are hard to get through; this one is hard to put down. It is ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Love and Luck
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe used to joke that we were going to have T-shirts made that said, "Auction Work: It's Not Just a Way of Life, It's a Life Sentence." Coming up on the end of our first decade in the business, we don't find that to be ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 30th Anniversary Chester County Antiques Show
Salt Box Antiques, Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, asked $16,500 for the rare early dry sink, circa 1840. On it is a stack of dark red-painted pantry boxes for $3250. Hanging on the wall is a New England spoon rack for $3900. On the wall at right is a Shaker cheese curd mill ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Flemish Painting Flies
This 16th- or 17th-century Flemish oil on wood panel of a rich feast of lobster, parsnips, turkey or chicken, and various other savory dishes sold for $218,500 (est. $10,000/20,000).This signed 30" x 36" winter morning landscape that fairly screamed "Emile Gruppe" brought a low-estimate $9200. A classic Gruppe composition, it ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mallett Reports a Profit
British antiques firm Mallett, a publicly traded company, reported a profit for the first time in four years as it released its results for 2011. The firm, founded in 1865, made profit before tax of GBP0.5 million ($596,666), compared to a loss of GBP1.4 million ($1,634,030) in 2010. The 2011 ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Stories in Sterling
by Lita Solis-CohenStories in Sterling: Four Centuries of Silver in New Yorkby Margaret K. Hofer, with Debra Schmidt BacThe New-York Historical Society, in association with D Giles Limited, London, 2011, 352 pages, hardbound, $69.95, or softbound, $45, plus S/H from the New-York Historical Society, (888) 860-NYHS or (www.nyhistorystore.com), or from ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)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.A Legacy in Tramp Art by Clifford A. Wallach (Schiffer Publishing ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The New Art of Flying
Edwin Levick's business card, circa 1909."Fig. 45.-The Santos-Dumont 'Demoiselle' monoplane is the smallest flying-machine that has ever flown successfully with a man. In the later 'Demoiselles' fabric propellers are supplanted by wooden screws of the usual type.""Fig. 84.-The Santos-Dumont 'Demoiselle' in flight.""Fig. 80.-The Wright biplane of 1910. The elevating rudder ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chest Attributed to Johannes Spitler Sells for $350,500
$350,500. Photo courtesy Freeman's.by Lita Solis-CohenLate on Monday afternoon, April 30, toward the end of Freeman's long spring American furniture, silver, folk, and decorative arts sale, a painted pine blanket chest came up. The circa 1800 chest, decorated with tulips, hearts, compass flowers, and birds in red, white, and black ... (Read More)
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