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(Fragment)Daughters of Mary Lose in Bouguereau Painting Lawsuit
On Monday, January 9, jurors in the Albany County (New York) Supreme Courthouse, hearing assertions that two art dealers conspired to defraud a group of nuns and their bishop out of a painting that was worth upward of $4.8 million, brought in their verdict.
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art Sale
Shown are two plates from the portfolio The North American Indian by Edward Curtis (1868-1952), Volume 1: The Apache. The Jicarillas. The Navajo, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1907. Lacking six plates, it included 33 of the 39 large-format photogravures on Van Gelder paper, loose in a 23" x 191/4" morocco portfolio, prefaced ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Over $50 Million Worth of American Paintings Sold
This 32" x 253/4" oil on board by Marsden Hartley (1877-1943), untitled (Still Life), signed and dated 1919, sold at Sotheby's, New York City, on December 1, 2011, for $3,218,500. Sotheby's photo.Illusion of a Prairie, New Jersey (Red Farm at Pochuck), a 30" x 40" oil on canvas by Oscar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tip of Cape Cod Provincetown-Art Auction Tradition
Grey Horse by Karl Knaths (1891-1971) fetched $11,500 (est. $15,000/20,000). The circa 1968 oil on canvas is 30" x 50". Schinto photo.Wharf Scene by Gerrit Hondius (1891-1970) fetched $2185 (est. $1000/1500). The undated oil on board is 16" x 20". Three other Hondius works (not shown) did not do as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Teapots Brew Excitement at Potomack
This group of four miniature Chinese teapots proved to be the high lot of the Potomack sale. The largest of the group is 61/2" tall. They are all from the county-city of Yixing, in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu. Yixing is noted for its teapots. From left to right ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Show for Saratoga Springs
Barn Star Productions and Frank Gaglio will launch a new antiques show in July in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Saratoga Springs Antiques, Art and Jewelry Show will make its debut July 27-29 at the Saratoga Springs City Center.Gaglio stated in a press release, "We have been looking for a ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column for Antiquers: Protecting Privacy On Line
Computer Column #277by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netFacial recognition software automatically picked out these pictures of the author taken over four decades.Last month this column touched briefly on Internet fraud. Researching that subject led to the realization that there is a more insidious, widespread problem: there is no privacy on the ... (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)The International Fine Art & Antique Dealers Show
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenThe French faience boar's head tureen in the foreground and the German one in the back were $44,500 each from Brian Haughton. He sold the German one and a Meissen teapot to an American museum.The Northwest Coast Tlingit ceremonial clan hat with eagle crest, mid-19th century, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Frank Siebert's Native American Artifacts on the Block
A Penobscot peaked cap, 151/2" tall, from the second quarter of the 19th century sold for $35,550 (est. $40,000/60,000). It had belonged to Molly Molasses (1775-1867), who is pictured wearing a similar hat in a photograph by S.W. Sawyer of Bangor, Maine, in 1865. It was the top Siebert lot ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The David Miller Sale
This rare David Kulp hymnal bookplate, 61/2" x 3 7/8", was everyone's favorite. The bird and foliage fill up the page, and it was in excellent condition. It was estimated at $1500/2500, the bidding opened at $800, and it sold for $23,100 to a young Philadelphia lawyer. The underbidders were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Baby, It's Cold Outside: The Joe Loprete Collection
This is the living room of the Lopretes' home before 85 people squeezed in. The crystal and bronze banquet lamps in front of the windows date from the early 20th century and sold to an on-site bidder for $1760 and $1320. The Italian brocade chair on the left sold to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Mary Belter, Falls Village, Connecticut
Mary Belter's shop on Route 7 in Falls Village, Connecticut.Mary Belter by the woodstove in her shop.Partial view of the shop.This interior view shows one of the Art Deco ceiling fixtures, which were installed when the place was built as a grocery store in 1940.One of Belter's favorite display cases. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Vermont's Antiques Week: Shows Do Well, Rains Repeat but Don't Endanger
Shown by White & White Antiques, Skaneateles, New York, the oil on canvas, 25" x 311/2", depicts a scene of the French countryside and is signed "Aston Knight, Paris." Louis Aston Knight was the son of American painter Daniel Ridgway Knight and was born in Paris in 1873. Steven White ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Castan and Tomlinson Sale Reaps $1 Million-plus Bounty
Buddy "L" red tugboat, pressed steel, only known example of red color variant, no clockwork mechanism, possibly a salesman's sample, 271/2" long, $23,000.Buddy "L" red Ford Flivver truck, a special gift to Fred Castan from Buddy "L" founder Fred Lundahl, 12" long, $20,700.Tippco (German) motorcycle with sidecar, boxed example, clockwork, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Highlights of Americana from Two Estates
Once again, a powerful piece of music memorabilia was top lot at a Case auction. This time a 1964 copy of Meet the Beatles with a handwritten tribute to Dr. Jules Gordon and the signatures of all four members of the band climbed to $75,400.A. Welling LaGrone Jr. was a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VermontADA Donates Show Profits to Food Banks and Flood Relief
The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association held its 37th annual show on July 30 and 31, 2011, at the Union Arena in Woodstock, Vermont. According to the association, admission ticket profits have been donated and distributed to three Woodstock area food shelves: Woodstock Community Food Shelf, Reading-Brownsville Foodshelf, and Neighbors Helping ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Another British Import
In this issue of Maine Antique Digest, we've included a special color pullout section previewing the events during Americana Week in New York City, the fortnight of shows, auctions, and exhibitions in mid- to late January that surround the venerable Winter Antiques Show.There's no question that Americana Week is a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Antiques Show
This turn-of-the-20th-century German Noah's ark "of unusually large size" with "quite a few" animals was priced at $12,900, including the animals, by Yew Tree House Antiques, New York City.The label for these circa 1935 English reconstituted stone seated putti described them as "an engaging pair." Finnegan Gallery, Chicago, priced the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Midwestern Sculptural Stoneware Based on "The Arkansas Traveler" Sold at Crocker Farm
$19,550.Currier & Ives, The Arkansas Traveller.by Karl H. PassA rare hand-molded salt-glazed stoneware sculpture of a log cabin with a family and animals sold for $19,550 (includes buyer's premium) at Crocker Farm in Sparks, Maryland, on October 29, 2011. The piece recently surfaced in Illinois, according to the Zipps of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comA Merry Christmas, One and All...I looked hard for something appropriate and Christmassy with which to open this month's "Letter," but nothing presented itself, and in the end, the closest I came-and even then it occurred to me only after I had written the piece-was De Nova ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sales of Magnificent Jewels
Circa 1925 Art Deco diamond brooch of geometric motif, mounted in platinum, centering upon a bezel-set old-European-cut diamond, with an openwork old-mine-cut and old-European-cut diamond plaque, in a burgundy leather case signed "Casa Weil, Santiago." It sold for $25,000 (est. $15,000/20,000). Christie's.The signed Tiffany & Co. circa 1930 Art Deco ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Breininger Sale
Fraktur artist Johann Conrad Gilbert painted this birth certificate for Elisabeth Kunckel, dated 1815, 8" x 13 1/4". The central script is flanked by two trumpeting male angels with striped coats and stylized flowers in bright yellow, red, green, and blue. Estimated at $15,000/25,000, it sold to collectors in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale at New Orleans Auction Galleries
Opening the Sunday session was a collection of Mexican gold coins from the estate of Fernando Jimenez-Torres of Laredo, Texas, that brought a total of $238,790. This lot of three 50-peso pieces-approximately 112.5 grams of pure gold-sold for $6150.An exquisite seven-piece Paris porcelain tea set, with a rare paper label ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indy Ad Show
Donna and Bruce Weir of B & D Promotions with one of their new banners touting the 2012 season of the Indy Antique Advertising Show.Tobacco pocket tins: Gold Dust, $3000; Taxi, $6000; Blue Badge, embossed, $8000, from Sandy Rosnick of Manchester, Massachusetts.McKinley cast-iron bootjack, $350, and McKinley ribbon, $75, from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Executive Director at Hyde Hall
Dr. Jonathan Maney is the new executive director at Hyde Hall in Cooperstown, New York, a National Historic Landmark, on the National Register of Historic Places, and a New York State Historic Site. Dr. Maney brings extensive experience in event and conference planning, education outreach, program development, historic preservation, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Copake Sells Uecker Nail Sculpture for $372,900
Sett (left) and Mike Fallon with the $372,900 Gunther Uecker relief sculpture of nails.A 1964 nail sculpture, found in an estate in Tivoli, New York, led Seth Fallon of Copake Auction in Copake, New York, to travel to Germany to meet with the artist. It led ultimately to a big ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Two to Tango
by Steve ProffittThe prize at the end of an auction should be the seller's satisfaction with the auctioneer's work. Auctioneers need to focus on the process required to achieve that result, and a major component is teaming with the seller to work jointly for auction success. This effort is complicated ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fall Shenandoah Antiques Expo
Don Toth of Parkside House Antiques, Brecksville, Ohio, used this open kitchen storage rack to display some of the items from his infield booth. The dealer offered a painted tin candle lantern, $135; a paint-decorated valuables box with a lock but no key, $75; another tin candle lantern, $75; a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Motley's 44th Anniversary Sale
Although not an antique, this vintage solitaire diamond engagement ring was the high lot of the Motley's sale. Weighing in at 2.75 carats and set in a six-prong 14k white gold setting, the ring sold in the room for $13,570 (est. $6000/12,000).This petit-point tapestry is either French or Belgian and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Guns Cap a $9 Million Blowout
This blue silk battle flag centering the seal of the state of Pennsylvania was flown by the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, which had a history with most battles of the Army of the Potomac, including Antietam and Gettysburg. The flag originally had a standard that read, "Presented by the Grateful Citizens ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country & Folk Art Antiques Show
This Victorian-era felt and hand-stitched table mat cost $450 at Ordeshook's Antiques, La Canada, California, where business was "much slower" than in the past.This small Arts and Crafts wood cabinet found in Monroe, Washington, 1910-18, was priced at $100. Similar items can be found at Antique Avenue, Manteca, California, "the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stair to Sell the Gerald Kornblau Estate
by Lita Solis-CohenOver the last decade Colin Stair of Stair Galleries sold a number of things for his Claverack, New York, neighbor, Gerald Kornblau. "I met Gerry when I noticed an iron dog had toppled over in his yard. It was one of those Mott Iron Works casts, and I ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Memorial Tribute to Albert Sack at Winter Antiques Show
On Sunday, January 22, from 10 to 11 a.m., the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. will host a memorial reception and tribute for Albert Sack (1915-2011). The reception will be held in the Tiffany Room at the Park Avenue Armory in conjunction with the Winter Antiques Show. Sack, who ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)LAPD Seeks Assistance
Matthew Taylor, a.k.a. Matthew NelsonInvestigators are seeking the assistance of the art community in identifying altered artworks sold by defendant Matthew Taylor (a.k.a. Matthew Nelson), who has been federally indicted on seven charges of fraud and art theft. It appears that many of these paintings may have been purchased from ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: Auction Highlights
by Lita Solis-CohenAmericana Week in New York City is a long tradition that grew up around the Winter Antiques Show. Although it is ever changing, which keeps it vital, it is still the time when newly discovered masterpieces appear at auctions and shows and are published for the first time ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: The Shows
by Lita Solis-CohenThe New York Winter Antiques Show spawned Americana Week more than 30 years ago when auctions began scheduling Americana sales while collectors were in town. Then satellite shows began to cluster around the grandest of all shows in America, reaching a peak in numbers in the 1990's and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week 2012: The Met's New Wing Opens, Phyfe in Focus, and James L. Kochan's Exhi
Ogden family satinwood worktable, 1810-15, attributed to Duncan Phyfe, satinwood and burl satinwood, partially ebonized, and mahogany, with gilt-brass paw toe caps, casters, and drawer pulls, baize writing surface, and mirror plate, 31" high x 213/4" wide x 141/4" deep. Photo courtesy Hirschl & Adler.by Lita Solis-CohenThe opening of the ... (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.American Painters on Technique: The Colonial Period to 1860 by Lance ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: 2011, The Year in Review
Best Baby Ever: Nora.by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondLife sneaks up on you. One day, you're sitting in the same spot six hours a day, bleary-eyed and with a bladder that is about to pop, while a small, fierce creature, exhausted from rage, sleeps in your lap. You don't know ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boston's New, Old Show Is Launched
This small detail of a 1769 map of Boston by John Bonner (1643-1726) and William Price (c. 1685-1771) shows what has become the neighborhood of the Cyclorama on Tremont Street (spelled "Treamont Street" here). A New Plan of ye Great Town of Boston in New England in America, the 19 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Folk Painting Brings More Than $1 Million over Estimate
As one dealer said, "I don't think anyone can possibly say anything bad about that painting-it's that good. It has to be up there among the very top folk art portraits." The 373/4" x 361/4" oil on canvas sold to a dealer in the room for $1,271,000. The closeup shows ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Knoedler Closes but Major Lawsuit Filed
The closing of Knoedler & Company, a 165-year-old art firm, caught the art world by surprise. A short message on the firm's Web site read: "It is with profound regret that the owners of Knoedler Gallery announce its closing, effective November 30, 2011. This was a business decision made after ... (Read More)
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(Show)Getman's Boston Show Attracts Newbies Along with Regulars
Chris and Karen Doscher of Witt's End, Wallkill, New York, asked $3875 for the 1860-70 two-part oak dresser that they judged to be "probably Welsh." The 19th-century cant-back two-door open-top cupboard in later blue paint was $3500. The 18th-century Queen Anne walnut mirror with original beveled glass and gilt decoration ... (Read More)
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(Show)The ADA Show at Deerfield: Superb Offerings, Uneven Sales
Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York, showed the 40" long weathered wood whale weathervane that came from Rockland, Maine, priced at $2950.A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, showed the circa 1935 Grenfell "Map of Newfoundland" mat, 42" x 311/2". It was exhibited at the American Folk Art Museum ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Henry's Field
The Henry Antes House, saved by the Goschenhoppen Historians. Go to the Web site (www.goschenhoppen.org) to learn more.Elwood Brunt offered some caltrops, or crow's feet, used during the Civil War. They were thrown on the road, and when horses stepped on them, they immediately became lame. They were made in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Hikes Some Buyer's Premiums
Heritage Auctions has announced that, effective January 1, 2012, the structure of its buyer's premium will be changing in several of its categories. While 13 of the company's 33 categories will remain at 19.5% or 15%, the rest of the Heritage categories will implement the change."We make very careful and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bid Rigging Charges Dismissed
by Elizabeth DinanAlmost two years after he was accused of rigging the bidding for an antique nautical painting, a Warner, New Hampshire, auctioneer had two criminal charges dismissed because of a legal technicality.By order dated November 7, 2011, Portsmouth Judge Sawako Gardner dismissed charges against auctioneer Harold French that alleged ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Tom McCandless Collection
From atop a stone wall that runs throughout his farm, Norman Heckler takes a moment to survey the action. The stone walls on this property were once rubble, due to the passage of 100 to 150 years, but "in 1987, '88 we started our barn sales, and the whole family ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Decides Conflict between Two Dealers, Sanctions One for "Fraud"
by David HewettA decision by Judge Victor Marrero in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, on November 10, 2011, brought to a close one of the more fascinating trials that art and antiques watchers have had to ruminate over in years.It all began in 2007. New York ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Bennett Vase Sells for $31,050
Photos courtesy Hyde Park Country Auctions.by Lita Solis-CohenThe Saturday after Thanksgiving is a good time for a country sale. Auctioneer Dominick Navarra of Hyde Park Country Auctions in Salt Point, New York, in Dutchess County, about 80 miles north of New York City and just off the Taconic Parkway, offered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Inaugural Maryland Sale
This rare grouping of African-American slave items includes a tintype and a daguerreotype, along with documents relating to a Baltimore slave of the family of Dr. John Whitridge (1793-1878). A piece of paper with the daguerreotype reads, "Martha Ann Atavis/ generally known as/ 'Patty'/ died Feb 26th 1874/ 58 years ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"In Shad Season" on the Banks of the Detroit River
John Fulton Folinsbee (1892-1972) was born in Buffalo, New York. He began his formal art training at age 15 under landscape artist Jonas Lie and studied at the Gunnery School in Washington, Connecticut, during summers in Woodstock, New York, and at the Art Students League in New York City. He ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Roesen Still Life for $57,500
It just doesn't get any better than this. The classic American still life oil on canvas depiction of flowers in a glass vase on a marble-top table was signed on the lower right by Severin Roesen (c. 1815-c. 1872). In a gilt gesso deep cove Victorian frame, it sold for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Adirondack Mountains Antiques Weekend
The round stone table trimmed with bark came complete with a pair of side benches. John Provo of North Salem, New York, offered the set at $7500 and priced the weathervane of a hunter with a dog (on the table but hard to see) at $225. When he got home, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Keno Auction an Up-and-Down Event
These James Buttersworth (1817-1894) paintings in their original frames are actual barn finds, Leigh Keno said when they were offered. Alternate auctioneer Peter Coccoluto looked at Keno in pretend disbelief and asked, "Really? You should see some of what I find in barns." An Artfact bidder took the pair of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction at Pook & Pook
A Chester County, Pennsylvania, Queen Anne tiger maple miniature chest of drawers from the collection of James Sorber had "DC 1764" incised on its top, a cove molding under the top, graduated drawers, bracket feet with center drop, and replaced brasses. It is 201/2" high x 18" wide x 111/2" ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Wrap-up on Auction Contracts
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittSince the beginning of summer, we have been examining various facets of the consignment-to-auction process. The unfortunate truth is that many consignors lack the knowledge and experience needed to maneuver over and around the numerous challenges that stand like deadfalls along the path to making ... (Read More)
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(Show)Celebrating 30 Years - Western Reserve Academy Antiques Festival
Cloudy weather was actually the perfect atmosphere to shop the booths of more than 75 dealers on September 5, Labor Day, in Hudson, Ohio. ... (Read More)
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(Show)USArtists
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York City, offered Portrait of General Otho Holland Williams (1749-1794) by Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), painted in 1782 and modified in 1788, 223/4" x 193/4", for $650,000.Jonathan Boos, New York City and Bloomfield Village, Michigan, offered Birmingham Meetinghouse by Horace Pippin (1888-1946), a 16" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)More Fresh Discoveries at Solid African-American Art Sale
Work by Charles White (1918-1979) sold to a collector for $306,000 (est. $200,000/250,000). The drawing in Wolff crayon and charcoal on board is 44" x 28" and dates from 1953.A pair of untitled gouaches of card players by Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000)-panels from a folding screen-sold in one lot to a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Labor Day Weekend Auction
Polar bear full-body taxidermy mount on an ice-form base, $7050.Monumental ship's clock, Chelsea Clock Company, Boston, early 20th century, 16" silver dial, 183/4" red brass case, $18,800.Adolph Robert Shulz (1869-1963) springtime landscape with a barn and wagon, signed, oil on canvas, 30" x 36" plus carved and painted frame, $12,925.Cased ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charles Willson Peale Painting of Freed Slave Acquired by PMA
by Lita Solis-CohenPortrait of Yarrow Mamout (Muhammad Yaro), 1819, Charles Willson Peale (1741-1827), oil on canvas, 24" x 20". Philadelphia Museum of Art.The portrait of Yarrow Mamout, an African-American, painted in 1819 by Charles Willson Peale, was bought by the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) from the cash-strapped Philadelphia History ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Art 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)Fraud and Floor Plans
Software drawing of an antiques show floor plan. A perspective view is inset.Computer Column #276by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netSoftware is available for drawing floor plans of antiques shows or shops. First, some reminders on Internet privacy.-Internet FraudWe are all familiar with on-line fraud, especially in e-mail. Not a day goes ... (Read More)
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(Feature)September Jewelry Auctions
The top lot of Sotheby's September 20 auction was this circa 1928 Cartier tutti-frutti 7" long platinum, carved colored stone, diamond, and enamel bracelet. Thirteen bidders edged it to far past its $200,000/300,000 estimate, and it sold for $842,500 to the "international trade," according to a press release. With carved ... (Read More)
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(Show)Country Living Fair
The entrance to Country Living Fair saw constant traffic all three days.Cari Cucksey of HGTV's Cash & Cari (in the jacket) had her hands full at Country Living Fair in Ohio Village in Columbus in September. When she wasn't busy signing autographs (often on items people had purchased), Cucksey was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lambert-Pain Auction
Hanover, Ontario, dealer Dieter Sebastian paid $11,550 for a rare large, round chair table with a 5' width from a Quaker settlement near Uxbridge, Ontario. It was circa 1825 and had a three-board scrub top, a stretcher-base chair on turned legs, and original red finish. Pain collection.Mike Scott was seeking ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Teamsters Picket Sotheby's During Americana Auction
Mark Keenen pickets outside Sotheby's in New York City.by Lita Solis-CohenSotheby's art handlers, members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters 814, have been bargaining for a new contract since May. When contract talks expired on July 30, and the Teamsters threatened to strike, Sotheby's locked out the 42 art handlers ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: All Debts, Public and Private
We've become accustomed to onerous secondhand dealers laws enacted by municipalities in an effort to stop trade in stolen goods. The laws, often called "pawnshop" laws, require extensive recordkeeping and the collecting of information about sellers. They are well intentioned but often end up sweeping antiques dealers into a nightmare ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Dick and Scott Ferris, J & R Ferris Antiques, Boonville, New York
Scott and Dick Ferris.Three pieces of headgear, from left: militia or political campaign hat from the 1840's, $1900; American militia dragoon helmet from the 1850's, $5300; and American chapeau, probably militia, from the 1820's, trimmed in ribbon with a repeat eagle pattern, $2150. Dick said, "Decorators love things like this. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, ianmckay1@btinternet.comBronze head of a man from the era of the Roman "Soldier Emperors," 3rd century A.D., sold for $704,620 by Christie's South Kensington. Hellenistic marble head of a girl of the late 3rd-2nd century B.C., sporting a "melon" hairdo, sold for $482,720 at Christie's South Kensington.The carved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sentences Handed Down in Fake Clementine Hunter Case
William Toye, 80, of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, pleaded guilty on June 6 to conspiracy to sell nonauthentic paintings falsely attributed to Clementine Hunter, an African-American folk artist who lived in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana.Toye, his wife, Beryl Anne, 70, and Robert E. Lucky Jr., 64, of New Orleans were named in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Show in Waldoboro
Longtime dealer Guenter Adam of Brunswick, Maine, showed this hand-colored and pencil-signed Art Deco print by Anthony Victor, a contemporary of Louis Icart, The Romance, dated 1934, for $195.Robert T. Foley of Gray, Maine, had this recently acquired sailor's chest with a marine scene of the four-master W. Smith painted ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Silver
This group of tiny silver and enamel carnival figures designed by Gene Moore, New York, circa 1990, a bal masque of five figures, probably prototypes, sold for $40,645 (est. $10,000/15,000) to a private collector. These were not produced by Tiffany, which produced other circus figures by Moore.A group of nine ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Flamingo Eventz Assumes Management of New Jersey Book and Ephemera Fair
Garry Austin of Austin's Antiquarian Books and Tina Bruno of Flamingo Eventz, LLC have reached an agreement for Flamingo to assume management and operation of the annual New Jersey Book and Ephemera Fair. The 20th annual fair will be held December 2 and 3 at the Ramada Hotel & Conference ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Opinion Peace
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIt's happened to all of us. You walk into a show or an auction, you're looking around, and suddenly you see a beautiful Chippendale cupboard. You're looking it over and notice a few things that make you think the feet might be replaced, but the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques, Art & Design at the Armory Gets a Redesign
Interior designers Ellie Cullman and Jamie Drake, cochairs of the design committee, were doing heavy-duty greeting at the preview party.The 19th-century English wooden sculpture of an English terrier with pleading glass eyes ($24,000) looked so cute and cuddly that everybody kept patting it, including Ronnie M. Barokh of Fine Arts ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Marburger Farm Antique Show
Rain clouds rolled in and cooled things off a bit on the afternoon of Marburger Farm Antique Show's opening day.Front and center at the booth of InstallationsAntiques was a 60-year-old American maple butcher's block top attached to a cast-iron table saw base from the 1920's. Priced at $6850, it sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sterling McCall Antiques Showcase
Behind the simple facade of the Sterling McCall Cadillac Museum building is the elegant center Showcase, which was filled with a wide variety of fine antiques.Salado Creek Antiques, Salado, Texas, showed its collection of fine American antique furniture inside the Cadillac Museum for the first time.The historic 1870's Wilhelm Neese ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Boone Provenance Strong Enough to Sell Cupboard at Estate Sale
The Squire Boone corner cupboard, with a date and misspelled signature inside a lower door, sold for $35,000. The cupboard stayed in Corydon. Tree at Edge of Big Indian Creek, a Harrison County landscape, the best of three paintings by Sidney Crosier, oil on board, 12" x 18", $1500.First State ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Late Summer and Early Fall Treasures in New Brunswick
Great form on this early 19th-century kitchen cupboard, but it had been overpainted many times, which kept it at $500. Bond.This table was attributed to Thomas Nisbet, and few would disagree with that attribution. It was in rough condition with a number of alterations, but great form and details lifted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ArtBanc to Launch On-line Trading Platform
by Daniel GrantEvery year, January 1 brings promises of diets and better behavior, but this upcoming new year offers a new on-line "trading platform" for art collectors and sellers that will be set up jointly by the Dallas, Texas-based ArtBanc International and the fine art insurance company Huntington T. Block, ... (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.Mt. Washington and Pairpoint Glass: Volume Two by Kenneth M. Wilson ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The National Academy Museum and School Gets an Artful Renovation
The National Academy Museum, which is at the peak of Manhattan's Museum Mile, is housed in a circa 1901 six-story Beaux Arts townhouse designed by architects Turner & Killian. The museum and its adjoining school have recently undergone a $3.5 million renovation.An American Collection is the first rotation of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cache of Anna Pottery Auctioned
Anna Pottery pig flask, Albany slip glaze, with a caricature of Horace Greeley looking at a hat set up as a rabbit trap with a paddle trigger labeled "Presidency," the hat lettered "Who ever says this is a trap is a liar," 81/4" long, excellent condition, $25,875.Anna Pottery snake jug ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiny Calder Stabile Is Giant at Art Sale
Shoe with Split Heel by Alexander Calder (1898-1976), 1946, 41/2" x 3 3/8" x 21/4", an unsigned painted sheet metal stabile that had been in a private Massachusetts collection since 1967, sold to the trade for $148,125 (est. $30,000/ 50,000). It was the top lot of the sale.Jeune fille assise ... (Read More)
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(Show)Madison-Bouckville Antique Week
A pair of matching bow-back Windsor chairs in very good condition was $1650 from Emele's Antiques, Dublin, Pennsylvania.Antique sporting gear was among the offerings of Thor Konwin of Brandon, Vermont.Barry Ezrin of Moffat, Ontario, was showing an early and rare candle mold that had ceramic tubes. It was all in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont Cabin Fever Show Changes Hands and Date
Jim Dunn, longtime promoter of the Cabin Fever show in Quechee, Vermont, has sold the show. The new owner, dealer Greg Hamilton of Vergennes, Vermont, said he plans no changes, except the show's new date will be Saturday, February 18, to coincide with Presidents' Day weekend."The usual mix of country, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Paint, Pattern, and People
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenPaint, Pattern & People: Furniture of Southeastern Pennsylvania 1725-1850by Wendy A. Cooper and Lisa MinardiWinterthur, distributed by The University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 277 pages, hardbound, $55 plus S/H from Winterthur, (800) 597-2760 or (www.winterthurstore.com).Collectors and those who like to know where things were made and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Hidden Treasure: Art at Risk on American Campuses
Among the Jessie Volk documents and artifacts sold off by the University of Maine were sales records for Volk's Sabatos rug enterprise; a rug loom carved by Karl von Rydingsvard, who taught woodcarving at Volk's home Hewnoaks; and several very rare signed Sabatos rugs, one of which is now in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Casting Call
Boston Casting is holding nationwide auditions for treasure-seeking antiques and collectibles professionals for a new television program from the producers of the PBS series Antiques Roadshow."We're looking beyond the amateur-weekend-flea-market hobbyists for those who really know their stuff," said Boston Casting owner Angela Peri. "We want to cast real pros ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Round Top Antiques Fair
Pen wipes, usually in the likeness of animals, were widely used to wipe ink pens on in the late 1800's. This one is crafted of bronze and boar bristles and was priced by Lorna Rolfe of Merrywood Shoppe, Bastrop, Louisiana, at $265.This lion is way too beautiful to look so ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXI, Keramics 2011, Art Glass 2011
Cowan Jazz bowl designed by Viktor Schreckengost, made circa 1930, marked, 12" high x 161/4" diameter, professional repair to a horseshoe-shaped crack on the base and a tight line on the rim, $60,375.Rookwood Decorated Porcelain vase, Kitaro Shirayamadani, 1927, molded red tulips, green leaves, and stems, 103/4" high, uncrazed, $10,925.Rookwood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Solon and Ford Join Heritage
Deborah Solon and Alissa Ford have joined Heritage Auctions. Solon will be Heritage's West Coast director of American art and will be working out of Heritage's Beverly Hills offices. Ford will act as the company's director of California art and will be stationed in the company's recently opened San Francisco ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction in Kennebunk
Late 19th-century terrestrial globe by A.H. Andrews & Co. of Chicago, $4370.Oval framed oil by Georges Frederic Roetig (1873-1961) of wild boars in winter, $4025.A Mid-Atlantic serpentine bureau with French feet and string inlays along the corners and upper edge fetched $1725.This tall clock by early 19th-century maker Ebenezer Sherburne ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings
The California Lumber Schooner "Mary E. Russ" by Joseph Lee (1827-1880), 32" x 48", sold to a private collector, a southern California doctor who is a regular at Levitt's auctions, for $48,800 (est. $40,000/60,000). Levitt said the price for this painting illustrates the weakening of demand for historical paintings. "The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Transformative Artist Appeals Court Ruling in Copyright Case
by Daniel GrantThe U.S. Court of Appeals will consider an appeal to a district court ruling that appropriation artist Richard Prince violated the copyright of French photographer Patrick Cariou when the artist produced his own collage paintings incorporating Cariou's images of Jamaican Rastafarians. On September 14 the court denied Cariou's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Michael Karberg Joins Morphy's
Antique advertising and character toy expert Michael Karberg has joined Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, as acquisitions associate. Karberg, based in the Chicago area, will represent Morphy's at various shows around the Midwest, including the Indy Ad Show, the Chicago Toy Show, and other events.Married and with two daughters, Karberg ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts at Christie's
This joined and painted oak and pine chest with drawer, 321/2" high x 461/2" wide x 211/2" deep, attributed to Thomas Dennis (1638-1796) of Ipswich, Massachusetts, sold for $506,500 (est. $200,000/400,000) to Todd Prickett in the salesroom, underbid by a phone bidder. According to the catalog, it is the only ... (Read More)
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