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(Feature)New Levels for Americana
John George Brown (1831-1913) painted this oil on canvas of three boys seated on a stoop. The center boy has a cookie and a sandwich, which he is not sharing, and thetitle is The Monopolist. Signed lower right, the 24" x 36" painting sold for $137,275 (est. $35,000/55,000).This carved mahogany ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Hit by a Board
EditorialIn late 2009, the Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers levied hefty fines against longtime Maine auctioneer James Cyr after determining that Cyr had committed violations including slow payments to consignors, faulty paperwork, and failure to comply with a consent agreement that required him to disclose to consignors that his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Henry and a Helmet
by Don JohnsonA First Model Henry rifle, which had been in the same family since it originally sold in 1860, realized $207,000 (includes buyer's premium) during a Cowan's auction of historic firearms and early militaria on October 27 and 28 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The rifle went to a major collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Year of the Quilt at the American Folk Art Museum
by Lita Solis-CohenQuilts will be celebrated as never before on March 25-30, 2011, when for six days the American Folk Art Museum will transform the Park Avenue Armory's 55,000-square-foot Wade Thompson Drill Hall with an installation of more than 650 red and white American quilts, all of which are on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Audubon Collection Sets 18 World Records
Given Neal's past success with Audubon prints, it was not surprising that wellknown dealer/collector W. Graham Arader III would consign this collection in New Orleans. The 64 prints were the largest group of Audubon prints offered on the market since the notable 2004 Sachsen-Meiningen sale at Christie's. Marc Fagan, Neal's ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fall Jewelry Sales in New York City
This circa 1935 platinum, sapphire, and diamond ring set with a sugarloaf cabochon sapphire of approximately 8.5 carats, framed by baguette and round diamonds weighing approximately 2 carats, with calibre-cut sapphires, soared miles beyond its $20,000/30,000 estimate to $296,500. Sotheby's photo.This pair of platinum and diamond ear studs with round ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Old York Antiques Show Catching On
Hamilton and Helen Meserve of RunningBattle Antiques, Newagen, Maine, exhibited inside Jefferds' Tavern, where they have exhibited previously. Said Helen Meserve, "I love the tavern. It suits us. The tavern was built in 1754. Our furniture is mostly eighteenth century, so it works." They offered a circular Georgian 1740 mahogany ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chapman Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Art Sold in Tennessee
Entrance to Magnolia Gardens in Spring, Charleston, S.C. was one of three paintings in the sale by Anthony Thieme (1888-1954), who worked in New York, Massachusetts, and Connecticut but also traveled in Europe and throughout the United States. A regional painting expert called the view "probably the best southern Thieme ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Charles Haver, Roxbury, Connecticut
Charles Haver. The Pennsylvania tall clock is $8500.Interior view of Haver's shop.The Nova Scotia hooked rug with a winter cabin scene is $1250. Haver said, "I sell a lot of rugs; I like hooked rugs." He bought this rug at a country auction and said, "I really wanted it. I ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Expensive Corner Cupboard at Skinner
by David HewettOn Sunday, November 7, Skinner held a particularly heady American furniture and decorative arts sale at its downtown Boston gallery. One observer, noting an apparent uptick in furniture prices, said it was the strongest sale he'd seen in the last five years.A circa 1790 black walnut corner cupboard ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Paintings on Leucadendron Argenteum
Above: "E Plurebus [sic] Unum" with eagle and American flags and "'Jabez Howes'/ San Francisco." Below: "Kind Regards/ From South Africa" with portrait of the ship Jabez Howes (San Francisco).Above: "A Souvenir" with Victorian rose sticker. Below: "Across The Sea/ Remember Me" with a scene of Cape Town harbor and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Vermont Popular with Exhibitors and Customers
Without some missing pieces, it's tough to know exactly what the small wheel or winder in green paint was originally used for, but it sold. Stephen Burkhardt, a first-year exhibitor at the show, was quite pleased with the results.We shot this photo while the customer was literally in the act ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Last of the Young Collectors?
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondNo young collectors are coming to save the marketplace. It's not happening, no matter how long we wait. We've skirted around that issue for a while now, and maybe it's time to put it out there. We realize it's a harsh reality, but ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Kentucky Pottery
$55,200.A cobalt slip-decorated stoneware butter churn sold for $55,200 (includes buyer's premium) at the October 16 sale held by Case Antiques Inc., Auctions & Appraisals in Knoxville, Tennessee. It established a record price for Kentucky pottery at auction. The buyer was the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA).The lug-handled ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Federal Estate and Gift Tax Law Uncertainty
by Daniel GrantFor art collectors-and other wealthy individuals-trying to cope with the uncertainty of current federal estate and gift tax law, these are the best of times and the worst too.They are the worst for people trying to plan ahead, since Congress may write new limits for tax rates and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Janet L. Ennis Charitable Trust for Animals Auction
Howard Finster (1916-2001) mountain goat wood cutout decorated with paint and marker, 1993, inscribed "30.000.690 works since 1976/ by Howard Finster from God/ Aug. 31 1993 God Bless you All/ The Further you get from God/ the closer you get to Hell" on reverse, 121/2" high, $413.Frederick S. Beaumont (1861-1934), ... (Read More)
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(Show)Let the Fall Antiquing Season Begin in Pennsylvania
Harry Hartman of Marietta, Pennsylvania, asked $55,000 for the miniature Soap Hollow lift-top chest initialed "JKM" and dated "1851."A collection of five early tin heart-in-hand cookie cutters was $4500 from Art and Alice Booth.York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassMelvin Arion's Original York Antiques Show & Sale, held semiannually, is the largest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)East Meets West Down South
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisianaby Karla Klein AlbertsonPhotos courtesy New Orleans Auction GalleriesNear the end of the catalog lurked the top lot, Return of the Flock, 1887, by French artist Albert Charpin (1842-1924). The painting doubled its estimate to sell for $36,900.With strong Asian interest in the air, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Robert Lloyd's Private Exhibition
Robert Lloyd in the Presidential Suite of Boston's Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, where his private exhibition took place. Located on the 15th floor, the suite has a living room, kitchen, three bedrooms, five marble bathrooms, and private office, seen through the French doors in the background. "The last suite ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealers Donate $1000 to Pueblo
"Hailstorm leaves Kewa Pueblo in ruin, forces evacuations. Families evacuate as mold seeps into damaged homes," was the headline for a story in the Santa Fe New Mexican on October 10. Members of the Antique Tribal Art Dealers Association (ATADA) reacted by donating $1000 to help the rebuilding process.Kewa Pueblo ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lower Prices for Atlantic City Show
In March, JMK Shows, managed by Allison Kohler, was selected by the Atlantic City Convention Center to revive the Atlantic City Antiques & Collectibles Show. According to Kohler, almost 5000 people attended the initial 250-dealer show.Convention center executives, Atlantic City Convention & Visitors Bureau officials, and JMK Shows have coordinated ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books for Children
by Celia BriggsAs the holidays approach with their associated retail frenzy, M.A.D. suggests a few titles for those on your list who are too young for Limoges or Lalique. The right book is always a safe gift. The following list offers ideas with an antiques or historical connection for the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Green Family Auction: No String Too Short to Save
The top lot of the entire four-day sale, going at $38,940 (est. $200/400), was a surprise to everyone. It was this 18th-century illuminated manuscript on vellum in Hebrew. "I bet we had ten calls on it from Israel," Richard Oliver said. "Then we had a raft of calls from all ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Will the Real John Adams Please Stand Up?
by David A. SperlingThis article will examine six Federal tall-case clocks created in "East" New Jersey during the first quarter of the 19th century. These clocks are all characterized by the cabinetmaker's use of intricate and unusual case inlay. Most have a Scudder-type broken-arch pediment and a well-executed fan inlaid ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nelson & Nelson Antiques Opens in the Pierre Hotel
The new location for Nelson & Nelson Antiques is The Pierre Hotel, 2 East 61st Street at Fifth Avenue, New York City. It's the only retail establishment in the prestigious hotel. The Nelsons will showcase antique American, English, European, and Oriental sterling silver, plus a new selection of fine antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Group Shop Closes in Troy, New York
by David HewettAnother casualty in the contracting antiques market took place in New York's Capitol District recently. On Sunday, October 10, Bournebrook Antique Center in Troy was open for business from noon to 5 p.m. and then closed its doors forever.Bournebrook, at the heart of the downtown antiques district at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marigold People's Vase Brings $80,000
This People's vase in marigold sold to a Wooster, Ohio, collector for $80,000, making it the top price of the auction. The vase is the only one of eight known in marigold. The last People's vase at auction was sold in 2009, when a purple radium example with a mold ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indian Hill Antiques Fair
The Victorian drop-leaf table in walnut with eight leaves, 11'8" long when extended, Ohio, circa 1880, was $2650 from Littleton Kirkpatrick III of Kirtland, Ohio. The set of six half-arrow-back Windsor chairs with original stencil and paint decoration, Pennsylvania, circa 1830, was $1200, and the set of six Sheraton chairs ... (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.Harmony in Wood: Furniture of the Harmony Society by Philip D. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Museum Rebound
by Daniel GrantIn 2008 and 2009, the museum world held its breath as institutions cut back on hours, staff, and programming, raised admissions, looked to sell objects from their collections in order to pay for operations, or just closed for good. In 2010, museums largely exhaled. The steps taken in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In Tune: Americana Sale at Garth's
Slant-front desk in tiger maple with stepped and detailed interior, inlaid lid, probably Pennsylvania, late 18th or early 19th century, some repairs, appears to have been a four-drawer case converted to three drawers, $19,975.Queen Anne tavern table in maple with an oval top and slightly splayed base, old (if not ... (Read More)
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(Show)On the Fields of Liberty
"It's the best example of an Old Hickoryfootstool I've found," said Tom Ineson, a.k.a. Tom the Picker, of Mill Spring, North Carolina. The footstool was marked "Old Hickory Chair Co." on one leg and had its original weaving with a double-woven underside. Ineson wanted $160 for it.Dad's Follies had thousands ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Martin Mystique: Americana at Christie's
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Christie's"Collecting is a youthful activity practiced by the old," wrote Alastair Bradley Martin in the introduction to the catalog that was published when part of his collection was exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1982. Martin called ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: The Crosby Garrett Helmet, dug in pieces from a muddy Cumbrian field in May and sold by Christie's South Kensington for $3,629,470 in London in October.Dug Up in May, Sold for $3.63 Million in October...Six months ago, the remarkable Roman parade helmet seen at right was ... (Read More)
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(Show)Great Fall Weekend Sparks Strong Historic Deerfield/ADA Show
Jeffrey Tillou Antiques, Litchfield, Connecticut, asked $22,500 for the George III camelback sofa, 93" long, with carved blind fretwork legs and wonderful original needlework (with some restoration).You can pick out an Artemis Gallery boothfrom across a room. North Salem, New York, dealer Jesse Goldberg always presents a carefully arranged selection ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Antique Stocking Stuffers Show
The Greenwich Civic Center in Old Greenwich, Connecticut, will be stuffed with a thousand feet of treasures this year when the Antique Stocking Stuffers Show and Sale returns to that venue on Sunday, December 19.Don't expect to find furniture at this show. It's limited to antique, estate, and vintage costume ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Bully Good" Shotgun Brings $862,500
$862,500. Julia photo. by Mark SiscoJames D. Julia's firearms auction in Fairfield, Maine, on October 5 and 6 came just short of totaling $10 million gross. An American shotgun, an F grade A.H. Fox 12-bore, serial number 13292, presented by Ansley Fox to Theodore Roosevelt, sold for $862,500 (includes buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques I Have Known
by Jerry DavisIt looked so forlorn when I spied it on the table of a careless dealer who had not taken it in the night before. Left out for the dew to condense on its leather covering, it was a miniature trunk, made about 175 years ago of rough pine, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hidden Gems at August Auction
Further research could very well reveal the full identity of the artist "Hansen" and establish the authenticity of this 51/2" x 41/2" oil on metal portrait, possibly of Caroline Bonaparte. If truly of her, it was a winner at $600.This late autumn oil on canvas by Indiana artist Claude Curry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco and Los Angeles, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy Bonhams & ButterfieldsScot Levitt, Bonhams & Butterfields California and Western paintings specialist, said that his August 17 and 18 auction "continued the trend of the last few sales. We sold about eighty percent, including post-auction sales, both by ... (Read More)
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(Show)Folk Fest Meets Expectations
Offered by Le Primitif Galleries, this untitled piece portrays women at market. By Haitian artist Claude Dambreville, it was $600.The floatplane and canoe combination is typical of the early work of Canadian artist Scott Griffin of Minivan Gallery andwas $900. Griffin creates the images by placing welding material on found ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Mobile Apps and On-Line Databases
A cell phone accessing auction data. Courtesy Christie's Images.Computer Column #263by John P. Reid, e-mail: jreid@dca.netTwo topics will be covered: mobile applications for antiquers and on-line databases.But first, a correction. In column 260, "Antiquing Around the World-On Line," we wondered whether Becca Gauldie Antiques (www.beccagauldie.com) is actually in Scotland. Gauldie ... (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.First Impressions: Nineteenth-Century American Master Prints by Alicia G. Longwell (Parrish ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kaufman IV Toy Auction Ups the Score at $1.6 Million
A tour de force, this American National deluxe coupe, circa 1925, 69" long, sold for $46,000. Madaline Friz photo.The top lot in the Disney segment was not a windup or a doll but a 1934 Mickey Mouse merchandise catalog-Disney's first. Contained in the 9" x 12" catalog were all the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art and Antiques Insurance--Know What Is and Is Not Covered
by David HewettIn one of our previous stories about the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries collapse and the subsequent arrest and jailing of its owner (May 2010, p. 33-A), it was noted that the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Maryland against AXA Art Insurance Corporation, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Berks County, Pennsylvania, Schrank Sells for $818,500
by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Pook & Pook.A colorful Berks County sponge-painted schrank in a small, desirable size (81" high x 60" wide) and in exceptionally good condition sold for $818,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Pook & Pook's auction of the collection of Richard and Joane Smith on October 30 in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Some Pig: "Charlotte's Web" Cover Art Brings $155,350
The original 1952 cover art for the best-selling children's book Charlotte's Web by E.B. White brought $155,350 (includes buyer's premium) on October 15 at Heritage Auction Galleries' illustration art sale in New York City.The auction was Heritage's second-highest-grossing auction of illustration art since the inception of the category, tallying $3.75 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Copley and Keno in January
by Jeanne SchintoLeigh Keno is part of a new matched pair. He and Stephen B. O'Brien Jr. of Boston's Copley Fine Art Auctions are having back-to-back sales in New York City in mid-January 2011. A jointly issued press release stated their intent was to "to kick off Americana Week."The back ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Langlais, Brooks, Yes! Thieme, No.
If ever there was a wooden cat sculpture that screamed "Bernard Langlais," this is it, but Gamage sold it as "attributed to" because he didn't acquire it directly from the artist's estate. It sold for $990. "It wasn't in the house, and we couldn't find it signed," Gamage said. "But ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blunt and Hartwell Lead Foster Auction
An oil on canvas portrait of a lady in black dripping with jewelry and seated on a red couch was attributed to John Samuel Blunt and brought $20,900.A primitive oil on canvas portrait solidly attributed to George G. Hartwell (1815-1901) of a young gentleman in three-quarter pose, with several style ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
This group of dolls from the collection of Pat Hatch was priced at $2700 for the group at J. Compton Gallery,Wimberly, Texas.Terry Schurmeier, who owns Cowboys and Indians Antiques on Central Avenue in Albuquerque, was asking $28,000 for the pair of ram and ewe kachina dolls made by Jimmy Koots.Jan ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Jonathan Fisher House Antique Show
A new book by CUNY professor Kevin D. Murphy, Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine: Commerce, Culture, and Community on the Eastern Frontier, published by University of MassachusettsPress, was $49.95 at the Jonathan Fisher House booth.This cribbage board with a drawer for the pegs was $875 from Patricia Stauble of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The National Museum of American Illustration Celebrates Tenth Anniversary
Newport, Rhode Islandby Lita Solis-CohenThe exhibition Norman Rockwell and his Mentor J.C. Leyendecker begins in the loggia. The ceiling panels were painted by muralist James Wall Finn of Tiffany Studios. They were restored over two summers by conservators from Winterthur and from Paris.Two Santas. Left, J.C. Leyendecker's 1918 Santa, wearing ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
A field of soybeans banked the white tent that is the trademark of the Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale.The tent housed the majority of the dealers.Found in the booth of Deborah FisherAntiques, Lebanon, Ohio, were a two-drawer, two-door jelly cupboard in original red wash, $2800; a bulk garden ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Mythbuster
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittThere are myths in auctions that some auctioneers don't recognize. An "auction with reserve" seems like a simple concept, but its nuances cause confusion for many. I'm reminded of that whenever I address an audience of auctioneers on the subject, as I did recently while ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Joe Lincoln Widgeon Drake Highlights Decoy Sale
A rigmate pair of mergansers with slightly turned heads by Keyes Chadwick of Oak Bluff, Martha's Vineyard, sold for $19,550 (est. $11,000/14,000). The hen had a crack on the underside, and they both had some light discoloration to their original paint.A decorative preening old squaw drake with lifted wings by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Asian Art Strong at Chicago Auction
These handsome George II painted and parcel-gilt pedestals sold for $6710 the pair. Hindman photo.The pair of Neoclassical cast metal urns sold for $2928. Fitting for midsummer, the sale had a good amount of outdoor and garden ornamentation. Hindman photo.The Chinese oil on canvas of Hong Kong harbor, measuring almost ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Difficulties in Overseas Transactions
by Daniel GrantThe Asian art and antiques sales at Eldred's in East Dennis, Massachusetts, generally have gone quite well-with occasional exceptions. Some of the mainland Chinese buyers, who may not have read the contract when they registered to bid, or perhaps didn't understand what they read, as soon as they ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Thomas R. Longacre Antiques, Marlborough, New Hampshire
Beverly Weir-Longacre and Tom Longacre.The Marlborough, New Hampshire, cape where Tom Longacre has lived since the 1970's was built by a schoolteacher named Levi Gates who, coincidentally, came from Marlboro, Massachusetts. Lumber for the 1795 house was cut and milled on the property, and the granite foundation blocks were quarried ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Seibert Joins Cordier Part Time
by Lita Solis-CohenPeter Seibert, who served as president of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County Inc. from 1993 to 2008 and is currently the executive director of the National Council for History Education, has a weekend job as a consultant and catalog specialist at Cordier Antiques & Auctions in Camp ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Impressive Decoy Sale Yields Positive Results
This Canada goose in hissing pose by George H. Boyd (1873-1941) of Seabrook, New Hampshire, was from the Carter collection. It has a crooked neck, strongly turned head, and canvas over frame body construction. One of three known examples, it is illustrated on the cover of Jim Cullen's recently published ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show
A circa 1910 Santo Domingo bowl was priced at $18,500 at Michael D. Higgins & Son, Tucson, Arizona.Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanThe Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is always beautiful to look at, but the 32nd annual, held August 15-17, seemed to be more ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fall Americana Sales
Parkman-Scollay family bombe chest of drawers, $782,500. Sotheby's photo.Chester County wainscot chair that descended in the Lewis family, $77,025. Pook & Pook photo.Connecticut "sunflower" chest, possibly by Peter Blin, $482,500. Christie's photo.by Lita Solis-CohenAmericana sales in New York City at Christie's and Sotheby's have long been considered seasonal barometers of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gaining Positive Momentum
The award for "Best in Auction" goes to this Tiffany "Aladdin" lamp with a Favrile glass shade that brought $8550. The shade is signed, and "Tiffany Studios New York 575" is impressed on the base. The central oil font is inscribed with swirling arabesques. The shade measures 10" in diameter, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)What Bad Economy? New Auction Records for Vintage Posters
Bidders vied heavily for this conditionA 48" x 36" Mather work incentive paper poster from 1925 by an unknown designer with a hospital theme (better to view a poster than the inside of an ambulance or a hospital room), which brought the auction's second-highest price at $11,400 from a collector ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Sells China Trade and Marine Americana
This tooth is from the scrimshaw collection of Thomas H. Gosnell of Rochester, New York, and Nantucket, Massachusetts, who died in April 2009. He was active in land preservation efforts in Nantucket and in New York state and a supporter of and donor to historical societies and educational institutions. This ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Please Touch!
by Jeanne SchintoSensory Marketing: Research on the Sensuality of Productsedited by Aradhna KrishnaRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009, 392 pages, softbound, $39.95, or hardbound, $79, from Taylor & Francis, (800) 634-7064 or (www.taylorandfrancis.com).Give him a tap with your fingernail.Muhlbach does so. The tiny statue rings like porcelain...Muhlbach picks up the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Deaccessioning Regulations Expire
by Betty FloodThe New York State Board of Regents voted to let museum deaccessioning regulations, which were set in 2006, expire as of October 8, according to staff members who attended the meeting on September 14. According to Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-Staten Island) and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester), when proponents ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Nantucket
The top lot of the sale was this unsigned oil on canvas portrait by British artist George Chinnery (1774-1852). According to catalog notes, Chinnery was the only western painter of his time to make his home in southern China, in Macao and Canton. He began painting in London and Ireland, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Quite a Show Ends with Quite a Blow
All lined up in the booth of DebraElizabeth Schaffer of Wiscasset, Maine: a four-sided glass and tin candle lantern, $45; a rare oil lamp with the original blown and bubbled glass, framed by pierced and painted tin, $675; and a lighthouse-form teapot with remnants of black paint, $175."I've been battling ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Adirondack Museum Show
Ross Brothers, Hatfield, Massachusetts, offered a black canoe by Brodeck for $9500, a red canoe from Charles River for $6800, a circa 1910 silver and red canoe by an unknown maker for $1900, a 1920'swooden canoe by William English for $4900, and a green canoe by Robertson for $5000.Tom Baker ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: What's It Worth?
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondAs expected, we get that "What's it worth?" question on a constant basis. There are other versions, but the underlying question and expectation is the same: give me a dollar value. And we do that on a constant basis too, but after listening to a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brown Brings Green
John George Brown, Young Aspiring Sailor, signed "J.G. Brown N.A." and dated 1883, numbered No. 52444 on a paper label affixed to the back, oil on canvas, 25" x 20", $192,950. Weschler's photo.Paintings by John George Brown (1831-1913) that were the cover lots at Weschler's in Washington, D.C., and at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Expensive Jade and "That" Outfit
White jade table screen, Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-96). The arched rectangular panel is finely carved with two oarsmen in a boat with a deer and a basket of flowers in a mountainous waterscape with a pavilion in the distance. The reverse is carved with pine and bamboo with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Record Set at Summer Americana Auction
"It's a new world record for a Cahoon," said a pleased Bob Eldred after selling the fabulous and folky Shocking Incident at the Boston Public Garden by Cape Cod artist Ralph Eugene Cahoon. The 32" x 391/2" oil on masonite opened at $60,000 and generated lots of action from the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Art at Northeast Auctions
This sperm whale's tooth was "Engraved by Fred-K Myrick on Board of the Susan of Nantucket on September the 1st, 1829." The article "Making Sense of Susan Teeth and Frederick Myrick" by Ken Martin in the October 1998 issue of Maine Antique Digest (text available on line) and his 2000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ultimate Elvis Auction
The singer loved heavyweight gold rings. This example combines an ancient Roman-type relief head, added diamonds, and a nugget setting. In town for the auction, a Las Vegas collector of Elvis jewelry won the item at $38,837.50. Heritage photo.Pretty in a dangerous way, the rising star showed a hip sense ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Ellsworth Antiques Show
Martin J. Ferrick of Lincolnville, Maine, asked $1950 for the four-drawer chest (left) made of tupelo wood, which he said is found in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and onMartha's Vineyard. Chestnut is the secondary wood with backboards of pine. The New England Hepplewhite fourdrawerchest of tiger maple and cherry was found ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rose Valley Restorations Expands Operations
Rose Valley Restorations (RVR) has moved from a cramped 18th-century carriage house to a 3000-square-foot facility in the heart of West Chester, Pennsylvania. The official restorer of the Chester County and Delaware antiques shows, RVR is owned and operated by master craftsman John Hutchinson, who opened shop in Prescott Alley, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealers File Lawsuit over Fire
A devastating fire in the early morning hours of July 29, 2008 in Northeast Harbor, Maine, required the assistance of ten fire departments from surrounding towns in addition to all three towns and their hamlets on Mount Desert Island itself. Among the buildings affected was the Joy Building on Main ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Painting Stars at Annual Summer Auction
The star of the sale was consigned by a North Dakotan. Bateaux Bleus (Blue Boats) by Zao Wou-Ki (Chinese, born1921), a 27" x 17" oil on canvas, signed and dated May 1952, had been reproduced in color in the December 1952 issue of Vogue. It opened at $50,000 and rose ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Banner Day
Here are three of the 17 silk trade banners that sold individually for a total of $125,350 and then were offered collectively, with no further bidders. Each of them measured about 35" x 40". Top left, a shipbuilder's banner, fringed with a later addition of red yarn, with a painting ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic New England Awards Annual Book Prize
Historic New England has awarded its 16th annual Book Prize to Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850 by Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien.Harbor & Home presents informative essays and catalog entries that explore the lifestyle of southeastern Massachusetts and the variety of furniture craftsmanship in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Quality, Not Quantity, at the Maine Antiques Festival
Harry Hepburn of Harrison, Maine, explained, "This clock is the rarest of the 'ripple' clocks. It's a miniature. It's a signed dial, J.C. Brown, Forestville, totally original." It was priced at $3750. "I have never had a preshow like I had last night," he said happily. "I sold a desk, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Frank Vining Smith--A Boswell to a Vanishing Saga
by A.J. Peluso, Jr.Frank Vining Smith: Maritime Painting in the 20th Centuryby James A. CraigHard Press Editions, in association with Hudson Hills Press, 2010, 172 pages, 167 illustrations (85 in full color), hardbound, $65.The cover illustration shows the packet ship Dreadnought, 1946, oil on board, 24" x 30".Frank Vining Smith ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
The Baltimore show filled the convention center for the 30th year. It has become far more elegant than it was for its first quarter-century. It has white carpets, spacious aisles, and wooden walls-not much pipe and drape. It is an upscale show, which pleased some dealers and made others nostalgic ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This month's column turned out to be an all-ceramic exercise. In last month's tail-end feature, "The Shape of Things to Come," I illustrated and briefly described items drawn from two major London ceramic sales-the early English delft and slipwares from Syd Levethan's remarkable Longridge collection and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Director for Victoria Mansion
Thomas B. Johnson is the new director of the Victoria Mansion in Portland, Maine. Johnson, who joined the museum on September 1, brings over 30 years of experience in museums and historic preservation.A graduate of American University, with an M.A. in American and New England studies from the University of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rarest Cent Sells for $1.7 Million
by David HewettWith most Americans looking at alarming losses in their retirement accounts, perhaps it would be best for some of you to skip the following report. Can you stand to hear about a coin valued at one cent in 1943 that brought a $1,699,999.99 return 67 years later?On September ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mid-Century Modern Sells in Middleboro
Kathryn Black and John White, owners of White's Auctions in Middleboro, Massachusetts, stand behind the George Nakashima slab coffee table. Sideli photo.This rare and desirable George Nakashima American black walnut slab coffee table, an elegant free-form top on a bracket base, measuring 40" long x 18" tall, sold after competitive ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction for Andrew Wyeth Memorial Endowment
Jamie Wyeth, Portrait of Andrew Wyeth, 1969, oil on canvas, 24" x 32". (c)Jamie Wyeth. It's estimated at $1/2 million.From November 8 through 29, Adelson Galleries in New York City will host an on-line auction of art in support of the Farnsworth Art Museum's campaign for the Andrew Wyeth Memorial ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Bronzes Fly at Late Summer Auction
Chinese gilded bronze censer, Ming Dynasty, $124,200.Chinese oval bronze brazier, 17th century, $36,800.Thomaston Auction Galleries has compiled an impressive record of selling the marine paintings of contemporary British artist Derek G.M. Gardner (1914-2007); some of their prices approached or topped those achieved by Christie's or Bonhams. This 231/2" x 351/2" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Auction Bill Vetoed
by Betty FloodNew York Governor David A. Paterson has vetoed legislation that would have created statewide auction requirements by extending the current strict and effective consumer protection provisions that regulate the practices of auctioneers in New York City to counties statewide with a population of 200,000 or more.The legislation, which ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diamond Jewelry Sales Exceeding Expectations Here and Abroad
This signed antique Tiffany & Co. carved moonstone brooch, depicting the man in the moon, is framed by old-European-cut diamonds. With an approximate total weight of 3.50 carats and on a platinum and 18k gold mount, 1" in diameter, it rose above the $10,000/15,000 estimate to realize $20,145. Skinner.This 14k ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Federation of Historical Bottle Collectors Show
Eight Lightning quart canning jars, all in different colors, $3750 from Robert Christ of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.Three-sided KT2 poison bottle in cobalt, $2650; cathedral pickle in light emerald green, $3250; and Constitutional bitters in citron, $4500, from Howard Crowe of Crowe's Bottles, Gold Hill, North Carolina.From Ferdinand and Elizabeth Meyer of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Upstairs, Downstairs on Cape Cod
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(Feature)Editorial: Zoning Out
In 2006, the City Council of Everett, Washington, passed a zoning ordinance that created so-called "retail streets" in the downtown area. The idea was to create a pedestrian-friendly area, concentrating retail activity into a small area. City leaders hoped to attract throngs of window-shoppers strolling by the storefronts. Some retail ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gould Auction Company: Paint, Paint, and More Paint
This painted New Hampshire chest, stenciled in red on a chrome yellow background with illustrations of a two-story house, a cross, and lots of trees and foliage, sold for $8337.50.Cherry red painted Maine cutlery tray with a tall handle and a heart cutout, $4025.A richly colored hooked rug reading "Welcome ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sleigh Estate Sale
This rare redware slip-decorated plate depicting a stylized tulip has a slightly coggled edge and very vivid green and yellow slip decoration. It generated a buzz when it appeared. A private collector paid $20,000 for it. The underbidder was Bucks County, Pennsylvania, collector Paul Flack, who attributed the plate to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Stoneware Churn Brings $34,650
Miniature (5" tall) butter churn, complete with original decorated churn guide and wood dasher, 1870, impressed "James O'Hara/ Picton," the interior glazed with brown Albany slip, $34,650. There is an old, large rim chip on the back and old, small chips on the front. There is a glaze flake at ... (Read More)
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