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(Fragment)Dealer Pleads Guilty
On July 13 a Birmingham, Michigan, art dealer agreed to plead guilty to defrauding more than ten customers who had entrusted her with the sale of their art, worth over $1.5 million, according to United States Attorney Dawn N. Ison.
Wendy Halstead Beard, 58, pleaded guilty to one count of wire ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nye Gets $10,625 for Grand Harmonicon
The most unusual item in the September 13 sale at Nye & Co., Bloomfield, New Jersey, was a Grand Harmonicon labeled by Francis Hopkinson Smith of Baltimore. It sold for $10,625 (includes buyer's premium), well above the $3000/5000 estimate.
Smith (1792-1872) was living in Eastville, Northampton County, Virginia, in 1825 when ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Busy Autumn at Hindman: Important Jewels and the Winds of Change
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
Ruth Thuston, G.G., senior specialist of jewelry and watches at Hindman, Chicago, Illinois, spoke with me after Hindman's September 12 "Important Jewelry" sale, which featured a plethora of antique pieces from named and unnamed collections. "There was a Miami collection, and there was a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$650,000 Artwork Leads to Lawsuit
On July 17 London's Maddox Fine Art Ltd. filed a suit in federal court in Florida claiming it had been duped into buying a $650,000 Keith Haring painting the gallery alleges is fake. The gallery says Ghada Dergham of Tequesta, Florida, has refused to issue a refund.
Dergham, a "well-known private ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Storm Cancels Weston Antiques Show
When an unprecedented storm inundated the state of Vermont July 10, the village of Weston and many other communities suffered extreme damage. The Weston Playhouse, the main stage for the Weston Theater Company and home to the Weston Antiques Show, was badly hit. In spite of shutters, windows were breached, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana and More at Lebanon Show
Lebanon Antique Show, Lebanon, Ohio
The Lebanon Antique Show was held September 9 and 10 on the Warren County Fairgrounds in Lebanon, Ohio. Described as the state's longest-running antiques show, the event is a fund-raiser for the Warren County Historical Society.
The show featured 35 booths. Promoter John Wanat lost five dealers, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Leland Little's Signature Fall Sale
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
Before his 275-lot fall "Signature" auction September 9, Leland Little reflected on the future of the antiques auction business. "I'm looking forward, not back," he said. "The best is yet to come as baby boomers begin to downsize." Most of that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2023
An outrageously overloaded American penknife and an aged, indeed historic, tennis racquet are among the more unusual artefacts featured in this month's "Letter," along with a curious wooden fish-though more traditional fare also finds a place.
That racquet was offered in a sports memorabilia auction in June that also included a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collier Gwin Agrees to Community Service Deal
The video of art dealer Collier Gwin of San Francisco, California, spraying a homeless woman with a garden hose on January 9 went viral on the Internet, and charges soon followed. Gwin, an art gallery owner and 42-year resident of San Francisco, was charged with misdemeanor battery.
On July 10 a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)On the Oregon Trail
Beneath the Surface
In 2016, not long after Andrew hung out his shingle as an independent appraiser, a college friend reached out to see if he could help her father with his coin collection. Her dad was aging (as parents tend to do) and wanted to make a plan for his ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Was It Patrick Henry's Pine Press?
In May 2023 the antiques community was introduced to an unassuming and previously unidentified piece of case furniture (see M.A.D., August, p. 164), a shallow, one-piece storage cabinet, popularly referred to as a "press."
The 78" x 481/2" x 14" press is constructed entirely of yellow pine and exhibits an overall ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Love and Desire
Some enchanted evening, when you find your true love, When you hear her call you across a crowded room, Then fly to her side and make her your own, Or all through your life you may dream all alone. Once you have found her, never let her go, Once you ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rhinebeck Antiques Show Discovery: Resurrecting James S. Conover & Co. and Finding a Mystery
It was a bright but unseasonably cold day in the Hudson Valley on Memorial Day weekend 2021. As I have for some 15 years, I eagerly headed to Antiques at Rhinebeck. One never knows what treasures will turn up at this fabulous show. This was the first in-person Rhinebeck show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Family Reunion
Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
Photos courtesy Poulin Antiques & Auctions
It was like a step back in time. On August 29 Poulin Antiques & Auctions hosted a "Premier Major Summer Antique Auction" at its facility in Fairfield, Maine, the old headquarters of James D. Julia Auctions. Nick Poulin, president ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kornhauser Joins The Olana Partnership
Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, currently the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, has retired from her position and joined The Olana Partnership as consulting senior curator and chair of The Church 200 Committee, effective August 1.
Dr. Kornhauser will lead planning efforts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Sale in Rockland
Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maine
When the auctioneer approached the dais to sell the first lot at Bruce Gamage's small end-of-summer auction August 28 at the Elks Lodge in Rockland, Maine, there was applause.
The auctioneer for the first lot wasn't Gamage. Instead, it was former Gardiner, Maine, auctioneer Tim Gould, who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Oversupply, Under Demand
Ledbetter Folk Art Auction, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Folk Art Auction
Auctioneer Matt Ledbetter takes chances on relatively unknown North Carolina artists. In December 2021 he brought 19 "Creatures of the Night" totems by the reclusive Alton "Otto" Long to his Gibsonville, North Carolina, auction house. All of them sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inness Painting the Top Lot in $2.17 Million Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
The three-day sale held by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, August 25-27 pulled in about $2.17 million for 1335 lots. It was another marathon sale put on by owner and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux and his staff.
George Inness (1825-1894), ... (Read More)
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(Show)Country Farm Antiques Show
Casey, Illinois
In its fourth year, the Country Farm Antiques Show was held August 26 in Casey, Illinois. The venue, Richards Farm Restaurant, housed about two dozen dealers. "It went really well. Three or four of the dealers said they had their best show there to date," said Kim Groothuis, who ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with James L. Kochan
Historian, archaeologist, outdoorsman, scholar, gentleman-all are appropriate descriptives for dealer James L. Kochan, who for the last seven years has been based in Wiscasset, Maine.
Before his move north, the former museum and national park director and curator lived in the Washington, D.C., area, most recently in Frederick, Maryland, where he ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ammi Phillips Is Subject of New Play
The prolific folk portraitist Ammi Phillips has been gone for 158 years, but he was brought back to life this summer by the Thrown Stone Theatre Company's world premiere production of Seven Cousins for a Horse. Set in the small town of Colebrook, Connecticut, in 1848, the play depicts seven ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques and Artifacts at Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Marion Antique Auctions offered a two-day auction August 19 and 20 in its Marion, Massachusetts, gallery that ran the gamut of antiques and artifacts. The first day began with a group of etchings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) from an area ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Artists with Maine Ties Dominate
Barridoff Auctions, South Portland, Maine
Photos courtesy Barridoff Auctions
On August 19 Barridoff Auctions held its summer art auction under a tent on the lawn right outside the auction firm's facility in South Portland, Maine. Auctioneer Peter Coccoluto was brought in to wield the gavel. The sale's top lots were largely by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 2023
Rodney Smith (1947-2016), Three Men with Shears No. 1, Reims, France, 1997, gelatin silver print, 10 9/16" x 13". Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine. Gift of Leslie Smolan, 2022.19.1. Courtesy Luc Demers. (c) Rodney Smith.
-Through September 10 -Portland, Maine
For five decades, aspiring and established photographers have gathered in Rockport, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Strong Interest at Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers
All prices include the buyer's premium.
Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, held an online auction containing a "jaw-dropping collection of over 900 exquisite jewellery pieces" that concluded August 16. Duncan Parker, vice president and jewelry specialist, said, "The selling prices ... (Read More)
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(Show)MADA Coastal Maine Antiques Show
Damariscotta, Maine
David McLean of North Monmouth, Maine, had four firkin pantry boxes in original paint priced from $295 to $565.
It seemed like one big family August 16 at the 24th annual Coastal Maine Antiques Show in Damariscotta, Maine, under the aegis of the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA). Under a ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Marathon of Opportunity
Scott Antique Markets, Atlanta, Georgia
Scott Antique Markets at the Atlanta Expo Center, Atlanta, Georgia, has vendors and exhibitors located in two large buildings on either side of an interstate highway and also in an adjacent outdoor area. Just getting around to see everything is a physical challenge. There are dealers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Train Reigns at Americana Auction
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Bonhams Skinner's August 13 Americana auction in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery featured a fair number of maritime lots and some fine clocks. The highlight of the live and in-person 71-lot sale was a 2008 model of a locomotive, which sold for $51,200 (including buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2023 Annual NHADA Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
"There's an invigorating attitude by the buyers, which is contagious to the dealers. It gives us newfound energy when people respond in a positive way," said Arthur Liverant of Nathan Liverant and Son. The Colchester, Connecticut, dealer was talking about attendance at the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, August 2023
Something different for this month's "Letter," which instead of looking at a broad range of antiques sales takes a different turn, and just for a change focuses throughout on the world of books, manuscripts, and comics as seen in a mix of UK and US auctions of relatively recent times. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Sale at Eldred's
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Eldred's opened its August 10 and 11 marine sale in its gallery in East Dennis, Massachusetts, with 19 lots of well-documented scrimshaw from a Rhode Island collection along with scrimshaw and whaling items from other collections that drew lively bidding. The highlight of the first ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2023 Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
Manchester, New Hampshire
The quilt block logo for Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair, held this year August 9 and 10 in Manchester, New Hampshire, is colorful-an interesting pattern of gold, red, and green. Show promoter Karen DiSaia utilizes the same color scheme in all her advertising, press materials, and signage; ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Stair
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York
Photos courtesy Stair Galleries
Pair of Federal carved mahogany and inlaid satin birch side chairs, attributed to John and Thomas Seymour, Boston, Massachusetts, 35" x 191/4" x 19", seat height 183/4", sold for $33,280 (est. $5000/10,000). This pair is an example of the fourth variation of Thomas ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Sale of Decoys, Art, and Americana
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Guyette & Deeter
A full house was primed for Guyette & Deeter's two-day sale August 8 and 9 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where deaccessioning from several noted collections brought a wide range of objects to market and a total of $5.38 million (including buyers' ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, August 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Show)The "Personality" Show Pays Off in Concord
Americana Celebration, Concord, New Hampshire
The first thing promoter Peter Mavris told me as we entered the Douglas Everett Arena for his 2023 Americana Celebration Show August 8 was that personality counts. And it did! Peter smiled, the dealers smiled, and everyone had time to talk and explain objects they were ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2023 Deerfield Antique Show
Deerfield, New Hampshire
"As good as it was, it was disastrous," said Joshua Gurley, one-half of the brother-and-sister team that makes up Gurley Antique Shows. "It was a disastrous thing to have happen."
Gurley was talking about the annual Deerfield Antique Show on the Deerfield, New Hampshire, fairgrounds. The 70-dealer show-the largest ... (Read More)
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(Show)Thanks for the Memories!
Milford Antiques Show, Milford, New Hampshire
Forty-six years of memories and sales and friendships. Over 1200 shows, every Sunday from October to April. Thousands of dealers, and thousands of show hours. Forty-six years of ads in M.A.D. How does one even survive, let alone succeed with honors?
Well, we know one gentleman ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Harvard Art Museums Announce New Free Admission Policy
The Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, Massachusetts, have implemented a new free admission policy for all visitors. The new policy represents a significant expansion of free access to the museums' collections, exhibitions, and research for public audiences.
The museums are open to visitors Tuesday through Sunday (except major holidays), 10 a.m. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)George Washington Pastel Leads at Hilliard
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. held its late summer eclectic auction at the firm's Madison, Virginia, gallery August 5. The sale consisted of a broad mix of consignments, offering examples from many categories. The sale was conducted live and untimed. Internet bidders used the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Soft Drinks Sweeten Country Store Sale
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
For his 30th annual "Country Store" sale, August 2-5, Jon Lambert and his able crew at Mebane Antique Auction Gallery cataloged 84 toys, 372 tobacco lots, 160 containers, 344 bottles, and 500 soft drink/miscellaneous lots. They then added hundreds ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Civil War and African American History
Fleischer's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Fleischer's Auctions
Fleischer's Auctions held its Civil War and African American history auction August 5. This summer premier sale featured a wide selection of American historical material, including items from the abolition movement, Civil War, African American history, Lincolniana, and notable examples of historic photography. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Norton Crock Leads Americana Sale
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
Photos courtesy Casco Bay Auctions
On August 5 Casco Bay Auctions held an approximately 600-lot Americana sale under a tent in the firm's back parking lot in Freeport, Maine. The crowd was sparse, and most lots sold to the Internet, phone, or absentee bids. The sale totaled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thomas Commeraw Stoneware Sets Record
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
"Pottery over the last few years has been having its moment in the world of American decorative arts, and it's gratifying to see," remarked Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland, when talking about the new world auction record for Thomas Commeraw's stoneware. A ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes Announced by Battersea Foundation
The Battersea Foundation has announced that following three successful antiques shows at the historic Petersburg, Virginia, property, there will be no show in 2023. Restoration of the villa is nearing completion, and the logistics involved in staging an antiques show are prohibitively difficult. Instead, the foundation has announced that it ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The China Problem
Beneath the Surface
Defense and security are often top of mind these days. It is easy to feel as if there are threats everywhere, and you can never tell where or how you might be attacked. We want our friends to be safe. Do not meet someone strange in a dark ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California Art Exceeds Estimates
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"The sale was good," said Scot Levitt, director of fine arts at Bonhams, Los Angeles and San Francisco, about the August 2 auction of California art in Los Angeles. "There weren't any six-figure, major works that draw people, but right now there are not a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Diamond Anniversary Show
Downeast Art & Antiques Show, Blue Hill, Maine
On page 7 of the August 8, 1948, Portland Press Herald, right next to a wedding announcement-"Miss Lily Pottle Weds Mapleton Man"-was a short article announcing the first antiques show in Ellsworth, Maine. It promised that 18 dealers would be participating in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques and Estate Items in Amesbury
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
It was a very busy spring and summer for John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury, Massachusetts, with a fine art auction July 13, an online estate sale July 16, and a garden and lawn furnishings sale July 27. The auction covered here, McInnis's ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Dennis Raleigh and Phyllis Sommer
As the first guy in the parking lot to show up when Phyllis Sommer reopened her shop every spring, Dennis Raleigh was the definition of "the early bird catches the worm," or in this scenario, the woman.
"I was a regular customer," he said. For close to 20 years.
However, one hot ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Sale at Eldred's
Eldred's, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photographs courtesy Eldred's
Paintings and other art forms accounted for nearly half the lots at the July 27 and 28 summer sale at Eldred's at its Cape Cod gallery in East Dennis, Massachusetts. Most lots drew exponentially higher prices compared to their estimates. It was an exceptionally busy ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nine Indicted in 20-Year Theft Spree
There are two ways to put a price on an object. The first is to take into account the object's history, provenance, rarity, and creator. For example, nine World Series rings, seven other championship rings, and two MVP plaques belonging to the legendary Yankees catcher Yogi Berra would be valued ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Right from the Dunlap House
Photos courtesy New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals, LLC
In May, Mike Reopel, collector, Army veteran, auctioneer, and CEO of New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals, along with auctioneer Ken Labnon and dealer and conservator Gary Yeaton spun off their auctions and appraisals business from Withington Auctions in Hillsborough, New Hampshire, where they ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Center for Painted Wall Preservation Launches Virtual Museum
The first rooms in the virtual museum of historic painted interiors are live on the website of the Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP). The virtual museum (www.pwpcenter.org/virtual-museum) provides access to the best examples of the surviving interiors in the Northeast. Most of these geographically scattered spaces are in private ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sold...to the Globe
On July 1 and 2, Casco Bay Auctions, the Freeport, Maine-based auction house founded by Andrew Davis in 2019, held an on-site sale in Wiscasset.
Dispersing the stock and personal collection of William Dykes, the two-day sale had all the hallmarks of a throwback auction. On-site sales used to be a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artist Sues Gallery-Wins by Default
In early May, artist Jeffrey Gibson filed suit against K R J S Corporation, which does business under the name Kavi Gupta Gallery. The gallery failed to answer the suit, and an entry of default was entered by the court.
Gibson, based in Hudson, New York, is an artist who combines ... (Read More)
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(Show)Change of Scenery for the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show
Rockport, Maine
The 41st Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale took place over the weekend of July 22 and 23. The show is owned and managed by John and Elizabeth DeSimone of Goosefare Antiques & Promotions, Saco, Maine, and this year marked a historic change of venue for the show. Instead of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts Auction
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
Marine vase by Emile Galle (French, 1846-1904), engraved cameo glass, marked, 111/2" high x 5" diameter, excellent condition, $53,125 (est. $10,000/15,000).
A Marine vase by Emile Galle sold for $53,125 (including buyer's premium), well above its $10,000/15,000 estimate, to lead all items during the decorative ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 2023
J.C. Leyendecker, Couple in Boat, painting for an Arrow Collar advertisement, oil on canvas, 1912. National Museum of American Illustration, Newport, Rhode Island.
-Through August 13 -New York City
Under Cover: J.C. Leyendecker and American Masculinity at the New-York Historical Society examines the work of Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951), an illustrator and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Daniel Morgan Medal Goes on Display
A unique gold medal celebrating the Revolutionary War victory by Brigadier General Daniel Morgan over British Army forces in the 1781 Battle of Cowpens in South Carolina has made its first appearance since it sold at auction for $960,000 at the April 4, 2022, auction conducted by Stack's Bowers Galleries ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eclectic Sale and Exponential Prices
Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Epping, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Devin Moisan Auctioneers
Spread out over two days, Devin Moisan Auctioneers' July 15 and 16 sale dispersed more than 1100 lots from the 18th century through the mid-20th century with objects from estates and collections in Gloucester, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Marblehead, Massachusetts, and Woodbury, Connecticut. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoys and Sporting Art
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Hingham, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
He only looks as if he is sleeping. But he was hardly a sleeper; instead, he was the highlight at Copley's auction and set a new world record auction price for the maker, $594,000 (est. $500,000/800,000). The 241/2" long sleeping ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair Charged for Damaging National Gallery of Art Exhibit
Timothy Martin of North Carolina and Joanna Smith of New York, both 53, were taken into custody on May 26 following an indictment charging conspiracy to commit an offense against the United States and injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit. Both self-surrendered.
According to the indictment, Martin and Smith ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Goldbergers to Sell Personal Collection
On August 8 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Guyette & Deeter will offer Russ and Karen Goldberger's personal collection of decoys and folk art in a 71-lot separate catalog sale.
The Goldbergers are downsizing. "We're leaving a large house, where the decoys were displayed prominently, and moving to a much smaller facility ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Meander Auctions Launched
Meander Auctions has been formed by Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis, replacing their previous show and auction business, The Ohio Company Antiques & Art. The couple should be familiar to readers of Maine Antique Digest through their monthly column, "Beneath the Surface."
Their business will primarily feature online sales conducted from ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Reading between the Lines
Beneath the Surface
When Hollie was small, with two working parents in a rural community, there were very few convenient childcare options, and when her longtime babysitter said she could not handle another child even on the occasional days off from school, the task fell to her grandfather, a taciturn, weathered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Ownership for Grogan & Company
On January 1 of this year, Boston auction house Grogan & Company changed ownership, passing from founder Michael Grogan to Georgina Winthrop. "I owned it 100%, and now Georgina owns it 100%," Grogan said during a Zoom call May 25.
"The wonderful thing about buying a company rather than starting one ... (Read More)
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(Auction)1550 Lots, Three Days, $1.9 Million
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
In early July, Thomaston Place Auction Galleries held another marathon auction session. Auctioneer Kaja Veilleux and his staff plowed through a 1550-lot, three-day sale, July 7-9, in the air-conditioned facility in Thomaston, Maine. The total was approximately $1.9 million. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Documents and Rare Books
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Some of the most significant documents in history, including an extremely rare first-edition broadside of the Declaration of Independence, were sold by Heritage Auctions July 8. With 88 lots sold, the auction produced $5,655,250 (with buyers' premiums) for the Dallas-based auction house.
This broadside of ... (Read More)
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(Show)One of the Must-Attend Summer Shows
Pure Country Antique Show, Chrisman, Illinois
The weather was part of it. A large part. But there was something more significant during the Pure Country Antique Show, held July 8 near Chrisman, Illinois. There was the upward trend that epitomizes this gem of an antiques show plunked down in the middle ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, July 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Seizures at Rhinebeck Antiques Show
On Saturday, May 27, as part of an investigation targeting the illegal trade of endangered species parts, investigators from the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) visited the Barn Star Productions' Antiques at Rhinebeck show, held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York. At the 126-dealer ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2023
A very rare candlestick, comic cards, and a lot of old cheeses see the letter C figure prominently among the entries in this month's "Letter"-the oldest of the first-mentioned category being one of only half a dozen examples recorded of a rare pewter stick of considerable age.
A great many words ... (Read More)
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(Show)July 4th Antiques in the Church Yard
South Salem, New York
Neither hail, nor wind, nor rain could keep Debbie Turi's band of dealers from setting up on the grounds of Stevens Memorial United Methodist Church the day before the annual July 4th Antiques in the Church Yard show, which has run for 30 years.
Although a tent went ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Decorative Arts Trust Awards Research Grants
The Decorative Arts Trust has announced that the 2023 Research Grants Trust will be awarded to 15 recipients, the largest number since the program began 20 years ago.
The recipient of the Marie Zimmermann Grant, sponsored by the Marie and John Zimmermann Fund, is Lea C. Stephenson from the University of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dykes Collection Sold on Site
Casco Bay Auctions, Wiscasset, Maine
Photos courtesy Casco Bay Auctions
It was both a beginning and an end. On July 1 and 2, Casco Bay Auctions of Freeport, Maine, set up a huge tent on the lawn of the Groves-Hodge House in Wiscasset for an on-site auction of the stock and personal ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Union, Maine, Show Rescheduled
Goosefare Antiques and Promotions is trying to resurrect a longtime staple on the Maine antiques scene, but it's going to have to wait another year. John and Elizabeth DeSimone of Goosefare have announced they are postponing the new Union Fairgrounds show until 2024. It was originally scheduled for August 4 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Katie Wood Kirchhoff
Katie Wood Kirchhoff confesses to being a "tightly wound individual," but that trait enables her to bring vim and vigor to a recently endowed curatorship named in honor of Alice Cooney "Nonnie" Frelinghuysen at the Shelburne Museum in northwest Vermont.
Kirchhoff has been at the museum, a 45-acre campus with 39 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Waving the White Flag
In this issue of M.A.D., we have two stories of seizures of ivory and other wildlife antiques: one in Hawaii and one in New York. Both stories should serve as stern warnings to all in the trade and prompt them to learn the law in their home state and in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winslow Homer Watercolor Donated
Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has accepted into its collection a Winslow Homer watercolor painting, Waiting for the Boats (1882).
Photo courtesy National Park Service, Longfellow House-Washington's Headquarters National Historic Site.
Donated by Frances Appleton Wetherell, great-granddaughter of Henry and Frances Longfellow, the 14" x 211/2" painting joins ... (Read More)
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(Show)Locust Grove Antiques Market
Louisville, Kentucky
With more than 60 dealers, the summer edition of Locust Grove Antiques Market was held June 25 in Louisville, Kentucky. Buyers come for the antiques, but the allure of the event also includes the property, which is a National Historic Landmark.
The semiannual show is in its 43rd year, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Wells Reserve at Laudholm
Wells Antiques Show & Sale, Wells, Maine
The Wells Antiques Show & Sale, Wells, Maine, now in its 22nd year, is one of those shows that only improve year after year. Collectors and dealers returned to the show on June 25 at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm, a national estuarine research ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Greek Slave Tops Auction
Neue Auctions, Beachwood, Ohio
Photos courtesy Neue Auctions
Neue Auctions' June 24 fine art and antiques sale featured American, European, and Asian fine art, furniture, and decorative arts. The firm, located in Beachwood, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, drew from multiple estates in the area. The eclectic mix of material ensured that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2023
Tiffany Studios Peony table lamp. Photo courtesy Macklowe Gallery, New York City.
-Through June 30 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk-Art Portraits Highlight Collection
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
Fine Americana, most of it in excellent original condition, characterized the two-day sale held June 21 and 22 by Fred Giampietro's New England Auctions in the gallery in Branford, Connecticut. Day one was a single-owner sale, that of Connecticut collectors Bernard and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Returns
Deerfield, Massachusetts
It all began in 1984 when the Antiques Dealers' Association of America (ADA) organized an antiques show at Historic Deerfield. It was a bright star in the firmament of antiques shows. A six-year absence caused by construction at Deerfield Academy and COVID-19 left dealers and collectors somewhat bereft, but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mystery Cupboard and Historical Doors Lead Evans Sales
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates' June Americana sales were held June 15, 16, and 17 in three sessions at the newly expanded gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. A total of 1421 cataloged lots crossed the block, divided ... (Read More)
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(Show)Calling All Families, Especially Fathers
Canandaigua Antique Show, Canandaigua, New York
It's the day before Father's Day, Saturday, June 17, so what do you do for dads who "dig" collecting antiques? Take them, family, and friends to a nearby antiques show, like the Canandaigua Antique Show sponsored by the Genesee Country Antique Dealers Association (GCADA), in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Impressive Icons at Potomack Sale
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
A group of five separate auctions spread over a four- day period, June 13 through 16, highlighted The Potomack Company's early summer calendar of sales. All sales were online only and were conducted out of the firm's Alexandria, Virginia, galleries. As has ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Ephemera and Photography
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
Antique photographs helped give Wes Cowan his start in the auction business, and, years after Cowan's was acquired by Hindman, images continue to fuel the company's auctions of American historical ephemera and photography. During the most recent sale, held June 15 and 16 at Cincinnati, Ohio, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Admits to Lying to FBI in Fake Paintings Case
Michael Barzman of North Hollywood, California, 45, a one-time auctioneer, has agreed to plead guilty to lying to FBI agents about the origins of paintings attributed to Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) that were seized last year from the Orlando (Florida) Museum of Art. Barzman has admitted in court papers that he ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Have Clock, Will Travel
Beneath the Surface
There is a saying in the antiques business that three is a collection, and that once you get three of anything, you just have to keep going. This must be the case with us and transporting tall clocks. We have collected the habit apparently. This time it started ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Endowed Curatorship in Honor of Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, has endowed its curatorship of American decorative arts in honor of longtime trustee Alice Cooney "Nonnie" Frelinghuysen, herself a senior curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
"Establishing this important position in Nonnie's honor is in thankful recognition ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Swensson Collection Shines at Phillips
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Phillips
Phillips' jewelry auction held June 13 in New York City brought robust results, particularly for Art Deco pieces, colored gemstones, and the collection of Suzanne and Earl Simcox Swensson. The Swensson items, which included jewels by Suzanne Belperron, Rene Boivin, Raymond Yard, Mauboussin, Cartier, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Collection Sales
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
"The World of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman," a series of three auctions held by Sotheby's from May 27 to June 13, totaled $4.3 million, attracted over 800 bidders from 30 countries, and was 100% sold. Offerings included automotive and racing memorabilia, entertainment and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)FBI Launches Free App to Track and Report Stolen Art
Law enforcement agencies in the United States and around the world have submitted reports of stolen art and antiques to the FBI's National Stolen Art File (NSAF), a database of stolen art and culturally significant property. The NSAF assists in law enforcement's efforts to close cases and return pieces of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, June 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Seller of Counterfeit Art Extradited after 13 Years as a Fugitive
Angela Catherine Hamblin, 74, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was extradited April 21 from Germany to the United States to serve a prison sentence for selling fake works of art through a commercial auction website and in private transactions.
Hamblin pleaded guilty February 6, 2009, to two counts of mail ... (Read More)
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(Show)The First Annual Fox Valley at the Fairgrounds Antiques Show
Wheaton, Illinois
Butterflies migrate, birds migrate, even wildebeests and heat-seeking Yankees migrate. But when a long-established live antiques show migrates after a period of virtual shows during the COVID-19 years-well, there could be possible snags.
Happily, nothing of the sort happened when the venerable Fox Valley Antiques Show presented by the Chicago ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Small Show That Offers a Lot
A Country Gathering Antique Show, Elizabethtown, Indiana
In its 23rd year, A Country Gathering Antique Show was held June 10 in Elizabethtown, Indiana. The show, promoted by Judy Nichols and run from her property, was a relatively small affair, with fewer than 20 booths under a tent and in open-air spaces.
The ... (Read More)
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