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(Auction)Sotheby's January Americana Auction
Punch bowl with dolphin handles made by Cornelius Kierstede, New York, 1700-10. At 66 oz. 8 dwt and 121/4" in diameter (171/4" length over handles), it is probably the largest piece of 18th-century American silver. The bowl descended in a Loyalist family since before the American Revolution and came to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Keno Auctions Launches with Preview in New York City
Leigh Keno (right) at his Friday night preview at the Regency Hotel to launch Keno Auctions.by Lita Solis-CohenOn Friday evening, January 22, Leigh Keno invited friends old and new to the Regency Hotel, five blocks down Park Avenue from the Winter Antiques Show, for a glass of champagne and a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Mystery of K. Shirayamadani
by Elizabeth Fowler, Ph.D.Shirayamadani, the Japanese artist who joined Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1887, is shrouded in mystery. He avoided talking about his upbringing, his artistic training in Japan, or why he came to the United States. He remained at Rookwood until 1912 and returned to Japan until ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boston's Art Show "Grows Legs," Opens Wallets
Carey Vose of Vose Galleries, Boston, posed on gala night with Harriot Drawing by Charles S. Hopkinson (1869-1962). The 63" x 263/4" oil on canvas, circa 1909, shows one of the artist's daughters at about age five. Carey's sister, Elizabeth Vose, said, "Harriot is in a lot of Hopkinson's paintings. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sollo-Rago 20th-Century Modern
This exceptional 361/2" x 117" x 30" buffet, created by Wharton Esherick, has a sculpted walnut top on a curved base with seven drawers flanked by two doors concealing a blonde maple interior. It is signed "W.E. 1969" on the lower right door. The buffet sold for $335,500 (est.$275,000/375,000).Designed and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Autumn Greater York Antiques Show
Longtime Burk show dealer Caroline Edleman of Royersford, Pennsylvania, is shown displaying an all-original 17" high German Santa candy container to a show patron. It was priced at $4900.A collection of wooden boot jacks was offered for $475 by Thomas M. Thompson of Pembroke, New Hampshire.York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassThe ... (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.Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thayer Tolles ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California Painting Leads Shannon's $3.6 Million Fall Sale
The Terrace, Samarkand by Colin Campbell Cooper (1856-1937) sold to a California collector bidding by phone for $456,000 (est. $200,000/300,000). The 36" x 46" oil on canvas, signed and dated 1927, shows the Samarkand Persian Hotel in Santa Barbara, California. The price is a record for a California work by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Know Thy Customer
The art and antiques industry has little hard information concerning customers. Melrose & Duddy, a show promotion company, is helping to change that. The firm, founded by Jay Melrose and Matt Duddy, produces three shows in three states. It has recently released findings of a non-scientific 20-question Internet survey of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Fine and Decorative Art Auction
The Unaccountable by Horace Clifford Westermann (1922-1981), 1959, mixed-media sculpture, 271/2" high, excellent condition with a few nicks to the base where the hanging building was connected, $85,187.50.Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Cowan'sWes Cowan didn't make it to the end of his company's fine and decorative art auction on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Finale of SoWa's First Season
Jennifer Sullivan of Studio Twenty Two deals in vintage modern furniture; she exhibited three times at the SoWa Antiques Market. "At the first one, sales exceeded my expectations," she said. "I sold four pieces and made a profit of twenty-three hundred dollars. My firstsale was a coffee table by Adrian ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Perception Is Reality
by Steve ProffittA reader contacted me about a bad auction experience that resulted in an exchange of e-mails between us. I've edited and condensed the reader's complaint, which I'm using to make an important point.-AuctionThe reader made a long trip to view several lots in an upcoming auction. He couldn't ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Map Sells for $1.15 Million in Maine
A 131/2" x 24" detailed map of the Battle of Yorktown, executed by Lieutenant Colonel Jean Baptiste Gouvion on October 29, 1781, sold at James D. Julia's auction in Fairfield, Maine, on February 5 for $1,150,000 (includes buyer's premium).
The buyer was a private collector.
The map had the original red coloring ... (Read More)
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(Show)Holiday Show Spreads a Little Cheer
Every year for this show, Beverly A. Weir-Longacre and her husband, Thomas Longacre, of Marlborough, New Hampshire, split their booth so she can devote her side to vintage Christmas items. Her booth attracted a lot of buyers who were ready to get into the holiday mood. "I have a lot ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Are Highlight of Annual Fall Estates Sale
A 30" x 24" oil on canvas American folk art portrait from the 19th century, inscribed on its back "Henrietta Josepha Myers/ AE 18 m./ J.(?) B. Gregory Artist," sold to the trade for $184,000 (est. $30,000/50,000).Phone bidders drove this 16" x 121/2" oil on panel of Venice by Rubens ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)In the Trade: Dan and Karen Olson, Newburgh, New York
Karen and Dan Olson at home with a blue New York state cupboard they bought in the 1970's.The Olsons' home, the Silas Gardner House, circa 1783. The shop is out back.The birch and white pine chair table with original red paint and a just under 50" scrubbed top is $3200. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale at Bonham's
Paul Howard Manship (1885-1966), Dancer and Gazelles, 321/2" high, signed and dated 1916 on the base and inscribed "Roman Bronze Works NY." The bronze sculpture has a green and gray patina. It sold in the salesroom to Alice Levi Duncan, the director of sculpture at Gerald Peters Gallery, New York ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bottle Spirits Rise in Fall
The sun rose, leaves fell, and bottle spirits soared at the annual Norman Heckler bottle lollapalooza on Saturday, October 10, 2009, as 70 to 80 dealers set up in the pasture. Your reporter (in the odd sweatshirt in the foreground) searches for rare target balls and good quotes.by Ralph FinchPhotos ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amish Quilts Exhibition
The Tailgate Antique Show and Antiques at Music Valley, to be held February 11-13 at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds, will feature an exhibition of Amish quilts from the Darwin D. Bearley collection.Bearley's collection, put together over the last 30 years, consists of over 150 quilts made by the Amish community ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chris Jussel Resigns from Freeman's
Chris Jussel, the original host of the PBS television series Antiques Roadshow, has resigned as senior vice president of Samuel T. Freeman & Co. in Philadelphia.Jussel, former president of the National Antique & Art Dealers Association of America, helped to establish the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fake Movie Posters: One Pulled from Auction, Two Lawsuits Filed
Estimated at $200,000/250,000, the Dracula poster was revealed as a fake and withdrawn from the Profiles in History auction.by Richard de ThuinA one-sheet poster from Dracula (Universal, 1931), the landmark and much-revered horror film starring Bela Lugosi, was withdrawn from the Hollywood auction #37 at Profiles in History (an auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
Above the Narrows, a 48" x 321/4" tempera on panel painted in 1960 by Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009), depicts Nicholas Wyeth at age 18 at Bradford Point on the St. George River in Cushing, Maine. It was estimated at $3/5 million and sold to a woman in the salesroom, bidding for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show
Berkeley, California, dealer Thomas Livingston was asking $12,500 for this American Aesthetic Movement gilt and marble-top console that had been sold in San Francisco on November 22, 1884. The initials "WF" are stenciled on the back; Livingston wondered if they stood for Wells Fargo. The top of the console is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Benton at American Paintings Auction
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(Feature)Antique Ice Skates in America
Bone skates are mostly found in museums and date back 1500 to 1700 years ago.Snow skate, $100 and higher; uncommon 10", $150 to $200.Maple or beech skate with attached rounded blade, 10", $200 to $350.Skating scene showing crowds and old-time skating clothing. Skating, 1885, Boston by Henry Sandham, from a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Autumn Americana Sale at Doyle's
This 22" x 25 7/8" oil on board by Grandma (Anna Robertson) Moses (1860-1961), Sugaring Off, 1942, sold for $28,125 (est. $5000/7000). It was the most expensive painting in the sale, but it brought less than it had at Sotheby's in December 1998, when it sold for $34,500.This set of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: FastTrack for Dealers
Inventory item screen for antiques dealer software from AAIN, Inc.Computer Column #254by John P. Reid, e-mail: jreid@dca.netThe latest edition of Collectorpro for Antiques was reviewed last month. This month, a new edition of Antique Dealers FastTrack Inventory and Business Management Professional Software from the Antique and Art Information Network, Inc. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Barn Star Steps into Tough Territory with New Autumn Hartford Show
Port 'N Starboard Gallery, Falmouth, Maine, asked $15,000 for the eagle with an 84" wingspan that had been carved by Lloyd Hansen Thomas of Camden, Maine.Salt Box Antiques, Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, asked $675 for this cradle in an interesting form; it had been found in Connecticut.V.L. Marcos/ Whimsy, Centerbrook, Connecticut, showed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Charged with Selling Fake Picasso
Tatiana Khan, a West Hollywood, California, antiques dealer, has been named in a federal fraud case involving the $2 million sale of a fake Pablo Picasso that she allegedly paid an artist $1000 to fabricate.FBI agents seized a $700,000 de Kooning painting from Khan that prosecutors allege was purchased with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crocker Farm Fall Sale Full of Treats
A private collector from Florida bidding in the salesroom bought the small stoneware gemel for $24,725 (est. $15,000/25,000). The underbidder was on the phone. Made in Manhattan, or possibly New Haven, Connecticut, the piece with conjoined jugs is a true rarity of American stoneware. It has a single applied handle ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pfizer Mocks Antiques Collecting
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is being hard on the antiques business. In Canada, a 15-second television commercial that takes aim at antiques collecting recently hit the airwaves. The product? Viagra.A middle-aged man speaks to the camera, saying, "My wife and I couldn't control our antiquing-porcelain figurines, oil lamps, those tiny spoons. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: A Celtic copper-alloy comb with "armadillo" motif, A.D. 40-70. Found by a metal detectorist in a field in England, it sold for $43,825 at Bonhams.Two Roman cameos from the Bonhams antiquities sale of October 28. That of the Empress Livia sold for $159,360, and the little ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sales of Corporate Art Increasing
by Daniel GrantThe auction world claims it receives most of its consignments as a result of the three "d's"-death, debt, and divorce-but more recently it has added a new "d" of woe to its revenue stream-downsizing. A growing number of financially troubled corporations that have long collected art have been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sargent Takes Command
John Singer Sargent oil on panel, with a Venetian canal scene on the reverse, $287,500.Tempera painting on vellum, possibly Princess Sybil of Saxony, the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder, $189,750.Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoA quarter-million dollars for a single painting can make an auctioneer's day. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2009
Rookwood Sea Green glaze vase by Matt Daly, 1900, grapes decoration, marked, 123/4" high, light crazing overall, $17,250.Rookwood Aerial Blue glaze vase decorated with a young woman and a tiger by Sallie Toohey, 1895, marked, 83/4" high, $17,250.Newcomb College vase by Henrietta Bailey, 1911, with carved and repeating irises, 12 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armacost Buys the Delray Beach Antiques Show
Armacost Antiques Shows has assumed ownership of the Delray Beach Antiques Show, previously owned by the Delray Beach Historical Society. The show features 30 dealers from around the United States and abroad.The show will take place February 6 and 7 at the Delray Beach Community Center in Delray Beach, Florida. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Asian Art Dealers of New York Announce Asia Week Plans
by Lita Solis-CohenIn the days before there were antiques shows every week, going from gallery to gallery was a major weekend sport in New York City. Openings were social and selling events. Museum curators came early, often with patrons in tow, and reserved works to acquire.As the antiques shows became ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)All I Really Need to Know about Antiques I Learned in Kindergarten
The Young Collector
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSometimes adults have a tendency to overcomplicate things. We talk about extenuating circumstances, right and wrong, gray areas, and we use big words or abstract concepts, but in reality, most things either are or they're not.Most of the time, life is really simple-get ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Taylor Swift Shops Nashville
Dealer Marilyn Haley, Taylor Swift, and Bea Starr, Kay Puchstein's mother.Country singer Taylor Swift and her family shopped the October 31, 2009, Music Valley and Tailgate shows in Nashville, Tennessee. According to show management, in between shopping for antiques, Swift and her family stopped at many of the 300 booths ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artist Stephen Huneck Dies
Vermont artist Stephen Huneck, 60, known for dog-themed paintings, woodcuts, and carvings, died on January 7 in Littleton, New Hampshire.Huneck's wife, Gwen, confirmed that the artist died by his own choice. A letter posted on the Internet read:"It is with great sadness that I share with you the news of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)FBI Investigates Fake Clementine Hunter Paintings
William Toye in the studio of his Baton Rouge house, which was raided by the FBI in September 2009.Art collector and dealer Donald Fuson with some of the "Clementine Hunter" paintings he bought from William and Beryl Toye. A Hunter painting of a Christmas tree was considered rare-the artist painted ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 46th Annual Delaware Show
George and Debbie Spiecker of North Hampton, New Hampshire, asked $6500 for the curly maple card table; the fine Boston andirons, with fire tools, fender, and jamb hook, marked "J. David Boston," were $8500; the horse weathervane was $4200; the Pennsylvania corner cupboardwith swan's-neck top and an alligatored cherry surface ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ammi Phillips Double Portrait Brings $782,500
A 43" x 40" oil on canvas folk art portrait by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) of Theron Simpson Ludington (1850-1922) and his older sister Virginia Ludington (1846-1865), circa 1852, sold for $782,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Christie's in New York City on January 22. The buyer was Atlanta, Georgia, dealer Deanne ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Louisiana Purchase Auction
Very rare to be found in its original 1858 printing, Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans, after Marie Adrien Persac, was the top lot of the sale. Determined and rapid increases-perhaps from parties now living in the area depicted- took the price leagues beyond ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four More Chairs with Peacock Finials
Martin Cohen's chairs.by Lita Solis-CohenAs the news spread that $390,400 was paid at Rago's December 5, 2009, sale in Lambertville, New Jersey, for a pair of throne-like chairs decorated with Tiffany glass mosaics and hooded peacock finials (see M.A.D., January 2010, p. 11-A), people wondered if they were unique.Jeni Sandberg, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Vanderbilt Chairs and Cabinet
$32,200.by Lita Solis-CohenThe stars were lined up during the first weekend in December 2009 to bring rare Aesthetic Movement furniture to market. While David Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey, was selling chairs with peacock finials and Tiffany glass inlay, found in a boiler room where they had been stored for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fish Carving Sells for Record $100,000
Photo courtesy Steven Michaanby David HewettOn November 2, 2009, collector Steven Michaan sold an Oscar Peterson fish carving for $100,000, the highest amount recorded for the Michigan carver's work.Michaan, author of two books on fish decoys and the host of a Web site (www.fishdecoy.com), said he's not a dealer, just ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tennessee Officials Seek Return of Davy Crockett's Marriage License Application
by David HewettSometimes exposing a prized family heirloom to public view can have unexpected results. That's just what happened to 90-year-old Margaret V. Smith of Tampa, Florida. She showed up at the June 25, 2005, taping of the widely watched WGBH-created Antiques Roadshow in Tampa with a legal document, an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Humble Turtle Crowned King of Ceramic Beasts
The star of the sale returned to Salem, North Carolina, the place where it was molded, glazed, and fired circa 1805, possibly by master potter Rudolph Christ. Old Salem Museums & Gardens paid $100,000 for the turtle, a record for a press-molded bottle. Old Salem is taking it and other ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Editorial: Have a Seat
In May 2009 James Lefkus of New Jersey paid $2079 for what he thought was an original pair of seats. Instead, he claims he received a refurbished set with the original paint stripped, repainted, and made up of other parts.
He's now filed a class-action lawsuit in federal court, alleging ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 42nd Annual Fall Antiques Fair
"The Giant" was the model name for thisjeweler's regulator clock, made in 1900 bythe New Haven Clock Co. and offered for$16,500 by Ralph Pokluda of Chappell Jordan Clock Galleries, Houston, Texas. It features a gridiron pendulum, hung with rods of alternating brass and steel, which kept the pendulum at a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Sale
A Ben Austrian (1870-1921) oil on canvas of a hen and 14 chicks, signed lower right "Ben Austrian, 1911," 20" x 28", sold on the phone for $21,060 (est. $15,000/ 20,000).Three phone bidders competed for this coastal scene oil on canvas by John Wilson Carmichael (British/American, 1800-1868), signed lower right ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
Joseph M. Hayes Antiques, Columbus, Ohio, offered the $2200 Chinese 20th-century red-painted altar table shown with a $2600 circa 1760 English hanging platerack. The rack holds 30 pieces of Mason's ironstone, circa 1860, priced at $9500.Harvey Pranian of Evanston, Illinois, brought the 1920-30 African-American button cover quilt from Jackson, Tennessee. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Records (Again) for Catlett and Other African-American Artists
Native Son by Charles White (1918-1979), an 81/2" x 11" 1941 work in tempera on cardstock, went to a collector at $38,400 (est. $10,000/15,000).Shotguns by John Biggers (1924-2001) sold to a collector for a record $216,000 (est. $200,000/250,000). The 42" x 49 7/8" oil and acrylic on canvas now will ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ohio Country Antique Show
From David Cotton and Heather Malott of Wabash, Indiana, the prison-made hickory lean-back armchair and ottoman was $950 the pair; the buffalo-horn rack, $185; and the "Naughty Pine" sign, $195.Sporting goods from Al and Leann Garten of Split Rail Antiques, Charleston, West Virginia. Top row: 1920's leather football helmet, $365; ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Reviews of New Art and Antiques Books
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.Sargent's Daughters: The Biography of a Painting by Erica E. Hirshler ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Uneven One-Day Sale Brings in $2 Million-Plus
Guesses as to the origin of this 93" high cherry linen press with subdued line inlay ranged from Kentucky to New Jersey, but we agree with two dealers who flatly stated it was definitely of Connecticut origin. It has Sack provenance and was included in American Antiques from Israel Sack ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country Fall Show
A six-prong Pennsylvania rake made by a member of the Musser family was priced at $350 by Forrest Henry Antiques, San Jose, California.Kossmann's Antiques, Fresno, California, offered an old storage bucket with old paint over the original, $325; a coffee box, $125; and a storage box, $295. Louise Kossmann said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collection of King of Dolls Sells for $1.23 Million
A phone bidder took the top lot, a 28" tall Roullet & Decamps automaton of a female magician. The price was $80,580 (est. $25,000/35,000). The mouth of the monkey opens and closes; the bisque child blows kisses; and the clown sticks out its tongue. Made in France circa 1890, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Show in Greater Boston Debuts in Mid-May
Longfellow's Wayside Inn. Courtesy Ted Fitzgerald Photography (c)2009.by Jeanne SchintoTwenty miles west of Boston, a new antiques show will sprout this spring on the grounds of Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Opening with an evening preview and reception to benefit the historic property, the Wayside Inn Antiques Show will ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Marburger Farm Antique Show
Brad and Sundie Ruppert of Vintage Sculpture, Norwalk, Iowa, decorate vintage furniture with vintage bottle caps, which they buy from a flea market dealer in Des Moines. They were asking $5500 for this stepback cupboard from Austin, Texas.Agnes Strauss of Wilde Weedz, Cat Spring, Texas, did a booming business selling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction: Sweet Surprises at Freeman's
There were six phone bidders and bidders on the Internet for this Tiffany silver and enamel vase designed by George Paulding Farnham (1825-1927). It is 8" high and was made in 1901 for the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Cataloged as a "Viking" baluster vase with Celtic-inspired strapwork ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Three Versions of Collectorpro Reviewed
Main data entry screen of Collectorpro for Antiques.Computer Column #253by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netEvery few years, we publish a list of software available for antiques dealers and collectors. These programs primarily record inventory information but often include expense and customer databases. Some include a point-of-sale system to provide cash register ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Relevance Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSo, where were we? We had been talking about relevance-the art of being useful/staying useful or as Merriam-Webster puts it, "having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand"-and the reasons antiques had once been relevant. The problem, as we mentioned last month, is ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: I Never Thought of This
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(Fragment)Willowbrook Village: Improvements Planned and Auctions Scheduled
The exhibits at Willowbrook Village in Newfield, Maine, are spread out over 3.5 acres and housed in 34 structures. Over the next year, Willowbrook will be making changes in order to better tell the story of life in 19th-century rural Maine and to reduce the financial burden of maintaining so ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Lebanon Antiques Show
Kensington six-piece sterling silver tea service (excluding silver-plated tray), International Silver Company, $5500 from Sue Robinette of Monticello, Kentucky.A hooked rug showing musical notes, possibly a cover for a piano bench, was $225 from Diane Statler of Oakridge Antiques, Louisville, Kentucky.Along the top was a "Welcome Home" flaghoisted by U.S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Some Big Hits in the Big Easy
Charles Cage, silver specialist at NOAG, was enthusiastic about the silver lots that had done well, especially the George III sterling silver soup tureen, made in London 1777-78 by Robert Makepeace and Richard Carter, that sold for $21,600. As he put it, "Beautiful work on it-the crest and the arms, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Matching Grant Will Help Museum Retire Mortgage
Dean Six, executive director of The Museum of American Glass in West Virginia, told attendees at the 19th annual Glass Gathering on October 23, 2009, that an anonymous donor has stepped forward with a matching donation offer. The goal of the current fund drive is $45,000, which, when matched, will ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charlotte Show Changes Hands, Not Management
Lydia Sullivan, show director of the Greater Charlotte Antique & Collectible Show, has announced that she has purchased the rights to the show from The Art Fair Company, which acquired the show earlier in 2009 from dmg world media."We are building such a great show at the Cabarrus Arena," said ... (Read More)
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(Show)Signs of the Times at Rhinebeck
An all-wire motorcycle, replicating a Harley-Davidson from the 1930's, was tagged $2650 by David Allan Ramsay of Cape Porpoise, Maine.Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania, showed an exceptional large rooster weathervane with a great surface for $26,000. The 1840's Pennsylvania apothecary was $7200.A pair of 1940's "block art" ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: ianmckay1@btinternet.comPart of the collection of letters from Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson that sold for $455,466 at Sotheby's."The partridges are plentiful...& the girls on the manor just coming into season..." [Lord Byron]Time was when British Prime Ministers were expected to be serious bookmen-to be well read, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show
Pair of Sevres biscuit models of lions supporting gilt white reticulated baskets, modeled by Jean-Charles- Nicholas Brachard l'aine, after a drawing by Fragonard, 1818-20, part of an elaborate dessert service, $400,000 from Brian Haughton Gallery.Three-panel room divider by Paul Evans (1931-1987) of patterned welded steel panels with gold-leaf edges and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Betty Lacey Gordon Estate
La Meule (The Haystack) by Blanche Hoschede-Monet, a 20" x 32" oil on canvas, sold for $48,875 (est. $15,000/20,000).Environs de Giverny by Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), oil on canvas, 1921, sold via the Internet for $34,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). Butler was married to Blanche Hoschede-Monet's sister Suzanne.A Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) lithograph ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA Elects New Officers
NHADA officers, from left: Sharon Platt, Linda Tate, Melissa Alden, Kathy Schoemer, Peter Sawyer, Thomas Thompson, and Beverly Longacre. Not pictured are Gail Piatt, Ken Pike, Rich Bojko, Dennis Berard, and Peter Austin.The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its annual business meeting on November 5, 2009, at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Second Philadelphia Queen Anne Stool Surfaces; Estimated at $300,000/500,000
by Lita Solis-Cohen
The Philadelphia Queen Anne stool to be offered for sale at Christie's on January 22 with a presale estimate of $300,000/$500,000 is the lot to watch this January. Its mate, estimated at $250,000/$500,000, sold for $5,234,500 at Sotheby's in September 2008 to furniture guru Albert Sack, now living ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New York Photography Scene Expands
Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Cyd Charisse, Evening Dress by Macrini, 1961, 171/2" x 233/4", gelatin silver print, signed 1981, $21,960. Bloomsbury Auctions.Bloomsbury Auctions/Christie's/Sotheby's, New York Cityby Dorothy S. GelattThese days the photography market acts like a good old Maine rowboat; it stays afloat, even in a bad weather financial market. Six ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pook Institutes TARP
Celebrating its 25th year, Pook & Pook, Inc. in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, has instituted TARP-Troubled Antiques Relief Program.Ronald Pook will pick up the tab for an overnight (up to $100) and museum admissions and is offering free food, drinks, and fellowship on Friday before the sale and a free $40 auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pony Express Material a Winner for Siegel Auction Galleries
One of only three known surviving envelopes postmarked on the first day of Pony Express service on April 3, 1860, $460,000. Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. photo.Envelope with a rare $4 Wells Fargo Pony Express postage stamp, mailed in August 1861 from the U.S. Consulate in Oahu, Hawaii, to ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Rifle Hall Americana Antique Show
Ben Fulbright of K & K Ventures, Houston, Texas, offered for $995 this Junghans R-A regulator wall clock, made in the Black Forest region of Germanybetween 1895 and 1905. The backboard is one solid piece, and the side mirrors are not normally found on Junghans clocks.The Oklahoma crazy quilt was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Clifford Wallach, Greenwich, Connecticut
Clifford and Nancy Wallach.A very partial view of one corner of Wallach's basement. "Welcome to the house of tramp," he said. There's lots more throughout the house and in the garage.by Frank DoneganIf you listen to Clifford Wallach, you'd have to conclude that tramp art-a field in which he has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Boxborough Paper Show Now a Flamingo Event
Flamingo Eventz, LLC will assume ownership of the Boxborough Book, Paper & Collectible Show following an agreement reached with David Bornstein of Bornstein Shows.Held at the Boxborough (Massachusetts) Holiday Inn, the show will now be known as Paper Town-The Paper, Book & Advertising Collectibles Show. The first show will be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Motley's 42nd Anniversary Antique and Estate Auction
The circa 1790 tall-case clock constructed of mahogany with white pine secondary wood, 951/2" x 181/2" x 93/4", displays a dramatic hood with brass finials and brass stop-fluted full columns. The trunk is accented by matchingbrass stop-fluted quarter columns. The dial is painted and appears to be original, but it ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Annual VADA Show and Green Mountain Antiques Show Merge
The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association (VADA) show has merged with the Green Mountain Antiques Show, and the show will be held at the Union Arena Community Center in Woodstock on July 31 and August 1.The Green Mountain Antiques Show has been in existence for 12 years under the management of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sells Layton Pillar Mold Collection
This swirled vase or celery glass in brilliant sapphire blue, its eight ribs twisting sharply just below the boldly goffered rim and the bowl attached to the circular foot by a compressed-knop stem, is thought to have originated in New England or the Pittsburgh area. In overall excellent condition with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Jades Evade Million-Dollar Mark
The sale's top lot, this imperial carved jadebowl from the Qianlong period (1736-95), sold to a phone bidder for $303,000. James Callahan identified the buyer as an American collector. Made circa 1774 for the emperor himself, the bowl is light green with areas of russet and was estimated on the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Annual New Hampshire Open House
Eight Fitzwilliam and Richmond, New Hampshire, antiques shops will hold their 19th annual Holiday Open Houses on Saturday and Sunday, January 2 and 3, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. A variety of refreshments will be served at each shop, and many will offer special discounts. The dealers will be ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Quiet Corner Show Gets Off to a Loud Start
For the early birds, the doors opened at 9 a.m., and there was a long line waiting to get in. Everyone was off and running, and several dealers made sales before everyone else arrived for the official opening an hour later.Susan and Gary Wirth of Union, Connecticut, made the 18th-centurycountry ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frick's $25,000 Book Award
Julia Meech has been named the first winner of the Sotheby's Book Prize awarded by the Frick's Center for the History of Collecting in America. Meech is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Art of Japan: The Architect's Other Passion.Frick director Anne Poulet said, "The goal of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Select Stuff Surprisingly Strong at Americana Auction
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby David HewettPhotos courtesy SkinnerThe 9" x 133/4" oil on board Arctic Sunset with the Ice-Bound Panther was in original condition, had an impeccable provenance, and the artist, William Bradford (1823-1892), was a well-known painter of ships and Arctic scenes. All that helped it more than double ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bertoia Auctions Changes Date for Spring Kaufman Sale
The sale date for Bertoia Auctions' third installment of the Donald Kaufman antique toy collection has been moved back by one week. Originally scheduled to take place April 9 and 10, the auction event featuring 900 lots of automotive toys and a selection of comic character toys will now be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brooklyn Flea Launches Expanded Holiday Market
Brooklyn Flea is moving its Gifted holiday market into Manhattan, taking over the 6500-square-foot former Tower Records Annex storefront at 20 E. 4th Street (at Lafayette Street) in NoHo, where it has launched an expanded five-day-a-week pop-up shop until Christmas.Gifted will feature a rotating cast of 50 vendors until Thursday, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Large Fines Levied Against Two Maine Auctioneers
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers is proving it has teeth. At two hearings in the fall of 2009, October 7 and November 16, the board took a huge bite from Maine auctioneers James Cyr and Thomas Madsen. The two were fined a total of $67,200.Cyr was hit with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Devotees Keep the Faith
The sale's top lot, going to dealer John Keith Russell at $117,000, was a 5'5" long trestle table in cherry with original finish in cranberry red paint. Made in 1830 or 1840 in Mount Lebanon, New York, very likely for use by the ministry of that Shaker community, it came ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New American Decorative Arts Curator at Huntington
Harold B. "Hal" Nelson is the first curator of American decorative arts at The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. A specialist in decorative art and contemporary craft for more than 30 years, Nelson has written numerous publications and organized a variety of exhibitions. As ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Gary Pepper Collection of Elvis Presley Memorabilia
A lot of 14 photos from the Rainbow Rink in Memphis in 1961, including one with Pepper, sold for $3904.Chicago collector Mike Gomez fought phone bidders to capture an RCA album, Loving You. Inscribed to Pepper, it sold for $5368. Hindman photo.Chicago-area fan John Urso bought both shirts in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair of Aesthetic Movement Chairs Sells for $390,400
$390,400. Photo courtesy Rago.by Lita Solis-CohenThings often bring more at sales where you don't expect to find them. A surprising $390,400 (includes buyer's premium) was paid at an estate sale at Rago Arts and Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, on Saturday, December 5, 2009, for a pair of chairs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Must-Sees during Americana Week
by Lita Solis-CohenFor 55 years, the Winter Antiques Show has been the magnet that brings people to New York City for Americana Week in January. Other shows and special events have grown up around it; they are all listed below. The auction previews, gallery shows, and museum exhibitions during the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Baldwin-Wallace Collection Sells Well
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohioby Susan MellishPhotos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine ArtsWorks by Carl Gaertner (1898-1952) were in high demand. The top pick of the auction was The Popcorn Man, especially appealing with its dark overtones illuminated by streetlights and the glow emanating from the popcorn vendor's wagon. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Stahl to Leave Sotheby's on December 31
by Lita Solis-CohenOn
December 3, 2009, Bill Stahl called his last American paintings sale as Sotheby's
vice chairman and auctioneer. Stahl will leave Sotheby's on December 31. He said
he will stay involved in the marketplace for Americana, the field in which he
has played a major role since 1974. ... (Read More)
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