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(Show)The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
John Sideli of John Sideli Art & Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine, offered a large collection of African figures and masks that he said he has been collecting for some time. A well-carved Baule figure from the 1930's was $4500; a Luba kifwebe mask, $2000; and a Senufo ceremonial spoon, $2500. Three ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Putting the Antics in Antiques
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondLast week we had one of those "lemons or lemonade" days, when things start sliding off track from the beginning, and we had to decide whether to salvage or to swear (OK, we swore a little at first). We started off bright and early on ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
A viewer instructs his wife on the fine points of "Fantastic Verdure," a $16,000 original cartoon for an Aubusson tapestry. French seller Jean-Yves Lhomond specializes in the originals done for Aubusson in the 19th century. This circa 1850 gouache on paper measured 55" x 68". We overheard hubby say, "Note ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoy Auction: Diverse Offerings Hold Up Well
This rare hollow canvasback drake by Charles Perdew with original paint by Edna Perdew sold for $63,250 (est. $45,000/ 55,000) to a collector from Illinois. It was ex-David Galliher.A rare green-winged teal drake by Robert Elliston (1849-1915) of Bureau, Illinois, sold to a collector in New Jersey for $31,625 (est. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Indicted
Anthony Bonneau of T's Family Auction, Cairo, New York, was indicted on charges of grand larceny in the third degree by a Greene County, New York, grand jury on May 13.Bonneau is accused of selling property that once belonged to artist James Michael Newall (1900-1985) and not remitting the proceeds ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shankland's Victoria Cross Sells to the Canadian War Museum
$288,000 (Canadian). Photo courtesy Bonhams.The Canadian War Museum of Ottawa, Ontario, purchased the Robert Shankland medal set, which includes the Victoria Cross and the Distinguished Conduct Medal, at Bonhams in Toronto on May 25 for $288,000 (approximately $257,363 U.S.)."Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Shankland's story is an essential part of the national heritage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Base Found and Sold to the Met
Scott Defrin, owner of European Decorative Arts Company, located in Gallery Six at the Manhattan Art & Antiques Center, New York City, made a remarkable discovery in April. Defrin found the long-missing pedestal to Hercules and Antaeus, an 11" ivory sculpture attributed to the Master of the Martyrdom of Saint ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiger Maple Sells at DeFina
A bid of $6900 was needed to own this tiger maple 12-light two-piece corner cupboard in an old refinish with an older mustard paint interior and retaining its original glass.Constructed of tiger maple and curly maple, this circa 1835 one-drawer stand with fabulous rope twist legs, in an old refinish, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Art Department Expands and Contracts
Robin Starr, Skinner paintings department director pro tem, is pictured with works by Arthur C. Goodwin (1864-1929), one of them (top) a New York City scene, the other of Boston. If considered in light of the cities' baseball team competition, the equivalent of the Yankees won this time. Park Ave. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Standing Room Only at Slotin Sale
International folk art is becoming more a part of the Slotin auction with each sale. Swiss artist Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930) created Blatt Aus Heft, an 111/4" x 161/4" colored pencil work, in 1917. At $40,480, it was the highest-priced lot of the sale. Provenance included the Phyllis Kind Gallery and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Law of Rules
Stephens patent German silver and ivory folding rule, $6160.Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, Nashua, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoRecession or not, tool dealers are still hammering away at their
craft. Now in its tenth year, Martin J. Donnelly's semiannual sale of tools and
antiques in Nashua, New Hampshire, with a show, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Philadelphia Show 2009
This is the Philadelphia Cruise Terminal at Pier One, the site of the Philadelphia Antiques Show. It is at the tip of the Navy Yard where the Schuylkill and Delaware Rivers meet and at the end of Broad Street, the longest straight street in the U.S. It can be reached ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Dealer Blooz
Rob Werner. Schinto photo.Robert Zanre. Photo courtesy Michele Grady.by Jeanne SchintoI sit in my shop all day longNobody buys nothin' thereSomethin' must be wrongMaybe instead of tryin' to sell this crapI should have stayed home, baby, and had a fabulous nap, you know.I'm an antique dealer, babyOh, yeah, And I ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judge Rules in the Curious Case of the Painting That Was Sold, Then Not Sold
by David HewettOn June 4, Judge William H. Pauley III of the United States District Court, Southern District of New York, denied a petitioner's motion for a preliminary injunction and refused to issue a temporary restraining order involving a particular painting that was offered and sold at Christie's May 13 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paint and Rarity Rule the Day at Garth's
Federal tall-case clock, Massachusetts, circa 1805, 97" high x 17" wide, mahogany and pine with inlay, refinished, with some restoration, repairs, and minor damage, $23,500. The dial is marked for John Bailey II, and the dial decoration is attributed to Nolen and Curtis of Boston.Garth's Auctions, Delaware, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rainbow Yarn Exhibit
Navajo flag weaving created in the 19th century using yarn made in Germantown, Pennsylvania.Through December 31, the Lancaster (Pennsylvania) Quilt and Textile Museum will feature beautiful and unique textiles created by the Navajo (a Native American people who live in the southwestern United States) using yarn from the Germantown area ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Federal Grand Jury Charges Oregon Art Dealer Ran a Ponzi Scheme
by David HewettOn May 14, Judge Janice M. Stewart of the United States District Court, District of Oregon, unsealed a grand jury indictment and arrest warrant charging art dealer Donald D. Seybold with nine counts of wire fraud. The indictment stated that Seybold committed the felonies while conducting a scheme ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
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(Auction)Rare Silver Is Gold
Rare Silver is Gold
Important Carlisle, Pennsylvania, four-piece tea service, circa 1880, bearing the touch of George Hendel, a 131/2" high coffeepot, a teapot, a sugar urn, and a creamer, each monogrammed with a script "W" and with beaded rims, approximately 79.4 ounces, sold on the phone for $93,600 (est. $40,000/60,000), ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Brighten Your Home with Antiques" Comment Contest
Washington, D.C.-based antiques show producer Armacost Antiques Shows has announced a new contest, "Brighten Your Home with Antiques."Anyone may enter the contest by posting a comment on the firm's blog (http:antiquesshows.blogspot.com) before 12 midnight ET on July 1. One winner will be chosen at random to receive a mid-19th-century English ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Theft Detail Detective Arrested for Murder
Detective Stephanie Lazarus, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department's Art Theft Detail, was arrested on June 5 for the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. The arrest was made at the Los Angeles Police Administrative Building in downtown Los Angeles.According to the LAPD, on February 24, 1986, Sherri Rasmussen, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are thumbnail 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.Streamlined Irons by Jay Raymond (Streamline Press, 2008, 196 pp., hardbound, ... (Read More)
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(Show)"Our Universe on Paper" at 29th Ephemera Society Show
A poster stamp designed by Berthold Loffler for the 1908 Viennese art exhibition Kunstschau Wien was $350 from ChipBlumberg of The Folded Letter. According to Blumberg, a fullsize vintage poster of the same image would cost you $33,500.This 30" x 26" folk-art flag is a part of an archive relating ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD 20/21 and Boston Print Fair: Doing Good by Being "Bad"
Gerry Arcari of Landry & Arcari Oriental Rugs and Carpeting, Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, brought an array of contemporary rugs as well as some Art Deco material. Behind him is a contemporary 8' x 10' Nishkigoi rug, handwoven in Nepal of teal blue and white Tibetan wool and silk and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Despite Losses, Heart of Country Beats On
Heart of Country is in the capable hands of the next generation. Front, from left: Susan Kramer Hunkins and daughter Sarah Jane Hunkins, who helped with communications and was a panelist at the "Speaking from the Heart" roundtable discussion. Back, from left: Stephen Hunkins Jr., who handled "everything from ticketing ... (Read More)
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(Show)The D.C. Spring Antiques Show
While New York City dealer Jason Jacques was at Maastricht, his gallery director, Yoni Ben-Yosef, set up a stand in D.C. and sold two Art Nouveau ceramic vases early in the show. Here Ben-Yosef shows a vase designed by Louis Majorelle for Keller & Guerin (Luneville), circa 1900, priced at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pewter Dessert Dish Highlights Americana Auction
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Freeman'sAccording to family history, this pewter dessert dish incised with the initials "IZ" and "CZ" and "1728," surrounded by flowers, belonged to Joost and Christine Zabriskie of Bergen County, New Jersey. It is attributed to Francis Bassett I, New York City, 1715-40; the only ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tolland Show: A Bright Spot in a Soft Market
Within an hour or two after the show's opening, visitors crowded the aisles.Show director Kathy Bach of the Tolland Historical Society, sponsor of the event, stopped for a visit with exhibitor Thomas Longacre of Marlborough, Massachusetts.An early 19th-century stepback cupboard, tagged $2100, was shown by Susan H. Wirth (left) of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Painting Leads to Lawsuit
It's a dealer's nightmare scenario: unwittingly to buy a stolen painting; to have it cleaned and framed; to sell it for a tidy profit; and sometime later to find out the picture had been nicked and have to refund the buyer's money.In the case of California dealer William A. Karges ... (Read More)
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(Show)Marin Indian Art Show Celebrates Silver Anniversary
San Rafael, Californiaby Alice KaufmanTopanga, California, dealer Aarin Richard priced these circa 1885 Cheyenne thunderbird moccasins at $4800.Sonoma, California, dealer Russell Kloer was asking $45,000 for this very large San Ildefonso bowl.The 25th annual Marin Show: Art of the Americas, held February 21 and 22 in San Rafael, California, attracted ... (Read More)
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(Show)Quick and Sweet is Still Sweet at Nan Gurley's Wednesday Shows
He's wearing one hat here, but Philip "Dale" Pregent does wear two hats, although not at the same time. In addition to his antiques trading, he is the mayor of Keene, New Hampshire. We liked the watercolor he's holding here. It had good color and action with a covered wagon, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Chinese Vase Tops $1.2 Million at Brunk Auctions
$1,236,250. Photo courtesyBrunk Auctions.At the May 9 and 10 auction at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina, a 12" vase, believed to be a modern copy and carrying an estimate of $400/800, sold for $1,236,250 (includes buyer's premium).The woman who consigned the Famille Rose vase with flowers on a pale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction House Opens in Seattle
by Cathy AldrichStarting a new venture in uncertain times might seem to be a recipe for disaster, especially when that new venture deals with antiques. Jim Skrzypczak, however, seems to have tapped into something good with his new auction house, Seattle Auction Gallery.The first auction was held in February and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Rifle Hall Americana Antique Show and Spring Jubilee
This four-panel glass display box came from India, where it was used by a snake charmer to house a cobra between performances. It includes two locks, airholes on top, and an iron ring for hanging it from a tree. It was offered for $295 by Earl Lacy of Woo Woo ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hope Springs Eternal at Moore Sale
Napoleonic Wars ship model in bone of the H.M.S. Glory, $12,320.Simple painted swags and flowers and an 1823 Concord, New Hampshire, newspaper lining turned a $20 box into an $8400 buy.Pastel of the Fitzhugh children, 21" x 27", $7168.Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maineby Mark SiscoHap Moore opened his March ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)NeoCollect
A NeoCollect catalog page. Clicking on a picture brings up an enlarged image and detail page.A NeoCollect illustration of a hand-engraved gold medal depicting the American Civil War battle at Cold Harbor, Virginia.Computer Column #246by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netA free Internet service for creating an illustrated on-line catalog of a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original Round Top Antiques Fair
Kathy Tobler of Granbury, Texas, deals in sterling silver. She asked $7500 for this Francis I four-piece demitasse set with pot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, and tray, made by Reed & Barton of Taunton, Massachusetts.This Staffordshire porcelain royal pair from 1855 depicts the Prince and Princess of Wales with Cavalier ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Marburger Farm Antique Show
Round Top, Texasby Steve BrooksThe blacksmith shop is one of 12 historic buildings on site, moved from nearby towns.English artist Andrew Beer (1862-1954) specialized in portraits of racing pigeons for wealthy patrons. Beer paid close attention to breeds and their markings. This circa 1925 painting features Young Aristocrat and has ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2008
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican Furniture 2008Edited by Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, 2008, 272 pages, softbound,$60 plus S/H from Antique Collectors' Club, (413) 529-0861,e-mail , (www.antiquecollectorsclub.com).The 2008 American Furniture journal will be remembered as the one that placed Salem, Massachusetts, cabinetmaker Nathaniel Gould (1734-1781) in the firmament of New England ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Plans to Indemnify Exhibited Art and Artifacts
by Betty FloodNew York state is planning to provide authorization for the state to indemnify domestically held art and artifacts used for exhibition in New York state or those New York state collections loaned to institutions in other states. Sponsored by Senator David J. Valesky (D-Syracuse) and Assemblyman Joseph D. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Doing Well, Doing Good and Ed Pfeiffer
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(Show)The Indy Ad Show: It's Not All about Numbers
Child's table with a graniteware top showingnursery rhymes and advertising Telling's icecream, $350 from Phil Perdue of Crestwood, Kentucky.Sliced pineapple tins from Jeff Vick of Minneapolis, Minnesota: Hawaiian Chief, $135; Lana, $265; Waikiki, $110; and Hawaiian Club, $110."The Republican Party and Union Forever" embossed tin sign showing Pennsylvania candidates for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fiddler's Antique Show: New Show in a Familiar Location
Most of the dealers had first-floor rooms, plus a parking lot space, but three days of rain took its toll on the pieces outside.The brightly painted miniature snowshoes ranged from 6" to 1' tall and were priced from $200 to $400 by Al Roche.Nashville, Tennesseeby Sarah CampbellThe Fiddler's Antique Show ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Major American Modernism Collection Is Promised Gift to MFA, Boston
by Jeanne SchintoPhotographs courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, BostonJohn Axelrod often says one thing that persuaded him to make his gift to the MFA was comparing how his silver looked crammed into his kitchen cabinets as opposed to seeing it on exhibit in spring 2005, when Classic Modern: Art Deco ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Lyre Form Patent Timepiece: A Reattribution
Figure 1. Index clock. Unsigned lyre-form timepiece, 1830-35.by David SperlingRecently, an unsigned "lyre-form" wall timepiece (Fig. 1) surfaced in an estate sale. The appearance of this unusual variant of the classic patent timepiece caused me to reflect on its possible origin. For many years, the clocks pictured in Distin and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Antiques Show
The spacious, well-lighted gymnasium allowed for wide aisles and 61 booths, and there was room for more. The show was well attended.
Emele's Antiques, Dublin, Pennsylvania, asked $3450 for the hutch table, $4750 for the set of six painted chairs, and $16,500 for the Chester County tall chest. The painted corner ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Roger Perry and Rita King, House of the Ferret, South Deerfield, Massachusetts
Roger Perry and Rita King.Cupboard full of redware from Maine; Essex County and Merrimacport, Massachusetts; and Pennsylvania. Prices start at $400 and go up to $3200, which is the cost of the green Maine jug in thecenter of the middle shelf. The corner cupboard is not for sale.by Frank DoneganHorace ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Ceramics in America 2008
by Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2008Edited by Robert HunterThe Chipstone Foundation, 2008, 384 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from Antique Collectors' Club, (800) 252-5231, e-mail , (www.antiquecollectorsclub.com).Now in its eighth year of publication, Ceramics in America is the journal of record for historical ceramic scholarship in the American context. It ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Whatcha Got?" Moves to Genesis Communications Network
Whatcha Got?, the nationally syndicated antiques and collectibles call-in radio show hosted by Harry L. Rinker, is now part of Genesis Communications Network of Eagan, Minnesota.Whatcha Got? airs on Sundays between 8 and 10 a.m. Eastern Time. It also streams live on the Internet (www.gcnlive.com) and is available as a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Half-Hull Haul
Half-hull model of the clipper Spitfire, $6160.A quartet of 19th-century laminated half-hulls drew prices ranging from $385 to $715.Oil on canvas by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph, $3025.Andrews & Andrews, Northport, Maineby Mark SiscoA sea-salty mix of maritime history and contemporary marine folk art spiced up an Andrews & Andrews auction ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Alexandria
Aileen Minor of Centreville, Maryland, asked $8900 for a pair of limestone whippets and $950 for the pair of oval granite urns. The weathered cast stone figure of Napoleon came from a North Shore Massachusetts estate ($2500). The 46" high 19th-century pedestal with a weathered sundial in the center of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Despite Losses, Heart of Country Beats On
Heart of Country is in the capable hands of the next generation. Front, from left: Susan Kramer Hunkins and daughter Sarah Jane Hunkins, who helped with communications and was a panelist at the "Speaking from the Heart" roundtable discussion. Back, from left: Stephen Hunkins Jr., who handled "everything from ticketing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Film Sells at African-Americana Sale
More than five hours of original 16-millimeter moving pictures sold to a dealer for $57,600 (est. $40,000/60,000). Swann's Wyatt Day said he knows of "no comparable film record ofthis size and scope" showing what life was like for working-class, middle-class, and wealthy African-Americans during the period of economic prosperity in ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Problems and Opportunity
by Steve ProffittHave you ever considered auctioneering school? Maybe you should.A sure sign the economy is in steep decline is the significant increase in requests for jobs and job leads I'm experiencing. Recently, a friend asked me to advise a young lawyer who had been laid off by a firm ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Conquistadors and Cowboys Sell at Swann
A partial copy of Tercero Cathecismo y Exposicionde la Doctrina Christiana, por Sermones, published in Lima in 1585, sold for $28,800 (est. $5000/7500). According to the catalog notes, it was either the third or fourth book published on the continent and was printed on the same press as the first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Solid Americana Sale with a Few Surprises
Few knew what to make of this pleasing harbor scene placed early in the two-day sale. It was signed "B. Calixto 1888" and was 161/2" x 271/2". Eldred's gave it a modest $350/450 estimate. When calls started to come in for condition reports, and customers from Brazil started to stack ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction Legislation in New York
by Betty FloodSeveral versions of proposed legislation concerning auctions have been introduced in the New York state legislature since 1993, but during this particular legislative session more focus has been on the arts, perhaps because of the economic situation throughout the country.New York state law does not currently mandate the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Royka Sells Artist Bernard Corey's Estate
Sarah's Road, a 10" x 16" oil on board, fetched $2478. The view is a place in Sutton, Massachusetts, that "doesn't exist anymore," said Michael Graves. "It's probably been gone for twenty years. That was an old road that dead-ended at an old swamp. It's paved now, of course, and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: It Is Easy Being Green
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondKermit the Frog was right. It's not easy being green, at least not initially. "Initially" is where we think the antiques business is stuck at the moment. We all hear about it a lot, talk about it a little, and do about it ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Tea for Three1: Success to Trade in AmericaThe rare Stamp Act teapot, found in a box of low value bric-a-brac and sold for $117,440 in an English provincial sale.Only a handful of Staffordshire creamware teapots bearing references to the infamous Stamp Act of 1765* are recorded, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Wary Exhibitors "Keep on Keeping on" at Spring Hartford Show
Brian Cullity of Sagamore, Massachusetts,formerly a museum curator, delights at sometimes showing unusual material. The maple and birch chest of unusual form is a very shapely piece and priced enticingly low at $1850. On it Cullity placed some neat miniature Sandwich glass decanters, priced from $695 to $850.The lighting was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show Director for Hillsborough Show
United Voluntary Services (UVS), owners of the Hillsborough Antique Show in San Mateo, California, has announced that Nancy Johnson of Nancy Johnson Events Management LLC in Denver, Colorado, will be the director of its shows, effective immediately."Hillsborough," as it is commonly known, is one of the longest-running antiques shows in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dan Morphy Buys Back Morphy Auctions
Dan Morphy has bought back the operating assets of Morphy Auctions from Geppi's Entertainment. Morphy had sold the auction house to Geppi's in 2005, but in a deal finalized on May 8, Morphy assumes sole ownership of the company he established in 2004. The new firm will be known as ... (Read More)
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(Feature)See "America" This Summer
The Cape Ann Museum (formerly the Cape Ann Historical Association) in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is exhibiting a painting and marine telescope related to the yacht America in its Fitz Henry Lane Gallery until late October. The painting and telescope have been lent from the private collection of Alan Granby and Janice ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Works of Art Spark Prices at Willis Henry Auction
An oil on canvas seascape signed by Charles Henry Gifford (1839-1904), showing two men rowing to a two-masted sailing vessel on a calm sea, 12" x 20", made $65,520. Two other Gifford paintings (not shown) were among the dozen lots scoring the upper-end prices. A 91/4" x 141/4" oil on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Change in Deduction for Charitable Contributions in the Works
by Daniel GrantThe absence of any mention of President Obama's plan to reduce the deduction for charitable contributions for the very wealthy in the budget proposal passed by the U.S. House and Senate on April 29 does not mean that the initiative is dead. According to a number of associations ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show
David Cotton and Heather Malott of Cotton's Antiques,Wabash, Indiana, featured a booth with British Colonial and garden themes, "anything with a romantic feel to it."David Drummond of Lititz, Pennsylvania, offered two wooden industrial boxes (hanging, back left) at $90 each and a workbench (back right) from Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1915, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armacost Cancels Aspen Show
Washington, D.C.-based promoter Armacost Antiques Shows has canceled its Aspen Art & Antiques Show, scheduled for July 1-6 in Aspen, Colorado."With fewer than 20 dealers committed as of May 1, and only 60 days remaining before the planned opening of the event, the decision to cancel the show seems the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shotguns and Jacobsen Pace Cobbs Auction
Antonio Jacobsen ship portrait of the Ada Bailey, $27,600.James Purdey & Sons side-by-side 20-gauge shotgun, circa 1951, $32,200.The pair of red Chinese covered jars in baluster form, decorated with white and dark blue domestic scenes, 17" tall, probably 19th century, finished up at a big $6900 (est. $1000/1500). Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Wedgwood's 250th Anniversary Celebration Dampened by Bankruptcy
by Karla Klein AlbertsonPhotos courtesy Birmingham Museum of ArtCurator of decorative arts Anne Forschler-Tarrasch, Ph.D., will be researching the extensive Buten Wedgwood collection recently acquired by the Birmingham Museum of Art.The Birmingham Museum of Art has acquired the Buten Wedgwood collection, on display from 1957 until 1988 in Merion, Pennsylvania. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Lamps, Rare Stoneware, and Some Shaker
The top lot of the sale was this 64" tall Tiffany Studios floor lamp with a Maple Leaf pattern shade. The base was signed "Tiffany Studios, NY, 387," and the shade was 22" in diameter. Opening at $50,000, it sold to a private collector on the phone for $103,500.Cottone Auctions, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Northeast Auctions: The Highs Were Very High; the Lows, Very Low
The miniature (11/2" x 11/4") portrait on ivory of Washington, after the Charles Willson Peale portrait done at Princeton, engendered quite a bidding war between Richard Manney and a phone bidder. The phone bidder prevailed at $106,470.Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshireby David HewettPhotos courtesy Andrew Davis, Northeast AuctionsThe one inescapable ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Recently Discovered Boynton Stoneware Cooler Highlights Spring Ceramics Sale
Measuring just under 13" high, the record-setting Boynton cooler is relatively small. The keg-form cooler was produced by Jonah and Calvin Boynton, brothers whose pottery was located on Washington Street in Albany, New York. Bearing their upper case maker's mark of "Boynton" on the reverse side, the piece is incised ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Green Shoots
The latest catchphrase in the financial world, "green shoots," is used to describe the signs of the end of the recession. Here are some art and antiques growth notes.o A new group shop, Olde Towne Hall Antiques and Collectibles, has opened in the former Stratham, New Hampshire, town hall on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A New Direction in Plundered World War II Art?
by Travis McDadeAllied soldiers walking through the smoking ruins of the German town of Waldenburg on April 16, 1945. This was the "safe" location to which the Staatsgalerie of Baden-Wurttemberg moved its Graphic Arts Collection in 1944, to protect it from bombing. It was here that U.S. Army Captain John ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Esmerian Property Removed from American Folk Art Museum
by Lita Solis-CohenA Sotheby's truck, sent to the American Folk Art Museum in New York City some weeks ago, picked up promised gifts from the collection of Ralph Esmerian. The renowned dealer in colored gemstones had over the years become the principal donor of works to the museum.In 2001, at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)April Americana Sale
Erastus Salisbury Field (1805-1900), a portrait of a young boy holding a book, circa 1830, 26 7/8" x 24", $15,000 (est. $4000/6000). At Christie's sale of the collection of Kendra and Allan Daniel on January 20, 2001, this painting sold for $7050 (est. $12,000/18,000). It more than doubled in value ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Dealer Paul Scott Injured in Accident at Home
Popular New Hampshire antiques dealer Paul Scott was badly injured in a fall at his Hillsborough home on Sunday, May 10. The veteran New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association and Antiques Dealers? Association of America member was preparing for the week of sales at the May session of Brimfield when he ... (Read More)
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(Feature)SEC Charges Stamp Prices Manipulated: Europeans Charge Pyramid Scheme
by David HewettAs if we needed any more of this.From a federal court in New York comes news about a new tactic used to profit in the old game of Ponzi schemes. You remember how it works: get investors to put money into a guaranteed short-term investment plan, pay off ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clown Train Tops $4.2 Million Kaufman Sale
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jerseyby Dick FrizPhotos courtesy Bertoia AuctionsMichael Bertoia with the sale's top lot (also shown below), a circa 1909 Marklin "Fidelitas" clown car train, hand-enameled tinplate, 371/2" overall, with a European collector providing the $103,500 clincher. Madaline Friz photo.Circa 1920 Hubley horse-drawn revolving monkey cage wagon, cast ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Spatterware Record
$39,780. Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.The rarest English 19th-century spatterware seems to be recessionproof. Six phone bidders competed for a five-color rainbow spatterware platter, 13" x 151/2", at Pook & Pook's April 24 and 25 sale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania (est. $8000/ 12,000). It sold for $39,780 (includes buyer's premium).That's a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More Problems Connected to Salander
by David HewettAs we have previously reported, the problems for disgraced Big Apple art dealer Lawrence "Larry" Salander have multiplied. The business-Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC-is bankrupt, and Salander was indicted for numerous counts of grand larceny, forgery, securities fraud, and other felonies. On March 26, he was arrested.On May 5, an ... (Read More)
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(Show)Original Miami Beach Antique Show: Still a Pulse
Miami Beach, Floridaby Fran KramerFloor space, lots of it, with wide aisles and high ceilings.Majolica variations from Carol Kooperman of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, who shared a booth with Marty Schneider.The well-heeled and high-heeled are the usual patrons at the annual 1000-plus-dealer Original Miami Beach Antique Show, held January 22-26 in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Harbor & Home: A Review of an Exhibition and Its Catalog
Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O'Brien. University Press of New England, 2009, 456 pages, hardbound, $75 plus shipping/handling from University Press of New England, Order Dept., One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766; (800) 421-1561; Web site (www.upne.com). It is also ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Real Cats Don't Bark
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittHere's an excerpt edited from a letter I received from an auctioneer who raised an interesting question."Steve, I have followed your comments in M.A.D. for a long time and have found your remarks considering various legal issues very rewarding. Our auction firm closely adheres to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farmer's Super Bowl Sale
Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals, LLC, Radford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanPhotos courtesy Ken Farmer Auctions & AppraisalsEmma Serena Dillard "Queena" Stovall(1887-1980) began painting at age 62 and created 47 artworks before her death. Virtually all of her paintings depict scenes recalling life in early to mid-20th-century rural Virginia. Getting in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Lebanon Antiques Show
Lebanon, Ohioby Don JohnsonThe historic Staffordshire platter by Clews with Landing of General LaFayette was $1525; the Beehive pattern Sandwich octagonal lacy glass plate was $195; the historic Staffordshire coffeepot by Enoch Woods, LaFayette at Franklin's Tomb, was $1600; and the Peacock Eye pressed glass bowl with a rayed center, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Learning On Line
Computer Column #245by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netPart of the AntiqueTutorials on-line course on World Paper Money.Those of us who attended traditional grade school, high school, and perhaps college might have trouble picturing schooling over the Internet or by using computer media. Yet it is happening. What educators have dubbed "distance ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Jim and Mara Kerr, Cavern View Antiques, Howes Cave, New York
by Frank DoneganJim and Mara Kerr.Set of six Davenport transferware soup bowls in the Hydrographic pattern, dated 1836, $295 for the six. Kerr speculated that the name derives from the blue trim, which, on close inspection, looks like watered silk. "These came from a dealer who got them from a ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are thumbnail 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.Antiques: The History of an Idea by Leon Rosenstein (Cornell University ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Richards Estate Produces Three-Day Sale
Refinished but "right as rain" with no real detractions other than the 1960's style refinish on this straightforward Chippendale four-drawer chest. It provided the slightest ray of hope that the early furniture market might be rebounding a bit when it finished at $1650.Now how sweet is that? Some tar made ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Geometry of Beauty
Cabinet-on-stand, circa 1805, London, England, attributed to James Newton (English, 1773-1821), oak, pine, and mahogany, veneered with satinwood, rosewood, tulipwood, ebony, and boxwood. Photo courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Gift of Horace W. Brock in honor of G. Peabody Gardner, Jr. Photograph (c) Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Regency "Buhl" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Reclining John Wakes Up for $52,000
Was it an early copy of Caravaggio's John the Baptist (Reclining)? Did Caravaggio produce the original? There are some questions yet to be answered. A knowledgeable bidder risked $51,750 for the 521/2" x 591/2" oil on canvas.Jack Lorimer Gray oil on canvas, 251/2" x 451/2" (sight size), $46,000.Thomaston Place Auction ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winnetka Antiques Show: Celebrating 40 Years
Chicago sisters Gwen and Melissa Marks traveled to Winnetka to search through buttons from Flapper Alley, Milwaukee. "It's hard to find fun buttons," said Gwen, who hunts them for sweaters she makes.Winnetka, Illinoisby Danielle ArnetTalk about bad luck. As if the sinking economy weren't enough, the gods of weather really ... (Read More)
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(Show)Reinvented Tailgate Show Aims to Remove the Variables, Keep the Verve
Nashville, Tennesseeby Sarah CampbellBurlington, Iowa, dealer Pat Meier of Privy Antiques, far right, closes a sale to Steve Evans, a Texas dealer who does not exhibit here but comes to buy. His purchases, in the foreground, included a wall box, breadboards, a small crock, and a pantry box.Paul Cox of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Music Valley: Show Grows in New Venue
Nashville, Tennesseeby Sarah CampbellThis was the last show for retiring dealers Bob and Kathy Kimmel of Panama City, Florida, who are 18-year veterans at Music Valley. The couple priced everything in their booth at 40% off and were down to just a few smalls by Sunday.Barrett Menson of Ashby, Massachusetts, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Suzor-Cote's 1918 "Tapping Maple Trees" Tops Opener
Applause came from more than 600 people attending this sale when this wonderful 81/4" x 10"oil on board, Tapping Maple Trees by Marc-Aurele de Foy Suzor-Cote (1869-1937), brought $61,000 ($50,056). It was signed and dated on the reverse in pencil "L'Erabliere Arthabaska-3-Avril-1918, PQ." Suzor-Cote grew up in Arthabaska, a small ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Deaccessioning Legislation Introduced in New York
by Betty FloodLegislation to define and regulate deaccessioning from a museum's collection has been introduced by Assemblymen Richard Brodsky (D-West-chester) and Matthew Titone (D-Staten Island). Also included is a proposal that a study be done by the New York State Board of Regents to consider and make recommendations about whether ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Las Vegas Jewelry Show Moves
The Las Vegas Antique Jewelry & Watch Show will be held at Bally's Las Vegas Hotel & Casino for a five-day run, May 28-June 1. This year's show has grown by more than 20%, totaling more than 350 exhibitors within walking distance to the JCK Las Vegas show.The annual trade-only ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fire at Sodus, New York, Shaker Dwelling
by Fran KramerOn February 5, the Sodus, New York, Shaker dwelling, built between 1833 and 1835, suffered a serious fire. It was originally built to house the First Family of the Shakers at that community. The buildings and grounds have had various owners since 1838, when most of the entire ... (Read More)
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