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(Show)Modernism: A Century of Style and Design
New York Cityby Lita Solis-Cohen ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail A Change of PlanIt had been my intention this month to clear the 2008 decks with a selection of those pictures, pieces of furniture, swords, clocks, ceramics, and even cigarette lighters from the multitude of end of year sales that I had marked for inclusion in ... (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 or phone orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth edited by Lynne Zacek Bassett (University Press ... (Read More)
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(Show)Historic Alexandria Antiques Show
Alexandria, Virginiaby Walter C. Newman During the preview evening's festivities, Delton, Michigan, dealer Joseph Saviano got acquainted with Alexandria denizen, and resident of nearby Mount Vernon, General George Washington (Carl Closs).Closs, who has presented his "living biography" of General Washington in various venues for 11 years, remained in character for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Books, Manuscripts, Americana
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Christie'sAn East Prospect of the City of Philadelphia; taken by George Heap from the Jersey Shore, under the Direction of Nicholas Skull, Surveyor General of the Province of Pennsylvania. Engraved by G. Vandergucht, London: published according to Act of Parliament, 1 September 1754. ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Assistive Technology
by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netWindows built-in Magnifier and On-Screen Keyboard being used together with a word processor.Many antiquers depend on their computers for things such as writing letters and using the Internet for research, buying, or selling, but suppose reduced vision or mobility interferes with using a computer. Such problems ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenIt was really crowded on Sunday evening, and people looked at pictures carefully.Thomas Colville (right), who with Alexander Acevedo thought up the idea for The American Art Fair. That's a Thomas Eakins on the wall. Colville sold two pictures at the Sunday evening opening.Eric Baumgartner of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Collection of Nicolas Cage Opens the Lock to Dracula, Frankenstein, and a Phantom
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Texasby Richard de ThuinPhotos courtesy Heritage Auction GalleriesThe first filming of Frankenstein, based on the 1818 novel by Mary Shelley, was the 1910 Edison Manufacturing Company's silent version, which was a bit crude in construction. The next time up for Shelley's monster occurred in 1931 when ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Americana, Including the Civil War and the West
Mammoth-plate Alexander Gardner photograph of Abraham Lincoln, 181/2" x 15" on a cream mount, mount and print with minor soiling and foxing, $34,662.50 (est. $10,000/15,000).Louis Lumiere cinematograph, circa 1895, $30,000 (est. $4000/ 6000).Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonHe just needed a few more Washington lemons.Cowan's auction of historical Americana offered 1337 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Laura Fisher, New York City
In the TradeLaura Fisher, New York Cityby Frank DoneganLaura Fisher with some of her 300 or so hooked rugs. She also has dozens of rag carpets and braided rugs.A corner of Fisher's quilt room where she stores approximately 500 quilts. "I have a big inventory," she said. "If I'd become ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale Offers Different Perspectives
Garth's, Delaware, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Garth'sIt comes down to perspective. During Garth's annual Thanksgiving weekend auction on November 28 and 29, 2008, in Delaware, Ohio, two contrasting views were expressed to the Garth's staff. One person with a home full of early American furniture and accessories expressed nervousness over ... (Read More)
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(Feature)NHADA Directory
The newly revised 2009 directory of the New Hampshire
Antiques Dealers Association will be available by the end of February. The directory
will list 286 members in good standing, including addresses, phone numbers, e-mail
addresses, and their specialties. The New Hampshire dealers are listed alphabetically
by town. There are dealers ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dawson & Nye to Begin Free Weekly Walk-in Appraisal Days and Monthly Gallery Talks
Dawson & Nye to Begin Free Weekly Walk-in Appraisal Days and Monthly Gallery TalksDawson & Nye, the Morris Plains, New Jersey, auction house, will begin a free weekly appraisal service in its galleries. Each Monday between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., the gallery will be open to anyone wishing to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clock Market: "Running a Little Slow"
R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts, Manchester, New Hampshireby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy Schmitt'sThe sale's top lot, a circa 1889 Seth Thomas Regulator No. 10, was pictured on the catalog's inside cover. In a 72" tall walnut case with burled accents, it has an eightday weight-driven movement, a good signed silvered dial, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie's: "The Cup Is Half Full"
George Washington at Valley Forge by Tompkins Harrison Matteson, signed and dated 1854, oil on canvas, 36" x 48", together with a preliminary sketch, sold on the phone for $314,500 (est. $300,000/ 500,000). It is a record for the artist. In May 2003 it was sold by the Sherburne Public ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toys and Other Things
Noel Barrett Antiques & Auctions Ltd., New Hope, PennsylvaniaSalesman's samples are in demand, especially when they have to do with agriculture. This complex and fully functional working sales model of a double gang-plow for The Peru Plow & Wheel Co., with the words "Pace-Maker/ Gang/ 'It Sets the Pace,'" retains ... (Read More)
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(Auction)What Price History?
Bloomsbury Auctions, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Bloomsbury AuctionsThis vellum manuscript wedding certificate of Isaac Norris Jr. and Sarah Logan was signed by family, friends, and notables of Philadelphia Quaker society. Their 1739 wedding was one of the most significant social events in the city's early history. The document ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's Americana Auction
The
Ten Eyck family William and Mary turned and figured walnut high chest of drawers, New York, circa 1730, 72" high x 443/4" wide x 24" deep, sold
for $68,500 (est. $30,000/ 100,000) to Downingtown,Pennsylvania, dealer PhilipW. Bradley. A closely relatedexample sold on October 28,2004, at the sale
of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Spend $6.2 Million and Name the Rock
The 101.27-carat diamond that Christie's sold at its spring 2008 jewelry sale in Hong Kong for $6,211,249 has been named "The Shizuka Diamond" by its new owner as a gift for his wife of 16 years.The Shizuka diamond is the largest colorless diamond ever sold at auction in Asia and, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gray Oil Leads Farmer Sale
High lot of the Farmer sale was this oil on canvas by Jack Lorimer Gray (1927-1981), Paying in the Nets, depicting two fishermen in an open rowboat working their nets in choppy seas. A fog-shrouded coastline is visible in the background. The image is 25" x 36" (sight size) and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Remains Strong at Green Valley
This miniature (41/4" tall) saltglazed stoneware pitcher marked "S Bell" emerged as the high lot of the sale. (The catalog attributed it to Samuel Bell when he worked in Winchester, Virginia, from about 1825 to 1842.) It is heavily decorated with cobalt floral and feather designs as well as other ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Collecting on Your Own Terms
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the past, we've talked about different types of collectors and given our thoughts on ways to collect, but after giving it a bit more thought, we've realized that the concept of collecting itself may have some negative connotations. Let's face it, collecting as a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Huillier Indicted and Arrested in Scottsdale
by Alan M. PetrilloRobert Huillier The owner of an antiques appraisal business in Scottsdale, Arizona, has been indicted and arrested on fraud and felony theft charges in connection with allegedly defrauding people out of cash and property that police estimate totals $2.5 million.Robert Huillier, 48, was taken into custody on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Test Your Skills: Find the Molding
by Joe CohenAntiques are not only interesting, useful, beautiful, and wonderful, they can be challenging and frustrating to collectors, dealers, appraisers, researchers, and authors. I have been involved in all of these positions at one time or another over the last 40 years. For the last 20 years, I have ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Rare Poe Materials Sell via Private Treaty and Benefit Auction
by Jeanne Schinto"My love, she sleeps! Oh, may her sleepAs it is lasting, so be deep!Soft may the worms about her creep!"Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), "The Sleeper" (1831)Even before the start of the many year-long celebrations of the bicentennial of Edgar Allan Poe's birth on January 19, 1809, two Poe ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Hibbard Heyday
Carl W. Stinson Inc., North Reading, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy Carl W. Stinson Inc.This Hibbard winter landscape, a 231/4" x 29" oil on canvas, sold to a phone bidder for $27,600.Selling in the room for $37,375 was Winter Solstice by Aldro T. Hibbard. The 283/4" x 333/4" oil on canvas ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Alderfer's December Catalog Sale
Sanford Alderfer Auction & Appraisal, Hatfield, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Alderfer'sThe top jewelry lot was this string of South Sea pearls with an 18k gold and diamond clasp. Estimated at $2500/3500, the pearls sold for $9660.Set of four George Nakashima walnut grass-seated chairs, purchased from the artist in 1956, 271/2" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Augusta Auctions Formed
Karen Augusta and her husband, Bob Ross, have formed Augusta Auctions, a new fashion and textile auction company, and will be holding spring and fall sales in New York City. The auctions, on April 29 and November 4, will be held at the St. Paul auditorium, one block from Columbus ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Brandeis University Plans to Close Rose Art Museum and Sell Collection
by Daniel GrantThe Rose Art Museum. Photo courtesy Mike Lovett/Brandeis University.Picture in your mind the traditional college art history class, where great works of art are discussed and images of them are projected onto screens or viewed in books. Countless students have undergone this method of learning, and learning happens.Now ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Two Ontario Collections Feel the Pinch of the Economy
A superb piece of Canadian material history. This prisoner's box was made by John Gibson of Toronto while in jail for taking part in the Mackenzie Rebellion of 1837. Mackenzie, leader of the rebels, wanted Upper Canada (now the province of Ontario) to become a separate republic. He and several ... (Read More)
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(Show)West Coast Vintage Holiday Show
Jonathan Crawley of Blue Caboose Antiques, Portland, Oregon, had delights galore. One of the more animated and noteworthy toys offered by Crawley was this tin windup GI Joe in his Jeep. When wound up, the toy shows that Joe needs driving lessons. His movements are erratic, he likes to stand ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Changes Take Shape at Green Valley Auctions, Inc.
by Walter C. NewmanIn late 2007 Green Valley Auctions president and senior auctioneer Jeffrey Evans announced that there were several changes in the works for the Mt. Crawford, Virginia, company (M.A.D., December 2007, p. 28-D). He reported a plan to modernize and expand Green Valley's physical space in order to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Extreme Makeover for Lang's
by Jeanne SchintoLang's Sporting Collectables, Inc. of Waterville, New York, known throughout the world as America's premier auction house for vintage fishing collectibles, is making big changes. Those changes will start at Lang's next auction on April 17 and 18.First, bidding will be completely virtual. People may bid either on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Conroy Files for Bankruptcy
by David HewettOn January 29, Elbridge, New York, auctioneer Timothy W. Conroy, facing unsolvable financial difficulties, took the only step left open to him and filed a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States Bankruptcy Court Northern District of New York.Conroy, in his mid-40's and the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Some Sales (Including a Big One) at Museum Show
Sandy Jacobs brought items ranging from paper to stone, dating from the 1840's to 1940's. On the wall at right, a circa 1938 signed and numbered gelatin silver print by Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), East Side Portrait, was $7500. Next to it, tagged $1750, Evening Mist 4th Avenue, showing the New ... (Read More)
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(Show)Some Sales Made Despite National Drop in Consumer Confidence
Wilmington, Delawareby Lita Solis-CohenThere was always a crowd at The Philadelphia Print Shop stand. Don Cresswell and Kelli Lucas of the printshop talked about the wall maps of Chester County, engraved by Joseph Yeager. The Havell print after John James Audubon of Columbia Jays was $28,000.Some business was done. Teresa ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: The Useful Internet
Computer Column #242by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netThe Internet provides useful information in many areas. This month we will list some ways that the Internet can provide useful information.-Shipping CostsAnyone who sells antiques on the Internet or through print advertising must know the cheapest but safe and timely way to ship ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 20th International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenDouglas Dawson Gallery, Chicago, offered a group of three Ameca-style figures from Jalisco on Mexico's west coast, priced from $16,000 to $19,000. Behind them, from the Quatchi tribe of Togo in West Africa are 20th-century figures, $26,000 and $22,000. The textile mantle on the wall is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boston Shows Its Mettle
Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoSavenkov Gallery, Midlothian, Virginia, asked $16,000 for the circa 1800 Austrian Neoclassical cherrywood secretary against the back wall. The circa 1830 Vienna Biedermeier walnut center table on a reeded column base was $9800. Hanging above it, the circa 1800 Swedish Empire hand-painted and gilt Bohemian glass lantern ... (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 or phone orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dutch Oil on Canvas Leads Thomaston Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoTop lot of the three-day sale, an oil on board by Floris Arntzenius, $66,000.Oil on canvas landscape by Charles Warren Eaton, $44,000.Some major American and European artworks led the way at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries' three-day auction, November 7-9, 2008, in Thomaston, Maine. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Roos from Cyr
Cyr Auction Company, Gray, Maineby Mark SiscoTwo works by Philipp Peter Roos, also known as Rosa da Tivoli, sold for $12,075 (above) and $12,650 (below).The cornerstone of Cyr Auction Company's November 29, 2008, offering in Gray, Maine, was a series of about 200 artworks from various sources, featuring names as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ritchie Joins Stair Galleries
Walter G. Ritchie Jr. is the new director of exposition sales at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York. Ritchie will oversee the firm's monthly exposition sales, including identifying and describing the property, organizing the on-line catalog, meeting with clients, and promoting the auctions. He will also assist with the cataloging ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hard Times and Hard Weather Are Double Whammy for New Hampshire
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(Fragment)Free Art Show at Straube
Win Straube, president and CEO of Straube Corporation, has announced the Straube Center Winter Fine Art Show, running through February 28 at the office and retail complex on Route 31 at West Franklin Avenue in Pennington, New Jersey.The winter show will feature award-winning artists, including Paul Rigby, sculptor; Karin Batten, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Variety Sale with Machmer Stuff Brings $578,336
by Karl PassPook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania, held its largest variety sale to date on December 4 and 5, 2008. The 1528-lot sale grossed $578,336.85 (including buyers' premiums). Included were roughly 200 lots from the estate of Richard (Dick) and Rosemarie Machmer. The firm had held a catalog sale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sir William Johnson Papers CD Available
Twenty volumes of papers and correspondence of Sir William Johnson have been released in a revised second-edition digital CD format by the New York State Library. The papers are part of the collections of the library.Johnson was British Superintendent of Indian Affairs in New York from 1755 through 1774. He ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Mark McDonald, Hudson, New York
by Frank DoneganMark McDonald with a piece by Tejo Remy for the Droog design group. It's called "You Can't Lay Down Your Memories." Remy scavenges random drawers from used furniture, builds little boxes for them to slide in and out of, and holds the whole assemblage together with a strap ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Beware Jargon
by Steve Proffitt"Your Honor, this action is barred by res judicata."Do you know what that means?How about this: "We're seeking a jury instruction on res ipsa loquitur."Or this: "This issue is collaterally estopped."Or: "Your Honor, I'm seeking an order nunc pro tunc."You probably don't know the meaning of these terms. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2008
Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Cincinnati Art GalleriesThere weren't just bidders in attendance when Cincinnati Art Galleries held its Holiday Sale 2008 in Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 1 and 2 last year. There was also the proverbial pachyderm in the salesroom.Rookwood Black Iris glazevase by Kataro Shirayamadani, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CROPF Appointed in Fred Leighton Bankruptcy Case
December 2008 was a very busy month for the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York, handling the Chapter 11 filing of the jewelry firm Fred Leighton Holding, Inc. The bankruptcy involves a mixed bag of creditors and owners. They range from colored gemstone king and American ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: How to Help Beat the Recession
In early January we received in the mail a copy of a letter, excerpted below. Written by a collector to Bobby Cianfrocca of Salt Marsh Antiques, Rowley, Massachusetts, it's an object lesson in how shop owners -as well as auction houses-can make a difference in the woeful economy. "Just a ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Another Inconvenient Truth
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondThe election behind us was certainly a study in ways to communicate with people. The number one lesson: tell people what they want to believe.We're not slamming Barack Obama. He got elected largely by telling people what he believes America is and what he believes ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail The Markham marriage dish, an important piece of English delftware of 1649-51 that was acquired for $80,080 by the Milwaukee Art Museum in a Bonhams sale of December 10.Markham Marriage Dish Is Off to Milwaukee...A number of important collections of English delftware have been formed in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Exhibitors and Manager Put Enormous Energy into December One-Day Show
Rick Scott of San Francisco, who sells, and has named his business, Antique Boxes, Fine & Rare Objects of Vertu, offered this stunning circa 1850 box, a rare object made in India during what Scott and others call the Raj, which literally means reign and refers to the period when ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Treasures Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenBarbara Barran of Classic Rug Collection, Inc., New York City, offered her Gee's Bend collection of hand-knotted rugs inspired by Gee's Bend quilts and licensed by the community, which receives a royalty. The rugs, made with 100 knots to a square inch of wool and silk colored ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings and Works on Paper with Fall Americana
Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Cowan'sFaberge cigarette case by Michael Perchin, nephrite, 1899-1903, gold hinges and thumb rest inset with diamonds, hairline on back edge of case, overall very good condition, $17,625.Patriotic Civil War memorial by Howard Chandler Christy (1872-1952), oil on canvas, 391/4" x 461/4", signed, small tear, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bountiful $1.8 Million Toy Yield
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jerseyby Dick FrizPhotos courtesy Bertoia AuctionsThe trophy entry and Bertoia's three-day high achiever, Schoenhut's boxed Teddy's Adventures in Africa, a midsize set, #20/84, circa 1910, bagged $34,500.One of Bertoia's sleepers, a Britains comic bicyclist with Puck at the wheel (cataloged as French), of cast metal with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Of Fishing, Fysshynge, and Other Sports
Lang's Sporting Collectables, Inc., Boxborough, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy Lang'sThe Hosmer Mechanical Froggie, 5" "in the relaxed position," sold to an absentee bidder for $17,250 (est. $6000/9000). In "unfished" Ex/Ex+ condition with original box, it was made in the mid-1930's by the J.D. Hosmer Company of Dearborn, Michigan. The hinged ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Board Revokes License
by David HewettOn December 3, 2008, the Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers announced the decision it had reached after a meeting held in Gardiner, Maine, on November 6. At that meeting, the board decided to revoke the auctioneer license of James Cyr, 55, of Gray, Maine.The board took the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Lehman Brothers Collection
by Daniel GrantAt the tail end of the demise of the 150-year-old Lehman Brothers investment bank is the disposition of the company's 3500-piece art collection. The current value of the collection, which includes sculptures by Damien Hirst and Louise Nevelson, paintings by Wayne Thiebaud, and graphic prints by Jasper Johns ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Royalty Has Its Bidders: The Schwarzenberg Collection
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolinaby Pete PrunklTimoleon Lobrichon's delightful genre painting Jouets in a painted and giltwood frame opened at $50,000 and sold within estimate for $92,000, the sale's top lot. Brunk Auctions photo.A unique and exceptionally well-executed work, this 12" x 10" book of drawings features maps and views ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Respectable Decoy Auction Results in Easton
Guyette & Schmidt, Inc., Easton, Marylandby Karl H. PassPhotos courtesy Guyette & SchmidtThis pintail drake from Kankakee, Illinois, is an important decoy. Made around the turn of the 20th century, it was reportedly used on the Kankakee Marshes, which were drained in 1910. It is a great form with a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Autumn Art Auction Shows Tenor of the Times
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerClifford Warren Ashley's Provincetown Bar and Bakery sold to a phone bidder for $38,513. The very blue 30" x 36" oil on canvas was the sale's top lot."River View" by Louis Aston Knight (1873-1948), a 26" x 32" oil on canvas, brought $18,960 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Monroe Antique Show & Sale: When Walls Come Down
Mike Huber of Monroe,Washington, had a passel of clocks and turn-of-the-last-century artwork in his booth along with a smattering of turn-of-the-last-century furniture. His timepieces caught the eye, and this rare Italianate-form Gilbert kitchen mantel clock in old yellow paint was a standout. Huber priced the 1890's clock at $635, noting ... (Read More)
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(Show)No Bailout Needed for BIFAS
Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPreview attendees took a long look at Birds Perched on Winter Branches, 1935, by Maud Earl (British/American, 1864-1943). The 40" x 28" oils and mixed media on board were $22,500 the pair from Boston dealer Martha Richardson Fine Art, the only dealer who has exhibited at every ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)dmg World Media Sells Florida Show
The long-running West Palm Beach Antiques & Collectibles Show has been sold by dmg World Media. The new owners are show promoters Kay and Bill Puchstein and Yvonne and Jim Tucker. The name of the show has changed to the West Palm Beach Antiques Festival.According to Yvonne Tucker, the 2009 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brooklyn Flea Moves Indoors for Winter
The Brooklyn Flea has temporarily rented a vacant 5000-square-foot storefront at 76 Front Street in DUMBO (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) with room for 25 vendors. The "Winter Pop-Up" will run weekends until March 28 and 29. The hours will be 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. The location is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Green Valley Sells the Duff and Molly Allen Glass Collection
Green Valley Auctions, Inc., Mt. Crawford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanPhotos courtesy Green Valley AuctionsThe high lot of the Allen collection sale was this 1840-55 openwork pressed fruit basket on stand from the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co. The fiery opalescent basket displays a 32-point rim, 16 vertical staves, and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pottery Market Is Steady at Crocker Farm
Crocker Farm, Inc., York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassEstimated at $8000/12,000, this molded redware whippet in original black paint, signed "Samuel Bell Strasburg 1844," sold for $12,075. Recently discovered in Virginia, the piece is unusual because of its straight-legged pose. As stated in the catalog, all previously known Bell whippets have ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show Planned for Lancaster
Frank Gaglio and Barn Star Productions will launch a new event, The Lancaster Antiques and Fine Arts Show, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on December 5 and 6.Located in the brand-new Lancaster County Convention Center, this inaugural show will present a vast array of Americana, folk and fine art, antique toys and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heart of Country in March This Year
The Heart of Country antiques show, held at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel, has announced that its sole 2009 show will be held March 12-14. Various seminars and exhibits are planned for this annual event celebrating 28 years showcasing the best Americana dealers presenting authentic antiques in room settings.Show director Pat ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Morphy Sells Americana
A Simon Willard tall clock in a highly figured mahogany Roxbury case with line and corner fan inlay sold to a private collector for $63,250 (est. $40,000/60,000).The collector who purchased the Simon Willard tall clock also bought this Federal shelf clock by Aaron Willard. It has pierced fretwork, elaborate shell, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture and Pennsylvania Sale
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Freeman'sThis Francis-Fisher-Coxe mahogany card table with carving attributed to the Garvan carver, Philadelphia, circa 1762, had never been published before this sale. It's carved with acanthus leaves and an applique on its skirt. Its top has rectangular candlestick recesses and oval counter recesses. Its ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Peachblow Power
According to Early Auction Company in Cincinnati, Ohio, art glass continues to remain strong at auction. The firm's October 24 and 25, 2008, auction in Cincinnati featured a decorated Mt. Washington Glass Co. Peachblow pitcher that, according to the auctioneers, is "considered by many to be the finest piece of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Andrew Holter Joins Christie's Americana Department
Andrew Holter has joined Christie's Americana department for six months to fill the temporary vacancy that occurred when Martha Willoughby, Christie's American furniture specialist, left in December 2008 on maternity leave.For the last four years, Holter has worked in business development for John Nye at Dawson & Nye Auctioneers in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Accounts Receivable Clerk Indicted for Theft of $724,000 from Skinner
by David HewettOn December 17, 2008, the Massachusetts Office of the Attorney General announced that a Worcester County Grand Jury had returned indictments charging a 72-year-old Hudson woman, Joanne Shea, with the theft of $724,000 worth of cash and antiques from Skinner, Inc. of Bolton, Massachusetts.Shea was alleged to have ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Who's Holding the Bag?
A collector has filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York against Christie's, claiming the painting she bought there 17 years ago was stolen in World War II by the Nazis and is now unsalable. The complaint was filed by Richard Altman, attorney for Doss, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Foliage Shows Draw Crowds in Northern Vermont
by David HewettMalchione Antiques, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, carries a variety of hunting and fishing related goods. The snowshoes at top by Tubbs, 1940-50, were $225. The Penobscot basket from the 1930's was $795. The bufflehead drake decoy was made by J.D.M. Keefer of Woodstock, Vermont (now working in Maine), and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Music Valley: A Successful Shakedown Run at the Nashville Fairgrounds
Nashville, Tennesseeby Karla Klein AlbertsonThe display set up by Woody and Nancy Straub of Umatilla, Florida, always has a strong Western feel. The unusual Arts and Crafts desk was $1200, the fancy fringed gloves on top were $1450, and the corner cupboard filled with Indian baskets and Pueblo pottery was ... (Read More)
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(Show)The International Art + Design Fair
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenThis Art Nouveau period (circa 1900) paneled library, an example of French Arts and Crafts, was designed by Paul Jouve (1878-1973) and created by Eugene Grasset (1845-1917) and Alexandre Bigot (1862-1927). It was carved from solid French oak and installed in the home of publisher Charles ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Still Beating
It's not quite a thousand words, but the photograph, courtesy of show promoter Trisha McElroy, speaks volumes. It was accompanied by a press release describing McElroy's first monthly Concord, New Hampshire, antiques show. "Recession? Not in New Hampshire!" screamed the headline.The November 8, 2008, show was successful, according to McElroy, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA Elects New Officers
Top from left: Ken Pike, Rich Bojko, Kathy Schoemer, Melissa Alden, and Dennis Berard. Bottom from left: Sharon Platt, Gail Piatt, Beverly Longacre, Linda Tate, and Thomas Thompson. Not pictured: Peter Sawyer and Peter Austin.The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association held its annual business meeting November 13, 2008, at the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Auctioneer Arrested, Felony Charges Filed at State Level
by David HewettOn November 30, 2008, officers from the New York State Police arrested Elbridge, New York, auctioneer Timothy W. Conroy and charged him with felony grand larceny. The charges spring from his alleged failure to pay a consignor at his June 7, 2008, sale the $19,000 owed to him. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Woman Arrested for 1990 Murder
Barbara Kogan, 65, was arrested on November 24, 2008, for murder in the 1990 contract killing of her husband, antiques dealer and real estate investor George Kogan. The two had opened an antiques business, Kogan & Company, on East 76th Street in New York City in 1987. Kogan faces a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Insurance in Russia
by Daniel GrantTo the art auction world Russia looks like a pretty good bet. Over the past decade Russia produced a new crop of millionaires and billionaires, fueled with petrodollars and eager to purchase expensive artwork."It's very exciting to see all these new collectors. It's a snowball effect," said Joanna ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)When Does Collecting Stop and Dealing Begin?
by David HewettCollector Richard Hopp of Van Nuys, California, is battling the city of Los Angeles and its police department over their definitions of "dealers." In November 2008 Hopp filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the city and sought "Declaratory Relief to Determine Validity of Ordinances and Injunction."Richard ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Thanksgiving Day Sale
Top lot in the sale was this 261/2" x 471/2" oil on board by John Hammond (1843-1939) showing a Saint John harbor scene, signed and dated 1897, that fetched $18,000.There was not a lot of early furniture at this sale, and these five arrow-back Nova Scotia Windsor chairs in early ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)D.C. Antique Photo Show Under New Management
The D.C. Antique Photo Show will make its 26th annual spring appearance under new management on Sunday, March 15, at its regular venue, the Holiday Inn Rosslyn/Key Bridge in Arlington, Virginia.The change was announced by Tom Rall, a director of Diverse Markets Management (DMM), a Washington, D.C., firm that is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tailgate Antique Show in Nashville: New Look for an Old Classic
Nashville, Tennesseeby Karla Klein AlbertsonOutside exhibitors at the Tailgate Antique Show can now set up under cover in an open shed between the parking lot and the main building. Here is the display of canoes and outdoor gear from Jon and Carla Magoun of South Paris, Maine.At the booth of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo
Fishersville, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanThis "wall of Griswold" was found in the booth of Mary Anne's Antiques & Things, Covington, Virginia. The popular cast-iron pieces ranged in date from 1880 to 1950and in price from $25 for a small newer skillet to $300 for a #12 skillet with its original ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Studio Furniture from High Craft to High Glam
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenModern Americana: Studio Furniture from High Craft to High GlamEdited by Todd Merrill and Julie V. Iovine, with text by Jeffrey Head, Julie V. Iovine, Erin Johnson, Roberta Maneker, Todd Merrill, and Peter WolfRizzoli International Publications, 2008,272 pages, hardbound, $75.Modern Americana is the book that dealer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Book Reviews
Book ReviewsThe Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs by Joseph Cunningham (Yale University Press, 2008, 304 pp., hardbound, $65 from Yale University Press, [www.yalebooks.com] or [800] 405-1619).A traveling exhibition of furniture by Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) will begin in June 2009 at the Milwaukee Art Museum, travel to the Dallas Museum of ... (Read More)
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(Show)USArtists
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenGerald Peters Gallery, New York City, asked $195,000 for Waiting to Enter by Martha Walter, a 1920 oil on canvas of a Black family, 40" x 48", signed lower right.Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, Illinois, asked $750,000 for Hot Rhythm, a 40" x 50" oil on ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Adirondack Antiques Show is Back with Gusto
Blue Mountain Lake, New Yorkby Betty FloodRalph Kylloe of Lake George, New York, offered this throne chair made of mountain laurel roots, 1890-1910, from Skowhegan, Maine, for $4800.It was an absolute delight to enter the grounds of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, and see the quality ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)America's Founding Document
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenDeclaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America's Founding DocumentEdited by Christian Y. Dupont and Peter S. OnufUniversity of Virginia Library, 2008, 104 pages, hardbound, $29.95 plus S/H from University of Virginia Press (www.upress.virginia.edu) or 1-800-831-3406. With the upcoming presidential inauguration, it is a good time ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Life After Lovejoy #21
by Marilis HornidgeWhen this occasional column began back in July 1988, I never figured there would be enough mysteries with an antiques background after the retirement of that phenomenal divvie and world-class bounder, Lovejoy himself. I underestimated both the magnetism of the backgrounder in the mystery field and the tenacity ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Making the Best of a Tough Situation
The Cobbs Auctioneers, LLC, Peterborough, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoEmile Gruppe, oil on canvas of a Florida train station, $19,550.Quillwork decorated teepee bag with He Dog provenance, $1725.What does an auction house do when the week prior to an auction the stock market tanks and sends millions of investors into a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jo Laird Leaves Christie's
Jo Backer Laird has joined the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, bringing over 25 years of experience to the firm, including ten years as senior vice president and general counsel at Christie's Inc., where she was responsible for all legal issues relating to the company's business in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Forum: Speaking from the Heart
The 28th annual Heart of Country Antiques Show, to be held March 12-14 at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, will introduce a new event, designed to reemphasize the need to learn and grow as a collector and dedicated to education. Novice shoppers and experienced buyers alike can attend ... (Read More)
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