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(Issue Story)The Clocks of S-Town
A Book Review
After the 1995 publication of Dava Sobel's bestseller Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, my clock-repair customers regularly asked me if I knew about this book. Even to the present day, they still want to repeat to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Boston Auction
Doyle, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle's new Boston auction gallery, which opened January 10 in the Back Bay, was the site of its inaugural auction June 8, introducing itself to the public.
Doyle's Boston gallery is located in the heart of Back Bay at Clarendon Street between Newbury Street and Commonwealth Avenue. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2023
A few British salerooms have taken of late to declining to reveal the prices achieved in what are, in fact, public auctions, which makes rather a nonsense of the term, but plenty of other auctioneers continue to reveal what they have achieved in the way of sales, and it is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Partners in Withington Auction Form New Entity
In the summer of 2021, it was announced that Hillsborough, New Hampshire-based Withington Auction, Inc., had added new partners: Kenneth Labnon, Gary Yeaton, and Mike Reopel. The three new partners added sales of general line antiques-American furniture, clocks, and decorative arts-to the auction house.
Marcia and Larry Leizure, owners of Withington ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Charity Auctions
Don Henley of the rock band Eagles no doubt saw what Heritage Auctions called the "staggering" images of lines of cars waiting in Dallas for donated meals in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. When asked to contribute a signed guitar for a Heritage-organized auction to benefit the North ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Landscape Makes $2.45 Million
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
After a ten-minute bidding battle between auctioneer Alasdair Nichol executing an absentee bid and vice president and senior art specialist David Weiss on the phone, this large Maine landscape, Jetty Tree, by N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), oil on canvas, 481/4" x 40", painted circa 1936, sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show
Lewisville, Indiana
The summer edition of A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show, held June 2 and 3 in Lewisville, Indiana, has set the event on solid footing.
After the show made a successful debut in December with 20 dealers, the promoters-Pam Wise, Tom and Sue Saunders, and Richard McKnight-began ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
For the last ten years, the Penn Dry Goods Market, a textile and antiques show with textile history lectures, has benefited the Schwenkfelder Museum and Library's general operating fund. On June 2 and 3, 23 dealers filled the second-floor galleries with needlework, quilts, coverlets, woven objects, linens, yardage, sewing ... (Read More)
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(Show)Show Runs into a Monster Problem
MADA Spring Antiques Show, Topsham, Maine
The third annual MADA Spring Antiques Show, produced by the Maine Antiques Dealers Association, was held June 3 at the Topsham Fairgrounds in Topsham, Maine. A series of unfortunate events resulted in low attendance for this semiannual show.
The first was the weather. The show was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colby Receives Significant Gift from Marin Family
The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, announced it has received 184 works of art from the estate of Norma B. Marin. Marin (1930-2022) was married to John Marin Jr, son of the Modernist painter John Marin.
Over the last 50 years, the Marin family has gifted to the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Mark Indursky of Lost Found Art
When M.A.D. recently bumped into Mark Indursky, he was visiting the Found Object Show: Art without Intent in Manhattan. As many collectors will do, he arrived early to peruse what might appeal.
Scoping out the show was certainly an easier endeavor than the time he fished out a crushed bucket from ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Skilled Artistry in Jewelry of Various Periods
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois, held a jewelry, silver, and objects of vertu auction on May 31, with offerings from "the skilled artistry of various periods: antique, Georgian, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, Modernist, mid-century, and contemporary," according to a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York's Investigation of Sotheby's Expands
A court filing on April 21 reveals that the New York attorney general's investigation into alleged improper use of resale certificates at Sotheby's has expanded. In November 2020 New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Sotheby's, accusing the auction house of defrauding the state of New York ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Rhinebeck: Spanning Centuries and Cultures
Rhinebeck, New York
The spring Antiques at Rhinebeck show in Rhinebeck, New York, at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, May 27 and 28, spanned centuries and cultures, from ancient Asian crafts to Art Deco designs. Diversity has always been the key to Rhinebeck's success over the decades, especially since Frank Gaglio and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Randolph Street Market: Celebrating 20 Years
Chicago, Illinois
Asked to describe her creation, Chicago entrepreneur Sally Schwartz put it this way: the Randolph Street Market is "a unique fancy antiques and vintage market with emphasis on vintage fashion, decorative arts, and arts of all kinds," she said. But there's more, and this is key. "It is a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Book Reviews
Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020 by Deborah C. Pollack (Schiffer Publishing, 2022, 184 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from Schiffer Publishing [www.schifferbooks.com] or [610] 593-1777).
The first thing you should do with Deborah C. Pollack's Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020 is flip through its pages to scan the images ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful Online-Only Event Sparks Jeffers's Next Venture
Amelia Jeffers, Auctioneer & Appraiser, Columbus, Ohio
For the past few years auctioneer and appraiser Amelia Jeffers has been a solopreneur in the auctioneer business and loving it.
"There is something about only having to manage yourself which can be very freeing," Jeffers explained. Sure, several of Jeffers's work projects require ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Bonhams
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams held its spring American art sale the afternoon of May 25 in New York City right before the Memorial Day weekend. The house offered 109 lots, of which 87 sold, for a sell-through rate of 80%.
The sale total, including buyers' premiums, was $2,735,324. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Shane Hawkins's Collection
Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers, Richmond, Indiana
No buyer's premium charged.
This one is personal. The story, for now, begins with a miscellaneous box of vintage photographs offered during the May 24 and 25 sale held by Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers in Richmond, Indiana. At the bottom of the flat was a newspaper ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Horans' Pewter Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Robert Horan (1928-2022) was the national ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Curious Plan
How does a relatively new museum get objects? In Tennessee, two legislators want to raid the Tennessee State Museum's storage area.
On January 30 a bill was introduced in the Tennessee State Legislature that would require the Tennessee State Museum to turn over all artifacts relating to the Confederate States of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Quest for the Chest: Madeline Yale Wynne's Masterpiece
Photographs by Penny Leveritt, courtesy Historic Deerfield
An inadvertent encounter with an unassuming turn-of-the-20th-century photograph of a 1903 bride's chest, tucked in among hundreds of other images, prompted a two-decades-long search to bring the chest home. The improbable, against-all-odds hunt led eventually to a fund-raising campaign for the linen-style chest's acquisition ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Shop Raided
Antiques Shop Raided
Executing a search warrant, officers from Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confiscated dozens of items from the Antique Freak shop in Wailuku, Hawaii, on May 23.
Shane Rosberg, 42, of Kula was arrested and charged with 26 counts of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minardi Named New Editor of Americana Insights
Scholar, author, and curator Lisa Minardi will serve as the new editor of Americana Insights, a publication focused on 18th- and 19th-century Americana and American folk art. Minardi succeeds founding editor Robert Shaw, who retired at the start of 2023.
Minardi serves as executive director of Historic Trappe and its Center ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sunday in the Country with Rusty
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
At 10:30 on Sunday morning, May 21, auctioneer Rusty Farrin of Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, banged his gavel to begin the firm's Americana, firearms, and sporting goods auction.
The story wasn't the stuff-there was plenty of salable midrange Americana. The story wasn't that Farrin, who rarely ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nashville Visits Springfield
Springfield Extravaganza, Springfield, Ohio
There was a new twist to the Springfield Extravaganza, held May 19-21 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ohio. Promoter Jon Jenkins set aside space in one of the main buildings to house dealers from the Nashville Show, which he manages in Tennessee. The concept offered ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Celebrates Its 70th Installment
Fishersville Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
There is very little new to say about the Fishersville Antiques Expo. That's a good thing. Heritage Promotions, owned by Raymond and Martha Stokes, along with their daughter, Lesley Bartram, seems to have hit on an excellent format and mix of dealers that appear to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Landmark Sale: The Barrow Collection
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Jim Barrow made a living giving advice. He was cofounder and executive vice president of Dallas-based Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney and Strauss (BHMS), the investment firm that managed a third of Vanguard's Windsor II funds. From 1985 to 2019, BHMS rewarded investors with an ... (Read More)
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(Show)Madison Does It Again!
Madison, Georgia
One of the best Americana-focused small antiques shows held its 22nd annual session May 18-20 in Madison, Georgia. Following its standard format of a Thursday evening preview followed by two full days, the Madison Antiques Show & Sale offered 21 dealers' inventories to potential buyers. Dealers came from all ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garth's Americana Sale
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers
Two highly important objects related to Marietta, Ohio, sold as the top lots during the Americana sale held by Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers May 20 in Columbus, Ohio.
Landing of the Pioneers by Sala Bosworth (1805-1890), oil on canvas, unsigned, 23" ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2023
Angelo Testa, IBM Disks, 1952-56, linen plain weave, screenprinted, 513/4" x 1043/4". Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Costume Council Fund. Photo (c) Museum Associates/LACMA.
-Through July 2 -Los Angeles, California
Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982 at Los Angeles County Museum of Art explores how the rise of computer technology, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antique Heirloom Jewels Featuring the Shemonsky Collection at Heritage
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas, has two "Antique Heirloom Jewels" sales each year-one in the spring and one in the fall. This year's spring auction, held May 18, was special because it contained a large group of jewelry from the collection of Peter Shemonsky. Jill ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rescued Tiffany Windows Sold at Freeman's
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
When Paul Brown, a salvage dealer in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, bought two large rose windows encased in the stone walls of St. Paul's Presbyterian Church in West Philadelphia, he had no idea they were made by Louis Comfort Tiffany or had been paid for by John Wanamaker, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Giraffe and Moon Brings $182,700
Hindman, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Hindman
With post-COVID-19 changes affecting many routines in everyday life, here's yet another: starting with its May 2023 art sales, Hindman in Chicago printed separate catalogs for its American and European art auctions. Previously, the sales shared a single catalog. To further separate the genres, sales were ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2023
New York City
With an infusion of new dealers and an increased advertising budget, The American Art Fair, held in New York City May 13-16, with a preview on May 12, had its best showing in its 16 years.
Avery Galleries sold these circa 1935 untitled paintings of swans by Joseph Stella ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Serious Old West History and Collectibles
Old West Show, Grass Valley, California
Climate change? Political paralysis? Southern border problems? These topics may have been discussed over hot dogs and ice cream in the courtyard outside the Old West Show, but inside the showroom, the talk was all knives, rifles, Gold Rush beer trays, cowboy ropes, and fireman ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions' May 12 sale of American art offered a small but thoughtfully curated selection of masterworks that resulted in total sales of more than $6.1 million.
"Diverse Visions: Important Works by American Masters"featured works by notable American artists and by lesser-known artists and rising ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$5 Million Design Sales
Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago Auctions
The 20th-century and modern design sales May 11 and 12 at Rago Auctions were big ones-more than 800 lots of art pottery, 20th-century furniture, studio ceramics, and glass crossed the block in two days and brought more than $5 million. New collectors ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, May 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Name for Utica Museum and Pratt Institute Extension
The Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica, New York, will now be known as Munson. Officials have also announced a master plan to redesign its 10-acre, 25-building campus in downtown Utica.
Currently known as PrattMWP, the college of art and design at Munson will become Pratt Munson starting with the incoming class ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pump Up the Volume
Beneath the Surface
Little in the auction world has changed more than the "back room." Regardless of what it was called, most auction houses used to have either sales or portions of sales where the uncataloged, the odds and ends, ended up.
Auctioneers have lots of euphemisms for this material-cleanout lots, box ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dogs in Art and Sporting Art
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
A small pack of dog and sporting art aficionados were in the salesroom for Doyle's May 10 New York City auction "Dogs in Art & Sporting Art." Held in the back of Doyle's exhibition space on East 87th Street, the live sale offered 154 lots ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Southern Star
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Bonhams Skinner's May 9 Americana sale in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery brought 74 lots of historical and aesthetic interest to the market. The highlight was a southern walnut Chippendale desk-and-bookcase that left its estimate in the dust when it sold for $277,575 (including buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Sentenced to 51 Months in Prison
On March 6 Miami art dealer Eduardo Ulises Martinez was sentenced to 51 months in prison for illegally smuggling sculptures containing ivory and for obstructing justice. Martinez is president of Art Master Collection Corp. and specializes in selling Art Nouveau and Art Deco art.
After a seven-day trial, a federal jury ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)AIM Acquires Kovels, Inc.
Active Interest Media (AIM), owner of Antique Trader, has acquired the assets of Kovels, Inc. According to AIM, the "collaboration of Antique Trader and Kovels will serve as an invaluable, go-to resource for hobbyists and collectors," featuring an online price guide with over 1 million prices, a full-color monthly newsletter, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art and Fine Jewelry at Grogan
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
There has been an ownership change at Grogan & Company in Boston. The company has been sold to Georgina Winthrop, who is now president and fine art director. Founder Michael B. Grogan has assumed the role of chief auctioneer. The new president ... (Read More)
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(Show)Hanover Tavern Unveils Founding Father's Cupboard
Antiques At The Tavern, Hanover, Virginia
The fifth annual Antiques At The Tavern show was held May 5-7 at the historic Hanover Tavern in Hanover, Virginia. The Hanover Tavern Foundation is the host, and proceeds from the show go to benefit the foundation's goals related to education and preservation. This year ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, may 2023
A view of Chepstow Castle by the youthful JMW Turner, one that has seen a good many auction outings over the years, and a study of a gaucho on horseback that far exceeded all expectations and raised a seven-figure sum are among a number of pictures featured this month.
Outlaw and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and International Auction
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Although there was no sound on the first online livestreamed session of Pook & Pook's May 4 and 5 sale, it did not seem to matter much except for the frustration of not knowing if a lot was sold in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antiques Street Fair That Wasn't
Spring Antiques Street Fair, Cameron, North Carolina
Cameron, population 359, is one of North Carolina's most picturesque small towns. Along its sandy sidewalks are elaborate late Victorian mansions and Arts and Crafts bungalows, 61 of them on the National Register of Historic Places. When passenger trains stopped arriving and the dewberry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Arms, Armor, and Militaria
Lewis & Grant Auctions, Newport, Kentucky
Photos courtesy Lewis & Grant Auctions
A cannon from the Alamo brought the top price during a sale of arms, armor, and militaria held by Lewis & Grant Auctions of Newport, Kentucky, May 5. The piece realized $48,300 (including buyer's premium) against an estimate of $1000/2000.
Nineteenth-century ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Dealers for NHADA Annual Show
This year's annual New Hampshire Antiques Show, produced by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA), will have seven new dealers.
The new dealers are David Kurau of William R. & Teresa F. Kurau, Lampeter, Pennsylvania; Matthew Ehresman of Wadsworth, Ohio; Gemini Antiques Ltd., Oldwick, New Jersey; John Hunt Marshall of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clemens Sand Bottle Brings $113,400
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
On May 2 Doyle held a 372-lot Americana auction in New York City that brought a total of approximately $784,000. The auction was topped by a sand art bottle by deaf and mute artist Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) of McGregor, Iowa, that sold for $113,400 (includes ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Americana Auction
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's traditionally holds previews for its spring Americana sales during the weekend of the Philadelphia Show so that the dealers, collectors, and curators in town for the show can have a look at what's for sale. The auction held on the following Tuesday gives those from ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Oliver Garland
Being diverted to Boston while on a flight to Chicago many winters ago was kismet for Oliver Garland's mother.
At the time, the English-born young woman had planned to open an antiques shop in Chicago, but she remained in Boston, where she opened a shop on Newbury Street. It was there ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Show 2023
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The 61st Philadelphia Show camped out in a tent on the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the second year, April 27-30, with 42 dealers offering mostly American paintings, furniture, folk art, silver, flags, jewelry, and 20th- and 21st-century design.
Most of the glitches from last year ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Show Enthusiastically Received
Mid-Atlantic Antiques Festival, Poolesville, Maryland
There's a new show in town. More precisely, there is a new show in the Mid-Atlantic. The second edition of the Mid-Atlantic Antiques Festival was held April 29 and 30 at Aix La Chapelle Farm, outside of Poolesville, Maryland. Aix La Chapelle is a working farm ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoy and Sporting Art Show and Auction
Guyette & Deeter/North American Decoy Collectors Association, Lombard, Illinois
"No one else is crazy enough to do this," Jon Deeter said shortly after his annual auction that happens along with a show of decoy and sporting collectibles in Lombard, Illinois.
The mega-event involving Maryland auction house Guyette & Deeter, Inc., and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dover Show Goes Indoors/Outdoors
The first edition of the new Dover Indoor/Outdoor Antiques & Vintage Market at the Elks Lodge in Dover, New Hampshire, will be May 20. The show, produced by Gurley Antique Shows, will run once a month until September.
The show is now offering inside spaces-protecting exhibitors and customers from weather-and outside ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Art and Novelty in Glass
A Book Review
Bryce Glass: Art and Novelty in Nineteenth-Century Pittsburgh is the story of a series of Pittsburgh glass houses run by three generations of Bryce men who made mostly pressed glass in hard-candy colors used by everyday people.
It was written during the COVID-19 quarantine by two Pittsburgh lawyers who ... (Read More)
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(Show)Liberty Rain or Shine
Liberty Antiques Festival, Liberty (Staley), North Carolina
Thunderstorms racked central North Carolina on Thursday, April 27, setup day for the spring iteration of the Liberty Antiques Festival's two-day run. Dealers and the public checked their phones and expected rain to wash out Friday, April 28, but only the early birds got ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Shannon's
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon's
American art dominated Shannon's spring fine art auction of 139 artworks on April 27 in its Milford, Connecticut, gallery. Auctioneer Peter Coccoluto called the sale, which had online, telephone, and absentee bidding and had a 90% sell-through rate.
Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924) painted ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)$55 Becomes $200
In March an American buyer bought a brass barometer at an English auction house via Internet bidding. The approximately 81/2" diameter barometer, estimated at $100/1000, opened at $10 and was knocked down for $44. With the 25% buyer's premium, the bid total was $55.
When the buyer got his invoice, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Reward Poster Brings $166,375
The first printing of the reward poster for the capture of John Wilkes Booth and two other conspirators in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln was auctioned by Nate D. Sanders Auctions for $166,375 (includes buyer's premium) April 27. Bidding began at $100,000.
Photo courtesy Nate D. Sanders.
The poster was issued ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Western Art at Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles
Photos courtesy Bonhams
"Both contemporary and historic" paintings did well in Bonhams' April 26 auction in Los Angeles, said specialist Katherine Halligan. The sale featured "nice, fresh to the market" selections, resulting in "spirited bidding" by "many hungry buyers."
Tudi-Tur (Sun Elk) by Bert Geer Phillips (1868-1956), 12" x 9", ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plein-Air Painting Leads Sale
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams' fine art specialist Scot Levitt said he was pleased with the auction house's California art auction held April 25 in Los Angeles. "There were lots of people at the previews"-held in Los Angeles and San Francisco-"which is always a good sign. We set five ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "Luxury Handbags: Vintage Icons"
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
As Erving and Joyce "Joy" Wolf found a better piece, they would move an early purchase from the great room to a bedroom. For example, the circa 1770 Newport desk-and-bookcase bought by Israel Sack for the Wolfs at Sotheby Parke Bernet February 1, 1975, for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Costume Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy John Moran Auctioneers
John Moran Auctioneers, Monrovia, California, held a costume jewelry, coins, and luxury accessories online auction on Valentine's Day, February 14. Much of the jewelry was from the estate of Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree of Santa Barbara, California, and the Maria Domont collection, West Hollywood, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "America without Reserve"
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
"America without Reserve," part of Sotheby's sale of the collection of Erving and Joyce "Joy" Wolf, was for treasure seekers who hoped to find an undercataloged lot and get a bargain. They had fierce competition for some lots at this unreserved online sale held without ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Entire Range of Self-Taught Art Offered by Slotin
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Auction
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia, keeps getting it right. Steve Slotin and his wife, Amy, have been at this for years. They have seen the confusion as to just what Outsider or self-taught and folk art is. They've also witnessed the enlightenment, awareness, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eclectic Offerings from CRN
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
Eclectic is the watchword for any sale held by CRN Auctions. Principals Carl R. Nordblom and Karin J. Phillips of the Cambridge, Massachusetts, auction house really laid it on for their April 23 auction. The sale presented a wide and deep array of objects ... (Read More)
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(Show)Early Country Antiques and Primitive Goods
Simple Goods, Berlin, Ohio
Simple Goods, which describes itself as an "Early Country Antiques & Primitive Goods Show," held its spring edition April 22 near Berlin, Ohio. Specializing in country antiques with a handful of high-quality contemporary handmade items, the show featured 52 dealers in 50 booths. That's normal. "We can't ... (Read More)
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(Show)Going Back to Earlier Times
Earlier Times Antiques & Folk Art Show, Millersburg, Ohio
The semiannual Earlier Times Antiques & Folk Art Show held its spring edition April 21 and 22 in Millersburg, Ohio. The event featured 44 dealers in 42 booths. "That's up a little bit, which is a good thing," said promoter Cheryl ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, May 2023
Whitfield Lovell (b. 1959), Kin I (Our Folks), 2008, conte crayon on paper, found paper flags, and string, 30" x 221/2". Collection of Reginald and Aliya Browne. Courtesy American Federation of Arts, the artist, and DC Moore Gallery, New York.
-Through May 21 -Boca Raton, Florida
Whitfield Lovell: Passages at the Boca ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "Building America"
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
"Building America," the Friday, April 21, afternoon sale of the collection of Erving and Joyce "Joy" Wolf at Sotheby's in New York City, offered Americana, silver, needlework, furniture, and paintings. Some furniture, sculpture, and paintings sold above estimates, much of it to the trade, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "Cross-Currents in America"
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's "Cross-Currents in America" sale April 21 in New York City dispersed most of Erving and Joyce "Joy" Wolf's Chinese porcelain. Much of it went to Chinese buyers on the phone or online, and all but two lots sold. The 149 lots of the 151 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern American Art, Including the Ted Shen Collection
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's tried a new strategy by holding a dedicated modern American art sale, and the results were positive.
At 10 a.m. on April 21, 26 lots of masterworks from the collection of musical theater composer and philanthropist Ted Shen were offered, and the results gave the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Wolf Family's Jewelry Collection
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The April 20 sale of exceptional jewels from the Wolf family collection at Sotheby's in New York City was a highly anticipated event. The presale buzz beckoned to us, including an episode of "Frank's Files" by Frank Everett of Sotheby's. "Frank's Files: The Wolf Collection," ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and British Ceramics at Auction
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
The Americana collection of Jeannine K. Dobbs and the estate of Jonathan Shaw Rickard came up for auction April 20 at Fred Giampietro's New England Auctions, formerly New Haven Auctions, in Branford, Connecticut. The sale ran to 445 lots, 261 from the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "Forging America"
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
In just three days at Sotheby's sales of the collections of Erving and Joyce "Joy" Wolf, the market absorbed more than 100 pieces of American sculpture spanning more than 100 years, beginning in the Neoclassical period and continuing into the Beaux Arts tradition at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "Glorious America"
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
The April 20 sale titled "Glorious America" that started at 4 p.m. at Sotheby's in New York City offered 54 lots of mostly paintings and sculpture from the collection of Erving and Joyce "Joy" Wolf. All but two lots sold, a 96.3% sell-through rate, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "Modern America"
Sotheby's, New York City
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Erving and Joy Wolf's son Daniel was responsible for their interest in photography and in furniture and lighting designed by Greene & Greene and Frank Lloyd Wright. As passionate a collector as his parents, Daniel Wolf died of a heart attack in January 2021 at ... (Read More)
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(Auction) The Wolf Family Collection: "Exceptional Jewels"
Sotheby's, New York City
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"Exceptional Jewels," the 10 a.m. auction on April 20 at Sotheby's in New York City of jewelry from the collection of Erving and Joyce "Joy" Wolf, added $8,042,656 to Sotheby's Wolf sales total. The auction brought the most of any of the live daytime ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Wolf Family Collection: "The Spirit of America"
Sotheby's, New York City
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Sotheby's called the collections that filled the sumptuous Fifth Avenue apartment in New York City of Erving Wolf (1926-2018) and his wife, Joyce "Joy" (1927-2022), "the most important collection of American paintings, sculpture, furniture, and design of this generation." They offered the Wolfs' collection April ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Splendor
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
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"Spring Splendor" it was. Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts, often gives its sales a name. The April 15 auction was a respite from winter in New England, and bidders showed up to bid-as did online and telephone buyers.
The auction began with paintings, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collection Proceeds Go to Local 4-H
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The mocha and spatterware collection of Carl and Janie Hinkle of Truxton, New York, was sold April 14 and 15 at Iroquois Auctions in West Monroe, New York. Carl (1935-2021) founded Atlantic Inland, a home inspection company, and Janie (1934-2015) was a schoolteacher.
A top price for mocha ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Palm Beach Dealer Pleads Guilty
Palm Beach, Florida, art dealer Daniel Elie Bouaziz pleaded guilty February 21 to laundering money derived from his scheme to sell counterfeit artwork.
Bouaziz is the owner of art galleries in south Florida, including Danieli Fine Art and Galerie Danieli. According to the agreed-upon factual proffer in support of Bouaziz's guilty ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Family Circus
Beneath the Surface
Last year, Andrew was approached about the most effective way to disseminate an enormous collection. The answer was an auction. (Hollie keeps thinking of The Godfather Part III: "Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!") This collection has, in many ways, illustrated much ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)National Gallery Buys a Dave Jar
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., has acquired an 1859 storage jar by David Drake that was deaccessioned by the Madison-Morgan Cultural Center (MMCC) in Madison, Georgia. The 213/4" high alkaline-glazed stoneware jug was donated to the MMCC in 1992.
Dave (c. 1801-1870s), later recorded as "David Drake," was an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hap Moore Closes Business
In a February 14 email, York, Maine, auctioneer Hap Moore announced that he is closing his business. He is not retiring. "What I'm doing is stopping my business," he said in a phone call. "When you're in a business like antiques, and you are as dedicated to it as I ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Serendipity in Collecting
"Chance favors the prepared mind." -Louis Pasteur, French chemist, microbiologist, and inventor.
Collectors sometimes find that it is the unplanned moment that rises in importance. I think of happenstance, a random event that happens by chance or coincidence. A wonderful word, happenstance, a combination of happen and circumstance, originated in America ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)All of Me: A Winfred Rembert Exhibition
Writers are taught to write about what they know. The same could be said for artists.
In the case of Winfred Rembert (1945-2021), his works of dye on carved and tooled leather, a skill he picked up while incarcerated during his youth, are filled with scenes of black life from Cuthbert, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Successful Spring Sales at Hilliard
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
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There have been several significant changes at Hilliard & Co. since we last visited. Although none of the changes affects the firm's business model or the way in which it conducts its auctions, Hilliard is heading in the right direction toward creating ... (Read More)
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(Show)Old Venue or New, Right Turn or Left, Bowmanville Is Still the Best
Bowmanville Antiques and Folk Art Show, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
All prices are in Canadian dollars.
Left or right? Trust me, the choice had nothing to do with ideology. Rather, heading out of my driveway, it was a decision of how to travel on the morning of April 7 to cover the annual ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring African American Art Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
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Swann Galleries held its spring African American art sale April 6, the Thursday before Easter weekend. The sale, which offered 213 lots, was helmed by two teams of auctioneers and specialists and conducted online.
Swann's fifth- and sixth-floor space at 104 East 25th ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Goddard Family Collections
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
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All prices include the buyer's premium.
A single-owner sale of the collections of the Goddard family of Providence, Rhode Island, drew buyers and lookers to the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery of Bonhams Skinner for previews of the collections. The 252-lot sale was online only and closed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Online Sale of Overbeck Pottery Figurines and More
Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers, Centerville, Indiana
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A mammy holding a raised rolling pin brought a near-record price for an Overbeck Pottery figurine when it sold for $4972 (including buyer's premium) during an online sale that closed April 5 at Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers, Centerville, Indiana. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, April 2023
This month's "Letter" includes some quite odd lots, not least the battered metal advertising board for Silver Moonlight stove polish, as well as an equally battered-looking but rare seagoing cabin trunk by Louis Vuitton. A medieval love ring and a tiny postbox with royal links also are to be found, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Oddities Flea Market
Chicago, Illinois
From the inky skull stamped on the back of your hand upon entry to the pounding sound of goth metal music, it was clear this was a different kind of show. The Oddities Flea Market in Chicago April 1 and 2 opened with a line of people who paid ... (Read More)
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