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(Issue Story)Currier Museum of Art to Reopen
After four years of planning and 20 months of construction, the grand reopening of the expanded Currier Museum of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, will be held Sunday, March 30, with a public celebration. The entire first week will be open free to the public (excluding Tuesday, when the museum ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Folk Spirit of Albany
On Saturday, January 26, the Albany Institute of History & Art will open the exhibition The Folk Spirit of Albany: Folk Art from the Collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art. Drawn from the museum's collection of folk art dating from the 18th century to the present, this ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Frank Gaglio New Manager of Guilford Antiques Show
Barn Star Productions and Frank Gaglio will be managing the New Guilford Antiques Show for the Dorothy Whitfield Historical Society on April 19 and 20. The show benefits the Hyland House Museum in Guilford, Connecticut.Approximately 40-plus exhibitors are planned to fill room-setting booths at the Elizabeth Adams Middle School, located ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Glass Results
Some big prices were paid at Glass International's auction featuring early American blown glass that closed on November 26, 2007. According to a press release from the Medford Lakes, New Jersey, firm, a circa 1800 sea green Mid-Atlantic pattern-molded 32-rib vase with applied handles sold for $28,600 (including buyer's premium); ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fine Art Leads Prices at November Auction
Winter Associates, Plainville, Connecticutby Ed PfeifferOn November 12, 2007, in Plainville, Connecticut, Winter Associates brought 328 lots to the auction block in 23 diverse categories. The largest category offered 60 works of fine art, and they dominated the sale and upper-end prices. Leading them were two signed oil on canvas ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Lalique Owl Flies
A clear and frosted glass Rene Lalique owl car mascot known as Hibou sold for $47,300 (includes buyer's premium) at Turkey Creek Auctions in Citra, Florida, on November 17, 2007. Hibou was from the estate of Edgar Hoover Bankard, who was the purchasing agent for B & O Railroad around ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Managers for Columbus Show
Rod Lich and Susan Parrett of Rod Lich Promotions, Inc. have been hired to manage the 2008 Columbus Academy Antiques Show in Columbus, Ohio, April 25-27.Lich and Parrett have promoted and managed shows for 28 years in Kentucky and Indiana. Their shows include the Louisville Locust Grove Antiques Market, the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Rare Unillustrated Medal Surfaces
A rare medal at a bargain price. Isn't that the dream of all collectors?According to an article by Eric von Klinger in the January 14 issue of Coin World, it happened to a trader whose on-line I.D. is jonathanb.The medal he bought for $65 is a 36.5 mm gold school ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Multiuse Antiques Building to Open
The former Calico House, then Great West Trading Center, is poised to become one of New Hampshire's largest antiques centers. Hooksett residents Mike and Karen Donnell have come to an agreement with the owners to utilize what Mike Donnell calls "one of New Hampshire's most beautiful buildings.""This is a lifelong ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams American Paintings Sale Dealt a Large Blow
Bonhams, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenAfter the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Area Chamber of Commerce announced plans to auction paintings by Grant Wood, Marvin Cone, and Norman Rockwell at Bonhams in New York City on November 28, 2007, it produced an uproar in the town where Grant Wood and Marvin Cone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio: Holiday Sale 2007
by Don JohnsonThis one was a little different. Rookwood is generally the star of the show when Cincinnati Art Galleries holds its annual holiday sale. For this year's event, held November 3 and 4, 2007, two Rookwood items dominated the ceramics offering, but it was a Russian chalice from a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Law Would Force New York Antiques Shops to Offer Access to Restroom
by Jessica Best and Betty Flood, Cuyler News ServiceAntiques dealers in retail establishments may be forced to allow customers access to a restroom, whether the restroom is officially available to the public, under legislation introduced by Assemblyman George Latimer (D-Westchester).Shoplifting has been a concern among antiques establishments, according to an ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)NHADA Elects New Officers
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association held its annual business meeting on November 14, 2007, at the Bedford Village Inn in Bedford.The 2008 slate of officers elected at the meeting are president, Kathy Schoemer, Kathy Schoemer American Antiques, Acworth; immediate past president, Linda Tate, The Tates Antiques, Sanbornton; secretary, Melissa ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antique Center Presents Theme Rooms
According to a press release, Matthew Mead, contributing editor for Country Home magazine, and From Out of the Woods Antiques, Goffstown, New Hampshire, opened their second seasonal room display at From Out of the Woods Antiques on December 8, 2007, to a standing-room-only crowd.The theme was a bedroom setting with ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Wallachs Seek Help with Tramp Art Book
Clifford and Nancy Wallach are working on a new book, Tramp Art Another Notch: Folk Art in the Tramp Art Style, to be published by Schiffer Publishing. According to the Wallachs, "It will be an advanced study of the art form, including all the new information we have uncovered since ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Invisible Man Makes an $82,600 Statement
The Last Moving Picture Company, New York Cityby Richard de ThuinAn insert from The Invisible Man realized a record-setting price during the fifth annual Hollywood Poster Auction held Saturday, November 10, 2007, in the Gold Ballroom at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. A dealer in the salesroom paid ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fine Folk Art Finds at Gould's
Gould Auction Company, Gardiner, Maineby Mark SiscoTimothy Gould still brings forth fresh items to auction several times a year. He admits that truly "fresh" is getting harder and harder to find, but there was enough heretofore undiscovered merchandise at his November 17, 2007, auction in Gardiner, Maine, to keep us ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Author R.L. Wilson Acquitted in Kentucky Firearms Museum Case
by Robert KyleA criminal court case that lingered two years after the Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Attorney's office handed up indictments ended January 22 when a jury acquitted internationally known gun collector and author Robert L. Wilson and two others of conspiring to defraud the owner of the Frazier Historical Arms ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Show with a Mission
Green Bay, Wisconsinby Sharon VerbetenThe crisp seasonal chill in the air and the pending holidays may have been on the minds of many attendees at the Green Bay-De Pere Antiquarian Society's Holiday Antique Show and Sale, held November 16 and 17, 2007, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but the show's organizers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Guyette and Schmidt's Fall Decoy Sale
Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., Easton, Marylandby Karl H. PassGuyette and Schmidt, Inc. held its fall decoy sale November 7 and 8, 2007, in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival, an annual event that overtakes the small town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The auction in the Talbot County Community ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Heartland Fall Edition Antiques Show
Richmond, Indianaby Don Johnson"Look at this! It's eighty-five dollars."She wasn't talking to me, but I couldn't resist looking over my shoulder to see what the woman had found. In her hands was a tractor-type lawn sprinkler in old green paint, pulled from beneath a farm table in an east-central Indiana ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Triple-Format Western Memorabilia, Photography, and American Indian Art Sales
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Texasby Karl H. PassHeritage Auction Galleries held a large two-day event on November 10 and 11, 2007, at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Beginning with Western photography, the sale was broken into three sessions with three separate, well-illustrated catalogs. The photography and artifacts session ... (Read More)
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(Show)Music Valley: Warm, Dry Tent for Permanent Venue
Nashville, Tennesseeby Karla Klein AlbertsonFor the October 25-27, 2007, show, the Music Valley Antiques Market in Nashville, Tennessee, made a few important changes to its big-tent setup. The result significantly improved conditions for dealers and collectors alike.Photos taken during the show's rainy weekend in October 2006 displayed a wet floor ... (Read More)
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(Show)Dealers Beat Odds at Peabody Essex Museum Show
Salem, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoNobody did gangbusters at the Peabody Essex Museum's 35th annual antiques show, November 23-25, 2007. Nobody sold to the walls at this traditional Thanksgiving weekend event that benefits the museum's education and public programs. Yet a number of dealers had good or even very good sales, for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Treasures Show and Sale
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenTreasures-the antiques, tribal arts, textiles, and jewelry show at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology-tweaked its image on its third annual outing October 26-28, 2007, to include treasures that archaeologists might dig up a thousand years from now, such as 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Fall Show: Rookie Makes Good
San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanFollowing in the footsteps of San Francisco Fall Antiques Show founding executive director Toby Rose can't have been easy, but in Lisa Podos's rookie year, the effect was seamless."It has been an extraordinary ride," Podos said of the October 25-28, 2007, show. "Very challenging, but very ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenOn
the heels of the Berry-Hill Galleries and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries bankruptcies
and the volatile stock market, it was hard to know what to expect at the November
2007 American painting sales in New York City. Crowded salesrooms, pockets of
competitive bidding, and high prices showed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tailgate in Nashville: Variety Is the Spice of Life
Nashville, Tennesseeby Karla Klein AlbertsonSteve Jenkins's Tailgate Antiques Show in Nashville is rather like the old song by Arlo Guthrie about Alice's Restaurant. You can get anything you want. There are dealers who favor the pure simplicity of high-quality country-furniture, quilts and rugs, folk art carvings, painted signs. But if ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Unique Stoneware at the American Pottery Auction
Bruce and Vicki Waasdorp, Clarence, New Yorkby Joshua KormanBruce and Vicki Waasdorp of Clarence, New York, have gained a national reputation for their twice-yearly American pottery auction, particularly renowned for high-quality stoneware. The Waasdorps' mail and phone bid auctions have taken place every March and September for more than 15 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Clegg Sale
Wiederseim Associates, Inc., Glenmoore, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenWiederseim Associates held an old-fashioned farm sale at the Ludwig's Corner Firehouse in Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, on November 23 and 24, 2007, to disperse the collections of Alfred and Miriam Clegg. Estate sales are rites of passage in Chester County, and a large crowd of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Samuel C. Pennington, Publisher of Maine Antique Digest, 1929-2008
Samuel Charles Pennington III died February 2, 2008, at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, Maine. Pennington was born September 18, 1929, in Baltimore, Maryland, to Agnes Johnston Pennington and Samuel Charles Pennington, Jr. He was educated at Calvert School in Baltimore, Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire, and Johns ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Shoe's on the Other Foot Now for Bankrupt Salanders
by David Hewett
Lawrence (Larry) Salander has been in the news for some time now. First it was with his ambitious and much-ballyhooed Renaissance art show, which had been planned for October 2007 at the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, followed by the collapse of those plans and the padlocking of the gallery in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Americana: Fine and Decorative Arts
Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonThe biggest story coming out of Cowan's auction of fine and decorative arts, held October 12 and 13, 2007, in Cincinnati, Ohio, wasn't what sold. Rather, one unsold lot made the most noise.An original painting of The Spirit of '76, Archibald M. Willard's iconic Revolutionary War ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 44th Annual Delaware Antiques Show
Wilmington, Delawareby Lita Solis-CohenThe 44th Annual Delaware Antiques Show, held November 9-11, 2007, has long been a major event on the antiques show calendar. Considered the number three show for Americana after the Philadelphia show and the New York Winter Antiques Show, it has tried in recent years to become ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ellis Antiques Show: Grande Dame Gets Nip and Tuck
Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoIf an annual award were given for "most improved antiques show," it would go to the Ellis Antiques Show, held November 1-4, 2007, in its usual space, The Castle at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel and Towers. Those who went to the opening night gala and headed ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Cord Shows Ltd. Adds Two New Shows
Vivien Cord and Ed McClure of Cord Shows Ltd., Armonk, New York, have added two new events to their 2008 schedule.On Sunday, September 21, the Putnam County Antiques Fair will debut at the Patterson Recreation Center, 65 Front Street, Patterson, New York. It will accommodate 60 booths.On December 6 and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Reorganized Salander-O'Reilly Emerges, Sotheby's Cancels Auction, and Art Owners Complain
by David HewettIf the Lawrence Salander/Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings seemed convoluted last time you looked, read on for the truly bizarre.A quick reiteration of the situation. A core group of creditors entered a Chapter 7 Involuntary Bankruptcy Petition for the gallery on November 1, 2007, in New York ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Firearms Column
by Robert KyleWhen a government doesn't understand its own gun laws, bad things can happen.At first light on September 13, 2006, members of Britain's Metropolitan Police surrounded the suburban home of Mick Shepherd, for over 30 years an internationally known and well-respected firearms collector and dealer. The 56-year-old grandfather is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Paul Kleinwald, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
In the Tradeby Frank DoneganHere's yet another antiques dealer who ended up in the trade by accident. Back in the late 1960's and early '70's, when Paul Kleinwald was a young guy trying to find his way in the world, "antiques," he said, "weren't even on my radar." It's easy ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Understanding Auction Markets
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve Proffitt "Mr. Proffitt, I've got one of those complaining sellers on my hands and would appreciate your advice on how to handle him. Of course, his complaint is about what his things brought, and he blames me for that. I sold everything in an auction, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whale Flips Tail and Records Fly at Morphy's $7.7 Million Steckbeck Bank Sale
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvaniaby Dick FrizChalk up a new entry in the Guinness Book of World Records. Topping off an unremitting whirlwind spending spree, a capacity crowd on October 27, 2007, at Morphy Auctions in Denver, Pennsylvania, rallied the Stephen and Marilyn Steckbeck 488-lot mechanical bank collection to an astounding ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Low Attendance Doesn't Hurt Big-Bucks Items
Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshire by David HewettThe three-day sale held October 26-28, 2007, by Northeast Auctions in Manchester, New Hampshire, was a winner, but in a rather quiet fashion. It grossed $6.3 million. There was a record-breaking Windsor chair that sold for $160,000 (includes buyer's premium). An Indian weathervane ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Price Auction
Tim Potter Auction Services, Port Perry, Ontario, Canadaby Robin McMullenAll prices in Canadian funds (the exchange rate on the day of the sale was CN $1 = $1.00017 US)In Ontario three well-known collections of antiques have come up for public auction in the last few years. The first was for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Record Set for Automata at Skinner Sci-Tech
Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoAn agent for a Russian billionaire came to the Skinner science and technology auction in Bolton, Massachusetts, on Sunday, October 28, 2007, and bought 16 lots of mechanical music boxes and automata for $1,041,960.50 (including buyer's premium). One of his purchases, a pair of life-size ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Art of Woodcarving in America: A Symposium
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusettsby Jeanne Schinto"The idea of what a carver can do is sometimes a very hard thing to come to grips with," keynote speaker Alan T. Miller told his audience at the Peabody Essex Museum's symposium "The Art of Woodcarving in America." It was held November 3 ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)On the Road Again
The Young Collectorby Andrew Richmond and Hollie DavisWe used to have a real calendar like normal people, one with months and seasons and holidays. The new year started on January 1, crocuses marked the beginning of spring, and we knew when Christmas decorations started to appear that the year was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Extra! Extra! Andrew Jackson Elected President!
Cyr Auction Company, Gray, Maineby Mark SiscoHistory, art, form, and function combined to produce some standout hits in the $5000 to $15,000 range at Cyr Auction Company's October 10, 2007, sale in Gray, Maine. There were no grand slam home runs but lots of midrange scores to be had.The first ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Editorial: Auction License for eBay Resellers?
Are those who sell other people's goods on eBay auctioneers, and should they be required to follow some of the same rules as conventional auctioneers? That question is destined to be answered by two pieces of proposed legislation currently on a collision course in Pennsylvania.The state's Board of Auctioneer Examiners ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Cincinnati Badge Brings $5.305 Million
Sotheby's sold the gold and enamel Order of the Society of the Cincinnati badge owned first by George Washington and then by the Marquis de Lafayette for $5.305 million (including buyer's premium). The buyer was Fondation de Chambrun, a private French foundation.According to the Associated Press report, the decoration will ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Mancuso's Books at the 25th St. Armory Changes Dates
Mancuso Show Management's annual Books at the 25th St. Armory in New York City is changing dates and will be held January 11 and 12.The show has traditionally been scheduled as one of the final shows of Americana Week in New York City. The 69th Regiment, however, has been called ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Mickey in Waldoboro
Fawcett's Maine Antique Toy & Art Museum is displaying original Walt Disney Studios corporate Christmas cards and art this holiday season. These rare cards were only given to people who did business with Walt Disney Studios. On display is original Christmas and World War II Disney insignia artwork drawn by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Santa Anna's Spurs, Other Texan Artifacts Missing
The Dallas Historical Society (DHS) is missing 21 items from its permanent collection that were removed from the Hall of State in Fair Park recently. DHS officials are cooperating with a Dallas Police Department investigation. The items include historic photographs, documents, and artifacts relating to the earliest days of the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Show in Sarasota
JMK Shows will launch a new antiques show in Sarasota, Florida, January 25-27. The Sarasota International Antiques and Fine Arts Exposition will kick off with a gala cocktail preview party to benefit a popular local charity on Thursday evening, January 24, prior to the show's scheduled Friday opening to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fifteenth Anniversary Premier Italian Glass Auction
Antique Helper, Indianapolis, Indianaby Don JohnsonIt was a rather bold claim. Going into Antique Helper's September 23, 2007, sale in Indianapolis, Indiana, the company publicized the event as the "most important Italian glass auction yet to be conducted in this decade." If you questioned the hype, you couldn't argue with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Sale
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenTraditionally the fall sales in New York City begin slowly, selling property from estates that need to be settled or from collectors who are anxious to move on. It's the time for priming the pump for the flow of paintings, decorative arts, and jewelry that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Walker Takes Top Price at Cobbs Auction
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoGood artworks were the main attraction at The Cobbs Auctioneers in Peterborough, New Hampshire, on October 8, 2007. There were no record-setters this time around and a few surprising misfires, but William Aiken Walker paintings and others are still selling strong.One of the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Dates for VADA Show
September will no longer be VADA's show time. James Dunn, president of the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association, announced at the annual fall meeting, held at the Hartness House in Springfield, Vermont, that VADA would be changing the 2008 show dates to August 23 and 24. The new August date was ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Open Source Software
Computer Column #229by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net In the past we have mentioned free or inexpensive software called "shareware" as a substitute for big-name word processors, spreadsheets, or photo editors. But there is an alternative called "open source" software. Open source software is noncommercial. You can get it free. You ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Record for Spatterware Established
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassConestoga Auction Company's 550-lot specialized ceramics sale held November 17, 2007, in Manheim, Pennsylvania, grossed roughly $400,000. There were 217 registered in-house bidders and 695 registered bidders through eBay Live.The ceramics trade was well represented with J.D. Querry, Margaret Johnson Sutor, William Kurau, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diversity Plays Key Role at Pottery Auction
Crocker Farm, Inc., York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassCrocker Farm, Inc. held its eighth specialized pottery auction of antique stoneware and redware on Saturday, November 3, 2007, at the York Expo Center's Old Main Building in York, Pennsylvania. Over 80 consignors made the 437-lot sale possible. The total (including the 15% ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Live Free or Die Antique Tool Auction
Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, Nashua, New Hampshireby Mark Sisco"Geez, what a day we had yesterday," John Miller of Bainbridge, New York, crowed. "I think I sold half of what I brought."We don't know if his sentiments were universal among the tailgate exhibitors, but he did seem to capture the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)American Folk Art Museum's Branch Gallery at Lincoln Square Reopens
The branch gallery of the American Folk Art Museum at Lincoln Square on Manhattan's upper west side has reopened. The gallery has been closed for several months for systems upgrades and renovations. The revitalization has been made possible by museum trustee Joyce Cowin, who donated $1 million, and trustee Frances ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Painted Shenandoah Valley Chest Leads Farmer Sale
Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals, LLC, Radford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanKen Farmer Auctions & Appraisals held its fall estate and collectors auction on October 6 and 7, 2007, at its facility in Radford, Virginia. The sale consisted of more than 650 lots from an unusually wide range of antiques and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Barnes Foundation Goes Back to Court
The proposed move of the Barnes Foundation is back in Montgomery County Orphan's Court, where in 2004 Judge Stanley R. Ott granted the petition by its board of trustees to move its world-renowned gallery collection to a location on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway in Philadelphia. Judge Ott is now considering ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Legislation to Regulate Antique Firearms
by Jessica BestAntique firearms would be held to the same regulations of firearms, including background checks and licenses for gunsmith and dealers, in New York state under legislation introduced in the assembly by Michael Gianaris. If the legislation becomes law, antiques dealers and collectors would have to acquire a gun ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Salander-O'Reilly's Million-Dollar Library Back in the News
On Tuesday, January 22, the chief restructuring officer (CRO) of the bankrupt art firm Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Triax Capital Advisors? Joseph Sarachek, revealed that he had been in talks with several parties about the sale of the galleries? 35,000-volume art library.
Sarachek acknowledged, "We are speaking with serious collectors who recognize that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)American Silver Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Established in Boston in 1808 and relocated to Philadelphia three years later, the silversmithing firm of Thomas Fletcher and Sidney Gardiner produced American silver of unprecedented quality and grandeur, according to a press release from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Silversmiths to the Nation: Thomas Fletcher ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Carousel Horse Tops Virginia Auction
Green Valley Auctions, Inc., Mt. Crawford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanGreen Valley Auctions held its semiannual sale of antiques, Americana, and decorative arts on November 10, 2007, at its Mt. Crawford, Virginia, facility. A subheading in the 944-lot catalog noted that this sale featured a "focus on Virginia and the South." ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Success to the Railroad" Flask Brings $29,900
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticutby Ed PfeifferNorman Heckler Sr. of Woodstock Valley, Connecticut, brought 100 lots of antique bottles, flasks, and related glass objects up for bids in an absentee auction ending on October 31, 2007. Bidding was active and produced strong price results. Although one lot ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Marburger Farm Antique Show: Under New Management
Round Top, Texasby John M. DriggersHundreds of antique and nostalgic signs greeted the thousands who came to look over what the almost 400 dealers had to offer at the Marburger Farm Antique Show on October 2-6, 2007. Signs of every description, from old gasoline companies to toy manufacturers to providers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Fine Art Sale at Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassPook & Pook Inc. began conducting specialized fine art sales in the fall of 2005. They are held twice a year and encompass works on all price levels. The 320-lot sale held October 26, 2007, in Downington, Pennsylvania, grossed $1,202,180 (including buyers' ... (Read More)
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(Show)40th Annual Fall Original Round Top Antiques Fair
Round Top, Texasby John M. DriggersRecord heat greeted record crowds at the Original Round Top Antiques Fair on October 3-6, 2007. By early October, even Texans expect the temperatures to fall below 90 degrees. This past October, unfortunately, the 90-plus-degree days tested the mettle of all who came looking for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portrait of Bob, 1936 Makes $153,600 at Shannon's Art Auction
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Greenwich, Connecticutby Ed PfeifferShannon's Fine Art Auctioneers staged its fall sale on October 25, 2007, in Greenwich, Connecticut, bringing 277 lots to the block. Gene Shannon said they were "very happy" with the results. He reported total sales of $3,265,000, topping the $3.25 million realized in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Boy's Portrait and Auto Weathervane Drive $4.1 Million Americana Sale
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoA jaunty automobile-and-driver weathervane and a folk art portrait of a charismatic little boy were the top lots at Skinner's latest Americana sale, held November 3 and 4, 2007. The vane, made circa 1910 by Boston's W.A. Snow Iron Works and deaccessioned by a small ... (Read More)
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(Auction)S.R. Gifford Painting Fetches $831,000
Skinner Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoThe bidding for what was to become the unrivaled highlight of Skinner's art sale in its Boston gallery on Friday, November 16, 2007, Sanford R. Gifford's Sunday Prayers, opened modestly enough at $20,000-too modestly, for some. At $29,000, a jump bid came from one of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Leyendecker Painting Paces a Sale Full of Hits and Misses
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoSometimes at a major auction, the high-profile nonsales can obscure the successes. At a Thomaston Place Auction Galleries sale on November 3 and 4, 2007, in Thomaston, Maine, about 25 of the first 100 lots either failed to generate a bid or didn't ... (Read More)
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(Show)Two Great York Shows Are Now One
York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassThe Greater York Antiques Show and Sale now includes two great shows: Jim Burk's long-running Greater York Antiques Show and Sale and Barry Cohen's York County Classic Antiques Show. What had been previously billed as "two quality shows under one roof" is now in fact one ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Philadelphia Tea Table Brings $5,417,000
Tea Table Brings $5,417,000
The Stevenson family Chippendale mahogany scalloped-top tea table, attributed to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Judge Approves Financial Arrangements of Reorganized Salander-O'Reilly, Declines to Name a Trustee
Judge Approves Financial Arrangements of Reorganized Salander-O'Reilly, Declines to Name a Trustee
by David Hewett
If you're looking for good news in the continuing chronicles of the Salander-O'Reilly Galleries bankruptcy case, you're out of luck this month.
Newcomers to this saga of the Big Apple art gallery gone bad should read our prior ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pennsylvania Tulip-Decorated Candle Box Sells for $103,200 at Tepper
Pennsylvania Tulip-Decorated Candle Box Sells for $103,200 at Tepper
by Lita Solis-Cohen
In these days of Internet postings and digital pictures, not much goes under the radar. On November 3, 2007, at Tepper Galleries in New York City, a Pennsylvania slide-lid candle box, painted green with tulips in cream-colored reserves, estimated at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Texas Historical Commission Nixes Davy Crockett Letter
Texas Historical Commission Nixes Davy Crockett Letter
by David Hewett
On December 7, 2007, the Texas Historical Commission announced its decision not to purchase a letter purported to have been written by one of the Lone Star State's most revered figures, Colonel David Crockett, better known as Davy Crockett, frontiersman, hunter and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Briskin Family Collection of Folk Art Sold
Briskin Family Collection of Folk Art Sold
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Not every private collection goes to auction. In a private deal said to be in seven figures, the Briskin family collection, 107 pieces of American folk art, was bought by Marcy Carsey and Susan Baerwald, partners in Just Folk, a gallery in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Allison Eckardt Ledes, 1954-2008
Allison Eckardt Ledes, editor in chief of The Magazine Antiques died at home in New York of cancer on January 8, 2008. She was 53.
Ledes arrived at Antiques in 1975, fresh out of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she had taken a single course in American decorative ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sgraffito Plate Sells for Record $351,000
"There is the best and the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)October Americana Auction
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenChristie's October 3 Americana sale in New York City offered 129 lots, of which 94 (73%) sold for a total of $10,904,250 (including buyers' premiums), showing that January is not the only time that collectors and dealers compete for the best Americana when it comes ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Indian and Western Art at Auction
Cowan's, Cincinnati, OhioBy Don JohnsonIt wasn't a screamer, but it worked. Cowan's latest American Indian and Western Art sale, held September 15 in Cincinnati, Ohio, grossed approximately $1.2 million from about 540 cataloged lots. "I was very pleased with the sales results considering we had relatively few stars in the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Florida Show
Florida show promoters Yvonne and Jim Tucker have announced the inauguration of a new southwest Florida show in February 2008. The new show, the South Ft. Myers/Naples Antique Show, will be held February 22 and 23 at the Three Oaks Banquet and Conference Center at 20991 Parkway in Estero, halfway ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Margot Johnson Moves Gallery
Margot Johnson, a dealer in 19th-century American antiques and specializing in the Aesthetic Movement work of Herter Brothers, New York designers, has moved to 135 East 65th Street, third floor, New York City. (There is an elevator.) Hours are by appointment; call (212) 794-2225.
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(Fragment)Pineapple Promotions Acquires Two Shows
Pineapple Promotions, Inc. has acquired the Norfolk Scope Antiques Show, Norfolk, Virginia, and the Fleur-de-Lis Antiques Show, Charlottes-ville/Keswick, Virginia, from Ray and Martha Stokes of Lynchburg, Virginia. The Stokeses will continue to operate the 2008 Norfolk Scope and Fleur-de-Lis antiques shows with support from Pineapple Promotions. All show contracts and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Stella's Antiques at the Armory Show Will Be Held
Word from the Stella Show Management Company is that Antiques at the Armory, the January 18-20, 2008, antiques show at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, will be held.Because the 69th Regiment National Guard unit will be deployed to Afghanistan, Stella's use of the building was in doubt.For ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Glass Sale Ushers in Changes at Green Valley
Green Valley Auctions, Inc., Mt. Crawford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanGreen Valley Auctions held its annual fall glass sale September 19-22 at the company's facility in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. Officially titled the "13th Annual Fall Cataloged Auction of Early American Pattern and Victorian Glass and Lighting," this auction could just as ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Naylor's Photographica Goes on the Block
Guernsey's, New York Cityby Jeanne SchintoA portion of Thurman F. "Jack" Naylor's History of Photography-images, cameras, and related items initially offered for sale over the last couple of years as a single entity for $20 million-was auctioned piecemeal over four days by Guernsey's, October 18-21. This part of the collection, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Firearms Column
by Robert KyleA new record amount spent at a gun auction was set after a three-day sale earned over $11.23 million. The remarkable sale occurred October 8-10 at the auction facility of James D. Julia, Inc. in Fairfield, Maine."It is now the largest-grossing firearms auction ever conducted in the world, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Kathleen and Philip Seibel, Catskill, New York
In the Tradeby Frank DoneganIf you're looking for a nice country cupboard in old paint-or if, in fact, you're looking for 20 or 30 of them-Kathleen and Philip Seibel's early Dutch brick saltbox house just outside Catskill, New York, would be a good place to start. You probably wouldn't have ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)One to Remember
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittLast month I cited section 2-328 of the Uniform Commercial Code to discuss four important rules about auctions with reserve, including one rule that is largely unknown. I promised to use a real-world auction event this month to illustrate the significant value and protection that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New York Artists Dominate North Carolina Sale
Leland Little Auctions and Estate Sales, Hillsborough, North Carolinaby Pete PrunklNancy Blount is M.A.D.'s back story source at Leland Little Auctions. She was at the center of the consignment of a rare Chester Webster salt-glazed storage jar at Little's June 2006 sale ("Provenance Meets Providence," M.A.D. October 2006). She came ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Some Observations on Buying a Half-Million-Dollar Letter by Davy Crockett
Opinionby David Hewett"It's deja vu all over again!" observed that shrewd commentator on human nature, Yogi Berra. "What goes around, comes around," also comes to mind.Why these pithy observations?The Texas Historical Commission announced in early September that it had tentatively agreed to purchase a document from Houston's Simpson Galleries for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In Praise of Pairpoint Lamps
by John NorrisAll prices in Canadian funds unless noted; rounded U.S. figures in parenthesisOn June 6 a Pairpoint reverse-painted glass and gilt-metal table lamp, the largest Rose Bonnet or Easter Bonnet puffy, estimated at $3000/5000, soared to $69,600 ($65,726) (including buyer's premium) at Ritchies in Toronto, setting a Canadian auction ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Samuel McIntire: Carving an American Style
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoWhen Samuel McIntire died in 1811, he owned over 300 carving tools, more than three times the number in a typical carver's shop of the period. He needed the surplus for his multiple styles and the wide variety of carving challenges he faced, so ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)SeaFair Launched
by Lita Solis-CohenAfter three and a half years and many delays, SeaFair's well-publicized five-story 228' yacht Grand Luxe tied up at the Delamar Hotel in Greenwich, Connecticut, and opened for business on September 27.Twenty-eight dealers had signed up for gallery space for the first voyage, which launched in Greenwich, then ... (Read More)
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