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(Feature)Sotheby's October Americana Auction
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenThe October Americana sales in New York City showed that when people want something they will pay for it, and if they don't want it, you cannot give it away."The market wants premier objects, and when the estimates are conservative there is interest," said Erik ... (Read More)
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(Show)The USArtists Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenFor the first time in the 16-year history of USArtists, the annual all-American art show in Philadelphia that benefits the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), a $1.2 million John Chamberlain sculpture made of car parts was front and center in Mark Borghi's stand. "I just ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: The Stigma of the Middle Market
The Young CollectorThe Stigma of the Middle Marketby Andrew Richmond and Hollie DavisThe middle market is soft. How many times have we heard that? It seems as if nearly every article that covers a show or auction where buying wasn't frenzied includes quotes from the exasperated dealers and auctioneers proclaiming ... (Read More)
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(Show)Resignations Magnify Problems with Move of Philadelphia Show
by Lita Solis-CohenWhen four major Americana dealers resigned in protest from what some call the best show for Americana in the country, it focused attention on their criticism of show management. The revamping of the venerable Philadelphia Antiques Show, which is moving to a new venue, has had the trade ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Reorganized Salander-O'Reilly Emerges, Sotheby's Cancels Auction
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(Feature)Another Collector Gets Mugged on the Internet?
by Ralph FinchIt's a little after 9 a.m., Saturday, June 23, 2007. I just ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week in NYC
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(Feature)Final Figures in Berry-Hill/Coram Bankruptcy
by David HewettOn July 12 Judge Robert E. Gerber of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York approved the final costs of employing the swarm of attorneys, advisors, accountants, and other professionals involved in bringing Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc. and its associated entity, Coram Capital LLC, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Good Crowds for ADA Show in Historic Deerfield
Deerfield, Massachusettsby David HewettThis year's Antiques Dealers' Association of America/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show took place on October 6 and 7 in the small northern Massachusetts town of Deerfield, the home of the 13 restored buildings, a museum, and school facilities that bear the adjective "historic" with suitable pride and draw ... (Read More)
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(Feature)National Black Fine Art Show
The 12th annual National Black Fine Art Show, a fine art fair presenting original artwork by African, African-American, and Caribbean artists, will take place February 14-17, 2008, at the Puck Building in SoHo, New York City. The show presents 38 dealers exhibiting work in a range of media from paintings, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Beachfront Antiques Show Stars at Cape May's Annual Victorian Week
Cape May, New Jerseyby Ed PfeifferCape May, New Jersey, at the state's extreme southern end where the Delaware River flows into the Atlantic Ocean, is a time warp to the Victorian era. Said to be the country's oldest seashore resort, the whole city has been designated a National Historic Landmark. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Every Collector Add a Collector
A relatively small group of people in the trade has been working on ways to help the trade get new collectors involved. The initiative to find new collectors is called "Every Collector Add a Collector."It aims to get people who collect now to interest their children, their friends, and others ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Blogging and Counterfeit Software
Computer Column #228by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netThis month we revisit blogging and also focus on counterfeit software.-Easy BloggingA blog is a mini-Web site with a continuing series of articles on a favorite topic. In this column for the July 2005 issue, several creators of antiques blogs described their experiences.To see ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Diversity Sells in Manheim, Old and New
Conestoga Auction Company, Inc., Manheim, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassConestoga Auction Company held a diverse sale of predominantly Pennsylvania country material on October 5 and 6 in Manheim, Pennsylvania. There were large groupings of contemporary pottery, woodcarvings, and paintings by such craftspeople as James Seagreaves, Russell Henry, Walter and June Gottshall, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)September Arts and Crafts Auction
Craftsman Auctions, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenThe Craftsman Auctions sale on September 29 and 30 offered more than 1100 lots of Arts and Crafts furniture, pottery, art glass, lighting, and metalwork and was 80% sold for a total of $3.6 million, the second-highest total for any Craftsman Auctions weekend.The salesroom ... (Read More)
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(Feature)James Graham & Sons to Move
In December, James Graham & Sons will move to a new location on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at 32 East 67th Street. The gallery will inaugurate the space with an exhibition devoted to the work of Paul Manship, Norman Bluhm, Walter Gay, Guy Pene du Bois, and other ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Kindig to Receive ADA Award of Merit
It has been announced that the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. (ADA) dinner will be held April 12, 2008, at 8 p.m., in a tent behind the Navy Pier after the Philadelphia Antiques Show closes. The recipient of the annual Award of Merit will be Joseph Kindig III of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Lancaster County Auction House Has Not Been Sold
by Karl PassThe rumor circulating that Conestoga Auction Company in Manheim, Pennsylvania, has been sold is not true."I have heard it all, and it is one hundred percent rumor," stated Jeffrey DeHart, president of Conestoga. "We have no plans to sell and are working harder than ever. There have been ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Legislation to Restore Benefits of Fractional Gifts Introduced
by Daniel GrantNew Mexico Democratic Representative Thomas Udall, claiming that the limitations to fractional donations of high-end artwork to museums in the 2006 Pension Protection Act has "suffocated a time-honored method of giving that has made many of our national treasures available to the public," introduced legislation in Congress on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Marburger Farm Show Sold
The Marburger Farm Antique Show, a 400-vendor event, has been sold by show founder John Sauls to the Marsh family of Tyler, Dallas, and other Texas cities. At a packed "town hall" meeting with the show's vendors, Sauls introduced his longtime friend Margaret Marsh Mebus and the members of her ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Canadian Dealer Murdered
by Jean MurrayOwner Robert Ness of Obsession Antiques, Notre Dame Street, Montreal, Quebec, was murdered in his apartment above his antiques shop sometime Tuesday, October 16.Ness was a well-respected and popular antiques dealer for close to 40 years along the strip of antiques shops on Notre Dame Street. He was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Punch Costs $542,400
by Lita Solis-CohenA wooden figure of
Punch on a pedestal, attributed to William Demuth & Co., circa 1860, 5'8"
tall, sold for $542,400 (including buyer's premium) at a Philip Weiss auction
in Oceanside, Long Island, New York, on Sunday, October 21. It was an auction
record for any trade figure."I ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Foster Reaps a Cropsey for $143,000
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoLabor Day weekend is the climax of Maine's summer tourist season, and it now serves as the finish to Maine's semi-official Antiques Week, with a fistful of auctions and shows centered on the coast. Robert Foster's September 1 and 2 sale in Newcastle shared ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Repro for Humanity
On January 18, 2008, a redware-filled apothecary cabinet will be sold at live auction at the preview party for Goodrich and Company's Designer Craftsmen Show of Philadelphia in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Fifty percent of the proceeds are to be donated to Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia.Created by potter Greg Shooner ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Stephen Parrish Etching Catalog to be Published
After 22 years of research and writing, Rona Schneider of New York has announced the publication of Stephen Parrish/The Etchings: A Catalogue Raisonne. The publication date is November 2007.The 192-page, fully illustrated catalog lists and details all of Parrish's 153 etchings, which were created during the period from 1879 to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sideboard Goes to Governor's Mansion
A circa 1795 sideboard, with a family history in Wiscasset, Maine, is a recent acquisition by the Maine State Museum and is now on view in the Blaine House in Augusta, the home of Maine's governors. The sideboard was conserved by Linda Coit and Jon Brandon of East Point Conservation ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Bankrupt, D.A.'s Office Seizes Property, Searches for Evidence
by David HewettThe financial troubles of Lawrence Salander and his New York City art business, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, reached the tipping point in late October and early November. The sheer mass of lawsuits charging missed payments, unauthorized sales, bad checks, and broken deals filed in the New York State Supreme Court ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Skinner Sets New Record for Automata
An agent for a Russian billionaire
came to Skinner's science and technology auction in Bolton, Massachusetts, on
Sunday, October 28, and bought 16 lots of mechanical music boxes and automata
for $1,041,960.50 (includes the buyers' premiums).One of his purchases, a pair
of life-size blackamoor musicians by Jean Roullet, for which ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Former Mrs. New Jersey Arrested for Theft
The 2005 Mrs. New Jersey United States, Heather "Hedy" L. DiCarlo, 36, of Essex Fells, New Jersey, was arrested on October 10 after allegedly writing bad checks in order to purchase more than $70,000 worth of antique furniture. DiCarlo was charged with third-degree theft and third-degree issuing bad checks. Bail ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Wilton Historical Society Announces Spring 2008 Date
The "March show" will be in March again in 2008. After being forced into April for two years, the 41st Annual Antiques Show produced by the Wilton Historical Society in Wilton, Connecticut, will take place March 30."I'm pleased to finally get an acceptable date, though we are not able to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Winterthur Names Lois Olcott Price Director of Conservation
Leslie Greene Bowman, director and CEO of Winterthur Museum & Country Estate, has announced the appointment of Lois Olcott Price to director of conservation.Price has a long and unique history with Winterthur as the only person to be awarded degrees from the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture and the ... (Read More)
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(Show)International Vintage Poster Fair Returns to New York City
New York Cityby Richard de ThuinThe International Vintage Poster Fair, held October 19-21 in New York City, included 25 world-class vintage poster exhibitors from the United States and western Europe. The fair was produced by Gail Chisholm, owner of Chisholm Gallery, New York City, enjoying her 30th year in the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Collectors Help Prices Climb at Shaker Auction
Willis Henry Auctions, Inc., Pittsfield, Massachusettsby David HewettWillis Henry opened his October 14 Shaker auction at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, with the announcement that he and his wife, Karel, had just discovered that it was his 25th year at selling Shaker-associated material. "Someone told us that if ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heritage Medal and Token Sale Upstaged by Pulitzer Medals
Heritage Auction Galleries, Long Beach, Californiaby Samuel PenningtonDallas-based Heritage Auction Galleries held a tokens and medals signature auction in Long Beach, California, on September 27 and 28. The sale total was $596,565.70 (includes buyers' premiums), with the highest-priced item bringing $63,250, but the big news was what happened to three ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Oldest Show Nears Its Ninth Decade
Portland, Maineby Mark SiscoNobody really famous showed up this time, but it doesn't take a celebrity face to make a successful antiques show, especially when it's the longest continually running show in the country. This year marked the 78th year of the Maine Antiques Dealers Association Antiques Show, held September ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Hong Fire of 1843
by Alan SnyderAmong the most fascinating, dramatic, and rare pictures of the China trade are those that depict the disastrous fires that ravaged Canton and the foreign hongs along the Pearl River during the 19th century. Hongs were residences and trading headquarters for merchants from the West.Some hong fire paintings ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The International Art + Design Fair
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenThe International Art + Design Fair, held October 5-10, was the first fair seriously impacted by global warming. With midsummer weather on Columbus Day weekend, people left New York City for the beaches. A parade on Columbus Day did not help the gate on Monday, and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Rockport Auction Grosses Nearly $4.6 Million
James D. Julia, Inc., Rockport, Maineby Mark SiscoThe biggest auction in Maine seems to grow bigger and bigger each year. James D. Julia, Inc. held its 20th annual auction at the Samoset Resort in Rockport, Maine, on August 28-30. It has now grown from the first million-dollar auction in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Liberty from A to Z and Beyond
Liberty, North Carolinaby Pete PrunklCooler weather and warmer disposable income may have helped drive attendance to an all-time high for the September 28 and 29 Liberty Antiques Festival in Liberty, North Carolina. A week after the show closed, promoter, former antiques dealer, and jack-of-all-trades Vito Sico estimated attendance at between ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Chest Spices Up Auction
Chest Spices Up Cincinnati Auction
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(Show)Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair Introduces Fall Fair
Chicago, Illinoisby Danielle ArnetHard on the heels of its highly successful April 2007 Artropolis extravaganza, Chicago's Merchandise Mart took on another daunting project. It launched Fall Fair, a version of the Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, for the first time October 12-15.To recap, the spring event involved five shows on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Motley's Celebrates Its 40th Year of Auctions
Motley's Auction & Realty Group, Richmond, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanRichard Motley entered the auction business as a volunteer. After a family tragedy, Dick and his wife, Linda, became active in the Richmond, Virginia, chapter of the March of Dimes. During one of the charity's fund-raising auctions, Dick was pressed into ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stoneware Stag Hunted at Pook & Pook's
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPook & Pook Inc. in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, put together 921 lots of mostly American furniture and decorations, including some appealing19th-century stoneware and a dozen painted dower chests, for a fall sale on September 28 and 29. It brought out the locals, attracted a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Spirit Anew
Renton, Washingtonby Cathy AldrichLast spring left us with the dance in transition. The party who had conceived the whole notion was leaving, looking forward to sitting on the sidelines. The new partner understood the moves and was ready to waltz on alone. The new venue for the dance passed muster, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Final Ford Sale Yields a Nugget
Stack's, New York City ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Target Ball Prices Take Wing
American Bottle Auctions, Sacramento, Californiaby Ralph FinchAnother exciting installment of the sale of the Alex Kerr target ball collection took place August 8-13 when Jeff Wichmann and his American Bottle Auctions (ABA) of Sacramento, California, offered a helping of 23 items ranging from common to very nice to one-of-a-kind-and selling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Washington Chair and Tiffany Desk at End of Summer Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoLabor Day weekend saw two major auctions competing head-to-head on the coast of Maine. Thomaston Place Auction Galleries held a two-day sale September 1 and 2 in Thomaston, while just a few miles down the road in Newcastle, Robert Foster held his big ... (Read More)
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(Show)2007 Vermont Dealers' Show Is Successful
Manchester, Vermontby David HewettThere were generally favorable reports coming from exhibitors at this year's Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Antiques Show, but the best news was contained in this one: "I walked the floor most of the weekend and saw a lot of younger customers this year," manager James Dunn said. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Weston Show: 49 Years, with or without Mother Nature's Assistance
Weston, Vermontby David HewettThe only element separating this year's version of the Weston Antiques Show from those of the past was attributable to Mother Nature. Where the setting for past shows has been smack-dab in the middle of the shining yellows and vivid reds of Vermont's premier attraction, foliage season, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Leslie Hindman Auctioneers to Expand, Add Glass Department
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinoisby Sharon VerbetenWhen Leslie Hindman Auctioneers reopened the doors of its Chicago auction house four years ago, success was not only on the horizon. It was expected. And with the firm's reputation and experience in the auction world, owner Leslie Hindman planned for big things. "We're ... (Read More)
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(Feature)27th Summer Antiques Show Sizzles a Second Time
Baltimore, Maryland
by Robert Kyle
The Three Musketeers did it again. The trio of young show promoters, known as the Palm Beach Group, convincingly confirmed that last year's dramatic resurrection and rebirth of a middling 26-year-old downtown Baltimore event was no accident. One for all and all for one certainly translated into ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Correction about Indian Weathervane Sold at Sotheby's
The Indian weathervane sold at Sotheby's on October 4, 2007, to Leigh Keno was gilded, not painted as the caption suggested in an effort to explain the comparatively low price of $241,000 (M.A.D., December 2007, page 3-D). An Indian weathervane of this size sold at Northeast Auctions for $365,500 in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)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 on 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 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Dutch Joinery in 17th-Century Windsor, Connecticut
by Erik K. Gronning, Joshua W. Lane, and Robert F. TrentThe earliest American furniture scholars were intrigued about furniture made by Dutch artisans in the English colonies of North America. Queen Anne chairs were habitually referred to as "Dutch," and the large size and broad proportions of New York furniture ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)The War between the States on the Web
Computer Column #227by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netCivil War material is always good. Sometimes it is hot. J.E.B. Stuart's personal battle flag, hand sewn by his wife, Flora, brought $956,000 (including 19.5% buyer's premium) at its December 2006 Nashville, Tennessee, auction, according to Heritage Auction Galleries (www.ha.com) in Dallas, Texas. The ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The War between the States on the Web
Computer Column #227by John P. Reid, jreid@dca.netCivil War material is always good. Sometimes it is hot. J.E.B. Stuart's personal battle flag, hand sewn by his wife, Flora, brought $956,000 (including 19.5% buyer's premium) at its December 2006 Nashville, Tennessee, auction, according to Heritage Auction Galleries (www.ha.com) in Dallas, Texas. The ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The National Capital Winter Antiques Show Postponed
Washington, D.C.-based promoter Armacost Antiques Shows has announced that its new antiques event, the National Capital Winter Antiques Show, has been postponed until 2008. The inaugural show had been scheduled to take place November 30-December 2, 2007.New dates, location, and other details will be released in the near future. More ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Firearms Column
by Robert Kyle As 19th-century Americans spread westward, the horizon got bigger, and so did the wild animals. The old single-shot muzzle-loaders and early models of the smaller caliber Winchester rifles were appropriate for small game and white-tailed deer in eastern forests but no match for bison, elk, antelope, sheep, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Mary Jean McLaughlin of Ivoryton, Connecticut
In the Tradeby Frank Donegan Mary Jean McLaughlin sells only wicker. She calls it "the orphan of the antiques business." If that's true, then her rambling Colonial Revival home in Ivoryton, Connecticut, is one heck of an orphanage. Eighteen or 20 of its rooms (she's not exactly sure of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auctioneers and the Misunderstood Tool
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve Proffitt Here's an old joke. Junior was a woodcutter by trade. He was a man's man, but not the brightest penny. As we say down South, if he was twice as smart, he'd be a half-wit. Junior started off with a hand ax cutting pulpwood. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Ends Its August Sell-a-thon with $6.23 Million Sale
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
by David Hewett
August is famous in New Hampshire for many reasons: the long-awaited native tomato finally ripens; the Red Sox begin or threaten to begin their traditional swoon (some years they wait until mid-September); and Northeast Auctions holds its two biggest events of the year-the Americana and folk ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Call It Oosik or Baculum, It's a Popular Bone to Pick
by Robert KyleA world-record price for the largest known antique penis bone was set August 26 when the I.M. Chait Gallery in Beverly Hills, California, sold a 41/2' long petrified walrus reproductive part for $9600 (including buyer's premium). The successful telephone bidder from Florida was representing Ripley's Believe It or ... (Read More)
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(Show)Scott Antique Market: July and January Designer Events Bring Special Buyers
Atlanta, Georgiaby Karla Klein AlbertsonTo the question "Where did you get that?" hundreds of dealers in shows around the country have answered "I found it at Scott's Market." So it makes sense to take a trip to the source, join the hunt, and see what turns up when you have ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Connecting with the Young eCollector
The Young Collectorby Andrew Richmond and Hollie DavisWe had beginner's luck. We'd cranked out one column and were sitting at home wondering vainly what we should write about next when our issue of M.A.D. arrived. In perusing the letters to the editor, we found out that Generation X is considered, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Easton Home: Seniors and Antiques under One Roof
by David SperlingWe normally do not associate fine antiques with assisted living. Yet such a partnership does exist under one roof in the village of Easton, Pennsylvania, about one hour north of Philadelphia and one and a half hours west of New York City.I first became aware of "clocks in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)High Prices Bring Out Great Material
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPrices include the buyer's premiumScot Levitt, California and American paintings specialist for Bonhams & Butterfields, called the $5,514,060 Los Angeles and San Francisco auction on August 7 "better than average, the second best ever."Why? "We had top examples of Impressionists ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Grande Dame of Maine Antiques Shows
Ellsworth, Maineby Mark SiscoThe impact of the Ellsworth Antiques Show in Ellsworth, Maine, is extending beyond its Woodlawn Museum host. The show, credited with being the nation's longest continually running summer antiques show, was held this year August 16-18. Some of the physical problems of the site have been literally ... (Read More)
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(Show)Falmouth Features Country Antiques and Collectibles
Falmouth, Massachusettsby Ed PfeifferMost antiques shows present a very wide range of styles and designs, from very primitive antiques and collectibles to the most formal ones. The Falmouth Historical Society's outdoor show, held August 25 on Cape Cod in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and staged by Goosefare Promotions of Saco, Maine, focused ... (Read More)
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(Auction)General Sale Sells General's Stuff
Alderfer Auction & Appraisal, Hatfield, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenAlderfer Auction & Appraisal in Hatfield, Pennsylvania, a family-owned full-service auction business founded by Sanford Alderfer in 1959, fills a real need in the Delaware River valley. Alderfer's sales every Thursday find buyers for a huge variety of goods. Dealers and collectors for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Bloomsbury Auctions Opens in New York City
by Lita Solis-CohenBloomsbury Auctions, a specialist auction house for books, has opened a salesroom in New York City at 6 West 48th Street. Bloomsbury's first New York sale, the private collection of Pamela and Richard Estes on September 26, totaled $936,000 (includes buyers' premiums). Just 13 of the 291 lots ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"A Lively Experiment"
Book Reviewby Lita Solis-Cohen"So many people asked me so many questions about Newport that I decided the last thing I would do for Newport was this book," said Ralph Carpenter, who has been a booster of Newport, Rhode Island, since the 1930's. "I was ninety-two years old when I first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Not Quite What Was Expected
Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonThis one didn't quite turn out as expected. Cowan's summer Americana sale of fine and decorative arts, held June 23 in Cincinnati, Ohio, was one that probably left staff members shaking their heads in disbelief-for bidding that went astronomically beyond presale estimates as well as for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Christie's and Guyette & Schmidt Hook Up
Christie's and the decoy auction firm Guyette & Schmidt, Inc. have announced a strategic association. According to a press release, it "will be aimed at providing the highest level of service to the existent decoy market while further developing and supporting interest in and awareness of this collecting field."The list ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Art & Antiques Relaunches
by Lita Solis-CohenA year after it was acquired by CurtCo Media, Art & Antiques, the 29-year-old magazine for collectors, has streamlined its layout, and press releases state that its focus will be on connoisseurship of a vast range of fine and decorative arts. Bill Curtis, CEO of CurtCo Media, claimed ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Picky Folk Art Buyers Pay Up When It Passes Muster
by Lita Solis-CohenThe Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, Massachusetts, paid $541,000 (includes buyer's premium) for a 4' tall figure of Jack Tar at Christie's on October 3. The figure is probably from the workshop of Samuel Robb (1851-1928) in New York City, circa 1890. Daniel Finamore, PEM's Russell W. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Changes in Nashville
Kay Puchstein and Jon Jenkins of Jenkins Show Management, co-managers of the long-running Music Valley Antiques Market, announced their new show set to debut during Antiques Week in Nashville in February 2008.Antiques at Music Valley will feature over 140 of America's premier antiques dealers in a big-top tent setting. While ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Pavillon des Arts et du Design
Show promoter Meg Wendy met Patrick Perrin in Moscow this summer, and over lunch the two decided to join forces and bring the first Pavillion des Arts et du Design to the Seventh Regiment Armory in New York City, February 6-11, 2008.Created in 1997 by Perrin and Stephane Custot, Le ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Philadelphia Museum of Art's Perelman Building Opens
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(Feature)The Thrilla and Alexander Farnham
Jim's of Lambertville, Lambertville, New Jersey, will present The Thrilla in Lambertvilla XVIII, an exhibition of Pennsylvania Impressionists and Modernists, opening Saturday, November 3, at 6 p.m.The selling exhibition will feature over 100 works by Fern Coppedge, Harry Leith-Ross, Daniel Garber, Edward Willis Redfield, Robert Spencer, Walter Emerson Baum, John ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gamage Gets the Gold
Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maineby Mark SiscoAuctioneer Bruce Gamage kicked off Maine's unofficial antiques week with a tidy estate sale in Rockland on August 27. The two biggest hits had everybody buzzing before and after the event. Both were six-figure strikes.The first was a unique gold medal that had been ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Gould Modern Art Collection Exhibited at New Britain Museum
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticutby Ed Pfeiffer Michael and Marilyn Gould of Wilton, Connecticut, are well known in the antiques field as experienced and skilled managers of significant antiques shows. Less known is that they have a personal interest in modern art and an impressive collection ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Round Top Reorganizes; Prince Hangs In for Another Year
Damariscotta, Maineby Mark SiscoWith four major auctions and the Maine Antiques Dealers Association show at River Arts at Round Top Farm in Damariscotta all happening in the week prior to Labor Day, Maine has a legitimate claim to its own Antiques Week, following the officially designated week in New Hampshire. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Lots of Maritime Lithographs
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire by A.J. Peluso, Jr. Northeast Auctions' August 18 and 19 sale in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was particularly rich in lithographic offerings, with well over 100 examples. There were no records achieved, and the sale might be viewed hereafter as a missed opportunity. (The focus here ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Rago's 19th- and 20th-Century Fine Art Auction
Rago Arts and Auction Center, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-Cohen Rago Arts and Auction Center kicked off the fall season at noon on Saturday, September 15, at its gallery in Lambertville, New Jersey, with a special sale of art by Pennsylvania and New Jersey artists. This was immediately followed by ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Kid Still Shines
Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanEven after six years, promoter Barry Cohen's Historic Indian & World Tribal Arts: Santa Fe show is still the new kid in town. Held at the College of Santa Fe's Shellaberger Tennis Center, August 9-12, it also remains the kid voted most likely to succeed.Cohen ... (Read More)
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(Show)Historic Casino Is a Beautiful Setting for the Saratoga Springs Antique Show
Saratoga Springs, New Yorkby Ed PfeifferSaratoga Springs, New York, some 180 miles north of Manhattan, is a beautiful place. Its wide streets are lined with vintage, architecturally attractive residences and other structures, surrounded by colorful flower gardens and big, mature trees. The historic place was a famous watering hole in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sturbridge Antique Textiles Show Celebrates Its 50th Presentation
Sturbridge, Massachusettsby Ed PfeifferOn September 3, Labor Day, the Antique Textiles and Vintage Fashions Show & Sale, held in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, celebrated its 17th year and staged its 50th event.Show manager Linda Zukas explained how it started. In 1991 she was a dealer in antique textiles and had been doing ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Pressing Irons Stay Hot
Simmons and Company Auctioneers, Indianapolis, Indianaby Don JohnsonThe clothes dryer broke last week. It simply refused to dry. Nary a tumble nor a BTU of heat. But the light inside the door still worked, as if to taunt us as we replaced every fuse known to man in order to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Early War Shirt Is Star of Tribal Arts Sale
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoA spectacular 19th-century Native American war shirt from the Plains, made of two bighorn sheepskin hides, was the top lot at Skinner's latest American Indian and ethnographic art sale on Sunday, September 23 in Boston.The auction house's expert, Douglas Diehl, said it had been collected ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strange Fish Sell at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoMilton Avery's Strange Fish made the biggest splash at Skinner's auction of prints, paintings, and sculpture in the auction house's Boston gallery on September 7. The fish brought $215,000 (including buyer's premium) from a New York dealer bidding by phone.Signed and dated 1951, the oil ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors Make a Statement at Summer Vintage Poster Auction
Swann Galleries, New York Cityby Richard de ThuinOf the 21 top-selling lots in an auction of vintage posters at Swann Galleries in New York City on August 1, 20 sold to collectors with the remaining lot won by a dealer. The five highest-selling lots went to collectors at prices ranging ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Granddaddy of Them All
Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanNew York City and Santa Fe dealer John Molloy calls the Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show "the granddaddy of them all." The show started 29 years ago under the direction of dealer Don Bennett (who still exhibits at the show) and continues to attract dealers ... (Read More)
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(Feature)State of the Union Festival
Union, Maineby Mark SiscoNow finished its 26th year and counting, there's no end in sight for the Maine Antiques Festival, held at the fairgrounds in Union, Maine. Paul Davis's brainchild is still northern New England's biggest outdoor antiques show, and although some folks feel business isn't what it was ten ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 149th Original Semiannual York Show
York, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassThe Original 149th Semi-annual York Antiques Show & Sale was held August 31 through September 2 in Memorial Hall East on the York (Pennsylvania) Fairgrounds. Managed by Melvin Arion, this show is a popular event for Mid-Atlantic collectors and dealers. There are many collectors who only ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tarnished Silver
by Walter C. NewmanO what a tangled web we weaveWhen first we practise to deceive!This famous passage by Sir Walter Scott is found toward the conclusion of his epic poem, Marmion, which is a story full of betrayal, disguise, and deceit. That may be an apt description of a Tiffany ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rare Rolhfs Chair Stars at Cottone's First Auction in Own House
by Fran KramerTwo auctioneers in the Cottone family: son Matt (left) and father, Sam.Sam Cottone selling the chair. He is looking down at a left bid."No balloons or ribbons for our opening!" That's what Sam Cottone said at the end of his final sale inside Peter's Party House in Mt. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antiques Manhattan Revived, Helps Fill Pier Void
Antiques Manhattan, an antiques show that was last seen in New York City in 2003, will return this January, according to show promoter Barry Cohen of b4rTime, Inc. An e-mail to the trade from Cohen reads, "The cancellation of the Americana at the Piers show for 2008 has left a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Sometimes Up and Sometimes Down October Sale
by David HewettThe three-day sale held by Northeast Auctions October 26-28 in Manchester, New Hampshire, is difficult to summarize. It grossed about $6.3 million, and consignors (at least the two we spoke with at the sale) were certainly pleased with the results, but no one was whistling in the elevator ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)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 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 more ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Salander-O'Reilly Galleries Padlocked, Art and Library Pledged, Big Show Canceled
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