A Chippendale mahogany blockfront chest of drawers, possibly made by George Bright of Boston, sold to an East Coast dealer for $61,000 (est.]]> Maine Antique Digest (09/01/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2097

The Jordans’ shop.]]> Maine Antique Digest (09/01/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2096

Tom Armitage Art & Antiques, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, offered the carved table for $695, the crib quilt for $1250, and the blanket chest in green paint for $2350.

Halsey Munson of Decatur, Illinois, asked $5100 for the New England stretcher-base tavern table, probably Essex County, Massachusetts, 1710-40, and $2500 for the pair of late 18th-century Connecticut banister-back side chairs with unusual crests and original feet.

Jeff and Cathy Amon of Jamestown, Pennsylvania, asked $2750 for the 90" long harvest table in original condition, found in Jefferson County, Ohio; $8500 for the curly maple and cherry clock, 1818-24, found in Washington County, Pennsylvania; and $3200 for the Bedford
County, Pennsylvania, plantation desk in
original paint decoration, third quarter of the 19th century.

Richmond, Indiana

by Don Johnson

There was no cake.

Somehow the thought of a cake never occurred to Jennifer Sabin, who manages the Heartland Antiques Show.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/30/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2095

We have often commented that no serious glass collection is complete without an example of a pressed tulip vase from the Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/30/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2094 by Marilis Hornidge

When it comes to mysteries with a solid antiques background these days, the gleanings are amazingly few.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/30/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2093 by Ian McKay, e-mail: <ianmckay1@btinternet.com>

Still working my way through the summer catalogues, I have had to make some decisions about what goes into this month's column, and what will have to wait for the October and November issues.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/27/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2092

Donna Staggs of Donna’s Antiques, Fullerton, California, asked $395 for the horse on wheels and $195 for the teddy bear wearing a sweater suit.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/27/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2091

This rare large (10 1/8" diameter) bowl by Lucie Rie (1902-1995) in porcelain with a manganese and blue glaze with sgraffito and inlaid designs, impressed with the artist’s seal, sold for $74,500 (est.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/27/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2090 Michaan's Auctions in Alameda, California, has partnered with decorative arts expert Reyne Haines.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/27/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2089 by David Hewett

The atmosphere on Capitol Hill is perpetually roiled and particularly so in this summer of 2010.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/27/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2088 by Steve Proffitt

The past two months I wrote about "negative" selling—that is, people selling themselves into bad deals.

This month I write about the inverse of that concept-positioning for success through "value selling." People who sell value maximize results by gaining the best deals that yield the most lucrative rewards.

Are you a top auctioneer in your category, niche, or at least in your end of the pond—or just another also-ran?]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/26/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2087

Greg Kuharic, who worked at Sotheby’s from 1988 to 2003, is now a decorative arts consultant and studio potter in Mishawaka, Indiana.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/26/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2086 by Lita Solis-Cohen

"We sold our house to the first people who looked at it and signed an agreement of sale for a house in Colorado.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/26/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2085 “It's not good for the town, it's not good for the church, and it certainly wasn't good for the antiques dealers,” collector Mary Grothe of Gainesville, Virginia, said.

We called Grothe after she forwarded a letter she sent to her local newspaper, the Fauquier Times-Democrat.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/26/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2084

Joseph M.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/25/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2083

Unlike many key baskets, this example is not marked with the name of the harness or saddle shop where it was made.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/25/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2082

Overbeck vase, carved with repeating profiles of women walking amid stylized flowers, Elizabeth and Mary Frances Overbeck, marked, 14 3/8" high, light crazing, otherwise excellent condition, $17,250.

Daum Nancy cameo lamp, the shade and base with cockscomb flower heads, dark purple-brown over marmalade, marked, 20" high, shade 12¾" diameter, very good condition, $17,250.

Rookwood architectural faience overmantel, Arts and Crafts landscape possibly by Sallie Toohey, circa 1910, 22¾" x 42½", minor edge chips, $11,500.

The Auctions at Rookwood, Cincinnati, Ohio

by Don Johnson

Photos courtesy The Auctions at Rookwood

Sunday morning at Over-the-Rhine, Cincinnati, Ohio.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/25/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2081 by Jeanne Schinto

Antiques dealers, auctioneers, and collectors are applauding the passage of a new Massachusetts law, S2403, "An Act Relative to the Sale of Antique Barometers, Thermometers, and Clocks," signed by Governor Deval Patrick on July 26.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/25/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2080 by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

You can imagine our surprise when a recent letter to the editor opined that there are no longer any collectors, that there have, in fact, not been collectors since the early 90's.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/23/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2079

Nettie Jarvis of Bloomfield, Kentucky, showed a beautiful cherrywood tester bed with canopy.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/23/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2078 This George Hoff, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,
30-hour movement with
pewter dial in a country Chippendale softwood tall case sold for $16,500.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/23/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2077 by Lita Solis-Cohen

USArtists, to be held October 1-3, will be a different show this year.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/23/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2076 A Chinese watercolor scroll by Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), depicting an eagle standing on a rock, 20th century, 67" x 23½", generated the highest bid of the auction, $203,150.

A color aquatint, Bacchanale, after Pablo
Picasso, circa 1959, framed 25½" x 30½",
sold for $10,755.

A Steuben plum jade glass vase, created in the 1920’s, 8¼" high x 10" diameter, sold for $7170.

A Peter Hurd (1904-1984) tempera on panel,
The Coming of Spring, circa 1949, 28" x 32", reached $21,510.

Dallas Auction Gallery, Dallas, Texas

by Mark Stuertz

Photos courtesy Dallas Auction Gallery

A 20th-century watercolor scroll depicting an eagle perched on a rock by renowned Chinese artist Pan Tianshou (1897-1971) fetched $203,150 (including buyer's premium), obliterating its $30,000/50,000 estimate, at the May 26 auction at Dallas Auction Gallery in Dallas, Texas.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/20/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2075 The grand opening celebration of the New Bedford Museum of Glass (NBMOG) will be held the weekend of September 10-12.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/20/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2074

Dealers were set up outside and inside the track and on the infield at the June 12 Burton (Ohio) Antiques Market.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/19/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2073

Althof, Bergmann & Co.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/19/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2072 by Lita Solis-Cohen

There is an old adage that auctions held on site bring a third more than in a salesroom.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/19/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2071 Anthony Bonneau, 46, former owner of T's Family Auction in Cairo, New York, was sentenced to two and one-third to seven years in prison after Bonneau failed to pay Valerie Ducos after auctioning her art.

According to Greene County District Attorney Terry Wilhelm, Ducos had commissioned Bonneau to sell some artwork of her grandfather, James Michael Newell (1900-1985), a WPA artist, whose paintings are in places such as the Smithsonian Institution and the White House.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/19/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2070 by David Hewett

On July 22, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced that the state had filed a lawsuit in Multnomah County against Lucy Leffler Knopf.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/13/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2069

Carlson & Stevenson, Manchester Center, Vermont, asked $1400 for the trundle bed (it would make a nice coffee table with a piece of glass on top) and $850 for the circa 1910 double birdcage.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/13/10) http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2068

Confederate Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman’s presentation flag, the inscribed sword he was wearing when killed at the Battle of Champion Hill in 1863, and his sword belt generated the top bid of the auction, $59,750.]]> Maine Antique Digest (08/13/10)