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(Fragment)MidWeek in Manchester Returns to the Queen City, and the Pickers Market Show Is Revived
Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions made two announcements in late November: the MidWeek Antiques Show is moving back to Manchester, New Hampshire, in August 2016, and the Pickers Market show will be revived.
MidWeek will now be held at the JFK Memorial Coliseum at 303 Beech Street in Manchester, the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Unraveling the Mystery of Thomas Cole's Final, Unfinished Series, "The Cross and the World"
There’s a lot of excitement these days at Cedar Grove, the home of Thomas Cole (1801-1848), founder of the Hudson River school of landscape painting.1 Not only has the National Historic Site, located in Catskill, New York, discovered the remnants of murals previously unknown to Cole scholars, but a reconstruction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Sentenced to Two Years in Prison for Smuggling Rhinoceros Libation Cups
Antiques dealer Linxun Liao was sentenced on November 12, 2015, in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison for his role in a wildlife trafficking scheme in which he purchased and smuggled 16 libation cups carved from rhinoceros horns (worth more than $1 million) from the United States to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Eclectic Mix at Smith
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith
The auction hall was nearly full for most of the 500-lot auction at the William A. Smith gallery in Plainfield, New Hampshire, on December 28, 2015. The sale consisted of an interesting and eclectic mixture of country Americana, American art, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Early Seating Upholstery
A Book Review
Early Seating Upholstery: Reading the Evidence
by Leroy Graves
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2015, 237 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from Colonial Williamsburg, (www.williamsburgmarketplace.com) or (800) 446-9240.
Not so very long ago—back toward the beginning of my career—the issue of upholstery within museum circles did not receive very much scholarly attention. ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Around and Around
Auction Law & Ethics
We wrapped up 2015 with a list of consignment complaints sent to M.A.D. by a disgruntled reader. The woman had inherited an antiques collection from her parents and placed it with an auction house several states away for sale. She soon regretted that decision and described the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Humbugged!
P. T. Barnum was known as “the Prince of Humbug” for the many fakes and frauds he perpetrated on the American public throughout most of the 19th century. The Fiji Mermaid; Joice Heth, the oldest woman in the world; General Tom Thumb, the smallest man alive; bearded ladies; fat ladies; ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Another Pro-Choice Debate
The Young Collector
Once upon a time, we wrote about how corrosive the concept of convenience is, how we unwittingly give up important, often intangible things in exchange for tangible, often inconsequential things. Nowhere is this more apparent, at least to us this time of year, than holiday shopping. Hollie faces ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Senate Takes a Hard Look at Private Museums
Editorial
According to a story reported in the New York Times on November 29, 2015, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the most powerful figures in Congress, is taking a hard look at private museums, trying to determine if the museums deserve the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Searching for Family Heirlooms
Users of the website JustaJoy.com (www.justajoy.com) are able to search for family heirlooms and receive notifications when objects matching their search criteria are posted.
Owner and developer Joy Shivar explained that the site is “the world’s largest source of indexed identified items owned by antique dealers and others.” Family researchers can ... (Read More)
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