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(Auction)New Year's Day Sale
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Nadeau’s Auction Gallery
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, was selling to a packed house on January 1. Part of the reason could have been the Americana collection consigned to Nadeau from Credit Suisse. That massive collection included a full-length portrait of Thomas Alva Edison ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Year's Day in Hardeeville
Gallery 95, Hardeeville, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Gallery 95
Hardeeville occupies a sweet spot in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Midway between the elegant mansions of Savannah, Georgia, and the tony condos of Hilton Head, South Carolina, it is the perfect spot for an auction house. That was the conclusion Maine natives Steve ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Image Search and Translation
Computer Column #325
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Image searches and language translation will be discussed. But first, here is more on computer accessibility.
Accessibility Again
In the column for the July 2015 issue (see p. 38-C), computer accessibility for people with limited vision, hearing, or dexterity was discussed. Essential tremor or ET is the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Framing Fraktur
A Book Review
Framing Fraktur: Pennsylvania German Material Culture & Contemporary Art edited by Judith Tannenbaum, with essays by Janine Pollock, Lisa Minardi, Matthew F. Singer, and Judith Tannenbaum. Free Library of Philadelphia, distributed by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 104 pages, hardbound, $39.95 plus S/H from the Free Library of ... (Read More)
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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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