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(Show)The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Baltimore, Maryland
The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, held August 20-23 this year, was really four shows in one: a jewelry show, an antiques show, an art show, and a book fair. For 35 years, it has presented a huge variety of wares from all parts of the world. When the Palm ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Summer sales have filled my pending files with all sorts of riches and oddities that will feature in both this and future issues. The picture sales I have largely held over for next month’s “Letter,” though Klimt, Degas, and Goya do make an appearance here. Elsewhere you will ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antique American Indian Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Stronger than last year,” said coproducer/owner Kim Martindale (with John Morris) about the Antique American Indian Art Show Santa Fe, held August 17-20 at El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe in the Railyard District. The show was born in 2014 out of Martindale’s deeply felt belief that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry at a One-Day Maine Antiques Show
An 1860-70 sterling silver chatelaine with sterling implements (thimble case, thimble, pincushion, patch box, stamp box, and an enamel and gold watch with pearl) was $1295. Chatelaines were worn by the woman of the house, who had all essential necessities at her fingertips with this accessory. These are rare and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Coastal Maine Antiques Show at Round Top
This portable desk box has about 20 compartments, brass and ivory hardware, star and fan inlays, and some cryptic symbolic inscriptions inside that give no clue to its origin. Malcolm and Marnie McFarland of Orr’s Island, Maine, asked $1250 for it.
Joe Bent of Nobleboro, Maine, brought a lidded pewter coffeepot, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Talbot Auction in Turner: Where a Buck Is Still Worth a Buck
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
Hey, how about this for strange? You go to an auction, right? And you bid $100 for an item. Then you actually pay $100 for it. Weird, huh? But that’s what happens at Charles M. Talbot Associates auctions in Turner, Maine. At the company’s August ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
In August there were at least four must-see shows in Santa Fe: two at the Santa Fe Community Convention Center located near the downtown Plaza and two at El Museo de Cultural, located in what PR people call the “arty” Railyard District, as well as several others ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)There Was No One Like Rudolph T. Lux, Ever
These Custer vases came to market in 1995 at Butterfield & Butterfield and sold for $46,750 the pair. Later they failed at Heritage Auctions in 2010 but were rescued by private treaty for $53,999, the current record. Miscellany and steamboats, however, seem to hover at middle four-figure prices. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Baten, Blum, and a Bevy of Bids
The Colchester, Connecticut, cherry block- and shell-carved chest-on-chest, 74" high and 40¼" wide, attributed to Samuel Loomis (1770-1800), sold for $408,000 to Colchester, Connecticut, dealer Arthur Liverant of Nathan Liverant and Son, who held his cell phone to his ear, underbid by a telephone bidder. The price was a good ... (Read More)
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