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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 Web site ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Allison Kohler of JMK Shows Will Work with Rhinebeck Antiques Fair
Allison Kohler, president of JMK Shows, will begin working with the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair as an associate in promoting the 38-year-old show.
According to Kohler, she recently met with the producers of the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair and discussed the challenges of sustaining shows and creating new promotion techniques.
“The Rhinebeck Antiques Fairs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)U.S. Antique Shows Hires New Sales Manager
U.S. Antique Shows has hired Debbie Puccio as sales manager. Puccio will be located at the company’s headquarters in Naples, Florida, and brings more than 15 years of experience in sales and business development to her position. As sales manager, Puccio will be responsible for leading efforts in securing dealers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Editorial
Buy the best you can afford. That’s long been a maxim in the world of art and antiques, and for someone who Forbes estimates is worth $3.2 billion, it should be an easy principle to follow.
Not so for California real estate developer Igor Olenicoff. Olenicoff and his company, Olen Properties ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grant for Contemporary Fraktur Exhibition
The Free Library of Philadelphia has received a $360,000 grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Exhibition and Public Interpretation program in support of its upcoming Framing Fraktur contemporary art installation and exhibition organized by curator Judith Tannenbaum.
Taking inspiration from the library’s extensive and rare Pennsylvania German fraktur ... (Read More)
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(Show)Scott Antique Market: You Can Get Anything You Want
Don Scott still enjoys the excitement on the show floor during the monthly market he established in Atlanta over 25 years ago. He takes care of business in a comfortable office filled with antiques and artifacts.
Roy Bird of Ironwood Restorations, McConnells, South Carolina, specializes in pocket watches and railroad watches, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Moderate to Top-Tier Sales at Doyle New York, Skinner, and Bonhams
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Just before the start of summer, Skinner, Doyle New York, and Bonhams offered at auction jewelry that realized prices in the hundreds to the hundreds of thousands of dollars. There was something for just about every buyer at each level of the market. It was difficult to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CCADA Awards Annual Scholarship
Each year, the Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA) provides funds to the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation to give a scholarship to one or more Cape Cod Community College graduates who will be pursuing additional studies in the field of art, history, and the decorative arts. This year, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Marion and Dennis Vasse, Au Fil de l’Eau Antiques, New Berlin, New York
Marion and Dennis Vasse. Dennis built the springhouse behind them.
The Vasses’ Gothic cottage in New Berlin, New York.
Their pasture and animals across the road. During our interview, Dennis suddenly jumped up, bolted out the door, and ran across the road to this field. “We have a fox problem,” Marion said. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Civil War Soldier’s Skull Pulled from Maryland Auction
A Maryland auction company was unprepared for the negative public reaction that erupted when a Civil War soldier’s skull was set to be sold on June 3. The remains had been found decades ago at the former site of a field hospital used after the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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