Stories for January '19
(Issue Story)A Different Look for M.A.D.
This issue will be the last of Maine Antique Digest in its current format. The next issue of M.A.D., which has been delivered to subscribers since 1973, will look very different. Instead of separate sections, the new M.A.D. will be one large-format magazine with a glued spine (called “perfect bound” ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Marna and Steve Tulin, Champlin Hill Antiques, North Ferrisburgh, Vermont
In the Trade
Wherever they’ve lived for the last 50 years, Marna and Steve Tulin have had an antiques shop at home: first in their Upper West Side Manhattan brownstone (which they bought for $27,000 in 1966), then in their basement in suburban Larchmont in Westchester County, New York, and for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic New England Awards Prize for Collecting Works on Paper
Historic New England has awarded its annual Prize for Collecting Works on Paper to Donna L. Halper and Laurence Senelick. These two honored collections showcase the history of broadcasting in New England and theatrical performance in the United States.
Donna Halper, a professor at Lesley University and a media historian, has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heartland Antique Shows: Changes to 2019 Schedule
As the Heartland Antique Show prepares for its 30th season, promoter Jennifer Sabin has a few changes planned for several events under the Heartland umbrella.
The summer edition of Heartland, Sabin’s original show, will continue as usual on June 1 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Richmond, Indiana. Sabin anticipates having ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Porsal Equities Ltd. Agrees to $10.75 Million Settlement in Tax Case
On November 13, 2018, New York State Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced a $10.75 million settlement with offshore art purchaser Porsal Equities Ltd. for tax fraud in connection with over $50 million of artwork and other goods purchased in New York.
“Wealthy art collectors are not above the law,” Underwood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Judgment against Ithaca, New York, Auction Company
On November 13, 2018, New York Attorney General Barbara D. Underwood announced a judgment obtained against Finger Lakes Estate and Auction, Inc., and its owner, Charles Dorsey, for fraudulently inducing consumers into giving up their personal property for auction sales and failing to pay the proceeds. The judgment requires Finger ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA Announces 2019 Board of Directors
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its annual meeting on November 15, 2018, at the Common Man restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire. After a buffet luncheon, speaker Cliff Wallach gave a presentation about Jasper52, a marketing platform for weekly antiques auctions.
The newly elected officers for the 2019 NHADA ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)North American Native American Groups Seeking Repatriation of Artifacts
On October 8, 2018, Eldred D. Lesansee, the public relations spokesman for the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), contacted Rago Arts & Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, asking the auction house to withdraw American Indian lots from its October 19 auction of tribal art from the collection of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week in New York City 2019
The auction viewings for Americana Week in New York City begin on Friday, January 11. Not every sale is Americana. English furniture, English and Continental pottery and porcelain, and plenty of Chinese export porcelain from well-known collections will cross the block along with American furniture, silver, folk art, and Outsider ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA and Jasper52 Join Forces
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association and Jasper52, an online auction site, are joining forces for an exclusive online auction of items consigned only by NHADA members. The sale will be held on January 22 and hosted on Jasper52’s website.
Clifford Wallach of Jasper52 said, “We’ll have from fine art to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Show Lists 70 Dealers for April 26-28 Show
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show has released its dealer list for the 2019 show, which will take place April 26-28, with a preview party on April 25 from 6 to 9 p.m.
New to the show is John Driscoll of Driscoll Babcock Gallery, the oldest art gallery in New York City, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Advancements in Computing
Computer Column #360
Maine Antique Digest was started by Sam Pennington (1929-2008) and his wife, Sally, in 1973. In 1988 he published an editorial saying that businesses were using personal computers and asking for suggestions for articles about how antiquers could do so. Having computer and freelance writing experience, I typed ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2019
Having been defeated in some recent years, finding a suitable Christmas picture for this month’s “Letter” was simple—an original watercolour drawing by Maurice Sendak called A Wild Thing Christmas.
Produced in 1976 as the front cover for a seasonal issue of Rolling Stone that contained a feature on Sendak by Jonathan ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Arrested Amid Millions of Dollars of Financial Complaints
Originally printed in the Ithaca Times
A New York auctioneer and businessman has been arrested and charged with second degree grand larceny, adding credence to the growing number of people in Tompkins County, New York, and across the country who say they’ve been cheated by his business.
David Hall, 49, who runs ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Measure of Gratitude
The Young Collector
Last month we made our annual trek to Wilmington, Delaware. We hadn’t hauled the kids halfway across the country in a couple of months and thought they might be losing their edge if we waited much longer, so we decided to go there and back in three days. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)James Arthur and His “Temple of Time”: A Cautionary Tale for Collector-Donors and Their Benefici
Part III of IV
When James Arthur (1842-1930) of Brooklyn, New York, gave his horological collection—more than 1900 clocks, watches, sundials, hourglasses, and a related library—to New York University in 1925, he also promised to make a bequest upon his death. He would leave NYU an endowment for the collection’s upkeep, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2019
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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(Fragment)Criminal Charges Filed in Ivory Trafficking Case
San Diego, California, City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced on November 28, 2018, that criminal charges have been filed against the owner and an employee of the Carlton Gallery in La Jolla, California, for trafficking ivory in defiance of California law.
This prosecution follows the largest seizure of ivory products by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record for Looking Glass at Freeman’s
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Discoveries of 18th-century Philadelphia furniture still turn up at Freeman’s from time to time. A 68½" high looking glass, topped by its original and nearly intact carved phoenix and with carved garlands in perfect condition, was the talk of the American furniture world when it appeared ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Delaware Antiques Show
Wilmington, Delaware
The Delaware Antiques Show, held November 9-11, 2018, has a long tradition. It has been on collectors’ calendars since 1964 as the place for tax-fee shopping; there is no sales tax in Delaware! The show had half a dozen venues until it settled into Wilmington’s Chase Center on the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Fine Antiques, Plus Some Really Pretty Glass
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 35th semiannual auction of Americana and fine antiques over a three-day period, November 8-10, 2018, at the firm’s galleries in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. Unlike sales in previous years, this sale ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Spirited Buying for Fine Jewelry at Freeman’s
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Freeman’s sale of fine jewelry on November 6, 2018, in Philadelphia was a lively affair. Highlights in the sale of diamonds, gemstones, and a single-owner 12-piece collection of Seamen Schepps jewelry were the subject of competitive bidding by “assorted buyers” and “notably went to some private clients,” ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fall 2018 AADLA Fine Art & Antique Show
New York City
The second edition of a revamped Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) show took place October 26-29, 2018, piggybacking with the fall edition of TEFAF (The European Fine Art Fair).
Ensconced in Wallace Hall, some 20 blocks north of the Park Avenue Armory where TEFAF held court ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thousands of Tickers
R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts, Manchester, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy R.O. Schmitt
As if 1792 lots were not enough, the actual number of clocks, watches, tools, barometers, music boxes, and books was easily triple that number at the R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts auction. Many lots consisted of multiple items selling, in auction parlance, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Elverson Antique Show & Sale
Elverson, Pennsylvania
Two longtime Pennsylvania antiques dealers, Gene Bertolet from Oley and Wayne Wilhide from Shippensburg, have breathed new life into the long-running Elverson Antique Show & Sale. A couple of years ago this twice yearly show was about to expire, and now it is looking forward to its celebrating its ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Time around the Block for the New Barridoff Galleries
Barridoff Galleries, South Portland, Maine
For its October 27, 2018, outing in South Portland, Maine, the recently reconstituted Barridoff Galleries put together an international fine art auction containing the works of about 150 artists in a tight, compact presentation of about 268 lots. Under the new ownership of former employees and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“Wonder & Delight” Auction
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
For over 50 years, plump cherubic Santas, cackling witches, docile Easter bunnies, and raucous Thanksgiving gobblers have commingled harmoniously in the vast collection of Dolph Gotelli. His treasures include dolls, candy containers, trade stimulators, toys, ephemera, and folk art.
Wooden dollhouse, 1904, built in San ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2018 ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show
Hartford, Connecticut
The 2018 ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show
Entering the ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show, held October 20 and 21, 2018, visitors walked along a row of booths representing Connecticut museums and historical associations. Each booth presented important and historical pieces from public collections that many found worthy of study. The walkway led ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 44th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
St. Charles, Illinois
The gods of weather were not kind to the 44th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show, held October 20 and 21, 2018, in St. Charles, Illinois. To understand, first visualize the show venue, a sprawling fairgrounds building with large clerestory windows overhead.
Opening day started with promising mid-October weather, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Amelia Jeffers Conducts Peter Chillingworth Auction
Amelia Jeffers, Auctioneer, Scenery Hill, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Amelia JeffersPrices in captions include the buyer’s premium.
It’s a standard question most reporters ask an auctioneer after a sale. And the answer is usually, “It was a great sale. We were very pleased with the auction.”
“The Chillingworth Auction,” featuring the 57-year personal collection ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Reflects the Changing Times
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The weekend of October 12-14, 2018, marked the 63rd edition of the Shenandoah Antiques Expo held at the facilities of Augusta Expoland in Fishersville, Virginia. Known simply as “Fishersville,” the show enjoys a large and loyal following of dealers and patrons from across the mid-Atlantic region.
More ... (Read More)
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(Show)Scenes from the Ninth Old Montreal Antique Show
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Here are some photos from the ninth Old Montreal Antique Show (Salon d’Antiquités du Vieux-Montréal), held October 12-14, 2018, in Montreal, Quebec. Prices are given in Canadian dollars, with U.S. dollars in parentheses. For more information, call (514) 708-9993 or check the website (www.sadvm.ca).
Antiquaire Claude Couture, Sherbrooke, Quebec, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Simon Says “21 Grand” at Farrin’s
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
A marble statue known as the Car of History by sculptor Carlo Franzoni (1789-1819) stands in the United States Capitol and depicts Clio, the ancient Greek muse of history, inside a chariot, or car. Beneath it is a marble clock face with works installed by Simon ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 37th San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show
San Francisco, California
Change comes slowly to the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show. In 2017, after 36 years, the word “art” was added to the show’s title to reflect the growing number of paintings on display. (One of the 2018 furniture dealers called it “an art show.”) Show chair ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Mix of Americana and Fine and Decorative Art
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
A rifle. A painting. Two sand bottles. Seen through the most basic lens, the four top lots of the sale held by Cowan’s Auctions on October 5 and 6, 2018, in Cincinnati, Ohio, had a certain simplicity about them, even though they all sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts at CRN
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts at CRN
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
Bidders were drawn to the September 30, 2018, sale by CRN Auctions in the Cambridge, Massachusetts gallery, where Carl Nordblom and Karin Phillips put together an eclectic array of objects. The interest was largely in smalls, although a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Log Cabins on the Hill Antique Show
Oakland, Illinois
Log Cabins on the Hill Antique Show debuted with 25 dealers offering country antiques and Americana on September 29, 2018, outside of Oakland, Illinois, at Independence Pioneer Village. For months, dealers who previewed the venue had talked excitedly about the setting of the show—acres of grassy yard dotted with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Newport “Cottage” Sale Attracts Buyers
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island
Many people wanted a piece of one of the grand old “cottages” still in the family of the original owners on Bellevue Avenue in Newport, Rhode Island, and they streamed to the Harold Brown Villa on September 22, 2018 for the on-site auction by Nadeau’s ... (Read More)
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(Show)A New Beginning: The Monroe Antique Collectibles Show
Monroe, Washington
Unlike the fall leaves that were dying and falling from the trees, the Monroe Antique Collectibles Show in Monroe, Washington, was more like a phoenix, arising after a brief hiatus. Fall 2017 saw the promoters who started the show retiring after a 24-year stint. Indecision about whether the show ... (Read More)
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