Stories for April '22
(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2022
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show
For 60 years the Philadelphia Show has been the place to find the best selection of American antiques. The collections that fill the new American art galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) were formed by generous donors who bought some of their finest American furniture, silver, folk art, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pennsylvania Fraktur Artist
Thanks to fragments of an early 18th-century birth and baptismal certificate found in a Bible printed in 1753 in Basel, Switzerland, by Emanuel Thurnensen, the name of another fraktur artist has come to light.
Fragments of taufschein by Henrich Rohlandt.
Henrich Rohlandt did the fraktur dated December 18, 1783, for Maria Borgerin ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bringing Home the Bronze
Beneath the Surface
One of the strangest things about self-employment, at least in our line of work, is how much it differs in terms of scheduling from other, more traditional jobs. Loads of people still manage to do the predictable nine-to-five routine, with the same normal free weekends, whereas we, much ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Two Years of Ceramics in America Reviewed
Anyone tired of politics and trying to stock up on N95 masks can escape with Robert Hunter on what he calls a trip down the rabbit hole with Alice and get lost in fascinating stories in Ceramics in America, the Chipstone Foundation's journal that Hunter has edited for the last ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Adventure during Adversity: A Treasure (Re)Discovered in My Closet
Photography by Leah Picone
Research assistance from Lynsay Spencer
One of my favorite treasure-hunting grounds is close to home: the Allentown (Pennsylvania) Paper Show. The name is misleading, because paintings, drawings, photographs, and other interesting odds and ends also turn up along with books, maps, postcards, and archival material. I seldom miss ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Elverson Antique Show to Return
After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the Elverson Antique Show & Sale will return to the Twin Valley High School in Elverson, Pennsylvania, May 7 and 8.
The show was last held in October 2019, and it celebrated 50 years of existence that year. It began as a fundraiser for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Olde Hope's Recent Acquisitions Exhibition
New York City
Photos courtesy Olde Hope
On Wednesday, January 12, the day Patrick Bell and Edwin Hild, partners in Olde Hope, launched Recent Acquisitions, their current exhibition at their New York City gallery at 115 East 72nd Street, they sent an email blast to their client list, posted an invitation on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tudor Place Reopens
Tudor Place Historic House & Garden in Washington, D.C., has reopened Thursdays through Sundays with docent-led tours of the historic house. Advance registration is suggested for timed entry tickets. Docent-led tours start on the hour, and the last tour begins at 3 p.m. Visitors also may enjoy the garden during ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, April 2022
With sales in the major London salerooms not yet fully into their 2022 stride, this month's "Letter" has also drawn on a number of auctions held in other parts of the U.K. to come up with a rather curious mix of lots.
It does include a couple of really high priced, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Parallel Visions: Shaker Design and American Folk Art
Woodbury, Connecticut
Photos courtesy David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles
When the Winter Show was postponed, David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles had already announced their plan to offer two Shaker collections, one of furniture and one of boxes, and to hang folk art on the walls. They had written ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Heber C. Kimball: A Mormon Potter from Western New York
Western New York was a destination for trailblazers in the early 19th century. Men and women left their New England farms; Marylanders and Pennsylvanians traveled from the South for this new unexplored territory. They rushed to the new frontier for the area's fertile land, establishing farms for fruit and vegetables. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Thom and Cathy Rawson
Six years out of college, Thom Rawson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, decided to leave his job at Rockwell International to pursue full-time what he'd been doing part-time-"playing with antiques." That was in 1978.
"I'd go to auctions and was buying and selling part-time," he said. His interest in antiques was his ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, April 2022
David Ellinger, Out of the heart comes the issues of life, 1943, oil on canvas. Collection of Dr. David Bronstein. Photo: Michael E. Myers, Steadfast Imaging.
-Through April 17 -Glenside, Pennsylvania
Out of the Heart: The Life and Art of David Ellinger at the Harrison Gallery features a selection of 60 works ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Expanded IRS Reporting by Auction Houses
If auction consignors get a notice from an auction house asking for an IRS form W-9, they can thank the American Rescue Plan Act. The W-9 provides the auction house with the correct Taxpayer Identification Number (TIN).
When the American Rescue Plan passed in March 2021, it expanded information reporting and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Oceanian Textiles Open Hilliard's Winter Sales
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(Auction)Outsider Art Sale at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's sale of Outsider art on February 3 in New York City, which offered 143 lots and took two auctioneers five hours to conduct, achieved $2,239,625 (with buyers' premiums) and had a sell-through rate of 98%. The presale estimate, which does not include the buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Export Art Sale at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's annual Chinese export art sale during Americana Week included the fourth tranche of the famed Tibor collection, formed over decades in Mexico and encompassing every category of Chinese export porcelain, from small tea wares to massive jars and porcelain birds and animals as well ... (Read More)
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(Show)Online New York Show Shines Once Again
The New York Antiques Show
If two years of life during a pandemic has taught us anything, it's how to make the best of a not-so-great situation. The New York Antiques Show, an online-only event, has done that with astounding success.
Friday, January 28, through Sunday, January 30, found the second annual ... (Read More)
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(Show)The York Show, Winter Edition
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale was held January 28-30 on the York Fairgrounds in Memorial Hall East. Fewer than the usual number of dealers were exhibiting because of late cancellations, according to manager Melvin Arion. "I had to redesign ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nantucket Historical Association Acquires "Lost Work"
The Nantucket Historical Association (NHA) has acquired The Old Falconer of Ben Gana, Sheik of the Ziban, 1906, by Elizabeth Rebecca Coffin. The association stated that it acquired the painting "thanks to a generous gift from the Friends of the Nantucket Historical Association with additional support from members of the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fine Jewelry Collections Bring Strong Results at Case
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Case Auctions
Case Auctions, Knoxville, Tennessee, held its winter auction on January 29 and 30, and fine jewelry was sold on both days. According to Sarah Campbell Drury, vice president of fine and decorative arts, the sale had "a high sell-through rate-overall we sold 97 percent.... ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln by Saint-Gaudens Brings $1.15 Million
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Short and sweet at 83 lots, Skinner's live sale of American works of art on January 28 in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery represented a division of labors. Several departments at the auction house are trying out running separate sales of the objects within their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heckler January Auction Proves Size Doesn't Matter
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
The phrase "less is more" perfectly described Norman C. Heckler & Company's "Premier Auction 205" of antique and historical bottles, flasks, and free-blown glass. The online-only sale opened on January 19 and closed January 26. Since online ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's 44-Lot Important Americana Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's offered 44 lots from various owners, including several discoveries, in the "Important Americana" sale on the morning of Monday, January 24, and sold 30 of them for total of $3,474,280 (including buyers' premiums). Even though a third of the lots failed to sell, Sotheby's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Grant Portrait Tops Sotheby's Americana Auction
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
Sotheby's online various-owners Americana sale that closed on January 24 was the last of six days of sales during Americana Week in New York City, and it brought a total of $1,674,414 (includes buyers' premiums) for 196 of 242 lots offered, many of them unreserved. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)William K. du Pont's Collection
Sotheby's, New York City
William K. du Pont's Collection
Erik Gronning, Sotheby's Americana chief, called the collection of William "Bill" K. du Pont (d. 2020) "one of the greatest private collections of Americana ever assembled...comprising some of the best examples of Americana ever to appear at auction."
Sotheby's offered the collection in a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bath Antique Sale Resumes
Bath, Maine
In Bath, Maine, a city known for shipbuilding, the Bath Antique Sale is like a Yankee clipper: fast, no-nonsense, and it gets the job done.
After a two-year hiatus because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bath Antique Sale returned under new ownership on Sunday, January 23. The four-hour show (10 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie's
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
After the triumphant success of the $10,852,875 sale of folk art collected by Peter and Barbara Goodman (see M.A.D., March, p. 67), Christie's went on to sell 268 lots of Americana consigned by various owners in a live auction January 20 and 21. Silver was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)January American Art Sale
Christie's, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie's
Christie's new approach to offering 19th-century American art in a dedicated sale during Americana Week resulted in a sale that totaled just under $5 million with a sell-through rate of 90%. The auction house called the January 19 sale "a resounding success."
"Yes, definitely!" exclaimed Paige ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Willis Henry
Willis Henry Auctions, Rockland, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Willis Henry Auctions
Willis Henry Auctions presented something for everyone at the January 15 sale in Rockland, Massachusetts. It was a welcome scene as bidding bodies filled seats, greeting other bodies not seen since before the pandemic. The Internet and the phones came alive. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Americana Collection of David Good
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
Simply put, the man has a very good eye. That man would be Ohio dealer David L. Good, whose collection was sold at New Haven Auctions' live January 8 and 9 sale.
While New Haven Auctions' former space in a rehabbed brick mill ... (Read More)
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(Show)Randolph Street Holiday Market Pop-Up
Chicago, Illinois
When it comes to dogged persistence and spotting opportunity, Chicago's Sally Schwartz is an overachiever. Known as the impresario behind Randolph Street Market (RSM), the event she started in 2004 and built from an eclectic street market selling genuine and repurposed antiques plus decorative vintage items, she has been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction at Garth's
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Size played a significant role in the strong bidding for many lots during the annual Thanksgiving Americana auction held by Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Columbus, Ohio. Because of the ongoing pandemic, the sale was conducted as an online-only event that ended on December ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Historical Ephemera and Photography
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
Following a brief 15-lot session of the Henry Fitz Jr. archive of photographic history (see p. 72), Hindman's sale of historical ephemera and photography, held on November 15 in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered more than 300 lots representing a mix of estates and consignors. In a way, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Henry Fitz Jr. Archive of Photographic History
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
When Hindman sold one of the earliest surviving photographic portraits on November 15 in Cincinnati, Ohio, it was the quiet culmination of a chain of events that mixed intrigue, luck, history, science, and a bit of disappointment. The daguerreotype, a profile view of Henry Fitz Jr. ... (Read More)
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