Stories for December '23
(Fragment)Celebrating the Artistry of Folly Cove Designers
A Book Review
Located on the North Shore of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the neighborhood of Folly Cove has inspired generations of artists, including the printmakers of Folly Cove Designers, which operated from 1941 to 1969. Unlike the emerging Abstract Expressionists of post-World War II, Folly Cove Designers were trained to draw their ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk-Art Watercolor Goes to Independence Seaport Museum
In 1984 a schoolboy’s navigation workbook was donated to what was then the Philadelphia Maritime Museum—now the Independence Seaport Museum (ISM)—by Mary Lyman Cox Muir Cammann, whose second husband, Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann (1912-1991), was directly related to Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
The notebook did not have anything to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2023
Franklin’s Lost Arctic Companions Revealed
More than doubling the high estimate in the process, the set of 14 recently rediscovered and very early daguerreotype portraits depicting Sir John Franklin and other senior members of an ill-fated 1845 expedition aimed at completing the charting of a Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)More Protection, Please
The collapse of Garth’s is a stunning development. The Ohio-based business had been a steady regional auction house for decades. Since its founding in the 1950s, it has brought significant Americana to market. It’s an immense loss for the antiques market, evoking sadness and some anger.
While we mourn Garth’s, the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Bob Markowitz
Treasures abound at “Casa Markowitz,” home to antiques collector and dealer Robert “Bob” Markowitz, whose day job is practicing pediatric medicine in Boston and its environs.
The good doctor runs the Optimal Wellness for Life program specializing in pediatric obesity at Children’s Hospital and its satellite locations in Waltham and Peabody, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2023
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, blown cameo glass vase, 1900, 6¼" x 21 1/16" x 21 1/16". Image courtesy Chrysler Museum of Art. Photo by Edward Pollard. © Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory.
—November 17, 2023-March 15, 2024 —Saint Augustine, Florida
Art Nouveau is an exuberant, radical style that takes inspiration from the vitality of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Garth’s Auctions and Jeff Jeffers Surrender Auction Licenses
Garth’s Auctions—a staple in the Americana market for decades—is gone.
According to a settlement agreement between Garth’s Auctions, Inc., and its CEO, Richard “Jeff” Jeffers, and the Ohio Department of Agriculture, which regulates auctions in Ohio, Jeffers and Garth’s are “permanently ineligible for auctioneering licenses in the state of Ohio.”
The settlement, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The San Francisco Fall Show
San Francisco, California
This year’s San Francisco Fall Show was held October 11 to 15 at the Fort Mason Center for Arts and Culture. October 12, the first full show day of the show—the day after the famous-for-the-lamb-chops-alone opening party—was a dressy affair. From the vignettes at the entrance to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fresh Weber Box Tops Americana Sale
Hess Auction Group, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Hess Auction Group
The fall Americana sale at Hess Auction Group in Manheim, Pennsylvania, October 7 offered a traditional Pennsylvania menu—two Jonas Weber boxes, some Ben Austrian paintings, a Schimmel dog, Christmas ornaments, marbles, teddy bears, butter prints, and chalkware, all items collected in this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Lamps and Victoriana Bring $2.5 Million
Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Fontaine’s Auction Gallery
On September 23 and 24 Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, sold a group of Tiffany lamps, Victoriana, and other fine property, 818 lots, for a total of $2.5 million. There were about 200 antique lighting devices—about 40 were made by Tiffany Studios. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sells the H. Marshall Goodman Collection
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
In two sessions, September 22 and 23, Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia, sold the collection of H. Marshall Goodman Jr. of Richmond, Virginia. The more than 1000 lots represented only a portion of the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The September York Show
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale in York, Pennsylvania, September 22 and 23 was half the size it was in the old days. Four dealers listed on the website were not there. There were two days of setup for the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Leland Little’s Signature Fall Sale
Leland Little Auctions, Hillsborough, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Leland Little Auctions
Before his 275-lot fall “Signature” auction September 9, Leland Little reflected on the future of the antiques auction business. “I’m looking forward, not back,” he said. “The best is yet to come as baby boomers begin to downsize.” Most of that ... (Read More)
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(Show)Country Farm Antiques Show
Casey, Illinois
In its fourth year, the Country Farm Antiques Show was held August 26 in Casey, Illinois. The venue, Richards Farm Restaurant, housed about two dozen dealers. “It went really well. Three or four of the dealers said they had their best show there to date,” said Kim Groothuis, who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques and Artifacts at Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Marion Antique Auctions offered a two-day auction August 19 and 20 in its Marion, Massachusetts, gallery that ran the gamut of antiques and artifacts. The first day began with a group of etchings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) from an area ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Train Reigns at Americana Auction
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Bonhams Skinner’s August 13 Americana auction in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery featured a fair number of maritime lots and some fine clocks. The highlight of the live and in-person 71-lot sale was a 2008 model of a locomotive, which sold for $51,200 (including buyer’s ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Sale at Eldred’s
Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
Eldred’s opened its August 10 and 11 marine sale in its gallery in East Dennis, Massachusetts, with 19 lots of well-documented scrimshaw from a Rhode Island collection along with scrimshaw and whaling items from other collections that drew lively bidding. The highlight of the first ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques and Estate Items in Amesbury
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
It was a very busy spring and summer for John McInnis Auctioneers in Amesbury, Massachusetts, with a fine art auction July 13, an online estate sale July 16, and a garden and lawn furnishings sale July 27. The auction covered here, McInnis’s ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques at Wells Reserve at Laudholm
Wells Antiques Show & Sale, Wells, Maine
The Wells Antiques Show & Sale, Wells, Maine, now in its 22nd year, is one of those shows that only improve year after year. Collectors and dealers returned to the show on June 25 at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm, a national estuarine research ... (Read More)
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