Stories for March '25
(Fragment)Bronx Man Admits to Stealing Trading Cards and Sports Memorabilia
Shelby Dozier, 34, of the Bronx, New York, formerly employed by the United States Postal Service as a sorting clerk, has admitted to theft of mail. Dozier pleaded guilty before U.S. District Court Judge Esther Salas to an information charging him with theft of mail by a postal service employee.
In ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Daniel Ridgway Knight Online Catalogue Raisonné
Rehs Galleries, New York City, has launched the Daniel Ridgway Knight online catalogue raisonné (www.ridgwayknight.org), a comprehensive and continuously updated digital resource dedicated to the life and works of the 19th-century American artist.
This scholarly project is being led by Howard L. Rehs, art historian and owner of Rehs Galleries. Dr. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stack’s Bowers Galleries 2025 Professional Numismatist Program
Stack’s Bowers Galleries has announced the 2025 session of its Professional Numismatist Program, scheduled to be held July 20-25. The program’s mission is “To provide practical tools and build professional connections for the next generation of young adult numismatists.” The lead instructor will be Devin Hipp, joined by industry leaders ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Center for Painted Wall Preservation Scholarship
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) invites applications to the 2025 inaugural CPWP scholarship. Awards will be made for either one recipient of $1500 or two recipients of $750. The selection will be based on review of proposals for educational scholarly projects designed to study, understand, and educate about ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Stone Birds: How to Find a Peckham
How do you find a new painting by somebody who’s been dead for 150 years? As you might expect, there’s no straightforward answer. I found myself in that quandary not too long ago while studying the Massachusetts folk painter Deacon Robert Peckham (1785-1877).
Peckham was a staunch advocate for abolition, temperance, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fletcher to Receive President’s Award
On Wednesday, April 16, Old Sturbridge Village will present its President’s Award to Stephen L. Fletcher, Americana expert and former executive vice president of Skinner.
The Old Sturbridge Village President’s Award honors those individuals whose work, like that of Old Sturbridge Village, brings meaning, relevance, and inspiration to the public through ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A-Mark Acquires Parent of Stack’s Bowers Galleries
A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., a precious metals platform, has entered into a agreement to acquire 100% of the stock of Spectrum Group International, Inc. (SGI), the parent of Stack’s Bowers Galleries (SBG), one of the world’s largest rare coin and currency auction houses and a wholesale and retail dealer specializing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Balancing Act
Beneath the Surface
Is there anything worse than not being able to find something that you absolutely know is there somewhere? With a big house, an auction gallery, and two kids, Hollie really would not want to calculate how many hours she spends looking for things: keys, math books, library books, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eldred’s Relaunches Sandwich Auction House
Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts, relaunched Sandwich Auction House in February as a discrete brand under its umbrella of auction and appraisal services.
Sandwich Auction House, founded in 1974, spent decades selling hundreds of thousands of items and providing comprehensive estate auction services to southern New England and beyond. After nearly 50 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Paper Town Boxboro Show under New Ownership
Paper Town Boxboro, the vintage book and paper show held in Boxborough, Massachusetts, twice a year, will continue under new ownership, according to event promoters Tina and John Bruno, who are retiring after more than 40 years in the business.
Richard Mori of Richard Mori Books will operate the shows, beginning ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hanover Tavern Exhibition
The Hanover Tavern Foundation has planned several events to celebrate the semiquincentennial of the United States. The initial event is an exhibit titled United In Liberty, Divided In Design: Furnishings During the American Revolution. The exhibit includes objects of everyday Colonial life and decorative arts that had been created before ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, March 2025
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)ADAA Pledges $100,000 to Fire Relief Fund
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) has pledged to contribute $100,000 from the ADAA Relief Fund to the LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund, which has risen to over $12 million and continues to grow. Led by the J. Paul Getty Trust, with support from a coalition of major ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Old Friends
Old friends are precious. They know you and your history well, and you theirs. They are as comfortable as that flannel shirt or pair of shoes you would never part with. Conversations begin as if never left off. You cannot imagine life without the contact, the laughs, the tears, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Boston Marble Slab Table
Photos courtesy Levy Galleries
The talk of the town at The Winter Show was the sale of the circa 1755 Boston marble slab table with naturalistic rococo carving by John Welch that was sold by Frank Levy of Levy Galleries, New York City, to the Chipstone Foundation during the first minute ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Fred and Kathryn Giampietro
In his homes Fred Giampietro is surrounded by contemporary art, mid-century modern furniture, folk art, Native American pottery, and music emanating from his wife’s oboe.
Fred and Kathryn Giampietro spend time between their 19th-century carriage house in New Haven, Connecticut, which they bought and renovated in 1985, and a 15-year-old custom-built ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Goosefare Will Manage Duxbury Antiques Show
Goosefare Antiques & Promotions has contracted to manage the Duxbury Antiques Show in Duxbury, Massachusetts. According to John and Elizabeth DeSimone of Goosefare, they will make some changes.
They have changed the dates of the Duxbury Show to April 26 and 27, the last weekend in April. The DeSimones decided to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, March 2025
Gertrude Horsford Fiske (1879-1961), Graveyard, Cape Neddick, circa 1940, oil on canvas. Gift of Artemis P. Willis. Oqunquit Museum of American Art, 2002.4.
—Through March 16 —Durham, New Hampshire
Networks of Modernism, 1898-1968: Works from the Ogunquit Museum of American Art at the University of New Hampshire Gallery of Art contextualizes the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s live sale of Americana on Saturday, January 25, brought $4,517,280 (with buyers’ premiums) for 94 of the 132 lots offered and was 71% sold by lot. When it began at 10 a.m., nearly 50 people were in the salesroom, but the crowd had dwindled ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Signature Quilt Returns Home
On January 25 Dana Auctions LLC, Princeton, New Jersey, sold an 80" x 84" Pennsylvania signature quilt in the Star of Bethlehem pattern for $6150 (includes buyer’s premium). The estimate for the quilt, dated March 1913, was $300/600.
The textile was crafted by the Zwingli Y. P. Society of Christ Reformed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$8.4 Million Americana Auction
Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Christie’s
Christie’s January 24 Americana sale in New York City brought an impressive $8,476,042 and was 84% sold by lot. The firm attributed its success to the fact that one in four buyers was new to Christie’s, and 10% of them were millennials.
The newly discovered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Pook & Pook
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Pook & Pook’s January 16 and 17 sale with nearly 1000 lots avoided going head to head with Americana Week in the Big Apple. The sale was posted before Christmas, and printed catalogs, now a rarity, were mailed and available ... (Read More)
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(Show)“Preserving the Future of Our Past”
Washington Winter Show, Washington, D.C.
The 70th edition of the Washington Winter Show was held January 9-12 at the Katzen Arts Center on the campus of American University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1954 as the Washington Antiques Show and in the ensuing years having been held at several locations in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany at Auction
Sotheby’s and Christie’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s and Christie’s
After the sale of the Danner memorial window for $12,480,000 (see sidebar) during Sotheby’s evening auction of modern art on November 18, which set a new auction record for Tiffany Studios, more than $20 million was spent in December on three ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Redfield Painting Brings $196,800
Alderfer Auction, Hatfield, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Alderfer Auction
Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965), Brookville, oil on canvas, 26" x 32" (sight size), signed lower right, sold to a collector for $196,800 (est. $150,000/200,000). There are two letters on the back. A handwritten one from Redfield discusses the titles and prices of three of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art at Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
First, the Los Angeles fires. After packing up his house, four children, and many, many pets of various species, Bonhams’ Native American art specialist Ingmars Lindbergs, his family, and his house have survived the L.A. fires. So far. “A dealer’s house was spared in Altadena,” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century Design
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
“Save the best for last.” That familiar blast from the past should resonate with readers who recall a childhood where adults kept them from a wanted treat with an admonition that the best comes after the rest.
If that resonates, you will understand ... (Read More)
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(Auction)From Taino Objects to Rock-and-Roll Posters
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Marion Antique Auctions’ December 7 sale in the Marion, Massachusetts, gallery attracted plenty of bidders for the eclectic sale, which spanned from pre-Columbian Taino objects to rock-and-roll posters. The consignments came from a variety of New England estates and collections.
The sale started ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Short, Sweet, and Profitable
Thanksgiving Sunday Antique Show, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Born into the antiques business, Joshua Gurley and Rachel Gurley Libby are second-generation show promoters and dealers. Their Thanksgiving Sunday Antique Show, held December 1 at the Royal Plaza Trade Center in Marlborough, Massachusetts, attracted dealers and buyers of Christmas antiques in addition to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Thanksgiving Weekend Americana Auction
Amelia Jeffers, Auctioneer & Appraiser, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers, Auctioneer & Appraiser
The Thanksgiving weekend auction held by Amelia Jeffers at The Barn at Stratford (the old Garth’s Auction Barn) in Delaware, Ohio, November 29 and 30 grossed more than $1.4 million (including buyers’ premiums). “It’s unbelievable to me,” said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bertoia’s Two-Day Event Tops $2.4 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions’ November 22 and 23 auction included the Bradley Kaplan Lionel train collection, the complete Bill Becker Issmayer train collection, the Bob Vicic and the Willett still bank collections, cast-iron toys from Ron Sieling, Rick Ralston, and Cantey Johnson, plus rare doorstops, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Meander Auctions Closes Out 2024 with Successful Sale
Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio
Photos courtesy Meander Auctions
The holidays came early for Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio. Its final event of 2024 was one of its best and a wonderful way to finish off the year. Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond took a leap of faith, opening their own auction gallery less ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Artwork and Lamps Shine at Cottone Event
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
Count on Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York, to bring a wide swath of desirable items to auction every single time. An interesting mix of contemporary art, gorgeous lamps, timeless timepieces, desirable furniture, and eclectic smalls was offered during the November 21 and 22 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Johnson Portrait Brings $165,600
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Scottish/American joiner John Shearer made this serpentine walnut slant-lid desk for Samuel Luckett, an influential Loudoun County, Virginia, planter, and inscribed a plaque above an interior drawer “For Sam’l Luckett ~ / 1810.” When Luckett died in 1824, his inventory included a secretary ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Spirit Antique Show
Arcola, Illinois
Two days after the U.S. general election and its bruising presidential race, a yard sign on Illinois 133 still stood. Lost in the flat farmland of the Midwest, it offered a different perspective on the times: “Jesus 2024 / Our Only Hope.”
Pardon this rabbit trail for a minute. In ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rural Life Antique Show
Tuscola, Illinois
Rural Life Antique Show featured 24 dealers at two locations in Tuscola, Illinois, November 8 and 9. The show was once again part of Antiques Week in Central Illinois, which by the numbers breaks down to two days, three towns, and four shows in seven venues.
Deborah Fisher of Lebanon, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Homesteaders Antiques & Folk Art Show
Arthur, Illinois
There is no sense hedging around the elephant that was in the room at Homesteaders Antiques & Folk Art Show, held November 8 and 9 in the Arthur Sale Barn in Arthur, Illinois. Simply put, the show’s dealer count was down significantly. Promoter Terry Whaley knew it. Buyers could ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Prairie
Arthur, Illinois
Sunrise on November 9 in central Illinois came with a vivid wash of colors—blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple, one tumbling after another on a playground of clouds. It seemed a perfectly delightful omen.
That same morning saw the opening of A Gathering on the Prairie, the fourth and final ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.9 Million in Two Days
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
The gallery at Grogan & Company in Boston for the November 2 and 3 sales was ablaze with color and sparkle from the objects on view: fine art and jewels. The auctions, with live, online, and telephone bidding, brought energetic competition. Each ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Digs but Old and Wonderful Things Highlight Elverson Show
Elverson Antique Show & Sale, Honey Brook, Pennsylvania
Greg K. Kramer & Co., Robesonia, Pennsylvania, offered this portrait by a Reading folk artist of Samuel Reber sitting in a yellow Windsor chair for $1975. The man sits under a tree and a bright blue sky and has a pocket watch ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)FBI Determines Seized Scalp Is Human
On January 17 the Federal Register published a notice from the National Park Service that revealed that a scalp seized in early May 2022 at Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Fairfield, Maine, was human. The scalp was attached to a beaded American Indian pipe bag and was part of a large ... (Read More)
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