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(Show)York Shows Together Yet Separate
York, PennsylvaniaYork Shows Together Yet Separateby Karl H. PassShow managers Jim Burk of the Greater York Antiques Show and Sale and Barry Cohen of the York County Classic Antiques Show combined their shows on the York, Pennsylvania, fairgrounds the weekend of May 18 and 19.The single-admission event in Memorial Hall ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Whole New Territory Achieved for Decoys at Auction
Guyette & Schmidt, St. Charles, IllinoisWhole New Territory Achieved for Decoys at Auctionby Karl H. PassOn April 26 and 27 the decoy auction firm of Guyette & Schmidt, Inc. conducted its 22nd annual spring auction at the Pheasant Run Resort in St. Charles, Illinois. The total gross of the 671-lot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gee's Bend Quilter Files Lawsuit
by David Hewett
In a complaint filed on June 1 in the Southern District of Alabama, nearly 80-year-old quilter Annie Mae Young asked for compensatory and punitive damages from the people and the organizations that have prospered from her labors. Young, a resident of rural Gee?s Bend and a descendant of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Museum Head Pleads Guilty in Federal Court
by David Hewett
On June 4, former Independence Seaport Museum president John S. Carter, 57, pleaded guilty to federal fraud and tax evasion charges in U.S. District Court in Philadelphia. Carter admitted that he took well over $1,500,000 of museum funds for personal use between 1997 and 2006, during the 17 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Eleventh Annual Antiques in Alexandria Show
by Robert Kyle
The mid-March Antiques in Alexandria show in Alexandria, Virginia, falls at an opportune time of year. It's too chilly for outdoor shows, and there are no competing indoor antiques events in the Washington, D.C., area. So why isn't this classy show mobbed? It is, more or less. It ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boston Welcomes Its New Antiques Shows
by Jeanne Schinto
Promoter Marvin Getman's latest effort attracted one of the largest crowds in recent memory to an antiques show in Boston. Actually, it was a triple bill. It combined an antiques show, an antiquarian book and ephemera fair, and what is believed to be Boston's first-ever antique textile and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Show Dealers Honor Founder Rob Lambert
by John Norris
All prices in Canadian funds (rounded U.S. funds in parentheses)
Thirty-three years have slipped by as if it were just yesterday when Nancy and Rob Lambert promoted the first Bowmanville show in Bowmanville, Ontario, then called the April Antiques and Folk Art Show. Nancy died a year later, but ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Computer Column #222: Writing, Cataloging, and Listening
by John P. Reid, [email protected] A change in Microsoft Word, simple software for collectors, new features of on-line antiques newsletters, and a really simple word processor are the topics this month. -New Microsoft Word Microsoft Word dominates the personal computer word processor market. Its file format has been the de ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Great American Cover Up
The exhibition The Great Cover Up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors, organized by Lee Kogan, curator of special exhibitions and public programs, will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City from June 5 to September 9. This is the museum's first presentation ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Maine Coup: Lunder Collection to Colby
At press time, we learned that Maine art collectors Peter and Paula Lunder have pledged their art collection?over 500 works, including examples by John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Alexander Calder, and Paul Howard Manship?to the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine.
We'll have more details when they ... (Read More)
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