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(Auction)The Americana Collection of Natalene and Eric Aaberg
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
The Americana Collection of Natalene and Eric Aaberg
A folky portrait of a girl and her dog brought the top price during a single-owner sale held by Garth's Auctions August 21. However, a variety of smalls defined the market that day.
The collection was that of Natalene and Eric ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of Fine Art
Barridoff Auctions, South Portland, Maine
Photos courtesy Barridoff Auctions
Barridoff Auctions of South Portland, Maine, offered 207 lots in its August 20 sale of fine art. Barridoff was established in the mid-1970s as an art and antiques gallery and in the late 1970s shed the gallery and antiques portion of its business ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 2022
Jules Cheret, Bal du Moulin Rouge, 1889, color lithograph, 48 7/8" x 343/4" (sheet size). The James and Susee Wiechmann Collection, M2021.60. Photo by John R. Glembin.
-Through October 16 -Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Known as the father of the poster, Jules Cheret (French, 1836-1932) caused a sensation when he brought colorful, large-scale advertisements ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Freeman's Summer Jewels Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Freeman's
The top price in the sale was for this diamond and platinum 16" long solitaire necklace from a private Massachusetts collection. The necklace is centered by a brilliant-pear-cut diamond in a platinum basket setting, suspended from a platinum rope chain. It was accompanied by a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 65th Annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association Show
The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
It was 65 years ago when the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its first annual show. According to the organization, it was held in an upstairs room at the Highway Hotel in Concord. From that humble beginning, the Dealers' Show, as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)August Americana
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
It's axiomatic: good collections make good sales. Two such collections were sold at Bonhams Skinner's live and in-person auction August 13 in the Marlborough, Massachusetts, gallery. The highlight was a manuscript journal from an 1817 cruise on the pleasure yacht Cleopatra's Barge. Estimated at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hutchinson Hooked Rug Tops Sale in Freeport
Casco Bay Auctions, Freeport, Maine
Photos courtesy Casco Bay Auctions
Andrew Davis of Casco Bay Auctions held an Americana auction August 13 in a small tent set up in the parking lot behind his Freeport, Maine, location. On August 12 he held an ephemera and books sale; the two-day total was approximately ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2022 Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
Manchester, New Hampshire
"It's a major show, during a major week, and people get on airplanes to come here."
Those words came from Christopher Settle, a Newton, Massachusetts, furniture dealer, explaining why Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair is the only antiques show he does.
A major component of Antiques Week in New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MESDA Expands to Include Alabama
The board of trustees of Old Salem and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) has voted to expand the museum's collecting mission to include Alabama.
Established at Old Salem by Frank Horton in 1965, MESDA is home to a collection of objects made and used by the diverse people ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Ammi Phillips Portraits Returned
On Sunday, June 26, Historic Huguenot Street (HHS), the historic district in New Paltz, New York, celebrated the return of the portraits by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) of Dirck D. Wynkoop (1738-1827) and his second wife, Annatje Eltinge (1748-1827), that had been missing for 50 years.
In the February 24, 1972, Kingston ... (Read More)
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