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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2021
London sales, as befits the title of this feature, are certainly included among my picks for this month’s “Letter,” but there are, again, reports inspired by provincial sales—and one of them just had to take top billing. So let me begin with...
A Very Big Day Out for Quite a Small ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stuart Weitzman Sells Three Treasures
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Stuart Weitzman, shoe designer and founder of the Stuart Weitzman shoe company, a passionate collector since childhood, owned the rarest used and unused postage stamps in the world and one of the last gold coins struck by the U.S. Mint, the only 1933 $20 gold double eagle coin ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Yellin Fire Screen Sells for $40,950
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
"We consider the Samuel Yellin firescreen we purchased today at Freeman’s in Philadelphia to be among the couple of finest firescreens he executed,” wrote Joseph Cunningham in an email after Freeman’s design sale on June 8 in Philadelphia. The fire screen sold for $40,950 (includes buyer’s ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture: The Chipstone Journal
A Book Review
Chipstone’s American Furniture 2019 will be known as the “Washington furniture edition” because the first two articles document George and Martha Washington’s purchases of furniture, much of it bought second hand, some at auction. The Washingtons were glad to take advice on purchases from friends and neighbors, including ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CPWP Receives Digital Archive Gift
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) has been given a major gift for its digital archive from CPWP advisor Polly Forcier, who has spent over four decades documenting and researching original paint-decorated plaster walls throughout New England. Through her business, MB Historic Décor, Forcier has assembled a collection of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Focus on Antique and Vintage Textiles
Penn Dry Goods Market, Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
The eighth annual Penn Dry Goods Market, the antiques show focused on antique and vintage textiles that supports the Schwenkfelder Library and Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, was canceled in June 2020 because of COVID-19 and revived this June as a virtual experience June 4-6.
Bill ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bird Girl Brings $390,600
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Freeman’s holds just two various-owners American art sales each year—in June and December—offering 18th-, 19th-, and 20th-century paintings and illustrations, sculpture, and always a special section of works by Pennsylvania Impressionists.
The two-week-long presale exhibition at Freeman’s Philadelphia headquarters at 2400 Market Street was by appointment, and ... (Read More)
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(Show)MADA Unmasked!
Maine Antiques Dealers Association Spring Antiques Show, Topsham, Maine
OK, folks, the masks are off...finally! As of this writing, it appears that COVID-19 is heading for the rear view mirror, at least as far as the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) is concerned. On June 5 about 28 association dealers gathered ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2021 Heartland Antiques Show
Richmond, Indiana
Things didn’t go exactly as planned for the 2021 edition of the Heartland Antiques Show, held on June 5 at the Wayne County Fairgrounds in Richmond, Indiana. In the end, it didn’t matter.
Promoter Jennifer Sabin had mastered the art of revision following a year in which most of her ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fairhaven Antique Festival
Fairhaven, Ohio
After a nine-year absence, the Fairhaven Antique Festival returned on June 3 and 4. The Ohio show is legendary for bringing fantastic dealers to the middle of nowhere, and it arrived with a splash, literally, as wet weather during setup and unrelenting heavy rain the afternoon of the first ... (Read More)
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