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(Fragment)Ohio Country Antiques Show Changes Owners
The Ohio Country Antiques Show has been sold to promoter Jennifer Sabin. The event will become part of the Heartland family of shows. The change took place in January.
Bruce Metzger of Queen City Shows, Cincinnati, Ohio, founded Ohio Country, which began as an annual event in April 2005. Held at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$10,000 Reward Offered for Long-Lost Well of the Scribes
A reward of up to $10,000 is being offered to anyone with information leading to the recovery of sections of the long-lost sculpture Well of the Scribes, which disappeared from the Los Angeles Public Library’s Central Library 50 years ago.
The 1926 bronze fountain went missing from the Central Library in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
This month’s “Letter” begins with a return to Madame de Pompadour’s boudoir but then moves on to look at such fun attractions as upside-down dinner plates, silver pigs, and a mummified cat.
An ancient lion hunter, a North American Indian chief with the less than flattering title of “Flat Mouth,” and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Good or Good Enough
The Young Collector
Normally, sitcoms are light, fluffy palate cleansers or heartwarming relatable family stories. We take refuge in one most nights before bed, sort of as a way to rid ourselves of everything else we’ve heard or read during the day, and we’ve discovered that The Good Place is a ... (Read More)
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(Show)ADAA’s The Art Show 2020
New York City
The 2020 color of the year is classic blue, “a shade reminiscent of the sky at dusk. It’s a color that anticipates what’s going to happen next,” the vice president of the Pantone Color Institute said when announcing the selection last December.
Blue was everywhere at The Art Show, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Smith February Auction Totals $478,000
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
Auctioneer Bill Smith sold to a packed house for his midwinter Americana auction on February 29. Customers were lined up along the edges of the overfull room. A large part of the reason for Smith’s success is that he ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Multi-Continent Artworks Pace Thomaston Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
The three-day late winter sale held at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, from February 28 through March 1 was packed with historical ephemera, large-scale folk art, jewelry, and esoteric accessories. But it was significant artworks from four continents ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show Canceled
The calendar had barely passed January 2020 when the Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association (CSADA) decided to cancel the March 14 and 15 spring Fox Valley Show in St. Charles, Illinois. Fox Valley is thought to be the longest-running antiques show in the country, and the spring event was to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jasper52 February Results
The following are results from Jasper52 (www.jasper52.com), a weekly online auction service. The auction closed on February 27. All prices include the buyer’s premium.
This hand-carved eagle-form master mold is an early type. The carving includes foliage, perhaps laurel branches. It is similar to a butter mold and could be used ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rufus Porter’s Curious World
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
At age 92, while visiting his son in West Haven, Connecticut, a still vigorous Rufus Porter died suddenly on August 13, 1884. The New Haven Evening Register reported, “The funeral of Rufus Porter, the aged inventor, who died yesterday at the hospital, took place ... (Read More)
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