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(Auction)Skinner Americana
Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner
Skinner’s Americana sale on March 2 celebrated the historical with objects as documents. Material relating to George Washington, for example, was highly desirable, and buyers bid accordingly. It wasn’t just the portraits and documents for sale; two porcelain objects were also historical.
This portrait by Sheldon Peck (1797-1868) ... (Read More)
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(Show)Buyers Spell Success for Country Spirit Show
Country Spirit Antique Show, Arcola, Illinois
In 1886 Alonzo Smith, a carpenter and pattern maker from Milwaukee, patented an educational toy he referred to as simply a spelling board. The device consisted of a wooden surface with letters that traveled freely around two concentric ovals that intersected a horizontal row. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Abounds at Rural Life Show
Rural Life Antique Show, Tuscola, Illinois
Two months before the spring edition of the Rural Life Antique Show, held March 1 and 2 in Tuscola, Illinois, promoter Donna Kidwell did something that shouldn’t surprise the people who know her. She bought a building in town.
It wasn’t just any structure. The cinder-block ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Family Gathering
A Gathering on the Prairie, Arthur, Illinois
Shortly after dawn outside of Arthur, Illinois, on March 2, a small flock of red-winged blackbirds perched in a dormant tree isolated in a field. From a distance, they could more readily be heard than seen, silhouetted against the morning sky like black leaves ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)R.O. Schmitt Changes Name
Auction house R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts LLC, Windham, New Hampshire, which for 40 years has specialized in antique clocks, watches, mechanical music, and scientific instruments, is changing its name. On February 19 the firm will become Schmitt Horan & Co.
As part of the change, there will also be a new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cabot Mill Antiques Passes One Million per Annum Sales Milestone
Cabot Mill Antiques in Brunswick, Maine, surpassed one million dollars in sales per annum on Saturday, December 22, 2018. Customers Mary and Brion Controvillas of Maine bought an oval walnut marble-top Victorian-style side table that put Cabot Mill Antiques over the million-dollar mark.
Deborah Stufflebeam, manager of Cabot Mill Antiques, said, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, March 2019
Letter from London
There are still a number of fine old masters lining up for a place in next month’s “Letter,” but other than that, this month’s selection pretty much wraps up the old year for me.
Sales in the new year tend to get into their stride much later in London ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Family Record by the Virginia Record Book Artist Sells in Ohio
Mike Clum Auctions, Inc., Rushville, Ohio
Mike Clum of Rushville, Ohio, has been auctioneering for 50 years. He started as a teenager and has called thousands of sales, specializing in antiques and collectibles.
Sometimes the sales include hundreds of toothpick holders or thousands of salt and pepper shakers. Or, as on the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Ode to Joy
The Young Collector
Winter, for many people, is binge weather. There’s no yardwork to be done on Saturday, nowhere to go when it is snowy and dark, so it is the perfect time to settle in and watch enough hours of television that Netflix becomes concerned and asks if you are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Drexel Plans to Rescue Philadelphia History
Who says no one is interested in history? Four hundred people gathered on February 27 at the Constitution Center in Philadelphia at a meeting organized by the board of trustees of the Philadelphia History Museum at the Atwater Kent to learn how Drexel University plans to rescue the failed Atwater ... (Read More)
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