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(Show)The Weston Antiques Show
Weston, Vermont
Yes, classic furniture (think highboys) and accessories sell at the Weston Antiques Show, a charming show with a history that repeats yet evolves. The tour buses fill the parking lots for the nearby Vermont Country Store in Weston, Vermont, which in turn fills the appetites for samples of fudge, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show in Ottawa
The Canadian Antique Dealers Association (CADA) has announced a new antiques fair and sale, the 2019 National Capital Antiques Art and Design Fair (NCAADF), to be held November 8-10 at Tudor Hall, 3750 North Bowesville Road, Ottawa, Ontario.
The fair will open with a Friday wine and hors d'oeuvres reception (6:30-9 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Curtain Falls on the Williamsburg Holiday Antiques Show
After 37 years, there will be no antiques show in Williamsburg, Virginia, this Thanksgiving weekend. With a lump in her throat and a tear in her eye, Bettianne Sweeney has announced that her Williamsburg Holiday Antiques Show is no more.
Referring to the event as "her" show is not a misstatement. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Newly Completed Expo Center at the Nashville Fairgrounds Will House Two of the February Events
Once again, changes are coming to show week in Nashville. In February 2020, the Nashville Show, managed by the Jenkins family, and the recently renamed Fiddlers at the Fairgrounds, owned by Doug Supinger, will set up their dealers in adjacent halls within the new Expo Center opening shortly at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Transferware Research Grants Announced
The Transferware Collectors Club (TCC), a U.S.-based international nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of British transfer-printed ceramics, has announced the recipients of the 2019 Paul and Gladys Richards Charitable Foundation Research Grants for the study of British transferware. Grants totaling more than $13,000 will be distributed to recipients from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Charles and Olenka Santore: An Appreciation
After a brief illness, Charles "Charlie" Santore died on August 11, exactly four months after the death of his wife and best friend, Olenka. To the world at large, Santore was best known as an award-winning illustrator of children's books, including classics such as The Wizard of Oz, The Night ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Tea Service Leads at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
September 28 marked the beginning of a six-day auction marathon for The Potomack Company-September 28 and 30 and October 1-4. We are used to the firm's staging a single live auction followed by a day or two of specialty online-only sales the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art
Cowan's Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan's Auctions
Chalk up another one. A sand bottle made by Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) sold for $100,000 (including buyer's premium) against an estimate of $30,000/50,000 during the fine and decorative art sale held by Cowan's Auctions on September 28, 2019, in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2019
Quite a few pictures appear in this month's "Letter," with one piece featuring a note on a famous portrait painter's dislike for "Curs'd faces." Overdressed ladies in a Turkish bath and a work by the "Little Spaniard" are also to be found. And are they really "pulling the goose" in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Works of Art at Skinner
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Wine and hors d'oeuvres for the Thursday evening sale, and a petite brunch with mimosas for noon on Friday. Such was Skinner's presentation of its September 26 and 27 auction of American and European works of art in the Boston gallery. Those enhancements brought bidders into the ... (Read More)
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