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(Auction)Buyers Head for the Hills
Robert L. Foster Auction Company, Newcastle, Maine
As has been happening for the past several decades, Robert Foster’s Labor Day weekend two-day sale in Newcastle, Maine, held this year on September 1 and 2, capped off the state’s end-of-summer auction binging week. This time around an elegant floral still life in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Pipe Tomahawk, Gifted By Washington to Cornplanter, Recovered and On Display
An 18th-century Native American pipe tomahawk, purportedly gifted to Seneca leader Cornplanter (d. 1836) by President George Washington in 1792, has been returned to the New York State Museum and is on exhibit through December 30.
Photo courtesy New York State Museum.
For nearly 70 years the tomahawk was in the hands ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2018
This month’s “Letter” sees me embarking on a pick and mix from a range of summer sales that will keep me busy for at least a couple more issues before the new season sales in the U.K. pick up any real momentum. This month’s selection, however, focuses so heavily on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Baltimore Shows Bring Summer to a Close in Style
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
The annual Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show was held over Labor Day weekend, August 30-September 2, at the Baltimore Convention Center, downtown at the Inner Harbor. This was the 38th year of the show, which over time has been branded under several ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter, Montague, Massachusetts
In the Trade
When I first ran across Nancy Barshter and Bentley Chappell, I said to myself, “Wow, these people are really specialized.”
Chappell sells British Aesthetic Movement transferware pottery from the 1870s and ’80s, and Barshter sells British pottery made for children: mugs, ABC plates, and Lilliputian tea sets.
Bentley Chappell and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiques Confidential
The Young Collector
Is there anyone more obnoxious than a person whose eyes have just been opened? There are no more ardent evangelists than the newly converted. No one is going to nag you about that lingering smoking habit more than the person who stood next to you and smoked for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jason Busch Named New Director of American Folk Art Museum
On August 2 the board of trustees at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) announced that Jason T. Busch will be its new executive director and take over the job on September 10. Busch had been the deputy director of the Saint Louis Museum and most recently the director of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Emory Loses $19,000 in Fake Invoices Scam
Originally appeared in The Emory Wheel, the student newspaper at Emory University. Reprinted with permission.
Emory University lost more than $19,000 over a three-year period via payments of several fraudulent invoices for art acquisitions.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum. Hagar Elsayed, Video Editor.
Officials at the Michael C. Carlos Museum contacted Emory Police ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Quite a Bit, If It’s a Finch
Bruce Gamage Jr. Antiques Auction, Rockland, Maine
For decades Bruce Gamage usually opened Maine’s auction-packed end-of-summer week near the close of August. This year, he closed it with his August 27 sale in Rockland, Maine.
This oil on canvas portrait of a young girl with a cat, signed on the back with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wild Orientalia and a Cropsey Painting
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
The sale held on August 25 and 26 in Thomaston, Maine, was Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ biggest yet, finishing up at a grand total of over $4.6 million. Several major pieces of Orientalia from a Florida estate soared into the stratosphere and made their estimates ... (Read More)
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