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(Issue Story)Collector Discipline
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. —Plato
Collectors need many attributes if they are to build a collection over time that they are proud of. Patrick Bell of Olde Hope names three. Passion and knowledge are two. (And of course money never hurts.) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Iris Court Furnishings Sold
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
“The interiors of Iris Court were majestic,” wrote William R. Mitchell Jr. in his 1995 book on Edward Vason Jones (1909-1980). It was Jones, a distinguished self-taught Georgia-born architect, decorator, and designer, who in 1965 recruited his friend Charles Owen Smith Jr. (1921-1995) ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Barnburner by Barn Star
Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck, Rhinebeck, New York
On May 24 and 25 at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds, Rhinebeck, New York, 125 dealers from ten states set up in three connected buildings at the Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck show, exhibiting a huge variety of antiques, from textiles to jewelry, from furniture to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June 2025
Manufactured by Thomas W. Jones, New York, peacock weathervane, 20" x 27½", circa 1885, copper. Private collection.
—Through June 8 —Waterville, Maine
Into the Wind: American Weathervanes at the Colby Museum of Art dives into the history of weathervanes, exploring their symbolism, use, and manufacture and what their designs advertised as they ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Ownership for Jackson Hole Art Auction
On May 21 Jackson Hole Art Auction, Jackson, Wyoming, specialists in classic and contemporary masterworks of the American West, announced new ownership. Jackson Hole Art Auction was founded in 2007.
The new ownership group includes longtime Jackson business owner and resident Terry Winchell of Fighting Bear Antiques, investor and art collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Wild Duck Oyster Can Takes Off
On May 21 Legacy Auctions & Estate Sales, Inc., Urbana, Illinois, and Orlando, Florida, sold the second half of a collection consigned by the son of former antiques dealers in central Illinois. Among the lots was an R. E. Roberts one-gallon Wild Duck brand oyster can that sold for $34,048 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Richard Archer’s Silver Collection Sold
South Bay Auctions, East Moriches, New York
Photos courtesy South Bay Auctions
Mark Gaines, a silver dealer in Baltimore, Maryland, is also part of The Rock House Antiques, a group shop in Greenville, South Carolina. From May 6 to 9, Gaines held a special exhibition at Rock House of the silver collection ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.5 Million Gloves Top Lincoln Sale
Freeman’s | Hindman, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman
The white linen handkerchief, 19¾" square, one of two handkerchiefs in President Lincoln’s pocket when he was shot, sold for $826,000 (est. $100,000/200,000). The pair of stained white leather gloves carried by him on the night of his assassination, each 9" long ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Futura Tank Vase Breaks Record
On May 18 Just Art Pottery, Germantown Hills, Illinois, sold a 1928 tan and blue Roseville Futura Tank vase model 412-9 for $38,350 (includes buyer’s premium). The estimate was $15,000/20,000. According to Just Art Pottery, that’s an auction record for the sought-after Roseville vase. The previous record was $25,200 for ... (Read More)
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(Show)Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
There were 16 antiques dealers and ten textile history lectures by leading experts at the annual Penn Dry Goods Market May 16 and 17 at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania.
For most of the dozen years since its founding, about two dozen dealers have set up ... (Read More)
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