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(Fragment)North American Native American Groups Seeking Repatriation of Artifacts
On October 8, 2018, Eldred D. Lesansee, the public relations spokesman for the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA), contacted Rago Arts & Auction Center in Lambertville, New Jersey, asking the auction house to withdraw American Indian lots from its October 19 auction of tribal art from the collection of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA Announces 2019 Board of Directors
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its annual meeting on November 15, 2018, at the Common Man restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire. After a buffet luncheon, speaker Cliff Wallach gave a presentation about Jasper52, a marketing platform for weekly antiques auctions.
The newly elected officers for the 2019 NHADA ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week in New York City 2019
The auction viewings for Americana Week in New York City begin on Friday, January 11. Not every sale is Americana. English furniture, English and Continental pottery and porcelain, and plenty of Chinese export porcelain from well-known collections will cross the block along with American furniture, silver, folk art, and Outsider ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA and Jasper52 Join Forces
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association and Jasper52, an online auction site, are joining forces for an exclusive online auction of items consigned only by NHADA members. The sale will be held on January 22 and hosted on Jasper52's website.
Clifford Wallach of Jasper52 said, "We'll have from fine art to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Show Lists 70 Dealers for April 26-28 Show
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show has released its dealer list for the 2019 show, which will take place April 26-28, with a preview party on April 25 from 6 to 9 p.m.
New to the show is John Driscoll of Driscoll Babcock Gallery, the oldest art gallery in New York ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nipper Nets Top Spot at Nadeau's
Nadeau's Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Nadeau's Auction Gallery
It's a very good sign when an auction gallery has standing room only nearly an hour before the beginning of the sale. Such was the case at Nadeau's Auction Gallery's annual New Year's Day auction in its Windsor, Connecticut, gallery where every ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Kicks Off Maine's New Auction Year
Robert L. Foster Auction Company, Newcastle, Maine
It was a grand way to open a new year for the Maine auction trade. Once again, people flocked by the hundreds to Robert Foster's New Year's Day auction in Newcastle, Maine, as they've been doing for the past several decades. Some works by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2019
Having been defeated in some recent years, finding a suitable Christmas picture for this month's "Letter" was simple-an original watercolour drawing by Maurice Sendak called A Wild Thing Christmas.
Produced in 1976 as the front cover for a seasonal issue of Rolling Stone that contained a feature on Sendak by Jonathan ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Advancements in Computing
Computer Column #360
Maine Antique Digest was started by Sam Pennington (1929-2008) and his wife, Sally, in 1973. In 1988 he published an editorial saying that businesses were using personal computers and asking for suggestions for articles about how antiquers could do so. Having computer and freelance writing experience, I typed ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Measure of Gratitude
The Young Collector
Last month we made our annual trek to Wilmington, Delaware. We hadn't hauled the kids halfway across the country in a couple of months and thought they might be losing their edge if we waited much longer, so we decided to go there and back in three days. ... (Read More)
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