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(Auction)Country Americana Sale Evokes Memories
Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's
Highlighting the sale of country Americana by Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers on September 14 and 15 in Delaware, Ohio, was a zinc statue of Lady Liberty that sold for $25,200 (including buyer's premium). But that wasn't the story of the day. In a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ferrell Family Collection at Wooten & Wooten
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
September 8 may be remembered as the last great reunion of Edgefield District pottery collectors. Drawing this dedicated group together was the remainder of the estate of Terry Ferrell (1922-2018), a collection of 19th-century and contemporary pottery, furniture, paintings, and one ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)What Is a "Show"? Editorial, September 2018
What is an "antiques show?" We're sure that most M.A.D. readers could provide a definition with little problem.
We recently got a letter from a dealer who had seen an ad for a "Summer Antique Show." It was "one weekend only" and promised 40 dealers. Better yet, it offered free ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Winter Show
"The Winter Show is its new name," said Helen Allen, executive director of the 65th annual January fund-raiser at the Park Avenue Armory for the East Side House Settlement in the South Bronx. On July 30 Allen called to announce the new branding. East Side House applied to the United ... (Read More)
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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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