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(Show)A Smaller York Show with Serious Buyers and High Quality
Greater York Antiques Show, York, Pennsylvania
The Greater York Antiques Show, held November 3 and 4, 2017, in York, Pennsylvania, was small, with 36 dealers, including a stand for Keystone Auctions and the Landis Valley Farm Museum, down from 84 at Greater York in May 2015, but quality was high, the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)3D Printing for Restoration
Computer Column #347
John P. Reid, <[email protected]>
There have been important technical developments in three-dimensional printing by computer since column #339 was published in the March 2017 issue. It is now even possible to 3D print with concrete. A giant printer is wheeled to a site to print garden seats or ornaments ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maryland Woman Convicted of Theft During Cleanup of 2016 Flood
A 35-year-old Taneytown, Maryland, woman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for the theft of jewelry worth over $6200 from an Ellicott City antiques store during the cleanup in the aftermath of a July 2016 flood.
Melissa Lynn Poole entered an Alford plea before Howard County Circuit Court Judge ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair Arrested in Stolen Antiques Case
Justan E. Knapp. Violet E. Bienkowski.
New York State Police arrested two people after they sold stolen property to the Pine Street Antique Gallery in Johnstown, New York. Arrested were Justan E. Knapp, 32, and Violet E. Bienkowski, 51, both of Utica, New York.
State police in Remsen were investigating a burglary ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2017
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
With the new London season still moving slowly into action, only two of the auctions featured in this month’s selection are very recent. However, one of them saw a fairly modern, but already famous pocket watch sold for a staggering sum. The other new season sale covered here, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mount Vernon's Blue Room Reopens
Here is the Blue Room in 2017.
The Blue Room in the Mount Vernon mansion reopened on October 7 after a seven-month restoration. Guided by new research and investigation, this bedchamber’s transformation includes reproduction French wallpaper, cream-painted woodwork, and a bedstead draped in blue-printed cotton.
As the first room at the head ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Swann Galleries Sets Record for a Print by Hopper at $317,000
Swann Galleries set a new auction record for any print by Edward Hopper (1882-1967) at auction on November 2, when the rare etching The Lonely House, 1923, sold for a record $317,000 (includes buyer’s premium) to a dealer buying via phone, well above the high estimate of $200,000. It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)To Arms! To Arms! The Greenbacks Are Coming!
James D. Julia, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
James D. Julia’s three-day firearms blowout in Fairfield, Maine, October 31-November 2, 2017, featured selections from about ten major estates and collections from across the country and brought in about $15.1 million from weaponry aficionados. A healthy 82% sell-through rate contributed to the success. But ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)VADA to Move Annual Show to Vermont Antiques Week
The Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association (VADA) will move its annual show in 2018 from July to the fall, becoming part of the slate of shows referred to as Vermont Antiques Week. The show is likely to be held at the Stratton Mountain Base Lodge, Stratton, Vermont, although plans have yet ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Privileged Life
The Young Collector
We like the new place, it turns out. First of all, most houses built in the 1970s were built by people who had lived in houses from the 1920s, so you don’t even have to get out of your chair to find an outlet. There’s none of this ... (Read More)
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