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(Fragment)Rago Expands into New York and Connecticut
Rago Arts and Auction Center, a full-service auction house in Lambertville, New Jersey, with annual sales of $33 million, is expanding its reach into Westchester County, New York, and Connecticut by adding a dedicated representative to the region.
Jennifer Pitman, formerly head of sale, silver, at Christie’s in New York City ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 35th Annual Holiday Antiques Show
Williamsburg, Virginia
The 35th annual Holiday Antiques Show in Williamsburg, Virginia, was held at the Williamsburg Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center, November 25-27, 2016. The annual show is one of those seasonal events that is well worth putting on the calendar. The Holiday Antiques Show is always held the weekend following ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Nautical Estates Auction
Polly Warren Antiques, Rehoboth, Massachusetts
Eighty-four-year-old Polly Warren of Rehoboth, Massachusetts, has collected antiques for most of her life. As a child she spent summers in Chatham, Massachusetts, where she visited often with her summer neighbor Elmer Crowell in his East Harwich studio. She was permitted to watch him work but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mostly Nautical
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Marion Antique Auctions moved its November 26, 2016, sale to the Music Hall across from the harbor in downtown Marion, Massachusetts. The setting was slightly crowded but appropriate to the antiques offered, as most had a local or coastal connection.
Once known as Veterans’ Hall, the 125-year-old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)56th Annual Thanksgiving Auction
Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s Auctions
There was a bit of a twist to the 56th annual Thanksgiving sale held by Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, on November 25, 2016. While there was plenty of Americana served to a standing-room-only crowd, there was also something not usually on the plate—an unusual ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Patricia Kane to Receive ADA Award of Merit
The Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA) has announced that the 2017 Award of Merit will go to Yale University Art Gallery Friends of American Art Curator Patricia E. Kane. She will receive the flame finial prize at a dinner on Friday, April 21, at the Philadelphia Antiques Show at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years of Growing Up
At the landing of the stairwell on the second floor of the Decorative Arts Center of Ohio, past three brightly colored kites that seem to lead the way, visitors step into An Ohio Childhood: 200 Years of Growing Up. Curators Andrew Richmond and Hollie Davis, known to Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Producing an E-Book
Computer Column #336
John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected]
Let’s write a book. Book writing, publishing, and marketing has drastically changed since the arrival of the computer, word processors, the Internet, and online selling. Antiques dealers and auctioneers produce catalogs as books. Books about antiques are written by knowledgeable collectors and dealers.
Eight of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Record for Canadian Work at Auction
On November 23, 2016, Heffel Fine Art Auction House, Toronto, Ontario, sold Lawren Harris’s Mountain Forms for $11,210,000 ($8,330,180 U.S.) and set a new auction record for a Canadian work of art. The buyer was not identified. The price, which included the buyer’s premium, more than doubled the previous art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Calendar of Rare Canadian Antiques
The Bytown Antique and Bottle Club (BABC) of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada has published a 2017 calendar in celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday. The 32-page calendar features color photographs of rare Canadian antiques from local Ottawa collections, some of which have never been published before. Many of the antiques featured in ... (Read More)
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