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(Auction)Laughlin Auctions Marks a 30-Year Milestone
Edinburg, Virginia
Photos courtesy Laughlin Auctions, Inc.
Laughlin Auctions, Inc. held its 30th spring auction on March 18 at the firm’s High Street Galleries in Edinburg, Virginia. Hoyle, John, and Duane Laughlin continued their string of simultaneous, multi-auctioneer sales with an overflow standing-room-only crowd in attendance.
There is no formal catalog at a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Free-Blown Tableware Demands Attention
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
Norman C. Heckler knows bottles—antique glass bottles, to be more precise—and it is easy to see why. Having founded Norman C. Heckler & Company in 1987, he and his staff have set about establishing this company as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia in April
Put Philadelphia on your April calendar. A lot will be going on there.
The Philadelphia Antiques & Art Show, a benefit for Penn Medicine, will be held April 21-23 with a preview party on April 20. As it was last year, the show will be in a purpose-built tent at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)60th Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show
St. Charles, Illinois
We think we found a new first for antiques. It happened when we went to an antiques show, and ticket buyers were gifted with something free. That was new to us, and it transpired as first arrivals were offered a piece of cake at the 60th Spring Fox ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Police Raid Antiques Shop in Worcester, Massachusetts
On March 10 members of the Worcester Police Vice Squad executed a search warrant at Unique Finds, an antiques shop located at 1329 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.
According to police, a search of the premises produced 100 acetaminophen pills, 71 Suboxone strips, 23 individually knotted bags of heroin, eight Concerta ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil's Dictionary of Antiques Collecting: Part 4
This is the last installment of “The Devil’s Dictionary of Antiques Collecting.” What a wondrous language we use. And perhaps more technical and mysterious than we realize.
Polychrome—This is one term that is relatively easy to parse. Poly means “many” and chrome (chroma) indicates “color.” So why not call a carved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brandy Culp, New Curator of American Decorative Arts at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Brandy S. Culp has been appointed to the position of Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. She will begin work at the museum in late February.
“Joining the team at America’s oldest continuously operating art museum is an opportunity one ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Arrested in Art Theft
Two men have been arrested in connection with an art theft that occurred in December 2016 at Art Avenue in Sarasota, Florida. Anthony J. Larson, 30, of Sarasota, and Rex L. Ballinger, 29, of Sarasota, were each charged with grand theft. Larson was recognized by a resident who called the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Learns of Fake, Refunds Buyer, and Sues Consignor
Sotheby’s filed suit in January in U.S. District Court in New York seeking to recover money paid to Lionel de Saint Donat-Pourrières of Luxembourg, who consigned a painting that has turned out to be a forgery.
The painting, Saint Jerome, was attributed to the circle of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cabot Mill Antiques Passes $1 Million per Annum Sales Milestone
Multi-dealer Cabot Mill Antiques in Brunswick, Maine, announced on December 31, 2016, that it had passed $1 million in sales per annum. Customers William and Kristen Wing, owners of Worth & Wing, an architectural and interior design firm based on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, purchased an 1891 Stanley brass-bound level, a ... (Read More)
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