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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2016
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
Humler & Nolan’s holiday sale, held November 5 and 6, 2016, in Cincinnati, Ohio, was characterized by confirmation rather than surprise, as bidding followed a pattern well established over recent years.
“The low end’s dead. Good stuff sells,” said Riley Humler, the company’s ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Spices Life
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
Karin J. Phillips and Carl R. Nordblom routinely put together an eclectic pastiche of antiques from the 17th through the 20th centuries for their CRN Auctions sales. Their November 6, 2016, auction in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery was no exception. The results were equally ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Potomack Gets Presidential
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its quadrennial auction of presidential, political, and historical material on November 5, 2016, at the firm’s gallery and showrooms in Alexandria, Virginia. While virtually all of the past presidents of the United States were represented, many of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Folk Pottery Sale
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
Approximately twice a year the Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society (SFPCS) sends out a publication about southern history and geography in the form of a spiral-bound absentee pottery auction catalog. The 46th SFPCS sale, which closed on ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil's Dictionary of Antiques Collecting: Part 2
Our first installment probed the special language of antiques collectors or at least some of it. As I noted then, the terminology used by knowledgeable customers of the antiques trade has two purposes: first, it allows traits of collected materials to be quickly and accurately identified; second, it serves as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Major Ivory Bust in New York City
Three people and an antiques business in New York City have been indicted for selling and offering illegal elephant ivory. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance, Jr. announced the charges on September 22.
Irving Morano, 46, Samuel Morano, 48, Victor Zilberman, 62, and Metropolitan Fine Arts & Antiques Inc. are charged ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winnetka Is a Winner
Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show, Winnetka, Illinois
Hot dog and yee-haw! When we overheard a visitor at the November 4-6, 2016, Antiques + Modernism Winnetka Show in Winnetka, Illinois, ask her husband, “Do you think this will fit? We could move the table,” we practically levitated.
The exchange was electric because it ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Eli Porter, Clockmaker of Williamstown, Massachusetts
Although several tall-case clocks by Daniel Porter (1775-1809) of Williamstown, Massachusetts, are known, little has been written about his nephew and trainee Eli Porter (1789-1864). This article has three purposes:
To describe the topographical beauty (fig. 1) and extraordinary growth of Williamstown during the years between Daniel’s arrival in 1798 and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Online Archive of Paint-Decorated Walls in Development
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation Inc. (CPWP) is dedicated to the research and preservation of 18th- and early 19th-century American paint-decorated plaster walls. Its goal is to survey and document these walls in situ or in collections, to further the appreciation of this rare and vulnerable art form, and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Closing the Gap
The Young Collector
In September Andrew attended the 2016 annual conference of the American Association of State and Local History (AASLH). Earlier this year two of his graduate school classmates, always looking for a chance to be supportive, suggested that they build on their experiences as museum professionals and combine Andrew’s ... (Read More)
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