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(Fragment)Print Conservation Grant Program
The American Historical Print Collectors Society (AHPCS) encourages accredited nonprofit institutions with significant print collections to apply for conservation grants for the preservation of American historical prints. An American historical print is defined as an American print over 100 years old. Applicants must be members of the AHPCS.
This program is ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Ceramics & Glass Fair 2016
New York City
A small 14th-century anthropomorphic English jug, a large 16th-century gotch for bringing beer to bell ringers in East Anglia, 17th-century German Westerwald stoneware jugs and flasks, tin-glazed earthenware with charming naïve painted decorations, elegant 18th-century dinner, dessert, and tea wares, and proto-modern mochawares—these were just a few of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bard, Ben, and a Blizzard
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s had so much to sell this January—more than 1000 lots from the Schorsch estate (see pp. 29-33-C), 96 lots of folk art from the Levins (see pp. 36-37-B), and 406 lots from various owners—that it was hard to find enough time to see it ... (Read More)
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(Show)The NYC Big Flea
NYC Big Flea Antiques Market, New York City
The big snowstorm that pummeled New York City on the third weekend of January dealt a blow to the two-day NYC Big Flea Antiques Market held January 23 and 24.
Although 160 dealers had set up on Friday and the show opened for business ... (Read More)
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(Show)Outsider Art Fair 2016
New York City
The Outsider Art Fair, now in its 24th year, drew thousands of people to the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City over its four-day run (January 21-24), during which the city was hit with over two feet of snow. The fair’s move to a new venue had dealers ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Wallace Hall Art, Design & Antiques Show
New York City
New Yorkers, as well as out-of-towners who came to the Big Apple for Americana Week, got in some last-minute shopping on the first day of the show at Wallace Hall before the snowstorm closed down the city Saturday afternoon.
The 34 dealers who set up shop in the below-grade ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pop-Up Sale by Keno Auctions
With an e-mail blast Keno Auctions in New York City announced a pop-up “Boutique Winter Auction” just a week before its proposed date of Sunday, January 24, at the Keno gallery at 1 p.m. When the blizzard arrived in New York City the day before, Keno postponed the sale to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Growing Auction House Sets New Records
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
Put quite simply, Case Antiques in Knoxville, Tennessee, had its best sale ever on Saturday, January 23. The event went off as planned in spite of threats of snow from the giant storm marching through the state toward the East Coast. Vice president Sarah ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Levin Sale
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
The blizzard on January 23 didn’t help, but it was not why the sale of the folk art collection of Stephen and Petra Levin brought $5,104,500, well below its estimate of $8,900,000/12,800,000. Just 50 of the 96 lots of American folk art found buyers; that ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maumee Valley Historical Society Antique Show
Maumee, Ohio
Talk of the trade in Ohio during early 2016 swirled around one common factor: sizable crowds at antiques shows. Dealers at Worthington and Lebanon practically gushed about the flow of buyers. They hadn’t seen anything yet.
The 47th annual Maumee Valley Historical Society Antique Show, held January 23 and 24 ... (Read More)
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