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(Issue Story)Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia
Photos courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
A dazzling show is on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA). It opened in August and will be up through February 15, 2016—an unusually long run for an exhibition at this museum. After that, the show travels to the Winterthur Museum, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian "Beaver" Fruit Jar Sells for $16,240
An antique half-gallon “Beaver” fruit jar sold for $16,240 (includes buyer’s premium) when an auction conducted by Maple Leaf Auctions closed on November 14, 2015. (All prices in Canadian funds.)
Auction organizer Scott Wallace of Carleton Place, Ontario, commented on the sale. “To collectors of fruit jars, this piece was important and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greater York Antiques Show
York, Pennsylvania
Collectors and dealers are in the habit of going to the York Fairgrounds for antiques show four times a year. The dates have changed in recent years, but for the last 56 years, dedicated collectors and dealers have managed to put a trip to York, Pennsylvania, in red letters ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Conducts Americana Marathon
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Inc., Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy of Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey Evans is used to record-setting auctions. We have witnessed and reported on several over the years. On November 14, 2015, Evans’s 29th semiannual Americana sale set a record that everyone hopes will never be ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show 2015
New York City
The Pier Antique Show opened Saturday, November 14, 2015, on the morning after the terrorist attack in Paris, and ran through Sunday. There was a stillness to the show, but the event served to take showgoers’ minds off the horror that had occurred 12 hours before.
The show opened ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Custer Leads the Charge
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
It was a weekend of highs and lows at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries sale on November 14 and 15, 2015, in Thomaston, Maine. The high was a Howard Pyle-type advertising panel of General Custer in extremis at the Little Bighorn, which moved out for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Week
Sotheby’s, Christie’s, Bonhams, Heritage, The American Art Fair, and Just Off Madison, New York City
Twice a year collectors and dealers from all over the country come to New York City in search of American 19th- and 20th-century landscapes, portraits, and still lifes, Modernist paintings, and sculpture. In November and again ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Texas Dealer Pleads Guilty in Antiques Investment Case
A William Spratling banquet set once owned by country singer Marty Robbins and pink diamond jewelry once owned by an alleged mob boss were enticing antiques to investors. Several ponied up money to invest in the objects in the hope that once they were sold there would be a handsome ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bertoia's "Holiday Surprises" Lives Up to Its Name at $1.867 Million
Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
With an eye-popping inundation of treasures, Bertoia Auctions lived up to its pre-Thanksgiving theme of “Holiday Surprises.” The three-day, 2239-lot event, November 13-15, 2015, was a rip-snorter. No toy category was left behind as banks, trains, doorstops, vintage windups, a well-curated batch of biscuit tins, 250 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tennessee Dealer Sentenced
Paul “Mike” Willis, the owner of Unique Antiques and Auction Gallery, Collierville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to theft of over $60,000 from a customer and was sentenced on September 1 to 90 days in jail and ordered to pay $22,000 in remaining restitution, according to Shelby County District Attorney General Amy ... (Read More)
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