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(Fragment)The Catalog of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Assemblage
A Book Review
Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road is the catalog for the special exhibition that celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Historic Trappe in Trappe, Pennsylvania. This gathering of painted boxes, cupboards, chests, and fraktur that enriched the daily lives ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Auction Record for Temperance Jug
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
Setting a new auction record for an American temperance jug, this Anna Pottery stoneware temperance jug, 12" tall, with a rare solid cobalt ground sold to a folk-art collector for $144,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Provenance, condition, extravagant decoration, and coloring (the blue ground) all played ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Antiquarian Society Receives Paine Collection
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts, has received a gift of more than 18,000 pieces of 18th- and 19th-century ephemera. The collection, assembled over several decades by Stephen Davies Paine (1932-1997) and given to AAS in his memory, is one of the largest and most pristine of its kind.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lost in Flooding
Asheville, North Carolina
A collection of 50 mostly southern high chairs, often lent to museums for exhibitions on life in Appalachia.
An elaborately carved 19th-century Buddha cabinet from Shanxi Province, China, for worship and honoring ancestors. A medieval suit of armor.
Antiques dealers and collectors typically think of themselves as custodians of items ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany and More
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
Tiffany Studios enameled copper cabinet vase with mushrooms, circa 1905, just 2¼" high x 2½" diameter, sold online for $82,550 (est. $10,000/15,000). “It turned up on Antiques Roadshow in Oregon, and the owner said she bought it for less than a dollar at a garage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$900,000 Fine Levied in Endangered Species Case
On April 9 a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced two men for trafficking protected birds and eggs into the United States in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Dr. John Waldrop of Cataula, Georgia, was ordered to pay a $900,000 fine—one of the largest ever for an ESA case—and serve ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2025
AHere are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Garth’s Bonds Divvied Up, Receiver Wrapping Up Dissolution
On February 19 Judge Kim Brown of the Franklin County, Ohio, Court of Common Pleas ruled in the case of two $25,000 auctioneer bonds—one on behalf of Richard “Jeff” Jeffers and the other on behalf of Garth’s Auctions, Inc.—issued by the Cincinnati Insurance Company. The total of $50,000 is to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale of Art, Silver, and America’s Favorite Pastime at CRN
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions.
Two fine estate collections from stalwarts of the antiques business came to market at CRN Auctions April 6 in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery. One featured some interesting 19th- and 20th-century paintings from the estate of private dealer John “Jack” Carter of Gloucester, Massachusetts, including ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2025 Mt. Kisco Antiques Show
Mt. Kisco, New York
Show manager Debbie Turi of D. Turi Antique Shows rallied some 28 dealers to set out their wares at St. Francis of Assisi church in Mt. Kisco, Westchester County, New York, on April 5 and 6.
A sizeable crowd had already shown up by the time M.A.D. visited ... (Read More)
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