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(Issue Story)Who Made My Clock? Clue: He Worked with Rittenhouse
Fig. 1. The subject tall-case clock. Photo courtesy clock owner.
Fig. 2. Hood detail showing shallow navigational star terminals. Photo courtesy clock owner.
Fig. 3. Hood with absent colonnettes. Photo courtesy clock owner.
Fig. 4. Hood detail showing mitered joint where colonnettes would have attached. Note that the joint is on the side ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Micro-Targeted Marketing
The Art of Marketing
This month our topic is the utilization of psychographic profiling techniques for delivering micro-targeted marketing. Traditional marketing has been actively targeted and marketed to the different generations. With the current rise of the social Web, these groups of people are getting smaller. They’re so small and fragmented, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Apps for Tablets
A map app on a 7" tablet computer provides turn-by-turn visual and voice navigation to a convention center where antiques shows are sometimes held.
Computer Column #304
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Many of the things antiquers do on smartphones are so much easier on a tablet computer. Here are some examples to whet ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Royalties Legislation Introduced
Artwork may cost 5% more if legislation introduced by U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Ed Markey (D-MA) and Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) is passed.
The “American Royalties, Too (ART) Act of 2014” would establish copyright protections for the intellectual property of visual artists.
Under current copyright law, visual artists—painters, sculptors, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Integrity and Courage
Auction Law & Ethics
An old, blind woman went to see a lawyer about having a will drafted. He discussed with her what she wanted to accomplish with her will. Her estate was meager, and the lawyer quoted a fee of just $100 to do the work. As she got up ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Joshua Lane Named Curator of Furniture at Winterthur
Joshua W. Lane has been appointed the Lois F. and Henry S. McNeil Curator of Furniture at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, succeeding Wendy Cooper, who retired in June 2013.
Lane received his B.A. in American studies from Amherst College and his M.Phil. from Yale. He worked at the Connecticut ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bravo, Senator Linares
Editorial
One politician understands investing in antiques, or rather, investing in the antiques business.
Connecticut state Senator Art Linares, a 25-year-old Republican, has sponsored a bill to boost the Connecticut Spring Antiques Show, the 65-dealer affair that will be held March 22 and 23 in Hartford. Linares’s bill would appropriate $50,000 from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)H.A. Cooper to Retire From Yale
Dr. Helen Achbar Cooper, the Holcombe T. Green Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Yale University Art Gallery, will retire in May.
“Helen Cooper has served the field of American art as one of its finest curators for almost forty years, leading the Yale University Art Gallery’s department of ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Practical Defense of an Old House
The Young Collector
Hollie woke up in the night recently, because her “out of the covers” arm had cooled to a temperature that made her think the house might be getting too cold. She got up to check the stove, realized that Andrew would be up in a hour, so she ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana
Room-size Heriz rug, red field with a blue border, 20th century, 12' x 15', good condition, fringe loss on one end, $9300.
Tella Kitchen (1902-1988), painting signed on the stretcher, “The barn I’ve admired for years. At Delmont Crossing. Fairfield County Ohio. Tella Kitchen 1975,” oil on canvas, 20" x 24" ... (Read More)
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