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(Issue Story)Phil Warish, Blue Farm Antiques, Franklin, New York
Phil Warish.
Phil Warish’s new shop on Main Street in Franklin, New York.
A view in Warish’s new shop in Franklin, New York.
A weathered marble bust of Napoleon, $1200. “It’s a lot more interesting because of its flaws instead of being hindered by them,” Warish remarked. It originally lacked a base, so ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Loyalty Software
A demonstration e-mail newsletter created in LoyaltyABC.com Preferred Customer Club Marketing System.
Computer Column #310
John P. Reid, [email protected]
There are several short topics this month.
Loyal Customers
The August 2014 edition of this column mentioned two antiques mall accounting computer programs that originated in the 1980s and are still going strong. Many other good ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
Books Received
by M.A.D. Staff
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
“I Am Busy Drawing Pictures”: The Civil War Art and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rustic Antiques in New York
Dealers Jon Magoun of South Paris, Maine, and Bob Ross of Florence, Massachusetts, with Magoun’s dome-topped trunk, which sold for $1250.
Bob Ross had this Old Town canoe with sail priced at $3800.
John Provo Rustic Antiques, Plymouth, Minnesota, had Old Hickory table lamps priced at $795 a pair. Adirondack ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal's September Sale: A Preview of Coming Attractions
The top lot by far was one of Charles Giroux’s rare Louisiana landscapes, a 24" x 34" bayou scene with a Creole cottage, which brought $155,350 (est. $40,000/60,000). Other works by the French-born artist, active in New Orleans 1868-85, are a related 1860 view of a bayou plantation at the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Goddess of Harvest Bowl Tops Auction at $52,500
This Fenton Goddess of Harvest bowl in blue with a candy ribbon edge sold for $52,500. The Goddess of Harvest pattern is extremely rare, and the bowl is the only example known in blue.
This rare aqua opalescent Northwood Poppy Show plate brought $24,000.
Holly is one of Fenton’s more desirable patterns, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Cache of Harry Allen Davis Artworks Sold
Harry Davis is shown in front of his painting Harvest Dinner, which won the Rome Prize. The work is now in a private collection. The photo is from 1939.
The Nisbit-Koch House, Evansville by Harry Davis, acrylic on canvas, 40" x 46", signed, dated ’75, $6720. The back had a tag ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The John Snyder Sale
A 19th-century Chinese Manchu woman’s ceremonial headdress, richly decorated with blue enameled and gilt metal, mounted with tourmaline, jade, pearls, coral, and rubies designed as flowers and phoenixes and butterflies, 7" tall x 12" wide, sold on line for $22,990 (est. $10,000/20,000). According to John Snyder’s colleague Peter Seibert, Snyder ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collectors Sue over Missing Warhol "Shoes"
Amy Koler and Stephen Meyer, collectors from St. Petersburg, Florida, filed suit in Maricopa County Court in Arizona on September 10, claiming that an Andy Warhol screenprint they had left with a gallery for safekeeping was sold without their knowledge or approval. They are alleging fraud, conversion, negligence, negligent misrepresentation, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Massachusetts Court Sets Safeguard for Artist-Consigned Art
On September 9, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, the highest legal authority in the state, answered a question asked by 14 artists and their legal team. The question: to whom does the art belong when a gallery owner goes bankrupt—the owner of the gallery or the artist who created ... (Read More)
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