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(Show)The "We're Here to Sell" Show
The fairgrounds provide a bucolic setting with log cabins and pine trees.Dealer booths inside one of the two largest buildings.The first wave of early buyers.Rachel Gurley and her fiancé, Tim Libby, of Gurley Antiques Center, Yarmouth, Maine, pose in front of a charming paint-decorated Sheraton table that was $950.Deerfield, New ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Not-So-Happy Returns
In this issue, we print a letter from Ohio dealer Greg Smart concerning a transaction gone bad (see page 4-A). His letter raises issues that deserve scrutiny.In short, Smart bought a painted box four years ago for $15,000 at a show in Massachusetts and has since sold it twice. Twice, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: What Does It Say?
by Steve ProffittIf you have ever thought that making a consignment to an auctioneer is a quick and easy process, you are right—it can be. What it cannot be is quick and easy, plus safe and secure. To gain safety and security requires a consignor to spend time and effort ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Woodstock: The 37th Annual Vermont Dealers' Show
The table is one of a pair of 1890-1910 painted demilune tables. Put together they make a 43" diameter table. They were $1275 from American Classics, Canaan, New Hampshire. Shown also is one of a pair of handmade porch chairs from the 1930's or '40's in his and hers sizes. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Decorative Bricks: A Mystery Worthy of Further Research
Kitty and Tony Ables have been displaying different patterns of the Toone bricks at antiques shows, where many have found buyers. While most have decorative designs, a significant number bear the initials "JBK" for James Barry Keller, who was born in North Carolina in 1838 and died in Toone, Tennessee, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)End-of-Summer Blowout in Fairfield, Maine
This set of six small bowls was estimated at $300/500, but a Chinese dealer said the yellow-footed 4¾" diameter bowl with red bats and green clouds was what drove the price to $373,750 paid by a phone bidder. An almost identical example, slightly larger, is housed in the Palace Museum ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Court Rules against Philadelphia Museum of Art
by Daniel GrantOn July 5, a Maryland federal district judge threw out the Philadelphia Museum of Art's lawsuit against AXA Art Insurance for refusing to honor a $1.5 million claim made by the institution. The judge found that the museum had not filed its action before a one-year statute of ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: The Rest of the Story
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe're finally emerging from the complete military-style takeover that happens with a new baby. Projects started before Nora's arrival, including the reorganization of our office and the remodeling of our bathroom and kitchen, were left where they were. The remodeling was, fortunately, 90% complete, but ... (Read More)
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(Show)Hot Time in Rockport
Greg Hamilton of Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, sits behind a large gilded wooden pilothouse eagle that he would sell for $6500.New England Antiques, Bath, Maine, displayed a bandbox covered in early wallpaper, about 12" high, for $950.Rockport, Maineby Mark SiscoOutdoor summer antiques shows in Maine can have their challenges, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Settle's In for Almost Twenty Grand
Early hooded pine settle bench, with a high four-board back and great old original surface, $19,550.Tall clock signed by New Jersey maker Isaac Brokaw of Bridge Town, probably built after 1790, $13,800.Devin Moisan, Dover, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoWhat makes a beat-up old pine bench worth nearly 20 grand? Devin Moisan's ... (Read More)
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