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(Show)Greenwich Kiwanis Fall Antiques Show Slow Out of the Gate
Barrett Menson of Perkins & Menson Antiques, Townsend, Massachusetts, new to the show, had a period frame for every picture, and this one fit his face beautifully. The 14" x 10" 19th-century frame still hadits little brass hanging ring on top ($330). “It’s rare because it’s made of full bird’s-eye ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Who Would Have Thunk It?
by Steve ProffittHuman nature is funny. There are some people you don't like from the moment you meet them. Others you immediately like and gravitate toward under the same circumstances. My feelings were the latter for a M.A.D. reader who wrote me about a bad auction experience. His comments were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Plane's the Thing
Lowe’s patent fillister plane, $7040.A triptych-style folding tool cabinet, full of ornamental turning tools by Holtzapfel & Deyerlain of London, England, essentially complete, with handles in beech, rosewood, and ebony, fetched $1210.Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, Nashua, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoLive Free or Die Antique Tool Auctions is now celebrating ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ike's Jacket Leads Three-Day Auction
General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s uniform “Ike” jacket, 38 regular, custom tailored by Clipper Craft Clothes as indicated by a label on the interior breast pocket with the typed identification “Gen. D. Eisenhower”and the date 3/45. The jacket has a patch for SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) upper left, shoulder ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Birds in Wood and Paint
by Jeanne SchintoBirds in Wood and Paint: American Miniature Bird Carvings and Their Carvers, 1900-1970by Joseph H. EllisUniversity Press of New England, 2009, 184 pages, hardbound, $60 plus S/H from University Press of New England, Order Department, 1 Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 or (800) 421-1561 or from the Web ... (Read More)
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(Show)Exhibitors at Vermont's Antiques Week See Long-Awaited Upsurge in Business
We photographed the 38¾" wide bowfront tambour desk before the show opened when there was no price on it. By the time we got back, the first customers had entered, and it had sold. Martin J. Ferrick Antiques, Lincolnville, Maine, was the exhibitor. Fellow exhibitors said that Ferrick had a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plain and Fancy at Cottone
This 17" x 25" oil on board by Thomas Hart Benton (1889-1975) brought the top price of the sale, $235,750, from a New York City gallery on the phone, bidding against at least seven other phone bidders. The lot also included the first edition of the book We, the People ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Art of the Trade
by Daniel GrantMuseums are full of stuff, and they are always trying to get more. Sometimes they buy objects for their collections (from dealers, auction houses, and collectors), and more often they receive things as donations.There is, however, a whole realm of other ways of acquiring additional items. One way ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Labor Day Weekend Auction
Navajo Horse Race by Frank Tenney Johnson (1874-1939), signed and dated 1927, oil on canvas, 26½" x 32½", minor craquelure, light surface soiling and slight yellowing of varnish, $196,250.Smith & Wesson Model 3 Russian second model revolver, mid-19th century, .44 caliber, 7" barrel, with floral engraving, ivory grips with relief-carved ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: It's All Relevant (Or at Least It Used to Be)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondForgive us. We're often not sure where we are, or, at least, not sure of where we've been. One of the hazards of so much business travel is that we're constantly trying to remember with whom we had a particular conversation and where we were ... (Read More)
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