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(Show)The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room found a way to solve the universal case crunch dilemma. Faced with showing 21 Chrysanthemum pattern plates by English maker Herculaneum, they mounted themon a wall. From about 1810, the plates were $17,000 for the lot or $850 each.Merchandise Mart seller Richard Norton brought a set of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiquing Around the World--On Line
The Woolloongabba Antique Centre in Brisbane, Australia looks like something you might find anywhere in the U.S.Computer Column #260by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] the past six months, this column has discussed serious stuff-software for dealers and antiques malls, inexpensive office software, running Windows programs for antiquers on a Macintosh ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Farm Animal Shelter in Western New York Saves Historic Site
by Fran KramerCracker Box Palace, a farm animal haven in Alton, New York, is well underway to saving an essential piece of Shaker history.Alasa Farms, on the site of what was the Sodus Shaker community from 1826 to 1836 (the Sodus Shakers then moved 90 miles southwest to Groveland and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tales of a Wayside Inn Show
Samuel Herrup Antiques, Sheffield, Massachusetts, brought a circa 1760 cherry high chest from the Hartford,Connecticut, area, priced at $14,000. The English or Dutch William and Mary dressing table in oak was $4800. The pair of armchairs, late 17th-century Chinese,in elm wood, was tagged $9500. On the wall, the circa 1820 ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Teitelman Collection: More Than a Good Catalog
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenSuccess to America: Creamware for the American Market, featuring the S. Robert Teitelman Collection at Winterthurby S. Robert Teitelman, Patricia A. Halfpenny, and Ronald W. Fuchs II, with essays by Wendell D. Garrett and Robin EmmersonAntique Collectors' Club, 2010, 303 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Greg Hamilton Chosen VADA's Interim President
The spring meeting of the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association was held at the South Station Restaurant in Rutland on June 7. The board accepted, with regret, the resignation of James Dunn, who has guided VADA for the past three and a half years. Dunn will remain on the antiques show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antique Toys, Advertising, and Americana Auction
Marklin gauge I red locomotive passenger train set, comprising an American Steam profile 0-4-0 clockwork engine with maker's emblem on boiler front, brake lever, and whistle chain, in very scarce maroon and red colors (some paint chipping and paint peeling from the boiler); a four-wheel tender with rear hinged compartment; ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Los Angeles Antiques Show
As first-time exhibitors at this show, but specializing in antique barometers for over 40 years, Derek and Tina Rayment Antiques, Farndon, Cheshire, U.K., displayed a collection of wonderful and decorative barometers from 1780 to 1940. Prices ranged from $250 to $20,000, making a barometer affordable to either a beginner or ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Alan Green, American Jazz, Ossining, New York
Alan Green with all he needs to do a show in Europe.A "bell and hammer" game from the third quarter of the 19th century complete with cards, dice, counters, hammer, and directions in English, French, and German. It's $500. Green said, "This is a common type game. There were many ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fake Rose Valley Table Exposed
"Rose Valley" table as shown in Freeman's April 19 catalog. Freeman's photo.These genuine Rose Valley chairs sold at Freeman's on November 19, 2005. They are signed and dated (1902) and have a provenance of descending in the family of well-known Philadelphia architect Charles Klauder (1872-1938). One chair (right) has the ... (Read More)
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