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(Issue Story)New Multiuse Antiques Building to Open
The former Calico House, then Great West Trading Center, is poised to become one of New Hampshire's largest antiques centers. Hooksett residents Mike and Karen Donnell have come to an agreement with the owners to utilize what Mike Donnell calls "one of New Hampshire's most beautiful buildings.""This is a lifelong ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Law Would Force New York Antiques Shops to Offer Access to Restroom
by Jessica Best and Betty Flood, Cuyler News ServiceAntiques dealers in retail establishments may be forced to allow customers access to a restroom, whether the restroom is officially available to the public, under legislation introduced by Assemblyman George Latimer (D-Westchester).Shoplifting has been a concern among antiques establishments, according to an ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)NHADA Elects New Officers
The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association held its annual business meeting on November 14, 2007, at the Bedford Village Inn in Bedford.The 2008 slate of officers elected at the meeting are president, Kathy Schoemer, Kathy Schoemer American Antiques, Acworth; immediate past president, Linda Tate, The Tates Antiques, Sanbornton; secretary, Melissa ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antique Center Presents Theme Rooms
According to a press release, Matthew Mead, contributing editor for Country Home magazine, and From Out of the Woods Antiques, Goffstown, New Hampshire, opened their second seasonal room display at From Out of the Woods Antiques on December 8, 2007, to a standing-room-only crowd.The theme was a bedroom setting with ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Wallachs Seek Help with Tramp Art Book
Clifford and Nancy Wallach are working on a new book, Tramp Art Another Notch: Folk Art in the Tramp Art Style, to be published by Schiffer Publishing. According to the Wallachs, "It will be an advanced study of the art form, including all the new information we have uncovered since ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fine Folk Art Finds at Gould's
Gould Auction Company, Gardiner, Maineby Mark SiscoTimothy Gould still brings forth fresh items to auction several times a year. He admits that truly "fresh" is getting harder and harder to find, but there was enough heretofore undiscovered merchandise at his November 17, 2007, auction in Gardiner, Maine, to keep us ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Show with a Mission
Green Bay, Wisconsinby Sharon VerbetenThe crisp seasonal chill in the air and the pending holidays may have been on the minds of many attendees at the Green Bay-De Pere Antiquarian Society's Holiday Antique Show and Sale, held November 16 and 17, 2007, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but the show's organizers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Guyette and Schmidt's Fall Decoy Sale
Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., Easton, Marylandby Karl H. PassGuyette and Schmidt, Inc. held its fall decoy sale November 7 and 8, 2007, in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival, an annual event that overtakes the small town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The auction in the Talbot County Community ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Heartland Fall Edition Antiques Show
Richmond, Indianaby Don Johnson"Look at this! It's eighty-five dollars."She wasn't talking to me, but I couldn't resist looking over my shoulder to see what the woman had found. In her hands was a tractor-type lawn sprinkler in old green paint, pulled from beneath a farm table in an east-central Indiana ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Triple-Format Western Memorabilia, Photography, and American Indian Art Sales
Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Texasby Karl H. PassHeritage Auction Galleries held a large two-day event on November 10 and 11, 2007, at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Beginning with Western photography, the sale was broken into three sessions with three separate, well-illustrated catalogs. The photography and artifacts session ... (Read More)
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