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(Auction)Diversity Sells in Manheim, Old and New
Conestoga Auction Company, Inc., Manheim, Pennsylvaniaby Karl H. PassConestoga Auction Company held a diverse sale of predominantly Pennsylvania country material on October 5 and 6 in Manheim, Pennsylvania. There were large groupings of contemporary pottery, woodcarvings, and paintings by such craftspeople as James Seagreaves, Russell Henry, Walter and June Gottshall, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)September Arts and Crafts Auction
Craftsman Auctions, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenThe Craftsman Auctions sale on September 29 and 30 offered more than 1100 lots of Arts and Crafts furniture, pottery, art glass, lighting, and metalwork and was 80% sold for a total of $3.6 million, the second-highest total for any Craftsman Auctions weekend.The salesroom ... (Read More)
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(Feature)National Black Fine Art Show
The 12th annual National Black Fine Art Show, a fine art fair presenting original artwork by African, African-American, and Caribbean artists, will take place February 14-17, 2008, at the Puck Building in SoHo, New York City. The show presents 38 dealers exhibiting work in a range of media from paintings, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Every Collector Add a Collector
A relatively small group of people in the trade has been working on ways to help the trade get new collectors involved. The initiative to find new collectors is called "Every Collector Add a Collector."It aims to get people who collect now to interest their children, their friends, and others ... (Read More)
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(Feature)James Graham & Sons to Move
In December, James Graham & Sons will move to a new location on the Upper East Side of Manhattan at 32 East 67th Street. The gallery will inaugurate the space with an exhibition devoted to the work of Paul Manship, Norman Bluhm, Walter Gay, Guy Pene du Bois, and other ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Kindig to Receive ADA Award of Merit
It has been announced that the Antiques Dealers' Association of America, Inc. (ADA) dinner will be held April 12, 2008, at 8 p.m., in a tent behind the Navy Pier after the Philadelphia Antiques Show closes. The recipient of the annual Award of Merit will be Joseph Kindig III of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Lancaster County Auction House Has Not Been Sold
by Karl PassThe rumor circulating that Conestoga Auction Company in Manheim, Pennsylvania, has been sold is not true."I have heard it all, and it is one hundred percent rumor," stated Jeffrey DeHart, president of Conestoga. "We have no plans to sell and are working harder than ever. There have been ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Legislation to Restore Benefits of Fractional Gifts Introduced
by Daniel GrantNew Mexico Democratic Representative Thomas Udall, claiming that the limitations to fractional donations of high-end artwork to museums in the 2006 Pension Protection Act has "suffocated a time-honored method of giving that has made many of our national treasures available to the public," introduced legislation in Congress on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Marburger Farm Show Sold
The Marburger Farm Antique Show, a 400-vendor event, has been sold by show founder John Sauls to the Marsh family of Tyler, Dallas, and other Texas cities. At a packed "town hall" meeting with the show's vendors, Sauls introduced his longtime friend Margaret Marsh Mebus and the members of her ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Canadian Dealer Murdered
by Jean MurrayOwner Robert Ness of Obsession Antiques, Notre Dame Street, Montreal, Quebec, was murdered in his apartment above his antiques shop sometime Tuesday, October 16.Ness was a well-respected and popular antiques dealer for close to 40 years along the strip of antiques shops on Notre Dame Street. He was ... (Read More)
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