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(Issue Story)Correction about Indian Weathervane Sold at Sotheby's
The Indian weathervane sold at Sotheby's on October 4, 2007, to Leigh Keno was gilded, not painted as the caption suggested in an effort to explain the comparatively low price of $241,000 (M.A.D., December 2007, page 3-D). An Indian weathervane of this size sold at Northeast Auctions for $365,500 in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Mancuso's Books at the 25th St. Armory Changes Dates
Mancuso Show Management's annual Books at the 25th St. Armory in New York City is changing dates and will be held on January 11 and 12.
The show has traditionally been scheduled as one of the final shows of Americana Week in New York City. The 69th Regiment, however, has ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Dutch Joinery in 17th-Century Windsor, Connecticut
by Erik K. Gronning, Joshua W. Lane, and Robert F. TrentThe earliest American furniture scholars were intrigued about furniture made by Dutch artisans in the English colonies of North America. Queen Anne chairs were habitually referred to as "Dutch," and the large size and broad proportions of New York furniture ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)The War between the States on the Web
Computer Column #227by John P. Reid, [email protected] War material is always good. Sometimes it is hot. J.E.B. Stuart's personal battle flag, hand sewn by his wife, Flora, brought $956,000 (including 19.5% buyer's premium) at its December 2006 Nashville, Tennessee, auction, according to Heritage Auction Galleries (www.ha.com) in Dallas, Texas. The ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The War between the States on the Web
Computer Column #227by John P. Reid, [email protected] War material is always good. Sometimes it is hot. J.E.B. Stuart's personal battle flag, hand sewn by his wife, Flora, brought $956,000 (including 19.5% buyer's premium) at its December 2006 Nashville, Tennessee, auction, according to Heritage Auction Galleries (www.ha.com) in Dallas, Texas. The ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The National Capital Winter Antiques Show Postponed
Washington, D.C.-based promoter Armacost Antiques Shows has announced that its new antiques event, the National Capital Winter Antiques Show, has been postponed until 2008. The inaugural show had been scheduled to take place November 30-December 2, 2007.New dates, location, and other details will be released in the near future. More ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Firearms Column
by Robert Kyle As 19th-century Americans spread westward, the horizon got bigger, and so did the wild animals. The old single-shot muzzle-loaders and early models of the smaller caliber Winchester rifles were appropriate for small game and white-tailed deer in eastern forests but no match for bison, elk, antelope, sheep, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Mary Jean McLaughlin of Ivoryton, Connecticut
In the Tradeby Frank Donegan Mary Jean McLaughlin sells only wicker. She calls it "the orphan of the antiques business." If that's true, then her rambling Colonial Revival home in Ivoryton, Connecticut, is one heck of an orphanage. Eighteen or 20 of its rooms (she's not exactly sure of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auctioneers and the Misunderstood Tool
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve Proffitt Here's an old joke. Junior was a woodcutter by trade. He was a man's man, but not the brightest penny. As we say down South, if he was twice as smart, he'd be a half-wit. Junior started off with a hand ax cutting pulpwood. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Ends Its August Sell-a-thon with $6.23 Million Sale
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
by David Hewett
August is famous in New Hampshire for many reasons: the long-awaited native tomato finally ripens; the Red Sox begin or threaten to begin their traditional swoon (some years they wait until mid-September); and Northeast Auctions holds its two biggest events of the year-the Americana and folk ... (Read More)
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