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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, July 2025
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Maureen Mayer of Silvermine Antiques
Maureen Mayer might not be the first person to buy a Jamie Wyeth painting at auction, sight unseen, while running through Grand Central Terminal, but it makes for a good story. And she has others.
Just like her two cats, Beatrix and Nova, Maureen has had several lives—as a television executive ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exit the Expert?
Beneath the Surface
We met in a library. Andrew was taking a few years between college and graduate school to figure out exactly what he wanted to do next. Hollie was working three jobs and thought quiet evening shifts at a rural Ohio public library reference desk seemed like a break. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Peale Women Painters
The Hammond-Harwood House Museum, Annapolis, Maryland, has opened In the Shadows of a Legacy: The Peale Women Painters, an exhibition that celebrates seven of the nine professional women in the Peale family dynasty of early American painters. It includes paintings and miniatures from the collections of the Maryland Center for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)20 Sites—Plenty to See, Plenty to Gain
Fans of samplers and needlework should plan a trip to Vermont this summer or fall; the Vermont Schoolgirl Sampler Driving Tour opened on May 30 and will run until October.
In cooperation with Vermont’s commemoration of the start of the American Revolution in 1775, the tour features samplers made by the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2025
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Longfellow jug, 1880-81, transfer-printed earthenware. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gift of Earle Shettleworth Jr. in honor of Barry and Karen Mills.
—Through July 20 —Brunswick, Maine
Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art explores the relationship between ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Creations, Contributions, and Legacies of Black Craftspeople
A Book Review
I consider myself fortunate to have used a Cesar Chelor plane more than once. A friend who passed away some years ago had collected hand planes, and when I needed to raise some panels in the upstairs hallway of our 18th-century house in Maine, he handed me a ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fitting It In
Beneath the Surface
At a recent show, we sold our two biggest and heaviest things, which always means it is a successful show. In our early auction days one strategy of ours was to go to shows and walk the floor the last few hours; we would usually come up with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Amelia Jeffers
Amelia Jeffers wears a bracelet that reads “fearless,” and she subscribes to the notion “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Luck has rested on her shoulder since childhood. “I’m a poor kid from West Virginia,” she said, who had no generational ties to antiques. Thanks to an elementary school ... (Read More)
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