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(Show)National Insulator Association Convention Show
Muncie, Indiana
“What’s an insulator?”
The question came from my 22-year-old daughter. She’s not dumb. The kid attends a prestigious liberal-arts college and scored fives on the AP calculus and chemistry exams at the end of high school, so she has a brain. But she has also spent a lifetime in a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Auction Finds Success with Well-Documented Estates
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee, had its most successful sale ever by employing its dual strengths, offering 19th-century regional material of intense local interest, while presenting Asian, European, and 20th-century lots with broad international appeal. The July 30 sale offered close to 1000 lots in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 35th Convention Auction of the International Nippon Collectors Club
Chandler’s International Auction and Estate Sales, Cary, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Chandler Eshleman
On July 30 the International Nippon Collectors Club (INCC) concluded its 35th annual convention in Cary, North Carolina, with a sale of the beloved porcelain. Most of the 470-plus lots were consigned by INCC members. Additional Nippon pots were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minnesota Dealer Pleads Guilty in Ivory Case
Antiques dealer Jay Anthony Anderson, 66, of Wabasha, Minnesota, pleaded guilty on June 7 in federal court to smuggling elephant ivory. He was charged on May 16 with knowingly importing and exporting objects made from elephant ivory in violation of the laws and regulations of the United States, including the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiq-onomics, Part 1
The Young Collector
When Andrew began his life in the auction business, he was excited. He was fresh out of graduate school at Winterthur and the University of Delaware, where he’d spent hours in quiet, climate-controlled, well-lit rooms reviewing individual pristine, iconic Americana objects at his leisure. Then he showed up ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Porcelain, No Simple Matter
The Frick Collection in New York City has published Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection, which accompanies the year-long special exhibition of the same name, exploring the complex history of making, collecting, and displaying porcelain.
The 34-page booklet includes installation photographs, a complete exhibition checklist, and a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show Manager for Zoar Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale
Slated for August 6 and 7, the 43rd annual Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale in Zoar, Ohio, will be managed by Steven Sherhag of Canfield, Ohio.
“Since 2008, dealers Jan and Dick Wilks have done a superb job managing and promoting Harvest Festival,” said Jon Elsasser, president of the Zoar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoys at Auction
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The festival of feathers capped at the Guyette & Deeter sale July 26 and 27 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where about 600 lots brought just shy of $3 million (including buyers’ premiums). As do Ted and Judy Harmon, whose Cape Cod auctions are highly social ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Anonymous Donor Gifts Ohr Vase
The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, has acquired a piece of George Edgar Ohr ceramic art pottery from an anonymous donor. According to the museum’s director, Kevin O’Brien, “Although the museum has been fortunate enough to receive gifts of Ohr in the recent past, it’s always a special ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2015
A Book Review
American Furniture 2015Edited by Luke Beckerdite The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2015, 241 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
Collectors and students of American furniture look forward annually to the publication of American Furniture, the ... (Read More)
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