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(Show)Wary Exhibitors "Keep on Keeping on" at Spring Hartford Show
Brian Cullity of Sagamore, Massachusetts,formerly a museum curator, delights at sometimes showing unusual material. The maple and birch chest of unusual form is a very shapely piece and priced enticingly low at $1850. On it Cullity placed some neat miniature Sandwich glass decanters, priced from $695 to $850.The lighting was ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: It Is Easy Being Green
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondKermit the Frog was right. It's not easy being green, at least not initially. "Initially" is where we think the antiques business is stuck at the moment. We all hear about it a lot, talk about it a little, and do about it ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: Tea for Three1: Success to Trade in AmericaThe rare Stamp Act teapot, found in a box of low value bric-a-brac and sold for $117,440 in an English provincial sale.Only a handful of Staffordshire creamware teapots bearing references to the infamous Stamp Act of 1765* are recorded, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show Director for Hillsborough Show
United Voluntary Services (UVS), owners of the Hillsborough Antique Show in San Mateo, California, has announced that Nancy Johnson of Nancy Johnson Events Management LLC in Denver, Colorado, will be the director of its shows, effective immediately."Hillsborough," as it is commonly known, is one of the longest-running antiques shows in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dan Morphy Buys Back Morphy Auctions
Dan Morphy has bought back the operating assets of Morphy Auctions from Geppi's Entertainment. Morphy had sold the auction house to Geppi's in 2005, but in a deal finalized on May 8, Morphy assumes sole ownership of the company he established in 2004. The new firm will be known as ... (Read More)
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(Feature)See "America" This Summer
The Cape Ann Museum (formerly the Cape Ann Historical Association) in Gloucester, Massachusetts, is exhibiting a painting and marine telescope related to the yacht America in its Fitz Henry Lane Gallery until late October. The painting and telescope have been lent from the private collection of Alan Granby and Janice ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Works of Art Spark Prices at Willis Henry Auction
An oil on canvas seascape signed by Charles Henry Gifford (1839-1904), showing two men rowing to a two-masted sailing vessel on a calm sea, 12" x 20", made $65,520. Two other Gifford paintings (not shown) were among the dozen lots scoring the upper-end prices. A 9¼" x 14¼" oil on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Change in Deduction for Charitable Contributions in the Works
by Daniel GrantThe absence of any mention of President Obama's plan to reduce the deduction for charitable contributions for the very wealthy in the budget proposal passed by the U.S. House and Senate on April 29 does not mean that the initiative is dead. According to a number of associations ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armacost Cancels Aspen Show
Washington, D.C.-based promoter Armacost Antiques Shows has canceled its Aspen Art & Antiques Show, scheduled for July 1-6 in Aspen, Colorado."With fewer than 20 dealers committed as of May 1, and only 60 days remaining before the planned opening of the event, the decision to cancel the show seems the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Indianapolis Art & Antiques Show
David Cotton and Heather Malott of Cotton’s Antiques,Wabash, Indiana, featured a booth with British Colonial and garden themes, “anything with a romantic feel to it.”David Drummond of Lititz, Pennsylvania, offered two wooden industrial boxes (hanging, back left) at $90 each and a workbench (back right) from Reading, Pennsylvania, circa 1915, ... (Read More)
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