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(Feature)Harbor & Home: A Review of an Exhibition and Its Catalog
Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O’Brien. University Press of New England, 2009, 456 pages, hardbound, $75 plus shipping/handling from University Press of New England, Order Dept., One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766; (800) 421-1561; Web site (www.upne.com). It is also ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Real Cats Don't Bark
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittHere's an excerpt edited from a letter I received from an auctioneer who raised an interesting question."Steve, I have followed your comments in M.A.D. for a long time and have found your remarks considering various legal issues very rewarding. Our auction firm closely adheres to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farmer's Super Bowl Sale
Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals, LLC, Radford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanPhotos courtesy Ken Farmer Auctions & AppraisalsEmma Serena Dillard “Queena” Stovall(1887-1980) began painting at age 62 and created 47 artworks before her death. Virtually all of her paintings depict scenes recalling life in early to mid-20th-century rural Virginia. Getting in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Lebanon Antiques Show
Lebanon, Ohioby Don JohnsonThe historic Staffordshire platter by Clews with Landing of General LaFayette was $1525; the Beehive pattern Sandwich octagonal lacy glass plate was $195; the historic Staffordshire coffeepot by Enoch Woods, LaFayette at Franklin’s Tomb, was $1600; and the Peacock Eye pressed glass bowl with a rayed center, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Learning On Line
Computer Column #245by John P. Reid, [email protected] of the AntiqueTutorials on-line course on World Paper Money.Those of us who attended traditional grade school, high school, and perhaps college might have trouble picturing schooling over the Internet or by using computer media. Yet it is happening. What educators have dubbed "distance ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Jim and Mara Kerr, Cavern View Antiques, Howes Cave, New York
by Frank DoneganJim and Mara Kerr.Set of six Davenport transferware soup bowls in the Hydrographic pattern, dated 1836, $295 for the six. Kerr speculated that the name derives from the blue trim, which, on close inspection, looks like watered silk. “These came from a dealer who got them from a ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are thumbnail reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Antiques: The History of an Idea by Leon Rosenstein (Cornell University ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Richards Estate Produces Three-Day Sale
Refinished but “right as rain” with no real detractions other than the 1960’s style refinish on this straightforward Chippendale four-drawer chest. It provided the slightest ray of hope that the early furniture market might be rebounding a bit when it finished at $1650.Now how sweet is that? Some tar made ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Reclining John Wakes Up for $52,000
Was it an early copy of Caravaggio’s John the Baptist (Reclining)? Did Caravaggio produce the original? There are some questions yet to be answered. A knowledgeable bidder risked $51,750 for the 52½" x 59½" oil on canvas.Jack Lorimer Gray oil on canvas, 25½" x 45½" (sight size), $46,000.Thomaston Place Auction ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winnetka Antiques Show: Celebrating 40 Years
Chicago sisters Gwen and Melissa Marks traveled to Winnetka to search through buttons from Flapper Alley, Milwaukee. “It’s hard to find fun buttons,” said Gwen, who hunts them for sweaters she makes.Winnetka, Illinoisby Danielle ArnetTalk about bad luck. As if the sinking economy weren't enough, the gods of weather really ... (Read More)
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