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(Fragment)MADA Provides Grant to Friendship Museum
From left: Harry Hepburn, Margaret Gagnon, Gordon Winchenbach, Pat Jameson, and Elizabeth DeSimone.
The Friendship Museum of Friendship, Maine, has been awarded a grant of $1500 from the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA). Museum president Margaret Gagnon and treasurer Gordon Winchenbach accepted the check, presented by MADA president Elizabeth DeSimone, endowment ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Black Powder Exempt from New York Gun Law
Black powder used in many reenactments is exempt from New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo’s NY SAFE Act, a new gun control law. “The entire predication of the bill is based on the assault rifle,” according to Rich Azzopardi, deputy press secretary to Governor Cuomo. “One of the key characteristics ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)What Happened in New York City during Americana Week
Christie’s deputy chairman John Hays shows the Townsend signature on the bottom of the top drawer of the mahogany block-and-shell bureau table that brought $2,210,500 from a phone bidder.
James Buttersworth painted “Flying Cloud”on her record breaking voyage to San Francisco around Cape Horn in 89-days, April 20th 1854. It sold ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hearing for Proposed Sale of Esmerian Folk Art Postponed
There was no January 29 hearing regarding a possible sale of the folk art assets in the matter concerning Ralph Esmerian and the American Folk Art Museum. That date originally had been proposed by liquidation trustee Jay Teitelbaum, in papers filed with the United States Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Tablet Computers
The Maine Antique Digest digital edition is shown being read on an Android tablet computer with a 7" diagonal- measure screen.
Computer Column #291
Tablet computers are coming into their own after a decade of false starts. They have a definite place in an antiquer’s computer world, with a few specific limitations.
An ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Did Rockwell’s Willie Gillis, Package from Home Sell or Not?
Willie Gillis, Package from Home. Susanin’s photo.
The highly publicized sale of a Norman Rockwell painting for $2.8 million in Chicago may or may not be a done deal. The painting portrays Willie Gillis, a fictional character created by Rockwell, as an enlisted man carrying a food package from home. Close ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Inside the Bunker
Auction Law & Ethics
“Please Mister Postman, look and see if there’s a letter in your bag for me.”
The Marvelettes, 1961.
Mr. Postman delivered the following letter from a reader:
“Hi, Steve, I am writing about an issue that has bugged me for a while. Sometimes bidders can bid on line in ‘live’ ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)In Connecticut, Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be
Getting a loan against your Lichtenstein or borrowing against your Bricher in Connecticut might require plenty of paperwork and a potential loss of privacy, but the percentage you pay on the loan would be regulated.
A little-noticed law, “An Act Establishing a Fine Art Secured Lending License,” passed last year and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received
These are brief 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.
Canadian Folk Art to 1950 by John A. Fleming and Michael J. Rowan ... (Read More)
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