Stories for October '24
(Fragment)Naked Night at the Museum
Among the holdings of the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester, England, is a large collection of natural history. On September 17, it also had an au naturel collection—members of the British Naturists Society.
The British Naturists Society hosted a private event at the museum that allowed its members to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Please Read Carefully
Beneath the Surface
Life gets incrementally easier with kids. It is like the reverse of that apocryphal boiling frog story: things getting ever-so-slowly better—instead of worse—until one day you suddenly notice that they are better. (Yeah, yeah, don’t write to tell us how it’s going to start getting worse again now ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Joel White
Joel White is a third-generation Mainer and antiques dealer who now lives in an 1830s brick farmhouse located on the same road in Waldoboro, Maine, where he grew up. “There used to be a brick factory down the road, and the clay for the brick came from the pond,” he ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA Helps Restore Painting
On July 31 the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) presented a check for $1000 to the Lincoln County (Maine) Historical Association to help fund the recent restoration of a circa 1840 landscape painting by artist and explorer Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880).
The check was presented at the Pownalborough Court House in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Thomas Jefferson’s Furniture
A Book Review
Since 1993 American Furniture,edited by Luke Beckerdite and published by the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, has presented new research by leading scholars in the field on furniture history, technology, conservation, and connoisseurship of furniture made or used in America from the 17th century to today.
Last year Beckerdite announced ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Dangerous Sentry
Working with an old safe might be unsafe.
On August 28 the Tiffin (Ohio) Police Department took a report from a local citizen who had purchased an old safe and found inside it sealed vials with a liquid in them. Not knowing what they could be, he brought them to the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, October 2024
Joe Mallard, Kind of Blue. The quilt pays homage to the jazz great Miles Davis.
—Through November 12 —Paducah, Kentucky
Joe Mallard: Threading His Grandmother’s Needles at the National Quilt Museum celebrates Mallard’s unique quilts that are composed of tens of thousands of tiny, colorful hand-tied knots and stitches. Mallard learned needlecraft ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Thomaston Place Brings in $1.41 Million for Rembrandt
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
On August 24, the second day of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ three-day summer sale in Thomaston, Maine, lot number 2363 was an unsigned painting listed as Portrait of a Girl after Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669). The 20½" x 16½" (sight size) oil on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Cashiers Squelches Presidential Election Year Jinx
Cashiers Antique Show, Cashiers, North Carolina
Photos by Donna Prunkl
Tropical Storm Debby threatened but did not deter dealers or buyers from attending the 46th annual Cashiers Antique Show, held August 9-11. The storm was at its worst in North Carolina on the show’s setup day but not in the western mountains, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Show Is an Annual Blowout
The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
“It’s all 100% fresh.” That’s how Waynesboro, Virginia, dealer Christopher Evans described his and his wife’s booth shortly before the 67th annual New Hampshire Antiques Show opened to the public in Manchester on Thursday, August 8. That freshness paid off. Evans said, “It ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester: The Collector’s Fair 2024
Manchester, New Hampshire
On Wednesday, August 7, at 10 a.m. Karen DiSaia of DiSaia Management opened the doors to Antiques in Manchester: The Collector’s Fair, the large two-day 60-dealer show in the Sullivan Arena on the campus of St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire. It’s a glittering and vibrant marketplace, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Art Auction
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
“We had our percentage of unsolds,” said department director Scot Levitt about the results of the August 6 California and Western art auction at Bonhams, Los Angeles, California. “But good items did well,” Levitt continued. “Bischoff, Guy Rose, Joseph Kleitsch, all helpful.”
Why the lower-than-usual total ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Americana Celebration Show: Red, White, and Blue but Mainly Red
Concord, New Hampshire
Ever enter a large store with red sale tickets on the merchandise and on the walls? You think, “Oh, they are going out of business.”
On August 6, inside the Douglas Everett Arena in Concord, New Hampshire, from 8 a.m. to 3 pm, all the red sold tickets ... (Read More)
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(Show)A New Beginning
Granite State Antique Show, Milford, New Hampshire
For many years the Milford Antiques Show held early on Sunday mornings was also the warm-up show for the annual New Hampshire Antiques Week shows in Manchester and Concord. The show was held for decades, most recently in a country club tennis building, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stair Americana
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York
Photos courtesy Stair Galleries
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York, holds its annual Americana sale early every August so that dealers can stock up for the summer shows in Manchester, New Hampshire. This year on August 1 Stair offered 287 lots of paintings, furniture, silver, Chinese export porcelain, ... (Read More)
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(Show)New Maine Summer Show Debuts
Bath Antique Sale, Bath, Maine
“This is going to work.” A confident Joshua Gurley said that shortly before he and his sister Rachel opened the doors to a new one-day summer show—the Bath Antique Sale on Sunday, July 28, in the gymnasium of Morse High School in Bath, Maine.
The facility was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Western and American Art Auction Surpasses $17.5 Million
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
Photos courtesy Coeur d’Alene Art Auction
Setting the standard once again for Western art at auction, Coeur d’Alene Art Auction surpassed the $17.5 million mark during its July 27 event in Reno, Nevada. More than 404 lots crossed the block. Multiple auction records for artists ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Crocker Farm Holds 20th-Anniversary Sale
Crocker Farm, Inc., Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm, Inc.
“We were really happy with the sale, the quality throughout, and the diversity. I think it bore out in the total,” remarked Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm, Inc., following the family operation’s summer 2024 sale marking the 20th anniversary of the company. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Camden-Rockport Antiques Show
Rockport, Maine
The climate may be changing, but coolness prevailed at the annual Camden-Rockport Antiques Show. I arrived about 15 minutes after the opening time of the first day of the Goosefare Antiques & Promotions show, held for the second time at its new location in Rockport, Maine, at the Midcoast ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Case Auctions Sets Record for Tennessee Artist
Paintings from estates and a southern museum were the star lots at Case Auctions’ July 6 and 7 sale in Knoxville, Tennessee. The 1086-lot sale also featured American and European art and antiques, including collections from two prominent southern families: the Pinckneys of Charleston, South Carolina, and the Rogers family ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Classic American Art for Young Collectors, Decorators, and Dealers
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
At Heritage Auctions’ July 2 “Art Within Reach” showcase auction, classic American art, highlighted by late 19th- and early 20th-century New England landscape paintings, stirred competition among bidders over works that haven’t been available on the market in many years
The “Art Within Reach” auctions ... (Read More)
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(Show)Wells Antiques Show & Sale
Wells, Maine
Now in its 23rd year, the Wells Antiques Show & Sale is held at the historic Laudholm Farm in Wells, Maine, on the last Sunday in June. Managed and organized by John and Elizabeth DeSimone, principals of Goosefare Antiques & Promotions, the show has had a higher gate each ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Karp Garden Auction
Main Auction Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Main Auction Galleries
The garden collection of Beth and J. Louis Karp, put together over more than three decades at their home in Indian Hill, Ohio, was sold June 15 in Cincinnati by Main Auction Galleries, which is owned by the Karp family. The sale ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Heartland Antique Show
Richmond, Indiana
Six days before the Heartland Antique Show opened under new management, seasoned promoter Steve Sherhag had nearly had enough. Sherhag acquired Heartland and the Ohio Country Antiques Show in October 2023 from Jennifer Sabin. While the semiannual Ohio Country fared well the following spring under Sherhag’s control, things went ... (Read More)
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