Stories for July '25
(Fragment)Carter Reese Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Carter Reese, 77, of Reading, Pennsylvania, entered a plea of guilty on May 29 in federal court to one count of wire fraud and one count of mail fraud. Reese was charged on May 5 by information in connection with a scheme in which he defrauded customers by making false ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, July 2025
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Maureen Mayer of Silvermine Antiques
Maureen Mayer might not be the first person to buy a Jamie Wyeth painting at auction, sight unseen, while running through Grand Central Terminal, but it makes for a good story. And she has others.
Just like her two cats, Beatrix and Nova, Maureen has had several lives—as a television executive ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exit the Expert?
Beneath the Surface
We met in a library. Andrew was taking a few years between college and graduate school to figure out exactly what he wanted to do next. Hollie was working three jobs and thought quiet evening shifts at a rural Ohio public library reference desk seemed like a break. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Peale Women Painters
The Hammond-Harwood House Museum, Annapolis, Maryland, has opened In the Shadows of a Legacy: The Peale Women Painters, an exhibition that celebrates seven of the nine professional women in the Peale family dynasty of early American painters. It includes paintings and miniatures from the collections of the Maryland Center for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)20 Sites—Plenty to See, Plenty to Gain
Fans of samplers and needlework should plan a trip to Vermont this summer or fall; the Vermont Schoolgirl Sampler Driving Tour opened on May 30 and will run until October.
In cooperation with Vermont’s commemoration of the start of the American Revolution in 1775, the tour features samplers made by the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2025
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons Ltd., Longfellow jug, 1880-81, transfer-printed earthenware. Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Gift of Earle Shettleworth Jr. in honor of Barry and Karen Mills.
—Through July 20 —Brunswick, Maine
Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880 at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art explores the relationship between ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Creations, Contributions, and Legacies of Black Craftspeople
A Book Review
I consider myself fortunate to have used a Cesar Chelor plane more than once. A friend who passed away some years ago had collected hand planes, and when I needed to raise some panels in the upstairs hallway of our 18th-century house in Maine, he handed me a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Ownership for Jackson Hole Art Auction
On May 21 Jackson Hole Art Auction, Jackson, Wyoming, specialists in classic and contemporary masterworks of the American West, announced new ownership. Jackson Hole Art Auction was founded in 2007.
The new ownership group includes longtime Jackson business owner and resident Terry Winchell of Fighting Bear Antiques, investor and art collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Wild Duck Oyster Can Takes Off
On May 21 Legacy Auctions & Estate Sales, Inc., Urbana, Illinois, and Orlando, Florida, sold the second half of a collection consigned by the son of former antiques dealers in central Illinois. Among the lots was an R. E. Roberts one-gallon Wild Duck brand oyster can that sold for $34,048 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Futura Tank Vase Breaks Record
On May 18 Just Art Pottery, Germantown Hills, Illinois, sold a 1928 tan and blue Roseville Futura Tank vase model 412-9 for $38,350 (includes buyer’s premium). The estimate was $15,000/20,000. According to Just Art Pottery, that’s an auction record for the sought-after Roseville vase. The previous record was $25,200 for ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2025
New York City
When The American Art Fair debuted in November 2008, its participants, all leading specialists, viewed it as a way of countering the growing might of New York City’s international auction houses. As dealer Debra Force put it, “It was one-stop shopping, a way for buyers to take in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques At The Tavern
Hanover, Virginia
The seventh annual Antiques At The Tavern was held at the Hanover Tavern in Hanover, Virginia, May 2-4. The event is sponsored and hosted by the Hanover Tavern Foundation and its staff, headed by executive director David Deal.
The Hanover Tavern show is earning recognition on several fronts. Although small, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A 13-Star Flag and a New Jersey Surprise
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
On May 1 and 2 Pook & Pook, Inc., held its spring Americana sale. Of the 599 lots offered, 588 sold for a total of $1,232,813, a 98% sell-through rate. Pook & Pook is known for finding buyers for nearly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Washington Goes to Washington
Freeman’s | Hindman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman
On the day the nation was taking stock of the first hundred days of President Donald Trump’s second term, it was business as usual at the Freeman’s | Hindman April 29 sale of Americana in Philadelphia. Despite the chaos and uncertainty in ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Show 2025
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For more than 60 years, the Philadelphia Show has been a popular annual April event that always follows tax season. The 2025 show, held April 24-27, was affected by the chaos of trade wars caused by President Trump’s tariffs. “People were afraid to come to the show to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)America’s Melting Pot Artists Take Top Honors at Slotin
Slotin Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Auction
merica is a melting pot, and this was clearly evident at Slotin Auction’s April 26 and 27 sale of work by self-taught artists. “For a long time, the art market has been homogenized. It’s the same Caucasian guys who were recognized, even in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Mid Atlantic Antique & Garden Festival
Poolesville, Maryland
This spring was the sixth installment of the Mid Atlantic Antique & Garden Festival. Over the course of its relatively short run the show’s overall character has been taking shape. The footprint of the venue now appears to be near completion. The booth spaces and their arrangement have been ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana and Political “Signature” Auction
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Important artifacts and memorabilia from American and political history dating back to the Colonial era prompted competitive bidding for the coveted treasures up for sale at Heritage Auctions’ Americana and political “Signature” sale April 25 and 26.
The George Washington “Pater Patriae” inaugural button, the ... (Read More)
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(Show)April at the Liberty Antiques Festival
Liberty Antiques Festival, Staley, North Carolina
Remembering a developing hurricane that passed over the September 2024 Liberty Antiques Festival in rural Randolph County, North Carolina, regulars were a bit leery because of rain in the forecast for Friday, April 25. Instead, it was a gorgeous sunny day, and sales started promptly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Antiques and Americana Auction
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Conestoga Auction Company
On Friday, April 25, while city folk headed to the Philadelphia Show, country folk headed to Conestoga Auction Company’s spring sale and bought redware, cobalt-decorated stoneware, lanterns, tools, fraktur, quilts, Christmas decorations, all sorts of 19th-century household gear, and 20th-century crafts in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Frishman Receives John Frederick Lewis Award
At the American Philosophical Society (APS) April 24 meeting in Philadelphia, Bob Frishman received the society’s John Frederick Lewis Award for his recently published book Edward Duffield: Philadelphia Clockmaker, Citizen, Gentleman, 1730-1803. Since 1981, this prize has recognized the best book published by the society in a given year. Previous ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old Master through Modern Prints, Featuring the Reba and Dave Williams Collection
Swann Auction Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Auction Galleries
A 386-lot sale of old master through modern prints, filled with color woodcuts of flora, fauna, figs, fish, flamingos, and phlox, was held at Swann Auction Galleries, New York City, the morning of April 15. The 63 lots of color woodcuts ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Portrait of Frederick Baker Sells for $508,750
Neal Auction Company, New Orleans, Louisiana
On April 4 two bidders competed at Neal Auction Company on Magazine Street in New Orleans for a pre-Civil War portrait of Frederick Baker, a black man wearing a red vest and black coat over his white shirt and black bow tie, his eyes turned ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Carved Jade and Tiffany Lamps Set the Tone at Cottone Event
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
Cottone Auctions’ March 27 event featured items from the estate of Sidonie (Triepel) Williams (1933-2024) of Buffalo, New York. Williams, president of John F. Triepel Antiques, passed away in October 2024 at the age of 91. The March auction offered numerous pieces from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“Great Estates” Two-Day Auction
Amelia Jeffers, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers
Decorated with a sulfide bust said to be of Andrew Jackson, a 7½" high garniture attributed to Benjamin Bakewell’s glass factory in Pittsburgh highlighted the “Great Estates” auction held by Amelia Jeffers at Columbus, Ohio, March 21 and 22. Dating to the 19th century, ... (Read More)
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