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Naked Night at the Museum
by M.A.D. Staff

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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Please Read Carefully
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

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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Hanging with Joel White
by Julie Schlenger Adell

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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MADA Helps Restore Painting
by M.A.D. Staff

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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Thomas Jefferson’s Furniture
by Lita Solis-Cohen

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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A Dangerous Sentry
by Clayton Pennington

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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Exhibitions, October 2024
by M.A.D. Staff

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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New Mexico Man Admits Theft from Historical Society
by M.A.D. Staff

On July 9 Brian Anthony D’Ambrosio, 49, of Santa Fe, New Mexico, pleaded guilty in federal court to the theft of major artwork. He faces a maximum of ten years in prison, a $250,000 fine, and three years of supervised release. The government alleged in court documents that D’Ambrosio, a journalist ... (Read More)

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Auction Prices Realized, September 2024
by M.A.D. Staff

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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Timekeeper Edward Duffield
by Lita Solis-Cohen

A Book Review Bob Frishman’s book about Edward Duffield, the man who engraved his name and the name of his city on the dials of 60 surviving tall-case clocks, one bracket clock, two uncased movements, seven surveying compasses, and a sundial, is not the story of a leather-apron artisan. Duffield was ... (Read More)

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