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(Computer Article)Collectible Computers, Screen Savers
Computer Column # 226by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] as collectibles and homegrown screen savers are discussed.-Antique Computers?Setting up at an antiques show with an old Windows 95 computer for recording sales, I am sometimes jokingly asked, "Is that an antique?" Perhaps it is-if computer years are like dog years. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sternboard Eagle Leads Cyr Auction
Cyr Auction Company, Gray, Maineby Mark SiscoThere was standing room only, and precious little of that, at Cyr Auction Company's July 11 Fine Arts and Americana auction in Gray, Maine. The place was packed, and so were the books holding the absentee bids. Auctioneer Jim Cyr reported "Our previous record ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Let's Hear It for the Associations
I managed to get to the Maine Antiques Dealers Association show at River Arts at Round Top Farm in Damariscotta a few weeks ago and had a short talk with outgoing MADA president Nancy Glazer of Bailey Island. I told her I thought she and her organization had done an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Durfee Collection of Dedham Pottery Sold
Northeast Auctions, Manchester, New Hampshireby Alexander FarnhamOn August 3, as part of its 20th annual summer Americana auction in Manchester, New Hampshire, Northeast Auctions sold 96 pieces of Dedham pottery from the collection of Florence Durfee. Another part of her collection will be included in the firm's October 26-28 auction. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Great American Antiquefest Sold
Bobi Dallas has sold the Great American Antiquefest to Judy and Steve Allman of Allman Promotions LLC, according to a press release.The next Great American Antiquefest will be held July 18-20, 2008, at Onondaga Lake Park in Liverpool, New York, close to Syracuse. Allman Promotions has begun the organizational work ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques Show Worth Traffic Jam
East Hampton, New York by Richard de Thuin Traffic on Southern State Parkway on Saturday, July 14, was a breeze until exit 44 leading to Route 27 into the Hamptons. The fender-to-fender traffic on this one-lane highway strained nerves all the way into Southampton and Water Mill until Bridgehampton came ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Sentenced to Six and a Half Years, Restitution
On September 6, U.S. District Judge Andre M. Davis sentenced art dealer Thomas Hugh Akins, 52, of Rockville, Maryland, to 78 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release for wire fraud arising from an art investment scheme. Akins was ordered to pay restitution of $1.2 million to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana on the Block
by Lita Solis-CohenThe first Americana sales since last January at Christie's and Sotheby's on October 3 and 4 are eagerly anticipated, and collectors will find plenty to tempt them. Among the highlights, Christie's offers on October 3 two previously undocumented treasures: a circa 1760 Philadelphia tea table attributed to the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's to Sell Cincinnati Badge Owned by George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette
Sotheby's has announced that it will sell one of the most important relics from George Washington's life, his specially commissioned gold medal that was presented by Washington's family after his death to the Marquis de Lafayette. The medal, in the form of an eagle, represented the values that Washington, Lafayette, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Flights into Fantasy: The Kendra and Allan Daniel Collection of Children's Illustration
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