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(Auction)Thurmond Portraits Top $3 Million Sale
Pook & Pook Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook Inc.
The three-day sale at Pook & Pook Inc. in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on October 1, 2, and 3 offered more than 1060 lots. Large consignments came from five estates and dozens of smaller consignments from collectors upgrading or downsizing, and dealers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early Andrew Wyeth Leads at Potomack
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company kicked off its fall auctions with a suite of five sales spread over three days, October 1-3, 2025. The online-only sales were conducted from the firm’s galleries in Alexandria, Virginia.
Collectively, the sales offered a wide range of quality consignments ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)On LiveAuctioneers, Only Some Can Sell Scrimshaw
On Sunday, August 17, White’s Auctions, Middleborough, Massachusetts, conducted a sale that included more than 20 lots of scrimshaw. As usual, White’s listed its sale on both LiveAuctioneers and Invaluable.
On July 28 LiveAuctioneers informed White’s that it had had removed five scrimshaw lots from the online auction website. On July ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Doug and Abby Harrough
Working in the pharmaceutical and bio-tech industry for over 30 years taught Doug Harrough many things. One of those was to listen to sound counsel.
So, when his financial advisor suggested retiring toward something rather than from something, Doug took stock of what he enjoyed. Having traveled throughout his career, he ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)After Collapse, Boscobel Now Offering Behind-the-Scenes Tours
After nearly 17 months of intensive, emergency restoration following the sudden collapse of the library ceiling in April 2024, Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York, reopened its Historic House Museum on August 30, offering limited Preservation in Progress tours.
These behind-the-scenes tours give the public its first chance to ... (Read More)
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(Show)Hampton Show’s Concept Equals Success
Peter Mavris Antique Shows, Hampton, New Hampshire
Peter Mavris has hit upon a unique formula for his monthly antiques shows at the Best Western Inn Conference Center in Hampton, New Hampshire, that works for him and his exhibitors. Firstly, the shows are short, only three hours long from 10 a.m. to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back to Our Roots Antique Show
Dayton, Ohio
The fall edition of Back to Our Roots Antique Show was held September 27, 2025, at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds in Dayton, Ohio. Managed by Jamie Brunt, the show had a full house of 45 dealers.
Country antiques remain the mainstay at Back to Our Roots, with a good mix ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Veteran Show Promoter Joins Morphy Auctions
On July 25 Morphy Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, announced the appointment of Kim Martindale, a longtime Western art and antiques show promoter, to the position of chief event consultant.
Over the past several years, Morphy has acquired the Las Vegas Old West Show & Auction and the Santa Fe Old West ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Anna Atkins Cyanotype Brings $5575
According to British auction house Ewbanks, botanist and photographer Anna Atkins (1799-1871) is thought to have been the first woman to have created a photograph and the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images.
Leaf cyanotype, probably dating to the early 1850s, by Anna Atkins, and the marbled ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jane Tucker: An Unlikely Spy
A Book Review
During a rare-book show, author Elizabeth A. DeWolfe happened upon an 1894 salesman’s sample of a book titled The Celebrated Trial, which chronicled Madeleine Pollard’s affair with Kentucky Congressman William C. P. Breckinridge and her subsequent lawsuit for his breach of promise when he refused to marry her. ... (Read More)
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