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(Fragment)TEFAF New York 2020 Canceled
TEFAF New York 2020, originally postponed from this spring to this fall, has been officially canceled. “We have concluded that, despite our efforts, it will not be possible to host TEFAF New York 2020,” a July 17 press release stated. The show was to be held from October 31 to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum of the American Revolution Reopens
A masked, socially distanced visit to a museum is a real picker-upper these days when quarantine makes it hard to remember if it is Wednesday or Thursday because every day seems the same. The Museum of the American Revolution in Philadelphia is set to reopen to the general public on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Route 32 Auctions Buys Showtime Auctions
For the second time in less than a year, Kevin and Jill Parker, owners of Route 32 Auctions in Crawfordsville, Indiana, have expanded their business. In June they purchased Showtime Auctions of Ann Arbor, Michigan. They had previously acquired the Boone County Treasure Hunt (which includes the Indy Antique Advertising ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hartford’s Hockey Stick Stands
Candlestands made in Connecticut and elsewhere in America for many decades spanning the 18th and the beginning of the 19th centuries commonly had a central turned column, or standard, to which a top was fastened with a cleat and three legs attached at the base (fig. 3).
Figure 3. Candlestand, Windsor ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Appeals Court Reinstates Art Defamation Lawsuit
On May 22 the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a lower court ruling and reinstated an art defamation lawsuit filed by Gerald Peters Gallery and Gerald Peters against Peter Stremmel, Stremmel Galleries, Mike Overby, and Coeur D’Alene Art Auction of Nevada. “We conclude that the district court erred in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Speaking Walls and Well-Mannered Dogs
A Book Review
The history, design, production, and architectural application of wallpaper to interiors has interested me since childhood. Early on, I focused my attention on the 19th-century French panoramic papers that appeared around 1800 and were inspired by mural paintings, tapestries, Chinese painted wallpapers, English wallpapers depicting fine art and architectural elements, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2020
Letter from London
by Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Astrolabes and Venus, handbags, timekeepers and beekeepers, along with Medusa the Gorgon and an unusual mirror all feature in this month’s “Letter,” as do complex and costly automata. There is also an old tablet that bears the name of a Sumerian brewery worker—thought to be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Delaware Antiques Show Goes Virtual and Winterthur Terminates 27 Staff
“When the members of Winterthur’s Collectors Circle, many of them big buyers, said they would not travel to attend the Delaware Antiques Show, and the caterer said we had to serve box suppers, and the lender to the loan show backed out, we knew we were in trouble. Then forty-nine ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
by Alice Kaufman
Photos courtesy Bonhams
What were the results of the August 31 Native American art auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles? According to department director Ingmars Lindbergs, “Very good. Extremely good.” That translated to $107 million in sales, $110,000 over the low estimate for the sale.
Lindbergs is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art and Decorative Rarities
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries is up and running full steam ahead, bucking the headwinds of the COVID-bedeviled economy. Thomaston Place put up its usual upscale summer auction on August 29 and 30 this year, with a sale top-heavy with major ... (Read More)
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