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(Auction)Buyers Near and Far Bid Up Case's Two-Day Sale
Case Antiques, Inc., Auctions & Appraisals, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques, Inc.
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee, traditionally offers major auctions in January and July. In this unusual year they were divided into what might be called "before" and "after" sales. Both were in the firm's new two-day format with Saturday and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Moyer Collection Sale
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Dennis Moyer began spending his weekly allowance at farm sales when he was eight years old. Once a rite of passage in the Pennsylvania Dutch country, farm sales are now rare occurrences. Fifty years ago when Dennis Moyer and his wife, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)NAADAA Online Antique, Art & Jewelry Show
The National Antique & Art Dealers Association of America
Online antiques shows have been one way dealers have kept in touch with their audience since so many in-person shows have ceased during the COVID-19 pandemic. Incollect, the online selling platform run by Antiques & Fine Art publisher John Smiroldo, hosted an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Why the Pandemic Gives Me Hope for the Antiques Trade
In the era of COVID-19, all the tried-and-trues, safe bets, proven models, and longstanding traditions in the antiques trade are suddenly impractical, unfeasible, or irrelevant. A business dependent on large groups of people gathering in close quarters to handle and exchange objects seems like an absurd and irretrievable fantasy of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Baltimore Show Pushed to November
According to the Palm Beach Show Group, the Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, originally slated for late summer, has been rescheduled for November 12-15.
"Following the City of Baltimore's Executive Order update to cancel public events through August 30th, arrangements were secured with the Baltimore Convention Center to move the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Burton Antiques Market Rescheduled to July 18
The Burton Antiques Market will return to the Geauga County Fairgrounds in Burton, Ohio, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)As a Collector, What I Will Never Take for Granted Again
Thornton Wilder's quintessentially American play Our Town, first presented in 1938, depicts an American small town in New England, Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, in the early 20th century and the daily lives of its residents. The play is powerful and earned Wilder a Pulitzer Prize for drama. In Our Town, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old-Fashioned Good Vibes
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
Yes, Virginia, the spirit of the antiques business is alive and well, at least it was on a warm July 1, a Wednesday, in the tiny New Hampshire village of Plainfield, where Bill Smith and Ken Labnon shared the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Scam Artist with Fake Check Hits Virginia Shop
"On Friday morning, right when we opened, a nicely dressed gentleman came in," said Jay Gates of the events on May 8 at his shop, Gates Antiques in Midlothian, Virginia. "He was African American, probably 6'1", 6'2", well built, early mid-50s-built like a former football player.
"We had a lovely thirty-minute ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ammi Phillips Volumes Updated
In the year that has passed since David Allaway published My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, free to all online via ISSUU (https://issuu.com/n2xb), he has made some changes. The book is a lot bigger. He has added more biographical information to Volume I and revised the pictorial layout in ... (Read More)
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