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(Auction)Thomaston Embraces the "New Normal"
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
The English language is a constantly evolving system. Meanings change from year to year, and sometimes from month to month. What "gay" meant in the 1940s is not what it means today. The word "awful" used to mean something that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Gemma Sudlow
We are all spending much more time now in our houses and apartments because of COVID-19. To give our readers an idea of what some of their colleagues, fellow collectors, and other readers surround themselves with in their abodes-on the walls, floors, or ceilings-we have introduced this new column, "Hanging ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Week in New Hampshire Online
Three Antiques Week shows have moved this year to an online format. Barn Star Productions will present the Midweek Online Antiques Fair from 8 a.m. on Wednesday, August 5, through midnight on Friday, August 7. The show will be hosted on Ruby Lane (www.rubylane.com). Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shaker Sewing Table Shakes Up Auction
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
It wasn't until near the very end of Morphy Auctions' two-day fine arts sale in Denver, Pennsylvania, on July 14 and 15 that its highest price was recorded. In a sale replete with five-figure lamps, sculptures, and jewelry, it was a single piece of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Springfield Extravaganza
Springfield Antique Show and Flea Market, Springfield, Ohio
On the opening day of the Springfield Antique Show and Flea Market's three-day Extravaganza, rescheduled to July 10-12 on the Clark County Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ohio, dealer Web Wilson had something special to share. As he disappeared behind his booth and into his ... (Read More)
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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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