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(Show)Rural Life Show Draws a Crowd
Rural Life Antique Show, Tuscola, Illinois
Friday morning, an hour before the start of the Rural Life Antique Show, held March 6 and 7 in Tuscola, Illinois, a steady, cold wind sent oak leaves scurrying sideways across Main Street, moving with a sense of urgency. It was several weeks before the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Homesteaders on the Prairie Antique Show
Arthur, Illinois
I've got a tiger by the tail, it's plain to see; I won't be much when you get through with me. Well, I'm a losin' weight and a turnin' mighty pale; Looks like I've got a tiger by the tail.
On the opening day of Homesteaders on the Prairie Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Highlights at Fontaine's
Photos courtesy Fontaine's Auction Gallery
On March 7 Fontaine's Auction and estate auction in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In a post-sale chat about these four auction highlights, John Fontaine said, "I would say we were happy with the results, as all these items brought over twice the high estimate."
Several objects had been consigned ... (Read More)
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(Show)Good Crowd at the New York Book Fair's Satellite Show Despite State of Emergency
New York City Book and Ephemera Fair
"The attendance was strong for both days," show producer Marvin Getman of Impact Events Group wrote in an e-mail after his sixth annual New York City Book and Ephemera Fair, held in Wallace Hall at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Met Acquires David Drake Storage Jar
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has purchased a stoneware storage jar by the enslaved black potter and poet David Drake (c. 1801-1870s). Made at the Stony Bluff Manufactory pottery site in Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, in 1858, the alkaline-glazed vessel is signed, dated, and inscribed by Drake. There are ... (Read More)
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(Show)Book-Love in the Time of Cholera
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, New York City
Love in the Time of Cholera, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's tale of magical realistic romance, published in Spanish in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del colera, was on my mind as I approached the steps of the Park Avenue ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Passage: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Juan Hamilton
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
It took a village of Sotheby's specialists to bring "Passage," a sale of art and objects from the personal collection of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), to market. Culling expertise from the departments of American art, African and oceanic art, books and manuscripts, Chinese works of art, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Gun Dealer Tony Wilcox Charged with Larceny
A former Warrenton, Virginia, business owner has been charged following a joint investigation by the Warrenton Police Department and the Virginia State Police. The Warrenton police began the investigation upon receiving a complaint after the business owner moved to another state.
Anthony "Tony" Wilcox, 53, of Leola, Pennsylvania, has been charged ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ohio Country Antiques Show Changes Owners
The Ohio Country Antiques Show has been sold to promoter Jennifer Sabin. The event will become part of the Heartland family of shows. The change took place in January.
Bruce Metzger of Queen City Shows, Cincinnati, Ohio, founded Ohio Country, which began as an annual event in April 2005. Held at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
This month's "Letter" begins with a return to Madame de Pompadour's boudoir but then moves on to look at such fun attractions as upside-down dinner plates, silver pigs, and a mummified cat.
An ancient lion hunter, a North American Indian chief with the less than flattering title of "Flat Mouth," and ... (Read More)
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