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(Issue Story)Courage in the Antiques World
The great-from Homer to George Washington to Winston Churchill-have long been fascinated by courage. And who can blame them? Bravery on the field of battle is one of the most admirable and inexplicable virtues imaginable. How and why, then, can we indulge ourselves, talking about "bravery" in the pedestrian field ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2019 Delaware Show
Delaware Antiques Show, Wilmington, Delaware
There is no question that the Delaware Antiques Show is one of the very best for Americana. Collectors come from all parts of the country knowing that a large contingent of dealers in American furniture, textiles, silver, folk art, ceramics, pewter, and silver made or used ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Center for Pennsylvania German Studies Opens
Local history makes a community proud. It adds to quality of life. Take the town of Trappe, Pennsylvania, for example. It's a crossroads 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia and just a few miles from the larger community of Collegeville, where Ursinus College has flourished since it was granted its charter ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Eglin Collection Buoys Jewelry Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Freeman's
Freeman's November 5, 2019, auction of jewelry and watches began with a group of mostly antiques that brought solid prices and ended with the sale of a marquise-cut diamond ring that brought the top price of the auction.
Virginia Salem, Freeman's vice president, head of jewelry ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alaska Man Sentenced
A Skagway, Alaska, man has been sentenced for illegally exporting a raw ivory tusk, using falsified forms to have it admitted to Indonesia, and thereafter illegally importing the carved tusk, for sale, back into the United States.
James Terrance Williams, 67, of Inside Passage Arts was sentenced to serve two years ... (Read More)
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(Show)The AADLA Fine Art & Antiques Show
New York City
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) put on a five-day show, October 31 to November 4, 2019, at Wallace Hall, within walking distance of or a short cab ride to the fall edition of TEFAF (The European Fine Art Foundation), held simultaneously at the Park ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Americana
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
Color prevailed at Skinner's November 2 and 3, 2019, Americana auction in the Marlborough gallery, where offerings included the collections of Bill McKeever of Urbana, Ohio; Pamela and Brian Ehrlich of Mystic, Connecticut; Tom and Carolyn Porter of Delaware, Ohio; Pam Boynton of Groton, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Native American Vase Leads Holiday Auction
Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Humler & Nolan
A Rookwood Pottery 9" high double-handled Standard glaze vase depicting an Indian woman holding a baby wrapped in a checkered blanket was the highlight of the holiday sale at Humler & Nolan, Cincinnati, Ohio, on November 2 and 3, 2019. The vase, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paddock Collection of Tole Sold
Butterscotch Auctioneers & Appraisers, Bedford Village, New York
Photos courtesy Butterscotch Auctioneers & Appraisers
Butterscotch Auctioneers & Appraisers' sale in Bedford Village, New York, on November 3, 2019, included historically important American tinware decorated by the Butler family from the collection of Charlotte Guild Paddock of East Greenbush, New York. Paddock was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Flies at Skinner
Photos courtesy Skinner
The highlights of Skinner's November 2 and 3 Americana sale were so fine that they left some speechless.
As he opened the bidding at $50,000 on a Chippendale mahogany reverse serpentine bureau, Steven Fletcher, executive vice president and director of Skinner's Americana department, reported, "I was very happy when ... (Read More)
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