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(Auction)Fifty Years in the Trade for Veilleux
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
This year, Kaja Veilleux marks a half-century of working in the antiques trade. As the owner of and lead auctioneer for Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, he celebrated the 50-year mark with a strong three-day sale from August 23 to 25, topped by a contemporary marine ... (Read More)
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(Show)Log Cabins and a Bit of Buzz
Log Cabins on the Hill Antique Show, Oakland, Illinois
Christy Morrow was enjoying herself. From inside the schoolhouse at Independence Pioneer Village, just north of Oakland, Illinois, Morrow was one of about a dozen dealers set up during the fall installment of the Log Cabins on the Hill Antique Show, held ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, September 2019
Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881-1973), Head of a Young Man (Tête de jeune homme), 1923, grease crayon on pink Michallet laid paper, 24½" x 18?". Brooklyn Museum, Carll H. de Silver Fund, 39.18. © 2018 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
—Through October 13 —Brooklyn, New York
Showcasing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shem Drowne Weathervane Acquired by Museum of Old Newbury
When a historical relic that anchors a town’s history is acquired by the town, it is a time for celebration. Space, Light, and Ornament: Early Meeting Houses of Old Newbury,an exhibition at the Museum of Old Newbury, Newburyport, Massachusetts, celebrates the acquisition by the museum of a gilded weathercock made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armed Robbery at Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
On August 23 deputies from the Orange County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about an armed robbery at the Mebane Antique Auction Gallery in Mebane, North Carolina. Two men had entered the business through an unlocked door and robbed the owner at gunpoint. A short time later, deputies arrested ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Summer Show
Coastal Maine Antiques Show & Sale, Damariscotta, Maine
The 22nd Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) Coastal Maine Antiques Show & Sale, held this year on August 21, looked like a carbon copy of last year’s show. The long-term relationship with the Round Top Farm is history, and the new location at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Names Emerge from Rural Maine
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
Visit a Charles M. Talbot Associates auction, and you might feel as if you’ve stumbled into some kind of time warp. The old Talbot homestead is nestled in the foothills of Turner, Maine, overlooking a beautiful vista of the White Mountains. On a clear day, ... (Read More)
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(Show)“A Tradition of Trust and Integrity”
Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn, Ellsworth, Maine
The Ellsworth Antiques Show at the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, which ran this year from August 15 to 17, opened on a pleasantly warm day, unbedeviled by weather concerns. But it was a day following a spectacular 3% drop in the S & ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Canes, Collectors, and Corn
On August 15, at the end of a cornfield, just a tractor’s drive from Grand Rapids—no, not the big one in Michigan (population 188,031), but the two-block-long version (pop. 965) in Ohio and not too far—as the crows fly, and they often do—from Toledo, we were at Whalen Realty & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Forke Collection of Americana Sold
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
A New England collection formed in Nebraska speaks of love. The collection of Don and Marilyn Forke was gathered carefully and in meticulous detail over the last half century. They kept records of the objects they acquired: from whom, from where, and provenance, construction, ... (Read More)
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