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(Show)Fox Valley Frenzy
Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show, St. Charles, Illinois
If you think that shows are independent entities or that the world of antiques shows is not interconnected, think again. We learned the truth when we arrived at the 61st Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show, held by the Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Intarsia Patchwork Table Cover Tops Auction
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s
Cowan’s sale of fine and decorative art held March 10 in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered an international buffet of consignments while also keeping a wide array of Americana on the table. Although the U.S. goods were strong, as is usually the case at Cowan’s, it was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Storm Disrupts Americana Auction
John McInnis, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Even the best-laid plans of mice and men are subject to the vagaries of weather. John McInnis Auctions’ March 9 and 10 estates sale of Americana was a major-league victim of said vagaries when the nor’easter that blanketed much of the Northeast left the Amesbury, Massachusetts, auction ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Using Collectibles as Ad Props: A Good Sign?
It’s encouraging to see the props that were chosen for this TD Ameritrade ad: a small collection of early telephones, along with a Big Ben alarm clock that could be vintage. There are also some old books, a couple of them set up as they might be for a trompe ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Expert Opinion
The Young Collector
When you are a librarian, everyone wants you to be on their team for Trivial Pursuit. “You know all the answers,” they say. “No,” a fellow librarian once said, “I know how to find all the answers.” That conversation is the intersection of our understanding of the difference between ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show
The 56th Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show has new support. The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and Penn Medicine have become joint beneficiaries of the show, and the PMA will gradually assume full responsibility for the show’s organization and management in the following years and apparently become its sole beneficiary.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Boston’s Ayer Mansion Seeks Its Missing Tiffany Vase
Photos courtesy Ayer Mansion
A preservation organization that is renovating a historic house in Boston’s Back Bay is asking collectors, dealers, curators, and others to be on the lookout for a vase by Louis Comfort Tiffany that has gone missing. It was one of three that Tiffany designed for Frederick Ayer ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art Dealers Association of America Art Show
The Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) Art Show is a fair for lovers of art.
The dealers who are invited each year to exhibit bring their finest offerings, and many of them dedicate their booths to one artist or a group of artists from the same period and/or genre. “The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)French Furniture Soars in Tarheel Country
A Restauration ormolu-mounted marble-top inlaid bibliothèque basse(low cabinet) by Pierre-Étienne Levasseur or his son Pierre-François Henri Levasseur, circa 1820, stamped “E. Levasseur,” soared to $224,200 (includes buyer’s premium) at Leland Little’s March 3 sale in Hillsborough, North Carolina.
The bibliothèque basse was from a private North Carolina collection and had been purchased ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts
Arriving at Skinner in Boston for the March 3 Americana sale, one couldn’t help noticing three men in Colonial dress among the crowd waiting to be admitted upstairs to the auction gallery. Had we stepped into the past? One thought was “How nice. Skinner is presenting men in ... (Read More)
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