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(Fragment)Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association Awards Cultural Enrichment Grants
The Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA), a nonprofit organization dedicated to increasing the public’s knowledge and appreciation of antiques, has announced the 2016 winners of its Cultural Enrichment Grants.
Through its Cultural Enrichment Grant Fund, the CCADA seeks to promote a better understanding of Cape Cod’s history and heritage by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gems and Art
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
The weight of the February 5 sale at Grogan & Company in Boston, Massachusetts, was on the carats—of diamonds, that is, as bidders pursued over 120 lots of jewelry. Art took a bit of a backseat to the sparkle.
The highlight was the 9.19-carat pear-shaped diamond ring ... (Read More)
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(Show)The York Show: Signs the Market is Getting Stronger
The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show, York, Pennsylvania
Ninety-eight dealers exhibited at the 168th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale at Memorial Hall East on the York Fairgrounds in York, Pennsylvania, February 3-5. On Friday, a large crowd from all parts of the country came to shop. Show manager Melvin ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antique Sporting and Advertising Show
Oshkosh, Wisconsin
A poster for Blue Jeans, a 1917 silent movie, likely went unnoticed by many shoppers at the 15th annual Antique Sporting and Advertising Show, held February 3 and 4 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The one-sheet depicts a loose interpretation of “The Great Saw Mill Scene,” in which the movie’s villain ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Chris and Joe Brennan, Salisbury, Connecticut
In the Trade
Joe and Chris Brennan have clearly been successful in catering to the second-home needs of the New Yorkers who spend weekends in Connecticut’s prosperous Litchfield Hills. Their rambling home is stuffed with early furniture and blends comfortably with its well-appointed Colonial neighbors on Salisbury’s main thoroughfare. Chris is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Anna Pottery Discovery
Brothers Cornwall Elihu Kirkpatrick (1814-1890) and Wallace Kirkpatrick (1828-1896) began the Anna Pottery in Anna, Illinois, in 1859. They are famous for their pig-form flasks and snake-infested jugs incised with temperance inscriptions warning of the evils of alcohol. The community-minded brothers took their civic responsibilities seriously; they were active in ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Objects Less Fortunate
The Young Collector
Last month we talked about poverty and the related stigma of being poor, speculating on how it might affect the attitudes of modern Americans toward antiques. Yet poverty and the reactions to it don’t happen in a bubble. As with racism and many other -isms, they become institutionalized ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bookbinder Booked, Convicted, and Sentenced to Prison
Michael Chrisman, an Ohio bookbinder, has been sentenced to one year and nine months in federal prison for stealing nearly $500,000 from his Atlanta business partner in a bookbinding project. The defendant sent false invoices claiming that he completed more than 70 sets of replica Gutenberg Bibles, but he failed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Hudson Hewn"
Hudson Hewn: New York Furniture Now by Jennifer Carlquist, curator at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York, is the catalog for the tenth annual exhibition at Boscobel, which was held April 16 through August 14, 2016. The annual exhibition usually focuses on the historic art of the region ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Specialists Share Favorites from 2016 Sales
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
As an end-of-the-year wrap-up, we asked jewelry specialists what they liked best that sold at auction in 2016 and to tell the stories of those choices. We thank them for their thoughtful responses, which include stories of jewelry from a full spectrum of historical eras and a ... (Read More)
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