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(Auction)Dave Jar among Rarities at Crocker Farm
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
“It is a great southern piece,” proclaimed Tony Zipp when describing a very rare alkaline-glazed stoneware jar inscribed “Dave / Jan 13 -1862 / Lm” that Crocker Farm sold for $40,250 on July 16.
The company’s stoneware and redware sale of 493 lots grossed $928,803 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ross Perot's U.S.S. "Constitution" Flag Will Be Conserved for New Display
A rare 19-star flag that once flew on the U.S.S. Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is being conserved by Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts. The flag is owned by Texas billionaire and former U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, who received it as a birthday present from his ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Bitter Bottle Battle
After almost 150 years, excavating a latrine under one of the more than 100 saloons that operated in Virginia City, Nevada, during the Gold Rush produced some interesting artifacts—a pottery cribbage board, a spittoon, fluted stemware, and several Dr. Wonser’s U.S.A. Indian Root Bitters bottles, among other items. Upon learning ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Sale in Canada
Tim Isaac, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
All prices in Canadian dollars
Tim Isaac changed his auction venue from the Algonquin hotel in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, to the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick, for his annual summer sale on Monday, July 11. It did not ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2016 National APIC Convention
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
The 2016 national convention for the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) was held from July 6 to July 10 at the Harrisburg Hilton Hotel in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The APIC holds its national convention every two years. “Usually in election years our membership goes up a few hundred,” remarked president Ron ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)GSA Goes After New Deal Painting Offered on eBay
“This [was a] non-identifiable piece of trash that I turned into a gleaming piece, and the government decides they want it,” said art dealer Matthew Schwartz of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Schwartz was speaking about 1934 Farmer, a large oil on canvas by John D. Slavin that he offered on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Draper Descendants Sale
John McInnis Auctioneers, Hopedale, Massachusetts
John McInnis Auctioneers’ July 8 sale on the grounds of the home of William and Nancy Gannett in Hopedale, Massachusetts, told the story of a family and a town. In 1816 farmer Ira Draper patented the improved fly shuttle that allowed weavers to run two power ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Americana Dealers Take Leave of Absence from Winter Antiques Show
Summertime seems to be a time for decisions. Peter Eaton and Joan Brownstein have decided not to do the Winter Antiques Show in January. “We are not dropping the Winter show; we are taking a year’s leave of absence for medical reasons. Joan had four vertebrae fused two weeks ago, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)James Gallagher and Ruth Zager, North Norwich, New York
In the Trade
The antiques trade has a well-deserved reputation for being a textbook example of capitalism in the raw. There’s little regulation; there’s lots of gossip; and there’s certainly no shortage of sharp practice. There are times when one might be tempted to rank antiques dealers below even politicians, used ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, July 2016
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Chinese works of art, mostly in the ceramics line but with one little ivory figure and a couple of big wooden screens included, provide a run of way over estimate results and most of the higher priced items featured in this month’s “Letter.” Elsewhere, we have a few ... (Read More)
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