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(Show)New U.S. President, New Location Complicate New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show
New York City
The Palm Beach Show Group's New York Art, Antique & Jewelry Show opened in a new venue the day after the U.S. elected a new president. It was an adjustment for all.
After being denied a contract to renew his show at the Park Avenue Armory, Scott Diament, president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Slotin Folk Art: A Mix of Art and Art Forms
Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
Folk artists come and go, and collectors and buyers come and go, but the Slotin Folk Art auctions keep presenting a broad range of material ranging from masters that sell for five digits to new discoveries that sell for moderate ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bedford Antiques Show
Bedford, New York
Debbie Turi's Bedford Antiques Show was "a darling show with good quality," remarked an attendee early on the first morning of the weekend show, held November 12 and 13, 2016, at Historical Hall on the Old Post Road in Bedford, New York.
Nineteen dealers set up shop on both ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rare Corkscrews
At an online auction of corkscrews sponsored by ICCAuctions, LLC, a rare German Langenhan spring corkscrew, one of only two known, sold on November 13, 2016, for $25,376.62 (no buyer's premium charged). For many years, German corkscrew collectors have searched for a Langenhan spring corkscrew, patented in 1878, and known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Cutwork Leads Evans Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 31st semiannual Americana and fine antiques auction at its Mt. Crawford, Virginia, gallery and showrooms on November 12, 2016. Over the past several years Evans has used this event to ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques Week in Central Illinois
Arcola, Arthur, and Tuscola, Illinois
Smack dab in the middle of practically nowhere, Antiques Week in Central Illinois has slowly been gaining a reputation in recent years. Not that there isn't a bit of confusion in the midst of it all. Consider this: the semiannual event consists of five antiques shows ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collector's Collection Sells for Bargains
John McInnis Auctioneers, Newburyport, Massachusetts
There's nothing like an on-site sale in a Federal house in a seaport town, especially when the owner was a collector's collector. That's what John McInnis Auctioneers delivered in three parts on November 11, 2016, in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
The house was owned by Frank E. Miller (1923-2014), ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ward Brothers Decoy Nearly Doubles Auction Record
The top decoy in Guyette & Deeter's annual fall decoy and sporting art auction on November 10, 2016, in Easton, Maryland, was a "hump back" style pintail hen by the Ward brothers. It sold for $201,250 (includes buyer's premium), a world auction record for the Ward brothers. The estimate was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Pleads Guilty to Money Laundering Offenses Stemming from Smuggling Narwhal Tusks
Gregory R. Logan, 59, of St. John, New Brunswick, a retired officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine on September 28 to ten money-laundering offenses. Logan was indicted in November 2012 and charged with conspiracy, smuggling, and money ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Gary Taylor, Bloomin' Antiques, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire
In the Trade
There was a time back in the 20th century when it was not remarkable to find an antiques shop on your average New England village green. In fact, you almost expected it. A local shop that stocked a general line of what the locals lived with (and died ... (Read More)
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