(Show)
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
This show reflects the market,” said Scott Diament, the energy behind the Palm Beach Show Group, which has transformed what was once a giant flea market and antiquarian book fair into the fancy upscale Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show.
This 36th annual show ... (Read More)
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Tilly and Caroline Hathaway Mead by John Ritto Penniman, each 21" x 18", oils on board, painted in Hardwick, Massachusetts, in April 1831. Photos courtesy Bernard & S. Dean Levy.
Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, has acquired two portraits painted by John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841). The portraits, dated 1831, are ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Imagining Ichabod: My Journey into 18th-Century America through History, Food, and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
For the last several decades the keystone of Maine’s unofficial antiques auction week in August has been James D. Julia’s multimillion-dollar blowout. This year it happened August 24-26 in Fairfield, Maine, and included about 2000 lots that made over $5 million in sales, with about three-quarters ... (Read More)
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On August 4, Penn Medicine gave show managers Diana Bittel and Karen DiSaia the go-ahead to put together the 55th Philadelphia Antiques Show. “They had asked us to do a feasibility study, which we did, and when we told them that fifty-four of fifty-eight dealers who showed last April said ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
The most expensive item in this month’s selection, by far, is one of the old masters featured, Rubens’ Lot and His Daughters, and the pictorial content also includes a 17th-century “selfie.” Antiquities get the most extensive coverage, in words and pictures, but to these I have added some ... (Read More)
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Pook & Pook, the auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, has announced a collaboration with Stuart Kingston Galleries in Wilmington, Delaware, for a tax-free sale of jewelry and paintings on Saturday, November 19.
James Stein, who with his son Edward runs Stuart Kingston Galleries, a jewelry and fine arts business started by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
There has been a shift in the marketing of jewelry at auction in the last few years. Many auction houses have added Internet-only sales, particularly for the more affordable tier of the market and/or of targeted sales of collections from a well-known single owner or single designer. ... (Read More)
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Coastal Maine Antiques Show, Damariscotta, Maine
Weather-wise, one could hardly ask for a better day for the August 24 running of the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) show on the spacious grounds of Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, Maine. The sun was beaming down but not too hot on the scores ... (Read More)
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Gurley Collection to Be Sold on Site
Show promoter and dealer Nan Gurley of Parsonsfield, Maine, who died in March, was a stalwart of the business. The Gurley family has announced that they will be selling Gurley’s collection at the house she loved in North Parsonsfield.
“We believe there is no more ... (Read More)
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