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(Issue Story)There Was No One Like Rudolph T. Lux, Ever
These Custer vases came to market in 1995 at Butterfield & Butterfield and sold for $46,750 the pair. Later they failed at Heritage Auctions in 2010 but were rescued by private treaty for $53,999, the current record. Miscellany and steamboats, however, seem to hover at middle four-figure prices. Photo courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Baten, Blum, and a Bevy of Bids
The Colchester, Connecticut, cherry block- and shell-carved chest-on-chest, 74" high and 401/4" wide, attributed to Samuel Loomis (1770-1800), sold for $408,000 to Colchester, Connecticut, dealer Arthur Liverant of Nathan Liverant and Son, who held his cell phone to his ear, underbid by a telephone bidder. The price was a good ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 22nd Annual Folk Fest
Atlanta, Georgia
Taking a hint from P.T. Barnum, the "World's Greatest Folk Art Show and Sale" took place in Atlanta August 14-16. Going well beyond Barnum's three rings, the 2015 Folk Fest featured 86 dealers and artists occupying nearly 150 booths.
Attendees at the 22nd annual Folk Fest were greeted at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Still the Jewel in the Crown
Woodlawn Museum Antiques Show, Ellsworth, Maine
The stately Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, is a fitting location for Maine's cream-of-the-crop antiques show, held this year from August 12 through 15 under a gargantuan tent on the old homestead's spacious back lawn. Reportedly it took a work crew a solid ten days ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fifth Annual Objects of Art Show
Santa Fe, New Mexico
The annual Objects of Art show, owned and produced by Kim Martindale and John Morris (M2), has grown into one of August in Santa Fe's most popular shows with both exhibitors and collectors. Mounted at El Museo in the Railyard District, the show has an eclectic mix ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Harry Hartman Collection, Part II
Conestoga Auction Company, Manheim, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Conestoga Auction Company
At the second part of the Harry Hartman estate sale at Conestoga Auction Company, part of the Hess Auction Group, in Manheim Pennsylvania, on August 14 and 15, a 4" high kugel in the form of a blue ribbed pear sold on ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Tips for Touchscreens
Touchscreen artificial nails are shown laid on a smartphone. The ridge seen on the middle one completes the electrical circuit between the artificial nail tip and the user's cuticle.
Computer Column #320
John Reid,
Most of us are multilingual and may not realize it. Versatile musicians know that the fingering is different ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Father, Son, and Daughter Plead Guilty in Fake Peter Max Case
From left: Leslie Roberts (left) and his wife, Silvia, with Peter Max when Max in the Grove opened in 2009. Photo courtesy Coconut Grove Grapevine.
It was a family affair.
Miami, Florida, gallery owner, Leslie Roberts Jr., pleaded guilty in federal court to one count of mail fraud and was sentenced ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Scientist Helps Team Discovering Why Matisse's Brilliant Yellow Is Fading
An international team of scientists that includes Winterthur Museum's senior scientist Jennifer Mass, Ph.D., has announced new findings on why a bright yellow pigment favored a century ago by master artists such as Henri Matisse fades to a drab beige. The study, published in the June 2015 issue of Applied ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Maine Antiques Festival: 34 Years and Counting
Union, Maine
The gravitational tug of the Maine Antiques Festival in Union, Maine, held this year from August 7 through 9, pulls in dealers from across the country and Canada. And like planets orbiting the sun, sales and mini-flea markets spring up alongside the roads to the fairgrounds, hoping to distract ... (Read More)
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