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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
Wearable Prints, 1760-1860: History, Materials, and Mechanics by Susan W. Greene (The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Antiquities, a collecting field in which I am always very happy to dig around, play a large part in this month's selection, and, with the editor's blessing, I have added to my London lots something from a recent New York City sale. A chicken-and-egg story also sees this ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism
A Book Review
Paul Evans: Crossing Boundaries and Crafting Modernism
Constance Kimmerle, editor, with essays by Glenn Adamson, Edward S. Cooke Jr., Helen W. Drutt English, Constance Kimmerle, Robert Slifkin, and Gregory Wittkopp
James A. Michener Art Museum and Arnoldsche Art Publishers, 2014, 216 pages, hardbound, $50 plus S/H from the James ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Count the Ways
Auction Law & Ethics
"If you don't have integrity, you have nothing. You can't buy it. You can have all the money in the world, but if you are not a moral and ethical person, you really have nothing."
- Henry Kravis, cofounder of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. and one of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)America's First Family of Clockmakers
A Book Review
Stretch: America's First Family of Clockmakers
by Donald L. Fennimore and Frank L. Hohmann III
The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum and Hohmann Holdings LLC, 2013, 376 pp., hardbound, $75 plus S/H from the Winterthur bookstore, (www.winterthurstore.com), (302) 888-4707, or 1-800-448-3883, ext. 4707; or from ACC Distribution, (www.accdistribution.com) ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Pep Up Your Tablet
Antique aircraft slideshow page as displayed on a television set by a tablet computer using an HDMI cable and adapter.
Computer Column #306
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Tablet computers are everywhere these days. Here are four ways you can pep up yours.
Stylus
One nice thing about moving from a smartphone to a tablet computer ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Was It Eli Terry or Was It Napoleon?
Eli Terry patent pillar and scroll shelf clock. Terry is probably best known for this clock, which was a great success, but this is not the clock that is the subject of this article. In fact, Terry's first attempt in manufacturing described in this article was the making of wooden ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Shot Heard Round the World
David F. Wood (left) and Joel Bohy are shown on the grounds of the Concord Museum on Patriots' Day. Bohy took part in a weekend encampment that re-created David Brown's Minute Man Company of Concord, Massachusetts. Brown and his men were at the North Bridge on April 19, 1775. Schinto ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Jewelry Winners
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
March and April were busy months for auction houses hosting jewelry sales with eclectic, vintage, antique, and contemporary offerings. There is no shortage of material, but the rare, the exquisitely made, the fine collections, and signed pieces still bring the best results.
Before the Skinner sale, much of ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Oops, We Did It Again
The Young Collector
We are back from the fourth annual "I am never doing that again!" That might be more familiar to the rest of you by its formal name, the Midwest Antiques Forum. Also, to be fair, the "never doing that again" part tends to refer exclusively to accommodating small ... (Read More)
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