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(Auction)New Record for a Fruit Jar
North American Glass, Terre Haute, Indiana
Photos courtesy North American Glass Two glass Van Vliet canning jars in unusual colors each brought five-figure prices during recent online-only auctions held by North American Glass, run by Greg Spurgeon of Terre Haute, Indiana. The fruit jars were fresh to the market, having been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction Prices Realized
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2026 Winter Show
New York City
For three generations, collectors of Americana have come to The Winter Show at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City in search of the finest furniture, silver, ceramics, and textiles. The trade saves the best objects they can muster for this premier American antiques show, held January ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Schoolteacher Lifting Her Skirt Tops Auction
Case Auctions, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Auctions
The artist William Edmondson (1894-1951) took a discarded block of limestone and chiseled out a female figure with a repurposed railroad spike to create Schoolteacher Lifting her Skirt, which, far and away, was the top lot in Case Auctions’ winter sale January 31 and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2026 Nameless Art + Design Show
New York City
Red dots filled the walls of the gallery space on West 26th Street in far West Chelsea in New York City during the Nameless Art + Design show, January 30 and February 1.
Held over the last weekend in January, dealers, many of them repeat performers, brought a trove ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bundled Up, but Buying Big at the York Antiques Show and Sale
York, Pennsylvania
The 186th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, centrally located at the York Fairgrounds and Convention Center in York, Pennsylvania, opened this year amid record-setting low temperatures and snow on the ground. Despite this, the show saw consistent attendance throughout the day both Friday and Saturday, January 30 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Miniatures and the "Small"
Miniatures of American antiques come in many genres. Be they chests of drawers, wooden duck decoys, sideboards, dressing tables, blanket chests, church podium donation boxes, firkins, burl dough bowls, wallpaper hatboxes or those with pincushion covers, food/pie safes, painted trenchers, mortars and pestles, samplers and other needlework, or baskets, they ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Connecticut Dealer Charged with Money Laundering and Theft
David L. Johnson, 66, of Old Greenwich, Connecticut, has been charged in a five-count indictment with offenses stemming from his alleged embezzlement from a deceased individual’s estate.
As alleged in the indictment, Johnson operated an antiques business, Antique Treasures LLC, and an auction business, Greenwich Auction, both based in Stamford, Connecticut. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Record Achieved for Tennessee Pottery
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
“It’s an exciting time in the collecting world, some interesting pieces are appearing and major collections coming out,” noted Mark Zipp of Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland, following the company’s second part of the single-owner sale of the Carole Carpenter Wahler collection. “The results speak ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Byerly Estate Sold
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Beginning in 1937, Byerly Antiques was a vital resource for collectors, decorators, and the trade in central North Carolina. That resource came to a dramatic end in 2000, when the state of North Carolina bought and razed its building on the south side ... (Read More)
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