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(Auction)Little Things Mean a Lot-Big Things Bring More
This is the fortune telling Esmeralda machine that brought $43,845.
The Mutoscope Multiscope allows several viewers to watch the show. It brought $34,020.
This Western Union Automatic Self-Winding Ticker was probably used as late as the 1940's to report stock quotes, and later on reported news and sports information. Standing on an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)June Toy Soldier Auction Brings in over $600,000
Britains Exploding Trench with flag, non-cataloged item without set number, originally sold at Hamleys Toy Store, with original box and in excellent condition, sold for $6720. The label is a reproduction copy.
Britains factory sample card with musicians from the very rare Band of the Royal Marine Light Infantry set, issued ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Washington Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Fake Chihuly Art Glass
Two of the pieces that Little claimed were by Dale Chihuly. Immigration and Customs Enforcement photos.
In U.S. District Court in Seattle on June 19, Michael Little, 35, of Renton, Washington, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with advertising and selling fake Dale Chihuly art glass. Little had bought pieces ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)South Korea Hosts American Art
The Cadwalader furniture and Charles Willson Peale's portrait of John Cadwalader, his wife, Betsy Lloyd and daughter, Anne, in its newly restored frame, are on view at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Photo courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Charles Willson Peale's portrait of John Cadwalader, his ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A New Cornerstone
A Book Review
Woods in British Furniture Making, 1400-1900: An Illustrated Historical Dictionary by Adam BowettOblong Creative Ltd. in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, 2012, 368 pages, hardbound, $180 plus S/H from the University Press of Chicago, (www.press.uchicago.edu) or (800) 621-2736.
As a furniture person and as a resident of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Custom Apps
An Android app element that searches lists being programmed in MIT App Inventor.
Computer Column #295
John P. Reid, [email protected]
There are many ways that custom apps for smartphones and tablets could be useful in the antiques world. A dealer could make the shop inventory, location, hours, and contact information available to mobile ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Feature)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.
Columbia's Daughters: Girlhood Embroidery from the District of Columbia by Gloria Seaman Allen ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors) Listing or Capsizing?
The Young Collector
We live and die by lists-mostly die, it seems-but at least we do it in an orderly fashion! Nowhere is this truer than with our annual planning of the Midwest Antiques Forum. Four years ago, when the folks at Prices4Antiques.com (www.p4a.com), Hollie's employer, said they thought the Midwest ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Affordable Jewelry & Watches
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
When a press release arrived broadcasting the news that "The Mid-Market Struts Its Stuff in Rago's Big $1.8 Million April Auction Weekend" after we had decided to feature affordable jewelry at auction (hovering around $1000 and under) this month, it seemed the planets had aligned to support ... (Read More)
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