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(Computer Article)Antiques Apps
Stoneware crocks in an on-line auction viewed on a small Android tablet.
Computer Column #294
by John P. Reid, [email protected]
In the last year this column has commented often about the rapid rise of mobile computing-of the use of smartphones for more than phone calls and of tablet computers. Mobile computing is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)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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(Book Review)Prior Knowledge
A Book Review
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
by Jacquelyn Oak and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Fenimore Art Museum, 2012, 64 pages, softbound, $29.95 plus S/H from Fenimore Art Museum (www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/museumshop) or (888) 547-1400.
When an auctioneer must catalog a small unsigned flat-painted portrait of a man, woman, or child, he ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Jewelry Auctions
Alexander Eblen said that this Victorian yellow gold, pearl, and shell cameo brooch was beautifully crafted. "With shell, you're dealing with a material that is most common in cameos, so it gets the least respect; however, when you have a really finely carved one, and it's something out of the ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Creating Goals and Improving Web Traffic
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of setting a budget to cover the most essential marketing items that you need. This month we will review creating achievable goals. Once your core strategies have been set, you've completed your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, and you ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)High Noon for Consignors
Auction Law & Ethics
Transparent is not a correct adjective for the auction process. Murky is close. Midnight is the truth. When I serve as an auction consultant to consignors, this is the message that I continually emphasize.
Since April, we have been considering the lack of transparency in auctions and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Time passes, as they say, and in preparing this month's reports I became only too aware that a few clocks I meant to include in earlier "Letters" were still on my files. Those clocks were accompanied in the waiting room by Chinese works of art sold in the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Samuel Prince, Master Cabinetmaker in Revolutionary New York City
Figure 1. Royal Gazette, June 27, 1778.
Figure 2. Rivington's New-York Gazetteer, April 22, 1773.
Figure 3. Bureau chest of drawers, or Beau Brummel, labeled by Samuel Prince, circa 1770, mahogany, poplar, brass (replaced), mirror glass, height 333/4", width 40", depth 22". Museum of the City of New York, New York City, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Rebekah Milne and Seamus McCance, At Home Antiques and Gallery, Kingston, New York
Two generations. On left, Seamus McCance with partner Rebekah Milne, who's next to her parents, Jim and Judy Milne.
Exterior of the shop at 81 Broadway in Kingston.
A view of the shop's 30' ceilings.
Rustic hand-hewn farm table, $2850; set of seven reproduction Windsors-one arm and five sides-$3250; 1970's red tableware, $20 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Things Are Looking Up
The Young Collector
We've pretty much given up complaining about wanting to talk to real people, haven't we? After lots of complaining in the 1990's about the growing numbers of "Push one for..." phone systems, we've just sighed and gone on about our business. The Internet, most would say, has ... (Read More)
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