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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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(Feature)Solomon Bell Cats Bring $73,000
Earthenware cats with lead and manganese glaze. "These are probably the best example of Strasburg, Virginia, redware figures that have ever been offered or sold in public," the buyer told us. Photo courtesy Burt Long.
A pair of redware cats made by Strasburg, Virginia, potter Solomon Bell sold for $73,000 (no ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Are Massachusetts Show Exhibitors Due a Dose of Philadelphia-Style Tax Medicine?
A fresh threat from a state taxation entity has emerged to bedevil show dealers, many of whom have not yet recovered from the Philadelphia dispute that cost them dearly last year.
The Philadelphia episode occurred when exhibitors at past shows began receiving dunning notices from a collection agency seeking retroactive "business ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Recipient of the 2012 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
A Book Review
Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 by Maurice Hillis Maurice Hillis, 2011, 570 pages, hardbound, GBP60 plus S/H from (www.TheLiverpoolPorcelainBook.weebly.com)
In his foreword to this groundbreaking tome, Geoffrey Godden leaps from his long-occupied English porcelain pedestal to exclaim, "This is the most welcome and eagerly awaited of books." Godden, who is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stoneware Jug with Acrobats Goes to New York State Museum
A Fulper Brothers four-gallon stoneware jug depicting acrobats, offered at the 2013 Winter Antiques Show in New York City for $295,000, is now part of the Weitsman Collection of American Stoneware at the New York State Museum (NYSM) in Albany. It was acquired for the museum by stoneware collector ... (Read More)
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