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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Named a Legendary Landmark
From left: Honorees Leslie Hindman, John McCarter, and Joan Ahrens (representing Target Corporation). Diane Alexander White Photography photo.
After decades of selling venerable objects, the shoe is now on the other foot for Chicago auctioneer Leslie Hindman. This is the year that Hindman became-at least officially-venerable.
Named a 2013 Legendary Landmark ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Deaccessioning and Due Diligence
Editorial
Antiques dealers can make good money recognizing valuable objects that have been overlooked. That's why flea market tables and auction previews are scrutinized so thoroughly.
Officials in Muskegon, Michigan, failed to realize that furniture from the Hackley Public Library-a stately Richardsonian Romanesque-style building of Maine granite and Marquette sandstone erected in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Early Illinois Folk Art 1825-1925
Two-piece hollow cast-iron bull with black and white paint, sometimes known as a "Baloney Bull," manufactured by the Simpson Windmill and Machine Company.
The DuPage County Historical Museum in Wheaton, Illinois, opened the exhibition Early Illinois Folk Art 1825-1925 on April 13. The exhibit, which offers the opportunity to examine the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mary Blood Mellen Painting Tops Marine Auction
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Ship Departing Coastline, an oil painting, was attributed to Mary Blood Mellen (1819-1886), a student of Fitz Henry Lane. The painting depicts a ship flying the American flag and the owner's blue pennant. In the background the shoreline has a church, homes, and a lighthouse. In a wonderful ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Portsmouth Furniture at Hap Moore's Auction
New Hampshire card table in birch with exaggerated top contours and reeded and turned legs, one of which needed some tightening, $3450.
Federal card table by Judkins & Senter of Portsmouth, $7015.
Empire folding card table in a heavily grained tiger maple, $1150.
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
Hap Moore's April 13 auction ... (Read More)
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(Show)"Antique City" Fun Fair
The Philip Rauch Fieldhouse is located on the Lehigh University campus near the athletic fields and facilities. It is outside the town of Bethlehem and convenient to major interstate highways. The university is roughly 80 miles outside of New York City and 70 miles outside of Philadelphia.
The crowd was still ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Antiques Show
Peter Eaton of Newbury, Massachusetts, asked $28,500 for this Federal clock from central or western Massachusetts, 1810-15. It is 96" tall and all original except the finials; it has an old surface. The seven-drawer cherrywood Connecticut River Valley tall chest with cove-molded top was $14,500.
Steven Still of Manheim, Pennsylvania, offered ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New York Book Fair's Shadow Show
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A first edition of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, offered for $3500 by Resser-Thorner Antiques, Manchester, New Hampshire, was not only signed by Toklas and by the book's author, Gertrude Stein, it also had Man Ray photographs of the two women and their apartment at 27 rue ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
Doug Ramsay of Hadley, Massachusetts, asked $3600 for the 1930's car weathervane; $1250 for the hooked rug; $2650 for the painted chest; and $650 for the iron duck on it. The druggist sign on top was $1750; the bellows, $350. The carving of a black man was $3800, and the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Antiques Week Events
There are plenty of events during the 2013 Antiques Week in Philadelphia to keep collectors and dealers busy.
Stenton Symposium
The Stenton Symposium, "Philadelphia & the Frontier: Urban & Vernacular Furniture in the Early Eighteenth Century," will be held Thursday, April 11. The sold-out program was rescheduled after Hurricane Sandy caused its ... (Read More)
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