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(Feature)Web Sites for Smartphones
Web page seen on a desktop computer with a simulated smartphone in front. Computer Column #281by John P. Reid, [email protected] good Web site is a valuable asset for any antiques business or collector organization. For example, a 48-year-old Eastern Shore of Maryland charity antiques show where we have exhibited for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Totals at Regional Auction Houses Show Strength
by Daniel GrantIt is easy to look at Christie's February report that it had a company record $5.7 billion in sales in 2011 and Sotheby's report of $5.8 billion in sales and think that all the action is taking place at just a few auction houses and in a few ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tailgate-Music Valley: A New Approach to Selling Old Stuff
The Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show in February was a reconfigured combined event in a bright new location. With a hint of mad scientist, Jon Jenkins said, "Welcome to my world! We've been in the laboratory quite some time." He posed with a personal purchase, a floor lamp made of old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History including the Civil War
Daniel S. Mitchell and John Hillers carte de visite portrait album of American Indians, 36 images, most of Mitchell's cartes de visite trimmed at the bottom, Hillers's with paper loss on reverse, $41,125.Personal shaving mug of Deputy U.S. Marshal Buck Garrett, having a photographic transfer of Garrett on horseback, porcelain, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)PAFA Grad to Curate Artwork for Insurance Offices
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announced the launch of a new partnership with the Philadelphia Insurance Companies. The new internship opportunity allows a PAFA graduate student to install artwork by PAFA students in administrative offices, halls, and common rooms of the Philadelphia Insurance Companies.Scott Schultheis has been ... (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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(Show)Heart of Country: Nashville Classic Has a New Spring in Its Step
At the 2012 show, Susan Kramer Hunkins put together an exhibition of quilts from the collection of her mother, Libby Kramer, the show's founder. Hunkins showed off a favorite flag quilt, priced for sale at $3200, and said, "She loved all textiles."The Gaylord Opryland Hotel contains extensive botanical gardens, expertly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Full House for Merrill's Winter Americana and Fine Arts Sale
The 25" x 30" oil on canvas portraits by Horace Bundy of the Simmonds family of Weston, Vermont, painted in 1853, were fresh and very desirable. A Vermont collector took the lot for $8680.The chair table or hutch table in old red paint has a 48" diameter top and was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse to Open
The Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse in South Portland, Maine, will open for the 2012 season, weather permitting, on Saturday, June 23 and Saturday, June 30 and continue to be open every Saturday and Sunday in July and August. The lighthouse will also be open on Saturday, September 1 (Labor Day ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] left, the "King Carlos IV" secrétaire cabinet as originally constructed and as seen in the 1910 New York City exhibition catalogue.Right, the MGM secrétaire cabinet as sold for $39,320 at Bonhams on March 7. The cabinet in its original form is believed to have been commissioned ... (Read More)
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