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(Show)Second Annual Show at Longfellow's Wayside Inn
Dan Meenan is a member of the Sudbury Militia, a group of reenactors or, more formally, historical interpreters of the Colonial period, specifically for the American Revolution in Sudbury, Massachusetts. For more information, see the Web site (www.sudburyminutemen.org).A portion of the tent and some of the vintage cars on exhibit ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Shenandoah Antiques Expo
Martin and Darlene Facazio of Culpeper, Virginia, were set up in the infield. Darlene was pleased to announce that since her husband is now retired, they will be able to participate in more shows. Marty had no comment. The Facazios offered this array of small brass and tin lanterns that ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heisey Collection Highlights Spring Sale
This Wedgwood "Florentine" dinnerware service, comprising 12 place settings and 130 pieces total, all in good condition, according to the catalog report, sold for $2200.This tiny three-masted ship model with a village diorama in the background sold for $1980. It was inside an 11" long clear glass whiskey bottle with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Perkins Stepping Down as Executive Director of Bennington Museum
Stephen Perkins, executive director of the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, is stepping down at the end of June. The director of public programs, Deana Mallory, has been named interim director and will take over management of the museum upon Perkins's departure. Perkins joined the museum on June 18, 2001, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auction Firm Pleads Guilty to Tax Charges
by Sabrina Pry and Betty Flood Pneuco, Inc., owned by well-known and popular auctioneer R. Cash Cunningham, 59, of Buffalo, New York, pled guilty to underreporting more than $164,000 in sales tax, according to New York State Department of Taxation and Finance Commissioner Thomas H. Mattox. The corporate plea to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Rural Material Culture: Selections from Indiana and Borders
Among the most expressive works by Marcus Mote, a devoted Quaker, is an 1884 oil on canvas, 18" x 28", inscribed "Old Indiana Yearly Mtg. trying to count her chickens."Using wood as a canvas, Hosea Hayden expressed views on women's suffrage in the incised decorations and text of this tripod ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 30th-Anniversary Indiana Art Auction
The Sentinel by Edward K. Williams (1870-1950), oil on canvas, 30" x 36", signed, with 1935 Hoosier Salon tag, $31,900."Ol' Saint Nick" by T.C. Steele (1847-1926), oil on canvas, 27" x 20", signed on frame and dated 1870, $82,500.By the Side of the Road by William Forsyth (1854-1935), oil on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Reunion in Madison: The Tenth Annual Madison Antiques Show & Sale
The wide variety of offerings from Paul and Shirley Cox of Salado, Texas, is obvious in this view. A Washburn parlor guitar of Brazilian rosewood ($3500) sits on a black walnut three-board-top table ($1850). The table is believed to be of Pennsylvania origin and has three drawers in the apron. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2011 Los Angeles Antiques Show
Bonnie Grossman of The Ames Gallery, the lone dealer of Outsider art in the show, exhibited a collection of southern face jugs. Jugs originally were made to serve as vessels for syrup, water, and whiskey. The craft lay dormant until a revival in the '60's and '70's. The popularity of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Deaccessioning Criteria in New York
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