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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Rackstraw Downes: Onsite Paintings, 1972-2008 by Klaus Ottmann (Parrish Art Museum, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Good Fare at Goosefare
The painted tin copper teapot had just a little roughness on it and was $220. The box in the middle wasn’t tin but papier-mâché and had four individually painted designs; it was $350. The best, the one on the right, circa 1840, with an unusual flower design, was possibly from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Topsy-Turvy Results
Rookwood Vellum glaze plaque, On the Riva by Ed Diers, Venetian scene, 9" x 15" plus frame, very good condition, no crazing, a few burst air bubbles, $16,100.Treadway Gallery, Inc., Cincinnati, Ohioby Don JohnsonPhotos courtesy Treadway GalleryThink of it as a plot twist.Treadway Gallery's decorative arts auction, held June 5 ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association Show: Perfect Weather, Uneven Sales
The hooked rug with roosters looked over what appeared to be acres of pottery, toys, and other smalls. R.S.P. Antiques, Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, priced the hooked rug at $1850.Melissa Bourque Antiques, Garrison, New York, showed the really nice country Queen Anne drop-leaf table. The dark paint on the base ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Backing Up
by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] backup and restore can use local storage, Internet storage, or both.A total computer crash! After 25 years of using personal computers, a crash had wiped out all my software and data files.Software is replaceable at a cost, but data often is not. Lost were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Painted Pennsylvania Cupboard Leads Sale
The high lot of the Evans sale was this Pennsylvania paint-decorated poplar Dutch cupboard. The two-piece cupboard features an ogee-molded cornice above two six-pane doors over a pie shelf. The interior of the upper case is unpainted and displays a mug shelf and two shelves with plate rails, one with ... (Read More)
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(Show)Changes in the Wind at Elm Bank Show
Steele & Steele, Middletown, Rhode Island, attracted a crowd with decorative items for the house and garden. David Steele reported later, “We had a wonderful show, twenty-eight sales from twenty dollars to four hundred fifty dollars.”Steele & Steele’s hooked rug depicting a clipper ship at sea was $325. The rustic ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Garden Party May Be Over
Roger Williams of Boat House Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine, had a different kind of story to tell from his booth. He took the opportunity to promote a heretofore unrecognized, mostly undiscovered artist. Candasa Edwards Epstein (b. 1924) grew up in Denison, Texas, and studied at the Art Students League in New ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Bow Lawsuit Dismissed
Zoran Stoyanovich’s lawsuit against Brompton’s Auctioneers of England was voluntarily dismissed on September 17 without prejudice.
On September 23, Brompton’s released a press release concerning the case. It read “Brompton’s Auctioneers is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Early Manhattan and South Amboy Stoneware Excels
The sale began with a large offeringof Anna Pottery items from the Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick operation in Anna, Illinois. The circa 1880 stoneware hanging basket, attributed to the Anna Pottery, survived in good condition over the years. The fresh-to-the-market pot came from a consignor in Georgia, who reportedly bought ... (Read More)
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