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(Show)White House Antiques Show: 25 Years and Counting
According to the 25th annual White House Antiques Show program, “For 25 years, Hawken School has held the White HouseAntiques Show to raise funds for the preservation and upkeep of the historic White House. Built in 1923, the mansion was once the family home of Walter C. White, president of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old Tools and a Young Clock at Auction
A special and unique grandfather clock produced by inventor Charles Young of York Harbor, Maine. It sold for $1955.This double-door wall-mounted tool chest full of luthier and regular hand tools brought $6325.An elaborate and densely woven wicker desk and chair set caught a bidder’s fancy to the tune of $2645.Hap ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Copley Library Sale Features Twain Trove and Declaration Broadside
A Declaration of Independence broadside, 17" x 14 1/8", published on July 15 or 16, 1776, in Salem, Massachusetts, sold to William Reese for $572,500 (est. $600,000/ 800,000). It is attributed to John Rogers at the printing office of Ezekiel Russell. “This is the first of the two Salem printings, ... (Read More)
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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.John Storrs: Machine-Age Modernist by Debra Bricker Balken (The Boston Athenaeum, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Out of Anonymity: Ruby Devol Finch (1804-1866)
by Donald R. WaltersIn three recent consecutive preliminary articles1 for this column on "folk" portraiture in nineteenth century America an attempt has been made to construct a general framework of reference for a discussion of individual artists and their work. My aim has been (1) to place the artist accurately ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's to Sell Martin Folk Art
Carved huntsman, wearing a gray jacket with yellow buttons and holding a bird with his dog at his feet, 19" tall, illustrated in Lipman's American Folk Art in Wood, Metal and Stone, estimated at $30,000/60,000.by Lita Solis-CohenAlastair Bradley Martin and his wife, Edith, lived at a time when all sorts ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old and New at Foster Folk Art Auction
Two-gallon Norton “guitar” crock, $5280.This eastern Native American ash splint basket sold for $2145.A good and early stretcher-based chair table in an old red paint with wear in all the right places and a two-board scrubbed top fared well at $2750.Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoDid you hear the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Key Lots Excite Bidders at June Auction
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(Feature)In the Trade: Jerry and Pat Jordan, Dorset, Vermont
The Jordans’ shop. It looks old, but they built it recently using parts from an 18th-century Maine home. The couple is camera-shy. They’re hiding inside.Part of the shop’s interior.Amusing hooked rug, 29" x 27", the clock face tan and the wide outside border burgundy, $1675.Account book of tailor James Read ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in California
A Chippendale mahogany blockfront chest of drawers, possibly made by George Bright of Boston, sold to an East Coast dealer for $61,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). That was the highest price in the Americana section of the auction, although it did not come up to the chest’s lower estimate. With an impressive ... (Read More)
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