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(Show)The Marburger Farm Antique Show
Brad and Sundie Ruppert of Vintage Sculpture, Norwalk, Iowa, decorate vintage furniture with vintage bottle caps, which they buy from a flea market dealer in Des Moines. They were asking $5500 for this stepback cupboard from Austin, Texas.Agnes Strauss of Wilde Weedz, Cat Spring, Texas, did a booming business selling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collection of King of Dolls Sells for $1.23 Million
A phone bidder took the top lot, a 28" tall Roullet & Decamps automaton of a female magician. The price was $80,580 (est. $25,000/35,000). The mouth of the monkey opens and closes; the bisque child blows kisses; and the clown sticks out its tongue. Made in France circa 1890, the ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Three Versions of Collectorpro Reviewed
Main data entry screen of Collectorpro for Antiques.Computer Column #253by John P. Reid, [email protected] few years, we publish a list of software available for antiques dealers and collectors. These programs primarily record inventory information but often include expense and customer databases. Some include a point-of-sale system to provide cash register ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction: Sweet Surprises at Freeman's
There were six phone bidders and bidders on the Internet for this Tiffany silver and enamel vase designed by George Paulding Farnham (1825-1927). It is 8" high and was made in 1901 for the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Cataloged as a “Viking” baluster vase with Celtic-inspired strapwork ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Willowbrook Village: Improvements Planned and Auctions Scheduled
The exhibits at Willowbrook Village in Newfield, Maine, are spread out over 3.5 acres and housed in 34 structures. Over the next year, Willowbrook will be making changes in order to better tell the story of life in 19th-century rural Maine and to reduce the financial burden of maintaining so ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Relevance Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSo, where were we? We had been talking about relevance—the art of being useful/staying useful or as Merriam-Webster puts it, "having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand"—and the reasons antiques had once been relevant. The problem, as we mentioned last month, is ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Lebanon Antiques Show
Kensington six-piece sterling silver tea service (excluding silver-plated tray), International Silver Company, $5500 from Sue Robinette of Monticello, Kentucky.A hooked rug showing musical notes, possibly a cover for a piano bench, was $225 from Diane Statler of Oakridge Antiques, Louisville, Kentucky.Along the top was a “Welcome Home” flaghoisted by U.S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: I Never Thought of This
by Steve ProffittAn interesting e-mail popped into my inbox from a M.A.D. reader who raised an issue I've never encountered. Unfortunately, the man didn't give me enough information to fully understand his complaint about an auction in which he had been a consignor. I e-mailed him back and requested additional ... (Read More)
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(Show)Signs of the Times at Rhinebeck
An all-wire motorcycle, replicating a Harley-Davidson from the 1930’s, was tagged $2650 by David Allan Ramsay of Cape Porpoise, Maine.Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania, showed an exceptional large rooster weathervane with a great surface for $26,000. The 1840’s Pennsylvania apothecary was $7200.A pair of 1940’s “block art” ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Matching Grant Will Help Museum Retire Mortgage
Dean Six, executive director of The Museum of American Glass in West Virginia, told attendees at the 19th annual Glass Gathering on October 23, 2009, that an anonymous donor has stepped forward with a matching donation offer. The goal of the current fund drive is $45,000, which, when matched, will ... (Read More)
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