(Book Review)
The steamboat ConnecticutAntonio Jacobsen at his best.The Yacht America Off Castle GardenJames Buttersworth at his best.by A.J. Peluso, Jr.Flying the Colors: The Unseen Treasures of Nineteenth-Century American Marine Artby Alan Granby and Janice Hyland, with an introduction by Stuart M. FrankMystic Seaport (in association with Hudson Hills Press), Mystic, Connecticut, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)
by Steve ProffittThe first thing I read when each new issue of M.A.D. arrives is Clayton Pennington's editorial. Pennington knows the palpable truths and fine subtleties of the antiques trade, and he always pens a thought-provoking piece on some facet of the industry.In the July issue Pennington's views appeared under ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Barrett called this 21½" long Märklin battleship Iowa the finest example of a first-series battleship and said it was consigned by the heirs of the original owner, who received it as a Christmas present in 1903. In original condition, it is an amazing survivor with its original anchor, one lifeboat, ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Nineteenth-century watercolor mourning tribute to Anthony Budlong Patt of Rhode Island, who died in 1827, in a period gilt frame, the paper watermarked 1826, $5900 from Ed and Anita Holden of Holden Antiques, Sherman, Connecticut.Old Hickory glider, $1600; painted oilcloth pillow, Ortegia sisters, circa 1920, showing wildlife including an owl, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)
The people who made the exhibition and book possible (from left), Bruce Barnes, Joseph Cunningham, Liza Rohlfs Ortman,her son, Mike Ortman, and her husband, John Ortman, in the gallery with a desk chair, a promised gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Its a record. This large and rare ant trap storage jar is complete with the correct lid. The well at the top would be filled with water to keep ants from getting into the contents. It would have been used to store molasses, honey, or even cane syrup. It sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Marc Witus of Gladstone, New Jersey, offered more than the contents of most antiques shops all on one stand where collectors searched for treasures.Gene and Carol Rappaport of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, offered a lot of iron. Andirons ranged in price from $500 to $3500 for a pair with faceted heads. Skimmers ... (Read More)
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The portrait of the Boothbay-built John G. Richardson byfather-and-son artists John and Frederick Tudgay, 27" x 42", was tagged $87,500 by Running Battle Antiques, Newagen, Maine. The John G. Richardson was launched on April 5, 1855, and carried cotton from Louisiana to Cardiff, Wales, then loaded up with coal, which ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWhen Hollie was small, she decided she needed a horse and began a campaign that only a grandfather would tolerate. She wrote horse auction dates on his wall calendar, counted the money in his wallet, and read aloud livestock ads from the weekly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Three views of a Wallace Nutting carved mahogany slant-front desk, branded with the Nutting name, that sold for $18,400 to a bidder in the room.Carl W. Stinson, Inc., North Reading, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy StinsonAn unassuming question about the number of sales that Carl W. Stinson, Inc. organizes annually elicited ... (Read More)
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