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(Fragment)"Brighten Your Home with Antiques" Comment Contest
Washington, D.C.-based antiques show producer Armacost Antiques Shows has announced a new contest, "Brighten Your Home with Antiques."Anyone may enter the contest by posting a comment on the firm's blog (http:antiquesshows.blogspot.com) before 12 midnight ET on July 1. One winner will be chosen at random to receive a mid-19th-century English ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Theft Detail Detective Arrested for Murder
Detective Stephanie Lazarus, a member of the Los Angeles Police Department's Art Theft Detail, was arrested on June 5 for the 1986 murder of Sherri Rasmussen. The arrest was made at the Los Angeles Police Administrative Building in downtown Los Angeles.According to the LAPD, on February 24, 1986, Sherri Rasmussen, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are thumbnail 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.Streamlined Irons by Jay Raymond (Streamline Press, 2008, 196 pp., hardbound, ... (Read More)
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(Show)"Our Universe on Paper" at 29th Ephemera Society Show
A poster stamp designed by Berthold Loffler for the 1908 Viennese art exhibition Kunstschau Wien was $350 from ChipBlumberg of The Folded Letter. According to Blumberg, a fullsize vintage poster of the same image would cost you $33,500.This 30" x 26" folk-art flag is a part of an archive relating ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD 20/21 and Boston Print Fair: Doing Good by Being "Bad"
Gerry Arcari of Landry & Arcari Oriental Rugs and Carpeting, Boston and Salem, Massachusetts, brought an array of contemporary rugs as well as some Art Deco material. Behind him is a contemporary 8' x 10' Nishkigoi rug, handwoven in Nepal of teal blue and white Tibetan wool and silk and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Despite Losses, Heart of Country Beats On
Heart of Country is in the capable hands of the next generation. Front, from left: Susan Kramer Hunkins and daughter Sarah Jane Hunkins, who helped with communications and was a panelist at the "Speaking from the Heart" roundtable discussion. Back, from left: Stephen Hunkins Jr., who handled "everything from ticketing ... (Read More)
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(Show)The D.C. Spring Antiques Show
While New York City dealer Jason Jacques was at Maastricht, his gallery director, Yoni Ben-Yosef, set up a stand in D.C. and sold two Art Nouveau ceramic vases early in the show. Here Ben-Yosef shows a vase designed by Louis Majorelle for Keller & Guerin (Luneville), circa 1900, priced at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pewter Dessert Dish Highlights Americana Auction
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Freeman'sAccording to family history, this pewter dessert dish incised with the initials "IZ" and "CZ" and "1728," surrounded by flowers, belonged to Joost and Christine Zabriskie of Bergen County, New Jersey. It is attributed to Francis Bassett I, New York City, 1715-40; the only ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Painting Leads to Lawsuit
It's a dealer's nightmare scenario: unwittingly to buy a stolen painting; to have it cleaned and framed; to sell it for a tidy profit; and sometime later to find out the picture had been nicked and have to refund the buyer's money.In the case of California dealer William A. Karges ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tolland Show: A Bright Spot in a Soft Market
Within an hour or two after the show's opening, visitors crowded the aisles.Show director Kathy Bach of the Tolland Historical Society, sponsor of the event, stopped for a visit with exhibitor Thomas Longacre of Marlborough, Massachusetts.An early 19th-century stepback cupboard, tagged $2100, was shown by Susan H. Wirth (left) of ... (Read More)
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