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(Show)Ellsworth Antiques Show in Eighth Decade
Ellsworth, Maineby Mark SiscoAlthough the venerable Ellsworth Antiques Show has roots extending back to 1938 and has operated under different names in the past, it now seems to have found a permanent home at the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine. The show, held this year August 14-16, dates back to ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association Show Goes On
Cheryl Feldaus was quite pleased with the deal she got from Gerry Bell of Gerald W. Bell Jr. Antiques, Falmouth, Maine. She paid about $40 for this birch bark half-canoe.Visit the booth of Tom and Lynne Woods of Woolwich, Maine, and you'll always find some top-of-the-line silver. Here they offered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and California Paintings: The Cream Rises to the Top
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanPhotos courtesy Bonhams & ButterfieldsTotal sales for Bonhams & Butterfields' August 5 auction of California and American paintings were $5,520,000 (including buyers' premiums). According to Bonhams specialist Scot Levitt, the figure "compares very well" to totals at recent Bonhams & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gamage Pitches a Double-Header
Bruce Gamage, Jr., Rockland, Maineby Mark SiscoFor at least two days, "dead oak" became "live oak" at Bruce Gamage's double-barreled auctions on July 12 and 14 in Rockland, Maine.The first day consisted primarily of the estate of a Rockport, Maine, couple, who were the longtime owners of the Sail Loft ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Figureheads and Folk Art Fly
Rafael E. Osona, Nantucket, Massachusettsby Jackie SideliPhotos courtesy Rafael OsonaThe top lot of the sale was this group of five paintings by Ralph Eugene Cahoon (1910-1982). Each painting illustrates a different sense: seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, and feeling. The set of oils on masonite, each 14" x 12", sold quickly ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Marble-Top Mixing Table Brings $111,550
by Lita Solis-CohenOn Friday, September 19, when the focus was on how to stop the Wall Street meltdown, John Turner, president of Briggs Auction, Inc., Garnet Valley, Pennsylvania, sold a small, rare 18th-century walnut mixing table with a King of Prussia marble top and trifid feet for $111,550 (includes buyer's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Folk Art Trail Continues through Fall
The Maine Folk Art Trail drew many visitors this summer to the concurrent exhibitions of folk art objects at 11 participating museums. Many of the objects on display had never before been exhibited. (See M.A.D., June 2008, p. 36-B, for an overview of the project and photos of selected objects ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Missed Property Tax Payment Results in $1 Million Loss for Collector Nansi Nelson
by David HewettMost of us occasionally forget that a bill is overdue until an envelope arrives with the commanding words "Final Notice" printed on it. It could be the cable company bill, an insurance payment on the car or van, or maybe a property tax bill, and because it's not ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Guns, Germs, and Wheels at Sci-Tech Auction
Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerNew York City dealer Martin Lane paid $292,000 for the sale's top lot, a Colt Model 1881 Gatling gun made in Hartford, Connecticut, and purchased by Bannerman's from the Watervliet (New York) Arsenal some time before World War I. It came unused, never ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Orchestrating an Auction: The Psychology of Bidding
by Daniel Grant "You start out slow, but [lots] three and four will pick up the pace, ease up a little bit, then build some excitement with twelve and thirteen, work up to twenty through twenty-two, which should go way over the top, then come down a bit, trying to ... (Read More)
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