(Auction)
Davies Auctions, Lafayette, Indiana
It was business as usual during the sale held by Davies Auctions on July 2 in Lafayette, Indiana. Headlining the auction was material from Jeff and Emily Walton, formerly of Jenera, Ohio, who recently retired from the antiques business. The last event for the couple was Ohio ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)
Gibson Auction Inc., Orange, Virginia
Photos courtesy Gibson Auction Inc.
On successive Saturdays, June 25 and July 2, Gibson Auction Inc. held noteworthy auctions at its salesroom in Orange, Virginia. Those two auctions were my introductions to the Gibson operation. I have been aware of the firm’s existence, but until these two ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
The Vermont Antiques Week show formerly known as Bromley and most recently as Magic Mountain is now Antiques at Stratton Mountain. The show will be held at the Stratton Mountain base lodge in Stratton, Vermont, October 1 and 2.
Owner and manager Greg Hamilton met with Stratton base lodge officials and ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
The Palm Beach Show Group is expanding its show roster by taking over ownership and production of the Palm Beach Fine Craft Show. Elizabeth Kubie, the previous owner of the well-established Fine Craft Show, is retiring but will act as a consultant to the Palm Beach Show Group, which “intends ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
On May 16 Ashleigh Adamec of California filed suit in New York alleging that the estate of her father had yet to be paid for a Norman Rockwell painting sold by Illustration House in New York City in 2008.
In 2008 Donald A. Adamec (1937-2013) had consigned five paintings to Illustration ... (Read More)
|
(Issue Story)
Photos courtesy Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum
The current exhibition at the Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, has every schoolchild in Lancaster County looking up at church steeples, the cupolas of public buildings, and roofs of barns and shops hoping to find weathervanes. Their parents will ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
Some long-missing artwork has been returned to Hobcaw Barony in Georgetown, South Carolina, the winter estate of Belle W. Baruch (1899-1964), eldest daughter of Bernard M. Baruch (1870-1965).
M.A.D. first reported on the missing items in 2003 when Charleston, South Carolina, antiques dealer Samuel Eugene “Sammy” McIntosh II was arrested and ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
Kris Johnson, owner of Tex Johnson & Son Antiques, and Steve Sherhag, owner of Early American Antiques, have purchased the Vermont Okemo Antiques Show from Don and Pat Clegg. The 2016 show dates are September 30 and October 1. For show information and advance ticket sales, contact Kris Johnson at ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)
Freeman’s, the Philadelphia auction house, is consolidating its two Virginia offices into one location at 5401 Patterson Avenue in Richmond. “Though we will no longer have a physical location in Charlottesville, our staff is dedicated to the region and will continue to offer the same world-class auction services that we ... (Read More)
|
(Show)
Louisville, Kentucky
Locust Grove, the 55-acre national land-mark in Louisville, Kentucky, isn’t a hard place to find. Well, normally not. A couple of left turns here, a right turn or two there, and, ta-da, you’ve arrived.
However, getting to the Locust Grove Antiques Market on June 26 was another matter—at least for ... (Read More)
|