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(Fragment)Chestertown Show Changes Venue
The 48th Chestertown Antiques Show and Sale will relocate to Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. The venue change will allow more flexibility, increased size, and an opening reception. Housed for the past 20 years in the town's middle school, the show, held on Thanksgiving weekend, was limited to 31 exhibitors ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Allman Promotions Buys Florida Show
Judy and Steve Allman.Judy and Steve Allman, owners of Allman Promotions LLC/ Antiques Shows of Florida, have acquired the long-running Sunshine City Antiques & Collectibles Show in St. Petersburg from founders Susan and Rui Farias. Transfer of ownership takes effect immediately, and the Allmans will be in charge of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Horn Table Soars
According to the consignor, the 18¾" x 27" x 29½" table was given to his grandfather, the mayor of Buffalo, by the governor of Texas in 1901. It sold for $90,000 (est. $30,000/50,000).When it closed on May 19 on iGavel (www.igavelauctions.com), a fancy horn-veneered and horn center table by Wenzel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring On-Site Auction
Landscape painter Edmund Darch Lewis (1835-1910) dated this robust and large (22" x 34") painting 1884. Signed on the lower left, it brought $5400. Sideli photo.This vivid and colorful painting by Antonio Cirino (Italian, 1889-1983) reflects the artist's Providence, Rhode Island, and Rockport, Massachusetts, influences. D & M Antiques, Rumford, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bless the Brooklyn Museum
A handmade cream Valenciennes bobbin lace shawl, mid-19th century, with scalloped edges, 44" x 110", in excellent condition and from the Brooklyn Museum, went to the Internet against the room and phones at $3900 (est. $600/800).Three designer-label cocktail dresses from 1955-66 sold to the room at a bargain price of ... (Read More)
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(Show)Poetry in Potion: The Monroe Antique Show and Sale
Eric Swanson has booth space at Pacific Galleries Antique Mall in Seattle, Washington, and does shows. This carved chicken flew the coop quickly for the reasonable price of $65. Swanson did not have much information about the piece but did note that the wings were applied separately and that it ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD20/21 and Boston Print Fair
Lella and Massimo Vignelli with Boston Architectural College president Theodore C. Landsmark (on right). The Vignellis, who established Vignelli Associates in 1971 and Vignelli Designs in 1978, received this year's AD20/21 Lifetime Achievement Award for work that includes corporate identity programs, interiors, furniture, decorative arts, and graphics, perhaps most famously, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Spring Show NYC
An English burr mulberry and brass-inlaid sofa table, 1800-25, was in the center of half of New York City dealer Carlton Hobbs's stand. "It was meant to be placed before a sofa; the ladies chiefly occupied them to write, draw, or read upon," said Hobbs. "They were suitable for a ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Risky Business
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittBack in January, I heard from fellow columnist David Hewett. He had written an article about the losses consignors had suffered from a firearms auction conducted by J.C. Devine, Inc. The founder and leader of the company, Joseph C. Devine, had passed away just 11 ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)CSA: Community Supported Antiques
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWhat do Grant Wood, the Midwest Antiques Forum, our summer garden produce, and your local house museum have in common? Regionalism!Regionalism, a sense of regional identity and a concern for a local way of life that's being replaced by strip malls and restaurant ... (Read More)
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