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(Fragment)Free Antiques Show
Fort Andross in Brunswick, Maine, will host the first Fort Andross Antique Show on Sunday, February 27, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission and parking are free.The antiques show will showcase antiques dealers from Massachusetts and Virginia as well as all regions of Maine. Located in the historic Fort ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show's Preview to Benefit ASPCA
The Art and Antique Dealers League of America (AADLA) has announced The Spring Show NYC with an opening night benefit preview on April 27 to benefit the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals). The show will run from April 28 through May 2 at the Park ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sculptor's Death Unearthed: Edmonia Lewis Died in London in 1907
According to cultural historian Marilyn Richardson, she has solved one of the persistent mysteries of American art history: where and when did the sculptor Edmonia Lewis die? The answer is, in London, England on 17 September 1907.According to British records, Lewis, whose full name was Mary Edmonia Lewis, had been ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Casting Call
The producers of a major cable network show are seeking "pickers" with the most honed hunting skills, the sharpest eyes to determine trash from treasure, and the most effective negotiating chops to seal the deal. A new and untitled show hopes to transform the world of antiques and collectibles into ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lamps Light Up the Place
Of only two lots with estimates over $100,000, this was the only one to sell. The 78" tall Tiffany floor lamp with a peony-bordered shade on a bronze base, the shade signed “Tiffany Studios New York 1574,” the base signed “Tiffany Studios New York 375,” brought $172,500.James D. Julia, Inc., ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sotheby's Americana
A rare silver medal commemorating Commodore M.C. Perry's 1854 expedition to Japan, cut by Francis N. Mitchell for the U.S. Mint in 1854, signed "F.N. Mitchell. F." on the obverse, 2 5/8" in diameter, sold on the phone for $28,125 (est. $8000/ 12,000). Commissioned by the merchants of Boston and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Books in Beantown
Kenneth Gloss of Boston’s Brattle Book Shop, one of the oldest and largest antiquarian bookshops in the country, brought a first American edition of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick, or, the Whale. Published in 1851, it retains its original binding of brown-gray cloth with gilt. In a “near-fine” custom box, it was ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bath Antiques Show
Seamen’s trunks aren’t exactly rare in Maine, but how about a sailor’s trunk bound with brass hobnailed bands, with its original sailcloth wrap, painted with theinitials “F.T.S.” and containing a history of the ownership inside? It traced its history back through the Stinson family, possibly as early as 1805. Bob ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: We have reached the March issue already, and as I am keen to get items from new year sales into these columns as quickly as possible, I am forced to be increasingly ruthless with the 2010 hangovers-and certainly I must have done with them in the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Prices at Americana Sale
United States 1796 $10 gold coin, regular strike with draped bust, small eagle, reeded edge, and 16 stars, $42,660 to a phone bidder, underbid on the phone.
A 72" wide Pennsylvania carved mahogany spread-winged eagle with original varnish, circa 1870, given to the Gettysburg YWCA by Annie and Irene Danner in ... (Read More)
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