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(Show)Buying Was Good at Boxborough Show
The Boxborough Antique Show, Boxborough, Massachusetts
A full parking lot outside the Boxborough Antique Show Sunday, February 4, in Boxborough, Massachusetts, greeted visitors, hinting at the wide selection of antiques within where Rachel and Joshua Gurley unwrapped their antiques show. Collectors and dealers had much to choose from. The Gurleys run ... (Read More)
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(Show)Memories of Lafayette’s Tour of America Ride High at York Show
The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
A windy morning didn’t detract visitors and buyers alike from attending the opening day of the Original 182nd Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, held February 2 and 3 in Memorial Hall at the York Expo Center, York, Pennsylvania. The two-day ... (Read More)
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(Show)The WADA Show
Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Association Antiques Show & Sale, Waukesha, Wisconsin
When the Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Association (WADA) has a show, it’s an Event, with a capital E. Accordingly, opening day of the February 2 and 3 WADA Antiques Show & Sale featured that popular Northwoods standard, a Friday night fish fry, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, February 2024
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Manuscript and Printed Americana
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s “Visions of America,” its umbrella for Americana Week sales, ended January 29 with an offering of just 16 lots of manuscript and printed Americana, of which five sold. Maps and letters related to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln and views of Mexico contributed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana at the Winter Show
New York City
The 70th Winter Show celebrated its platinum anniversary with 70 booths of art and antiques in the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The cavernous 144-year-old brick building was transformed into a garden of delights—gratifying to the eyes, stimulating for the brain, and teasing the heart.
The ten-day ... (Read More)
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(Show)Celebrating Anonymous Art and Design
Nameless Art + Design Show, New York City
American art and design by unknown makers was the theme of Nameless Art + Design Show, a new show that took place in far west Chelsea January 26-28. It overlapped with the final weekend run of the Winter Show, which took place 40 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Euphemisms and Americana Collectors
A euphemism is a mild or indirect word or phrase that substitutes for a well-understood, more direct description or adjective. The latter may elicit more emotion and power; the former is softer and often meant not to hurt feelings. Why be blunt if one can avoid it? Why be clear ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Tourists and Trade
A Book Review
In this book Bruce A. Austin describes the extraordinary history of how the automobile and the corresponding road building, road paving, and road traveling started the commerce of selling arts and crafts roadside. Driving around in the 1930s was more than, well, driving around. It was a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bidders’ Shootout in Vegas
Morphy Auctions/Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction, Las Vegas, Nevada
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions/Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction
Noted scholar and historian James Nottage, who has written a book about Edward H. Bohlin, described this ensemble by Bohlin as “the most artistic and richly embellished Western-styled gun belt and holster set ever made.” ... (Read More)
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