Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Flying Pig Auctions WESTMORELAND, N.H. – Flying Pig Auctions’ unreserved online sale on Monday, October 12 featured the lifetime collection...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Freeman’s PHILADELPHIA – Tired of working from home, barred from international travel or simply yearning to spread your wings? Freeman’s...
GRASBRUNN, MUNICH – Headlining the October 22 sale “International Orders & Military Collectibles” at Hermann Historica was a collection of Prussian military artifacts amassed by Berlin...
WINDSOR, CONN. – Measuring only 5-1/8 inches high and 13½ inches wide, a diminutive oak box with hinged lid and “S” scrolls carved to the front, attributed to Massachusetts maker Thomas...
NEW YORK CITY – Christie’s sale, titled “Dalva Brothers: Parisian Taste In New York,” achieved a total of $5,855,500 and was 81 percent sold by lot and 85 percent sold by value....
WINDHAM, N.H. – The timing was right for a skeleton clock by Silas B. Terry to take top-lot honors at the October 24 auction conducted by Schmitt Horan & Co. According to company president, Daniel...
AUBURN, ME. – Joan R. Brownstein, an artist who found a parallel calling as a scholar and dealer of American folk art, died October 22 at Clover Manor in Auburn, ending her multiyear struggle with...
By Jim Balestrieri SALEM, MASS. — Witch trials and witch hunts, inquisitions and accusations of heresy and spiritual impurity all resolve into one image, one small, terrible, universal gesture: the pointed...
Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy ADA Dealers ONLINE – The 2020 ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show, known colloquially as “Deerfield,” showed a different side this year as 55 dealers...
Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Photos Courtesy Rockport Art Association & Museum ROCKPORT, MASS. – On October 3, the Rockport Art Association and Museum (RAA&M) conducted its annual art auction,...
NEW YORK CITY– William Shakespeare’s Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, often referred to as the “First Folio,” sold for $9,978,000 and established a new world auction record for any work of literature....
By Greg Smith DOYLESTOWN, PENN. -Arriving in my inbox on a late Thursday September afternoon was an email from the James A. Michener Art Museum. A paragraph read: “The Michener is also introducing...