Maine Antique Digest http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/ Maine Antique Digest Magazine, all about the markets for art and antiques, with advertisements by selected dealers en-us Annual Antiques Trade Directory http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=1967 M.A.D.'s annual Antiques Trade Directory will be published in December and mailed as a special supplement with the January 2011 issue of Maine Antique Digest.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/23/10) Next Issue Mails on August 14 http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=1554 Maine Antique Digest will mail on August 14.]]> Maine Antique Digest (11/16/09) Next Advertising Deadline: August 4 http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2 Maine Antique Digest is Wednesday, August 4, for the September issue that mails on August 14.]]> Maine Antique Digest (11/04/09) Former Fruitlands Museum Executive Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $1.3 Million http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2038 by Jeanne Schinto

On June 28, Peggy Kempton, the one-time deputy executive director and chief financial officer of the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, was sentenced to state prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing $1.3 million from her former employer.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/30/10) Historic Firearms and Early Militaria http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2036 Henry Bowers’s engraved New York map powder horn with some highlights in red, 16" long, 2" crack at the bottom, very light scratches, $23,000.Pattern 1872 enlisted cavalry dress helmet, black wool body, brass planchet, plume holder with yellow horsehair plume, original white braided cords, wool surfaces heavily worn, $10,925.

First Model Henry rifle, .44 rimfire caliber, 24" octagonal barrel, missing sights, no cleaning rod, some nicks and dings, $22,425.

Cowan's, Cincinnati, Ohio

by Don Johnson

Photos courtesy Cowan's

On the strength of two strong collections of cavalry items, Cowan's sale of historic firearms and early militaria held April 28 and 29 in Cincinnati, Ohio, grossed more than $1 million for 1265 lots.

The collections were those of Thomas F.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/30/10) Spring Show Is Well Established but Lacked Sales http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2035

This period ladder-back side chair was a low $85 from Stevens, Pennsylvania, textile dealer Wendy Christie.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/30/10) Collecting 50 Years Ago http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2034

Arrow-back plank-seat chairs.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/30/10) Books Received http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2033 by M.A.D.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/30/10) New President of AAWR http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2032 The Artists Archives of the Western Reserve has appointed Herbert Ascherman Jr.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/29/10) Skinner Sells Unprecedented Horological Tool Collection http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2031 Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts

by Jeanne Schinto

Photos courtesy Skinner
After the tools and books, a section of clocks from various consignors went up, including some from the Crom estate.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/29/10) Attendance Was Up, and Furniture Sold http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2030

Kay G.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/29/10) Book Review: Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2029

A Book Review

by Lita Solis-Cohen

Ceramics in America 2009
Edited by Robert Hunter and Luke Beckerdite
The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2009, 232 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).

Ceramics in America 2009, like the 2007 Ceramics in America journal on Bonnin and Morris, is a companion to an exhibition, Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/29/10) Ann Arbor Antiques Market http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2028

Mad Anthony Books, Lowell, Michigan, has been a mainstay at Ann Arbor for many years, carrying the latest antiques reference books.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/28/10) Pristine Willard Clock Turns Up http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2027

Photos courtesy Gary Sullivan

by Lita Solis-Cohen

"I bought an Aaron Willard tall-case clock with a spectacular Boston-made dial depicting a fisherman in the lunette, a fine old surface, and with a mint paper label inside the door and a fine old surface," said Sharon, Massachusetts, dealer Gary Sullivan on the phone, incredulous at his good luck.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/28/10) Lesson from Grogan & Company: Start Low, Aim High http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2026

The sale’s top lot, Study of a Woman by Adolf von Menzel (1815-1905), sold on the phone for $32,200 (est.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/28/10) Letter from London http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2025 by Ian McKay, e-mail: <ianmckay1@btinternet.com>

This time of year, as has always been the case, sees my files of "Letter from London" selections—the certainties, probables, and possible—grow ever larger, and in writing this column at the end of June, I find myself still wanting to include material from sales held in April and May, not just highlights of recent weeks.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/28/10) Puff Piece: A Look at Japanese Folk Tobacciana http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2024

Only 3" tall but packing a 1000-watt stare, this Daruma tonkotsu (Japanese tobacco box) has a body made of paulownia wood.
The Zen monk’s fine-grained face allowed the artisan to show details, including a five-o’clock shadow.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/27/10) Dawson and Wyeth Top Maine Auction http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2023

Erastus Salisbury Field (1805-1900) oil on canvas, once used as a fireboard, $26,450.

Montague Dawson (1895-1973) oil on canvas of The Lofty Trader “The Scottish
Moors,” $71,875.

Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine

by Mark Sisco

The cover lot for the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries auction on May 22 and 23 in Thomaston, Maine, was an oil on canvas by Erastus Salisbury Field, Garden of Eden, which reminded us of Peaceable Kingdom paintings by Edward Hicks.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/27/10) Man Indicted in Connection with Stealing Antiques from Hospital http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2022 Paul Galzerano, 58, of Groveland, Massachusetts, a former associate vice president for Beverly Hospital in Beverly, Massachusetts, has been indicted in connection with stealing antiques from the hospital.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/27/10) Record Price Paid for Early American Glass http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2021

The two-piece cut-glass footed vase, signed and dated on the base of the vase “Bakewell Page/ Bakewells/ Pittsburgh/ 1825 [or 29],” has a copper-wheel-engraved view of the Château de la Grange-Bléneau in a cartouche at the center.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/26/10) Financial Reform Legislation and the Art Market http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2020 by Daniel Grant

The financial reform legislation currently before Congress may require the usually secretive art financing companies and auction houses to make public their loan agreements to would-be art buyers, according to congressional staffers for Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) and Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT), as well as outside lawyers who have evaluated the bills.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/26/10) Bronzes in Lenox http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2019

Andrew DeVries and Innocence, a life-size sculpture that defies gravity: a horizontal female nude held aloft by her hair

Huntington, Massachusetts, sculptor Andrew DeVries has installed 25 of his largest figurative bronze sculptures around the historic district of Lenox, Massachusetts.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/26/10) Top Ten Reasons Young People Should Buy Antiques http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2018 The Young Collector

by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

Sometimes in life you become an expert by default.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/22/10) Carving a Niche with Its Largest Sale So Far http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2013

Repoussé to the max, this Baltimore coffee and tea service with castles in relief was marked by 20th-century maker Schofield Co.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/16/10) Will Norman Schaut Do It Again? http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2012

by Lita Solis-Cohen

"Back in 1986 when Norman Schaut called his Atlantique City show management company Brimfield Associates, we laughed and said, 'How can he do that?' But he did it.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/16/10) Finder's Fee Lawsuit Filed in Maine over Million-Dollar Map http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2011

A Virginia collector bought the map of the siege that was prepared ten days after the Battle of Yorktown by French Lieutenant Colonel Jean Baptiste Gouvion (1747-1792).]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/16/10) Auction and Show Worlds Collide in Santa Fe and Chicago http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/index.html?id=2010 At the second annual SOFA West: Santa Fe, a leading contemporary decorative arts and design fair in Santa Fe, New Mexico, held July 8-11, a large banner in the booth of dealers Garth Clark and his partner Mark Del Vecchio called for consignments to the upcoming 20th-century contemporary ceramic art auction.]]> Maine Antique Digest (07/16/10)