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Maine Antique Digest, April 2015 3-A
Editorial 3-A
by S. Clayton Pennington
The Meeting Place 4-A
Fragments 9-A
Jennifer Carlquist Appointed Curator at
Boscobel – Four Cannon Pattern Cups and
Saucers Bring $23,100 – iGavel Opens a
Texas Branch – Bidsquare Gets New
President and CEO – Canadian Auction
House Busted for Selling 1970s Ivory –
Lake Country Antiques & Garden Show
Moves to New Location – Antiques Week in
New Hampshire: Pickers Market Changes
Dates – Midweek Antiques Show Confirms
Opening Hours – Contemporary American
Illuminations, Art of Barbara Wolff at the
Morgan – George Allen and Gordon
Wyckoff of Raccoon Creek Antiques
Arrested –The Wunsch Award, Now a
January Tradition, Honors Arnold Lehman
and Chipstone – Logania – Man Trying to
Sell Stolen Antiques Arrested in Sting
Operation – Forty Years of Sommer –
Manship and Troubetzkoy Sculptures
Recovered 32 Years after Being Stolen – A
$37 Picasso – Virginia Rejects Ivory Ban –
Nantucket Antiques Show Rebranded –
Ellis Antiques Show Closes Again – New
Temporary Location for Cahoon Museum
Index to Display Advertisers 36-A
Index to Shows and Auctions 4-D
Classified Ads 10-D
AUCTIONS
Fresh-to-Market Philadelphia Tea
Table Sells for $1,895,000 29-A
Keno Auctions, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Brenner Estate Collection Marks
End of John Russell’s Material
Legacy 32-A
Tim Potter Auctions,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
by Larry Thompson
Paintings and Jewelry Rule
in Columbia 6-B
Charlton Hall Auctioneers,
Columbia, South Carolina
by Pete Prunkl
Sotheby’s Various-Owners
Americana Auction 12-B
Sotheby’s, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
The Nutt Collection of American
Furniture and Decorative Arts 19-B
Sotheby’s, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Arader Gets $3.277 Million for
Fewer than 145 Lots 22-B
Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries in
conjunction with Arader Galleries,
New York City
by Clayton Pennington
$1.37 Million Indian Arts Sale 26-B
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
by Alice Kaufman
“The House Is Out” and Other
Hillsborough Stories 3-C
Leland Little Auctions,
Hillsborough, North Carolina
by Pete Prunkl
Quinn & Farmer Sale Led By a
“Really Heavy Desk Thingy” 6-C
Quinn & Farmer Auctions,
Charlottesville, Virginia
by Walter C. Newman
Absentee Advertising Auction 9-C
Wm Morford,
Cazenovia, New York
by Don Johnson
A Celebration of Music: A
Bravo-Worthy Sale of Manuscripts
and More 12-C
Profiles in History,
Calabasas, California
by Jeanne Schinto
Grogan & Company Holds Sale
in New Boston Gallery 18-C
Boston, Massachusetts
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Bidders Spend Big for Einstein,
Lincoln, Jefferson, and JFK 25-C
Profiles in History,
Calabasas, California
by Jeanne Schinto
Americana Surprises at
Pook & Pook 28-C
Downingtown, Pennsylvania
by Lita Solis-Cohen
The Robert and Elaine Dillof
Collection 32-C
Treadway/Toomey Auctions,
Oak Park, Illinois
by Don Johnson
Big Crowd Sees Red at Foster’s 15-D
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maine
by Mark Sisco
The Silver Collection of Roy and
Ruth Nutt 21-D
Sotheby’s, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
The Design Sales of December 25-D
Bonhams/Christie’s/Phillips/
Sotheby’s/Wright, New York City
by Julie Schlenger Adell
Lancaster County
Desk-and-Bookcase Tops
Christie’s Americana Auction 31-D
Christie’s, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Fall Toy Sale 36-E
Noel Barrett,
Carversville, Pennsylvania
by Lita Solis-Cohen
SHOWS
The Lebanon Antique Show Finds
a New Home, but for How Long? 10-B
Lebanon, Ohio
by Don Johnson
The 2015 Winter Antiques Show 15-B
New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
The Art, Design, & Antiques Show
at Wallace Hall 35-C
New York City
by Clayton Pennington
Metro Curates 12-D
New York City
by Julie Schlenger Adell
The New York Ceramics & Glass
Fair 2015 28-D
New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
FEATURES
Data Disposal, Backup Power,
and Mobile Web Sites 17-A
Computer Column #316
by John P. Reid
Ivory Ban’s Effects on Collectors,
Museums, Musicians, and the
Art Trade 27-A
by Kevin P. Ray
Cindy Johnson, Dater House
Antiques, Troy, New York 3-B
In the Trade
by Frank Donegan
In Defense of Pattern Glass 9-B
The Young Collector
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
Prepare to Gather 25-B
Auction Law & Ethics
by Steve Proffitt
February Auctions at Sotheby’s
and Freeman’s 28-B
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
by Mary Ann Brown
Rediscovery: Henry Grant Plumb,
Master of Arts and Letters 15-C
by Christine Oaklander
Carved in Stone: American
Stone Books 22-C
by Ian Berke
Exhibitions 39-C
A New Location for Chelsea Clock
Company and a Second Edition of
Its History 3-D
by Jeanne Schinto
Letter from London 6-D
by Ian McKay
Auction Prices Realized 32-E
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Tiny Gordon College in Wenham,
Massachusetts, has a big problem, and the
administration thought it had a perfect solu-
tion.
The problem is the Vining Collection,
approximately 7000 rare books and artifacts
given to the college by the family of Edward
Payson Vining in 1921. Proper care for the
collection is costly, and the college claims it
is unable to do so.
In the fall, the board of trustees authorized
the college to explore the sale of 10% of the
collection. Any funds raised would be used
to care for and preserve the remaining 90%.
A deal was struck, and a contract was
signed. Doyle New York was the winner of
the consignment, and an April auction was
planned. The Boston Globe reported the sale
was estimated to bring in around $2.5million.
As problem-solving goes, this was just
about perfect.
Not so fast. When a Vining descendant
caught wind of the sale, the college was made
aware of another board of trustees meeting—
this one in 1921. At that meeting, the college
accepted the collection under the condition
that the collection “be retained intact as a
memorial to Edward Payson Vining.”
The 1953 book A School of Christ by Nathan
Wood, a former president and professor of the
college, noted, “The Gordon Trustees made it
the Edward PaysonViningMemorial Library,
the gift of Charles and Annabel Vining Otis
of New York, by the following action on
October 7, 1921: ‘Voted to accept the library
on the understanding that the library shall
be retained intact as a memorial to Edward
Payson Vining and that no material change
shall be made in its contents which would
affect its material or sentimental value.’”
The college, on its own accord, postponed
the sale. “No date has been set after it became
clear we didn’t feel comfortable proceed-
ing in April,” said Gordon spokesman Rick
Sweeney. The college staked out its position
on its Web site: “This is an issue of steward-
ship—both for the Collection and for the
resources of a small college. The decision to
explore an auction of the small percentage
of the collection at this point in time was not
made lightly, and undertaken with mixed
emotions among the College leadership....
But any difficult decision is ultimately made
with the interests of institution in mind, and
we believe this plan will allow the College
to maintain the larger collection while being
fiscally responsible to all the needs of Gordon
and its students.”
Gordon College has contacted the
Massachusetts attorney general’s office, seek-
ing its opinion of the sale. “We do not want to
proceed until we’re sure we have the ability
to proceed,” said Sweeney.
Provided the attorney general agrees,
Gordon College should be allowed to sell a
portion of the collection. It’s a college—not a
museum—and it lacks the resources to prop-
erly care for the collection. As Sweeney said,
“There’s a legitimate concern of being able to
care for this the way it’s needed, especially
the things that are most valuable. If they are
gone forever, it’s everyone’s loss.”
The sale goes against donor intent as
expressed almost a century ago, but times
and circumstances change, and as the Barnes
Foundation taught us, donor intent is not
always an immovable roadblock.
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