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COVER PHOTOS:
Paul Howard Manship, Diana, pg. 26-C
Tea Table, pg. 32-E
James Buttersworth, pg. 9-A
Ammi Phillips Portrait, pg. 30-A
Drums, pg. 28-E
Americana staged a big comeback
in January, much as the New England
Patriots did in Super Bowl LI.
The auction numbers help tell the story.
Sotheby’s brought 1300 lots ofAmericana
to market in six catalogs and hauled in
$19.378 million for its Americana Week
totals, the highest number for the auction
house since 2007.
Christie’s brought in $12.178 million
for 750 lots sold in January and added
to the $2.691 million from its Americana
sales in September—the firm sells
Americana twice a year and Sotheby’s
sells just once in January—for just over
$14.8 million for the season.
Helping to cast off the market’s
doldrums was the masterful installation
at Sotheby’s, where Erik Gronning
elevated the presentation of American
antiques with a deft touch, highlighting
the objects to their best against a stark
background. He showed that antiques can
exist comfortably in Modernist environs.
The question now is whether the
momentum generated in New York City
will carry over to the wider Americana
market. The conditions are ripe. Prices
are down from their highs, leading to
buying opportunities, and with the aging
of some collectors, objects long off the
market may soon be available. Christie’s
sale of the Altmayer family collection—
which brought in $5,364,625—showed
the hunger for objects that have been
unavailable for years. “America First,”
the current nationalist political mood,
and the rise in the stock market can’t hurt
either.
The future for stuff of the past seems
bright.
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Editorial 3-A
by S. Clayton Pennington
The Meeting Place 4-A
Fragments 8-A
Indy Ad Show Ownership Change – Kenos
Resolve All Legal Matters – Barn Star Will
Manage Adirondack Museum Show –
Buttersworth Tops Doubleday Collection
Sale at Doyle – Lunders Give Another $100
Million-Plus Gift to Colby College – Long-
Lost First Franklin Broadside Acquired by
Penn Libraries – Antiques Week in New
Hampshire Show Change – Graves and
Jobe Accept Wunsch Awards – Cabot Mill
Antiques Passes $1 Million per Annum Sales
Milestone – 2017 Americana Week Roundup
– Sotheby’s Learns of Fake, Refunds Buyer,
and Sues Consignor – Brandy Culp, New
Curator of American Decorative Arts at
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art –
Appraisers Association of America Honors
Jeffrey Deitch – Two Arrested in Art Theft
Index to Display Advertisers 38-A
Index to Shows and Auctions 4-D
Classified Ads 38-D
AUCTIONS
Native American Art Auction 15-A
Bonhams, San Francisco, California
by Alice Kaufman
Portrait by Ammi Phillips
Leads Americana Auction 30-A
Christie’s, New York City
by Clayton Pennington
“Fall Start” Toy Auction
Makes a $1.9 Million Landslide 3-B
Bertoia Auctions,
Vineland, New Jersey
by Dick Friz
Some Softness at the Top 8-B
Seeck Auctions, Mason City, Iowa,
and Kansas City, Missouri
by Nick Sabo
Shattering the $3 Million
Glass Ceiling 11-B
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
by Mark Sisco
Noel Barrett and Pook Toy Sale 22-B
Pook and Pook and Noel Barrett,
Downingtown, Pennsylvania
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Slotin Folk Art: A Mix of
Art and Art Forms 27-B
Slotin Folk Art Auction,
Buford, Georgia
by Marty Steiner
Americana and Nautical
Estates Auction 3-C
Polly Warren Antiques,
Rehoboth, Massachusetts
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
American History 10-C
Cowan’s Auctions,
Cincinnati, Ohio
by Don Johnson
Mostly Nautical 19-C
Marion Antique Auctions,
Marion, Massachusetts
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
American Art Sale 26-C
Bonhams, New York City
by Julie Schlenger Adell
Painted Furniture at Hap Moore 28-C
Hap Moore Antiques Auction,
York, Maine
by Mark Sisco
Cowan’s Americana 10-D
Cowan’s Auctions,
Cincinnati, Ohio
by Don Johnson
Potomack Gets Presidential 23-D
The Potomack Company,
Alexandria, Virginia
by Walter C. Newman
The Louisiana Purchase
Auction: History, Art,
and Artifacts 27-D
Neal Auction Company,
New Orleans, Louisiana
by Karla Klein Albertson
American Art and
Philadelphia Impressionists 32-D
Freeman’s, Philadelphia
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Foster Rings in the New Year 15-E
Robert L. Foster Auctions,
Newcastle, Maine
by Mark Sisco
The Parker Sale 32-E
Sotheby’s, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
SHOWS
The 35th Annual Holiday
Antiques Show 19-B
Williamsburg, Virginia
by Walter C. Newman
The Boston Home Décor Show 6-C
Boston, Massachusetts
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Heartland Antique Show,
Fall Edition 22-C
Richmond, Indiana
by Don Johnson
The Sixth Annapolis
Antiques Show 35-D
Annapolis, Maryland
by Walter C. Newman
The 2016 Greenwich Winter
Antiques Show 28-E
Greenwich, Connecticut
by Julie Schlenger Adell
Three-Day Show in
Third Year at Wallace Hall 36-E
Wallace Hall Art, Design &
Antiques Show, New York City
by Julie Schlenger Adell
FEATURES
The Devil’s Dictionary of
Antiques Collecting: Part 4 18-A
by Baron Perlman
Marni Bakst, Oh Antiques,
Verbank, New York 24-A
In the Trade
by Frank Donegan
2016: The Year in Review 27-A
The Young Collector
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
Exhibitions 18-C
Letter from London 6-D
by Ian McKay
Auction Prices Realized 15-D
Turnbull Jewels Perform Well 18-D
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
by Mary Ann Brown
Three-Dimensional Printing
and Antiques 18-E
Computer Column #339
by John P. Reid