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Baltimore, Maryland

The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show

by Lita Solis-Cohen
here were two entrances to the Baltimore Sum- Warhol is made of hundreds of tiny faces of

T mer Antiques Show at the Baltimore Convention Chairman Mao; Barack Obama’s digital tesserae
Center held on the four days before Labor Day, are images of Abraham Lincoln; and Brigitte
September 2-5. Over 500 dealers filled the vast Bardot’s is made up of hundreds of tiny pictures
240,000-square-foot space with furniture, jewelry, of the Creation of Eve from Michelangelo’s ceil-
paintings, sculpture, books, prints, posters, photo- ing in the Sistine Chapel. Marilyn Monroe is
graphs, ephemera, handbags and composed of tiny images of the
hats, all sorts of collectibles, The Palm Beach Mona Lisa, while Mother Tere-
bronzes and ivory, and a variety sa is a grid of Gandhi. The por-
of decorative arts, much of it Group has created an traits come in two sizes: 40" x
Asian and some of it new. On upscale, white-car- 60" (in editions of fewer than
Thursday before noon at the Pratt peted antiques show 20) for $7000 and 72" x 108"
Street entrance, Kris Chara- (in editions of fewer than ten)
monde, Scott Diament, and out of what for a for $15,000.
Robert Samuels, the three young quarter-century was They are the work of 40-
Florida jewelry dealers known as year-old artist Alex Guofeng
the Palm Beach Group, cut the the biggest indoor Cao, who came to New York
ribbon marking the 30th anniver- antiques market. City from China as a teenager
sary of this show and its fifth year and found his passion, photog-
under their management. raphy, when he was studying at the Fashion Insti-
Those who entered this show from the Charles Street tute of Technology. Inspired by photographers
entrance were greeted by a stand with a dozen very Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, and Robert Map-
large photographs of notables: Mother Teresa, John F. plethorpe, Cao is primarily interested in the
Kennedy, Elvis Presley, Andy Warhol, Marilyn Mon- black-and-white images burned into our memory.
roe, and other instantly recognizable figures. Viewed Fascinated with the mosaics he discovered in
up close, these large images were seen to be mosaics, Pompeii and Herculaneum, he created these por-
made of tiny related images. For example, Andy traits with digital photographic mosaics and
printed them on large sheets of paper laid down
on aluminum and covered by Plexiglas.
“I am trying to encode and layer information as
it accumulates over time, the way history devel-
ops,” said Cao. “I have set up a dialogue between
the new digital technologies and photography’s
original analog techniques.”
Cao’s portraits suggest that he has looked at
portraits painted by Chuck Close. Cao’s most
moving image is of the Pulitzer Prize-winning
photograph by South African photographer Kevin
Carter of a vulture waiting for a Sudanese child to
die. That photo made Carter famous, but the hate
letters he received accusing him of indifference to
suffering helped push him to committing suicide
two months after he won the prize. Cao’s poster-
size photo of Carter’s prize-winning photograph
is composed of tiny images of the man who took
it. Cao said the irony is that the child in the pic-
ture lived. Cao’s photographs were the talk of this
show, which, like them, also presented two sides
of a coin.
The Palm Beach Group has created an upscale,
white-carpeted antiques show out of what for a
quarter-century was the biggest indoor antiques
market. Now its center aisles are filled with large
stands where dealers present art and antiques in
veritable galleries, while some parts of the show,
The Norwoods’ Spirit of America, Timonium, Mary- for example the book and ephemera section and
land, asked $3000 for the hooked rug, which sold, and adjacent stands rented by generalists, are a
$4400 for the double-sided tavern sign in the form of a reminder that this Baltimore show once was a
hand. The Martha and George Washington folk art pic- pipe-and-drape, mom-and-pop show where some
tures made from postage stamps, priced at $6800, had top dealers set up in order to buy. The sturdy
been bought at Leigh Keno’s auction in Stamford, Con- walls and white carpet are a new look that makes
necticut, in April, as had several other items on their the merchandise look even better.
stand. While the old guard is nostalgic for the old days
The Norwoods were one of very few dealers with when mom-and-pop stands provided
Americana. Most Americana dealers were at Butch
greater shopping opportunities, high
Arion’s show in York, Pennsylvania. The Norwoods did booth rents, going higher, have priced
both shows, bringing mostly New England folk art to
the part-time, low-end dealers out of this
Baltimore and Pennsylvania folk art to York. Next year show. “This is Palm Beach in Balti-
there will not be a conflict because the Baltimore show
more,” complained one old-timer, but it
will be held August 25-28. isn’t Palm Beach. The Palm Beach Jew-
elry, Art & Antique Show is the ultimate
retail show with the highest gate.
The Baltimore show filled the convention center for the 30th year.
It has become far more elegant than it was for its first quarter-
century. It has white carpets, spacious aisles, and wooden walls—
not much pipe and drape. It is an upscale show, which pleased
some dealers and made others nostalgic for the old days when
Frank Farbenbloom ran the show and mom-and-pop dealers
brought treasures with reasonable price tags.
Those who did not know the
Baltimore show in the old days
marveled at the elegance and
enjoyed the ambiance and com-
fort of white-carpeted floors.
Stands stocked by some top
dealers with first-rate material
replaced a group of equally
prominent British and American
dealers who did not return this
year. Among the new dealers
were Erik Thomsen, a New York
City specialist in Japanese
screens and lacquers, and
Charles Plante, an American
who lives in England but sum-
mers at Rehoboth, Delaware,
and is known for small framed
19th-century watercolors, draw-
ings, and small 20th-century
sculpture. Plante’s last show was
at Mallett on Madison Avenue in
New York City.
Russack & Loto Books from
New Hampshire set up its stand
in the antiques section, not in the
book section, and offered books
on European, Asian, and, their
stock in trade, American decora-
tive arts. For the first time,
Maria Domont of Domont Jew-
elry, West Hollywood, came
with costume jewelry. Jewelry,
whether costume or real, is a Briley International, Clifton,
large presence at this show, as New Jersey, offered this Tiffany
are women’s handbags. Three & Co. tall-case clock acquired
recently from an estate. It’s
believed to be one of three
known similar clocks made
circa 1885. The silver-plated
decoration had been replated.
The asking price was $850,000
retail.

This English hexagonal coffeepot by

M.S. Rau Antiques, New Orleans, Louisiana, asked
the highest price at the show, $5.85 million for the
1896 painting by Monet of trees reflected in a flood-
ed river, Flood at Giverny. Bill Rau said he had
bought it from a Swiss family. The Art Nouveau
bronze vase was $24,500.
This Louis Vuitton trunk in mint condition
was $29,850 from M.S. Rau Antiques.
David Willaume, London, 1715, was
$34,500 from Robert Lloyd of New
York City. He also offered another
rarity (not shown), a chatelaine
hook, the only known piece of silver
with the mark of Jacob Getz, Lan- McCarty Gallery, Philadelphia,
caster, Pennsylvania. More work by asked $75,000 for Beauty in Profile
his brother John Getz is known. “I by Richard Edward Miller, an 18½"
found it at Brimfield in July,” said x 15" oil on canvas painted in
Lloyd. France, 1911-13.
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D. Brett Benson, Chicago, offered Bakelite
bracelets. Examples in the bottom row ranged
from $1200 to $7500. The clad Bakelite
bracelets on the top row were priced from $950
to $2500.
Marvin Baer of Ridgewood, New Jersey, offered a fine selection of late
19th-century Koransha porcelain from Japan. From left: the pair of
vases cost $2250; the jar, $2250; the temple jar, $1850; and the vase,
$1350. Baer said he sold well. He has been doing the show for years
and keeps in touch with his customers regularly, and they look for- The Antique Cupboard, Waukesha, Wisconsin, specialists
ward to coming to see him. As did many buyers, they received free in Jensen, Tiffany, and Victorian silver flatware, was one
tickets in the mail. of a number of dealers in silver flatware and matching
services. The Tiffany Indian pattern knives, once owned
by William Randolph Hearst, were $1250 for each knife.

Erik Thomsen Asian Art, New York City, showing in Baltimore

for the first time, offered this pair of Japanese screens depict-
Ed Weissman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ing the four seasons, in gold leaf and mineral colors, priced in
asked $125,000 for this whalebone ship model. the low six figures.
The deck is made of a panbone.

stands offered Chanel and Her-
mès handbags at four- and five-
figure sums.
There were very few million-
dollar items. M.S. Rau Antiques,
New Orleans, brought a Monet
oil painting depicting a flood at
Giverny and asked $5.85 million
for it. Michael Teller of TK
Asian Antiquities asked $1.3
million for a 3rd-century Chi-
nese gold vessel inlaid with
turquoise and garnets; he said he
sold it.
Dealers were the major buy-
ers—dealers exhibiting and
dealers who made the trip from
New York and elsewhere, some
from abroad. Other show pro-
moters trolled the show trying to
fill their upcoming shows,
knowing that they could find
500 prospects in one place.
Even though dealers who set
up stands got first dibs on buy-
ing from each other, some wait-
ed until the show opened before
making their deals. Two days
into the show Jim Alterman of
Lambertville, New Jersey,
bought Boca Raton, Florida,
dealer Steve Newman’s entire
stand, most of it sculpture,
including two Rodins. New York
City dealer Greg Nanamura said
his large silver-plated Italian
cockatoo wine cooler was
“bought on the floor.” Just as the
show opened, New Jersey dealer
Marvin Baer was on his scooter
heading for his stand with a
large Imari charger in his arms.
Half a dozen Chinese dealers
with little on their stands were
buying, mostly jades. Much Chi-
nese was spoken on opening day
as groups of young Chinese men
moved from one stand to anoth-
er.
Kris Charamonde said more
decorators came to the show this
year than last. Some were buy-
ing for clients in India and the
Middle East and left with limou-
sines and town cars full of pack-
ages. “When I saw a designer
from Milan pushing three shop-
ping carts I thanked him for
coming,” said Charamonde.
Some collectors found what
they came for. Others, however,
left empty-handed and said they
were surprised that quality was
not uniformly high at this non-
vetted show of enormous vari-
ety.
Stephen W. Fisher, whose col-
lection of Japanese cloisonné
was shown at the Walters Art
Museum earlier this year,
bought what he called a master-
piece vase from Orientations
Gallery, New York City. He said
he spent $75,000 for it. Japanese
cloisonné has been a specialty at
Orientations for a generation.
Charamonde said he was
amazed that business for some
was remarkably good, given the
state of the economy. “They may
have not sold much in the six or
seven figures, but a good many
things in the fifty-thousand- to
ninety-thousand-dollar range
changed hands,” he said.
Some dealers said they “pulled
it out” on Sunday. Dealers who
made multiple sales were happy
to sign up for next year before
they left. Some said doing OK in
this market is considered good;
they will be back. New York
City print and map dealer W.
Graham Arader took a small
stand this year and put his son
Walter in charge. Walter said it
was not a good show for them,
but Charamonde said Arader
will take larger space next year
and feature a collection of Mary-
land maps. The show attracts
serious collectors from the U.S.,
Europe, and Asia.
There is probably more silver
at the Baltimore show than at
any other show in the U.S.
Mount Kisco, New York, dealer
Bill Drucker said he sold the
first sugar muffineer made by
Georg Jensen. It has a hand-
hammered poppy motif and is
marked number one. Mark
McHugh and Spencer Gordon II
of Spencer Marks, Southamp-
ton, Massachusetts, sold a silver
Art Nouveau tea and coffee serv-
ice by Orivit. A firm in Cologne,
Germany that made silver from
1901 to 1905, Orivit was known
for pewter and metalware sold at
Liberty’s in London.
Although several high-profile
silver dealers did not return to
the show this year, three silver
dealers from Great Britain who
in the past had come to shop
took stands “for the optimum
buying opportunity.” Even
though dealer-to-dealer business
is a big part of this show, New
York City silver dealer Robert
Lloyd said he sold a pair of tall
candlesticks made in London in
1764 to a new customer. “They
saw my ad in the show catalog,
wanted to come to my talk on
Saturday afternoon but missed
it, and came on Sunday. The best
part is they are young collec-
tors,” he said. Lloyd had a good
show; he also sold an English
silver covered porringer from
1660 to a private client.
David Brooker, an Englishman
who has a shop in Woodbury,
Connecticut, and exhibits at the
LAPADA show in Berkeley
Square in London in September,
said he sold 22 paintings at the
Baltimore show last year and
that this year he sold 14, most of
them marine pictures. The show
had a broad range of paintings,
an enormous stock of prints, and
some sculpture.
With a huge advertising blitz
on TV and in the Baltimore and
D.C. newspapers and an endless
supply of free passes distributed
by dealers (each dealer gets 50
passes), the management
ensured a good gate. Dedicated
collectors came back day after
day. Some came from afar and
stayed at the nearby hotels; oth-
ers were day-trippers from D.C.,
Virginia, Delaware, and Penn-
sylvania. Thursday and Friday
are known as trade days, Satur-
day and Sunday as retail. Every
day was bargaining day.
“The consumers know they are
in control,” said Philadelphia
paintings dealer Mark McCarty.
“Collectors are making low
offers, but they are coming back.
I think we hit bottom, and busi-
ness is on an upswing. There is a
lot of interest. People are
informed. I am optimistic.” He
sold six paintings.
On Thursday a contingent of
dealers who had set up at Melvin
Arion’s York, Pennsylvania,
antiques show on Wednesday
came to shop, but they found lit-
Dennis and Dad Antiques, Fitzwilliam, New Hampshire,
offered a selection of yellowware priced from $400 to
$2500. The big pitcher in the middle on the top row was
$1850, the one to the left, $2450, and the pitcher on the
right, $1950.
This 18½" historical blue
Staffordshire platter depicts
the headwaters of the Juniata.
It is the only known one of this
view marked “Stevenson” and
was $9000 from Dennis and
Dad Antiques.
tle Americana mixed in with a
lot of bronze sculptures and
ivory carvings. Next year could
be another story. The 2011 Bal-
timore show will be held a week
earlier, August 25-28. The Orig-
inal York Antiques Show & Sale
is always held the Friday, Satur-
day, and Sunday before Labor
Day.
“I have always wanted to
avoid Labor Day when so many
people have family conflicts,
but we could never get the con-
vention center the week before,”
said Charamonde. “On Labor
Day weekend 2011, the Grand
Prix auto race will be in Balti-
more, so we got the convention
center the weekend before. I Aunt Tink, Reston, Virginia,
was the Clarice Cliff specialist
hope that means a group of at the show this year. Gail
dealers with Americana will be Crockett asked $1700 for this
part of this show.” Zebra Tree Honolulu vase. It’s
Stay tuned by logging on to a low price because it was
(www.collectorsartnet.com), a restored. In perfect condition
new social network site for deal- at the top of the market, one
ers who participate in the Balti- sold for $6000.
more, Dallas, Fort Lauderdale,
and Palm Beach shows, as well
as for collectors and designers.
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said Scott Diament, the Palm for now. When the network is up
Beach Group CEO in charge of and running successfully, there
this new venture. Dealers may may be a small monthly mem-
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link to their Web sites; collec- For more information about
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This was the show for figural napkin rings. Sandra Whitson of Georg Jensen silver and Saxbo pottery jam jars
Lititz, Pennsylvania, asked $3800 for the pair of tennis players on from the 1940’s from Drucker Antiques, Mount
the bottom shelf. Other examples were priced from $100 to Kisco, New York. The blue one with a silver lid and
$5000, the most expensive one being Rip Van Winkle portrayed silver spoon (left) was $4800, and the greenish one
as a woodsman with a gun. The Triton blowing his shell (bottom with a wood, silver, and ivory cover and silver and
left) was $1800, and the court jester pointing (top shelf) was ivory spoon, $1800.
From left: show promoters and jewelry dealers Scott $2500.
Diament, Robert Samuels, and Kris Charamonde of the
Palm Beach Group cut the ribbon for the 30th annual
Baltimore Summer Antiques Show, which they bought
five years ago and turned it into an elegant high-end
show with more than 500 dealers.

Bill Drucker said he sold the

Glass Past, New York City,
first sugar muffineer made by
wanted $4500 for this sculptur-
Georg Jensen. Marked number
al glass from the 1960’s by the
one, it has a hand-hammered
Venetian Toni Zuccheri.
poppy motif. Drucker photos.

This English valentine in

the shape of a daisy was
$100 from Sheryl Jaeger
and Ralph Gallo, who call
their
Costume jewelry is a big ephemera
part of this show. Ric the business in
Terrier by Lea Stein, 1968- Tolland, Con-
80, was $225 from Nula necticut,
Thanhauser of East Hamp- Eclectibles.
Nula Thanhauser holds a peacock purse, a per- ton, New York.
fect example—the back is even better—priced at
$5800.

Judy Loto of Russack & Loto Books, LLC,

Northwood, New Hampshire, bought Rick Rus-
sack’s book business in 2009 after working with
him for two years. She said they brought books to
this show they would not take to an Americana
show, such as rare folios on European subjects,
hoping people would find things they did not
already have in their libraries. They did.
Judy Loto is thanked by Kris Charamonde
for talking up the show on Baltimore’s CBS
station on Friday morning.
This Japanese cloisonné
vase depicting a kingfisher
diving toward a lotus plant
was $38,000 from Orienta-
tions Gallery, New York
City.
Richard Wagner of Wagner’s Weapons and Walk-
ing Sticks, Jaffrey, New Hampshire, holds a very tall
cane used to get out of a stagecoach. It was $1195.
“Most of these are cut down, so it is rare,” said
Wagner.

Walter Arader (right) with Kris Charamonde, who has a promise

that Arader Galleries will take a larger stand next year and fea-
ture Maryland prints and maps. Behind them is the Polar Hare
from John James Audubon’s Viviparous Quadrupeds of North
America (1845-48), a landmark of American natural history,
printed in Philadelphia by J.T. Bowen. The print was $13,000, a
special price for the Baltimore show; it is usually priced at
$18,000. It did not sell.
There is a view of Baltimore in the background of J.J.
Audubon’s Canvas backed Duck. Walter Arader said
this print generally sells for $150,000, but for this
show, the price was $115,000.
Pictured are New York City dealer Susan Tosk (center),
founder with her late husband of Orientations Gallery,
with her colleague David Cole (left) and Baltimore col-
lector Stephen W. Fisher. Fisher’s collection of Japanese
cloisonné is one of the finest in the world and was shown
at the Walters Art Museum from February to June 2010.
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John Atzbach of Redmond, Washington, asked

$36,000 for this plate made at the Russian
Imperial Porcelain Factory for Nicholas I to fill
out his Coalport service, which was a gift from Collectorsartnet.com, a social network for collec-
Queen Victoria. tors and dealers, is the brainchild of Scott Dia-
ment, one of the three partners who promote the
Baltimore Summer Antiques Show; the Palm
Mosher Books, Ephrata, Pennsylvania, Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show; the new Fort
Marcia Moylan and Jacqueline asked $65 for this poster by Ralph Barton Lauderdale Art, Antique & Jewelry Show; and the
Smelkinson of The Spare for The Tattooed Countess by Carl Van Dallas International Art, Antique & Jewelry Show.
Room, Baltimore, have done Vechten, who in addition to being a writer Dealers with the Palm Beach Show Group may
the show for 30 years. They was also a well-known photographer. One join and for now it is free, but a small membership
offered a group of Hercula- could find good graphics at the show for fee may be required in the future. The recent Col
neum pearlware dinner plates, modest prices. There were half a dozen lectorsArtnet.com e-newsletter promotes the ben-
circa 1800, for $750 each. print dealers, and many book dealers efits of joining. “Dealers can create their own inde-
offered posters and prints as well as books. pendently managed micro-site on CollectorsArt
Decorators could have a field day. net.com and can upload an unlimited number of
merchandise listings, information about their
gallery, and a banner, logo, and profile picture of
the owner and gallery personnel.” Although deal-
er listings are open only to Palm Beach Show
Group’s exhibiting dealers, anyone can log on as a
collector, and there is an opportunity for designers
to join as well. The site has capability for use with
iPhones and iPads as well as many other features.
“If you go home and wish you had purchased
something, you can log on, take another look, and
contact the dealer,” said Diament. “The site is like
four shows in one. There are three categories:
Ken Leach of Gallery 47, New York City, asked designers, dealers, and shows. We will have pro-
$35,000 for this suite of American Art Nouveau files of dealers.”
furniture. The three chairs and a sofa were
made in 1907 by S. Karpen & Brothers, Chica-
go and New York.

James Infante of Jersey These Viennese wine glasses, circa 1907, in yel-
City, New Jersey, asked low, pink, and amethyst, were $3500 from James
$24,000 for this 37" high Infante.
Austrian Art Nouveau
double-walled reticulated
Amphora pottery vase
with a design of daisies,
circa 1900.

Hamish Hog Antiques, Plainfield, New

Jersey, offered this Aesthetic Move-
Fletcher/Copenhaver Fine Art, Fredericks- ment shelf, probably New York, for
burg, Virginia, offered the work of Alix Aymé $1500.
(1894-1989), a French painter who worked with
painter Maurice Denis of Les Nabis. She spent
much of her life in Southeast Asia. This fall her William Cook of Hungerford, Berkshire, England asked
work will be shown at Evergreen House in Bal- $12,000 for the tilt-top center table, possibly by Gillows of
timore, part of Johns Hopkins University. This Lancaster; it sold. He said the blue-painted cart, 1870-80,
watercolor drawing was $4800. that was used to pull children around, is perfect for storing
wine bottles; it was $1800. The sideboard with its original
gallery, slide-out shelves, and tin-lined bottle drawer was
Alastair Crawford, LLC, New $13,500.
York City, designed this new
handmade fish pitcher that
The Chinese Famille Verte
gurgles when pouring. It is
rouleau vase from the Kangxi
.925 pure silver and priced at
period (1662-1722), 12½" high,
$14,000.
with a long provenance of own-
ership, was about $60,000 from
Mustafa Hassan of Imperial
Oriental Art, New York City.

Lisa Gaffney calls her business in

Sharon, Connecticut, and New York
Bamboo basket, early 1900’s, signed City Terra Mare Antiques because
“Hounsai,” $7500 from Oriental she specializes in natural themes in
Treasure Box, San Diego, California. ceramics and decorative arts, espe-
cially Art Nouveau, Amphora,
French iridescence, and Palissy
ware. This French irises vase by
Chinese Kangxi porcelain garniture set, priced at around $48,000 Clement Massier was $1000.
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This China trade oil painting in its original
frame was $7500 from Vallin Galleries,
Wilton, Connecticut.
There were several poster dealers. This rare
“Bitter Campari” poster by Cappiello, in
mint condition, was $12,000 from Antique
Posters.com, Spencer Weisz Galleries, Chica-
go. Fewer than ten of these posters are
known.
New York City dealer Michael Pashby, show-
ing for the first time in Baltimore, asked
$39,500 for the chest of drawers with figured
walnut veneer, circa 1740. The paktong rose-
water ewer and shell basin were $22,500.
Pashby said he did business and will be back
next year.
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This Chinese ivory temple, an entrance to the city, was
$100,000 from A.B. Levy, Palm Beach, Florida. It’s Eve Stone of Woodbridge, Connecticut, offered English copper
made of elephant trunk ivory, circa 1930’s. molds priced from $300 to $6500; the most expensive is the largest
one, which is marked Fontainebleau. This was her first time
exhibiting at the Baltimore show.
This pair of Chinese wine ewers in the form of
Charles Washburne of Solebury, Pennsylvania, asked
a pair of stags, circa 1700, was $55,000 from
$22,475 for the German majolica hunt box with
Santos, London.
hounds, rifle, and powder horn from the Lonitz pottery
and $677 each for the English plates by Alcock.
Stevens Antiques, Frazer, Pennsylvania, offered sculpture. The
19th-century marble bust of Antoninus, Hadrian’s adopted son,
was $8750. The wooden figures of Benjamin Franklin ($6240) and Michael Leslie of Port ’N Starboard, Falmouth, Maine,
John Adams ($6850) were possibly carved in New York state. Her- asked $6000 for this model of a four-masted schooner
mes was $2750, and the bust of Abraham Lincoln, $5900. made by a sailor early in the 20th century.
“We have had a good show—sold a secretary desk, a table, two
sets of andirons, some sculpture, two paintings. This is a southern
show; we see people here we see nowhere else,” said Carole
Lehman, director of the gallery.
Seekers Antiques, Columbus, Ohio, offered these three Minton plates
designed by W.S. Coleman, who was inspired by designs Felix There was plenty of ephemera at the show. This collec-
Bracquemond created in 1867 for Parisian retailer Eugene Rousseau. tion of paper dominoes of maps of France was $1250 for
The dessert plate at left is from the Aquarium service; the other two the collection from Ari Millner of Prints Charming
plates are from the Naturalist service. From left, they were priced at Soho, New York City.
$495, $450, and $375.
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Pictured at right is one of a pair of circa 1890 throne

chairs by Luigi Frullini of Florence, Italy, who did work
for mansions in Newport, Rhode Island. They were
$27,000 the pair from Post Road Gallery, Larchmont,
New York. The Herter Brothers cabinet from the mid-
1880’s was $55,000.
A.E. Runge, Jr. of Yarmouth, Maine, offered
this large (26' x 9½') Northeast Persian rug for The Palm Beach Group’s next show is the Dallas International
$35,000. Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, October 27-31, with just 100 deal-
ers, at a new venue, the Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas
in Irving, Texas. The first Dallas show was not an unqualified suc-
cess.

This early 17th-century Mercator map of Virginia and

Florida was $4500 from Charles Edwin Puckett of There were fewer dealers in English furniture this year,
Akron, Ohio. but all of them seemed to sell fairly well. Gary Sergeant
of Woodbury, Connecticut, asked $16,500 for this 40" x The Chinese bronze vessels with a rope base, dating
53" x 27" mahogany breakfront sideboard with a lined from the Spring and Autumn period of the Zhou
bottle drawer and ebonized molding. Dynasty, 600 B.C., were $275,000 from Michael Teller,
TK Asian Antiquities, Williamsburg, Virginia. Behind
Fountain candle- them are two-sided sliding doors, late 18th century,
sticks by Gorham, from a house in southeastern China, priced at $13,000
circa 1960, that the pair.
can be used as
wall sconces, a
centerpiece with
flowers in the cen-
ter, or on a buffet,
were $3900 from
Gary Niederkorn
of Philadelphia,
who said in 25
years in business,
he has had only
four sets.

This Hubley fire truck, circa

1912, reflects the transition from
horse-drawn to motor. It was
$2850 from Gemini Antiques,
Lebanon, New Jersey.

This large Yves Saint Laurent

brooch was $2500 from Maria
Domont of West Hollywood, Cali-
fornia, exhibiting at the Balti-
more show for the first time. “The
show has great promoters, so I
thought I’d try it, and I have
some customers in Washington,”
she said. Her stand was often
crowded.