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Maine Antique Digest is written for collectors and the antiques trade. M.A.D. covers auctions, shows, and the goings-on in the art and antiques marketplace.

Waldoboro, Maine
Joined February 2009
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Coined the Patriot Jar, c1861, with likely New Jersey origin, the 9¾" T stoneware jar, decorated with a man carrying an American flag, sold to a folk-art collector for $312,000 (e $50,000/75,000) at @CrockerFarm maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #stoneware #folkart #USA
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At the Bath Show: This wooden Great Seal of the United States, surrounded by stars, c 1920, probably came from a government building, according to Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine. It was $4500 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #vintage #USA #Americana #America
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At the Bath Show: Ross Levett offered a rare Dutch implement with engraved scenes of a bird & a bird in a cage. He said the 18th-C tool was used to raise & lower bird cages. He asked $2500. The 17th-C clamp, once gilded, was $1600 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #Dutch
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Federal mahogany & maple worktable attributed to the shop of John & Thomas Seymour with paint decoration attributed to John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841) of Boston. The 29¾" x 20" x 15¾" table sold for $400,000 at @BrunkAuctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #furniture #Seymour
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New Hampshire mahogany dressing table, 33¼" x 35 1/8" x 17¾", with a crazed, dark early surface, attributed to Portsmouth, 1800-10. The table with serpentine top & extremely thin reeded legs sold for $15,000 (e $5000/7000) at @BrunkAuctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #art
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Lift-top blanket chest, believed to have originated in Rhode Island, was dated circa 1830 & the catalog termed the paint as “polychrome putty-roll painted decoration.” It realized $8400 at William Smith Auctions maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #folkart #furniture #antique
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5" x 3½" watercolor by the "Puffy Sleeve Artist" (believed to be Ezra Wood, active 1830-31) sold for $2400 (e $800/1200) at William Smith Auctions. She holds paper stating the sitter was 24 years old, & the year was 1832 maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #folkart #art
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At the Downeast Art & Antiques Show: A silk memorial celebrating the families of Rebekah and David Ross was tagged $3850 by Malcolm Magruder of Millwood, Virginia maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #vintage #art #folkart #Americana #memorial #Ross #show #Maine
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At the Downeast Art & Antiques Show: Christopher Cawley of Stockton, NJ, offered this 19th-C English campaign daybed by Alfred Carter of London, for $4800. He noted that it is signed & very rare maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #furniture #campaign #English #Maine #show
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At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show: Bethany Kelly (right) and Jennifer Scott of BDK Antiques, Limington, Maine, showed a lovely lady in solid bronze, seated beneath a tree for $1250. The sculptor is unknown maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #antique #art #artist #sculpture
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At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show: David Thompson brought this all-original Metropolitan Casualty Insurance Company sign, probably from the 1920s. Note how the company brags about their $200,000 capitalization maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antiques #history #insurance #signs
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Marble bust of George Washington, 23½" H, attributed to Horatio Greenough (1805-1852), sold for $12,160 (est. $8000/12,000) at @FreemansAuction. Greenough busts of Washington are found in museum collections maineantiquedigest.com/stori… #antique #antiques #art #Washington #sculpture
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