A New Hampshire Wide Awakes banner, c1860, from the Lincoln & Hamlin campaign, 47" x 42", sold for $54,400 at Freeman's. The Wide Awakes were a grassroots Republican phenomenon that emerged during the campaign of 1860 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/rare... #antiques #woke #history #politics

The 55½" x 54¾" x 27" ebonized bed was part of the Brooklyn Museum’s 2008 exhibition on metamorphic furniture. It sold for $250 at Brunk Auctions, and is pictured in "There’s a Bed in the Piano: The Inside Story of the American Home" by Myrna Kaye www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/only...

Large Pennsylvania chalkware cat, 19th century, retaining its original black speckled surface with red highlights, 15 3/8" high, sold for $7620 at Pook & Pook. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/35-m... #antiques #antique #cat #cats #folkart #Pennsylvania #chalkware

At the Elverson Antiques Show: This paint-decorated walnut pie safe with 3-sided punched-tin panels features bold graphic graining on all surfaces. It was offered by Greg Kramer for $2750. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/elve... #antiques #antique #furniture #piesafe #painted #antiqueshow #show

Rubens Peale (1784-1865), "Still Life with Flowers in a White Compote and Fruit," c1857, oil on tin, 14" x 20¼", in a frame (not shown) likely built by the artist, sold for $54,400 (est. $8000/12,000) at Doyle's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/port... #art #artist #stilllife #Peale #flowers

This early 19th-C folk-art painted blanket chest, 21¾" x 37½" x 17½", sold for $15,000 (e $7000/10,000) at Brunk Auctions. Edgar & Bernice Chrysler Garbisch donated it to the Brooklyn Museum in 1951. It was on display from 2001 to 2016 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/only... #antiques #folkart

Adam & Eve needlework sampler worked by Mary Lord (1743-1801), Boston, dated 1754, inscribed “Mary Lord Finished This Sampler In The 11 Year Of Her Age 1754,” 17" x 11½", sold for $12,160 (e $15,000/25,000) at Freemans www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/amer... #antiques #antique #sampler #folkart

At the Pennsylvania Antique Show: Elliott and Grace Snyder Antiques offered a circa 1820 cradle, with carved woman’s hands, for $25,000 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/new-... #antiques #antique #folkart #Americana #cradle

At the Pennsylvania Antique Show: Jeffrey Tillou asked $55,000 for this portrait of 2 calico cats by an unidentified New England artist, oil on canvas, 22½" x 26½". It was from the collection of his father, Peter Tillou www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/new-... #cat #cats #folkart #antiques

Wedgwood caneware & black basalt oval plaque, “Am I Not a Man and a Brother,” Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, England, circa 1790, 3¼" x 2¾" (sight), sold for $2304 (e. $800/1200) at Freeman's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/amer... #antiques #antique #Wedgwood

A pink opaque lutz marble with red bands, 7/8" diameter marble, graded 9.7, sold for $28,290 (est. $20,000/25,000) at Morphy Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/bidd... #antiques #antique #vintage #marble #marbles #glass

"Indian Hunter and His Dog," 22” x 24", by Paul Manship (1885-1966) brought $38,400 (e. $30,000/50,000) at Devin Moisan Auctioneers www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/thre... #antiques #antique #sculpture #art #artist #Americana #Manship #bronze #sculptor

Classic 19th-century octagonal sailor’s valentine, probably Caribbean, with a shaded conch satinwood design on top, and a “LOVE / HOPE” central message, sold for $3600 (est. $1000/2000) at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/wint... #antiques #valentine #sailor

Tiffany Studios Drophead Dragonfly table lamp, c1910, leaded glass shade impressed “Tiffany Studios, 1507,” 22" D, gilt bronze base impressed “Tiffany Studios, New York, 367,” 31½" H, sold for $107,550 (e $80,000/100,000) at Fontaine's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/tiff... #antiques #Tiffany

"Cranberry Pickers" by Eastman Johnson (1824-1906), a scene set on Nantucket, Massachusetts, sold for $635,000 (est. $400,000/600,000) at Christie's. The 22½" x 26½" oil on board, painted 1876-79, is signed with initials “E.J.” www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/giff... #art #artist #Nantucket

Clementine Hunter (1887-1988), "Baptism in Cane River," c 1955, sold for $15,240 (e $8000/12,000) at Christie's. The oil on board, 18" x 24", is signed with initials “CH." www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/onli... #art #artist #Outsider #Outsiderart #folkart #naive #selftaught #Hunter #baptism

At the Hudson Antique Show: Bold in design and colors, this circa 1900 felt appliqué floral table rug was mounted for display, and priced at $550 by Diane Farr Antiques, Boalsburg, Pennsylvania. The framed rug is 29½" x 37½". www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/huds... #antiques #rug #textiles #art

“Re-Elect Roosevelt” 1936 campaign poster, 24" x 34", on thin stock with union bug and “JH 1936 A. Pitzel New York Production” at bottom left, signed “W. Sanger,” sold for $44,428 (e $10,000/20,000) at Hake’s www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/auct... #antiques #antique #history #poster #Roosevelt

Carved & painted by A Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) around 1930, the Underwood wing-up greater yellowlegs held a dramatic pose as it preens a single feather. The bird brought $66,000 (e $30,000/50,000) at Copley Fine Art Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/hemi... #decoy #decoys #art #birds

The buildings in this c1840 primitive oil painting of Phillips Academy, better known as Andover, match buildings known to have been on the campus. It is 17" x 26¼", and earned $1080 (e $1000/1500) at William Smith Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/a-go... #antiques #antique #folkart #art

An untitled enamel on paperboard ("Men with Turtles, Sailboat and Birds") by Amos Ferguson (1920-2009), painted in 1986, fresh-to-market, 36¼" x 30", sold for $40,640 (e $5000/10,000), auction record for Ferguson, at Christie's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/onli... #outsider #art #artist

This shawl sold for $1250 at Augusta Auctions. Lamé tassels stretch almost to the hem of the gold, green, purple, lavender, & red patterned silk cover-up. A 10" lamé cord trellis fringe decorates the 52" x 51" shawl www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/reco... #antiques #couture #fashion #shawl #art

This rare Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) lithograph, "Castine From Hospital Island," printed by L. H. Bradford & Co., 26" x 36", dated 1855, proved a major winner at $9987.50 (e. $4000/6000) at an auction by Bruce Gamage www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #art #Maine #Castine #Lane #antiques

At the Fiddlers Antique Show: Tom the Picker of Rutherfordton, North Carolina priced this 1925 Old Hickory lounge chair and ottoman as a set at $850 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/fidd... #antiques #antique #vintage #Americana #OldHickory #rustic #Adirondack

“Mason’s / Patent Nov 30TH / 1858,” with an embossed CFJCo monogram, quart, yellow green, 1880s, crisp molding, lugged CFJCo zinc cap, sold for $2355.12 at North American Glass. CFJCo stands for Consolidated Fruit Jar Co. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/new-... #glass #jar #antique #masonjar

At the Fiddlers Antiques Show: “It took me forever to find 46 flags with 44 stars,” said Brenda Hannah Daniel of Athens, Alabama. She found the 17" flag stand in Morristown, Tennessee. She priced the circa 1900 stand at $2800, and it sold www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/fidd... #antiques #flags

At the York Show: This tableau of a cobalt-decorated stoneware crock by HM Whitman (1860-62) of Havana, NY, & alabaster grapes were featured by Chris & Bernadette Evans, and offered for $1850 (crock) & $235 (grapes) www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/bund... #antiques #grapes #antique #stoneware

At the Nashville Show: Walter von Nessen (German/American, 1889-1943) designed these c 1931 whimsical Art Deco cat bookends. Franklin Pickers, Franklin, TN, had this 4" x 7½" x 2½" pair in satin nickel priced at $895 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #cats #Deco #antiques #cat #antiqueshow

At the Fiddlers Antiques Show: Jane Langol had this 1890-1910 quilt in her booth. “It is important because of the railroad track border and Roman stripe pattern,” she said. The 82" x 80" quilt was $1650 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/fidd... #antiques #quilt #quilts #antique #art #textiles

A scrimshaw whale panbone, 4 7/8" x 6¾", is engraved with an image of a town and a ship, with a swag and tassel border across the top and a rope-like twist between the views. Estimated at $1500/2500, it realized $8820 at New England Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/a-co... #antiques #art

Guilford County, North Carolina furniture maker Robert Matthews may have crafted this walnut early 19th-C Federal slant-front desk. The 43¼" x 42½" x 22¼" desk sold for $4305 (e. $1000/2000) at Brunk Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/byer... #antiques #antique #furniture #NorthCarolina

Coming out of an Alabama estate, this cast-iron male pig, 8½" H x 7" W x 17½" L, painted with a mottled cream ground and black spots and accents, sold for $2583 (e. $300/350) at Case Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/scho... #antiques #antique #pig #pigs

An absentee bidder won this Federal inlaid walnut hunt board for $7995 (e. $2000/4000) at Brunk Auctions. The 42" x 55½" x 19 1/8" hunt board is most likely Virginia-made in the early 19th century. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/byer... #antiques #furniture #Virginia #walnut #huntboard #auction

"Lady on a Red Sofa" by Joshua Johnson (c. 1763-after 1826), 1820-25, sold for $508,000 to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Sotheby’s. The oil on canvas, 30 1/8" x 25 3/8" had an estimate of $80,000/120,000 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/art-... #antiques #antique #art #artist #folkart

This two-door 80" x 42" x 15½" Aesthetic Movement bamboo dressing bureau is replete with mirrors and lacquered depictions of cranes, birds, and garden scenes. It sold for $1125 (est. $1200/1800) at Wooten & Wooten www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #bamboo #furniture

A double-sided paint-decorated Parcheesi game board, circa 1900, framed 16¾" x 17¼", sold for $22,860 (est. $10,000/15,000) at Christie's. It last sold in January 2016 for $19,680. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #vintage #art #games #Americana #folkart #Parcheesi

Selling for $108,000, a new auction record for Tennessee pottery, at Crocker Farm was this ovoid redware jar, 13" H, with rare, crosshatched copper-slip decoration, attributed to the C.A. Haun Pottery, Greene County, Tennessee, 1840-60 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/new-... #antiques #redware

Helen LaFrance (1919-2020), oil on canvas landscape depicting an African American church congregation gathering for a picnic, signed and dated “1995,” 26½" x 47½", sold for $11,070 (est. $4800/5200) at Case Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/scho... #art #artist #folkart #picnic

Mary Lanier Yancey (1902-1983), an instructor in ceramic engineering at Iowa State College, created this 5" x 4" glazed & carved earthenware vase with a raised floral & leaf design on a yellow ground. It sold for $14,145 at Marion Antique Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #pottery

A hand-carved & painted 9" Queen Anne period doll with real hair & the original skirt and bodice made from polished & quilted brown cotton fabric, sold for $2640 (e $500/1000) at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/four... #antiques #doll #dolls #antique

Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974), "Half Moon Beach (Green Umbrella)," oil on masonite, 22" x 28", painted near Cape Ann, sold for $14,080 (est. $5000/8000) at Freeman's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/proc... #art #artist #painting #fineart #beach #halfmoon #MacRae

"Gloucester Harbor" by Maurice Brazil Prendergast sold for $609,600 (e $300,000/500,000) at Christie's, @christiesinc.bsky.social The 23¼" x 27½" oil on canvas was executed 1918-23. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #art #artist #painting #Gloucester #Prendergast #auction

At the Washington Winter Show: Michael Paul Gunselman of Centreville, Delaware, offered this 38" high wooden padlock trade sign inscribed “HARDWARE.” It was priced at $2850. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/wash... #antiques #folkart #sign #signs #antique #hardware

This 75" x 50" mid-century palm tree form floor lamp with lights under the leaves is “in nice ready to use condition.” From the Dawson estate, it sold online for $2375 (est. $400/600) at Wooten & Wooten www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #mcm #midcenturymodern #modern #palm #lamp #lamps

"Coming to the Call" by Frederic Remington (1861-1909), oil on canvas, 27" x 40", circa 1905, signed “Frederic Remington,” sold for $13,285,000 at Christie's. The work had an estimate of $6,000,000/8,000,000 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/visi... #art #artist #remington #hunting #moose

Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses (1860-1961), "On Lake George," signed “MOSES”, oil on masonite, 13" x 16", painted in 1949, sold for $60,960 (est. $30,000/50,000) at Christie's www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #art #artist #folkart #Moses #LakeGeorge #grandmamoses #grandma

Sturtevant Hamblin (1817-1884) portrait of a boy with a whip, oil on board, 17¾" x 11¾", sold for $13,970 (e $12,000/18,000) at Christie's. Once attributed to William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), it sold for $19,635 at auction in May 2010 www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #art

At the 2026 Wallace Hall Antiques, Art & Design Show: This 19th-century carved wooden cake mold in the shape of a horse was tagged $325 at Find Weatherly LLC, Stamford, Connecticut. www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/the-... #antiques #antique #vintage #art #horse #cake #horses #folkart #cakeboard

The watercolor "Fort Dumpling, Conanicut Island" by William Trost Richards (1833-1905), 1874, 9" x 13½", brought $16,640 (est. $2000/3000) at Bonhams Skinner www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/amer... #watercolor #Conanicut #art #artist #painting #Richards #fortdumpling

A portrait of a boy wearing a red dress and matching pantaloons, playing with his dog, is a stunner. Painted on a wood panel, 30" x 20¾", circa 1835, it sold for $13,860 (est. $8000/12,000) at New England Auctions www.maineantiquedigest.com/stories/a-co... #antiques #folkart #artist #art #dog #dogs