Maine Antique Digest is a monthly publication that reports on the art and antiques market
07/11/2025
Country wall cupboard in poplar with blue paint, 19th century, five-shelf interior with remnants of red wash, the back with yellow wash, 68¼" high x 35" wide x 11" deep, sold for $2250 (est. $500/700) at a sale by Amelia Jeffers, Art & Antiques Appraiser, Auctioneer & Licensed Realtor
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Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/11/2025
Silver tankard by Benjamin Hiller, Boston (1687-1745), circa 1717, engraved “Thomas Robie / Donum Pupillorum / 1717,” 7" x 7½" x 4", approximately 24 troy ounces, ex-Wunsch Americana Foundation, previously on loan at Brooklyn Museum of Art, sold for $4687.50 (est. $4000/8000) at Nye and Company Auctioneers / Appraisers, Bloomfield, New Jersey, May 1.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/11/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, July 12– July 18, 2025
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Knoxville TN
Case Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
May's Antique Market
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Chrisman IL
Pure Country Antique Show
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Sunday, July 13***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Knoxville TN
Case Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Monday, July 14***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, July 15***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday. July 16***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Denver PA
Morphy Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction)
Pook & Pook Inc. (online)
***Thursday, July 17***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Denver PA
Morphy Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction)
Pook & Pook Inc. (online)
***Friday. July 18***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Beachwood OH
Neue Auctions
(Show) Saranac Lake NY
Saranac Lake Antique Show & Sale
07/10/2025
The circa 1921 Chelsea Clock Co. pilothouse wall clock, 12" high, sold for $14,400 (est. $5000/8000) at Cottone Auctions. It has a yellow brass marine case stamped on the back “133729” and “Chelsea Clock Co.” It is also stamped on the interior “B&O M1,” presumably for the B & O Railroad. It has an engraved, silvered dial, marked for retailer “Ball Watch Co. / Cleveland.” The movement is stamped “121805.”
The catalog notes that the “Ball watch company was originated by Webb Ball, who was instrumental in creating a time service for the railroads. The new standards were instituted to avoid future disasters caused by timing issues. This clock is listed on the Chelsea museum’s list of the 284 12-inch dial clocks produced by Chelsea.”
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Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/10/2025
A Bohemian hand-painted blown glass mug decorated with an eagle and inscribed “Liberty,” 19th century, with 15 gilt stars, 4" high, consigned by a mid-Atlantic institution, sold on the phone for $1920 (est. $500/800) at Freeman's in Philadelphia on April 29.
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Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/10/2025
The 18th-century New England American tiger maple Chippendale chest, 77" x 38½" x 19", with a dovetailed case, cutout bracket base, cornice-molded top, old patina, and original moldings, sold for $10,800 (est. $3000/5000) at Cottone Auctions. The brasses are old replacements.
From the collection of Elizabeth (Sage) Hare (1878-1948), it sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York City, February 25, 1949, lot 157. The chest was formerly in the collection of John F. Triepel and came from the estate of Sidonie (Triepel) Williams.
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Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/10/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, July 11– July 17, 2025
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Pembroke MA
Copley Fine Art Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
May's Antique Market
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Saturday, July 12***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Knoxville TN
Case Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
May's Antique Market
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Chrisman IL
Pure Country Antique Show
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Sunday, July 13***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Knoxville TN
Case Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Monday, July 14***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, July 15***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday. July 16***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Denver PA
Morphy Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction)
Pook & Pook Inc. (online)
***Thursday, July 17***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Denver PA
Morphy Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction)
Pook & Pook Inc. (online)
07/09/2025
At Antiques at the Tavern at Hanover Tavern
The dovetailed single-drawer work stand, circa 1830, features a full gallery and tapered legs. It was priced at $595.
The small 19th-century decorated container is Norwegian and was marked $250.
The subject of the framed silhouette is not identified, nor is it dated, but an interesting printed label fixed to the back reads “Cut with common Scissors / BY MASTER HUBARD / (age 13 years) / Without Drawing or Machine.” It was tagged $395. These items were offered by Rose Berry of Baldwin House Antiques, Richmond, Virginia.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/09/2025
This elaborate Pennsylvania wrought-iron spatula, 19th century, with brass and copper inlays and wrigglework decoration, 15¾" long, sold on the phone for $8125 (est. $2000/3000) at Pook & Pook, Inc., Auctions and Appraisals
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/09/2025
At Antiques at the Tavern at Hanover Tavern
One of the most interesting items found at the tavern was this segmented bench offered by Melissa and Butch Atkinson of Old School Antiques, Midlothian, Virginia. The 95" long bench is crafted in three unequal sections that can be adjusted by swiveling them to different angles. Canvas straps are fixed to the back rails to prevent overextending the angles of the elements. The bench is thought to be from Pennsylvania or West Virginia and was priced at $1295. Resting on the bench are a small stool, $115; a dome-top parquetry-decorated box, $295; and a green-painted document box, $295.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
07/09/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, July 10– July 16, 2025
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Pembroke MA
Copley Fine Art Auctions
(Auction) East Dennis MA
Eldred's
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
May's Antique Market
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Friday, July 11***
(Auction)
Jasper52
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Pembroke MA
Copley Fine Art Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
May's Antique Market
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Saturday, July 12***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Knoxville TN
Case Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
May's Antique Market
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Chrisman IL
Pure Country Antique Show
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Sunday, July 13***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Knoxville TN
Case Auctions
(Show) East Hampton NY
East Hampton Antiques & Design Show
(Show) Brimfield MA
Heart-O-The Mart
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Brimfield MA
N.E. Motel
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
***Monday, July 14***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, July 15***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday. July 16***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (online July 1-31)
(Auction)
Heckler (online July 9-16)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Denver PA
Morphy Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction)
Pook & Pook Inc. (online)
07/08/2025
Carved eagle wall clock, the face marked “L. Mounyer,” the eagle perched with a cloth in its mouth, the inside bottom of the clock decorated with stars, 32½" x 28½" sold for $1488 (est. $800/1200) at Cordier Auctions, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. One wing has losses to the edge, and one wing is not securely attached.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
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The Maine Antique Digest was started by Sam and Sally Pennington in Waldoboro, Maine, in 1973 and is still published from a building in the small downtown village on the midcoast of Maine. The first issue was mailed to five subscribers in November 1973. The newsstand price was 50 cents, and an annual subscription was $5.
Sam (1929-2008) and Sally (1931-2019) met when he was a 28-year-old Air Force navigator stationed at Carswell Air Force Base and she was a schoolteacher in Fort Worth, Texas. Not long after they were married in 1958, they bought a Federal house in Waldoboro, thinking that Sam would soon leave the Air Force. Instead, he stayed in the service until 1973. For a while when Sam was stationed in Bangor, Maine, in the 1960’s, he and Sally were part-time antiques dealers. They started talking about starting an antiques newspaper while Sam was stationed in Goose Bay, Labrador, just before his retirement from the Air Force. After Sam, Sally, and their five children moved to Waldoboro in 1973, Sam began writing for the short-lived Maine Antique Guide. Sam and Sally soon decided to start their own publication, and the first issue was put together on their dining room table.
All five Pennington children have worked for the paper at one time or another. Today the paper is headed by two of them, Clayton and Kate. M.A.D. employs 19 staff on site, plus Lita Solis-Cohen in Pennsylvania, and a fleet of freelance reporters and columnists.
M.A.D. continues to be a must-read for those who are serious about the antiques market, particularly Americana. There is no other publication quite like it, with its reports on shows, auctions, and other market news from across the United States and Canada and a long-running column on the London market. Regular columnists and staff write The Young Collector, Antique Jewelry & Gemology, Exhibitions, Books Received, and Auction Prices Realized (snippets of auction results). The Meeting Place features letters to the editor, club and association news, obituaries, and more.
Maine Antique Digest is published monthly in newsprint and digital formats. Subscriptions are $43 a year.
