Maine Antique Digest is a monthly publication that reports on the art and antiques market
01/10/2026
At The Original Semi-Annual York, PA Antiques Show and Sale
This cast-iron doorstop by Bradley & Hubbard Manufacturing Company, Meriden, Connecticut, early 1900s, was $1200 from Joyce and Ron Bassin of A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey. Ron said the elephant is a symbol of good luck and prosperity. Early in the show, they sold a prancing deer weathervane that retained much of its gilt surface.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
01/10/2026
A Nantucket swing handle basket signed by José Formoso Reyes (1902-1980), with a seagull carved from whale tooth and mounted on an ebony panel, is 10 7/8" high x 9½" wide x 6½" deep. It was estimated at $800/1300 and realized $6457.50 at Marion Antique Auctions
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
01/10/2026
At The Original Semi-Annual York, PA Antiques Show and Sale
Robert Conrad of Robert Conrad Antiques, Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, wanted $4200 for this carved Civil War soldier whirligig with its original paint.
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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.
01/10/2026
Antiques Shows and Auctions, January 11, 2026 – January 17, 2026
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Show) Bath ME
Bath Antique Sale
(Auction)
Biederman Real Estate and Gallery Zeff (online)
(Auction) Larchmont NY
Clarke
(Auction) Beverly MA
Kaminski Auctions
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
(Show) Washington DC
Washington Winter Show
***Monday, January 12***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, January 13***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday, January 14***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Atlanta GA
Ahlers & Ogletree
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Downingtown PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
***Thursday, January 15***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Atlanta GA
Ahlers & Ogletree
(Auction) Boston MA
Grogan & Company
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction) Downingtown PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
***Friday, January 16***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Boston MA
Grogan & Company
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Downingtown PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
***Saturday, January 17***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Rockland ME
Bruce Gamage Jr. Antiques
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Victoria VA
Victoria Auction
01/09/2026
At the Fishersville Antiques Expo:
This shelf unit displays fine examples of early Long Island, New York, slip-decorated redware. The early 19th-century charger, upper right, is 13" in diameter and displays an unusual design with four six-point stars and was tagged at $2400; at center on the middle row is another unusual example with four connected dendrite-like designs and was priced at $475; and lower left is an 8½" diameter plate centered with a large five-point star that was tagged $650. The redware shelves were found in the booth of Christopher and Bernadette Evans Antiques of Waynesboro, 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.
01/09/2026
Tiffany Studios Dogwood shade leaded glass and patinated bronze, circa 1910, is paired with a base of a Wheatley Pottery green buttress vase with later hardware. The shade’s provenance is Sotheby's auction, November 16, 1984. Provenance for the base is Phillips auction, April 17, 1985. The 21" x 18¼" lamp sold for $65,625 (est. $25,000/35,000) at Heritage Auctions
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
01/09/2026
At the Fishersville Antiques Expo
Bob Zordani and Heidi Kellner of Lexington, Virginia, trade as Z and K Antiques. They offered this grouping of early painted tinware. The tray was tagged at $675; the small spice container, $475; the tea caddy, $485; and the covered sugar bowl, $875. The large sugar container was marked at $950. The rare coffeepot is decorated with a cardinal amid foliage and was priced at $2750.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
01/09/2026
Antiques Shows and Auctions, January 10, 2026 – January 16, 2026
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Manheim PA
Hess Auction Group
(Auction) Beverly MA
Kaminski Auctions
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
(Show) Washington DC
Washington Winter Show
***Sunday, January 11***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Show) Bath ME
Bath Antique Sale
(Auction)
Biederman Real Estate and Gallery Zeff (online)
(Auction) Larchmont NY
Clarke
(Auction) Beverly MA
Kaminski Auctions
(Show) Atlanta GA
Scott Antique Markets
(Show) Washington DC
Washington Winter Show
***Monday, January 12***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, January 13***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday, January 14***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Atlanta GA
Ahlers & Ogletree
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Downingtown PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
***Thursday, January 15***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Atlanta GA
Ahlers & Ogletree
(Auction) Boston MA
Grogan & Company
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction) Downingtown PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
***Friday, January 16***
(Auction)
Antique American Clocks (sealed bid ends January 31)
(Auction) Boston MA
Grogan & Company
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Downingtown PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
01/08/2026
At the Back To Our Roots Antique Show
Double gate-leg table, oak, late 17th or early 18th century, butterfly hinges, the oval top 67½" x 76¼", $3600; ash burl mortar and pestle, $465; ash burl bowl from Lewis County, New York, about 20" diameter, $2400; painted mortar and pestle, and early 19th century, $595 from Scott and Leslie Carpenter of Iowa City Art & Antiques, Iowa City, Iowa.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
01/08/2026
Framed small watercolor and scissor-cut fraktur attributed to schoolmaster Jacob Botz of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, circa 1822, dated, made for John Rudisill on August 23, 1822, on early rag paper, in a red grain-painted chamfered softwood frame, 7¾" x 6½", sold for $1800 at Horst Auctioneers to Greg Kramer of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, dealer. The catalog noted that this fraktur was made later than Botz’s active dates, but is “obviously by his hand.”
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
01/08/2026
At the Back To Our Roots Antique Show
Biscuit-corner table with turned legs and a box stretcher, 25" high x 36" wide x 27½" deep, $595; burl bowl, 6" high x 15½" diameter, $2395; and forged-iron candle holder with a spiral stem and wooden base, $325, from Scherre Mumpower and Sharon Severt of Patriot Antique Shoppe, Tipp City, Ohio.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
01/08/2026
Antiques Shows and Auctions, January 9, 2026 – January 15, 2026
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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.
