Maine Antique Digest is a monthly publication that reports on the art and antiques market
11/28/2025
An exceptional table mat, circa 1830, in needlework and appliqué, features a central urn with vibrant flowers, peacocks, willow trees with birds, including a pair of doves, hummingbirds, and others, encircled by a red floral and vine border, all on a black ground. Each corner of the 30" x 52" work features a stylized sunburst. The mat has been professionally preserved and mounted and sold for $20,910 (est. $10,000/20,000) at CRN Auctions Inc.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/28/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, November 29 – December 05, 2025
At the Hampton, New Hampshire show, promoted by Peter Mavris Antique Shows
Samuel Herrup Antiques of Sheffield, Massachusetts, priced this unusual multi-figure Staffordshire bocage group for $775.
He also provided an interesting history lesson on why the group may have been created.
One was obviously a minister, two were a well-dressed couple, likely being married, and in the middle was a younger figure, praying. When asked, Herrup said, “this one with multiple figures is really unusual. It was made in the 1830s and was intended to promote marriage. England passed a law in 1836, known as The Marriage Act, which recognized civil marriages performed by other than Anglican ministers, which was meant to encourage more couples to marry.”
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/27/2025
At the Hampton, New Hampshire show, promoted by Peter Mavris Antique Shows
Peter Eaton of Wiscasset, Maine, said this mahogany Chippendale ribbon-back side chair was $2400. He went on to explain that it retains the original leather-upholstered seat and original finish. He said it dates to 1770-80 and had been made in Boston.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/27/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, November 28 – December 04, 2025
(Auction) Clarence NY
Schultz Auctioneers (online, phone, and absentee)
(Show) Milford NH
Granite State Antique Shows
(Show) Marlborough MA
The Thanksgiving Sunday Antique Show
***Monday, December 01***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction)
Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC (online)
(Auction)
Flying Pig Auctions (online)
***Tuesday, December 02***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Alexandria VA
The Potomack Company
(Auction) Hillsborough NC
LeLand Little
***Wednesday, December 03***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Chicago IL
Potter & Potter Auctions
(Auction) Alexandria VA
The Potomack Company
(Auction) PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
(Auction)
Nye & Co.
(Auction) Hillsborough NC
LeLand Little
***Thursday, December 04***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
(Auction) Alexandria VA
The Potomack Company
(Auction)
Tom Jones Auctions, LLC (online)
(Auction) Las Vegas NV
Morphy Auctions
(Auction) Hillsborough NC
LeLand Little
11/26/2025
The General Nathanael Greene family Queen Anne mahogany tray-top tea table, Newport, Rhode Island, school of John Townsend (1732-1809) and John Goddard (1723/24-1785), circa 1740-60, 27" x 19½" x 30", sold for $8960 (est. $3000/5000) at Freeman's . The Millhiser’s bought it from Israel Sack, Inc. in 1944. Its top is an old replacement.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/26/2025
A useful and labeled Classical carved, inlaid, and veneered mahogany base of a secretary, circa 1825, with the stenciled label of Charles H. White (1796-1876), 47" x 55½" x 25½", the bequest of J. Stodgell Stokes to the Philadelphia Art Museum, deaccessioned, sold for $1024 (est. $1500/2500) at Freeman's
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/26/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, November 27 – December 03, 2025
(Auction) Clarence NY
Schultz Auctioneers (online, phone, and absentee)
(Show) Milford NH
Granite State Antique Shows
(Show) Marlborough MA
The Thanksgiving Sunday Antique Show
***Monday, December 01***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction)
Over & Above Online Auction and Estate Sales, LLC (online)
(Auction)
Flying Pig Auctions (online)
***Tuesday, December 02***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Alexandria VA
The Potomack Company
(Auction) Hillsborough NC
LeLand Little
***Wednesday, December 03***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Chicago IL
Potter & Potter Auctions
(Auction) Alexandria VA
The Potomack Company
(Auction) PA
Pook & Pook Inc.
(Auction)
Nye & Co.
(Auction) Hillsborough NC
LeLand Little
11/25/2025
The woodblock prints of Maine’s Carroll Thayer Berry (1886-1978) routinely bring good prices at Bruce Gamage Antiques auctions. This 10" x 12" print, framed, double matted and glazed, titled in pencil "LOBSTERMAN—MAINE," and signed lower right, hit $517.50 with a $300/400 estimate.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/25/2025
Hanging with Luke Haynes and Nicole Leth
Luke Haynes, LUKEHaynes.com, and Nicole Leth exude laughter and joy.
It comes through in their voices, in what they surround themselves with in their 1950s Asheville, North Carolina, house, and most explicitly in their art.
“I studied Luke as part of the curriculum,” said Nicole, who was born in Des Moines, Iowa. She was studying fine art at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, when Luke came to lecture on his portrait quilts made from recycled clothes and textiles. They kept in touch while living in different cities and years later began dating. They’ve been married now for six years.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/25/2025
Maine and Massachusetts artist William Stubbs (1842-1909) painted a 20" x 30" oil on canvas of the three-masted schooner "H. A. Dewitt." The painting is in need of restoration, with some paint loss, stains, and wrinkles. While carrying a cargo of lumber, the ship was stranded and abandoned off St. Andrews Bay in Florida in 1891.
Stubbs was something of a wreck himself. Following the deaths of his wife and daughter, Stubbs suffered from manic depression, and, according to auctioneer Bruce Gamage, Stubbs often painted while heavily intoxicated. The signature may bear the story out. Stubbs misspelled his own name in the signature as “STUUBBS.” Nevertheless, there was no doubt that the painting was an original Stubbs, and it sold within the $2000/3000 estimate for $2990 at Bruce Gamage Antiques
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
11/25/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, November 26 – December 02, 2025
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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.
