Maine Antique Digest is a monthly publication that reports on the art and antiques market
10/17/2025
"View of Tarrytown, New York," circa 1850, by British artist Thomas Chambers (1808-1869), sold for $23,940 (est. $25,000/40,000) at Eldred's. Chambers worked in the U.S. between 1832 and 1865.
The oil on canvas, 25" x 36", is an action-packed view of shipping on the Hudson River below Tarrytown. Provenance includes Kennedy Galleries, Inc., New York City, and Rear Admiral Edward P. Moore and Barbara Bingham Moore, from whose collection the painting was sold at Sotheby's on September 26, 2008, for $98,500. Provenance also includes Marguerite Riordan of Stonington, Connecticut. The painting came to this sale from the Arun and Barbara Singh collection.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
10/17/2025
The mid-19th-century Cotton Hersey (1792-1881) miniature firkin, 2½" tall, in blue paint is stamped “C.H.” on the lid. It sold for $12,600 (est. $10,000/15,000) at Eldred's to Woodbury, Connecticut, dealer David Schorsch of David A. Schorsch-Eileen M. Smiles Fine Americana for his own collection.
Schorsch was the underbidder when it sold at Skinner on August 14, 2011, for $16,590. “What’s special about it is there aren’t that many painted miniature Cotton Hersey firkins—they called them buckets—and this one is the only blue one that I had ever seen,” Schorsch said. “It was sort of the one that got away.” The firkin was from the Peter and Judi Hersey collection.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
10/17/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, October 18 – October 24, 2025
(Auction)
Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc. (online)
10/16/2025
At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale, produced by Goosefare Antiques Shows
It’s rare to find a 24-tube wooden-framed candle mold in very good condition. It’s rarer still to find one with redware tubes. And rarest to find one stamped with the maker’s mark. Carl Goveia of Nauset Antiques, Eastham, Massachusetts, had this one, signed “A. Wilcox,” indicating Alvin Wilcox’s pottery, operating in West Bloomfield, New York, from 1825 to 1862. Goveia offered it for a show-special price of $1200.
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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.
10/16/2025
At the Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale, produced by Goosefare Antiques Shows
It was the first time out for the mid-18th-century Spanish-footed armchair with a rush seat from Heller Washam Antiques, Portland, Maine. It has spectacular outstretched arms, Donald Heller noted. The price was $3600. The oil on canvas ship portrait of the "Mary E. Douglass" is signed and dated lower left “W. G. Yorke June 1875” and was priced at $10,800.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
10/16/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, October 17 – October 23, 2025
(Auction) Timonium MD
Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc.
(Auction)
Richard Opfer Auctioneering, Inc. (online)
10/15/2025
Lift-top painted chest with decorative woodgraining, two faux drawers, and one functional lower drawer with brass drop pulls, raised on turned feet, 37" x 20" x 43", sold for $560.50 at KC Auction Company, LLC
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
10/15/2025
This pie safe with pierced tins on four sides with hearts, stars, and birds and with three interior shelves, 37" x 15½" x 37", sold for $5900 at KC Auction Company, LLC. “We had our television on it,” said consignor Henry Goben in a phone interview.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
10/15/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, October 16 – October 22, 2025
(Auction)
Beck Estates (online September 23- October 28)
(Auction)
Everard Auctions & Appraisals (online October 9-30, 2025)
(Auction) Hatfield PA
Alderfer Auction
(Auction) New York NY
Doyle
(Auction) Detroit MI
DuMouchelles
(Estate / Tag Sale) Warren OH
Greenwald Antiques
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Las Vegas NV
Morphy Auctions
(Auction) Branford CT
New England Auctions
***Friday, October 17***
(Auction)
Everard Auctions & Appraisals (online October 9-30, 2025)
(Auction)
Chairish Auctions: Americana, Folk Art, and Outsider Art - Day 2
(Show) Oaks PA
Antique & Collector Fair at Oaks, PA
(Auction) Vineland NJ
Bertoia Auctions
(Auction) Detroit MI
DuMouchelles
(Estate / Tag Sale) Warren OH
Greenwald Antiques
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Las Vegas PA
Morphy Auctions
***Saturday, October 18***
(Auction)
Everard Auctions & Appraisals (online October 9-30, 2025)
(Show) Oaks PA
Antique & Collector Fair at Oaks, PA
(Auction) Detroit MI
DuMouchelles
(Show)
Fox Valley Antiques Show (online)
(Show) Henrietta NY
Greater Rochester Fall Antique Show
(Estate / Tag Sale) Warren OH
Greenwald Antiques
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Kempton PA
Kempton Antique Show & Sale
(Auction) Las Vegas PA
Morphy Auctions
(Show) Boxboro MA
Paper Town
(Auction) Aberdeen MS
Stevens Auction Company
(Show) Westmoreland NH
The Tailgate
***Sunday, October 19***
(Auction)
Everard Auctions & Appraisals (online October 9-30, 2025)
(Show)
Fox Valley Antiques Show (online)
(Estate / Tag Sale) Warren OH
Greenwald Antiques
(Show) Hampton NH
Hampton, NH Antique Show
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) New Oxford PA
New Oxford Antique Show
***Monday, October 20***
(Auction)
Everard Auctions & Appraisals (online October 9-30, 2025)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, October 21***
(Auction)
Everard Auctions & Appraisals (online October 9-30, 2025)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday, October 22***
(Auction)
Beck Estates (online September 23- October 28)
(Auction)
Everard Auctions & Appraisals (online October 9-30, 2025)
(Auction) Asheville NC
Brunk Auctions
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Bloomfield NJ
Nye & Co.
10/14/2025
This Federal dwarf clock, 48¼" x 11¼" x 5¾", by Joshua Wilder (1786-1860) of Hingham, Massachusetts, circa 1820, in an inlaid and figured mahogany and mahogany veneer case has a tombstone dial door flanked by full columns. The dial is signed “J. Wilder / Hingham,” and the lunette is decorated with a basket of roses.
The clock represents the most elaborate form made by Wilder; a similar example is on view at Winterthur Museum. Provenance includes Israel Sack, New York City; John D. Schapiro, Monkton, Maryland; Northeast Auctions, August 2003 (sold for $101,500); and Robert Cheney Fine Antique Clocks, Brimfield, Massachusetts. The clock came from the Arun and Barbara Singh collection and sold for $40,950 (est. $25,000/40,000).
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
10/14/2025
Special Show Section: Get a sneak peek to see what dealers are bringing to the Annual Delaware Antiques Show, November 7-9 in Wilmington, Delaware.
This Prior-Hamblin school Massachusetts portrait of a lady seated on a sofa, is unsigned and dates to around 1840. The oil on canvas, 30" x 25¼" (sight size), sold for $44,100 (est. $8000/12,000) at Eldred's.
Provenance includes the story of Sara and Mary Andrews of Westerly, Rhode Island, who purportedly purchased the picture from a Providence collector in 1946 and carried it home on a bus. Then the portrait descended in the Andrews family. Provenance also includes Marguerite Riordan in 1996. The portrait came from the Arun and Barbara Singh collection.
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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.
