Maine Antique Digest is a monthly publication that reports on the art and antiques market
08/21/2025
At the Midwest Antique & Art and The Collector's Eye Shows
Ovoid stoneware jar by Jonathan Fenton of Boston, impressed with “Boston” over a flower on one side and a fish over the marker’s cartouche on the other, salt glazed with cobalt highlights, 1794-97, 15" high, $6500 from Thomas M. Rawson of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Rawson said it was one of only two examples known having the three decorative elements.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
08/21/2025
At the Midwest Antique & Art and The Collector's Eye Shows
Optometrist’s trade sign, reverse-painted convex glass, about 19" diameter, $2400 from Phillip and Jayne Schauer of Pipsqueak & Me, Janesville, Wisconsin.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
08/21/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, August 22– August 28, 2025
(Auction)
New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals, LLC (online August 8-22, 2025)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Manheim PA
Hess Auction Group
(Auction) Hastings MI
Stanton's Auctioneers, Appraisers, & Realtors
***Saturday, August 23***
(Show) Osterville MA
Antiques at the Academy Antiques Show & Sale
(Auction) Portsmouth NH
Bray & Co. Auctions
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Lakeside OH
Lakeside Antique Show
(Auction) Hastings MI
Stanton's Auctioneers, Appraisers, & Realtors
(Show) Dover NH
The Dover Antique Show & Vintage Market
(Show) New Gloucester ME
Wabanaki Arts Market
***Sunday, August 24***
(Auction) Sarasota FL
Amero Auctions
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Monday, August 25***
(Auction) Rockland ME
Bruce Gamage Jr.
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, August 26***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Dallas Auction Gallery
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday, August 27***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Thursday, August 28***
(Auction)
Waddington's (online August 28-September 11, 2025)
(Auction) Thomaston ME
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
(Auction) Hillsborough NC
Leland Little
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
08/20/2025
This Chippendale spice or valuables chest is constructed of walnut and dates from the late 18th or early 19th century. Poplar, sycamore, and oak are the secondary woods. A single raised-panel door opens to ten small dovetailed drawers. The 21½" x 18" x 10" chest with an applied molded cornice and cutout base is from Virginia and sold for $7930 (est. $2000/3000) at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates-Catalogued 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.
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08/20/2025
08/20/2025
This rare pressed glass open compote in electric blue is likely from the Boston & Sandwich Co., 1840-70. In the Star and Quarter Diamond pattern and featuring a scalloped rim, the piece is raised on a hollow stem resting on a round base. Ex-collection of William J. Elsholz, the 9½" high compote sold for $13,420 (est. $6000/8000) at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates-Catalogued 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.
08/20/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, August 21– August 27, 2025
(Auction)
New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals, LLC (online August 8-22, 2025)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction)
Pook & Pook Inc. (online)
(Auction) Hastings MI
Stanton's Auctioneers, Appraisers, & Realtors
***Friday, August 22***
(Auction)
Jasper52
(Auction)
New Hampshire Auctions and Appraisals, LLC (online August 8-22, 2025)
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Auction) Manheim PA
Hess Auction Group
(Auction) Hastings MI
Stanton's Auctioneers, Appraisers, & Realtors
***Saturday, August 23***
(Show) Osterville MA
Antiques at the Academy Antiques Show & Sale
(Auction) Portsmouth NH
Bray & Co. Auctions
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
(Show) Lakeside OH
Lakeside Antique Show
(Auction) Hastings MI
Stanton's Auctioneers, Appraisers, & Realtors
(Show) Dover NH
The Dover Antique Show & Vintage Market
(Show) New Gloucester ME
Wabanaki Arts Market
***Sunday, August 24***
(Auction) Sarasota FL
Amero Auctions
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Monday, August 25***
(Auction) Rockland ME
Bruce Gamage Jr.
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Tuesday, August 26***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Dallas Auction Gallery
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
***Wednesday, August 27***
(Auction) Dallas TX
Heritage Auctions
08/19/2025
Folky painting of a cat, signed “P. Noon,” mid-19th century, oil on canvas, the feline seated on an Empire stool having a brass tag that seems to read “Nero,” with a one-drawer Hepplewhite stand, a tiger maple saber-leg chair, and an Oriental rug partially visible, 15" x 21" (sight size), in a shadow-box frame, sold for $5040 (est. $400/800) by Amelia Jeffers, Art & Antiques Appraiser, Auctioneer & Licensed Realtor
Affixed to the back of the canvas is an old note, “‘Nero’ [or ‘Hero’] / Pet of Ella Good / Padanaram / Mass.” Padanaram is a village in South Dartmouth, Massachusetts, near New Bedford.
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
08/19/2025
Neoclassical mahogany card table marked for William Alexander of Pittsburgh (active 1837-44), second quarter of the 19th century, bifold top, acanthus carving, hairy-paw feet, 27½" high x 37¾" wide, finish and stenciling of an uncertain age, imperfections, sold for $4440 (est. $1000/2000) by Amelia Jeffers, Art & Antiques Appraiser, Auctioneer & Licensed Realtor
Published monthly, Maine Antique Digest covers the marketplace for Americana and art. Each issue features antiques news, auctions, and shows across the U.S.
08/19/2025
Antiques Shows and Auctions, August 20– August 26, 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.
