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Slated for August 6 and 7, the 43rd annual Harvest Festival Antiques Show and Sale in Zoar, Ohio, will be managed by Steven Sherhag of Canfield, Ohio.
“Since 2008, dealers Jan and Dick Wilks have done a superb job managing and promoting Harvest Festival,” said Jon Elsasser, president of the Zoar ... (Read More)
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Decoys at Auction by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The festival of feathers capped at the Guyette & Deeter sale July 26 and 27 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where about 600 lots brought just shy of $3 million (including buyers’ premiums). As do Ted and Judy Harmon, whose Cape Cod auctions are highly social ... (Read More)
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The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi, has acquired a piece of George Edgar Ohr ceramic art pottery from an anonymous donor. According to the museum’s director, Kevin O’Brien, “Although the museum has been fortunate enough to receive gifts of Ohr in the recent past, it’s always a special ... (Read More)
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A Book Review
American Furniture 2015Edited by Luke Beckerdite The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2015, 241 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
Collectors and students of American furniture look forward annually to the publication of American Furniture, the ... (Read More)
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Promoter Melvin L. Arion has announced that the 20th annual Delaware Coast Antiques Show & Sale will not be held this year. The cancellation is due to major construction at the Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The event is normally held the first weekend after Labor Day (this year ... (Read More)
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Middletown, Rhode Island
The Newport Antiques Show, July 22-24, which celebrated its tenth year, continues to attract local collectors and summertime residents. Attendance appeared to be down this year, but “the show holds its own,” said Delaware dealer James M. Kilvington, who has exhibited here for six years.
Held in the ice ... (Read More)
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Cincinnati, Ohio
Indian Hill Antiques Fair was under new management during the 34th annual show, held July 24 in northeastern Cincinnati. Doug Supinger took over for Ray and Kathy Mongenas, who started the event for the Indian Hill Boosters Association and managed it through last year.
While the Mongenases took pride in ... (Read More)
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Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
The festival of feathers continued on July 24 with Copley Fine Art Auctions’ tenth annual auction in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where collectors of decoy and sporting art assembled while artworks and birds moved from one collection to another.
Bird carvers were and remain sportspersons, careful observers of ... (Read More)
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Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter
The posters, banners, and other circus memorabilia auctioned on July 23 at Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago offered a glimpse into a world that has all but disappeared—the latest sign being that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey has cited ... (Read More)
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Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale, Rockport, Maine
The Goosefare Antiques and Promotions Camden-Rockport Historical Society antiques show, held this year on July 23 and 24 at coastal Maine’s Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport, Maine, its 36th year, is rapidly building toward icon status.
With temperatures in the high 80s, the first ... (Read More)
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