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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Items as diverse as a lock of Mozart’s hair, an Olympic torch, and a goggle-eyed figurine from ancient Japan feature in this month’s selection. Japan also provides a wonderful screen recalling an early encounter with the “Southern Barbarians”—the Portuguese in this instance. This month’s “Letter” also offers perfume ... (Read More)
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(Show)Round Lake Antiques Festival
Barbara Milano, owner of Milano’s Treasures and an exhibitor at the Gristmill Antique Center, Troy, New York, had a great Saturday. She posed with an old outhouse seat from an upstate New York barn, which she said had been well used. Milano also displayed a set of books on the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Group Shop Owner Reaches Plea Deal
The owner of Derby Antiques and More, LLC, Derby, Kansas, reimbursed some of her former clients more than $13,000 on June 15 as part of plea negotiations with prosecutors. Sandra Ostrander pleaded guilty to three counts of theft in return for a recommendation that she be placed on probation and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln Hen Tops Decoy Auction
Decoys Unlimited, Hyannis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Decoys Unlimited
For sure the best auctions on the circuit are those of decoys. The summer sales, two-day affairs, feature all manner of delectation—in addition to the fine feathers for sale. This summer decoy sales ran for five days straight, back-to-back and sometimes simultaneously, in an ... (Read More)
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(Show)Newport Antiques Show 2015
Middletown, Rhode Island
The Newport Antiques Show, held July 24-26 for its ninth year, competes for attention from many other events held near the “City by the Sea” on sun-kissed summer weekends. Activities including music festivals, golf tournaments, weddings, sailboat races, and country club soirees fill the calendars of potential showgoers.
This ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.6 Million Decoy and Sporting Art Auction
The Anthony Elmer Crowell preening wood duck was the highlight of the auction and realized $210,000.
Albert Elmer Crowell’s miniature green heron, 4 1/4" x 5 1/4" pictured left, carved around 1930, was estimated at $1000/1500 and brought $5100. His miniature bluebill drake is at 1 1/8" x 2 1/8" one of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Coeur d'Alene Art Auction Exceeds $23 Million Mark
Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
Photos courtesy Coeur d’Alene Art Auction
Classical Western and American artworks are synonymous with the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction. For more than 25 years the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction has offered up stellar examples not only by iconic past masters but by in-demand contemporary artists as ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nelson Lots Top Massachusetts Auction
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
When Marion Antique Auctions announces one of its twice yearly sales, collectors and dealers mark their calendars. Much of what passes through the auction house is fresh to the market; much of it has area provenance. Much relates to the maritime heritage of the area.
Frank McNamee ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Emerald Bay" Brings Gold
Gustave J.S. White, Portsmouth, Rhode Island
It was all about paintings at the Gustave J.S. White sale on July 25 at Michael R. Corcoran’s Newport County Auction Gallery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. As fixtures on Aquidneck Island (the island that includes Newport, Portsmouth, and Middletown) Corcoran and his staff are positioned ... (Read More)
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(Show)"'Pretty Good' Is the New 'Great' in the Antiques Business"
Michael and Lucinda Seward of Pittsford, Vermont, showed this painting by Lucy H. Doane, who died in 2010 at the age of 101. Born in Nahant, Massachusetts, Doane lived, painted, and taught art in Vermont and Massachusetts. The 21½" x 27½" boating scene was $1250.
Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, brought ... (Read More)
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