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Hixenbaugh Ancient Art (HAA) has relocated to the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City after nine years on the Upper East Side.
HAA handles art farom a variety of ancient civilizations that flourished in Europe, North Africa, Western Asia, and the Americas. The gallery is led by Randall Hixenbaugh, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Impressionism in Canada: A Journey of Rediscovery by A.K. Prakash (Arnoldsche Art ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Randal Dawkins.
A partial view of Dawkins’s front room. Some things are for sale, some aren’t.
A striking rosewood and gilt center or loo table, circa 1825, $42,500. Dawkins said, “It’s the best center table on Firstdibs under fifty-six thousand dollars,” and noted that two others on that site are priced ... (Read More)
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Customers and exhibitors are invited to bring historic military images to the 32nd annual Spring D.C. Antique Photo and Postcard Show, March 15, at the Holiday Inn Rosslyn in Arlington, Virginia. The photos may be scanned for future inclusion in Military Images magazine or appraised for possible future auction consignments ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
The Young Collector
Kids’ minds work in remarkable ways. Sometimes you have a keen awareness that they are laying track across vast swaths of new territory, and they’re constantly discovering more uncharted areas. (A terrifying awareness is that you are allegedly helping them.) Sometimes the breadth of what they do not ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Winston Churchill continues to attract adulation and huge prices in the salesroom, as one of the last of the old year sales in London so clearly showed, but in this selection he is joined in his staggering success by the most expensive watch ever made, a $24 million ... (Read More)
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One of Édith Piaf’s big hits was “Non, je ne regrette rien” (No, I regret nothing), but I doubt the French chanteuse was a collector.
All collectors and dealers have regrets about purchases, some of them costly. If they deny they’ve made mistakes, they’re either too embarrassed to admit them or ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Amanda Lange, curatorial department director at Historic Deerfield, showed that Classical objects such as obelisks were popular decorative forms. This is one of a pair of circa 1800 English “feldspathic stoneware” obelisks by Chetham & Woolley of Longton, Staffordshire County. The overglaze enamel decoration depicts “trophies” of musical and military ... (Read More)
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The author and the circa 1930 carving, which stands about 2' high and is carved from a single block of wood.
In the realm of folk art, woodcarving is a popular collectible. The Ottawa Valley in Canada was home to a number of folk artists who worked in wood. One in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Susan Jaffe Tane, pictured in her library. The bibliophile and philanthropist earned a B.S. from Boston University’s School of Education and later pursued postgraduate courses at Hofstra University and C.W. Post University. She began her career as a schoolteacher and later launched Fashions by Appointment, a small business dedicated to ... (Read More)
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