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What’s Your Niche?
by John P. Reid

A low-cost 7" tablet computer running Windows 8.1. Computer Column #314 John P. Reid, [email protected] Antiquers may want to identify their personal niche in the computer world. Personal niches are changing as hardware and software rapidly evolve. Let’s look at the whole picture and identify the range of niches. Big Computers The really big ... (Read More)

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Cowan's Acquires Little John's Auction Service
by Don Johnson

Cowan’s Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, has acquired Little John’s Auction Service of Orange, California. Completed in January, the deal makes Cowan’s the third-largest auction house of antique firearms in the United States. It brings together two companies with more than 60 years of combined experience and more than $600 million ... (Read More)

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Sotheby's Magnificent Jewels Sale Caps a Year of Stellar Results
by Mary Ann Brown

This circa 1920 signed Tiffany & Co. platinum, moonstone, and sapphire brooch designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany sold to a phone bidder for $62,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). It was accompanied by an AGL report stating that the sapphire is of Ceylon origin, with no indications of heating. Sotheby’s, New York. When Lisa ... (Read More)

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Elise Abrams, Great Barrington, Massachusetts
by Frank Donegan

Elise Abrams’s shop is just north of Great Barrington on Route 7. Part of it was originally a Dairy Queen. Elise Abrams. A very partial interior view. Abrams said a service like this (which is for 12 although only eight are set up) averages about $300 per piece. Art Deco Czech geometric cut ... (Read More)

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Nashville in Transition: Year without a Heart
by Karla Klein Albertson

The announcement last year that the 33rd edition of the well-known Heart of Country Antiques Showwould be the last saddened collectors and dealers for whom the event had become a festive annual reunion. The Opryland Hotel in Nashville, once merely large, had more than tripled in physical size during the ... (Read More)

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