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Due to the popularity of the exhibit, and to facilitate an increase in school group visits, the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, will be extending the exhibition The Shakers: From Mount Lebanon to the World through March 8. The show of approximately 100 works opened in June 2014.
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Tuesday at noon. That’s the day and time a group of 12 dealers want antiques buyers to remember. Every Tuesday at noon (Eastern time), a batch of fresh antiques will go on line at the soon-to-be-launched Web site 1st N Line (www.1stnline.com), a new on-line weekly antiques show.
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(Issue Story)
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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Author, auctioneer, appraiser, and home downsizing specialist Michael Ivankovich’s “What’s It Worth? Ask Mike the Appraiser” radio show has been extended by popular demand to a full hour. The show airs live on Friday mornings on WBCB 1490 AM in the greater Philadelphia area from 9 to 10 a.m. Ivankovich ... (Read More)
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JMK Shows’ new three-day event, Decorating with Antiques, will be held March 6-8 at the New Jersey Convention Center in Edison, New Jersey. It will be a new feature of the New Jersey Home Show, New Jersey’s largest event of its kind.
The collaboration between Allison Kohler, owner of JMK Shows, ... (Read More)
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For the past two years, Historic New England has been cataloging and digitizing its wallpaper collection. More than 6000 samples have been electronically cataloged and are available on line (www.WallpaperHistory.org). The collection includes rolled, flat, oversize, and three-dimensional materials, which each require unique handling and digitization methods.
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Editorial
Want to sell a highboy in Hauppauge? A sideboard in Southampton? A bookcase in Brookhaven? If so, you need a pay for a license. That unwelcome news is rippling through Suffolk County, New York, the fourth-largest county in the Empire State and home to almost 1.5 million people.
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China Gerui Advanced Materials Group Ltd. (CGAM) made a staggering announcement on September 4, 2014. Buried in a long press release announcing second-quarter financial results, the Chinese steel producer revealed it had paid $234 million in cash for a collection of 206 pieces of Chinese porcelain.
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Book Review
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with contributions by Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi, and Ralph Sessions Art Services International and Skira Rizzoli, 2014, 256 pages, softbound, $65.
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(Computer Article)
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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