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The 42nd Annual Round Lake Antiques Festival
by Betty Flood and Casey O’Brien

Ken Woodbury of Keene, New Hampshire, exhibited more wind-up cylinder and disc phonographs than usual. “I brought a good variety of horns but ran out of space to properly display them,” said Woodbury. Three high-priced burl bowls were in the booth of Kay Riordan Roffe of Williamson, New York. The largest ... (Read More)

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Heart of the Shenandoah Valley Antiques Fair
by Walter C. Newman

Pete Turner hails from Concord, North Carolina, and trades as P & P Treasures. His booth offered an unexpected combination of vintage advertising signs and face jugs. Here is a selection of Turner’s signs: Chicago Southern Transportation Company, $175; Valvoline, $410; NFBPWC, $325; Martin Senour Paints/NAPA thermometer, $100; a square ... (Read More)

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Antiques in the Valley
by Lita Solis-Cohen

The paint-decorated bed (against the wall in back), all original and complete with side rails, was $1450 from Raccoon Creek Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania. The early 19th-century banister-back day bed from New Jersey was $2400, and the folk art cradle, $1250. In the cradle, the lithographed cloth cats cost $175 each, ... (Read More)

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New York Strengthens Ivory Law
by Betty Flood and Casey O’Brien

New York Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, chairman of the Environmental Conservation Committee, said on June 18 that an agreement has been reached to restrict the market in New York for ivory articles and rhinoceros horns. The bill prohibits transactions involving these materials with very limited exceptions and increases the criminal and ... (Read More)

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Rhode Island Auction
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

The New England Queen Anne highboy, circa 1760, went for $7200. John Howard Benson’s drawing of the courthouse in Newport sold for $3600. The Massachusetts Chippendale chest sold for $5400 to the trade. Two Chinese export porcelain garden seats fetched $4800. Boston artist William Edward Norton’s ship’s portrait sold for $4800. An early pair of ... (Read More)

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Early Cropsey Painting Discovered
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Photo courtesy Freeman’s. Not every American painting is sold in American paintings sales. Lot 110 in Freeman’s “European Art and Old Masters” sale on June 17 in Philadelphia was cataloged as “British School (19th Century) ‘Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England,’ located verso, 22" x 34", oil on canvas laid to panel.” The ... (Read More)

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Exhibitions
by M.A.D. Staff

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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The Keys to a Revolution
by Bill and Lynda Grieves

The three Bastille keys. Jean-Pierre Houel (1735-1813), Vue d’un cachot de la Bastille à l’instant où lon délivre les prisonniers,  journée du July 14, 1789, à 5 heures du soir (View of a cell in the Bastille at the moment of releasing prisoners the day of July 14, 1789). Paris, Musée ... (Read More)
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