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(The Art of Marketing)Social Media and Evaluating Antiques Shows
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of relationship marketing. Now it’s time to change gears and move on to another vital topic: utilizing social media to build your business.
Social media is very tricky. Regardless of what you hear, there are very few antiques businesses gaining much, if ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)John Keith Russell, South Salem, New York
Russell in the revolving armchair. “It’s the first time I’ve sat in it,” he said.
New Lebanon revolving armchair—the only one known. It was made in the 1860’s, and all the joints are carefully pinned. Russell thinks it may have been a concept chair with which the Shakers were working out ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Rules for Deaccessioning in New York
New rules for the de-accessioning of objects from New York collecting institutions and regulation of the use of the funds from disposed items are the highlights of legislation being sponsored by Assemblyman Steve Englebright. The bill would require collecting institutions to adopt and publish a binding collection management policy and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Time Capsule of Chinese Export Material
Pair of monumental China trade oil on canvas panoramic landscapes, attributed to Youqua (active 1840-70), circa 1840, $768,000 (est. $150,000/250,000) to collectors in the room. Tibbits collection.
According to the catalog, the first oil depicts “the hongs at Canton with a bustling harbor scene in front displaying hundreds of Chinese boats ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Signed "Sgt. Pepper's" Album Sells for $175,698
A copy of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, signed by all the Beatles, sold on line for $175,698 (includes buyer’s premium) on January 15 at RR Auction, based in Amherst, New Hampshire.
The first issue mono pressing of the album by U.K. Parlophone Records was signed on the full-color gatefold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)January Firearms Auction Earns $1.8 Million
Selling for nearly double its high estimate at $19,200 was a Smith & Wesson .44-caliber revolver known as the No. 3 First Model. Made in the early 1870s prior to the advent of the Colt six-shooter, these popular guns were carried by both lawmen and law-breakers. Its serial number is ... (Read More)
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(Show)Washington Winter Show
Doug and Bev Norwood of Timonium, Maryland, trade as Norwoods’ Spirit of America. Their booth always offers unusual and interesting pieces of Americana. Here are a group of violin-related items. The 19th-century trade sign offering lessons was priced at $2800. The violin on the left has a handwritten fingering chart ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Acquires the Pastor Frederick S. Weiser Collection
Religious text by Andreas Kolb, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, circa 1785. Winterthur Museum purchase with funds provided by the Henry Francis du Pont Collectors Circle; photo, Jim Schneck. This extraordinary fraktur is a masterpiece from the hand of Andreas Kolb, a Mennonite schoolmaster and fraktur artist who taught in Montgomery and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Not Keeping a Promise in Texas Costs $1.2 Million Plus Interest
The untitled 93 1/8" x 80 1/8" oil on canvas by Mark Rothko, signed and dated 1961.
Is it reasonable to expect that the chain of provenance can be kept secret when a major work is consigned to auction? How about when the piece in question is a humongous (93 1/8" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mixed Bag at Gamage Auction, but Mêne Bags Nearly Six Grand
This bronze sculpture by Pierre-Jules Mêne of a country gentlewoman on her mount sold for $5750.
This sterling silver tea set of two teapots, a creamer, and sugar and weighing in at 55.2 troy ounces sold for $960.25.
This beautiful pair of mahogany knife boxes, probably George III, late 18th or ... (Read More)
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