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Opinion
If you have been thinking about expanding your collecting interests, maybe now would be a good time to start buying good antique glass, some collectors suggest.
Remember when the stock market was down, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 11,000, friends said to invest, but you had cold feet? The Dow ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
Ten for Ten by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
The Young Collector
Time flies. It really does. Except when it’s 5:30 p.m. and you’ve been up since 6 a.m. and home with two small children, one who doesn’t need to nurse and needs to sleep but wants to nurse and doesn’t want to sleep, and the other who does not ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Editorial
A letter to the editor in the June issue of M.A.D. from collector Baron Perlman, drawing attention to the opening hours of the Midweek Antiques Show in Concord, New Hampshire, and Antiques in Manchester on August 7, has generated plenty of controversy, judging from the reaction we’ve gotten here.
In 2012, ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Lewis Scranton of Killingworth, Connecticut, said he found this wicker carriage in a corn crib recently and described it as being in “unbelievable” condition. His under-$600 asking price was nearly unbelievable too.
Quiet Corner Antiques, Sterling, Connecticut, showed some traditional country Americana. The stretcher-base one-drawer table in red paint was $3500. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Paint-decorated trunk in yellow and green floral and geometric designs, $16,100. Gould photo.
Tiny two-fingered and red-painted Shaker box, $10,350. Gould photo.
Bidders loved the pristine original surface on this 16" x 14¾" checkerboard with a blue and white playing field ringed with black and red pinstriping. They chased it all the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Friends Forever by Demetre Chiparus (Rumanian, 1886-1947) is a 25" tall (including base) bronze and ivory sculpture on textured marble. It is signed and has a foundry mark of “L.N. Paris J.L.” It brought $60,000.
Coucher de soleil sur la mer (Italie) by Ivan Federovitch Choultse (Russian, 1874-1937) is 17½" square (sight size). ... (Read More)
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French Opera House, New Orleans by William Woodward (1859-1939) is a vivid Raffaelli crayon sketch on board, 13½" x 9½", and was the top lot of the sale, going to a collector in the room who won against the phones. The final price was $95,600, well above its conservative $18,000/25,000 ... (Read More)
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Matthew Taylor, who sold paintings stolen from a Los Angeles art gallery and took elaborate steps to avoid paying taxes over several years, was sentenced on July 11 to 90 months in federal prison for the art-related and tax offenses.
United States District Judge John A. Kronstadt ordered Taylor, 45, of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association announced on July 11 that it exceeded an ambitious $100 million capital campaign goal. The association raised more than $106 million in just over three years to build and support the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington.
Located just outside the ... (Read More)
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In late March, the Met announced that beginning on July 1 the museum will open to the public seven days a week, for the first time in 42 years. The new schedule will go into effect for both the museum’s main building on Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street in Manhattan ... (Read More)
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