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Lutiger Joins Palm Beach Show Group
by M.A.D. staff

Laurette Lutiger has joined the Palm Beach Show Group as show director. Launching a Chicago office, Lutiger will establish dealer participation, assist with production of the Palm Beach Show Group shows throughout the U.S., and manage show acquisition and development. “What attracted me to the Palm Beach Show Group was the ... (Read More)

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George Raymond Huey
by Celia Lash Briggs

George Huey is shown holding a carving of a whistler (goldeneye). The photo was taken outside his home on Bradford’s Point Road. Private collection. This photo is included in the Coast Guard’s collection of town fishermen. Huey is shown holding the carving of “Bernarr Macfadden.” Photo by Carlton Simmons from a ... (Read More)

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Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg Move One Block North
by M.A.D. staff

On April 6, the Brooklyn Flea in New York City celebrated the fifth anniversary of its inaugural market—when nearly 20,000 people showed up at a Fort Greene schoolyard on a chilly early spring day with a strong chance of rain. The weather held out, word spread, and five years later ... (Read More)

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The Clarion and Folk Art to Be Digitized
by M.A.D. staff

The American Folk Art Museum in New York City has been awarded funding necessary to digitize and make fully accessible 115 issues of The Clarion ... (Read More)

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New Dates and New Name for Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
by M.A.D. staff

The 2013 Greenwich Winter Antiques Show, Classic to Contemporary, produced by Barn Star Productions in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society, will be held December 6-8 at the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. In 2012 the show was called Antiques and Art Avant ­Garde Greenwich and took place ... (Read More)

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David Jackson Joins Garth’s
by M.A.D. staff

Firearms and English furniture and decorative arts specialist David Jackson has joined Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio. A native of Lancashire, England, Jackson holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in fine arts valuation from Southampton Solent University in Southampton, England. He successfully attained his degree while continuing a 25-year career ... (Read More)

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Steve and Lorraine German, Mad River Antiques, North Granby, Connecticut
by Frank Donegan

Steve and Lorraine German. Two baskets. The smaller one has very straight sides and a high kick-up in the bottom. Underneath there is a faint pencil inscription: “Percy Butterfield/ Dec. 25, 1886.” Lorraine said that there’s a record of a Percy Butterfield born near Lewiston, Maine, on Christmas day 1885. She ... (Read More)

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Retired Antiques Dealer Publishes Mystery
by M.A.D. staff

Mary Kane of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, retired from Mary’s Memories, and her friend Evelyn Saunders have published an e-book, Colorblind in Philadelphia. The plot revolves around the theft of a rare alexandrite ring from a booth in an antiques show held in a posh center city hotel. Alexandrite exhibits a ... (Read More)

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Clars Auction Gallery Expands to the Pacific Northwest
by M.A.D. staff

Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, has announced its expansion to the Pacific Northwest. Its new operation is centrally located in Vancouver, Washington, just north of Portland, Oregon. Clars brings to this market a world-class fine art and antiques auction house that will serve the needs of those looking to sell ... (Read More)

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Canadian Men Facing Charges for Stolen Artifacts
by M.A.D. staff

In July 2012, an officer with the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Regional Municipality conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in Fall River, Nova Scotia. During that stop, the officer seized a document that was later identified as an original letter written by Major General James Wolfe in 1758. The initial ... (Read More)
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