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(Feature)In the Trade: William Lohrman Antiques, New Paltz, New York
Bill Lohrman.Lohrman's home in New Paltz overlooking the Shawangunk Mountains. He built the house with a carpenter 32 years ago. "It has the same floor plan as the 'Stencil House' at the Shelburne Museum," he said. When you're inside, you assume it's made up of early architectural parts. Doors, woodwork, ... (Read More)
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(Show)International Art & Antique Fair: A Lot of "Luxe"
Once a supermarket, the Naples International Pavilion is now a venue for events such as the Naples International Art & Antique Fair.The lobby entrance to the show was like a Hollywood movie set.Pier & Co., Naples, Florida, sold this marble-top Empire pier table tagged $2850.Ed Weissman of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany Time and Again
The Tiffany Moorish clock (left) varies from the version sold at Leighton Galleries (right) in condition and minor decorative details; the Briley clock brought $91,875, and the Leighton clock brought $8500. Was it the same clock? The clock at the Briley sale had a new finial, new bosses added to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Sale at Doyle
This oil on canvas portrait of a young girl with a coral necklace, 26" x 21¾", inscribed "No. 56" and signed "R. Rowley" and dated 1826 on the back, painted in a trompe l'oeil frame against a green ground and in a simple black frame, sold for $40,625 to an ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Converting Web Sites for Mobile Viewing
Computer Column #282by John P. Reid, [email protected] photo of a smartphone viewing a mobile Web site is shown to scale with its corresponding desktop page.Creating a Web site for an antiques dealer, collector, or organization was discussed in the last column. Adding a mobile version of the site can increase ... (Read More)
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(Show)First-Ever Connecticut Show in Massachusetts Goes Smoothly
How would you celebrate your 80th birthday? Henry T. Callan of East Sandwich, Massachusetts, chose to do just what he has been doing for the last 45 years: set up and sell at an antiques show. Callan carries an inventory of Chinese porcelains, Battersea boxes, and needlework samplers. His take ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Art and Design
Unsigned and from an edition of 250, Pablo Picasso's Le Repas Frugal, a circa 1904 etching on Van Gelder paper from "La Suite des Saltimbanques," Bloch 1, fetched $158,600. Treadway/Toomey photo.Joe Stanfield of the fine arts division told us that not one domestic bidder showed interest in Street Scene by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Antique Jewelry and Gemology: Flurry of Sales, Including Cowan's Inaugural Jewelry Auction
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(Show)A Successful New Look for Richmond Show
Piccolo Art, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Wiltshire, England, offered this oil on board by Harold Newton (1934-1994), Light Breeze along the Shore, of a windswept beach with clouds building in the distance, signed but not dated. Newton was one of the central figures among the loose-knit group of painters known ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Estate of the Reverend Peter J. Gomes, Unrepentant Collector
The Reverend Professor Peter J. Gomes. A complete profile of the man, "God and Harvard" by Robert S. Boynton, appeared in The New Yorker on November 11, 1996. It coincided with publication of Gomes's best-seller The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind and Heart (1996). In that profile it's ... (Read More)
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