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(Issue Story)Dodged One Bullet—More to Come
When the text of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2023 was released, language changing bank secrecy laws was not included. The final House version of the bill is a victory for the art and antiques trade.
The initial House bill included text of the ENABLERS Act (“Establishing ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2023
Morgan and Marvin Smith, untitled, Marvin and Morgan Smith and Sarah Lou Harris Carter, 1940, gelatin silver print, 10" x 8". Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library. Photograph © Morgan and Marvin Smith.
—Through January 8 —New Orleans, Louisiana
Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week 2023 in New York City
Americana Week, the annual January conclave in New York City of collectors, curators, museum directors, scholars, historians, librarians, designers, and the curious who look over, discuss, and purchase American furniture, silver, ceramics, textiles, paintings, prints, books, and manuscripts made in the 17th, 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, is jam-packed.
The Winter ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Successful Eclectic Holiday Auction
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
All prices include the buyer’s premium.
Hilliard & Co. concluded its final auction of 2022 at its gallery in Madison, Virginia, December 19. Following the format that it has used during the COVID-19 environment, the Hilliard sale was available for several days online ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Netsuke
On December 16, a 3 3/8" high wooden netsuke of a kirin on a cloud, estimated at $15,000/20,000, sold for a whopping $441,300 (includes buyer’s premium) at Bonhams, New York City. The buyer was a private collector, underbid by the Japanese trade.
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(Issue Story)Finds
Finds are a highlight of collecting. Because of the many definitions, gradations, and nuances, I am unsure that agreement exists on what one is, but collectors know when such a discovery takes place.
To some a find is a treasure a collector discovers unexpectedly. To other collectors spending the day going ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Arrested in Antiques Shop Thefts
Between September 14 and October 5, the Camp Verde Office in Verde, Arizona, received reports of an older man allegedly committing thefts from local antiques stores. This man entered the stores during business hours and allegedly took several thousand dollars’ worth of jewelry and other high-end merchandise without paying for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2022
A couple of pictures are at the very top of the price lists in this month’s somewhat curious selection.
The most expensive of them, at over $450,000, is Johan Zoffany’s very late 18th-century portrait of the comic actor Edward Townsend singing “The Beggar”from Merry Sherwood, or Harlequin Forrester, an entertainment based ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$1.9 Million Art and Design Auction
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Within the past decade or so, the Chicago auction house Toomey & Co. has featured a series of art and design auctions, each intended to highlight distinctive examples of period design. By our reckoning, the first officially named art and design sale ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)It’s the Little Things
Beneath the Surface
The last few years have recalibrated our lives. They have shifted our sense of community, our work culture, our economy. As “history people,” although we can acknowledge that this wouldn’t necessarily be a time period we would have chosen, it is undeniable that we are in the midst ... (Read More)
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