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New York City
The Winter Show in spring was no April Fools’ joke. From April 1 until April 10, it filled the space that was once Barneys department store at 660 Madison Avenue in New York City with works of art from prehistory to the present in every medium and all ... (Read More)
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Photos courtesy Milestone Auctions
At Milestone Auctions’ April 9 toy auction, a Linemar Popeye and Olive Oyl Tank with its original box sold for $105,000 (includes buyer’s premium); the estimate was $30,000/40,000. According to the Willoughby, Ohio, auction house, that price sets a new auction record for a Popeye toy.
The buyer ... (Read More)
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Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
The Zipps of Crocker Farm put together a powerhouse 479-lot spring sale. Held from March 25 to April 8, the absentee-format sale ended with a callback session April 9, the day after bidding closed, for lots with $5000 or higher bids.
“Our last four sales ... (Read More)
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Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
In an April 9 sale described as “Ancient to Modern,” Marion Antique Auctions produced exactly that in its Marion, Massachusetts, gallery. Ancient to modern and pretty much everything in between crossed the block.
Owners Frank McNamee and C. David Glynn, along with new ... (Read More)
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For 60 years the Philadelphia Show has been the place to find the best selection of American antiques. The collections that fill the new American art galleries at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) were formed by generous donors who bought some of their finest American furniture, silver, folk art, ... (Read More)
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Thanks to fragments of an early 18th-century birth and baptismal certificate found in a Bible printed in 1753 in Basel, Switzerland, by Emanuel Thurnensen, the name of another fraktur artist has come to light.
Fragments of taufschein by Henrich Rohlandt.
Henrich Rohlandt did the fraktur dated December 18, 1783, for Maria Borgerin ... (Read More)
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Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
Celebrating its 75th anniversary, Eldred’s two-day sale April 7 and 8 in East Dennis, Massachusetts, reflected its heritage as it brought to market fine art, furniture, sporting art, marine art, and decorative accessories. Offerings came from collections and estates on and off Cape Cod, all ... (Read More)
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Beneath the Surface
One of the strangest things about self-employment, at least in our line of work, is how much it differs in terms of scheduling from other, more traditional jobs. Loads of people still manage to do the predictable nine-to-five routine, with the same normal free weekends, whereas we, much ... (Read More)
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Anyone tired of politics and trying to stock up on N95 masks can escape with Robert Hunter on what he calls a trip down the rabbit hole with Alice and get lost in fascinating stories in Ceramics in America, the Chipstone Foundation’s journal that Hunter has edited for the last ... (Read More)
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Photography by Leah Picone
Research assistance from Lynsay Spencer
One of my favorite treasure-hunting grounds is close to home: the Allentown (Pennsylvania) Paper Show. The name is misleading, because paintings, drawings, photographs, and other interesting odds and ends also turn up along with books, maps, postcards, and archival material. I seldom miss ... (Read More)
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