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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2022
There are some very expensive things in this month’s “Letter,” among them an elaborate ceremonial hat that made well over a thousand times its estimate in a Spanish sale—not to mention one of Napoleon’s distinctive and much more familiar hats—along with some really quite modestly priced items, but the general ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bath Antique Sale Returns
After a long hiatus due to COVID-19, the Bath Antique Sale Bath, Maine, is returning, according to Gurley Shows. The first sale will be held on Sunday, January 23. Two more dates will follow, March 13 and April 24. The show will resume again in the fall, usually on or ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Christopher and Bernadette Evans
It’s a family affair for Christopher and Bernadette Evans, a young couple from Waynesboro, Virginia, who conduct their antiques business the old-fashioned way. They travel for hours to exhibit at shows, notably the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) show in August and to auctions and other fairs, restocking and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Failey Grants Awarded
Author Caitlin Meehye Beach, Historic Rock Ford, and the New-York Historical Society have been awarded Failey Grants by the Decorative Arts Trust.
The Failey Grant program provides $25,000 in support for noteworthy research, exhibition, publication, and conservation projects through the Dean F. Failey Fund, named in honor of the trust’s late ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Join Up and Chime In
In mid-November I had the opportunity to speak at the annual luncheon meeting of the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) in Yarmouth, Maine. It was an honor to address the venerable organization. (And I’m never one to pass up a free lunch.)
M.A.D. has always held dealer organizations in high regard. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Randolph Street Holiday Market Pop-Up
Chicago, Illinois
When it comes to dogged persistence and spotting opportunity, Chicago’s Sally Schwartz is an overachiever. Known as the impresario behind Randolph Street Market (RSM), the event she started in 2004 and built from an eclectic street market selling genuine and repurposed antiques plus decorative vintage items, she has been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)On-Site Auction of Round Plain Farm
John McInnis Auctioneers, Beverly, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
The night before its December 18 auction, John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusetts, sent an email headed, “Even if it snows, the auction is a go.” With snow, rain, and sleet in the forecast, the prospect of an on-site auction under a tent ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2022
Dutch tile panel showing scenes from daily life, 1620-40, artist/maker unknown. Tin-glazed earthenware with blue decoration, 26 7/8" x 21½". Gift of Mrs. Francis P. Garvan, 1979. Probably made in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
—Ongoing —Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Dutch potters started making ceramic wall tiles in the late 1500s, answering the call for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Joan Stacke Graham’s Majolica Collection
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Joan Stacke Graham (1934-2020) was a preeminent expert in the field of Victorian majolica—the jewel-colored, highly modeled pottery made in England, on the Continent, and in America in the second half of the 19th century. In 1989, with her good friend Dr. Marilyn G. Karmason, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hindman’s Fine Art Auctions Online
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
When Joseph Stanfield, director of fine art at Hindman Auctions, says “timing is everything,” he speaks from experience. The words came in his reply to a query asking about more than 20 unsold lots in the December auction of American and European art. The ... (Read More)
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