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(Auction)Three-Day Sale on the Coast of Maine
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
On November 8, 9, and 10 auctioneer Kaja Veilleux and his team at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries held a three-day sale in Thomaston, Maine, offering the buying public a large variety of goods in 1475 lots.
Thomaston’s sales are old-school marathon ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Spirit Antique Show
Arcola, Illinois
Two days after the U.S. general election and its bruising presidential race, a yard sign on Illinois 133 still stood. Lost in the flat farmland of the Midwest, it offered a different perspective on the times: “Jesus 2024 / Our Only Hope.”
Pardon this rabbit trail for a minute. In ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rural Life Antique Show
Tuscola, Illinois
Rural Life Antique Show featured 24 dealers at two locations in Tuscola, Illinois, November 8 and 9. The show was once again part of Antiques Week in Central Illinois, which by the numbers breaks down to two days, three towns, and four shows in seven venues.
Deborah Fisher of Lebanon, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Homesteaders Antiques & Folk Art Show
Arthur, Illinois
There is no sense hedging around the elephant that was in the room at Homesteaders Antiques & Folk Art Show, held November 8 and 9 in the Arthur Sale Barn in Arthur, Illinois. Simply put, the show’s dealer count was down significantly. Promoter Terry Whaley knew it. Buyers could ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Prairie
Arthur, Illinois
Sunrise on November 9 in central Illinois came with a vivid wash of colors—blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple, one tumbling after another on a playground of clouds. It seemed a perfectly delightful omen.
That same morning saw the opening of A Gathering on the Prairie, the fourth and final ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bonhams in New York City to Move
Bonhams will relocate its New York City headquarters from 580 Madison Avenue to Steinway Hall at 111 West 57th Street by late 2025. Steinway Hall was designed in 1925 by New York City architects Warren & Wetmore. The new U.S. flagship will feature an 80' glass atrium, four levels of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Gift of Friendship
A Book Review
This children’s book is based on the true story of a little girl’s friendship with an injured Confederate soldier recuperating in her family’s house during the Civil War. Set in Culpeper, Virginia, in 1862, Sophia’s Gift tells the story of how the Strauss family struggles to survive as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Met Unveils a New Tiffany Window
With new stories, new narratives, and new objects, American art, history, and culture at the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, is “at its best!” declared Max Hollein, the Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and chief executive officer, to a lively crowd of donors, collectors, dealers, and curators who gathered in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Guilty Plea Expected in Art Theft
An Ohio man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for trafficking a stolen Andy Warhol print worth at least $175,000.
Brian Alec Light, 58, of Hudson, Ohio, formerly a resident of downtown Los Angeles, is expected to plead guilty to one count of interstate transportation of stolen ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Beware the Undead
Did you know that not a small number of people consider antiques to be “creepy?” They do! “Dead people’s stuff.” Old houses with creaky floors, beds people probably died in, blanket chests that held trousseaus for ghostly brides, samplers and quilts made by the “dead” hands of women who died ... (Read More)
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