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Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
Heritage Auctions, based in Dallas, Texas, presented a discussion about the state of the jewelry market, “Fine Jewelry Virtual Market Commentary,” on January 19 via Zoom. Jill Burgum, senior director of fine jewelry, based in Dallas, and Gina D’Onofrio, director of fine jewelry, based ... (Read More)
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New Haven Auctions, New Haven, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New Haven Auctions
Howard and Nancy D. Wagner of Beaver Creek, Ohio, were historians, collectors, and preservationists and were also the owners of The Yankee Peddler in Fairborn, Ohio. They had keen eyes and had gathered an impressive group of some 400 American folk-art ... (Read More)
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The Outsider Art Fair (OAF) will move to a hybrid model offering live gallery exhibitions and an online viewing room when it is held January 28-February 7.
The fair utilized a similar model for its Paris edition held in October 2020.
The OAF, founded in 1993, has been owned since 2012 by ... (Read More)
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On November 30, 2020, Case Antiques Inc. Auctions & Appraisals opened a consignment office in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is the third branch for the Knoxville-based company, which John and Stephanie Case (pictured) opened in 2005. Other offices are located in Nashville and Kingsport, Tennessee.
“We’re grateful to be attracting an increasing ... (Read More)
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Andrew Jones Auctions, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Andrew Jones Auctions
Los Angeles is a notoriously difficult place to sell Americana, especially furniture, but on January 12 the almost 200 online and phone bidders participating in Andrew Jones Auctions’ only such sale of the year snapped up 93% of the more than ... (Read More)
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Riley Humler has been appointed head of the ceramics department at Toomey & Co. Auctioneers, Oak Park, Illinois. Humler has over 30 years of experience in the auction business, beginning with Cincinnati Art Galleries and then as founder of Humler & Nolan, a Cincinnati auction house specializing in American and ... (Read More)
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Washington, D.C.
The Washington Winter Show was founded in 1955 as the Washington Antiques Show. Over the years the show has been reinvented, its organization and name have been changed, and it has occupied several venues. Throughout, however, the event has remained true to its original goal: to raise funds in ... (Read More)
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Magda Grigorian has been appointed chief communications officer for Phillips. Based in New York City and reporting to chief executive officer Edward Dolman, Grigorian will drive the auction house’s global communications and public relations strategies and oversee all aspects of internal and external communications, the auction house said.
Magda Grigorian.
Grigorian has ... (Read More)
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The American Ceramic Circle (ACC) Book Award, established in 2005, recognizes English-language publications that advance the study of ceramics, present new scholarship and interpretations, and, in doing so, become important and standard references in the field.
The ACC Book Award committee identified the 2020 winner as Birds, Bugs and Butterflies: Lady ... (Read More)
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All We Have by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
The Young Collector
In trying times, we find joy in small or unexpected places. One of our unexpected joys in the past seven months (which have felt like three and a half decades) is a weekly video chat that our younger child has with his cousin by cell phone. She is ... (Read More)
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