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The Young Collector
Even as you read this, doctors and nurses are administering vaccines. We can finally begin to believe that there is a life out there beyond the toilet-paper-hoarding fugue state that we have all been brumating in for nearly a year now. That life had stopped seeming like a ... (Read More)
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Stoneware authority William C. Ketchum Jr., author of Potters and Potteries of New York State, has donated his research library and notes plus 14 pieces of New York decorated stoneware from his personal collection to the New York State Museum in Albany.
Among the donated pieces are several early pieces from ... (Read More)
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Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer's premium when charged. We're always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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The New York Antiques Show Online
It is a bit surprising to learn of an entirely new antiques event entering today's turbulent environment. But that is what occurred the weekend of January 29-31 when the inaugural New York Antiques Show debuted as an entirely virtual event.
This new New York Antiques Show ... (Read More)
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Wooten & Wooten Auctions, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
In 1740, at the age of 24, Swiss emigre Jeremiah Theus (1716-1774) was advertising his skills as a painter to the citizens of Charleston, South Carolina. For the next three decades, he was perhaps the only full-time portrait painter in ... (Read More)
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Circle Auction, Kansas City, Missouri
Photos courtesy Circle Auction
The product of what started as a side business for Ezra H. Griffith, a soda company representative, more than 150 years ago in New York was the show-stopper for a Circle Auction sale on January 30 that otherwise featured many items typically found ... (Read More)
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Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
Hap Moore, bless his good ol' heart, is steering clear of online auctions and going with the now old-fashioned, in-person, in-your-face auctions. Even though current Maine COVID-19-related regulations restrict gatherings to 50 people, Moore still prefers them to online selling. "I will not do online ... (Read More)
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Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
The Thursday and Friday auction on January 28 and 29 at Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, was offered without an audience in the salesroom, with absentee and phone bidding and live online bidding via Bidsquare.
The sale was all about ... (Read More)
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The Fort Worth Show of Antiques, Art & Jewelry has changed the dates of the 2021 show from March to April. Formerly slated for March 5-7, the event will now take place April 9-11.
According to promoter Andrea Canady, "After consulting with our exhibitors and attendees, the April date was highly ... (Read More)
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On New January 29 dealer Michael T. Merisola, 62, of Buffalo, New York, pleaded guilty before U.S. Magistrate Judge Chelsey M. Vascura in U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, to charges related to selling a mounted leopard, an endangered species. Merisola pleaded guilty to one count of violating the ... (Read More)
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