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(Fragment)Armed Robbery at Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
On August 23 deputies from the Orange County Sheriff's Office responded to a call about an armed robbery at the Mebane Antique Auction Gallery in Mebane, North Carolina. Two men had entered the business through an unlocked door and robbed the owner at gunpoint. A short time later, deputies arrested ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Summer Show
Coastal Maine Antiques Show & Sale, Damariscotta, Maine
The 22nd Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) Coastal Maine Antiques Show & Sale, held this year on August 21, looked like a carbon copy of last year's show. The long-term relationship with the Round Top Farm is history, and the new location at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Names Emerge from Rural Maine
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
Visit a Charles M. Talbot Associates auction, and you might feel as if you've stumbled into some kind of time warp. The old Talbot homestead is nestled in the foothills of Turner, Maine, overlooking a beautiful vista of the White Mountains. On a clear day, ... (Read More)
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(Show)"A Tradition of Trust and Integrity"
Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn, Ellsworth, Maine
The Ellsworth Antiques Show at the Woodlawn Museum in Ellsworth, Maine, which ran this year from August 15 to 17, opened on a pleasantly warm day, unbedeviled by weather concerns. But it was a day following a spectacular 3% drop in the S & ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Canes, Collectors, and Corn
On August 15, at the end of a cornfield, just a tractor's drive from Grand Rapids-no, not the big one in Michigan (population 188,031), but the two-block-long version (pop. 965) in Ohio and not too far-as the crows fly, and they often do-from Toledo, we were at Whalen Realty & ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Forke Collection of Americana Sold
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc.
A New England collection formed in Nebraska speaks of love. The collection of Don and Marilyn Forke was gathered carefully and in meticulous detail over the last half century. They kept records of the objects they acquired: from whom, from where, and provenance, construction, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The NHADA Show 2019
New Hampshire Antiques Show, Manchester, New Hampshire
Several weeks after Antiques Week in New Hampshire was finished, dealer Arthur Liverant succinctly summed it up: "It's the womb of American antiques."
Liverant, whose family business, Nathan Liverant & Son, Colchester, Connecticut, is approaching its 100th year selling antiques, set up for the 15th ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques In Manchester 2019
Manchester, New Hampshire
Antiques In Manchester: The Collector's Fair set up shop in the Sullivan Arena on the campus of St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, on August 7 and 8. This year was the eighth incarnation of the show, which continues to get better.
The 68-dealer show uses the tag ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Collector's Prime Directive: Be Prepared
A seemingly unremarkable event got me thinking about a broader antiques-collecting issue. Recently I received an e-mail from well-known dealers who were having a sale. The correspondence was nicely done-good photos, tempting prices. An Indian basket in two or three colors was listed. My wife and I had a place ... (Read More)
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(Show)Twenty-Five Years, and the Sky Is Still Blue
MidWeek One Day Antiques Fair, Manchester, New Hampshire
When Frank Gaglio, manager of Barn Star Productions, greeted us as we walked into his 25th MidWeek show in New Hampshire (23 held in Manchester and two in nearby Concord), part of Antiques Week, he said, "When I first suggested another antiques show ... (Read More)
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