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(Auction)Scrimshaw Lives at Marine Auction
Eldred's Auctioneers and Appraisers, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
The question of the day before Eldred's July 25 marine sale was "Will it or won't it?" Three tornados had passed through the area, knocking down trees and disrupting power. For Eldred's staff, the prospect of a maritime sale conducted with only ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plover Trio Stars in Sporting Sale
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Everything was in place for a booming sporting art sale at Copley Fine Art Auctions on July 25 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and no one was disappointed. The sale brought over $3 million. A large part of that was the $1,140,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Amusing Style Selections
Wright, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Wright
When a sale is announced as "The Amusing Style," one has to wonder. Amusing in what way? As in ha-ha? Perhaps as offbeat and unusual? Or maybe silly?
Fortunately, the July 24 sale at Wright in Chicago came with an explanation. The expression is a construct articulated ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sheldon Peck: Footsteps of His Life
Lombard Historical Society, Lombard, Illinois
Sheldon Peck would head out from his Babcock's Grove, Illinois, homestead clean-shaven and with little in his pockets but would return with a full beard and a full wallet from painting portraits, mostly of contemporaries in the antislavery and social justice movements.
The itinerant painter earned $50 ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Long Island's Leading Silversmith
A Book Review
This book about the life and work of Southampton, New York, silversmith and entrepreneur Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810) makes the past come alive. It will give those who read it something to think about when stuck in traffic on Long Island's Route 27 on the way to the Hamptons. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders and Birds Deliver at Auction
Guyette & Deeter, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
The annual fowl and feathers week in New England began on July 23 with the Guyette & Deeter two-day auction in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. The swarm of buyers were focused on prized decoys from such well-known collections as those of Ginny and Gordy Hayes, Richard ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)"Can You Do Better?"
Haggling. Dickering. Lowballing.
Sally Schwartz, founder of Randolph Street Market in Chicago, recently forwarded us an Internet thread that discussed dealer responses to customers asking for discounts. The answers ranged from hilarious to frustrating and came from both from buyers and sellers.
Now that summer is here-the time of big shows packed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Traveling up the Mountain to Scenic Cashiers
Cashiers Benefit Antique Show, Cashiers, North Carolina
Tourists, retirees, and vacation homeowners long ago discovered the forested Highlands-Cashiers Plateau in western North Carolina. With 16 golf courses and 29 exclusive communities, it is both popular and upscale. That level of prosperity has made the annual Cashiers Benefit Antique Show a destination ... (Read More)
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(Show)Buying Heats Up in Rockport
Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, Rockport, Maine
When it comes to the Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, held at the Camden-Rockport High School in Rockport, Maine, each year, you can almost set your calendar by the weather. If it's the hottest day of the year to date, it will be the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dutch Watercolor Leads at Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers, Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
Hilliard & Co. Auctioneers held a midsummer auction at its Madison, Virginia, gallery on July 20. If anyone had forgotten that it was summer, the 100 degrees recorded on the time and temperature sign down the street should have been a ... (Read More)
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