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(Issue Story)Bentley Chappell and Nancy Barshter, Montague, Massachusetts
In the Trade
When I first ran across Nancy Barshter and Bentley Chappell, I said to myself, “Wow, these people are really specialized.”
Chappell sells British Aesthetic Movement transferware pottery from the 1870s and ’80s, and Barshter sells British pottery made for children: mugs, ABC plates, and Lilliputian tea sets.
Bentley Chappell and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiques Confidential
The Young Collector
Is there anyone more obnoxious than a person whose eyes have just been opened? There are no more ardent evangelists than the newly converted. No one is going to nag you about that lingering smoking habit more than the person who stood next to you and smoked for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jason Busch Named New Director of American Folk Art Museum
On August 2 the board of trustees at the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) announced that Jason T. Busch will be its new executive director and take over the job on September 10. Busch had been the deputy director of the Saint Louis Museum and most recently the director of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Emory Loses $19,000 in Fake Invoices Scam
Originally appeared in The Emory Wheel, the student newspaper at Emory University. Reprinted with permission.
Emory University lost more than $19,000 over a three-year period via payments of several fraudulent invoices for art acquisitions.
The Michael C. Carlos Museum. Hagar Elsayed, Video Editor.
Officials at the Michael C. Carlos Museum contacted Emory Police ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Bird in the Hand Is Worth Quite a Bit, If It’s a Finch
Bruce Gamage Jr. Antiques Auction, Rockland, Maine
For decades Bruce Gamage usually opened Maine’s auction-packed end-of-summer week near the close of August. This year, he closed it with his August 27 sale in Rockland, Maine.
This oil on canvas portrait of a young girl with a cat, signed on the back with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wild Orientalia and a Cropsey Painting
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
The sale held on August 25 and 26 in Thomaston, Maine, was Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ biggest yet, finishing up at a grand total of over $4.6 million. Several major pieces of Orientalia from a Florida estate soared into the stratosphere and made their estimates ... (Read More)
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(Show)No Frills, with Honest-to-Goodness Antiques
Heartland at Hilliard, Hilliard, Ohio
Things didn’t go exactly as planned for Jennifer Sabin during a canoe trip near Nelsonville, Ohio, last summer. As one of four people in two canoes, she found herself dunked in the river twice that day. Both times rapids had moved her craft under some trees, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
The idea of a small masterpiece lying around somewhere unnoticed—a Homer in a hayloft—never fails to stir our imagination. The object that launched five years of research by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, and has culminated in a fascinating, multilayered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Janis Blouin Collection
John McInnis Auctioneers, Exeter, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
Janis Blouin of Georgetown, Massachusetts, is a picker extraordinaire, and her collections are extensive. They came to market August 24-26 at a John McInnis auction held in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the historic 1855 Exeter Town Hall in the center of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Prepare for Internet Disruptions
Computer Column #356
Last year column #345 covered income tax return software in the middle of the summer because adopting new software should be done well ahead of the start of tax season. This year we will cover keeping online life going in the middle of foul weather. Those in northern ... (Read More)
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