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(Auction)Nakashima Tops Auction
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
New England Auctions presented a combination of modern and vernacular items as well as fine art and photography in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery June 18 and 19. On the first day, the sale called “Intersection - of Modern and Vernacular” brought objects ... (Read More)
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(Show)Walker Homestead Show: True to Its Primitive Roots
Walker Homestead’s Antiques & Primitive Goods Show, Brookfield, Massachusetts
Kris and Paul Casucci, who manage the show, live in this restored 1698 home. The show is set up in tents around and behind the house. Their antiques shop, Walker Homestead, is also in their home.
The full name of the show, Walker ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fitting It In
Beneath the Surface
At a recent show, we sold our two biggest and heaviest things, which always means it is a successful show. In our early auction days one strategy of ours was to go to shows and walk the floor the last few hours; we would usually come up with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art, Including Sporting Art and Dogs in Art
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Telephones were ringing and computers were pinging for most of the lots of American and English paintings and prints of dogs and horses at Doyle’s June 11 sale in New York City. Paddles in the room were not exactly “wagging,” but when they were raised ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Winter Scene Tops Summer Sale
Freeman’s | Hindman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman
Woodrow Wilson was a professor of history and political science at Bryn Mawr College from 1885 to 1888, at Wesleyan University from 1888 to 1890, and at Princeton University from 1890 to 1910—all before he became the 28th U.S. president in 1913. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ram Weathervane Leads Hilliard’s 100th Sale
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
On June 7 Hilliard & Co. conducted its 100th sale from its converted mercantile storefront gallery in Madison, Virginia. From that location in March 2015 the Hilliard brothers entered the mid-Atlantic auction scene. Over the last decade, André and Nicholas Hilliard have ... (Read More)
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(Show)Third Annual Fox Valley at the Fairgrounds Antiques Show
Wheaton, Illinois
If new antiques shows have a settling or maturational period, one can say that the annual Fox Valley at the Fairgrounds Antiques Show, held for the third time June 7 at the DuPage Event Center and Fairgrounds in Wheaton, Illinois, has weathered its teens.
The show is somewhat of an ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Amelia Jeffers
Amelia Jeffers wears a bracelet that reads “fearless,” and she subscribes to the notion “The harder I work, the luckier I get.”
Luck has rested on her shoulder since childhood. “I’m a poor kid from West Virginia,” she said, who had no generational ties to antiques. Thanks to an elementary school ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Landmark Maps of Texas: History and Much More
A Book Review
Frank and Carol Holcomb compiled a vast collection of maps during their 45 years of collecting. Many of these maps are the illustrations for Landmark Maps of Texas, which is less of a scholarly history of Texas maps and more of a cartographic art lesson of the state. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)L.A. Pawn Shop Owner Indicted
Glenn Steven Bednarsh, 58, the owner of a pawn shop in the Mid-City area of Los Angeles, California, was indicted on April 22 for allegedly conspiring to sell a stolen Andy Warhol print trial proof, which was shipped from the Beverly Hills office of an auction house to Dallas, Texas, ... (Read More)
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