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(Issue Story)Glenn Bauer, Forest Murmurs, Round Top, New York
In the Trade
I have to confess that I’ve never paid any attention to Black Forest woodcarvings. I’ve been looking at antiques since 1963 when I bought my first old object (a C.F. Martin guitar that my mother wouldn’t let in the house because it smelled from the mouse nest in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Claggett Clock Reunion
Redwood Library and Athenaeum, Newport, Rhode Island
Back on June 5, 2015, I attended a daylong seminar, “Time Well Spent: Clockmaking in Colonial America,” at the venerable Redwood Library and Athenaeum in Newport, Rhode Island. The Redwood, America’s first purpose-built library, was founded in 1747 and still occupies its original but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dogs in Art at Doyle
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle’s sporting art sale on February 13 coincided with the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the opening of the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog in midtown Manhattan. The catalyst for the 238-lot sale was the collection of James W. Smith (1941-2018) of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mid-Week in Manchester Goes to One-Day Format
In August Frank Gaglio and Barn Star Productions will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Mid-Week in Manchester Antiques Show. After a quarter century, there’s a big change coming. The show will now be held on one day only, instead of two.
Dubbed “Mid-Week One-Day Antiques Fair,” it will be held ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Heritage Pulls Back The Curtain, Editorial February 2019
Private sales by auction houses remain shrouded in mystery. Heritage Auctions, based in Dallas, Texas, has recently made a move to increase transparency in the antiques market—opening up a window into private sales.
Heritage Auctions, which had $815 million in sales in 2017, has an innovative Make Offer to Owner (MOtO) ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Virginia Antiques Shop Owner Guilty of Smuggling Endangered Wildlife
Antiques dealer Keith Foster, 60, of Upperville, Virginia, pleaded guilty on December 19, 2018, to violating the Lacey Act by illegally selling and transporting between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of items made from endangered species, migratory birds, and other wildlife.
Foster was the owner of The Outpost LLC, Middleburg, Virginia. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Northeast Auctions Closes and New Firm Opens
The auction world has changed. In early January, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers from Chicago and Cowan’s Auctions from Cincinnati merged into Hindman LLC (see p. 131), and Ronald Bourgeault closed Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and established Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates LLC.
Bourgeault established the new firm with his partner, James ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)James Arthur and His “Temple of Time”: A Cautionary Tale for Collector-Donors
Part IV of IV
In 1925 New York University (NYU) received from private collector James Arthur (1842-1930) the gift of a horological collection consisting of clocks, watches, sundials, and other time-measuring devices, along with a library and an endowment. Today, NYU retains the library, the endowment, and about a dozen of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Burglary Suspect Arrested
On December 27, 2018, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office deputies served a search warrant at a residence in Dunsmuir, California, after an investigation into a Christmas night commercial burglary at Harley’s Antique Store identified a possible suspect in the case.
The search warrant operation netted the key suspect, Benjamin Osborn, 43, most ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the L.D. Brinkman Western Art Collection
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
To L.D. “Brink” Brinkman (1929-2015), the Western artists he collected and promoted strove “to perpetuate the memory and culture of the Old West…and to ensure authentic representation of the life of the West as it was and is.” He called his collection “a sample of ... (Read More)
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