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Tim Isaac Antiques Art & Auctions, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
All prices in Canadian funds; U.S. funds in parentheses
On April 2 Tim Isaac Antiques Art & Auctions had a great sale at the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick, featuring the collection of the Reverend ... (Read More)
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An oil on panel painting by artist and illustrator John Philip Falter (1910-1982) sold for $92,400 (including buyer’s premium) in a sale held on March 31 by Ripley Auctions in Indianapolis, Indiana. Rendered around 1955, the painting depicts a Future Farmers of America student, with his father, receiving a check ... (Read More)
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Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
The most historically significant items in Hap Moore’s March 31 auction in York, Maine, came from a single New England family. Among the top lots was a signed miniature watercolor of U.S. Navy Captain Edward Trenchard (1784/85-1824), paired with an engraving of his son Rear ... (Read More)
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Head of the House
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
All prices include buyer’s premium.
In 1984, Ronald and Debra Pook made the transition from touring the show circuit as antiques dealers to running their own auction house in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Best known for their presentation of distinguished Americana collections, the firm ... (Read More)
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Artist unknown (Mexico), Saint Michael the Archangel, 18th century, oil on canvas, 61 5/8" x 41 5/16". Collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
—Through April 22—Middlebury, Vermont
Middlebury College Museum of Art presents Power and Piety: Spanish Colonial Art. The museum’s website notes that “Spain, a formidable colonial power, kept a ... (Read More)
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Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
At the podium before the start of Swann Galleries’ auction of printed and manuscript African Americana on March 29, Nicholas D. Lowry, the house’s president and chief auctioneer, congratulated book department director Rick Stattler. The kudos were due for successfully “stepping into the ... (Read More)
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In October 2016 I headed to the Morristown (New Jersey) Armory Antiques Show on a Sunday afternoon, not to shop but to pick up a receipt for a painting I had bought from one of the exhibitors a few months earlier. The dealer left me a pass at the door, ... (Read More)
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Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
Auction 159, the Norman C. Heckler & Company event that ended on March 28, included not only types of early glass that the organization knows inside and outside—historical flasks, whiskeys, sodas, inks, bitters, and pattern-molded glass—but also ... (Read More)
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In the Trade
Years ago my mother worked in a Ridgefield, Connecticut, consignment shop called the Silk Purse. The operation always struck me as a good business model, especially when compared to the way your average antiques dealer works. Standard-model antiques dealers, after all, shop at venues, such as auctions, where ... (Read More)
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Computer Column #351
The number of popular Internet search engines has declined as existing ones have refined and added features. A few specialized search engines are not well known but might be useful to antiquers.From the earliest days of the Internet, users have created indexes of specific sites or kinds of ... (Read More)
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