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(Auction)Wall Box Tops Auction
Carey Auctions, Somerset, Pennsylvania
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“If you build it, he will come.” (Field of Dreams)
As record cold temperatures blanketed Middle America, Brian Carey filled the Bakersville firehouse outside Somerset, Pennsylvania, with a wide assortment of antiques. The logic is that record temperatures would keep people home, but for about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2017 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
The American Ceramic Circle Book Award, established in 2005, recognizes English-language publications that advance the study of ceramics, present new scholarship and interpretations, and in doing so become important and standard references in the field.
The ACC Book Award Committee identified Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, written ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Is Big
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
It was a hot day on the second day of fall in Geneseo, New York, and even the phone wires were hot as bidders from across the globe vied for their picks among 677 lots in Cottone Auctions’ art, antiques, antiquities, and modern ... (Read More)
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(Show)San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show
San Francisco, California
Perhaps the last (in late October, although there were still two months to go) Bay Area tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the theme of the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques show, held October 25-29, 2017, was “Flower Power.” Flowers and floral designs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week Preview: January in New York City
For three generations, a large conclave of collectors and curators has gathered in New York City in mid-January for an annual treasure hunt. The Winter Antiques Show (WAS) at the Park Avenue Armory has been the catalyst for 64 years. Beginning in the late 1970s, auctions and ancillary shows multiplied ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Autumn Estates Sale in Atlanta
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Photos courtesy Ahlers & Ogletree
There are various ways of selling antiques, and the Atlanta firm of Ahlers & Ogletree—named for Robert Ahlers and his wife, Christy Ogletree Ahlers—has most of them covered. From their facilities on Miami Circle in the stylish Atlanta neighborhood of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Carmine Dance Hall Antiques Show
Carmine, Texas
“You can’t park there.”
I had just pulled my rental car under a tree on a hot Texas morning and was walking toward a group of men tending a grill under a pavilion when Tom Drummond, one of the locals, stepped forward to address me. “You can’t park under that ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk Art Dolls
Topsy-turvy doll, reversible black and white cloth figures, early 1900s.
American Primitive Gallery, in association with John Molloy Gallery, will present Lost Figures & Found Dolls from January 4 to February 3 in New York City. Longtime dealers and collectors Aarne Anton of American Primitive Gallery and John Molloy have assembled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Engel Collection, Parts One and Two
American Carnival Glass Association, Greenville, Ohio; Millersburg Glass Association, Millersburg, Ohio
Photos courtesy Jim Wroda Auction Services
The Karen and Doug Engel carnival glass collection brought a record of about $1.2 million in its first sale and realized another $300,000 in a second auction. The Engel collection was composed of about 600 ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)It's a Wonderful Life
The Young Collector
During some recent travels, we stayed with dear friends with two little children, each almost exactly three years younger than one of our children. So, of course, their lives are still full of the overwhelmingly large feelings that lead to tears on the battlefields of early childhood—meals and ... (Read More)
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