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(Show)The Ludlow Antiques Show
Ludlow Antiques Show, Ludlow, Vermont
The third antiques show to open during Vermont Antiques Week was the Ludlow Antiques Show, held in the Ludlow Community Center September 29 and 30. Of all the shows held during the week, it’s the most low key. There are no walls, carpeted aisles, or five-figure ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sales Success on the Fields of Liberty
Liberty Antiques Festival, Liberty, North Carolina
Commenting on what attracts customers to vendors at the Liberty Antiques Festival is always risky. What appears to be a key to sales success may be confined to a specific time and place. Chance and good luck also play a role in everyday living and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Stratton's Swan Song
Antiques at Stratton Mountain, Stratton, Vermont
If all goes according to plan, the Antiques at Stratton Mountain antiques show will cease to exist next year. Its slot in Antiques Week in Vermont will be replaced by the annual show produced by the Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association (VADA), likely to be held ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Woodburys and Wood Planes at Moore Auction
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
For the cornerstone of his September 30 auction in York, Maine, Hap Moore landed a 77-lot collection of antique tools from the estate of a Wells, Maine, collector, headed by a pair of wooden planes by two of the earliest known American makers.
A molding plane ... (Read More)
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(Show)Original Round Top Antiques Fair Celebrates 50 Years
Round Top, Texas
The Big Red Barn Event Center, home of the Original Round Top Antiques Fair, stands on a hill about five miles north of the town of Round Top, Texas, and half a century removed from the small antiques show that started a phenomenon in the middle of practically ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Okemo Show
Okemo Antiques Show, Ludlow, Vermont
The 2017 Okemo Antiques Show, held at the Okemo Mountain Resort in Ludlow, Vermont, was the second of the Vermont Antiques Week shows to open, beginning with a preview from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday, September 29. The show continued on Saturday, September 30, from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Family Archive of Pioneer Missionary Correspondence Tops Star-Spangled Printed and Manuscript Americ
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
A private collector, bidding by phone, paid $112,500 (including buyer’s premium) for a family archive of 19th-century letters by early missionaries ministering to Native Americans in Minnesota. The sale was made at Swann’s auction of printed and manuscript Americana in its New York ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Eliminates Buyer's Premium for Online-Only Sales
In a move designed to attract new buyers, Sotheby’s will eliminate the buyer’s premium for its online-only sales beginning September 16. The announcement, made in a Form 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission filing on August 22, is “the most noteworthy change,” said Tad Smith, president and chief executive officer, in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Brimfield: Yesterday & Today
Brimfield, Massachusetts
I sometimes play a trick on myself when I wake up too early and want more sleep. I imagine I’m lying in my sleeping bag in our old Volkswagen Vanagon at Brimfield and it’s time to get up and get ready for the opening of the field where we’re ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Art
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
Wheeling into the parking lot for Leslie Hindman’s September 27, 2017, sale of American and European art, we saw that every space was filled. We know that the current market for 19th-century paintings is soft. What could explain all the Illinois and out-of-state license plates? Then ... (Read More)
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