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(Fragment)Longstanding Vermont Antiques Week Show Changes Name, Moves to New Location
A Vermont Antiques Week show is moving and getting renamed. Antiques in Vermont, which had been held at the Riley Rink at Hunter Park, is moving to the Mountain Lodge at Okemo in Ludlow, Vermont, and the show will now be known as the Vermont Pickers Market. The previous promoters ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Society of the Cincinnati Cup and Saucer Brings $51,600
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
A Chinese export two-handled cup and saucer with an impressive early American history was the highlight of the Northeast Auctions’ April 2 sale at Treadwell Mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when it sold for $51,600 (includes buyer’s premium) against the estimated $8000/12,000. Collectors ... (Read More)
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(Show)Johnson's Next-to-Last Monroe Antique Show and Sale
Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, Washington
Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end; great stories we wish to go on forever. The same can be said for antiques shows. For some, the beginning, middle, and end are almost one and the same. For others that have stood the test of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herter Brothers Servers Sell at Farmer Auctions
For more than two years, Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia, has been systematically liquidating a large consignment from the estate of W.P. Henritze (d. 1959), a Roanoke, Virginia, entrepreneur and real estate investor, who had moved to the area from West Virginia in the early 1900s. Early on, Henritze purchased the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Herter Brothers Servers Lead Farmer Auction
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
Photos courtesy Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia, held its spring catalog auction on April 1. This was the first of the firm’s sales that I had attended since it was acquired by Jarrod Hines. Hines purchased the auction business from Will Farmer effective August 1, 2016, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In the Details and the History
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
Hap Moore is in his 31st year of antiques auctioneering, and he’s hit a comfortable stride. He holds auctions only every few months, but they usually feature items of strong historical interest, centered particularly on the southern Maine and New Hampshire region. This year apparently ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pennsylvania Representatives Introduce Ivory Legislation with Antiques Exemption
On February 2 two members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Madeleine Dean and Tarah Toohil, announced that they would soon introduce legislation “prohibiting the import, sale, purchase, barter or possession of ivory or rhinoceros horn.”
When the text of the proposed law was published on February 23, it included an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cast-Iron and Steam Toys
Pook & Pook, Inc. with Noel Barrett, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett
Eberhard Luethke’s collection of steam engines and Stephen Sachs’s collection of cast-iron toys offered by Pook & Pook and Noel Barrett in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, on March 31 and April 1 was a test of two ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Simple Is Best
Computer Column #340
John P. Reid, <[email protected]>
About 1960, the aerospace industry coined the acronym KISS for “keep it simple stupid” (no comma) and insisted it in no way implied the listener was stupid; rather the opposite (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle). We computer users need to remind ourselves of the KISS principle.
Speech-to-text smartphone app taking ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two Heroes of the Slavery Era Are Standouts at $1.2 Million African Americana Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
“How do you come back from that?” Jenelle Watler, Swann’s operations director and one of its auctioneers, asked her audience after the applause ended. She had just hammered down a previously unknown photograph of Harriet Tubman for $161,000 (including buyer’s premium) in the ... (Read More)
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