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(Auction)American Art at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s American art auction on May 23, 2017, was all about the Rockwells that sold, whereas the sale on November 13, 2017, was all about the Rockwells that were withdrawn by a court order.
No Credit Given (Boy and Shopkeeper) by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), one of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors Propel Fall Signature Toy Sale to $2.6
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Bertoia Auctions signed off on its November 11 and 12, 2017, Signature sale with the company’s highest-grossing sales figures since the glory days of the sale of Donald Kaufman’s collection (five auctions held from 2009 to 2011). The 1470-lot barrage of toys, banks, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Most Unusual Sale
Slotin Folk Art, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art
The November 11 and 12, 2017, Slotin Folk Art Auction was particularly strong, with heavy emphasis on African American and slave-related material, much from the Acacia Collection in Savannah and the Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. These lots appeared ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Delaware Antiques Show
Wilmington, Delaware
Was it the buoyant stock market, the promise of tax cuts, realistic prices on dealers’ tags in a tax-free state, or the hard work of dealers who reached out to clients ahead of time that that made shoppers ready to buy at the Delaware Antiques Show in Wilmington, Delaware, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Steady Sales at Hunt Country Antiques Fair
Middleburg, Virginia
The 26th Hunt Country Antiques Fair, held November 11 and 12, 2017, at the Hill School in Middleburg, Virginia, was produced, promoted, and managed by Dordy Fontinel Show Management, Inc. Fontinel manages several shows in the mid-Atlantic states, and attendees have become familiar with the consistent quality of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Miniature Portraits Lead at Evans Americana Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 33rd cataloged auction of Americana and fine antiques on November 10 and 11, 2017. These semiannual sales are designed to emphasize items from Virginia and the South.
As is his custom, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 American Art Fair
New York City
The tenth American Art Fair opened its doors to an enthusiastic crowd on Saturday evening, November 11, 2017, ushering in American Art Week in New York City with a private invitation-only preview. The show ran through November 15.
Seventeen dealers of 19th- and 20th-century American art covered the walls ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Rhinoceros Horn
Irish national Michael Hegarty, 40, pleaded guilty on September 29 in U.S. District Court in Miami to fraudulently facilitating the transportation and concealment of a rhinoceros horn libation cup that was smuggled from the United States to Great Britain in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
In mid-April 2012, Hegarty ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dan Morphy: The Man with a Specialized Plan
Head of the House
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
Dan Morphy had the good fortune to grow up in a collecting family. His physician father, Dr. John C. Morphy Sr., and his mother, Janet, took him along on the antiques trail, and Dan began acquiring and dealing his favorite specialties as a very ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Witek Sentenced for Mail Fraud
Daniel Witek, 54, of Buffalo, New York, who was convicted of mail fraud, was sentenced to time served (six months) by Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny on November 8, 2017. He was also ordered to pay $2100 in restitution.
Witek was a volunteer at the Buffalo History Museum in ... (Read More)
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