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(Fragment)Police Raid Antiques Shop in Worcester, Massachusetts
On March 10 members of the Worcester Police Vice Squad executed a search warrant at Unique Finds, an antiques shop located at 1329 Main Street in Worcester, Massachusetts.
According to police, a search of the premises produced 100 acetaminophen pills, 71 Suboxone strips, 23 individually knotted bags of heroin, eight Concerta ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Devil's Dictionary of Antiques Collecting: Part 4
This is the last installment of “The Devil’s Dictionary of Antiques Collecting.” What a wondrous language we use. And perhaps more technical and mysterious than we realize.
Polychrome—This is one term that is relatively easy to parse. Poly means “many” and chrome (chroma) indicates “color.” So why not call a carved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brandy Culp, New Curator of American Decorative Arts at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Brandy S. Culp has been appointed to the position of Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut. She will begin work at the museum in late February.
“Joining the team at America’s oldest continuously operating art museum is an opportunity one ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Arrested in Art Theft
Two men have been arrested in connection with an art theft that occurred in December 2016 at Art Avenue in Sarasota, Florida. Anthony J. Larson, 30, of Sarasota, and Rex L. Ballinger, 29, of Sarasota, were each charged with grand theft. Larson was recognized by a resident who called the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Learns of Fake, Refunds Buyer, and Sues Consignor
Sotheby’s filed suit in January in U.S. District Court in New York seeking to recover money paid to Lionel de Saint Donat-Pourrières of Luxembourg, who consigned a painting that has turned out to be a forgery.
The painting, Saint Jerome, was attributed to the circle of Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cabot Mill Antiques Passes $1 Million per Annum Sales Milestone
Multi-dealer Cabot Mill Antiques in Brunswick, Maine, announced on December 31, 2016, that it had passed $1 million in sales per annum. Customers William and Kristen Wing, owners of Worth & Wing, an architectural and interior design firm based on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, purchased an 1891 Stanley brass-bound level, a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 ADAA Art Show
New York City
The Art Show, the Art Dealers Association of America’s annual show, shone brightly this year. The art was the star. The unfussiness and quiet elegance of the booths in the Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall allowed showgoers—and there were thousands each day from March 1 to 5—to remain ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Myrick Scrimshawed Tooth Brings $110,700
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
Bitter cold in Boston was no deterrent to bidders at Skinner on March 4 for the Americana sale in the Boston gallery. Staff members found themselves bringing out extra seating to accommodate everyone in the gallery.
Many came to observe and participate in the sale of scrimshaw from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Long-Lost First Franklin Broadside Acquired by Penn Libraries
Aquila Rose, a 28-year-old Philadelphia poet and pressman, died in 1723. That same year Benjamin Franklin broke his indenture with his brother, left Boston, and stopped in New York to see if the printer William Bradford had a job for him. Bradford did not have a job, but he told ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lunders Give Another $100 Million-Plus Gift to Colby College
Colby College in Waterville, Maine, has received another gift of more than $100 million from Peter and Paula Lunder in support of the Colby College Museum of Art. The gift will add nearly 1150 artworks to the museum’s collection and will launch the Lunder Institute for American Art.
The institute will ... (Read More)
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