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(Auction)Pitchers, Hats, and Light Bulbs Grab Collectors' Interest
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
With a sale total of $1,777,834 and a sell-through rate of 93%, the December 3, 2016, Americana and political auction presented by Heritage Auctions’ historical department was a solid success. It comprised two catalogs: one for the Scott W. Dolson collection of political Americana, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Kentucky by Design" Wins Alice Award
Kentucky by Design: The Decorative Arts and American Culture, edited by Andrew Kelly and sponsored by the Frazier History Museum, has been named the winner of the Alice Award, given by Furthermore Grants in Publishing. Furthermore is a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund and is concerned with nonfiction book ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2016 Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
Greenwich, Connecticut
With its stone walls, front doors, store fronts, and barns lavishly decorated for the holidays, Greenwich, Connecticut, in December is an ideal place to hold an antiques show. Covering 50 square miles that reach from the Long Island Sound to the backcountry properties with multiple acreage, the town embraces the holidays with ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)On the Up and Up
Editorial
It’s getting more expensive to buy at auction in New York City.
On November 13 Sotheby’s raised its buyer’s premium. Buyers will now pay 25% on the hammer price up to and including $250,000; 20% on the hammer price from $250,001 to $3,000,000; and 12.5% on the portion of the hammer ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York City Auction Houses Must Reveal Irrevocable Bids in Post-Sale Reporting
On September 9 a letter from the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs confirmed that New York City auction houses must reveal irrevocable bids in post-sale reporting.
“The New York City Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA) writes...regarding whether the sale price disclosed by an auctioneer pursuant to Section 2 125(a) ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Meanderings of a Quilt Collector / Les Vagabondages d’une collectionneuse de Quilts ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)London Gallery Files Suit against Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné
From 2009 to 2013 the Mayor Gallery of London sold 13 works by Agnes Martin (1912-2004), who was an Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist painter. When those artworks were submitted to the Agnes Martin Catalogue Raisonné, they were all rejected, causing Mayor Gallery to issue some refunds. There are some big ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Some Softness at the Top
Seeck Auctions, Mason City, Iowa, and Kansas City, Missouri
Photos courtesy Seeck Auctions
When I contacted Jim Seeck in June 2016 to get a pulse on what might be his top carnival glass sale for the year, I was looking at the International Carnival Glass Association’s July 16 sale, a collection of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Art and Industry: The Furniture Trades in 18th- and 19th-Century Rhode Island
“American furniture has been studied for a hundred years, and Rhode Island furniture has been an obsessive part of the story,” said Philip D. Zimmerman on September 15 to an audience of 300 in the Robert L. McNeil Jr. Lecture Hall at the opening of the 2016 Oswaldo Rodriguez Roque ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Files Suit against Brewer Auctioneer
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers within the Department of Professional and Financial Regulation recently referred a number of cases to the Maine attorney general’s office for disposition. In response, the attorney general’s office has filed a civil action in Kennebec County Superior Court against Maine auctioneer Jeffrey S. ... (Read More)
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