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(Fragment)Bonhams Canada Appoints New Director
Kristin Kearney has been appointed director of Bonhams, Canada. Based in Toronto, Kearney will work alongside Jack Kerr-Wilson.
Kearney joined Bonhams as business manager for Canadian art sales in 2007 and has worked on sales in New York, San Francisco, and Hong Kong. Since 2013 she has been the jewellery specialist ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Antiques Show Booths: A Style Guide
The Young Collector
At the risk of repeating ourselves, selling antiques is hard work. There's all the driving around and browsing auctions and hauling heavy things in and out and up and down; there's all the calculating of margins and costs; there's the mental load of keeping a rolling sense of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Amputation Kits, Once Snarled in Lawsuit, Sell
Two amputation kits that once belonged to Dr. John Warren (1753-1815) sold at Boston-based RR Auction for $104,147.05 (includes buyer's premium) in an online sale that closed on July 12. Two other medical kits were included in the lot.
These kits sold for $104,147.05. Photo courtesy RR Auction.
In 2011 Boston dealer ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Art and Science of the Philosophy Chamber at Harvard
Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy President and Fellows of Harvard College
"This exhibition is about a room, a single room," curator Ethan W. Lasser told a group of press people a few days before the May 19 opening of The Philosophy Chamber at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Retail Analytics and a New Service from the USPS
Computer Column #343
John P. Reid, e-mail:
Big retailers have been gathering personal information on each of us for a decade or more. Amazon may know as much about me as I do. Walmart processes more than two million gigabytes of data from one million customer transactions every hour. Some of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Cyd and John Emmons, Gardenalia, Falls Village, Connecticut
In the Trade
What do you do if you want to be a show dealer, but the shows at which you exhibit keep dying out from under you? That's the question that Cyd and John Emmons, who operate their business, Gardenalia, from their home in Falls Village, Connecticut, are pondering these ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jason Busch Appointed Director of Jason Jacques Gallery
Jason Jacques has announced that he has appointed Jason T. Busch as the director of his gallery, located in a townhouse at 20 East 73rd Street in New York City. On his website (www.jasonjacques.com), Jacques calls himself a "pot dealer" and claims he holds the "world's most comprehensive collection" of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four Centuries of Portsmouth Furniture
Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Since the publication of the landmark Portsmouth Furniture: Masterworks from the New Hampshire Seacoast in 1993 and the exhibition of the same name in 1992, dedicated scholars have continued to explore the subject, widening its scope and adding new objects to the canon. The 2017 exhibition Four Centuries ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic Deerfield Acquires Packard Bed Rug
Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts, has acquired an important sewn woolen New England bed rug marked "1801 / Esther Packard." The rug is one of a group of four similar bed rugs, at least two of which have been attributed to members of the Packard family of Massachusetts. The other ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antiques Collectors: My, We Differ!
You know us. We attend antiques shows or study pieces for sale online or see what sold for how much at auctions. Some of us collect Pilgrim or William and Mary, others mid-century modern. Some eschew furniture and love toys, pottery, or glass. Some specialize in paintings. The tent of ... (Read More)
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