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(Fragment)Portland Museum of Art Announces Generous Gift
The Portland (Maine) Museum of Art (PMA) received the largest matching gift in the museum's history, the institution announced on December 8, 2016. Five million dollars will be donated to the PMA by longtime American museum benefactors Judy and Leonard Lauder to support the museum's endowment.
The PMA director position will ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Securing Art and Antiques with Technology
Computer Column #337
John P. Reid,
It would be nice if digital methods could help recover stolen antiques. Apple, Android, and other smartphones and tablets have loss protection. A properly configured mobile device can accept a command over the Internet to wipe its memory and periodically signal its GPS (Global Positioning ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, January 2017
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Week in New York City: Selling History
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(Issue Story)Americana Week, New York City, 2017
Go to Americana Week 2017 story
Download Americana Week 2017 Calendar of Events printable pdf
Tuesday, January 17
Noon, Sotheby's, George S. Parker II Americana Symposium, RSVP: (212) 894-1099.
6 p.m., Sotheby's, Americana Week Reception, RSVP: (212) 894-1099.
Wednesday, January 18
10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Christie's, Chinese export art.
2 p.m., Sotheby's, Alexander Hamilton: An Important ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Louisa May Alcott Manuscripts Go to Concord Free Public Library in Private Sale
Concord, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts and Concord Free Public Library
Over 500 pages of original working manuscripts by Louisa May Alcott, one of America's best-beloved 19th-century authors, have been sold in a private deal brokered by Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts of New York City to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Turnbull Jewels Perform Well
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Joseph DuMouchelle
Joseph DuMouchelle's jewelry sale on December 15, 2016, was held at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City and simulcast to Birmingham, Michigan, where "twenty-five-plus phone workers" took the bulk of the bids, according to Melinda Adducci, G.G., vice president of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair Arrested for Selling Fake Gold Bars
On October 27 search warrants were executed by the Delaware State Police Financial Crimes Unit with the assistance of the Ocean View Police Department, which resulted in the apprehension of two suspects and the seizure of counterfeit gold bars.
On October 24 detectives from the financial crimes unit had initiated an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Sells a Spice Chest
A small valuables chest, offered as the first of ten lots of furniture at the end of a sale of mostly paintings from the estate of Andre and Nancy Brewster of Maryland, was not overlooked on December 15, 2016, at Freeman's in Philadelphia. Cataloged as a William and Mary spice ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England" Wins Historic New England Book
The 22nd annual Historic New England Book Prize has been awarded to Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England by Christine Hadsel. Suspended Worlds is a celebration of the many historic theater curtains in northern New England and their part in community activities and entertainment. The curtains were ... (Read More)
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