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A restoration company that repeatedly failed to complete work or return antiques to consumers is temporarily banned from operating in North Carolina, the state’s Attorney General Roy Cooper announced on April 28.
“Taking money from consumers and then failing to finish the job is simply the wrong way to do business,” ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Shaker Sale by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
Quiet but dedicated Massachusetts conservationist and philanthropist Erhart Rudolph Muller (1909-2015) and his wife, Ruth Tate Atwood Muller, began collecting Shaker art and artifacts in the 1940s. Ruth, who had arrived in the 1940s at Harvard, Massachusetts, as a librarian and married Erhart, died at 97 in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
David Rago sold 20th- and 21st-century design from three catalogs on June 4 and 5 in Lambertville, New Jersey. It was the first of the June design sales, followed by Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Bonhams in New York City and Wright in Chicago. This sale went ... (Read More)
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A settlement with Aby J. Rosen, a collector of contemporary art, has been adjudicated for his failing to pay millions in sales and use taxes on art acquisitions made by his companies. Rosen will pay $7 million following an investigation by the New York Attorney General’s office.
A major figure in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Opinion
I imagine a well-known antiques dealer saying, “I think every dealer hopes for knowledgeable collectors who look for a win-win situation and have the means to follow through. Anyone who deals in retail finds most people desirable to deal with. Yet there is a segment that makes it so hard that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Jennifer Sabin is stressing the basics when she debuts Antiques in 2 Barns, a small, one-day show on Wednesday, September 14, at the Franklin County Fairgrounds in Hilliard, Ohio. The timing takes advantage of buyers in the area for the Springfield (Ohio) Extravaganza later that week. The shows are 35 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Hong Kong and New York City have seen much of the major saleroom action in recent times, though by the time this issue appears, London will be fully up and running again. A couple of personal favourites from the Impressionist and Modern picture sales held in London in ... (Read More)
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Art sales executive Victoria Gelfand, whose companies failed to pay New York sales and use tax on more than 30 works of art purchased by her companies, has agreed to pay the state $210,000 in sales and use tax combined.
From 2005 through 2013, Gelfand employed two companies to engage in ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
A Book Review
Strength and Splendor: Wrought Iron from the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen, edited by Anne-Charlotte Cathelineau. The Barnes Foundation, 2015, 176 pages, hardbound, $32.50 plus S/H from the Barnes Foundation, (215) 278-7000 or (www.barnesfoundation.org).
Strength and Splendor is the illustrated catalog for an exhibition of 150 pieces of ... (Read More)
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Dana Tillou and his wife, Catherine, at the 2015 Antiques at Rhinebeck.
After having an art and antiques gallery for the past 50 years at 417 Franklin Street in Buffalo, New York, dealer Dana Tillou is moving. Not far, about two miles, to a smaller venue, where his gallery size will ... (Read More)
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