(Auction)
Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Short and sweet—that was the 222-lot Grogan & Company auction on September 27, 2015, in its Boston gallery. Just before Christmas 2014, after 20 years in suburban Dedham, Massachusetts, the auction house arrived on Beacon Hill with a new direction. Large American and Continental case pieces ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Indianapolis, Indiana
The elastic nature of the Indy Antique Advertising Show was exemplified by a piece of stoneware for sale during the fall event, held September 25 and 26 on the Indiana State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis.
Offered by Frank Jastrzembski of Frank’s Toy Box, Geneva-on-the-Lake, Ohio, was a five-gallon crock having the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Quinn’s Auction Galleries-Central Virginia, Troy, Virginia
Photos courtesy Quinn’s Auction Galleries-Central Virginia
Quinn’s Auction Galleries-Central Virginia conducted its inaugural furniture and decorative arts catalog sale on September 26. It was an occasion to introduce the firm’s new location as well as its new name. Quinn’s has leased a large building on U.S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The fall live catalog auction of The Potomack Company was held September 26, 2015, at the firm’s gallery in Alexandria, Virginia. We are used to Potomack’s sales being heavily inventoried with Chinese and other Asian items. This sale had a greatly reduced ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Editorial
Former Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mayor Stephen Reed was arrested in July and charged with over 400 crimes. He’s accused of using public money to buy antiques for a series of proposed museums. Reed, elected mayor in 1981, held office until early 2010. During his tenure, he bought thousands of antiques on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
In our September issue, Celia Briggs sought help identifying the pattern of blue transferware shards found on a beach in Maine. Dayton Bard of Santa Fe, New Mexico, provided an answer, pointing to an example he found on eBay and another in Brunk Auctions’ September 11 and 12 sale. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
The September 25 sale of American and European art at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago scored a happy note for paintings and other art. Generally of late, individual paintings—other than blockbusters—have been a hard sell. This sale of 300-plus lots told a more upbeat story.
Zachary Wirsum, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
This is a tale of two topics, cooking and auctioning antiques. Actually they are very similar endeavors. They require an experienced person at the table, a menu/game plan, a list of ingredients, and an audience of participants to observe or to partake. And ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
With material coming from several significant collections across the United States, interest seemed a notch or two above normal during the live sale of American Indian and Western art held by Cowan’s Auctions on September 25, 2015, at the company’s gallery in Cincinnati, Ohio.
The ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
A Trojan horse, useful software that hides some malicious content, detected by Avast, one of many available Internet security programs.
Computer Column #322
John P. Reid, [email protected]
There are two topics this month: protection from computer malware and a new product for moving files between digital devices.
Malware
In June the Symantec Corporation published one ... (Read More)
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