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(Auction)Smith's Labor Day Auction
William A. Smith Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William Smith
“It was a fabulous sale. We had a great crowd,” declared a member of the William A. Smith auction staff the day after Smith’s annual Labor Day sale on September 7. Much of the material offered at this Smith auction was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Packs 'Em in Again!
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maine
As Robert Foster summed up his September 5 and 6 auction in Newcastle, Maine, it was “a hell of a sale.” Nobody packs a gallery like he does, and his Labor Day weekend offerings always produce wall-busting crowds and noteworthy sales results.
Australian-born Martin Lewis (1881-1962 immigrated ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)New Appreciation
Editorial
During the second weekend in August, Maine Antique Digest set up a promotional booth at the Maine Antiques Festival, promoter Paul Davis’s signature show in Union, Maine. The three-day show, once home to approximately 380 dealers, has seen the number of dealers decline in recent years because of the economy, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky
A Book Review
The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky by Gaylord Torrence Skira Rizzoli and the musée du quai Branly, 2014, 320 pages, hardbound, $65
The landmark exhibition The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky was at the musée du quai Branly in Paris from April to July 2014, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Classical Collection and New Faces at the Winter Antiques Show
New York City dealer Carswell Rush Berlin is selling a private collection of Classical furniture and period decorative accessories including some rare lighting. “It came from a southern mansion. The collectors are simply downsizing,” he said. Berlin is not running an auction or devoting a stand to the collection at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The New Selkirk Faces Lawsuit over Use of Name
In September 2014 Amelia and Jeff Jeffers, owners of Garth’s Auctions in Ohio, announced they were expanding and had bought the assets associated with the defunct Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers in St. Louis, Missouri, including company names and other intellectual property. “We were interested in a name that has an incredible and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Chihuly Company Employee Charged with $3 Million Art Theft
A former Chihuly company employee is accused of stealing more than $3 million worth of artwork by Dale Chihuly. Christopher Robert Kaul, 38, has been charged with theft in the first degree and trafficking stolen property in the first degree.
According to papers filed by Scott R. Peters, a deputy prosecuting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Art Is the Main Thing at Thomaston
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
By my count, Maine’s solid six-day block of auctions in the last week of August brought in over $7 million in total sales. Of that, about $2 million was claimed by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries on August 29 and 30 in Thomaston, Maine, where it ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Expands to the Netherlands
Dallas-based Heritage Auctions has joined forces with the Dutch auction house MPO Auctions to form Heritage Auctions Europe, based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The Amsterdam expansion comes at the same time as Heritage’s recently announced Hong Kong expansion.
“Heritage is a growing global brand,” said Cristiano Bierrenbach, vice president of Heritage ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)We Must Be Mistaken
The Young Collector
In 2001 the University of Michigan Health System launched a new program, and a study to track the results followed. The idea was simple. Healthcare workers were encouraged to report any mistakes or errors and were given a step-by-step guide to navigating that process, from telling families and ... (Read More)
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