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(Fragment)New Temporary Location for Cahoon Museum
The Cahoon Museum of American Art has a new temporary location: 30 Bates Road in Mashpee Commons North (in the former New Balance space), Mashpee, Massachusetts.
The museum’s permanent location at 4676 Falmouth Road in Cotuit is being restored and a new addition is being built. The permanent location will reopen ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Was in the Air for Couture and Vintage Fashions
Bidding opened at $2500 for a Fortuny stenciled velvet gown of a golden ocher silk velvet tabard with Persian pattern gold stenciling. The gown has peach pleated silk sleeves and dress side panels enclosed with Murano glass beads and silk cord loops. In very good condition and labeled “Mariano / ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nantucket Antiques Show Rebranded
The Nantucket Antiques Show, held annually for 35-plus years, has been rebranded as the Decorative and Fine Art Show Nantucket. The dates and location of the show remain August 7-10 at the Nantucket High School, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Jerry Ritch, a second-generation antiques dealer and a 50-year veteran of the show circuit, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Cindy Johnson, Dater House Antiques, Troy, New York
Cindy Johnson.
Dater House Antiques is on Route 2 a few miles east of Troy, New York.
A partial view of Johnson’s shop.
Mortars with pestles: left, $195; right, $169. “They’re always good sellers,” Johnson said.
Quilted skirt or petticoat in tones of brown and plum with green and white flowers, $235.
Two-part stepback cupboard ... (Read More)
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(Show)Liberty in the Spring
Old Salem, Inc. staff member Tyler Cox operates Stepback Antiques in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He brought what he called “a make-do” primitive two-door cabinet with white wash. “If you like primitives, it appeals,” said Cox of the $399 cabinet.
With vestiges of its original red paint, this Sky King velocipede was ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Editorial
Tiny Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, has a big problem, and the administration thought it had a perfect solution.
The problem is the Vining Collection, approximately 7000 rare books and artifacts given to the college by the family of Edward Payson Vining in 1921. Proper care for the collection is costly, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Data Disposal, Backup Power, and Mobile Web Sites
Sanding away all or part of the label to the center hole makes a CD or DVD unreadable by identity thieves.
Computer Column #316
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Disposing of data CDs with sensitive information, Internet survival in bad weather, and adapting a Web site for mobile devices will be covered.
Shred CDs and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Paintings, and Sporting Art Sold on the Cape
This 1900 Elk Buffalo by New York artist Henry Merwin Shrady (1871-1922) sold for a record price of $276,000. The buffalo stands ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Enjoys Solid Spring Sale
This oil on canvas is attributed to the circle of Gaetano Lapis (Italian, 1704-1776). The painting depicts the central encounter in the story of Armida and Rinaldo from the poem by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Armida is shown as she approaches the sleeping Rinaldo. Her intent is to kill Rinaldo; instead ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A New Location for Chelsea Clock Company and a Second Edition of Its History
One of the new photographs in the second edition of the Demeters’ book is a vintage image showing Joseph H. Eastman (1843-1931), founder of the Chelsea Clock Company’s immediate precursor, the Eastman Clock Company. Eastman, who trained as a watchmaker as well as a clockmaker, fitted his clock movement with ... (Read More)
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