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(Fragment)Appraisal Radio Show Seeks Guests
Author, auctioneer, appraiser, and home downsizing specialist Michael Ivankovich's "What's It Worth? Ask Mike the Appraiser" radio show has been extended by popular demand to a full hour. The show airs live on Friday mornings on WBCB 1490 AM in the greater Philadelphia area from 9 to 10 a.m. Ivankovich ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Event at the New Jersey Home Show
JMK Shows' new three-day event, Decorating with Antiques, will be held March 6-8 at the New Jersey Convention Center in Edison, New Jersey. It will be a new feature of the New Jersey Home Show, New Jersey's largest event of its kind.
The collaboration between Allison Kohler, owner of JMK Shows, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Digitized Wallpaper
For the past two years, Historic New England has been cataloging and digitizing its wallpaper collection. More than 6000 samples have been electronically cataloged and are available on line (www.WallpaperHistory.org). The collection includes rolled, flat, oversize, and three-dimensional materials, which each require unique handling and digitization methods.
The project makes accessible ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)County Unfair
Editorial
Want to sell a highboy in Hauppauge? A sideboard in Southampton? A bookcase in Brookhaven? If so, you need a pay for a license. That unwelcome news is rippling through Suffolk County, New York, the fourth-largest county in the Empire State and home to almost 1.5 million people.
A county ordinance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chinese Steel Company Plunges into Chinese Ceramics Investment, Faces Lawsuit
China Gerui Advanced Materials Group Ltd. (CGAM) made a staggering announcement on September 4, 2014. Buried in a long press release announcing second-quarter financial results, the Chinese steel producer revealed it had paid $234 million in cash for a collection of 206 pieces of Chinese porcelain.
The company claimed it was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cowan's Acquires Little John's Auction Service
Cowan's Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, has acquired Little John's Auction Service of Orange, California. Completed in January, the deal makes Cowan's the third-largest auction house of antique firearms in the United States. It brings together two companies with more than 60 years of combined experience and more than $600 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Art Dealer Charged with Money Laundering
Art dealer Nathan Isen, 61, of Villanova, Pennsylvania, was charged on January 8 with one count of money laundering. According to court papers, Isen is accused of selling 12 pieces of artwork in 2012 in exchange for $20,000 in cash, for the purpose of laundering the $20,000, which he understood ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nashville in Transition: Year without a Heart
The announcement last year that the 33rd edition of the well-known Heart of Country Antiques Showwould be the last saddened collectors and dealers for whom the event had become a festive annual reunion. The Opryland Hotel in Nashville, once merely large, had more than tripled in physical size during the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Convicted Art Dealer's Release Revoked
Two things not to do after pleading guilty to fraud in connection with the sale of fake artwork are to sell more artwork and to edit the Wikipedia page of a witness who testified before the grand jury. Those things constitute what the United States Attorney in Connecticut claims art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Raccoon Creek Antiques and George Allen Stave Off Sheriff's Sale by Declaring Bankruptcy
On January 19, Raccoon Creek Antiques at Oley Forge, LLC and dealer George Allen each filed for bankruptcy in federal court in Pennsylvania. The January 19 bankruptcy filing stopped a January 20 sheriff's sale that would have been conducted by the sheriff of Berks County, by order of the Court ... (Read More)
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