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(Fragment)New Sarasota Winter Art & Antiques Show
Dolphin Promotions’ new Sarasota Winter Art & Antiques Show & Sale will open with a preview gala to benefit Designing Women. To be held on Thursday, January 15, 2015, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., the preview will feature a wine and cheese reception as well as an opportunity to shop ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)More Firearms to Market?
Editorial
A bill introduced in Congress on May 28 would modify the definition of an “antique” firearm and would mean the trade in many firearms would no longer be controlled by federal law.
The Gun Control Act of 1968 defined an antique firearm as any “manufactured in or before 1898.” The GCA ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heart of Country Antiques Show Is No More
In late May, Susan Kramer Hunkins of Kramer Hunkins & Associates, the co-owner of the popular 33-year-old Heart of Country Antiques Show in Nashville, Tennessee, announced that the February 13-15 show was their last. Susan and Steve Hunkins are the daughter and son-in-law of Elizabeth “Libby” and Richard Kramer, the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)MFA, Boston Acquires Cuban Chest for Art of the Americas Wing
Dennis Carr, the Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the William J. Fitzgerald Gallery with the Cuban chest of drawers (cómoda), 1750-1800, 45 7/8" x 68½" x 35 1/16", mahogany, Spanish cedar (Cedrela odorata), and silver hardware. Henry H. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Auctioneers Expands to St. Louis
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers is expanding into the St. Louis area. The firm will open a new auction facility at 32 North Brentwood in the heart of Clayton, Missouri.
“We have received so many wonderful consignments of fine art, jewelry, and decorative arts from the St. Louis area; it only makes sense ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Barbara Ardizone, Salisbury, Connecticut
Barbara Ardizone with her “protector” Kobi.
Ardizone’s home (and B & B, and antiques inventory storage unit, and doggy B & B) on Main Street in Salisbury, Connecticut.
The frame and the painting of the cat playing with a ball of red wool are priced separately. The frame with faux maple graining ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Sweet Charity
The Young Collector
We always end up in the bar. It never fails. After any forum, conference, or show, in the bar you’ll find a motley assortment of dealers, collectors, auctioneers, and the various colorful folks they seem to attract dissecting the recent event, solving the problems of the business, venting ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William B. Earley Joins Gateway Gallery Auction
William B. Earley has joined Gateway Gallery Auction LLC, Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, as specialist consultant for antiquarian and out-of-print books. Earley, with nearly 40 years of experience in the fine book and manuscript field, will be responsible for assessing and cataloging rare, antiquarian, and out-of-print books, as well as local history ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Allman Promotions Assumes Management of Salt City Antiques Shows
Steve and Judy Allman of Allman Promotions LLC have assumed the management of the Salt City Antiques Shows in Syracuse, New York. “The Salt City Antiques Shows will continue in their original format and will be advertised and promoted in the tradition and to the standards established by its founder, ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Putting Others First
Auction Law & Ethics
“There is no right way to do the wrong thing.”
I’m not sure who minted that nugget. The first time I recall reading it was in an article penned by my friend Mark Rogers of Mount Airy, North Carolina, and published by the National Auctioneers Association. Rogers was ... (Read More)
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