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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Islamic and Indian works of art account for a fair proportion of this month's selections, but an iconic ice-axe, Crusader swords, a geochronoscope, a billiards table, peacocks, a man-powered spinning reel, Lalique glass vases, 20th-century prints, and Spindrift, a lost clipper, are also on the bill of fare.
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(Auction)Skinner's Andrews Sale Sets Unanticipated Records
No one was terribly surprised when the first lot offered, this lidded wooden pail made in Canterbury, New Hampshire, brought $11,070. The pail has choice yellow paint and all the quality construction details Shaker collectors prefer. Skinner CEO Karen Keane, sitting at the rear of the phone bidders group, held ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MESDA Journal Article Reveals Tennessee's Earliest Documented Cabinetmaker
Corner cupboard by Moses Crawford, 1790-1800, Knox County, Tennessee. Walnut with yellow pine and tulip poplar; 1011/4" x 561/2" x 231/2". Collection of the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA), Acc. 5422.
The identity of Tennessee's earliest known cabinetmaker, documented in the region at least 20 years before statehood, has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA's Coastal Maine Antiques Show One Week Earlier
The tents will be going up one week earlier this year.
The Maine Antiques Dealers Association's (MADA) 17th annual Coastal Maine Antiques Show will be held Wednesday, August 20, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, Maine. This year's show will take place one week earlier ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colby College Museum of Art to Present Bernard Langlais Retrospective
Bernard Langlais, Around Four, 1959-62, painted wood, 72" x 48" x 2". The Bernard Langlais Collection, Gift of Helen Friend Langlais.
This summer, the Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, will present a scholarly retrospective of the work of the artist Bernard Langlais, whose estate Colby College received as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Sarasota Winter Art & Antiques Show
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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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(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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(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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