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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Chinese works of art, including the most expensive hinge you are ever likely to come across, open this month's selection, with teapots, modern aeroplanes, portrait miniatures, a planetarium, posters, Prague street scenes, and a couple of snuffboxes adding to the mix.
The Qianlong white jade Imperial hinge fitting sold ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Heirloom Quality
The Young Collector
We've talked before about our guilty pleasures in terms of collecting. We have others: eating marshmallow fluff from the jar, putting the windows down with the heater running on cool evening drives, and bad television. One of our guilty pleasure TV shows is Hoarders (or Hoarding: Buried Alive ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiquer Pioneers
In 1989, editing was done in WordPerfect 5.1 and other word processors with memorized control key combinations or menus pulled down by control keys.
Computer Column #308
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Computers are essential tools for most antiquers, but that was not always true. Sam Pennington (1929-2008), founder with his wife, Sally, of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Allison Kohler of JMK Shows Will Work with Rhinebeck Antiques Fair
Allison Kohler, president of JMK Shows, will begin working with the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair as an associate in promoting the 38-year-old show.
According to Kohler, she recently met with the producers of the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair and discussed the challenges of sustaining shows and creating new promotion techniques.
"The Rhinebeck Antiques Fairs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)U.S. Antique Shows Hires New Sales Manager
U.S. Antique Shows has hired Debbie Puccio as sales manager. Puccio will be located at the company's headquarters in Naples, Florida, and brings more than 15 years of experience in sales and business development to her position. As sales manager, Puccio will be responsible for leading efforts in securing dealers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Editorial
Buy the best you can afford. That's long been a maxim in the world of art and antiques, and for someone who Forbes estimates is worth $3.2 billion, it should be an easy principle to follow.
Not so for California real estate developer Igor Olenicoff. Olenicoff and his company, Olen Properties ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Grant for Contemporary Fraktur Exhibition
The Free Library of Philadelphia has received a $360,000 grant from The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Exhibition and Public Interpretation program in support of its upcoming Framing Fraktur contemporary art installation and exhibition organized by curator Judith Tannenbaum.
Taking inspiration from the library's extensive and rare Pennsylvania German fraktur ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)CCADA Awards Annual Scholarship
Each year, the Cape Cod Antique Dealers Association (CCADA) provides funds to the Cape Cod Community College Educational Foundation to give a scholarship to one or more Cape Cod Community College graduates who will be pursuing additional studies in the field of art, history, and the decorative arts. This year, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Flags from the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment of the Continental Line
During Antiques Week in New Hampshire, a side trip to the New Hampshire Historical Society in Concord will provide a glimpse of New Hampshire's role in the Revolutionary War. On display at the society's headquarters are two flags from the 2nd New Hampshire Regiment of the Continental Line. The flags ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Civil War Soldier's Skull Pulled from Maryland Auction
A Maryland auction company was unprepared for the negative public reaction that erupted when a Civil War soldier's skull was set to be sold on June 3. The remains had been found decades ago at the former site of a field hospital used after the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. ... (Read More)
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