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(Issue Story)All in One Week: Heritage, Phillips, and Freeman's Hold Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
According to oral tradition, this circa 1773 diamond, enamel, gold, and silver 31/4" x 31/4" commander's breast pin of the Order of Charles III, Spain, descended from Manuel de Amat y Junient, to whom it was presented in 1773. According to the Heritage catalog, the "Royal ... (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 (comoda), 1750-1800, 45 7/8" x 681/2" x 35 1/16", mahogany, Spanish cedar (Cedrela odorata), and silver hardware. Henry H. ... (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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(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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(The Art of Marketing)Buying through eBay
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of selling through eBay. This month I'll cover buying through eBay. There have been many discussions over the years in the form of letters to the editor concerning buying and selling on eBay. Going through back issues and my recollections, there ... (Read More)
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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.
A: ... (Read More)
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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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