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(Issue Story)Letter from London
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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
The American West in Bronze: 1850-1925 by Thayer Tolles and Thomas Brent ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Susanne Davino of Eustace & Zamus Antiques, Hudson, New York
Susanne Davino.
Davino's shop at 513 Warren Street in Hudson. Before she took it over ten years ago, it was occupied by dealer Benjamin Wilson.
A partial interior view of the shop.
Davino carries a nice selection of porcelain. This is a sampling.
This maple tall chest with pad feet from Deerfield, Massachusetts, has ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Who Made My Clock? Clue: He Worked with Rittenhouse
Fig. 1. The subject tall-case clock. Photo courtesy clock owner.
Fig. 2. Hood detail showing shallow navigational star terminals. Photo courtesy clock owner.
Fig. 3. Hood with absent colonnettes. Photo courtesy clock owner.
Fig. 4. Hood detail showing mitered joint where colonnettes would have attached. Note that the joint is on the side ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Micro-Targeted Marketing
The Art of Marketing
This month our topic is the utilization of psychographic profiling techniques for delivering micro-targeted marketing. Traditional marketing has been actively targeted and marketed to the different generations. With the current rise of the social Web, these groups of people are getting smaller. They're so small and fragmented, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Apps for Tablets
A map app on a 7" tablet computer provides turn-by-turn visual and voice navigation to a convention center where antiques shows are sometimes held.
Computer Column #304
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Many of the things antiquers do on smartphones are so much easier on a tablet computer. Here are some examples to ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Integrity and Courage
Auction Law & Ethics
An old, blind woman went to see a lawyer about having a will drafted. He discussed with her what she wanted to accomplish with her will. Her estate was meager, and the lawyer quoted a fee of just $100 to do the work. As she got up ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)A Practical Defense of an Old House
The Young Collector
Hollie woke up in the night recently, because her "out of the covers" arm had cooled to a temperature that made her think the house might be getting too cold. She got up to check the stove, realized that Andrew would be up in a hour, so she ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Witherell Buys Grass Valley Old West Antiques Show
Dealer Brian Witherell of Witherell's Art and Antiques, Sacramento, California, has purchased the Grass Valley Old West Antiques Show from Mike and Sally Butler. It's a homecoming of sorts. Witherell's father, Brad, and two partners started the show in 1984. The Butlers bought it in 1999. The price was not ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Show for Newtown
Barn Star Productions and the Newtown Historical Society will collaborate to produce the Newtown Antiques Market. The new one-day outdoor antiques show will be held on June 21 in Newtown, Connecticut, at the Fairfield Hills Campus facility and will present 100 exhibitors in an informal environment of tents and pop-up ... (Read More)
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