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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Point-of-Sale Tablet
This laptop for writing sales slips at shows might be replaced soon by the tablet computer on the left.
Computer Column #292
John P. Reid, [email protected]
The world is periodically turned upside down by new technology, such as Gutenberg’s printing press and Watt’s steam engine. The automobile, airplane, radio, television, and computer radically ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Antiques Show Solves Some Tax Problems
Philadelphia, looking for ways to raise revenue, is collecting obscure back taxes plus interest from antiques dealers who participate in shows in that city.
First targeted were dealers who exhibit at the venerable Philadelphia Antiques Show, the fund-raiser for Penn Medicine, the healthcare part of the University of Pennsylvania, the largest ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Crolius Heart-Shaped Inkstand Gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photo courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The William Crolius incised and cobalt blue decorated heart-shaped inkstand on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the past 22 years has recently been made a promised and partial gift to the institution. Purchased by Pennsylvania collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Country Show: Under New Management and New Name
Sandy Raulston and Ted Birbilis, owners of Roadside America in Pasadena, California, have taken over the management and promotion of the California Country Antiques Show in Los Altos, California. The show, now renamed the New California Country & More Antiques Show, will be held on June 9 and October 20.Raulston ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie’s and Sotheby’s Change Buyers’ Premiums
On February Christie’s and Sotheby’s announced new buyers’ premiums.
Christie’s new buyer’s premium in the United States is 25% of the hammer price of each lot up to and including $75,000; 20% of the hammer price from $75,001 up to and including $1,500,000; and 12% above $1,500,000.
Sotheby’s new fees are 25% ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$20 Million Thomas Cole in Crate
In February the Seward House Museum and the Fred L. Emerson Foundation jointly announced that Thomas Cole’s landscape Portage Falls on the Genesee, 84" x 61", had been removed from the museum and was going to be sold.
The Fred L. Emerson Foundation, incorporated in Delaware in 1943, was the former ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Taxing Problem
Tax authorities in Philadelphia, in a clumsy and shortsighted move, have decided that dealers exhibiting at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, one of the most prestigious shows in America, are tax scofflaws who haven’t been paying enough tax to the city (see Lita Solis-Cohen’s report on page 12-A). The city is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)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.
A Handsome Cupboard of Plate: Early American Silver in the Cahn Collection by ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Point, Click, Bid!
The Young Collector
We’re not lazy people. Trust us. In the past 48 hours we have gone to two grocery stores, the post office, the gas station, the pet store, and the bakery; worked on four upcoming lectures; made the necessary preliminary notes for this column and cranked out 800-plus words; ... (Read More)
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