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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
As the summer season of London sales draws to a close, I find my "waiting for report" files bursting at the seams-as ever. Over the coming months, I will work through them, and forthcoming "Letters" will include lots of paintings and drawings, plenty of clocks, some good silver, ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Successful Advertising
The Art of Marketing
Last month I began to cover the topic ofadvertising. Because it is such a large and complex topic, I've decided to continue on that same theme this month. Advertising plays a crucial role in persuading your target customers to buy from you. Companies spend millions of dollars ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)In Conversation: Modern African American Art
Gordon Parks (1912-2006), Harlem, circa 1948, gelatin silver print. (c)1948 Gordon Parks Foundation.
Lois Mailou Jones (1905-1998), Moon Masque, 1971, oil and collage on canvas.
John T. Biggers (1924-2001), Shotgun, Third Ward #1, 1966, tempera and oil on canvas.
Robert McNeill (1917-2005), New Car (South Richmond, Virginia), from the project "The Negro in ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Just Be Yourself
The Young Collector
Let's talk for a minute about Brimfield. No, not that one, another one (named for that one), a little farther west: Brimfield, Ohio.
Don't feel bad if you haven't heard of it. Most people haven't. Brimfield, Ohio, gets lost easily, pinched as it is between the suburban sprawl that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Barbara Boardman Johnson, Pewter & Wood Antiques, Enfield, New Hampshire, and Cave Creek, Arizona
Barbara Boardman Johnson in New Hampshire.
Johnson's shop Pewter & Wood in Enfield, New Hampshire. It's on a dirt road, just like her place in Cave Creek, Arizona.
Eight bottle dolls (actually, one is mounted on a tin can rather than a bottle). "They're under $350 each," Johnson said.
Interior views of Johnson's ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vermont's Bromley Mountain Show Moves, Changes Name
The Bromley Mountain Antiques Show is moving a few miles east on Route 11 to Magic Mountain base lodge in Londonderry, Vermont, and will now be known as the Magic Mountain Antiques Show.
The show is still part of Antiques Week in Vermont and will join four other shows-the Weston Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Figure Out the Ending and Win a Free Lunch
Ann Smith of West Coast Antiques, Portland, Oregon, buys The Portland Payoff at a book signing at the July summer Expo Antiques Show.
Robin Williams, owner of Hampshire Antiques Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, has published a second novel, The Portland Payoff,whichfeatures dealers from Regency Antiques in Vancouver.
According to Williams, "This story ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Setting the Table
Editorial
On July 18 Detroit, one of largest cities in the United States, declared bankruptcy. The filing was made on the advice of Kevyn Orr, the emergency manager of the city, who was appointed by Governor Rick Snyder.
Orr is faced with a monumental task-the Motor City is estimated to be in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jason T. Busch Appointed Deputy Director of the Saint Louis Art Museum
Jason Busch in 2010.
Jason Busch will join the Saint Louis Art Museum in Saint Louis, Missouri, as deputy director in October. He will oversee the curatorial, exhibitions and collections, and education and public programs divisions. Busch, who turned 39 in July, is currently chief curator and the Alan G. and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Annual Maritime and China Trade Auction
"It's going to a great home," said Bourgeault after knocking down the painted silk 16" x 14" mourning escutcheon (hatchment) that was part of the elaborate funeral of Thomas Hancock in August 1764. It had descended in the Hancock family, spending years folded up and in a closet before being ... (Read More)
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