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(Fragment)Lutiger Joins Palm Beach Show Group
Laurette Lutiger has joined the Palm Beach Show Group as show director. Launching a Chicago office, Lutiger will establish dealer participation, assist with production of the Palm Beach Show Group shows throughout the U.S., and manage show acquisition and development.
"What attracted me to the Palm Beach Show Group was the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brooklyn Flea and Smorgasburg Move One Block North
On April 6, the Brooklyn Flea in New York City celebrated the fifth anniversary of its inaugural market-when nearly 20,000 people showed up at a Fort Greene schoolyard on a chilly early spring day with a strong chance of rain. The weather held out, word spread, and five years later ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Clarion and Folk Art to Be Digitized
The American Folk Art Museum in New York City has been awarded funding necessary to digitize and make fully accessible 115 issues of The Clarion ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Dates and New Name for Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
The 2013 Greenwich Winter Antiques Show, Classic to Contemporary, produced by Barn Star Productions in collaboration with the Greenwich Historical Society, will be held December 6-8 at the Eastern Greenwich Civic Center in Old Greenwich, Connecticut.
In 2012 the show was called Antiques and Art Avant Garde Greenwich and took place ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)David Jackson Joins Garth's
Firearms and English furniture and decorative arts specialist David Jackson has joined Garth's Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio.
A native of Lancashire, England, Jackson holds a bachelor's degree with honors in fine arts valuation from Southampton Solent University in Southampton, England. He successfully attained his degree while continuing a 25-year career ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Retired Antiques Dealer Publishes Mystery
Mary Kane of Cherry Hill, New Jersey, retired from Mary's Memories, and her friend Evelyn Saunders have published an e-book, Colorblind in Philadelphia.
The plot revolves around the theft of a rare alexandrite ring from a booth in an antiques show held in a posh center city hotel. Alexandrite exhibits a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Clars Auction Gallery Expands to the Pacific Northwest
Clars Auction Gallery, Oakland, California, has announced its expansion to the Pacific Northwest. Its new operation is centrally located in Vancouver, Washington, just north of Portland, Oregon. Clars brings to this market a world-class fine art and antiques auction house that will serve the needs of those looking to sell ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Men Facing Charges for Stolen Artifacts
In July 2012, an officer with the Halifax (Nova Scotia) Regional Municipality conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle in Fall River, Nova Scotia. During that stop, the officer seized a document that was later identified as an original letter written by Major General James Wolfe in 1758. The initial ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Man Sues after Discovering Painting Has Hermann Goering Provenance
The question of provenance is at the center of a legal battle in California. Collector Steven Brooks of San Francisco paid GBP57,600 (approximately $106,796) for a painting by French painter Louis-Michel van Loo (1707-1771) at Sotheby's old master paintings sale in London on July 8, 2004. Cataloged as Allegorical Portrait ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Foot for Penn's Desk Found
William Penn's desk is in the Logan Room at the Library Company of Philadelphia. Photo courtesy The Library Company of Philadelphia.
British furniture historian Adam Bowett shows that the old foot fits into William Penn's secretary desk. Photo courtesy The Library Company of Philadelphia.
The small replacement foot and the original, ... (Read More)
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