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(Feature)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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(Fragment)Deaccessioning
Opinion
Deaccessioning
by Isabelle Douglas Seggerman
Through all of my life I have been acquiring. As a child I collected Ginny dolls, then Toni and Madame Alexander dolls. When I was a teenager I accumulated clothes, beaux, Lester Lanin beanies, and sailing trophies. During college, my collections revolved around good art and art ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Yaffe Meets Rabizadeh
Auction Law and Ethics
Yaffe Meets Rabizadeh
by Steve Proffitt
When present meets past, as Yogi Berra said, "It's deja vu all over again," or something like that. This happened when Yaffe met Rabizadeh-but with opposite results.
-A Costly Walk
May 11, 1984, was a good spring day in Richmond, Virginia. Across the street from ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Mary and Bob Fraser, Chester, Vermont
In the Trade
Mary and Bob Fraser, Chester, Vermont
by Frank Donegan
Mary and Bob Fraser.
Exterior view of the shop. A lot of work went into making it look as if nothing much was done to this barn.
A partial view of the Frasers' shop.
Another view of the shop.
A ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Risky Business
The Young Collector
Call it sentimental reflection brought on by our new arrival (Nathaniel Byrne, or Nat, as we call him, arrived on November 16 at 2 a.m., and we're all fine and deeply in love already), but sometimes we like to look at Nora and joke about how she came ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)How Do You Feel?
Auction Law & Ethics
By Steve Proffitt
Remorse can be a good or bad thing. The answer is often a matter of circumstance. Bidding and buying at auction is not such a circumstance-more on that shortly.
The dictionary defines "remorse" as "a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs." ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected]
Filing copy pretty much on Christmas Eve for this issue, I find my files bursting with good things for report over the coming months, but the two principal items in this "Letter" feature original book illustrations for the exceptional collection formed by film director Michael Winner, and ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Marketing: Getting Started
The Art of Marketing
by Al Kenney
What exactly is marketing? The short answer: marketing is an activity that should be constant, evolving, and at the same time constantly experimental. Marketing involves research, strategy, pricing, promotion, and more. It's promoting your product or service so potential customers find out about it by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)David Petrovsky, Claverack, New York
David Petrovsky.
Petrovsky uses two-thirds of the depot in Claverack, New York, as his showroom and the rest for storage.
Petrovsky attributed this armchair to architect Leopold Eidlitz, who worked on the New York State Capitol in Albany. He says he has seen a line drawing by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)December Sales: A Dizzying Array of Dazzling Jewelry
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Skinner, Inc., Sotheby's, Christie's, Rago Arts and Auction Center, Bonhams, and Doyle New York
It wasn't easy to keep track of antique jewelry auction results in December. They happened in rapid succession throughout the holiday season. They happened while I was preparing to go on vacation! ... (Read More)
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