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(Show)Antiques on the Green
Within an hour of opening, the outdoor market was crowded.John Rudie shows the $35 tip-up ice fishing pole from the 1950's. The short pole has a carved wooden body, twine string line, and a cork bobber.John Atkin Antiques, Glen Ellyn, brought the circa 1780 painting tagged $495. A 1780-1820 mirror ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Maine Antiques Festival: Selling Jewelry in a Tricky Retail Market
Jan and Lou smile for the camera. Jan is holding "a piece of nice sterling that is in a completely different price range, at about one hundred fifty dollars." Lou remarked, "We enjoy the business; we enjoy being with people; we enjoy life." Sounds like a good mantra, and it's ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.975 Million Sale Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire
The 103/4" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Sweet Sorrow
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the auction business, one occasionally hears references to the Three D's. For decades, that was shorthand for the three most likely ways collections came to auction: death, divorce, disaster (some say disease or debt). People might sell a couple of pieces for other reasons, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)McInnis Empties a "Rusticator" Cottage
Oil on canvas by Abbott Fuller Graves, titled Dividing the Shares, 32" x 46", sold for $26,450. The subjects were a Kennebunkport fishing captain and his crew. Left to right, they were identified as Captain Henry S. Ward, Frank Emery, Tom Basey (seated), a Mr. Pitts (standing, smoking a pipe), ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tin Circus Wagon Caps Julia Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction
This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Arts of Pacific Asia Canceled for 2013
New York Arts of Pacific Asia will not be produced in 2013 because a suitable venue for the show is not available during Asia Week New York. The 11th floor of the Merchandise Mart's facility at 7 West 34th Street, which had been the show's venue since 2009, is being ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$2.975 Million Sale Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire
The 103/4" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Program in New England Studies, June 2012
The 1784 Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. George Washington was entertained at the house in 1789 but slept elsewhere. In keeping with HNE's policies of expanding the appeal and uses of historic properties, the house is available for weddings and functions, and it offers temporary exhibits in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tin Circus Wagon Caps Julia Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction
This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)
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