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(Issue Story)Rhinebeck Antiques Show Discovery: Resurrecting James S. Conover & Co. and Finding a Mystery
It was a bright but unseasonably cold day in the Hudson Valley on Memorial Day weekend 2021. As I have for some 15 years, I eagerly headed to Antiques at Rhinebeck. One never knows what treasures will turn up at this fabulous show. This was the first in-person Rhinebeck show ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Family Reunion
Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
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It was like a step back in time. On August 29 Poulin Antiques & Auctions hosted a “Premier Major Summer Antique Auction” at its facility in Fairfield, Maine, the old headquarters of James D. Julia Auctions. Nick Poulin, president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Sale in Rockland
Bruce Gamage Jr., Rockland, Maine
When the auctioneer approached the dais to sell the first lot at Bruce Gamage’s small end-of-summer auction August 28 at the Elks Lodge in Rockland, Maine, there was applause.
The auctioneer for the first lot wasn’t Gamage. Instead, it was former Gardiner, Maine, auctioneer Tim Gould, who ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Oversupply, Under Demand
Ledbetter Folk Art Auction, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Folk Art Auction
Auctioneer Matt Ledbetter takes chances on relatively unknown North Carolina artists. In December 2021 he brought 19 “Creatures of the Night” totems by the reclusive Alton “Otto” Long to his Gibsonville, North Carolina, auction house. All of them sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inness Painting the Top Lot in $2.17 Million Sale
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Photos courtesy Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
The three-day sale held by Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, August 25-27 pulled in about $2.17 million for 1335 lots. It was another marathon sale put on by owner and auctioneer Kaja Veilleux and his staff.
George Inness (1825-1894), ... (Read More)
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(Show)Country Farm Antiques Show
Casey, Illinois
In its fourth year, the Country Farm Antiques Show was held August 26 in Casey, Illinois. The venue, Richards Farm Restaurant, housed about two dozen dealers. “It went really well. Three or four of the dealers said they had their best show there to date,” said Kim Groothuis, who ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with James L. Kochan
Historian, archaeologist, outdoorsman, scholar, gentleman—all are appropriate descriptives for dealer James L. Kochan, who for the last seven years has been based in Wiscasset, Maine.
Before his move north, the former museum and national park director and curator lived in the Washington, D.C., area, most recently in Frederick, Maryland, where he ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ammi Phillips Is Subject of New Play
The prolific folk portraitist Ammi Phillips has been gone for 158 years, but he was brought back to life this summer by the Thrown Stone Theatre Company’s world premiere production of Seven Cousins for a Horse. Set in the small town of Colebrook, Connecticut, in 1848, the play depicts seven ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Antiques and Artifacts at Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Marion Antique Auctions offered a two-day auction August 19 and 20 in its Marion, Massachusetts, gallery that ran the gamut of antiques and artifacts. The first day began with a group of etchings by James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) from an area ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Artists with Maine Ties Dominate
Barridoff Auctions, South Portland, Maine
Photos courtesy Barridoff Auctions
On August 19 Barridoff Auctions held its summer art auction under a tent on the lawn right outside the auction firm’s facility in South Portland, Maine. Auctioneer Peter Coccoluto was brought in to wield the gavel. The sale’s top lots were largely by ... (Read More)
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