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(Fragment)FBI Launches Free App to Track and Report Stolen Art
Law enforcement agencies in the United States and around the world have submitted reports of stolen art and antiques to the FBI’s National Stolen Art File (NSAF), a database of stolen art and culturally significant property. The NSAF assists in law enforcement’s efforts to close cases and return pieces of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Swensson Collection Shines at Phillips
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Phillips
Phillips’ jewelry auction held June 13 in New York City brought robust results, particularly for Art Deco pieces, colored gemstones, and the collection of Suzanne and Earl Simcox Swensson. The Swensson items, which included jewels by Suzanne Belperron, René Boivin, Raymond Yard, Mauboussin, Cartier, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward Collection Sales
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
“The World of Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman,” a series of three auctions held by Sotheby’s from May 27 to June 13, totaled $4.3 million, attracted over 800 bidders from 30 countries, and was 100% sold. Offerings included automotive and racing memorabilia, entertainment and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, June 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Seller of Counterfeit Art Extradited after 13 Years as a Fugitive
Angela Catherine Hamblin, 74, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was extradited April 21 from Germany to the United States to serve a prison sentence for selling fake works of art through a commercial auction website and in private transactions.
Hamblin pleaded guilty February 6, 2009, to two counts of mail fraud ... (Read More)
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(Show)The First Annual Fox Valley at the Fairgrounds Antiques Show
Wheaton, Illinois
Butterflies migrate, birds migrate, even wildebeests and heat-seeking Yankees migrate. But when a long-established live antiques show migrates after a period of virtual shows during the COVID-19 years—well, there could be possible snags.
Happily, nothing of the sort happened when the venerable Fox Valley Antiques Show presented by the Chicago ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Small Show That Offers a Lot
A Country Gathering Antique Show, Elizabethtown, Indiana
In its 23rd year, A Country Gathering Antique Show was held June 10 in Elizabethtown, Indiana. The show, promoted by Judy Nichols and run from her property, was a relatively small affair, with fewer than 20 booths under a tent and in open-air spaces.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Clocks of S-Town
A Book Review
After the 1995 publication of Dava Sobel’s bestseller Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, my clock-repair customers regularly asked me if I knew about this book. Even to the present day, they still want to repeat to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Boston Auction
Doyle, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle’s new Boston auction gallery, which opened January 10 in the Back Bay, was the site of its inaugural auction June 8, introducing itself to the public.
Doyle’s Boston gallery is located in the heart of Back Bay at Clarendon Street between Newbury Street and Commonwealth Avenue. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2023
A few British salerooms have taken of late to declining to reveal the prices achieved in what are, in fact, public auctions, which makes rather a nonsense of the term, but plenty of other auctioneers continue to reveal what they have achieved in the way of sales, and it is ... (Read More)
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