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(Fragment)Partners in Withington Auction Form New Entity
In the summer of 2021, it was announced that Hillsborough, New Hampshire-based Withington Auction, Inc., had added new partners: Kenneth Labnon, Gary Yeaton, and Mike Reopel. The three new partners added sales of general line antiques—American furniture, clocks, and decorative arts—to the auction house.
Marcia and Larry Leizure, owners of Withington ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Charity Auctions
Don Henley of the rock band Eagles no doubt saw what Heritage Auctions called the “staggering” images of lines of cars waiting in Dallas for donated meals in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. When asked to contribute a signed guitar for a Heritage-organized auction to benefit the North ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Landscape Makes $2.45 Million
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
After a ten-minute bidding battle between auctioneer Alasdair Nichol executing an absentee bid and vice president and senior art specialist David Weiss on the phone, this large Maine landscape, Jetty Tree, by N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), oil on canvas, 48¼" x 40", painted circa 1936, sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show
Lewisville, Indiana
The summer edition of A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show, held June 2 and 3 in Lewisville, Indiana, has set the event on solid footing.
After the show made a successful debut in December with 20 dealers, the promoters—Pam Wise, Tom and Sue Saunders, and Richard McKnight—began ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
For the last ten years, the Penn Dry Goods Market, a textile and antiques show with textile history lectures, has benefited the Schwenkfelder Museum and Library’s general operating fund. On June 2 and 3, 23 dealers filled the second-floor galleries with needlework, quilts, coverlets, woven objects, linens, yardage, sewing ... (Read More)
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(Show)Show Runs into a Monster Problem
MADA Spring Antiques Show, Topsham, Maine
The third annual MADA Spring Antiques Show, produced by the Maine Antiques Dealers Association, was held June 3 at the Topsham Fairgrounds in Topsham, Maine. A series of unfortunate events resulted in low attendance for this semiannual show.
The first was the weather. The show was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colby Receives Significant Gift from Marin Family
The Colby College Museum of Art in Waterville, Maine, announced it has received 184 works of art from the estate of Norma B. Marin. Marin (1930-2022) was married to John Marin Jr, son of the Modernist painter John Marin.
Over the last 50 years, the Marin family has gifted to the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Mark Indursky of Lost Found Art
When M.A.D. recently bumped into Mark Indursky, he was visiting the Found Object Show: Art without Intent in Manhattan. As many collectors will do, he arrived early to peruse what might appeal.
Scoping out the show was certainly an easier endeavor than the time he fished out a crushed bucket from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York’s Investigation of Sotheby’s Expands
A court filing on April 21 reveals that the New York attorney general’s investigation into alleged improper use of resale certificates at Sotheby’s has expanded. In November 2020 New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against Sotheby’s, accusing the auction house of defrauding the state of New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Skilled Artistry in Jewelry of Various Periods
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois, held a jewelry, silver, and objects of vertu auction on May 31, with offerings from “the skilled artistry of various periods: antique, Georgian, Victorian, Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts, Art Deco, Modernist, mid-century, and contemporary,” according to a ... (Read More)
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