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(Fragment)Pfizer Mocks Antiques Collecting
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is being hard on the antiques business. In Canada, a 15-second television commercial that takes aim at antiques collecting recently hit the airwaves. The product? Viagra.A middle-aged man speaks to the camera, saying, "My wife and I couldn't control our antiquing—porcelain figurines, oil lamps, those tiny spoons. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Barn Star Steps into Tough Territory with New Autumn Hartford Show
Port ’N Starboard Gallery, Falmouth, Maine, asked $15,000 for the eagle with an 84" wingspan that had been carved by Lloyd Hansen Thomas of Camden, Maine.Salt Box Antiques, Sugarloaf, Pennsylvania, asked $675 for this cradle in an interesting form; it had been found in Connecticut.V.L. Marcos/ Whimsy, Centerbrook, Connecticut, showed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sales of Corporate Art Increasing
by Daniel GrantThe auction world claims it receives most of its consignments as a result of the three "d's"-death, debt, and divorce—but more recently it has added a new "d" of woe to its revenue stream—downsizing. A growing number of financially troubled corporations that have long collected art have been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sargent Takes Command
John Singer Sargent oil on panel, with a Venetian canal scene on the reverse, $287,500.Tempera painting on vellum, possibly Princess Sybil of Saxony, the school of Lucas Cranach the Elder, $189,750.Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maineby Mark SiscoA quarter-million dollars for a single painting can make an auctioneer's day. It ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: A Celtic copper-alloy comb with "armadillo" motif, A.D. 40-70. Found by a metal detectorist in a field in England, it sold for $43,825 at Bonhams.Two Roman cameos from the Bonhams antiquities sale of October 28. That of the Empress Livia sold for $159,360, and the little ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Armacost Buys the Delray Beach Antiques Show
Armacost Antiques Shows has assumed ownership of the Delray Beach Antiques Show, previously owned by the Delray Beach Historical Society. The show features 30 dealers from around the United States and abroad.The show will take place February 6 and 7 at the Delray Beach Community Center in Delray Beach, Florida. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Asian Art Dealers of New York Announce Asia Week Plans
by Lita Solis-CohenIn the days before there were antiques shows every week, going from gallery to gallery was a major weekend sport in New York City. Openings were social and selling events. Museum curators came early, often with patrons in tow, and reserved works to acquire.As the antiques shows became ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Holiday Sale 2009
Rookwood Sea Green glaze vase by Matt Daly, 1900, grapes decoration, marked, 12¾" high, light crazing overall, $17,250.Rookwood Aerial Blue glaze vase decorated with a young woman and a tiger by Sallie Toohey, 1895, marked, 8¾" high, $17,250.Newcomb College vase by Henrietta Bailey, 1911, with carved and repeating irises, 12 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artist Stephen Huneck Dies
Vermont artist Stephen Huneck, 60, known for dog-themed paintings, woodcuts, and carvings, died on January 7 in Littleton, New Hampshire.Huneck's wife, Gwen, confirmed that the artist died by his own choice. A letter posted on the Internet read:"It is with great sadness that I share with you the news of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Taylor Swift Shops Nashville
Dealer Marilyn Haley, Taylor Swift, and Bea Starr, Kay Puchstein’s mother.Country singer Taylor Swift and her family shopped the October 31, 2009, Music Valley and Tailgate shows in Nashville, Tennessee. According to show management, in between shopping for antiques, Swift and her family stopped at many of the 300 booths ... (Read More)
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