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(Fragment)Charlotte Show Changes Hands, Not Management
Lydia Sullivan, show director of the Greater Charlotte Antique & Collectible Show, has announced that she has purchased the rights to the show from The Art Fair Company, which acquired the show earlier in 2009 from dmg world media."We are building such a great show at the Cabarrus Arena," said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Some Big Hits in the Big Easy
Charles Cage, silver specialist at NOAG, was enthusiastic about the silver lots that had done well, especially the George III sterling silver soup tureen, made in London 1777-78 by Robert Makepeace and Richard Carter, that sold for $21,600. As he put it, “Beautiful work on it—the crest and the arms, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: [email protected] of the collection of letters from Lord Byron to Francis Hodgson that sold for $455,466 at Sotheby's."The partridges are plentiful…& the girls on the manor just coming into season…" [Lord Byron]Time was when British Prime Ministers were expected to be serious bookmen-to be well read, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show
Pair of Sèvres biscuit models of lions supporting gilt white reticulated baskets, modeled by Jean-Charles- Nicholas Brachard l’ainé, after a drawing by Fragonard, 1818-20, part of an elaborate dessert service, $400,000 from Brian Haughton Gallery.Three-panel room divider by Paul Evans (1931-1987) of patterned welded steel panels with gold-leaf edges and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Betty Lacey Gordon Estate
La Meule (The Haystack) by Blanche Hoschedé-Monet, a 20" x 32" oil on canvas, sold for $48,875 (est. $15,000/20,000).Environs de Giverny by Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), oil on canvas, 1921, sold via the Internet for $34,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). Butler was married to Blanche Hoschedé-Monet’s sister Suzanne.A Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) lithograph ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NHADA Elects New Officers
NHADA officers, from left: Sharon Platt, Linda Tate, Melissa Alden, Kathy Schoemer, Peter Sawyer, Thomas Thompson, and Beverly Longacre. Not pictured are Gail Piatt, Ken Pike, Rich Bojko, Dennis Berard, and Peter Austin.The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its annual business meeting on November 5, 2009, at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Second Philadelphia Queen Anne Stool Surfaces; Estimated at $300,000/500,000
by Lita Solis-Cohen
The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New York Photography Scene Expands
Richard Avedon (1923-2004), Cyd Charisse, Evening Dress by Macrini, 1961, 17½" x 23¾", gelatin silver print, signed 1981, $21,960. Bloomsbury Auctions.Bloomsbury Auctions/Christie's/Sotheby's, New York Cityby Dorothy S. GelattThese days the photography market acts like a good old Maine rowboat; it stays afloat, even in a bad weather financial market. Six ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pook Institutes TARP
Celebrating its 25th year, Pook & Pook, Inc. in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, has instituted TARP—Troubled Antiques Relief Program.Ronald Pook will pick up the tab for an overnight (up to $100) and museum admissions and is offering free food, drinks, and fellowship on Friday before the sale and a free $40 auction ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pony Express Material a Winner for Siegel Auction Galleries
One of only three known surviving envelopes postmarked on the first day of Pony Express service on April 3, 1860, $460,000. Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. photo.Envelope with a rare $4 Wells Fargo Pony Express postage stamp, mailed in August 1861 from the U.S. Consulate in Oahu, Hawaii, to ... (Read More)
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