(Auction Law and Ethics)
by Steve ProffittThe past two months I wrote about "negative" selling-that is, people selling themselves into bad deals.This month I write about the inverse of that concept-positioning for success through "value selling." People who sell value maximize results by gaining the best deals that yield the most lucrative rewards.Are you ... (Read More)
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by Lita Solis-Cohen"We sold our house to the first people who looked at it and signed an agreement of sale for a house in Colorado. Now I'm looking for the right space for a branch gallery of the Philadelphia Print Shop in Cherry Creek where I can set up shop ... (Read More)
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"It's not good for the town, it's not good for the church, and it certainly wasn't good for the antiques dealers," collector Mary Grothe of Gainesville, Virginia, said.We called Grothe after she forwarded a letter she sent to her local newspaper, the Fauquier Times-Democrat. It read, in part, "A couple ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Overbeck vase, carved with repeating profiles of women walking amid stylized flowers, Elizabeth and Mary Frances Overbeck, marked, 14 3/8" high, light crazing, otherwise excellent condition, $17,250.Daum Nancy cameo lamp, the shade and base with cockscomb flower heads, dark purple-brown over marmalade, marked, 20" high, shade 123/4" diameter, very good ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Joseph M. Hayes Antiques, Columbus, Ohio, brought the 18th-century Queen Anne secretary bookcase. It was 78" high x 36" wide and tagged $35,000. The English sterling candlesticks were $2500 for the set of four. Hayes told us that they are early 20th-century copies of a set in the Victoria and ... (Read More)
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by Jeanne SchintoAntiques dealers, auctioneers, and collectors are applauding the passage of a new Massachusetts law, S2403, "An Act Relative to the Sale of Antique Barometers, Thermometers, and Clocks," signed by Governor Deval Patrick on July 26. The legislation exempts pre-1955 "mercury-added" devices from the sales ban established by the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Unlike many key baskets, this example is not marked with the name of the harness or saddle shop where it was made. The 7" x 10" x 4" oval leather basket is decorated with three rows of simple hammered punch impressions. The padded leather handle is affixed to the body ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Nettie Jarvis of Bloomfield, Kentucky, showed a beautiful cherrywood tester bed with canopy. It was purchased in Kentucky and priced at $6500. Partially seen at right is a customer examining a No. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondYou can imagine our surprise when a recent letter to the editor opined that there are no longer any collectors, that there have, in fact, not been collectors since the early 90's. We can't comment much on the early 90's, as our concerns at the ... (Read More)
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by Lita Solis-CohenUSArtists, to be held October 1-3, will be a different show this year. This major show and sale of American art is leaving the gymnasium-like space at the 33rd Street Armory and moving to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA), in a new gallery space in ... (Read More)
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