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(Auction)Garth's Americana Auction
Decorated corner cupboard, Pennsylvania, 19th century, poplar and pine, two-piece construction, alligatored reddish brown over yellow vinegar graining simulating curly maple, 861/4" high x 401/2" wide, one pane cracked, brass pulls missing from the drawers, $36,425.Late Victorian diamond cluster ring with a center old-European-cut diamond, approximately 2.4 carats, surroundedby two ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiques Software for Macs
Before Microsoft Windows and Apple Macintosh, antiques records were kept with cumbersome DOS programs such as PC-File 5.0.Computer Column #255by John P. Reid, [email protected] the last two issues we reviewed updates of Windows software for antiques dealers and collectors. I immediately got e-mail from collectors asking if there is similar ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago, edited ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pair of Nisbet Card Tables at Strong Sale in Saint John
A pair of card tables by Saint John cabinetmaker Thomas Nisbet fetched $16,800 ($15,943). They were clearly very early pieces with all the details associated with this most famous of early 19th-century Canadian cabinetmakers.Tim Isaac Auctions, Saint John, New Brunswickby Peter SmitAll prices in Canadian funds; approximate U.S. funds in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Peabody Essex Museum Antiques Show: Steady at the Helm
Salem, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoDiana H. Bittel of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is the new show manager of the Wayside Inn Antiques Show, scheduled to debut May 14-16 in Sudbury, Massachusetts. For more information, see the Web site (www.wayside.org). On the wall immediately above Bittel's Philadelphia four-drawer chest is acirca 1830 shellwork ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Etnier Oils Lead Foster Auction
Stephen Etnier oil on canvas, signed and dated '59, $6050.Stephen Etnier oil on canvas, probably a scene near his Harpswell, Maine, studio, $2750. Foster photo.Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoAs he's been doing for the past few decades, Robert L. Foster held Maine's first big antiques auction of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Photograph Album Leads Evans Sale
This historically significant photograph album contains 425 albumen prints by John K. Hillers (German-American, 1843-1925), most of which were taken during John Wesley Powell's second Western expedition (1871-72) and with the Cushing Smithsonian expedition to study the Zuni and Pueblo peoples (1877-78). There were several photographers on these expeditions, but ... (Read More)
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(Show)Modernism + Art20
Paul Donzella of Donzella Ltd., New York City, offered two chairs and a cocktail table, designed by Paul Laszlo in the early 1950's, of handcarved and lacquered wood. The Lucite top is a replacement copy of the original. The chairs were $28,000 the pair, "a recession price," said Donzella. In ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Up the Creek with a Paddle
Canoe paddle, 19th century, 67" long, $13,800.Gould Auction Company, Gardiner, Maineby Mark SiscoSeveral years ago, auctioneer Timothy Gould wondered aloud to us about how long he could maintain his auctions, restricting his consignments only to items that conformed to his rigid "fresh-to-the-market" criterion. We're happy to report that as of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Associate Curator Position at PMA
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley has been named The Montgomery-Garvan Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.The new associate curator position was endowed by Robert L. McNeil, Jr. through the Lenfest Challenge, which was established in fall 2008 by museum chairman H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest and Marguerite Lenfest ... (Read More)
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