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(Feature)SEC Charges Stamp Prices Manipulated: Europeans Charge Pyramid Scheme
by David HewettAs if we needed any more of this.From a federal court in New York comes news about a new tactic used to profit in the old game of Ponzi schemes. You remember how it works: get investors to put money into a guaranteed short-term investment plan, pay off ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Spatterware Record
$39,780. Photo courtesy Pook & Pook.The rarest English 19th-century spatterware seems to be recessionproof. Six phone bidders competed for a five-color rainbow spatterware platter, 13" x 15½", at Pook & Pook's April 24 and 25 sale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania (est. $8000/ 12,000). It sold for $39,780 (includes buyer's premium).That's a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More Problems Connected to Salander
by David HewettAs we have previously reported, the problems for disgraced Big Apple art dealer Lawrence "Larry" Salander have multiplied. The business—Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, LLC—is bankrupt, and Salander was indicted for numerous counts of grand larceny, forgery, securities fraud, and other felonies. On March 26, he was arrested.On May 5, an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clown Train Tops $4.2 Million Kaufman Sale
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jerseyby Dick FrizPhotos courtesy Bertoia AuctionsMichael Bertoia with the sale’s top lot (also shown below), a circa 1909 Märklin “Fidelitas” clown car train, hand-enameled tinplate, 37½" overall, with a European collector providing the $103,500 clincher. Madaline Friz photo.Circa 1920 Hubley horse-drawn revolving monkey cage wagon, cast ... (Read More)
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(Show)Original Miami Beach Antique Show: Still a Pulse
Miami Beach, Floridaby Fran KramerFloor space, lots of it, with wide aisles and high ceilings.Majolica variations from Carol Kooperman of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, who shared a booth with Marty Schneider.The well-heeled and high-heeled are the usual patrons at the annual 1000-plus-dealer Original Miami Beach Antique Show, held January 22-26 in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Harbor & Home: A Review of an Exhibition and Its Catalog
Harbor & Home: Furniture of Southeastern Massachusetts, 1710-1850. Brock Jobe, Gary R. Sullivan, and Jack O’Brien. University Press of New England, 2009, 456 pages, hardbound, $75 plus shipping/handling from University Press of New England, Order Dept., One Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766; (800) 421-1561; Web site (www.upne.com). It is also ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Real Cats Don't Bark
Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve ProffittHere's an excerpt edited from a letter I received from an auctioneer who raised an interesting question."Steve, I have followed your comments in M.A.D. for a long time and have found your remarks considering various legal issues very rewarding. Our auction firm closely adheres to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farmer's Super Bowl Sale
Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals, LLC, Radford, Virginiaby Walter C. NewmanPhotos courtesy Ken Farmer Auctions & AppraisalsEmma Serena Dillard “Queena” Stovall(1887-1980) began painting at age 62 and created 47 artworks before her death. Virtually all of her paintings depict scenes recalling life in early to mid-20th-century rural Virginia. Getting in ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Lebanon Antiques Show
Lebanon, Ohioby Don JohnsonThe historic Staffordshire platter by Clews with Landing of General LaFayette was $1525; the Beehive pattern Sandwich octagonal lacy glass plate was $195; the historic Staffordshire coffeepot by Enoch Woods, LaFayette at Franklin’s Tomb, was $1600; and the Peacock Eye pressed glass bowl with a rayed center, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Learning On Line
Computer Column #245by John P. Reid, [email protected] of the AntiqueTutorials on-line course on World Paper Money.Those of us who attended traditional grade school, high school, and perhaps college might have trouble picturing schooling over the Internet or by using computer media. Yet it is happening. What educators have dubbed "distance ... (Read More)
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