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(Auction)Foster Packs 'Em In
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiskoCome blizzard, sunshine, or hurricane (unlikely on January 1, we admit), Robert Foster's traditional New Year's Day auction in Newcastle, Maine, packs the bidders in by the hundreds. This year's kickoff sale was no exception. The usual standing-room-only crowd chased about 600 lots, led ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Mr. and Mrs. George Fenimore Johnson Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Dale and George Fenimore Johnson lived in a grand country house called Shell Point in Maryland and filled it with furniture bought from Israel Sack and John Walton in the 1950's and '60's and with Chinese export porcelain bought at major shows from dealer Elinor ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Big Gift to Carnegie
Big Gift to CarnegieDr. Ellen Lehman has made a $3 million gift to the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh's Building the Future campaign, through the Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Foundation, to be used to create two endowments of $1.5 million each.One endowment will establish the Alan G. and Jane ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Andrea Canady Promoted to Fair Director
Andrea Canady has been promoted to fair director of the newly formed Art & Antiques Fairs, North America management division of dmg world media.Canady is responsible for the Original Miami Beach Antiques Show (OMBAS) and the New York, Las Vegas, and Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch shows. OMBAS is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)2008 NHADA Show Brochure
The 51st annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association show will be held August 7-9 at the Radisson, the Center of New Hampshire, in downtown Manchester. Planning ahead for this event is a must, since many collectors and dealers who converge on the Granite State during August wisely make their hotel ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Steuben for Sale
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(Show)Antiques Manhattan, Spurred on by Dealers, Stages a Comeback
New York Cityby Clayton PenningtonThe Altman Building in Manhattan, once a carriage house for the B. Altman department store, hosted a stable of 22 dealers January 17-20 in a revival of Antiques Manhattan, a show last staged in 2003.Promoter Barry Cohen of b4rTIME, Inc. said that although the show shared ... (Read More)
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(Show)Papermania Plus Marks 30 Years of Hartford Shows
Hartford, Connecticutby Ed PfeifferHillcrest Promotions staged a Papermania Plus show in Hartford, Connecticut, January 5 and 6, marking the 53rd edition of the event during the past 30 years. For its first seven years, the show was held annually, but since then it has been held every January and August.There ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Connoisseur Live Catalog Auction
Mastro Auctions, Burr Ridge, Illinoisby Danielle ArnetMastro Auctions is proud of its business model. More to the point, the auction house has found an underserved area in the auction industry and expects it to become its yellow brick road to major profits. Housed in a mini corporate cluster adjacent to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Getting Going on Collecting Medals
Medals Column #12by Ian R. StewartI first discovered medals or the medallic arts about ten years ago at an antiques show in Minneapolis. I purchased two medals by French artists working around the beginning of the 20th century. I knew they were beautiful, miniature relief sculptures. Yet I knew nothing ... (Read More)
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