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(Issue Story)Philadelphia Tea Table Brings $5,417,000
Tea Table Brings $5,417,000
The Stevenson family Chippendale mahogany scalloped-top tea table, attributed to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pennsylvania Tulip-Decorated Candle Box Sells for $103,200 at Tepper
Pennsylvania Tulip-Decorated Candle Box Sells for $103,200 at Tepper
by Lita Solis-Cohen
In these days of Internet postings and digital pictures, not much goes under the radar. On November 3, 2007, at Tepper Galleries in New York City, a Pennsylvania slide-lid candle box, painted green with tulips in cream-colored reserves, estimated at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Judge Approves Financial Arrangements of Reorganized Salander-O?Reilly, Declines to Name a Trustee
Judge Approves Financial Arrangements of Reorganized Salander-O?Reilly, Declines to Name a Trustee
by David Hewett
If you?re looking for good news in the continuing chronicles of the Salander-O?Reilly Galleries bankruptcy case, you?re out of luck this month.
Newcomers to this saga of the Big Apple art gallery gone bad should read our prior ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Texas Historical Commission Nixes Davy Crockett Letter
Texas Historical Commission Nixes Davy Crockett Letter
by David Hewett
On December 7, 2007, the Texas Historical Commission announced its decision not to purchase a letter purported to have been written by one of the Lone Star State?s most revered figures, Colonel David Crockett, better known as Davy Crockett, frontiersman, hunter and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Briskin Family Collection of Folk Art Sold
Briskin Family Collection of Folk Art Sold
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Not every private collection goes to auction. In a private deal said to be in seven figures, the Briskin family collection, 107 pieces of American folk art, was bought by Marcy Carsey and Susan Baerwald, partners in Just Folk, a gallery in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Allison Eckardt Ledes, 1954-2008
Allison Eckardt Ledes, editor in chief of The Magazine Antiques died at home in New York of cancer on January 8, 2008. She was 53.
Ledes arrived at Antiques in 1975, fresh out of Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where she had taken a single course in American decorative ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Sgraffito Plate Sells for Record $351,000
“There is the best and the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Good Crowds for ADA Show in Historic Deerfield
Deerfield, Massachusettsby David HewettThis year's Antiques Dealers' Association of America/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show took place on October 6 and 7 in the small northern Massachusetts town of Deerfield, the home of the 13 restored buildings, a museum, and school facilities that bear the adjective "historic" with suitable pride and draw ... (Read More)
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(Show)Beachfront Antiques Show Stars at Cape May's Annual Victorian Week
Cape May, New Jerseyby Ed PfeifferCape May, New Jersey, at the state's extreme southern end where the Delaware River flows into the Atlantic Ocean, is a time warp to the Victorian era. Said to be the country's oldest seashore resort, the whole city has been designated a National Historic Landmark. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)October Americana Auction
Christie's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenChristie's October 3 Americana sale in New York City offered 129 lots, of which 94 (73%) sold for a total of $10,904,250 (including buyers' premiums), showing that January is not the only time that collectors and dealers compete for the best Americana when it comes ... (Read More)
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