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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, November 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Requires Background Checks for Antique Firearms
As of September 13 background checks are required for purchasers of antique firearms and ammunition in New York state, according to a press release from Governor Kathy Hochul. The legislation requiring New York sellers of guns and ammunition to perform background checks for firearms and ammunition transfers also mandates that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Community Watch
Beneath the Surface
You learn things over the life of marriage, and then, or so it seems to us, if you stay married you learn to accept the things you have learned as being immutable. People are just strange, and they are very often consistent in their strangeness. It is best ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Book Reviews
Here are brief reviews of books we’ve recently seen. We have included contact information for books that you can order directly from the publisher or museum. We also encourage you to consider supporting your local independent bookstore.
Migration of Stoneware Potters in North America by F. Robert Treichler (Carlisle Printing, 2022, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Denver Police Seeking Additional Victims of Theft
The Denver (Colorado) Police Department’s Special Victims Unit is asking for the public’s help to identify possible victims of a man who was posing as an antiques broker.
Princeton Wilson. Photo courtesy Denver Police Department.
Princeton Wilson was charged last year with eight felony counts: one count of theft from an at-risk ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2023
When a Sleeper Awakes
From the same August 8 sale held in Colchester by Reeman Dansie Auctioneers & Valuers that saw a bronze figure of Mercury sell for $858,350 (see October M.A.D., p. 86), another spectacular success story was provided by a little ring that came to auction from the same ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Assets of Antiques Mall Seized
On September 20 agents from the Kansas Department of Revenue (KDOR), accompanied by the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department, executed tax warrants and seized the assets of Metcalf Antique Mall LLC in Overland Park, Kansas, for nonpayment of sales tax totaling $62,866.38.
Assets seized include all known bank accounts, on-site cash, business ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fifty M.A.D. Years
Fifty years ago, in November 1973, Samuel and Sally Pennington mailed the first 28-page Maine Antique Digest to five subscribers, who had paid $5 for an annual subscription. Sam, editor, publisher, and photographer, wrote most of the paper’s stories in the early years, sometimes under the pseudonym Lance Poulet, French ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Gary R. Sullivan
Gary R. Sullivan spent 15 seasons on Antiques Roadshow appraising clocks and furniture. He recently retired from that gig, noting, “I loved my time on the show and made some great friends. They’re the best and the brightest, and there was tremendous camaraderie.”
Gary spends a good deal of time in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Delaware Show
The annual Delaware Antiques Show at the Chase Center on the Riverfront, Wilmington, Delaware, is a big fall event in the world of American antiques. The preview party is Thursday, November 9, from 5 to 9 p.m., and the show continues November 10-12. The show benefits Winterthur’s educational initiatives. Tickets ... (Read More)
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