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(Fragment)Mixed Response to New Summer Date for Museums of Old York Antiques Show
by Rose SafranThe Old York Antiques Show in York, Maine, a small boutique show with a select group of dealers, was held this year on July 21 and 22 during the height of the southern Maine coast's popular summer tourist season.For four years, the show had been a September event, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Roger Tory Peterson Paintings, Drawings, and Photographs to Be Sold
Roger Tory Peterson (1908-1996), whose field guides turned three generations of Americans into birdwatchers, painted the illustrations of birds, placing from six to 16 images on a page in a large (roughly 18" x 12") format that was then reduced to fit the pocket-size field guides.Two hundred of these paintings ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Protect Yourself
Kraken Investments is learning an expensive lesson. The firm, owned by Israeli art dealer Dr. Ronald Fuhrer, is incorporated in the British Virgin Islands with its principal place of business in Jersey, Channel Islands. It lost an appeal in court, and now a $9.5 million painting Kraken owns may be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Matthew Saxton, Alstead, New Hampshire
Matthew Saxton.
Saxton's home just off a dirt road in Alstead, New Hampshire.
Saxton sells a lot of house parts and stores them in this outbuilding. Pre-1850 doors sell in the $25 to $190 range. Floorboards generally are in the range of $4 to $6 per square foot. "I also sell a ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: In the Belly of the Beast
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIt was bound to happen eventually, we suppose. Everyone slips up. Everyone gets desperate. Everyone needs a new mattress sometime.With the end of a second pregnancy ahead, Hollie was done sleeping on an old mattress. (Did we not mention that? Bean is going to be ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
Suzanne Sárvári Crofoot chats with Hinsdale, Illinois, decorator and art dealer Sheryl Srivastava. They're admiring the pair of late 19th-century European carved pine putti hanging at right foreground ($4700). Note how they hang in opposite poses. Taking them from the wall, Crofoot showed how lightweight they are.The embroidery is a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Burton Antiques Market Brings in the Buyers
Rick and Becky Coffin of Ludington, Michigan, had a huge space under the grandstands that they filled with large country furniture, primitives, and stoneware. Most impressive were the seed counters. An all-original 15-drawer Sherer seed counter, 8'2" long x 30" deep x 34" high, found in an old hardware store ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Design Sale at Phillips
François-Xavier Lalanne set of four sheep, 1996-99, made of epoxy, stone, and bronze, the edition produced by Landowski Fondeur, France, $746,500 (est. $350,000/500,000). This set has number 79 from an edition of 250 rams, and numbers 91, 122, and 205 from an edition of 250 ewes. The ram is 36½" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Jade and American Marine Folk Art Pace the Auction
This Chinese carved jade ruyi scepter sold with its matching hardwood base for the day's top money, $25,300.A broadside proclaiming President George Washington's 1789 visit to the city of Boston and organizing a parade of artisans and merchants in his honor sold for $2875.Competition was intense for this compartmented box ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mastro and Others Indicted by Grand Jury
On July 25 the U.S. Department of Justice announced that William Mastro and others had been indicted by a federal grand jury. Mastro, 59, of Palos Park, Illinois, was charged with one count of mail fraud. He owned Mastro Auctions until 2004 and was its chairman and chief executive officer ... (Read More)
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