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The Clock Stops at $4830
by Mark Sisco

Shown below are three of five oils on canvas by Joseph Arentz (German/ American, 1903-1969) that were offered at the Keating auction:An enormous scene of waves crashing against a rocky bluff, $1495Portland Head Light behind crashing surf, $920A quiet sunset over a beach, $747.50.J.J. Keating Auctioneers, Kennebunk, Maineby Mark SiscoJames ... (Read More)

(Auction)

Clar's Auction Exceeds Expectations
by Levi Morgan

This pair of 6' high wooden panels sold for $280,950 to a collector reportedly phoning from Shanghai. The eight late Qing Dynasty porcelain painted plaques depict landscape scenes and are signed and inscribed. The lot came from an Oakland, California, Asian art collection.A collector paid $7110 for this set of ... (Read More)

(Feature)

Taxes 101: Using Your Home for Business
by Caroline Evans

by Caroline EvansMany people who run small businesses operate out of their home. They may use a spare room, the basement, the garage, or maybe that little shed in the backyard. This is a business expense that can be a great deduction at tax time. It is an expense the ... (Read More)

(Young Collectors)

The Young Collector: The Things They Carried
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondRegardless of the anxiety you may have about what people think of how you look in your bathing suit, about your flip-up sunglasses, or your bare feet, when you're sitting on the beach soaking up the sun, the one thing you don't have to worry ... (Read More)

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In the Trade: Ken Woodbury, Nipper's Choice, Keene, New Hampshire
by Frank Donegan

Ken Woodbury.Woodbury's shop, formerly the family gas station. "My father built it to keep my mother busy when she wasn't raising three boys and one girl." Woodbury started pumping gas in the 1950's when he was six or seven years old. Regular gas was 14.9¢ a gallon; ethyl, 16.9¢. "The ... (Read More)

(Show)

Fairhaven Antiques Festival
by Don Johnson

The Fairhaven Antiques Festival is promoted as "A Great American Tradition" in a billboard on the south edge of town, where dealers set up in a small field.Ohio dry sink in untouched condition, $2900 from Thomas J. Jewett and Charles P. Berdan of Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine.From Monty Young Antiques, ... (Read More)

(Show)

Signs of the Times
by Fran Kramer

All was quiet on the western front the eve before the show opened. A large wide concrete driveway separates the opposite buildings used for the show, convenient for trucks and the kettle corn vendor.The first hour of the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair.Traditional favorites from Robert Conrad of Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, included a ... (Read More)

(Show)

California Country Antiques and Folk Art Show
by Alice Kaufman

Five-year exhibitor Grimes Collectique and Collectibles, which shows at Niles Antiques, Fremont, California, was asking $750 for this circa 1884 Norwegian bride's box with rosemaling and "For Peter's Daughter" painted on the front.At the show's folk artisan corner contemporary material was shown, usually by the artisan. These made-new-to-look-old flag pillows ... (Read More)

(Auction)

Chinese Material Bolsters Auction
by Don Johnson

Anna Pottery pig flask, Union County, Illinois, circa 1880, having an incised map of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, as well as St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, and smaller towns, $14,100.Carved ivory figural group consisting of eight separate pieces, some polychrome decoration, Chinese, on a wooden stand, signed under the central ... (Read More)

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Former Director of Salander-O'Reilly Sentenced
by Daniel Grant

by Daniel GrantThe former director of Manhattan's now-defunct Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Leigh Morse, 55, was sentenced on July 19 to weekend jail time and ordered to pay $1.65 million in restitution for her role in the $120 million scam in which numerous clients of the gallery were defrauded.Morse, who left the ... (Read More)
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