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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Riding Out the Storm
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSeveral months back, Andrew got an invitation to speak at the Historic New Orleans Collection's Antiques Forum. When we started discussing whether he had the time to put the talk together and to make the trip, Hollie's response was, "When someone invites you to visit ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneers Request Immunity
by Elizabeth DinanAttorney Harry Starbranch (left) and auctioneer Stephen Bennett in Portsmouth District Court on August 3.Two New Hampshire auctioneers, accused of rigging the bidding for the sale of an S.F.M. Badger nautical painting in order to collect a commission, have asked a judge to allow them to appear as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Jane Stickle Quilt on Display
The quilt that inspires quilters all over the world will be on its yearly display at the Bennington Museum in Bennington, Vermont, until October 14. Brought to the museum 60 years ago, the Jane Stickle quilt is shown only for a short time each year because of the fragility of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast's Annual Sale Gets $2.753 Million in Manchester
A very clean Boston Queen Anne walnut highboy, 69½" high x 39" wide, had an Israel Sack provenance and no problems. It sold at Christie’s on October 5, 2000, as lot 75 where it brought $204,000. Here, ten years later, it sold at the top end of its $75,000/150,000 estimate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farnham Nautical Collection Auction
A 64" x 42" blue-back chart of “Vineyard Sound & Nantucket Shoals,” surveyed by George Eldridge and published by “S. Thaxter & Son,” sold for $2200. Samuel Thaxter founded the marine instrument supply company in 1792, and the Boston firm remained in business until 1919.Chart of the “Gulf and River ... (Read More)
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(Show)Americana Celebration
Greg Hamilton of Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, offered this Northwest Coast gathering basket for $1500. Hamilton, who said he found the basket in an Addison, Vermont, barn, also displayed primitive wood boxes, sterling bowls, and candelabra. He sold a schoolmaster’s desk to another dealer the first morning of the ... (Read More)
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