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A Country Sale in the North Carolina Mountains
by Pete Prunkl

The top furniture lot and the second-highest lot of the sale was a two-piece French cabinet with scrolled and carved crown, open shelves, and two doors above. Below were one small drawer, two angled doors, and a carved skirt. It sold for $1485. The top lot of the sale at ... (Read More)

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Burk Show Rolls Into Its 40th Year
by Karl H. Pass

The pillar and scroll shelf clock from Allentown, Pennsylvania, had a Black Forest movement from Europe. The dial and tablet were original and on tin. It was priced at $12,500 from New Oxford, Pennsylvania, dealer Kelly Kinzle. The Severin Roesen still-life painting was $55,000, and the inlaid cutlery box was ... (Read More)

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"Miss Edgerton's Ye Colonial Shoppe" or Women in the Trade, Part Two
by Jeanne Schinto

by Jeanne Schinto"You've sold all my things. You've sold my mother's china. You sold the rugs. You sold the portraits. You've made a business out of it—selling the past. What kind of a business is that—selling the past?"—from "Publick House," John Cheever, The New Yorker, August 16, 1941The cover of ... (Read More)

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A Farm Animal Shelter in Western New York Saves Historic Site
by Fran Kramer

by Fran KramerCracker Box Palace, a farm animal haven in Alton, New York, is well underway to saving an essential piece of Shaker history.Alasa Farms, on the site of what was the Sodus Shaker community from 1826 to 1836 (the Sodus Shakers then moved 90 miles southwest to Groveland and ... (Read More)

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Strongest Painting Sale Ever---without a Fitz Henry Lane
by Jeanne Schinto

At the Grand Prix by Childe Hassam (1859-1935), an 11½" x 8¼" (sight size) pastel and graphite on paper/board, brought the top price of the day, $699,000 (est. $150,000/200,000). Signed “Childe/Hassam,” it was inscribed “given to me by A.L.A. for Victorian Room” on a label from the Worth Avenue Gallery, ... (Read More)

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The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair
by Danielle Arnet

Moylan-Smelkinson/The Spare Room found a way to solve the universal case crunch dilemma. Faced with showing 21 Chrysanthemum pattern plates by English maker Herculaneum, they mounted themon a wall. From about 1810, the plates were $17,000 for the lot or $850 each.Merchandise Mart seller Richard Norton brought a set of ... (Read More)

(Computer Article)

Antiquing Around the World--On Line
by John P. Reid

The Woolloongabba Antique Centre in Brisbane, Australia looks like something you might find anywhere in the U.S.Computer Column #260by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] the past six months, this column has discussed serious stuff—software for dealers and antiques malls, inexpensive office software, running Windows programs for antiquers on a Macintosh ... (Read More)

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Greg Hamilton Chosen VADA's Interim President
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The spring meeting of the Vermont Antiques Dealers' Association was held at the South Station Restaurant in Rutland on June 7. The board accepted, with regret, the resignation of James Dunn, who has guided VADA for the past three and a half years. Dunn will remain on the antiques show ... (Read More)
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