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(Auction)Sloans & Kenyon Has First $2 Million Sale
Sloans & Kenyon, Chevy Chase, Marylandby Robert KyleIn its most successful auction since opening four years ago, as an outgrowth of Sloan's Auction Galleries (formerly C.G. Sloan & Co.), Sloans & Kenyon's sale on November 9-11, 2007, totaled $2.36 million on the strength of fine art, Asian ceramics, sterling silver, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sollo:Rago Modern Weekend
Sollo:Rago Modern Auctions, Lambertville, New Jerseyby Lita Solis-CohenJohn Sollo's over 1100-lot 20th-century modern sale on October 27 and 28, 2007, in Lambertville, New Jersey, offered furniture, lighting, studio ceramics, prints, paintings, and sculpture in a thick catalog. The marathon sale began at noon on Saturday and did not end until ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art Auction
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenOn
the heels of the Berry-Hill Galleries and Salander-O'Reilly Galleries bankruptcies
and the volatile stock market, it was hard to know what to expect at the November
2007 American painting sales in New York City. Crowded salesrooms, pockets of
competitive bidding, and high prices showed ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tailgate in Nashville: Variety Is the Spice of Life
Nashville, Tennesseeby Karla Klein AlbertsonSteve Jenkins's Tailgate Antiques Show in Nashville is rather like the old song by Arlo Guthrie about Alice's Restaurant. You can get anything you want. There are dealers who favor the pure simplicity of high-quality country-furniture, quilts and rugs, folk art carvings, painted signs. But if ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Unique Stoneware at the American Pottery Auction
Bruce and Vicki Waasdorp, Clarence, New Yorkby Joshua KormanBruce and Vicki Waasdorp of Clarence, New York, have gained a national reputation for their twice-yearly American pottery auction, particularly renowned for high-quality stoneware. The Waasdorps' mail and phone bid auctions have taken place every March and September for more than 15 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tasha Tudor's Historic Costume Collection
Whitaker-Augusta Auction Co., New Hope, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenTasha Tudor, the illustrator and author of children's books, began collecting 19th-century clothes when she was nine years old. As an adult she used her collection as source material for her illustrations for more than 100 children's books-some, her own, and some, others' ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Clegg Sale
Wiederseim Associates, Inc., Glenmoore, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenWiederseim Associates held an old-fashioned farm sale at the Ludwig's Corner Firehouse in Glenmoore, Pennsylvania, on November 23 and 24, 2007, to disperse the collections of Alfred and Miriam Clegg. Estate sales are rites of passage in Chester County, and a large crowd of ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: 2008, "The Year to Think Outside the Blanket Box"
by Andrew Richmond and Hollie DavisBy the time you read this, we'll be about three weeks into the new year. Three weeks. About the amount of time it takes the average person to break new year's resolutions. Honestly, did you really think you were going to eat less chocolate, lose ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Museum of the City of New York to Dispose of "Rockefeller Rooms"
by David HewettWhen collectors and dealers gather in New York City every January for the round of Americana auctions and shows, there's usually a swirl of stories circulating among the throngs about who's buying what, what's hot and what's not, and, occasionally, what's happening in academic and museum circles.Two of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christie's January Americana Sale
by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Christie'sThe Stephenson family mahogany tea table with scalloped top, made in Philadelphia circa 1770, has been widely exhibited. It has been at the Diplomatic Reception Room of the U.S. Department of State, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and in the exhibition American Rococo, 1750-1775: Elegance in ... (Read More)
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