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(Feature)Antiques Mall Find at $154 Sells for $34,500
Pam Lane, a 40-year-old mother of three, has a small business buying and selling antiques in Nashville, Tennessee. She bought what she thought was a candle box with "great surface and years of dirt" for $154 at an antiques mall in Bell Buckle, Tennessee.Lane e-mailed a photo of the box ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Arbus Auction at Phillips Canceled; Lawsuit Pending
by Jeanne SchintoOn April 8 Phillips de Pury & Company announced that it had canceled its auction of recently discovered photographs by Diane Arbus. It was supposed to have taken place in New York City on April 9. "Private Sale Pending" is the reason stated for the cancellation on the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenThe Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show, promoter Frank Gaglio's show, began Philadelphia's Antiques Week with real energy on Friday morning, April 11. Folk art dealer Allan Katz, in town for the Philadelphia Antiques Show, was first in line at 9 a.m. By the time the doors ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Asian Art Fair Moves to New Location
New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican antiques shows have not been the same since 1989 when Anna and Brian Haughton launched the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show at the Seventh Regiment Armory with their special brand of good design and new standards of vetting.They are known innovators. They were ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Market for California and American Paintings Remains Strong
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanAs usual, records were set (a dozen) and paintings were sold above their estimates at Bonhams & Butterfields' April 8 Los Angeles/San Francisco auction of California and American paintings and sculpture. Total sales added up to $4,875,280 (includes buyers' premiums), ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Show Dealers Mourn Loss of Peers
Bowmanville, Ontarioby John NorrisAll prices in Canadian fundsThe annual Bowmanville Show in Bowmanville, Ontario, celebrated its 35th anniversary on March 21 and 22. Although peppy pop music pumped throughout the small hall of the G.B. Rickard Recreation Complex, and the 28 dealers setting up that day bantered and swapped stories, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Ceramics in America: All about Bonnin and Morris
by Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2007 Edited by Robert Hunter The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by Antique Collectors' Club, $65.00www.antique-acc.comThe 2007 Ceramics in America is a hardbound book filled with articles by 14 scholars and brilliant photographs covering almost all that is known about the American China Manufactory in Philadelphia run ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Good Faith Purchaser Protests City Treatment, Dover Records Returned
by David Hewett"Had anyone had any belief whatsoever that these records were stolen, misappropriated in any way, that good title had not passed, there would have been no qualms, no hesitation whatsoever, in simply returning them. That is not in question. That was never the issue."Those words were spoken by ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Antiques and the New Three Rs: Recondition, Reuse, Recycle
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondBefore we start, let's lay down a few ground rules for this discussion. First of all, no e-mails about politics, please. This is business, and business needs to float on the waves of politics, not get mired down in it. Second, as business people, it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Steiff Figures Top Prices at Wintergarden Toy Auction
Wintergarden Auction Services, Monson, Massachusettsby Ed PfeifferIt was antiques in Toyland, or maybe vice versa, at Wintergarden Auction's March 15 sale of children's diverse playthings. There were some 288 lots of toys, dolls, trains, games, bicycles, and other categories. Auctioneer Frank Kapsia said most of them were from four large ... (Read More)
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