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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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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)
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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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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