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(Fragment)Erie County, New York, Secondhand Dealers Law Exempts Antiques
On December 17, 2015, the Erie County (New York) Legislature unanimously approved a local law regulating pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers, but a provision in the law exempts antiques dealers under several conditions.
The law will make it unlawful for establishments to purchase any articles, jewelry, or precious metals from any person ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In with the Not So Old: American 20th-Century Design
Sotheby’s, New York City, and Wright, Chicago
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s and Wright
An article in the Economist on December 19, 2015, tried to explain why the bottom has dropped out of the antiques market. It claimed the cause is the fall in demand for 18th- and 19th-century furniture and decorations and suggested ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Swann's Best-Ever African American Fine Art Sale: $3.1 Million
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
“Who says auctions can’t be fun?” Swann Galleries’ president and chief auctioneer Nicholas D. Lowry asked his audience after selling a circa 1958 painting by Norman Lewis for an applause-generating record-breaking $965,000 (including buyer’s premium). The untitled and previously uncataloged abstraction in oil ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wondrous Beasts, Feathered Fantasies: R.W. Martin & Brothers
Phillips, New York City
Photos courtesy Phillips
Martinware grotesques from the late 19th and early 20th century “were the Star Wars figures of that day,” according to Alex Heminway, director of design sales at Phillips New York.
Twenty-three lots of R.W. Martin Bros. salt-glazed stoneware, from a collection started in the early 1990s ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week in New York City January 2016
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Landmark Americana sales are long remembered for marking turning points in the marketplace. The Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little sales in January and October 1994 at Sotheby’s offered a wide-ranging collection of Americana, mostly of New England origin, and established a certain kind of folk ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Gifts That Keep On Giving
The Young Collector
Ah, the season of gifting is upon us. Hooray, some of you are thinking. What fun. We’re sorry. We’ll try to make this as painless as possible, which is going to take some work because gift giving has, for many people, become a painful, protracted process that leaves ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Darwin Book Returned to Canada
A stolen first edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life byCharles Darwin has been returned to Canada. The book, published in 1859, had been stolen from Mount Saint Vincent University Library in Bedford, Nova ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Website for Painted Plaster Walls Center
A new website (www.wpcenter.org) for the Center for Painted Wall Preservation (PWP) has been created for use as a resource by owners of painted plaster walls in New England. The new site will also serve as a clearing house for artists, conservators, and preservationists to document their research into the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Henry Sheldon Museum and Historic New England Team Up
The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury, Vermont, and Historic New England have formed an alliance. The alliance between the two organizations, both devoted to historic preservation, history, art collections, and heritage interpretation, caps a multiyear collaborative partnership in exhibits. Historic New England’s traveling exhibitions Take Me to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)John and Lisa Hauenstein, Early Preservation, Charlotte, Vermont
In the Trade
Some people just make you feel inadequate. An afternoon I spent recently with John Hauenstein had that effect on me.
Hauenstein and his wife, Lisa, do business as Early Preservation and work out of what appears to be a perfectly restored early 19th-century Vermont farmhouse set among 15 acres ... (Read More)
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