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(Fragment)Grant to Aid Research of Transferware Medical and Toilet Wares
The winner of the Paul and Gladys Richards Foundation Research Grant for studies in British transferware, awarded by the Transferware Collectors Club (TCC), is Richard Halliday of Market Harborough, U.K., who will research transferware medical and toilet wares, 1780-1850.
Halliday plans to produce a book that deals specifically and comprehensively with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The-Saleroom.Com and Bidsquare Team Up
The-saleroom.com, a portal for art and antiques auctions in the U.K. and Europe, and Bidsquare, an online bidding platform in the U.S., have forged a partnership. Participating auctions will be listed on each other’s respective websites, allowing auction houses to reach new international bidders and expose more fine art and ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Time to Rethink
Auction Law & Ethics
Auctions are different—very different. Those who patronize auctions know they are nothing like going to a traditional retailer to shop. The public knows it too. So why do I make a distinction between those who go to auctions and the public? Because just as auctions and retailers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Good Fellows: The Walpole Society
Part I of V
Photos courtesy the Walpole Society
“…an assembly of good fellows, meeting under certain conditions.”
— The definition of club by Dr. Johnson (1755)
The Walpole Society—have you heard of it? Even longtime antiques aficionados may not know of this über-exclusive club for Americana collectors, curators, scholars, house preservationists, and antiquarian ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Berks County History Center
The Berks History Center at 940 Centre Avenue in Reading, Pennsylvania, will open two new galleries dedicated to Pennsylvania German folk art and Berks County clocks and furniture on Saturday, November 14. The new installation was made possible through a bequest of 33 artifacts from the estate of Lancaster County ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Looking at Antiques Shows from Both Sides Now: A Collector's Experiences
Have you ever wondered what it is like for dealers to “do” an antiques show? What they experience? What they see when we—possible customers, potential friends, dismissive critics—wander past their booths? So have I, and I decided to shadow a dealer during several shows. (My apologies to dealers in advance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The "Washington" Comes Home
In 2001 a theft from the Oysterponds Historical Society in Orient, New York, resulted in the loss of a painting of the bark Washington, a Solon Francis Montecello Badger portrait of the ship Jennie French Potter, and two whalebone busks.
On September 29 the FBI returned the bark Washington painting to ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Bits and Bytes
Computer Column #323
John P. Reid, <[email protected]>
More on the Internet as an aid to moving a business, antiquers’ software on the new Windows 10, and a way for some of us to beat robot phone calls are reported below.
Terminate Sales Tax License
In the September issue, we listed dozens of ways the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, November 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
With this month’s “Letter” I have finally cleared my summer and earlier sale files, and even managed to add one early bird from the new season—the very costly pair of old running shoes that kicks off this selection.
In no particular order, the remaining offerings include a carpet; an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctionata Acquires ValueMyStuff
Online auction house Auctionata (https://auctionata.com) has acquired the London-based valuation company ValueMyStuff (VMS). VMS (www.valuemystuff.com) was founded in 2009 by its current CEO, Patrick van der Vorst, a former director and head of the Continental furniture department at Sotheby’s in London.
VMS offers fee-based valuations with a team of over 60 ... (Read More)
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