(Auction Law and Ethics)
Auction Law & Ethics
“Impatience can cause wise people to do foolish things.”
Canadian author Janette Oke needed just nine words to explain why some of the biggest blunders are committed and to warn others that unrestrained enthusiasm can lead to the same mistakes. Impatience is seldom the right path for an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Central Plains wool dress, thread-sewn navy wool, ten rows of dentalia create the yoke, sunburst designs on sleeves, 51" long, fourth quarter of the 19th century, $18,000.
Crow beaded hide rifle scabbard, sinew-sewn, beaded using white, dark blue, light blue,red white-heart, greasy yellow, pea-green, and pink beads, red wool strips, 41" ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
The Young Collector
What a winter. Everyone seems to be talking about the weather. We’ve been lucky here, keeping mostly warm and never losing power—until the day after Hollie wrote this sentence. There’s hardly an experience more jarring to young Americans than losing power (unless perhaps losing Internet access), especially to ... (Read More)
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Changing demographics have killed off another venerable antiques show. Boston’s Ellis Memorial Antiques Show saw 49 years as the city’s premier antiques show before closing up shop in 2008.
It was picked up and run as the Ellis Boston Antiques Show in 2011 by producers Tony Fusco and Bob Four of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
This tiger maple Queen Anne highboy, attributed to New Hampshire furniture and clock case maker David Young, showing Dunlap influence around the carved molding and cornice, sold for $34,500.
This 19th-century trade sign reading “7 MILES TO BACONS / JEWELERY [sic] STORE / 8 CENTRAL ST. / DOVER, N. H.” made ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
This original Colt Texas Paterson .36-caliber revolver with a 7½" octagonal barrel and matching serial number 718 on the barrel and cylinder has a folding trigger, and the barrel is marked “Patent Arms M’g. Co. Paterson, N.J. – Colt’s Pt.” The cylinder roll is engraved with a scene of a ... (Read More)
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The Cahoon Museum of American Art has a new temporary location: 30 Bates Road in Mashpee Commons North (in the former New Balance space), Mashpee, Massachusetts.
The museum’s permanent location at 4676 Falmouth Road in Cotuit is being restored and a new addition is being built. The permanent location will reopen ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Bidding opened at $2500 for a Fortuny stenciled velvet gown of a golden ocher silk velvet tabard with Persian pattern gold stenciling. The gown has peach pleated silk sleeves and dress side panels enclosed with Murano glass beads and silk cord loops. In very good condition and labeled “Mariano / ... (Read More)
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The Nantucket Antiques Show, held annually for 35-plus years, has been rebranded as the Decorative and Fine Art Show Nantucket. The dates and location of the show remain August 7-10 at the Nantucket High School, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Jerry Ritch, a second-generation antiques dealer and a 50-year veteran of the show circuit, ... (Read More)
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