(Issue Story)
Editorial
Want to sell a highboy in Hauppauge? A sideboard in Southampton? A bookcase in Brookhaven? If so, you need a pay for a license. That unwelcome news is rippling through Suffolk County, New York, the fourth-largest county in the Empire State and home to almost 1.5 million people.
A county ordinance ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
China Gerui Advanced Materials Group Ltd. (CGAM) made a staggering announcement on September 4, 2014. Buried in a long press release announcing second-quarter financial results, the Chinese steel producer revealed it had paid $234 million in cash for a collection of 206 pieces of Chinese porcelain.
The company claimed it was ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
Book Review
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with contributions by Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi, and Ralph Sessions Art Services International and Skira Rizzoli, 2014, 256 pages, softbound, $65.
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with essays by Avis Berman, Cynthia ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
A low-cost 7" tablet computer running Windows 8.1.
Computer Column #314
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Antiquers may want to identify their personal niche in the computer world. Personal niches are changing as hardware and software rapidly evolve. Let’s look at the whole picture and identify the range of niches.
Big Computers
The really big ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
Cowan’s Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio, has acquired Little John’s Auction Service of Orange, California. Completed in January, the deal makes Cowan’s the third-largest auction house of antique firearms in the United States. It brings together two companies with more than 60 years of combined experience and more than $600 million ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
This circa 1920 signed Tiffany & Co. platinum, moonstone, and sapphire brooch designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany sold to a phone bidder for $62,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). It was accompanied by an AGL report stating that the sapphire is of Ceylon origin, with no indications of heating. Sotheby’s, New York.
When Lisa ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Elise Abrams’s shop is just north of Great Barrington on Route 7. Part of it was originally a Dairy Queen.
Elise Abrams.
A very partial interior view.
Abrams said a service like this (which is for 12 although only eight are set up) averages about $300 per piece.
Art Deco Czech geometric cut ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
The announcement last year that the 33rd edition of the well-known Heart of Country Antiques Showwould be the last saddened collectors and dealers for whom the event had become a festive annual reunion. The Opryland Hotel in Nashville, once merely large, had more than tripled in physical size during the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
The Young Collector
It’s a fitting thing to be wrapping this up on New Year’s Eve, that night when we indulge ourselves, overindulge ourselves, in any number of ways including nostalgic reflection. Sometimes, like in the afternoons of wet fall days or in the sticky middle-of-summer mornings (or anywhere on Interstate ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
Two things not to do after pleading guilty to fraud in connection with the sale of fake artwork are to sell more artwork and to edit the Wikipedia page of a witness who testified before the grand jury. Those things constitute what the United States Attorney in Connecticut claims art ... (Read More)
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