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(Fragment)Grant Awarded to Digitize New York Silver Collection
The Museum of the City of New York has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for a two-year project to catalog and digitize its collection of historic New York silver. The collection includes 2200 pieces of civic, domestic, religious, and presentation hollowware, flatware, and accessories made ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York City Law Modernizes Recordkeeping for Secondhand Dealers
One of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s last acts in office was to sign legislation that will modernize the recordkeeping practices of pawnbrokers and certain secondhand dealers in New York City. The legislation will make records that pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers are already required to keep more readily available for review ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Merchandise Mart Cancels Annual Antiques Fair
Citing a “fractured market,” management at Chicago’s Merchandise Mart (also called the Mart) has canceled its annual International Antiques Fair, scheduled for April 24-27, 2014.
“We decided it is best to take a step out,” Lisa Simonian, vice president of marketing for Merchandise Mart Properties, Inc. (MMPI) and its consumer and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maryland Chapter of American Antique Arts Association
The Charles County (Maryland) Chapter of the American Antique Arts Association, a nonprofit devoted to the appreciation, study, and preservation of American antiques, architecture, arts, crafts, and local history, voted to donate money to three local organizations. The Maryland Veterans Memorial Museum, the Southern Maryland Carousel Group, and the Port ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Auction Law & Ethics
So what’s not to like? The answer can be plenty.
A few of the things that I most dislike include (a) mean people, (b) rude people (especially when driving), (c) arrogant people, (d) annoying people, (e) standing in line (anywhere), (f) greed (think gasoline), (g) banks and insurance ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
Chinese works of art and Russian pictures play a prominent part in this month’s selection, something almost inevitable where the London market is concerned, but this “Letter” also includes a belated Christmas Carol from Dante Gabriel Rossetti, a portrait of Jane Austen, a costly chess piece, a Constable ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)2013: The Year in Review
The Young Collector
This column seems to have become an annual tradition, one that’s much more pleasant to reflect on than resolutions. It shows how each year seems to bring such dramatic changes. Nat, who was a little pink lump (an adorable lump but a lump nonetheless) this time last year, ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Social Media and Evaluating Antiques Shows
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of relationship marketing. Now it’s time to change gears and move on to another vital topic: utilizing social media to build your business.
Social media is very tricky. Regardless of what you hear, there are very few antiques businesses gaining much, if ... (Read More)
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