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The Brynwood Golf and Country Club in Armonk, New York, will be the new home of the Armonk Antiques Show, according to Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions, who has assumed the management of the approximately 30-year-old show. According to Gaglio, the new venue will allow for a preview gala, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Fig. 1A. Cherry tall-case clock made for Judge Joseph Reading, attributed to John Guild. Courtesy of the Sully Historic Site, Chantilly, Virginia, Fairfax County Park Authority Resource Management Division Historic Collections, Sully Foundation, Ltd.
Fig. 1B. Signature on the dial of figure 1A, “Joseph Reading Hunterdon County New Jersey.”
Fig. 1C. Pediment ... (Read More)
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Boston-area auctioneer and auction house owner Tonya A. Cameron is joining the management team at MaxSold, a Canada-based firm that specializes in on-line estate and business liquidation auctions. In her capacity as regional manager for MaxSold in New England, Cameron will be visiting with clients at their homes or business ... (Read More)
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Jenkins Management has canceled its fall 2013 Nashville, Tennessee, antiques show: Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show and the Vintage Marketplace. The February 13-15, 2014, show will still be held but at a different venue—the Nashville Expo Center at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds. For the past two years, the show has been ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
Portion of an ad hoc collection catalog of old tap dance books created with spreadsheet software.
Computer Column #298
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Favorite old software tools and changes in the way software is sold are covered this month.
Old Tools
Tablets and smartphones are taking over jobs once done by desktop or laptop computers. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.
Art of Katahdin: The Mountain, the Range, the Region by David Little (Down ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Editorial
Getting hoodwinked at an auction is no laughing matter, but we must admit that we chuckled at a story coming out of Australia.
According to a local television station, an auction buyer paid around $300 for a signed print by Modernist artist Margaret Preston (1875-1963) at a sale conducted by Arthouse ... (Read More)
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The estate of William H. Seward has filed a petition to force the Fred L. Emerson Foundation to return Thomas Cole’s Portage Falls in the Genesee to Auburn, New York. Raymond “Ray” S. Messenger, a great-great-grandson of William H. Seward, filed the petition in Surrogate’s Court, Cayuga County, against the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
The Young Collector
Nora has started her first year at college, and Nat is a junior in high school who is excited about getting his driver’s license in a few months. OK, Nora just turned three, and Nat is getting really good at sitting upright (meaning he’s mastering the first skill ... (Read More)
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John P. Walcher has joined the staff of John Toomey Gallery in Oak Park, Illinois, as head of silver and decorative arts. For the last four years, Walcher has worked in the furniture and decorative arts department at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago, where he recently organized the successful 767-lot ... (Read More)
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