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(Fragment)Grand Rapids Antiques Market Sold
Vintage Promotions, LLC, the producers of the Dallas Vintage Clothing and Jewelry Show, Vintage Garage Chicago, and other events, has purchased Vintage Life Expo, also known as the Grand Rapids Antiques Market.
Cecily Near, who produces and manages the show, has agreed to continue her involvement in the show’s planning and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)GLM Acquires the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory
A widely circulated rumor was confirmed on May 20 when show producer GLM announced it had acquired the Pier Antiques Show and Antiques at the Armory from Stella Show Management Company.
The Pier Antiques Show, one of New York City’s largest, is held semiannually in March and November at Pier 94 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Affordable Jewelry & Watches
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
When a press release arrived broadcasting the news that “The Mid-Market Struts Its Stuff in Rago’s Big $1.8 Million April Auction Weekend” after we had decided to feature affordable jewelry at auction (hovering around $1000 and under) this month, it seemed the planets had aligned to support ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
There is much Meissen in this month’s selection—the all-Meissen “Delphinium” and Marouf collections sold by Bonhams and the magnificent Meissen menagerie that made up the main portion of a Sotheby’s sale that dispersed property from the collections of Sir Gawaine and Lady Baillie.
Add to that an Iron Age ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Face behind the "Faceman"
Auction Law and Ethics
Templeton Peck. Do you remember him from the 1980’s? He was the slick con man on The A-Team TV series (1983-87). Peck was such a pretty boy he was often called “Faceman.” I always liked the show and often recall the wry-smiling Faceman when I think of ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Web Site Marketing
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of creating quantifiable and achievable marketing goals. This month I highlight the benefits of developing and maintaining an effective Web site. This is a very broad topic that I may come back to in the future because there is much in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Pryor Dodge: The Bicycling Collector
Pryor Dodge in his SoHo loft in April 2013. The bicycle on the wall, patented by John McCloskey of Ontario, Canada, in 1896, has a one-piece bentwood hickory frame. Schinto photo.
Dodge on Rue Saint-Vincent in Montmartre in 1971, just a few months after he bought his first high-wheel bicycle and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dave, Dan, and Lorraine Braskie, Quaboag Valley Antiques Center, Palmer, Massachusetts
From left: Dave and Dan Braskie. (Lorraine was off on the day we visited.)
Exterior of the group shop.
One of the crowded no-nonsense aisles in the Quaboag Valley Antiques Center.
The furniture section of the center. Much of it is devoted to Dan and Dave’s inventory.
Oil on canvas painting of a red ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The 1%'s 18%
Editorial
The superrich really are different, if numbers released by the Singapore-based firm Wealth-X are to be believed. A report released on June 5 claims that the world’s top ten billionaire art collectors have an average of 18% of their net worth tied up in their art collections.
The number one collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Modern Nature: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George
Hyde Collection in Glens Falls, New York, will be the site of an unusual major art exhibition beginning this June. The collection has received a $200,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, with additional support from the Charles R. Wood Foundation and other sources, to mount the first exhibition of ... (Read More)
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