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(Book Review)Recipient of the 2012 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
A Book Review
Liverpool Porcelain 1756-1804 by Maurice Hillis Maurice Hillis, 2011, 570 pages, hardbound, £60 plus S/H from (www.TheLiverpoolPorcelainBook.weebly.com)
In his foreword to this groundbreaking tome, Geoffrey Godden leaps from his long-occupied English porcelain pedestal to exclaim, “This is the most welcome and eagerly awaited of books.” Godden, who is not ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Needlework from Hunterdon County, New Jersey
When Dan Campanelli sold his Halloween collection at Noel Barrett’s in 2003, he said that he and his wife, Marty, were changing the direction of their collecting. Now we know that their next passion was samplers. When they bought an old house in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, they narrowed their ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Antiques Apps
Stoneware crocks in an on-line auction viewed on a small Android tablet.
Computer Column #294
by John P. Reid, [email protected]
In the last year this column has commented often about the rapid rise of mobile computing—of the use of smartphones for more than phone calls and of tablet computers. Mobile computing is even ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vazzana and Steele to Assume Cord Shows
From left: Ed McClure, Beth Steele, Rich Vazzana, and Vivien Cord.
Cord Shows Ltd. events will be assumed in 2014 by the father/daughter team of Richard Vazzana and Beth Steele of Ridgefield, Connecticut, according to Vivien Cord, president of Cord Shows Ltd., and her partner, Edward McClure.
Cord and McClure will continue ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Prior Knowledge
A Book Review
Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
by Jacquelyn Oak and Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw
Fenimore Art Museum, 2012, 64 pages, softbound, $29.95 plus S/H from Fenimore Art Museum (www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/museumshop) or (888) 547-1400.
When an auctioneer must catalog a small unsigned flat-painted portrait of a man, woman, or child, he or she ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stoneware Jug with Acrobats Goes to New York State Museum
A Fulper Brothers four-gallon stoneware jug depicting acrobats, offered at the 2013 Winter Antiques Show in New York City for $295,000, is now part of the Weitsman Collection of American Stoneware at the New York State Museum (NYSM) in Albany. It was acquired for the museum by stoneware collector and benefactor ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Jewelry Auctions
Alexander Eblen said that this Victorian yellow gold, pearl, and shell cameo brooch was beautifully crafted. “With shell, you’re dealing with a material that is most common in cameos, so it gets the least respect; however, when you have a really finely carved one, and it’s something out of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More on Rockwell's Willie Gillis: Package from Home
Drama surrounding the sale of Norman Rockwell’s 1941 painting Willie Gillis, Package from Home appeared to sputter to a close in mid-April when Chicago auctioneer Sean Susanin chose a curious way to announce that he had sold the painting for $1.75 million. That sum is millions below the $3/5 million ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Creating Goals and Improving Web Traffic
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic of setting a budget to cover the most essential marketing items that you need. This month we will review creating achievable goals. Once your core strategies have been set, you’ve completed your SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis, and you ... (Read More)
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