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(Auction)American Paintings Sale
Sotheby's, New York Cityby Ann BermanResponding to an unusually lean season of business-getting, Sotheby's American art specialists prudently padded their sale of May 23 with anything they could get their hands on. There were some great works on offer but also plenty of average pictures and some real clunkers.How did ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Polar Books: Cold Is Hot at Swann
Swann Galleries, New York Cityby Jeanne SchintoA first edition of the first book published in Antarctica sold to a collector for $84,000 (includes buyer's premium) at the highly successful auction by Swann Galleries of the polar library of Dr. John M. Levinson in New York City on May 24. The ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Beanes Bloom in Waterville
Beane's Antiques & Photography, Waterville, MaineBeanes Bloom in Watervilleby Mark SiscoWe once called David and Becky Beane the "seven-year locusts of auctioneers." Every seven years they stick their heads out and make some noise. Although it hasn't been quite seven years since their last auction in August 2002, the time ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dixon Painting Tops Auction
Bonhams & Butterfields, Los Angeles and San Francisco, CaliforniaDixon Painting Tops Auctionby Alice KaufmanBonhams & Butterfields' paintings specialist Scot Levitt called his $4,169,700 California and American paintings auction, held May 1 in Los Angeles and San Francisco, "very good, but there were more buy-ins than I'd wanted." Nevertheless, "Western art ... (Read More)
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(Show)Blue Ribbon Show: Right Day, Right Weather, Not Enough Visitors
Contoocook, New HampshireBlue Ribbon Show: Right Day, Right Weather, Not Enough Visitorsby David HewettOn Saturday, June 2, the third annual Blue Ribbon Antique Show was held at the Hopkinton State Fairgrounds in Contoocook, New Hampshire. It appeared to the participating dealers, members of the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association, that ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country
Los Altos, CaliforniaCalifornia Countryby Alice KaufmanMarie Croft, one of the 59 exhibitors at the June 10 California Country antiques show in Los Altos, California, said that like her fellow exhibitors, she was selling "memories and nostalgia." Both were thick on the ground at the show, which, as always, also featured ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Jersey Tool Auction
CRAFTS of New Jersey, Flemington, New JerseyNew Jersey Tool Auctionby Alexander FarnhamMay 5 of this year was an eventful and busy day for this writer. Most important to me was the annual Collectors of Rare and Familiar Tools Society (CRAFTS) of New Jersey tool auction, which I have covered for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Robert Cheney Joins Skinner's
Robert Cheney Joins Skinner'sRobert C. Cheney, a third-generation clockmaker, consultant, and dealer, has joined Skinner, Inc. as an antique clock specialist. Cheney recently oversaw the record sale of an E. Howard & Company No. 36 wall regulator, which sold at Skinner's June 2007 American furniture and decorative arts auction for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Twentieth-Century Design Records at New York City June Auctions
Twentieth-Century Design Records at New York City June Auctions by Lita Solis-CohenThe market for top-quality 20th-century design performed well in June with record-setting prices.On Tuesday evening, June 5, Christie's sold Jean Prouvé's prototype large Maison Tropicale, a prefabricated construction, for $4,968,000 (includes buyer's premium) to hotelier André Balazs. Balazs owns ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Fairhaven Antiques Festival
Fairhaven, OhioThe Fairhaven Antiques Festivalby Don JohnsonIt wasn't where it should have been. Less than two miles from my home, down a stretch of country road that draws considerable traffic, an 8" painted turtle sat motionless in the center of the blacktop, perfectly positioned between ghostly images of yellow stripes ... (Read More)
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