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(Fragment)Needlework at the Rufus Porter Museum
Needlework at the Rufus Porter MuseumA special loan exhibit of historic schoolgirl needlework will open June 28 when the Rufus Porter Museum in Bridgton, Maine, begins its summer and fall season. There will be 27 pieces of early needlework on exhibit, dating from the 1600's to 1840. Many are from ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Remmey Stoneware Pitcher Found in a Well Highlights Sale
Remmey Stoneware Pitcher Found in a Well Highlights Saleby Karl PassNewly unearthed from the bottom of a well, where it had been buried for likely 175-odd years, an elaborately decorated stoneware pitcher attributed to Henry Remmey Sr. sold at Crocker Farm's May 19 sale in York, Pennsylvania, for $69,000 (including ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Wicker Exhibition
Antique Wicker ExhibitionThe Sheffield Historical Society will host American Antique Wicker, an exhibition of woven furniture from the 1870's through the 1920's. Four major styles of wicker evolved during that Golden Age, and many period pieces will be on display at the Old Stone Store, the society's museum building on ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Must-Attend Event for Glass Collectors
Old Greenwich, ConnecticutA Must-Attend Event for Glass Collectorsby David HewettIf you're a serious glass collector, there are two must-attend events in your collecting life. One is the Cape Cod Glass Show, sponsored by the Sandwich Glass Museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts, in September; the other is the Westchester Glass Club Collectors ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mulliken Tall Clock, Found on West Coast, Sells for $33,350 at Kaminski
Mulliken Tall Clock, Found on West Coast, Sells for $33,350 at Kaminski by Jeanne Schinto On Sunday, April 22, the same weekend as the Schmitt auction (p. 16-D), Frank Kaminski of Kaminski Auctions, Beverly, Massachusetts, offered 520 items, including a tall clock made by Joseph Mulliken (1765-1802) of Concord, Massachusetts. ... (Read More)
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(Show)40th Annual Wilton Historical Society Show a One-Day Affair This Year
Wilton, Connecticut40th Annual Wilton Historical Society Show a One-Day Affair This Yearby David HewettThe exhibitors and show manager Marilyn Gould were equally apprehensive about this year's Wilton Historical Society Antiques Show in Wilton, Connecticut.Neither knew how a mix of conditions would affect their spring show, the most obvious being a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, MaineSpring Auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleriesby Mark SiscoSome fine ship paintings and other artworks were at the heart of the March 31 and April 1 auction at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine, but it was a little carved cup that drew the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hiram Powers Has a Major Show
Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OhioHiram Powers Has a Major Showby Ernest Rohdenburg IIIHiram Powers: Genius in Marble, the first major exhibition devoted to one of the most celebrated 19th-century American sculptors, opened at the Taft Museum of Art in Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 18. Co-curated by Lynne D. Ambrosini, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Changing Art Market: Skinner Sells Modern
Skinner, Inc., Boston, MassachusettsA Changing Art Market: Skinner Sells Modernby Jeanne SchintoWith its latest sale of paintings on Friday, May 18, Skinner signaled its readiness to keep pace with today's art market when it offered as its cover lot Abstract in Green by Zao Wou-Ki, who was born in Beijing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Strong Results from Diverse Fine Art
Shannon's, Greenwich, ConnecticutStrong Results from Diverse Fine Artby Ed PfeifferShannon's fine art auction on April 26 at the Greenwich Civic Center in Greenwich, Connecticut, was obviously a success, achieving about $3.6 million in total sales. Gene Shannon said that figure was the fourth highest achieved in the gallery's history of ... (Read More)
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