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Finding new collectors is expected to be a major push in the industry in the coming months. In early May, a group of around 30 movers and shakers in the market got together in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to brainstorm on ways to attract new blood to what is perceived to be ... (Read More)
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Habitat for Humanity, a nonprofit organization that builds simple, decent, affordable housing in partnership with people in need, is the new sponsor of Barn Star Productions' Antiques in a Cow Pasture antiques show in Salisbury, Connecticut, on September 9.
Show promoter Frank Gaglio said, "Habitat for Humanity... has a solid foothold ... (Read More)
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The Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama, a monumental (22' x 376') early 1880's oil painting by Paul Dominique Philippoteaux and nearly identical to the one displayed at the Gettysburg National Military Park, has been acquired by a group of North Carolina investors.
According to a press release, Larry D. Laster, a Winston-Salem, ... (Read More)
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Chris Jussel has been named head of the decorative arts departments at Freeman's in Philadelphia, according to Beau Freeman, chairman, and Paul Roberts, president.
"I will be overseeing and assisting department heads in Americana, English and Continental furniture, twentieth century, and Asian arts," said Jussel in a phone interview. "It is ... (Read More)
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Patricia Kane, curator of American decorative arts at Yale University Art Gallery, reports in the May issue of The Magazine Antiques on the progress of Yale University's ongoing project to record Rhode Island furniture makers and their products created between 1636 and 1800. She has added the name Ichabod Cole ... (Read More)
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(Show)
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Dealers competed for collectors' dollars in three locations during Antiques Week in Philadelphia in April. The five-day Philadelphia Antiques Show at the 33rd Street Armory attracted the largest crowd, and dealers there did the most business. Barn Star Productions' Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show on April 13-15, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
by Alan M. Petrillo
Classique Erotique Auctions, Phoenix, Arizona, conducted its first-ever sale of erotic material in the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale on January 27 and scored. Amanda Collins, gallery director of the associated Martin Gordon Gallery in Phoenix, said they "attracted a great deal of different people." She added ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
by Fran Kramer
Just 18 hours after being on the world's longest flight, from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, in 18 hours, I joined a full house of other auction-goers on April 7 in Leicester, New York, for Samuel Cottone's last major sale at Peter's Party Complex.
Others had traveled from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
by Don Johnson
There was something different about Cowan's sale of furniture, paintings, and decorative arts, held on February 17 in Cincinnati, Ohio. With a gross of more than $974,000, the auction looked good on paper, but the event had a certain lackluster feel.
C. Wesley Cowan, the company's president and principal ... (Read More)
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by Beth Pulsipher
The Ann Arbor (Michigan) Antiques Market is now under new management. Beginning its 39th season, the show had been managed by longtime dealers Nancy and Woody Straub for the past eight years. In the fall of 2006, show owner Tom Monaghan gifted the show's proceeds to the Father ... (Read More)
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