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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, July 2021
Peter Blin, court cupboard, 1685-1700, oak, maple, and pine. The Wallace Nutting Collection, gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1926.
—Ongoing —Hartford, Connecticut
Humans have an innate tendency to transform the shape and decoration of even mundane items in an effort to satisfy our aesthetic aspirations. Design in the American Home, 1650 to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Jersey Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair Moves to New Location
The New Jersey Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair, produced by Tina and John Bruno of Flamingo Eventz, LLC, will be in a new location this year. The long-running show will be held on Friday, December 6, 5-9 p.m., and Saturday December 7, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at The Bethwood, an events ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artist--and M.A.D. Cartoonist--Wins First Prize in Art Contest
John Stinger of Stewartsville, New Jersey, who contributes cartoons to Maine Antique Digest, was named first-prize winner in the Warren County (New Jersey) Seniors Arts Program contest for his oil painting executed on location in Bucks County. Stinger was awarded top honors in the professional oil painting category. The painting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farrin’s Sells the Kimball Collection
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Newburgh, Maine
“It’s like a lumberjack going at a big wood lot.” Those words were from Randolph, Maine, auctioneer Rusty Farrin, shortly before his firm’s two-day single-owner on-site sale of the Amos Kimball estate in Newburgh, Maine, July 29 and 30.
The sale was less “wood lot” and more ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Auction at Nye & Company
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Nye & Company
When Christie’s and Sotheby’s get large collections of Americana for sale, they skim the finest examples for New York City sales and often refer the rest to a regional auction house or invite regional auctioneers to compete for the consignment. That ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show
For 63 years, there has been an antiques show in Philadelphia providing a treasure hunt for the finest things money can buy. In its long history, this grand bazaar under a succession of show managers has moved from the 103rd Engineer Battalion Armory (now the Drexel Armory) to the Convention ... (Read More)
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(Show)Long Lines at the York Antiques Show
Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale, York, Pennsylvania
There was a grand gathering of the clan of ardent collectors at the 185th Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show and Sale on September 19 and 20, 2025, in York, Pennsylvania. They lined up early, long before the doors opened at 10 a.m. ... (Read More)
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()Publications of Arthur and Sybil Kern
Publications of Arthur and Sybil Kern As compiled by Leslie and Peter Warwick
1. Arthur B. and Sybil Kern, “Who was Benjamin Greenleaf?” Antiques World, September 1981, vol. III, no. 9, pp. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colonial Williamsburg Acquires Rare Portrait
There are only six known portraits by artist William Dering. Now, after receiving the portrait Joyce Armistead Booth (Mrs. Mordecai Booth), the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has five of them in its collection.
“Executed in saturated, well-preserved reds, blues, and golds, and measuring more than four feet in height, this likeness of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum Buys Friedrich Painting
The Saint Louis Art Museum has acquired Sunburst in the Riesengebirge, a 10" x 12½" oil on canvas by German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The museum purchased the painting on December 12, 2018, at Sotheby’s in London for $2,720,095 (includes buyer’s premium). The estimate was $626,750/877,450.
According to the museum, ... (Read More)
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