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(Auction)Circus, Sideshow, and Oddities Sale
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
A smart bidder can find just about anything in a Chicago auction, from a Meissen monkey band to prime mid-century furniture. But one auction house has traveled a different path. Tucked into a North Side neighborhood in the upscale Lincoln ... (Read More)
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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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(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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(Computer Article)E-mail Tips and Scams
An imitation phishing e-mail like the real ones.
Computer Column #317
John P. Reid, [email protected]
It is all about e-mail this month.
Archive E-mail
Many of us save received e-mail messages for years as transaction records or for their information content. I have e-mail to and from companies written about in this column, fellow collectors, ... (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)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 ... (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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