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(Auction)NOAG Finishes 2023 in Style
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
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The December 2 and 3 estates auction at New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) showcased the types of items this well-oiled machine of a business is known for selling: fine antiques, fine art, and the best decorative elements desired by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Freeman's American Art
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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American art auctions seem to be in a holding pattern. Freeman's annual December American art sale reflected the downturn in the market for American paintings this season. In this picky market 30% of the lots offered did not find buyers.
Alasdair Nichol, chairman and director of fine ... (Read More)
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(Show)Greater Boston Show Brings Good Sales
Greater Boston Antiques Show & Sale, Wilmington, Massachusetts
Buying and selling was in the air December 2 and 3 at the Greater Boston Antiques Show & Sale at the Shriners Auditorium in Wilmington, Massachusetts. Promoter John DeSimone of Goosefare Antiques & Promotions told M.A.D. that although the gate was relatively the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Semiannual "Premier Americana" Auction
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 45th semiannual "Premier Americana" auction December 1 and 2 at the firm's galleries in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The two sessions of Americana were preceded by an auction of 18th- and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Thomas Day Desk and Mexican Silver Lead at Mebane
Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery
Midway in his career, Milton, North Carolina, furniture maker Thomas Day (1801-1861) added architectural woodwork to his shop's production. He embellished porches, parlors, and hallways with his unique interpretations of the Greek Revival style. Around 1840 Day traveled 12 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Closer Look at David Ellinger
Native Son: The Life and Art of David Ellinger by Lisa Minardi is the catalog for the retrospective exhibition of works by David Ellinger (1913-2003), a native son of Trappe, Pennsylvania, on view until July 28, 2024, in the galleries of the Dewees Tavern at Historic Trappe, at the crossroads ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Celebrating the Artistry of Folly Cove Designers
A Book Review
Located on the North Shore of Gloucester, Massachusetts, the neighborhood of Folly Cove has inspired generations of artists, including the printmakers of Folly Cove Designers, which operated from 1941 to 1969. Unlike the emerging Abstract Expressionists of post-World War II, Folly Cove Designers were trained to draw their ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Great Estates Thanksgiving Auction
Amelia Jeffers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers
A Black Friday tradition returned to The Barn at Stratford in Delaware, Ohio, November 24 and 25 when Amelia Jeffers brought a Thanksgiving-weekend sale to the original home of Garth's Auctions.
The annual sale's revival was one thing. Possibly of greater significance is that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2023
Franklin's Lost Arctic Companions Revealed
More than doubling the high estimate in the process, the set of 14 recently rediscovered and very early daguerreotype portraits depicting Sir John Franklin and other senior members of an ill-fated 1845 expedition aimed at completing the charting of a Northwest Passage between the Atlantic and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Folk-Art Watercolor Goes to Independence Seaport Museum
In 1984 a schoolboy's navigation workbook was donated to what was then the Philadelphia Maritime Museum-now the Independence Seaport Museum (ISM)-by Mary Lyman Cox Muir Cammann, whose second husband, Schuyler Van Rensselaer Cammann (1912-1991), was directly related to Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat.
The notebook did not have anything to ... (Read More)
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