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IFPDA Print Fair to Return to In-Person Event
by M.A.D. Staff

After two years of virtual- only fairs, the International Fine Print Dealers Association (IFPDA) Fair will return in person this fall to the River Pavilion at the Javits Center in New York City for its 29th edition. The October 27-30 fair will present 75 new and returning exhibitors, an increase ... (Read More)

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How to Talk to Your Kids about Antiques
by Hollie Davis & Andrew Richmond

Beneath the Surface Maybe we are reaching the life stage where our own childhood looks better, but “talking to your kids” when we were growing up seemed to be saying, “Don’t do that. I mean it!” We are not saying that that particularly worked, we suppose, but it seemed to be ... (Read More)

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Hot August Show in Deerfield
by Clayton Pennington

Deerfield Antique Show, Deerfield, New Hampshire On Monday, August 8, Gurley Antique Shows—the antiques show promotion company headed by brother and sister duo Joshua and Rachel Gurley—opened the Deerfield Antique Show to a waiting crowd at the Deerfield, New Hampshire, fairgrounds. It’s an appropriate venue. The fairgrounds easily accommodates a large antiques ... (Read More)

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New Venue, Happy Crowds at 44th Annual Show
by Pete Prunkl

Cashiers Antique Show, Cashiers, North Carolina Photos by Donna Prunkl COVID-19 and summer school conspired to force the Cashiers Antique Show from its traditional venue, the Blue Ridge School in Cashiers, North Carolina. This year it nestled into the Village Green of Cashiers, a private, nonprofit park near the crossroads of Highways ... (Read More)

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The “Warmup” Show for Antiques Week
by Fran Kramer

Milford Antiques Show, Milford, New Hampshire On a heat-wave week in the southern part of mountainous New Hampshire at the beginning of and through several days of shows for Antiques Week in New Hampshire, dealers and patrons dressed in short sleeves or no sleeves, cooling fans showed up in booths, and ... (Read More)

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Ever-Surprising Country Store Sale
by Pete Prunkl

Mebane Antique Auction Gallery, Mebane, North Carolina Photos courtesy Mebane Antique Auction Gallery Auctioneer Jon Lambert crammed over 3500 lots into his 29th annual country store sale, August 4-6. Included were bottles, fruit jars, display cases, tobacco tins, gasoline pumps, advertising signs, shipping boxes, neon trade signs, various old machines, and some ... (Read More)

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Pottery and Folk-Art Sale
by Marty Steiner

Cagle Auctions, Bogart, Georgia Photos courtesy Cagle Auctions Cagle Auctions, Bogart, Georgia, is located in northeast Georgia’s centuries-old pottery country and is also not far from Atlanta. This combination brings to auction some seldom-seen examples of pottery. This sale opened with a scarce two-gallon 12" tall decorated jar by T. J. Henry of ... (Read More)

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Magoun Collection Plays to a Full House
by Clayton Pennington

Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine Approximately 400 lots from the collection of longtime Maine dealers Jon and Carla Magoun crossed the block at Farrin’s Country Auctions in Randolph, Maine, Saturday, August 6. With no Internet bidding available, the sale packed the house with dealers and collectors. (There was a second sale ... (Read More)

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The Connoisseur’s Sale
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions Frank McNamee and David Glynn of Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts, billed their August 6 sale “The Connoisseur’s Sale,” and it was that. Their auctions, held in their quarters at 13 Atlantis Drive, the former Marconi transmitter building, are reliable sources of ... (Read More)

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MADA Donates to Maine’s First Ship
by M.A.D. Staff

On May 4 the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) donated $1000 to Maine’s First Ship, the organization that has built a 51' re-creation of the 1607 pinnace Virginia, the first English ocean-going vessel built in the Americas.  Harry Hepburn, chair of  MADA’s endowment fund, told  the Brunswick Times Record that ... (Read More)
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