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(Show)A Small Show That Offers a Lot
A Country Gathering Antique Show, Elizabethtown, Indiana
In its 23rd year, A Country Gathering Antique Show was held June 10 in Elizabethtown, Indiana. The show, promoted by Judy Nichols and run from her property, was a relatively small affair, with fewer than 20 booths under a tent and in open-air spaces.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Clocks of S-Town
A Book Review
After the 1995 publication of Dava Sobel's bestseller Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, my clock-repair customers regularly asked me if I knew about this book. Even to the present day, they still want to repeat to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Boston Auction
Doyle, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle's new Boston auction gallery, which opened January 10 in the Back Bay, was the site of its inaugural auction June 8, introducing itself to the public.
Doyle's Boston gallery is located in the heart of Back Bay at Clarendon Street between Newbury Street and Commonwealth Avenue. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2023
A few British salerooms have taken of late to declining to reveal the prices achieved in what are, in fact, public auctions, which makes rather a nonsense of the term, but plenty of other auctioneers continue to reveal what they have achieved in the way of sales, and it is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Partners in Withington Auction Form New Entity
In the summer of 2021, it was announced that Hillsborough, New Hampshire-based Withington Auction, Inc., had added new partners: Kenneth Labnon, Gary Yeaton, and Mike Reopel. The three new partners added sales of general line antiques-American furniture, clocks, and decorative arts-to the auction house.
Marcia and Larry Leizure, owners of Withington ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Charity Auctions
Don Henley of the rock band Eagles no doubt saw what Heritage Auctions called the "staggering" images of lines of cars waiting in Dallas for donated meals in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. When asked to contribute a signed guitar for a Heritage-organized auction to benefit the North ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Landscape Makes $2.45 Million
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman's
After a ten-minute bidding battle between auctioneer Alasdair Nichol executing an absentee bid and vice president and senior art specialist David Weiss on the phone, this large Maine landscape, Jetty Tree, by N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), oil on canvas, 481/4" x 40", painted circa 1936, sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show
Lewisville, Indiana
The summer edition of A Gathering on the Olde National Road Antique Show, held June 2 and 3 in Lewisville, Indiana, has set the event on solid footing.
After the show made a successful debut in December with 20 dealers, the promoters-Pam Wise, Tom and Sue Saunders, and Richard McKnight-began ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
For the last ten years, the Penn Dry Goods Market, a textile and antiques show with textile history lectures, has benefited the Schwenkfelder Museum and Library's general operating fund. On June 2 and 3, 23 dealers filled the second-floor galleries with needlework, quilts, coverlets, woven objects, linens, yardage, sewing ... (Read More)
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(Show)Show Runs into a Monster Problem
MADA Spring Antiques Show, Topsham, Maine
The third annual MADA Spring Antiques Show, produced by the Maine Antiques Dealers Association, was held June 3 at the Topsham Fairgrounds in Topsham, Maine. A series of unfortunate events resulted in low attendance for this semiannual show.
The first was the weather. The show was ... (Read More)
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