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(Auction)The Horans' Pewter Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Robert Horan (1928-2022) was the national ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Curious Plan
How does a relatively new museum get objects? In Tennessee, two legislators want to raid the Tennessee State Museum's storage area.
On January 30 a bill was introduced in the Tennessee State Legislature that would require the Tennessee State Museum to turn over all artifacts relating to the Confederate States of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Quest for the Chest: Madeline Yale Wynne's Masterpiece
Photographs by Penny Leveritt, courtesy Historic Deerfield
An inadvertent encounter with an unassuming turn-of-the-20th-century photograph of a 1903 bride's chest, tucked in among hundreds of other images, prompted a two-decades-long search to bring the chest home. The improbable, against-all-odds hunt led eventually to a fund-raising campaign for the linen-style chest's acquisition ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Shop Raided
Antiques Shop Raided
Executing a search warrant, officers from Hawaii's Department of Land and Natural Resources and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confiscated dozens of items from the Antique Freak shop in Wailuku, Hawaii, on May 23.
Shane Rosberg, 42, of Kula was arrested and charged with 26 counts of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minardi Named New Editor of Americana Insights
Scholar, author, and curator Lisa Minardi will serve as the new editor of Americana Insights, a publication focused on 18th- and 19th-century Americana and American folk art. Minardi succeeds founding editor Robert Shaw, who retired at the start of 2023.
Minardi serves as executive director of Historic Trappe and its Center ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sunday in the Country with Rusty
Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
At 10:30 on Sunday morning, May 21, auctioneer Rusty Farrin of Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, banged his gavel to begin the firm's Americana, firearms, and sporting goods auction.
The story wasn't the stuff-there was plenty of salable midrange Americana. The story wasn't that Farrin, who rarely ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nashville Visits Springfield
Springfield Extravaganza, Springfield, Ohio
There was a new twist to the Springfield Extravaganza, held May 19-21 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ohio. Promoter Jon Jenkins set aside space in one of the main buildings to house dealers from the Nashville Show, which he manages in Tennessee. The concept offered ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Celebrates Its 70th Installment
Fishersville Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
There is very little new to say about the Fishersville Antiques Expo. That's a good thing. Heritage Promotions, owned by Raymond and Martha Stokes, along with their daughter, Lesley Bartram, seems to have hit on an excellent format and mix of dealers that appear to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Landmark Sale: The Barrow Collection
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Jim Barrow made a living giving advice. He was cofounder and executive vice president of Dallas-based Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney and Strauss (BHMS), the investment firm that managed a third of Vanguard's Windsor II funds. From 1985 to 2019, BHMS rewarded investors with an ... (Read More)
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(Show)Madison Does It Again!
Madison, Georgia
One of the best Americana-focused small antiques shows held its 22nd annual session May 18-20 in Madison, Georgia. Following its standard format of a Thursday evening preview followed by two full days, the Madison Antiques Show & Sale offered 21 dealers' inventories to potential buyers. Dealers came from all ... (Read More)
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