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Tuscola, Illinois
Rural Life Antique Show featured 24 dealers at two locations in Tuscola, Illinois, November 8 and 9. The show was once again part of Antiques Week in Central Illinois, which by the numbers breaks down to two days, three towns, and four shows in seven venues.
Deborah Fisher of Lebanon, ... (Read More)
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Arthur, Illinois
There is no sense hedging around the elephant that was in the room at Homesteaders Antiques & Folk Art Show, held November 8 and 9 in the Arthur Sale Barn in Arthur, Illinois. Simply put, the show’s dealer count was down significantly. Promoter Terry Whaley knew it. Buyers could ... (Read More)
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Arthur, Illinois
Sunrise on November 9 in central Illinois came with a vivid wash of colors—blue, red, orange, yellow, and purple, one tumbling after another on a playground of clouds. It seemed a perfectly delightful omen.
That same morning saw the opening of A Gathering on the Prairie, the fourth and final ... (Read More)
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Bonhams will relocate its New York City headquarters from 580 Madison Avenue to Steinway Hall at 111 West 57th Street by late 2025. Steinway Hall was designed in 1925 by New York City architects Warren & Wetmore. The new U.S. flagship will feature an 80' glass atrium, four levels of ... (Read More)
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A Book Review
This children’s book is based on the true story of a little girl’s friendship with an injured Confederate soldier recuperating in her family’s house during the Civil War. Set in Culpeper, Virginia, in 1862, Sophia’s Gift tells the story of how the Strauss family struggles to survive as ... (Read More)
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With new stories, new narratives, and new objects, American art, history, and culture at the Metropolitan Museum, New York City, is “at its best!” declared Max Hollein, the Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and chief executive officer, to a lively crowd of donors, collectors, dealers, and curators who gathered in ... (Read More)
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An Ohio man has agreed to plead guilty to a federal criminal charge for trafficking a stolen Andy Warhol print worth at least $175,000.
Brian Alec Light, 58, of Hudson, Ohio, formerly a resident of downtown Los Angeles, is expected to plead guilty to one count of interstate transportation of stolen ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Beware the Undead by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
Did you know that not a small number of people consider antiques to be “creepy?” They do! “Dead people’s stuff.” Old houses with creaky floors, beds people probably died in, blanket chests that held trousseaus for ghostly brides, samplers and quilts made by the “dead” hands of women who died ... (Read More)
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Canfield, Ohio
For many “the holidays” refers to the time between Thanksgiving and the end of the year. For collectors of any and all things holiday, that time period is way too limiting. Christmas and Hanukkah, yes, but also New Year’s Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving—any day when ... (Read More)
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Grogan & Company, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Grogan & Company
The gallery at Grogan & Company in Boston for the November 2 and 3 sales was ablaze with color and sparkle from the objects on view: fine art and jewels. The auctions, with live, online, and telephone bidding, brought energetic competition. Each ... (Read More)
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