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Fall Antiques at Rhinebeck
We have known promoter Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions for decades, have covered dozens of his shows, and are always amazed by his innovations. We thought he had used up his bag of ideas by now, but he found one of his best for the November ... (Read More)
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Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
From November 12 to 15, 2020, it was four days of continuous selling at Thomaston Place Auction Galleries in Thomaston, Maine. With 1730-plus lots up for grabs altogether, about 1350 successfully found new homes over the four-day affair. Day one presented the lower end of ... (Read More)
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Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
The antiques-at-auction industry continues to weather COVID-19 like a boss. The numbers don’t lie; buyers of antiques are fine with bidding remotely, be it online, absentee, by proxy, or by phone, and auction houses continue to present gorgeous auctions filled ... (Read More)
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Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 39th semiannual premier Americana auction November 12, 13, and 14, 2020, at the firm’s gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. The three-day event kicked off on Thursday with an auction of ... (Read More)
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Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Antique and collectible toys galore once again filled gallery space during Bertoia’s annual fall sale, held November 12 and 13, 2020. Loads of consignments made up this two-day event along with items from the collections of Bob Merck, Jay Schoedinger, and Larry Brethauer. ... (Read More)
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Swann Galleries’ November 12, 2020, sale of prints in New York City was led by New York, a scarce 1925 lithograph by Louis Lozowick (1892-1973) that sold for $81,250 (includes buyer’s premium), an auction record for any print by the artist. The buyer was a collector.
New York, circa 1925, 113/8" ... (Read More)
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Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co.
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois, held a jewelry, silver, and objects of vertu auction on November 12, 2020. A large portion of the sale was sourced from the Paul and Terry Somerson collection of 20th- and 21st-century metalwork and jewelry. John Walcher, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
A simple kindness helped make possible the two-day auction of western Pennsylvania stoneware and American antiques held November 11 and 12, 2020, by Cowan’s Auctions of Cincinnati, Ohio.
The single-owner collection consisted of material from the estate of Louis Hahn of Pennsylvania. Hahn had been ... (Read More)
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Freemans’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
If these were normal times, Freeman’s sale of 191 lots of Americana on November 10, 2020, might have been part of its annual fall Americana sale. That auction has traditionally taken place a few days after the Delaware Antiques Show, when dealers and collectors are in ... (Read More)
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Plan B by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
The Young Collector
If we have learned anything from the past few months (please, let us have learned something), it might be that our plans are not plans. Our plans are all too often more like ideas. We have ideas about what we want, ideas about how things will go, and ... (Read More)
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