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(Issue Story)As a Collector, What I Will Never Take for Granted Again
Thornton Wilder’s quintessentially American play Our Town, first presented in 1938, depicts an American small town in New England, Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire, in the early 20th century and the daily lives of its residents. The play is powerful and earned Wilder a Pulitzer Prize for drama. In Our Town, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Scam Artist with Fake Check Hits Virginia Shop
“On Friday morning, right when we opened, a nicely dressed gentleman came in,” said Jay Gates of the events on May 8 at his shop, Gates Antiques in Midlothian, Virginia. “He was African American, probably 6'1", 6'2", well built, early mid-50s—built like a former football player.
“We had a lovely thirty-minute ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old-Fashioned Good Vibes
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith, Inc.
Yes, Virginia, the spirit of the antiques business is alive and well, at least it was on a warm July 1, a Wednesday, in the tiny New Hampshire village of Plainfield, where Bill Smith and Ken Labnon shared the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ammi Phillips Volumes Updated
In the year that has passed since David Allaway published My People: The Works of Ammi Phillips, free to all online via ISSUU (https://issuu.com/n2xb), he has made some changes. The book is a lot bigger. He has added more biographical information to Volume I and revised the pictorial layout in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Goosefare Show Cancellations
According to & Promotions, the John DeSimone 20th Wofells Goosefare Antiques Show Antiques scheduled for June 28 at Laudholm Farm in Wells, Maine; the 40th Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show, scheduled for July 25 and 26 at the Camden Hills Regional High School in Rockport, Maine; and the 52nd New ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Banks Sale in Asheville in September
William Nathaniel Banks’s collection of Federal and Classical furniture, lighting, 19th-century American paintings, and the accoutrements of gracious living that filled the Gordon-Banks house in Newnan, Georgia, some 40 miles southwest of Atlanta, will be sold at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 12. The collection was assembled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)There Is No Substitute for Americana
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
In unsettled times it is said that we instinctively return to that which is both familiar and secure. And in these times of uncertainty it is not surprising that we enthusiastically return to Americana. If the 38th ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Daniel Buck Has a Prior Engagement
Daniel Buck Auctions, Lisbon Falls, Maine
Daniel Buck’s June 27 auction in Lisbon Falls, Maine, was one of those sales that could be divided neatly into two parts. Part A, the Prior-Hamblen school painting, and Part B, everything else. There were lots of good buys in art, furniture, folk art, and ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)We Don’t Know
The Young Collector
Humans are really bad at not knowing exactly what to do. We are pretty sure that at the current moment none of you needs us to provide examples of this. To be fair, many of us do not like to be told what to do either, thus condemning ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)How to Lose $20 Million in Less Than a Minute
In March 2018 Christie’s agreed to sell the Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) painting known as Le Marin (The Sailor) on behalf of Sierra Fine Art LLC, Las Vegas, Nevada. Christie’s acquired the painting and planned to sell it at a May 15 auction at its New York City gallery that year.
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