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(Auction)Bidders Undeterred by Pandemic or Remote Format of African Americana Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
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"I am still somewhat dumbfounded that we managed to pull off a strong sale given the circumstances,” director of books and manuscripts Rick Stattler wrote in an e-mail shortly after Swann’s annual printed and manuscript African Americana sale on May 7. The auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scottish Gold Center Bowl Tops Sale
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
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In the midst of the pandemic and diminishing interest in sterling silver flatware and decorative pieces, at least by young people, Heritage Auctions’ sale of fine silver and objects of vertu highlighted bidder enthusiasm and bested sales estimates.
The May 5 sale in Dallas, ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Staying at Home
The Young Collector
We write this in our first week of Ohio’s mandatory “Stay at home” order. “Stay at home,” Ohio Governor Mike DeWine thinks, and we agree, sounds a good bit less ominous than “Shelter in place,” which conjures visions of 1960s elementary school kids crowding under their desks. We ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Shrubsole’s Terzameron
As the coronavirus takes hold and the world faces these challenging times, antiques dealers wonder what they can do to keep in touch with collectors and not be forgotten. Tim Martin, Jim McConnaughy, and Ben Miller of S.J. Shrubsole, dealers in antique silver in New York City, have come up ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Executive Director for Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center
Beth Twiss Houting will be the new executive director for the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. She will begin on May 4.
For the last nine years, Houting has been the senior director of programs and services at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, where she oversaw on-site, online, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)In Pursuit of History
A Book Review
"H. Richard Dietrich Jr. loved to collect,” writes his son, H. Richard Dietrich III, in In Pursuit of History: A Lifetime Collecting American Art and Artifacts, the book about his father, who was “driven by an abiding love of history” and “a thirst for discovery.”
H. Richard Dietrich Jr. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Modern Native American Art Sells Well at Hybrid Auction
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
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Ingmars Lindbergs, Bonhams’ Native American art department director, called the May 1 auction of modern Native American art Bonhams’ “first hybrid sale.” He explained: “The shutdown happened four days before our auction, which had been scheduled for March 23. The catalog was out, and we ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Broadway Cooler Sells for $480,000 at Absentee-Only Auction
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
"It far exceeded our expectations,” stated Mark Zipp following his family’s absentee sale that ended May 1. The Zipps of Crocker Farm converted what would have been their regular live sale, scheduled for March 21, to an Internet, phone, and absentee auction, which ran ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Strange Bedfellows: Samuel Colt’s Other Claim to Fame
Who would have thought that the man who started the greatest munitions factory in America also created an innovative company by producing artfully intricate wicker furniture? This is the story about Samuel Colt’s pioneering wicker furniture business in Hartford, Connecticut, called the Colt Willow-Ware Manufacturing Company.
Most people know that Samuel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shannon’s Spring Auction
Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Shannon’s
The new watchword for auction house websites and ads for antiques shows is “T.B.D.” (“to be determined”). Dates and places all depend on COVID-19.
The spring sale at Shannon’s in Milford, Connecticut, normally a full-on event with live, phone, and online bidding, became an ... (Read More)
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