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(Young Collectors)Notes from Nashville
The Young Collector
Back in our early days in the auction business, every year in February, and sometimes in October, we would make a trip to Nashville. We see now that we were getting on-the-job logistics training. We would go down with a truck full of deliveries and return with a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historical Society Deaccessions Rare Washington Medals and Offers Freedom Box
In a first-page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Sunday, February 16, Stephan Salisbury, staff cultural writer, questioned the decision of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania (HSP) to sell a collection of commemorative medals given to the HSP in 1897 by William Spohn Baker (1824-1897), a legendary collector of all ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of June and Larry Greenwald
Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Treadway Gallery
Tiffany lamps from the collection of June and Larry Greenwald dominated the March 22 auction conducted online and absentee by Treadway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio. The single-owner auction was a mix of high-quality decorative arts typical of June Greenwald Antiques of Cleveland. From a humble ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stay-Home Order Not a Problem for Art Auction
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
While many industries scrambled to create an online presence amid the COVID-19 outbreak and the closing of nonessential businesses to public foot traffic, those in the auction industry who have made online options available to their clientele for years were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and Country Americana
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s Auctions
This one wasn’t normal. No sane individual would have expected it to be. When Cowan’s Auctions held a two-day sale of Americana on March 19 and 20 in Cincinnati, Ohio, the doors were locked and the showroom floor was empty. Ohio’s statewide stay-at-home order ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fortuna Navigates COVID-19, Achieves Positive Results
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Fortuna
The practices of social distancing and sheltering in place had just gone country-wide in the COVID-19 pandemic when Fortuna held its fine jewels auction on March 19 in New York City. All nonessential businesses in New York City were officially shut down just three days ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Scot M. Levitt, vice president and director of fine arts at Bonhams, said plans to postpone the March 17 California and Western art auction or to go online-only were being considered “moment by moment, as the sale was taking place.” As it turned out, the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale at CRN Auctions
CRN Auctions, Inc., Cambridge, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy CRN Auctions
CRN Auctions’ spring sale was held on March 15 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. With the coronavirus in mind, staff had rearranged the gallery. Gone were the neat rows of chairs divided by a center aisle. In their place chairs were staggered at angles about ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hilliard & Co. Enjoys Continued Growth
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
With more than 50 cataloged sales under their belts, André and Nicholas Hilliard are seeing sale-over-sale and year-over-year growth at their Madison, Virginia, auction gallery. The most recent auction at Hilliard & Co. was held on March 14 and consisted of more ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buatta Collection at Stair
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York
Photos courtesy Stair Galleries
Auctioneer Colin Stair of Hudson, New York, remembers a time, not so long ago, “when the whole of New York was decorated in chintz and floral prints.” When he worked in the English furniture department at Sotheby’s he often found himself in Mario ... (Read More)
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