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(Book Review)American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum
Dedicated to the memory of Robert L. McNeil Jr. (1915-2010), a museum trustee, passionate collector of American art, and benefactor of scholarship, American Silver in the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Volume I, Makers A-F is the long-awaited first of four volumes to be published over the next five or six ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Starr and Arnhold Collections
Sotheby’s, New York City
The Starr and Arnhold Collections
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
Two stellar collections of ceramics offered at Sotheby’s on successive days were not ignored by an international group of collectors and dealers. “Wedgwood & Beyond: English Ceramics from the Starr Collection” sold on October 23, 2019, for a total ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Fired for Ephemera
Officer Charles Anderson, a member of the Muskegon, Michigan, police department for 22 years, was fired on September 12. The cause of his termination was a framed piece of ephemera Anderson had purchased for $20 to $30 at the Shipshewana Flea Market in Indiana.
The piece of ephemera, a blank Ku ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Shot Heard Round the Auction World
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Morphy Auctions
Morphy Auctions’ October 22 and 23, 2019, blockbuster firearms sale in Denver, Pennsylvania, saw over $10 million worth of historical firepower change hands. The headliner was a Dutch flintlock well known in the world of antique guns that had been owned by a soldier ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Firearms Auction
Poulin Antiques and Auctions, Inc., Fairfield, Maine
Firearms Auction
by Mark Sisco
Before the October 18-21, 2019, firearms auction in Fairfield, Maine, Nick Poulin, chief operating officer of Poulin Antiques and Auctions, Inc., now in the third generation of Julia family management, told me that the company can now lay claim to being ... (Read More)
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(Show)The CSADA 45th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
St. Charles, Illinois
Should anyone reading this wonder if the 45th fall Fox Valley Antiques Show, held October 19 and 20, 2019, was successful, consider what was told to us by a show dealer: One longtime customer came both days of the show and bought 17 items, including a lap desk, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Hurd Sword Seized Hours Before Sale
Photos courtesy Nadeau’s Auction Gallery
Bidders were settled in their seats, and the phones and Internet were ready for bids at Nadeau’s Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, on October 19 for the sale of military and naval objects from the Mars & Neptune Trust, when the police showed up. Their quarry—lot ... (Read More)
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(Show)Continued Growth and Renaming for Virginia Pickers
Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
In October 2018 we were introduced to the Virginia Pickers show. We have followed the birth and early growth of this central Virginia grass-roots twice-yearly event that is now in its second full year. The third Virginia Pickers show was held at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Mars & Neptune Trust Sale
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Nadeau’s Auction Gallery
The inaugural sale of the Mars & Neptune Trust on October 19, 2019, at Nadeau’s Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, brought to market a meticulously curated collection of museum-quality military objects from the 17th century to the first half of the 19th ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, November 2019
Harley Bartlett, Moon Glow, oil.
—Through November 15 —Old Lyme, Connecticut
The Lyme Art Association (LAA) presents its 2019 New England Landscape Exhibition, focusing on the “subject matter that inspired our founders, the Lyme Impressionists. Contented cows, bucolic pastures, and harbor scenes are popular subjects in this exhibition,” stated LAA’s gallery manager, ... (Read More)
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