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(Show)Historic Setting Is Boost for Annual Show
Zoar Harvest Festival & Antiques Show, Zoar, Ohio
The tents were a dead giveaway. Rounding the corner into Zoar, Ohio, during the last weekend in July, the huge white tents bordering cornfields could mean only one thing. The 46th annual Zoar Harvest Festival was underway, and with it antiques. Clarification: great ... (Read More)
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(Auction)John McInnis Has a Field Day
John McInnis Auctioneers, East Boothbay, Maine
On July 27 and 28 John McInnis auctioned the contents of the 18th-century Colonial homestead known as the Murray House in East Boothbay, Maine. With help from a personal connection to the owners, McInnis was able to snatch it away from other more local auctioneers ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Man of Sorrow: A New Bronze Face of Lincoln
Few members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ever win an Oscar. The success rate for sculptors is even slimmer. Robert Merrell Gage (1892-1981) did not win an Oscar himself, but his stunning display of narrated sculpture-making in the 1956 film The Face of Lincoln was responsible for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Migration on the Cape
Decoys Unlimited, Inc., Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Decoys Unlimited
Part three of the annual summer decoy migration took place July 25 and 26 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where Judy and Ted Harmon’s Decoys Unlimited, West Barnstable, Massachusetts, continued the auction of prized decoys migrating from one collection to another. Collectors know the birds, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Substantial sections of this “Letter” are devoted to matters Russian, among them pictures, revolutionary ceramics, and a Fabergé menagerie, and to a spectacular Tompion clock with royal connections that made close on $2 million.
Chairs, ceramics, and other Chinese treasures are also represented, along with a fine Modigliani portrait and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scrimshaw Lives at Marine Auction
Eldred’s Auctioneers and Appraisers, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
The question of the day before Eldred’s July 25 marine sale was “Will it or won’t it?” Three tornados had passed through the area, knocking down trees and disrupting power. For Eldred’s staff, the prospect of a maritime sale conducted with only ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Plover Trio Stars in Sporting Sale
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Copley Fine Art Auctions
Everything was in place for a booming sporting art sale at Copley Fine Art Auctions on July 25 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, and no one was disappointed. The sale brought over $3 million. A large part of that was the $1,140,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Amusing Style Selections
Wright, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Wright
When a sale is announced as “The Amusing Style,” one has to wonder. Amusing in what way? As in ha-ha? Perhaps as offbeat and unusual? Or maybe silly?
Fortunately, the July 24 sale at Wright in Chicago came with an explanation. The expression is a construct articulated ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sheldon Peck: Footsteps of His Life
Lombard Historical Society, Lombard, Illinois
Sheldon Peck would head out from his Babcock’s Grove, Illinois, homestead clean-shaven and with little in his pockets but would return with a full beard and a full wallet from painting portraits, mostly of contemporaries in the antislavery and social justice movements.
The itinerant painter earned $50 ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Long Island’s Leading Silversmith
A Book Review
This book about the life and work of Southampton, New York, silversmith and entrepreneur Elias Pelletreau (1726-1810) makes the past come alive. It will give those who read it something to think about when stuck in traffic on Long Island’s Route 27 on the way to the Hamptons. ... (Read More)
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