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Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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Rago Auctions, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago Auctions
To begin the fall season, Rago/Wright, auctioneers of modern and contemporary art and design, added a pop culture auction brand, Landry Pop Auctions, which on October 8 hosted “Icon and Heroes,” a sale of comics, trading cards, and video games. Other focused sales ... (Read More)
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Joining its long-running flea markets in Dumbo and Chelsea, Brooklyn Flea is returning to North Brooklyn with BQ Flea, a new neighborhood market under the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE) for four Sundays in October—October 6, 13, 20, and 27—from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
With the goal of bridging four adjacent North ... (Read More)
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Ledbetter Folk Art Auction Gallery, Gibsonville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Ledbetter Folk Art Auction Gallery
Until March 2025 all sales at Ledbetter Folk Art Auction Gallery will be online. The issue is inventory or rather overabundant inventory. Space previously reserved for seating is now a warehouse for multiple large collections. Phone and ... (Read More)
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Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Now in its 17th year, Swann Galleries’ African American art department sold $3,154,557 worth of art that spanned 100 years in its October 3 sale. The department offered landscapes, still-life paintings, abstractions, drawings, sculpture, prints, and works in mixed media. Of the ... (Read More)
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Among the holdings of the Dorset Museum & Art Gallery in Dorchester, England, is a large collection of natural history. On September 17, it also had an au naturel collection—members of the British Naturists Society.
The British Naturists Society hosted a private event at the museum that allowed its members to ... (Read More)
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Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter Auctions
“He was an eclectic collector who had a lot of stuff.” The comment came from Aron Packer, the director and specialist of fine and Outsider art for Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago, as he commented on the person ... (Read More)
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Beneath the Surface
Life gets incrementally easier with kids. It is like the reverse of that apocryphal boiling frog story: things getting ever-so-slowly better—instead of worse—until one day you suddenly notice that they are better. (Yeah, yeah, don’t write to tell us how it’s going to start getting worse again now ... (Read More)
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Toomey & Co., Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Toomey & Co. To grasp the impact of a two-layered sale held at Toomey & Co. in Chicago on October 1, one must first understand “the network.” Ergo, a brief tutorial is in order.
This particular network is a relatively new business entity that links ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Joel White is a third-generation Mainer and antiques dealer who now lives in an 1830s brick farmhouse located on the same road in Waldoboro, Maine, where he grew up. “There used to be a brick factory down the road, and the clay for the brick came from the pond,” he ... (Read More)
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