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(Auction)"Art & Design" at Toomey & Co.
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois
On March 8, just before the coronavirus clobbered the U.S., Toomey & Co. held a scheduled "Art & Design" sale that totaled roughly over $1 million. Shortly after the sale, Toomey vice president and senior specialist John Walcher told us that exact results were difficult ... (Read More)
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(Show)Great Country and Americana from Respected Dealers
Country Spirit Antique Show, Arcola, Illinois
A large painted buttocks basket sold early and often during the Country Spirit Antique Show, held March 5-7 at three locations in Arcola, Illinois. In a way, the basket exemplified the overall show; buyers were eager to find something special whenever and wherever they could.
The ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Gathering on the Prairie Antique Show
Arthur, Illinois
Consider what came before. When A Gathering on the Prairie Antique Show opened its doors to a shoulder-to-shoulder crowd at 8 a.m. on Saturday, March 7, at the Otto Center in Arthur, Illinois, Antiques Week in Central Illinois was already a little gray around the temples. At least for ... (Read More)
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(Show)Rural Life Show Draws a Crowd
Rural Life Antique Show, Tuscola, Illinois
Friday morning, an hour before the start of the Rural Life Antique Show, held March 6 and 7 in Tuscola, Illinois, a steady, cold wind sent oak leaves scurrying sideways across Main Street, moving with a sense of urgency. It was several weeks before the ... (Read More)
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(Show)Homesteaders on the Prairie Antique Show
Arthur, Illinois
I've got a tiger by the tail, it's plain to see; I won't be much when you get through with me. Well, I'm a losin' weight and a turnin' mighty pale; Looks like I've got a tiger by the tail.
On the opening day of Homesteaders on the Prairie Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Highlights at Fontaine's
Photos courtesy Fontaine's Auction Gallery
On March 7 Fontaine's Auction and estate auction in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In a post-sale chat about these four auction highlights, John Fontaine said, "I would say we were happy with the results, as all these items brought over twice the high estimate."
Several objects had been consigned ... (Read More)
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(Show)Good Crowd at the New York Book Fair's Satellite Show Despite State of Emergency
New York City Book and Ephemera Fair
"The attendance was strong for both days," show producer Marvin Getman of Impact Events Group wrote in an e-mail after his sixth annual New York City Book and Ephemera Fair, held in Wallace Hall at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Met Acquires David Drake Storage Jar
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has purchased a stoneware storage jar by the enslaved black potter and poet David Drake (c. 1801-1870s). Made at the Stony Bluff Manufactory pottery site in Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, in 1858, the alkaline-glazed vessel is signed, dated, and inscribed by Drake. There are ... (Read More)
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(Show)Book-Love in the Time of Cholera
New York International Antiquarian Book Fair, New York City
Love in the Time of Cholera, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez's tale of magical realistic romance, published in Spanish in 1985 as El amor en los tiempos del colera, was on my mind as I approached the steps of the Park Avenue ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Passage: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Juan Hamilton
Sotheby's, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby's
It took a village of Sotheby's specialists to bring "Passage," a sale of art and objects from the personal collection of Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), to market. Culling expertise from the departments of American art, African and oceanic art, books and manuscripts, Chinese works of art, ... (Read More)
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