(Auction)
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle’s sporting art sale on February 13 coincided with the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show and the opening of the American Kennel Club Museum of the Dog in midtown Manhattan. The catalyst for the 238-lot sale was the collection of James W. Smith (1941-2018) of ... (Read More)
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In August Frank Gaglio and Barn Star Productions will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Mid-Week in Manchester Antiques Show. After a quarter century, there’s a big change coming. The show will now be held on one day only, instead of two.
Dubbed “Mid-Week One-Day Antiques Fair,” it will be held ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Private sales by auction houses remain shrouded in mystery. Heritage Auctions, based in Dallas, Texas, has recently made a move to increase transparency in the antiques market—opening up a window into private sales.
Heritage Auctions, which had $815 million in sales in 2017, has an innovative Make Offer to Owner (MOtO) ... (Read More)
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Antiques dealer Keith Foster, 60, of Upperville, Virginia, pleaded guilty on December 19, 2018, to violating the Lacey Act by illegally selling and transporting between $250,000 and $500,000 worth of items made from endangered species, migratory birds, and other wildlife.
Foster was the owner of The Outpost LLC, Middleburg, Virginia. The ... (Read More)
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The auction world has changed. In early January, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers from Chicago and Cowan’s Auctions from Cincinnati merged into Hindman LLC (see p. 131), and Ronald Bourgeault closed Northeast Auctions in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and established Bourgeault-Horan Antiquarians & Associates LLC.
Bourgeault established the new firm with his partner, James ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Part IV of IV
In 1925 New York University (NYU) received from private collector James Arthur (1842-1930) the gift of a horological collection consisting of clocks, watches, sundials, and other time-measuring devices, along with a library and an endowment. Today, NYU retains the library, the endowment, and about a dozen of ... (Read More)
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On December 27, 2018, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office deputies served a search warrant at a residence in Dunsmuir, California, after an investigation into a Christmas night commercial burglary at Harley’s Antique Store identified a possible suspect in the case.
The search warrant operation netted the key suspect, Benjamin Osborn, 43, most ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
Photos courtesy Bonhams
To L.D. “Brink” Brinkman (1929-2015), the Western artists he collected and promoted strove “to perpetuate the memory and culture of the Old West…and to ensure authentic representation of the life of the West as it was and is.” He called his collection “a sample of ... (Read More)
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The board of trustees of the American Folk Art Museum (AFAM) has two new members—philanthropist and educator Joyce Berger Cowin, a former member of the AFAM board (1992-2017), and attorney and civil rights advocate Gail Wright Sirmans.
Joyce Berger Cowin.
Gail Wright Sirmans.
“Joyce Berger Cowin has been an exemplary and generous benefactor ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
Computer Column #361
As youngsters, we listened to the adventures of Jack Armstrong and Captain Midnight on the radio every night. These series, along with Little Orphan Annie and The Lone Ranger, regularly offered premiums for 25¢ and a boxtop. A regular favorite was a decoder ring that allowed a youngster ... (Read More)
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