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(Fragment)Former Partners to Face Off in Legal Battle
In 1987 an informal partnership of Treadway Gallery and John Toomey Gallery was formed to conduct sales. For the next 30 years, the pair sold hundreds of thousands of lots, regularly publishing thick catalogs filled with every kind of antiques and art but with a special emphasis on Modernism and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Winterthur Purchases Two Genre Paintings
Photos courtesy Winterthur
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library purchased two genre paintings at Christie's in January: Self-Portrait of John Lewis Krimmel with Susannah Krimmel and Her Children, 1810-11, by John Lewis Krimmel (1786-1821) and Family Group in a New York Interior by Francois-Jules Bourgoin, a 19th-century immigrant from France. Both paintings ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Art at Shannon's
Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut
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Twice-yearly art auctions at Shannon's Fine Art Auctioneers, Milford, Connecticut, bring out fine artworks that result in a full house for each sale. The October 24, 2019, sale was no exception.
The 271-lot event drew 500 bids on 20-some phones, on site, and online. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winter Show Loan Exhibition Reflects Global Market
Masterworks from the collection of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, spanning 4000 years of Hispanic history, art, and culture, will be the loan exhibition at The Winter Show, January 24-February 2, 2020, the annual benefit for the East Side House Settlement in the South Bronx.
The exhibition is co-curated by ... (Read More)
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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
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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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(Auction)The Shot Heard Round the Auction World
Morphy Auctions, Denver, Pennsylvania
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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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(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)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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