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(Show)No Frills, with Honest-to-Goodness Antiques
Heartland at Hilliard, Hilliard, Ohio
Things didn’t go exactly as planned for Jennifer Sabin during a canoe trip near Nelsonville, Ohio, last summer. As one of four people in two canoes, she found herself dunked in the river twice that day. Both times rapids had moved her craft under some trees, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
The idea of a small masterpiece lying around somewhere unnoticed—a Homer in a hayloft—never fails to stir our imagination. The object that launched five years of research by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, and has culminated in a fascinating, multilayered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Janis Blouin Collection
John McInnis Auctioneers, Exeter, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy John McInnis Auctioneers
Janis Blouin of Georgetown, Massachusetts, is a picker extraordinaire, and her collections are extensive. They came to market August 24-26 at a John McInnis auction held in Exeter, New Hampshire, at the historic 1855 Exeter Town Hall in the center of ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Prepare for Internet Disruptions
Computer Column #356
Last year column #345 covered income tax return software in the middle of the summer because adopting new software should be done well ahead of the start of tax season. This year we will cover keeping online life going in the middle of foul weather. Those in northern ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Clockwork Music
A Book Review
Musical clocks: that was it. Before the early 1800s, to hear music not from “live” musical instruments and human voices, you had about one choice. True, there were a handful of exotic music-playing automata in royal palaces, but for the rest of us, a mechanical clock with bells, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)John Bartlam Saucer on Loan to MESDA
Curator Daniel Ackermann calls the John Bartlam saucer now on long-term loan from a private collection to the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts at Old Salem Museums and Gardens (MESDA) “one of the most important ceramics ever made in America.”
John Bartlam (1735-1781), porcelain saucer, 1765-70, Cainhoy, South Carolina, soft-paste ... (Read More)
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(Show)Maine Antiques Dealers Association Goes Back to School
Coastal Maine Antiques Show, Damariscotta, Maine
The annual Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) Coastal Maine Antiques Show, held on August 22, had to be moved to another location this year because of ongoing renovation and construction at the Damariscotta River Association (DRA) in Damariscotta, Maine, where the show has been held ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Thrill of the Chase: A Detective Story
Harry Chase (1853-1889) returned to St. Louis, Missouri, at the end of September 1879, after three years of art study in Europe—two years in Paris under Paul Constant Soyer, and a year in The Hague under the great Dutch marine painter Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Twice in those three years, in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tremont Auctions Will Not Move
In our July issue (see p. 15-D), we reported that Tremont Auctions would be relocating in the fall. On July 19, the auction house announced that it is staying in Newton, Massachusetts.
“Tremont Auctions is pleased to announce that we’re still calling Newton ‘home’ through June of 2019,” an e-mail announcement ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bid $100, Pay $100: How Strange Is That?
Charles M. Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine
Charles Talbot Associates, Turner, Maine, has been in business for over 60 years, making it one of the oldest auction firms in Maine. At the start of the August 21 sale, auctioneer and co-owner Dale Talbot related the story of the company: “Talbot was started ... (Read More)
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