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(Issue Story)Massachusetts Attorney General and Berkshire Museum Agree on Plan
After eight long months of outcries from residents and a few Norman Rockwell descendants, protest marches, injunctions, and copious numbers of documents, the Massachusetts attorney general’s office and the Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, have agreed on a plan for the sale of up to 40 artworks to address the financial ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Session Six of the Portzline Costume Jewelry Collection
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Ripley Auctions
Ripley Auctions in Indianapolis, Indiana, held its sixth session of the Portzline collection of costume jewelry on March 12. Andrea Hastings, vice president, head of inventory, has been working at Ripley Auctions for 15 years. She has seen a lot of jewelry hit the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chester County Antiques & Arts Show
Exton, Pennsylvania
The 36th annual Chester County Antiques & Arts Show took place March 9-11 and was held in a new place—the gymnasium of the Church Farm School in Exton, Pennsylvania. It was held earlier in March than in the past and was six weeks before the Philadelphia Antiques & Art ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fox Valley Frenzy
Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show, St. Charles, Illinois
If you think that shows are independent entities or that the world of antiques shows is not interconnected, think again. We learned the truth when we arrived at the 61st Spring Fox Valley Antiques Show, held by the Chicago Suburban Antiques Dealers Association ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Intarsia Patchwork Table Cover Tops Auction
Cowan’s Auctions, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Cowan’s
Cowan’s sale of fine and decorative art held March 10 in Cincinnati, Ohio, offered an international buffet of consignments while also keeping a wide array of Americana on the table. Although the U.S. goods were strong, as is usually the case at Cowan’s, it was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Storm Disrupts Americana Auction
John McInnis, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Even the best-laid plans of mice and men are subject to the vagaries of weather. John McInnis Auctions’ March 9 and 10 estates sale of Americana was a major-league victim of said vagaries when the nor’easter that blanketed much of the Northeast left the Amesbury, Massachusetts, auction ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Using Collectibles as Ad Props: A Good Sign?
It’s encouraging to see the props that were chosen for this TD Ameritrade ad: a small collection of early telephones, along with a Big Ben alarm clock that could be vintage. There are also some old books, a couple of them set up as they might be for a trompe ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Expert Opinion
The Young Collector
When you are a librarian, everyone wants you to be on their team for Trivial Pursuit. “You know all the answers,” they say. “No,” a fellow librarian once said, “I know how to find all the answers.” That conversation is the intersection of our understanding of the difference between ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show
The 56th Philadelphia Antiques and Art Show has new support. The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) and Penn Medicine have become joint beneficiaries of the show, and the PMA will gradually assume full responsibility for the show’s organization and management in the following years and apparently become its sole beneficiary.
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(Issue Story)Boston’s Ayer Mansion Seeks Its Missing Tiffany Vase
Photos courtesy Ayer Mansion
A preservation organization that is renovating a historic house in Boston’s Back Bay is asking collectors, dealers, curators, and others to be on the lookout for a vase by Louis Comfort Tiffany that has gone missing. It was one of three that Tiffany designed for Frederick Ayer ... (Read More)
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