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(Issue Story)Gemmy Gifts, Engagement Rings, a Curated Collection, and More
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Rago Arts & Auction Center's sale of fine jewelry on December 2, 2018, in Lambertville, New Jersey, offered 636 lots and realized a total of $2,105,313. The auction was preceded by a November 30 unreserved online jewelry sale of 467 lots that brought $298,175.
The top lot of ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)European Porcelain in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
A Book Review
With all the new research on early 18th-century attempts to make porcelain in America, this new book that tells the story of porcelain production in the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries in Europe is timely. The author, Jeffrey Munger, is a former curator in the department of European ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Books Received, December 2018
Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Frederic Church's Olana on the Hudson: Art Landscape Architecture, edited by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Bill Hamel, Hamel20, Red Hook, New York
In the Trade
If you want mid-century modern furniture for your home, you'll have no trouble finding it. It's all over the place. Dealers who once upon a time sneered at anything made after 1840 are now eager to show off their Finn Juhl chairs or their Harvey Probber sectionals.
Acquiring the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Criminal Charges Filed in Ivory Trafficking Case
San Diego, California, City Attorney Mara W. Elliott announced on November 28, 2018, that criminal charges have been filed against the owner and an employee of the Carlton Gallery in La Jolla, California, for trafficking ivory in defiance of California law.
This prosecution follows the largest seizure of ivory products by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Legal Actions Mount against National Book Auctions
*Update: Ithaca.com reports David Hall has been arrested, and charged with second degree grand larceny
Denis Gouey, a consignor to National Book Auctions who filed suit in May against the Ithaca, New York, firm, was granted a default judgment on October 26, 2018.
The Torrington, Connecticut, bookbinder claimed in court papers ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, December 2018
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, December 2018
September and October sales in London saw $1.4 million paid for a Banksy painting at Sotheby's that was seen to (partially) self-destruct as the hammer fell-and thereby immediately increase in value-while in New York City at Christie's a far, far higher than predicted $432,500 was paid for an AI (artificial ... (Read More)
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(Show)Williamsburg Show Signals the Opening of the Holiday Season
Holiday Antiques Show, Williamsburg, Virginia
The 37th annual Holiday Antiques Show was held November 23-25, 2018, at the Doubletree by Hilton in Williamsburg, Virginia. Known to most antiques followers as simply the Williamsburg Holiday Show, the event long ago solidified its place as a post-Thanksgiving destination for many in the mid-Atlantic. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)58th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Garth's Auctions, Columbus, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth's Auctions
It didn't take long to set high expectations during the 58th annual Thanksgiving Americana auction, held by Garth's in Columbus, Ohio, on November 23, 2018. Roughly ten minutes into the sale a New England dome-top box from the mid-19th century, in its original paint ... (Read More)
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