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Round Top, TexasWhen it comes to the venues of the semiannual Round Top antiques festival, there’s nothing quite like the Marburger Farm Antique Show. Located on the west side of Highway 237 between Round Top and Warrenton, Texas, the show sits on 43 acres of slightly rolling farmland.
Now in its ... (Read More)
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Five private collections of 19th-century Victorian hair artwork, never before publicly displayed together, will be exhibited at the Mütter Museum at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia from January 19 through July 12. The exhibition examines a domestic craft that employs human hair as textile in four distinctive art and ... (Read More)
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Tim Isaac Antiques, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Tim Isaac had a great Thanksgiving Day auction on Monday, October 9, 2017, at the Saint John (New Brunswick) Trade and Convention Centre. This was Tim Isaac Antiques’ 48th annual Thanksgiving Day sale. In addition to seeing Tim and Liz Isaac, it was ... (Read More)
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Editorial
UBS, the Swiss financial services firm, has released an “Investor Watch” report that asked wealthy individuals about their collecting habits and the management of their collections.
According to the report, collecting is rarely tied to investment. The number one reason cited for collecting is “It’s a passion of mine” at 57%, ... (Read More)
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On January 1 Nadeau’s Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, sold Lollipop Tree, an oil on board painting by Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) for $1,080,000 (includes buyer’s premium), well above the $400,000/800,000 estimate. The painting, 13" x 10¼", is signed and dated 1969 in pencil and has a 1970 Allan Stone ... (Read More)
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Robert L. Foster Auction Company, Newcastle, Maine
Robert L. Foster opened the new auction year on a frigid sub-zero January 1 morning in Newcastle, Maine. Artist Vernon Broe (1930-2011) figured prominently, but it was old 19th-century money that brought in the big money.
Foster continues to mine the Vern Broe mother lode, ... (Read More)
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Carey Auctions, Somerset, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Carey Auctions
“If you build it, he will come.” (Field of Dreams)
As record cold temperatures blanketed Middle America, Brian Carey filled the Bakersville firehouse outside Somerset, Pennsylvania, with a wide assortment of antiques. The logic is that record temperatures would keep people home, but for about ... (Read More)
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The American Ceramic Circle Book Award, established in 2005, recognizes English-language publications that advance the study of ceramics, present new scholarship and interpretations, and in doing so become important and standard references in the field.
The ACC Book Award Committee identified Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, written ... (Read More)
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Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
It was a hot day on the second day of fall in Geneseo, New York, and even the phone wires were hot as bidders from across the globe vied for their picks among 677 lots in Cottone Auctions’ art, antiques, antiquities, and modern ... (Read More)
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San Francisco, California
Perhaps the last (in late October, although there were still two months to go) Bay Area tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the theme of the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques show, held October 25-29, 2017, was “Flower Power.” Flowers and floral designs ... (Read More)
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