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(Auction)A Little Knowledge and a Little Money Go a Long Way at Farrin’s
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
Every year for the past two decades or so, Rusty Farrin of Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, has piled together some of the best of a year’s worth of gathering for presentation in a pre-Thanksgiving sale, which happened on November 15, 2017. A larger-than-usual crowd perused ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Salon Art + Design 2017
New York City
The Salon Art + Design, held November 9-13, 2017, at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City, exploded with color—from the neon shades of yellow, orange, and turquoise on the show’s catalog to the deep reds, pinks, and greens of the stones used by jeweler and lead ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Sotheby’s
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Sotheby’s American art auction on May 23, 2017, was all about the Rockwells that sold, whereas the sale on November 13, 2017, was all about the Rockwells that were withdrawn by a court order.
No Credit Given (Boy and Shopkeeper) by Norman Rockwell (1894-1978), one of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Delaware Antiques Show
Wilmington, Delaware
Was it the buoyant stock market, the promise of tax cuts, realistic prices on dealers’ tags in a tax-free state, or the hard work of dealers who reached out to clients ahead of time that that made shoppers ready to buy at the Delaware Antiques Show in Wilmington, Delaware, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Steady Sales at Hunt Country Antiques Fair
Middleburg, Virginia
The 26th Hunt Country Antiques Fair, held November 11 and 12, 2017, at the Hill School in Middleburg, Virginia, was produced, promoted, and managed by Dordy Fontinel Show Management, Inc. Fontinel manages several shows in the mid-Atlantic states, and attendees have become familiar with the consistent quality of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors Propel Fall Signature Toy Sale to $2.6
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
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Bertoia Auctions signed off on its November 11 and 12, 2017, Signature sale with the company’s highest-grossing sales figures since the glory days of the sale of Donald Kaufman’s collection (five auctions held from 2009 to 2011). The 1470-lot barrage of toys, banks, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Most Unusual Sale
Slotin Folk Art, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art
The November 11 and 12, 2017, Slotin Folk Art Auction was particularly strong, with heavy emphasis on African American and slave-related material, much from the Acacia Collection in Savannah and the Old Slave Mart Museum in Charleston, South Carolina. These lots appeared ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Miniature Portraits Lead at Evans Americana Sale
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 33rd cataloged auction of Americana and fine antiques on November 10 and 11, 2017. These semiannual sales are designed to emphasize items from Virginia and the South.
As is his custom, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2017 American Art Fair
New York City
The tenth American Art Fair opened its doors to an enthusiastic crowd on Saturday evening, November 11, 2017, ushering in American Art Week in New York City with a private invitation-only preview. The show ran through November 15.
Seventeen dealers of 19th- and 20th-century American art covered the walls ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Foreign National Pleads Guilty to Smuggling Rhinoceros Horn
Irish national Michael Hegarty, 40, pleaded guilty on September 29 in U.S. District Court in Miami to fraudulently facilitating the transportation and concealment of a rhinoceros horn libation cup that was smuggled from the United States to Great Britain in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
In mid-April 2012, Hegarty ... (Read More)
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