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Mike Ivankovich's What's It Worth? radio show on WBCB 1490 AM celebrated its fourth anniversary on July 13. Since July 2014 Ivankovich has hosted 200-plus shows featuring a wide variety of local, regional, and national guests, including authors, auctioneers, editors, columnists, and experts. The show's focus is antiques and collectibles, ... (Read More)
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Four Hudson, New York, antiques store owners were charged with felonies on June 26 in connection with the illegal sale of ivory.
Acting on a tip and supporting an ongoing statewide effort to combat the illegal sale of endangered and threatened species products in New York, investigators with the New York ... (Read More)
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The Newport Show, Middletown, Rhode Island
With a shortened name and abbreviated selling time, The Newport Show's 12th edition offered "antiques, art, & exquisite objects" July 28 and 29. Gone was the label "antiques" from the show's name, and the length of the show was reduced by a day.
James and Nancy ... (Read More)
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Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada
Photos courtesy Coeur d'Alene Art Auction
The Thirsty Trapper by American artist Alfred Jacob Miller (1810-1874) led the way at the 2018 edition of the Coeur d'Alene Art Auction, held July 28 in Reno, Nevada. The 24" x 20" oil on canvas sold for $1,715,000 (including ... (Read More)
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Six early American original tattoo flash art sheets attributed to Charlie Wagner and Sam O'Reilly sold for a combined $41,375 (includes buyers' premiums) at Ripley Auctions in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 28. The top-selling sheet finished at $11,250.
According to the auction house, the six sheets were found in the bottom ... (Read More)
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Social Skills by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
The Young Collector
Back in 2013, we wrote a column about social media and the power it has to build communities and audiences ("Just Be Yourself," September 2013). That column was prompted by the success of Chief David Oliver in Brimfield, Ohio. Oliver, a small-town police chief, became an overnight sensation ... (Read More)
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Letter from London
The most expensive things featured in this month's "Letter" are drawn from the round of Impressionist and modern picture sales mounted in London in June, but Russian works of art, a rare Mozart manuscript, one of Napoleon's "sideways" hats, and one of those legendary found-in-the-attic lots, in this ... (Read More)
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An original May 9, 1754, Pennsylvania Gazette newspaper featuring Benjamin Franklin's famous "Join, or Die" cartoon sold for $50,000 (includes buyer's premium) on July 26 in an online sale of Nate D. SandersAuctions in Los Angeles, California.
The last time it had sold, at Heritage Auctions in an April 11 and ... (Read More)
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A Book Review
Robert D. Mussey Jr. and Clark Pearce tell a compelling story about the career of Isaac Vose, a savvy Boston businessman with very good taste who provided richly veneered, elegant mahogany and rosewood furniture to Boston Brahmins between 1789 and 1825. They take their readers to Boston during ... (Read More)
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In the Trade
One of the pleasures of writing this feature each month is discovering the myriad paths people take on their way to becoming antiques dealers. Rarely are two paths the same. It's not like becoming an investment banker. You don't need a Harvard MBA.
Suzan McClellan-Whiting. She's sitting in her ... (Read More)
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