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(Show)Stratton's Swan Song
Antiques at Stratton Mountain, Stratton, Vermont
If all goes according to plan, the Antiques at Stratton Mountain antiques show will cease to exist next year. Its slot in Antiques Week in Vermont will be replaced by the annual show produced by the Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association (VADA), likely to be held ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Woodburys and Wood Planes at Moore Auction
Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maine
For the cornerstone of his September 30 auction in York, Maine, Hap Moore landed a 77-lot collection of antique tools from the estate of a Wells, Maine, collector, headed by a pair of wooden planes by two of the earliest known American makers.
A molding plane ... (Read More)
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(Show)Original Round Top Antiques Fair Celebrates 50 Years
Round Top, Texas
The Big Red Barn Event Center, home of the Original Round Top Antiques Fair, stands on a hill about five miles north of the town of Round Top, Texas, and half a century removed from the small antiques show that started a phenomenon in the middle of practically ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Okemo Show
Okemo Antiques Show, Ludlow, Vermont
The 2017 Okemo Antiques Show, held at the Okemo Mountain Resort in Ludlow, Vermont, was the second of the Vermont Antiques Week shows to open, beginning with a preview from 2 to 6 p.m. on Friday, September 29. The show continued on Saturday, September 30, from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Family Archive of Pioneer Missionary Correspondence Tops Star-Spangled Printed and Manuscript Americ
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
A private collector, bidding by phone, paid $112,500 (including buyer’s premium) for a family archive of 19th-century letters by early missionaries ministering to Native Americans in Minnesota. The sale was made at Swann’s auction of printed and manuscript Americana in its New York ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Eliminates Buyer's Premium for Online-Only Sales
In a move designed to attract new buyers, Sotheby’s will eliminate the buyer’s premium for its online-only sales beginning September 16. The announcement, made in a Form 8-K Securities and Exchange Commission filing on August 22, is “the most noteworthy change,” said Tad Smith, president and chief executive officer, in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Brimfield: Yesterday & Today
Brimfield, Massachusetts
I sometimes play a trick on myself when I wake up too early and want more sleep. I imagine I’m lying in my sleeping bag in our old Volkswagen Vanagon at Brimfield and it’s time to get up and get ready for the opening of the field where we’re ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American and European Art
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
Wheeling into the parking lot for Leslie Hindman’s September 27, 2017, sale of American and European art, we saw that every space was filled. We know that the current market for 19th-century paintings is soft. What could explain all the Illinois and out-of-state license plates? Then ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2017 ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show Returns in New Location
On Columbus Day weekend, Saturday and Sunday, October 7 and 8, the Antiques Dealers’ Association of America, Inc. (ADA) will bring together some of the nation’s finest dealers for its annual art and antiques show featuring early American art, antiques, and design. This year the show will be held in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Edward Albee
Sotheby’s, New York City
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s
For three and half hours on an Indian summer morning, Sotheby’s seventh-floor salesroom was transformed into theater—one filled with fans, friends, art dealers, and collectors, who came to bid and watch as the collection of American playwright Edward Albee (1928-2016) came to auction. The September ... (Read More)
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