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(Show)MidWeek in Manchester: Barn Star’s Boutique Show
Manchester, New Hampshire
If it’s Wednesday afternoon in New Hampshire during the annual Antiques Week events, you must be inside the JFK Memorial Coliseum for the two-day Barn Star Productions show, MidWeek in Manchester, managed by Frank Gaglio.
What really seemed to please patrons were the new booth layouts, the whole Cinderella ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester
Manchester, New Hampshire
In its sixth year, Antiques in Manchester: The Collector’s Fair opened to a great crowd on the morning of August 9. (The show continued on August 10.) About 500 people waited for the doors to open at 10 a.m. at the Sullivan Arena of St. Anselm College in ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Bits and Bytes
Computer Column #344
John P. Reid, <[email protected]>
This column has dealt recently with heavy topics such as Internet fraud and chain store retail analytics. We will be lighter this month. Antiquers are multifaceted. Their interests go far beyond old stuff. We will list 12 small jobs a computer can do, often at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)More Legal Trouble for Antiquorum
On June 2 California collector Behrooz Sarafraz filed suit against Antiquorum, the high-end watch auction house, claiming that he hadn’t been paid for his consignment.
According to the suit, Sarafraz consigned a Rolex watch and seven vide poche porcelain plates for a February 23 sale in New York City. He had ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Americana Celebration Antiques Show
Concord, New Hampshire
The atmosphere was buoyant from the very beginning at the Americana Celebration antiques show on August 8 in the Douglas Everett Arena in Concord, New Hampshire. Early buyers with their arms full streamed toward the exit. Some went right back for another round of shopping after depositing their ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)The Soul of a House
A Book Review
The Soul of a House: Adventures in Building an Antique Retirement Account by Arthur T. Vanderbilt II Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd., 2017, 174 pages, softbound, $13.95.
If you love living with antiques and enjoy the hunt as much as finding the right place for each acquisition, what do you ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historian Charged with Stealing Dog Tags
Historian Antonin DeHays, 32, of College Park, Maryland, was charged by federal criminal complaint with theft of government records from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
According to the affidavit filed in court, in October 2015 and June 2017, DeHays visited NARA at College Park, Maryland, and allegedly stole dog ... (Read More)
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(Show)Young at Heart: The Deerfield Antique Show
Deerfield, New Hampshire
The show was young, a first-timer for the sister/brother team of Rachel Gurley Libby and Joshua Gurley, children of the late Nan Gurley, longtime dealer and manager of Gurley Antiques Shows, which included Deerfield for several decades. Some of the exhibitors were also young, children and grandchildren of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Antiques Festival Trimmed Down to Two Days? Don't Bet on It!
Maine Antiques Festival, Union, Maine
The sprawling Maine Antiques Festival sprang up for the 36th year at the Union, Maine, fairgrounds for a three-day run August 4-6. Show master Paul Davis reorganized the 162 exhibitors into a more compact setting by pulling in some of the outliers onto the central field. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Auction Flexes Cross-Category Strength
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
While every auction house likes to have that strong “top-ten” list to display the stars, a sale that demonstrates strength in numerous categories is even better. President John Case spoke at length at the conclusion of Case Antiques’ one-day sale on August 5: “We ... (Read More)
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