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(Auction)Americana Sale
Rafael Osona Auctions, Nantucket, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Rafael Osona Auctions
By the time Rafael Osona began his annual Americana auction on August 5, it was standing room only in the auction hall on Washington Street in Nantucket, just a short walk from the ferry landing. The top lot of the auction was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Colonial Williamsburg Acquires Tennessee Portraits at Auction
Colonial Williamsburg bought portraits of Thomas Claiborne Jr. and his wife, Sara Lewis King Claiborne, by Ralph E.W. Earl on August 5 at the Case Antiques auction in Knoxville, Tennessee, for $42,000 (see M.A.D., October 2017, p. 27-E). Painted in Nashville in 1817, they are the first Tennessee paintings to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Weschler's Announces Relocation
Weschler’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, LLC has been a Washington, D.C., landmark for as long as anyone can remember. Founded by Adam Weschler in 1890, it is more than a quarter-century older than the Lincoln Memorial and only two years younger than the Washington Monument. Long located at 905 East Street ... (Read More)
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(Auction)August Americana Auction
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
In a new twist in the antiques world, Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts, and Decoys Unlimited, Inc., West Barnstable, Massachusetts, have joined forces in a decoy collaboration. The two Cape Cod auction houses, both located along Route 6A ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lapointe Joins Guyette & Deeter
On June 1 Bill Lapointe joined the decoy auctioneers Guyette & Deeter, based in Saint Michaels, Maryland. According to Guyette & Deeter, he will be focusing his efforts in the New York and New England areas. He will also represent the company at decoy shows and four live auctions each ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Niven Becomes Chairman of Athena Art Finance Board of Directors
Jamie Niven has been elected as chairman of the board of Athena Art Finance Corp., after serving as its first independent director for the past year. Athena offers collectors and galleries the ability to borrow funds using their works of fine art as collateral and seeks to professionalize and provide ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maryland Man Sentenced to 12 Months for Stealing Art and Selling It
A Rock Hall, Maryland, man was sentenced on June 26 to 12 months in prison for stealing at least 40 pieces of art and taking them to New Jersey to sell them. William C. Reed III, 42, previously pleaded guilty to an information charging him with one count of interstate ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Alice and Ron Lindholm of Right to the Moon Alice Vintage Clothing
In the Trade
You say you’re having trouble selling your inventory in today’s market? Alice Lindholm has an answer that sure seems to be working for her. She doesn’t sell her stuff at all—she rents it.
Lindholm, along with her husband, Ron, runs Right to the Moon Alice in the hamlet of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Seven Days in August
Editorial
With apologies to Virginia, but New Hampshire is for lovers…of antiques.
In this issue of Maine Antique Digest, you’ll find a special advertising section for Antiques Week in New Hampshire, the annual August pilgrimage to the Granite State. Thumbing through it, we were struck with what a remarkable event it has ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, August 2017
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Just a Spoonful of Sherbet…
One of the more unusual and intriguing lots I have encountered in recent times was to be found in a May 24th “Interiors” sale held by Christie’s South Kensington—though the lot in question turned out, on closer investigation, to be not quite the rarity ... (Read More)
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