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(Auction)Mormons, Mexicana, and Marilyn Monroe-All in a Day's Work at Printed and Manuscript Americana Sa
Swann Galleries, New York City
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A first edition of The Book of Mormon was the top lot of Swann's printed and manuscript Americana sale on April 12 in its New York City gallery-yet again. The auction house has done well with Mormon material for at least a decade. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Wearable Antique Jewelry Is Hot at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
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Leslie Hindman Auctioneers held a sale of jewelry in Chicago April 10 and 11. Katie Guilbault, head of sale, and Jamie Henderson, jewelry associate specialist, shared news about results and market trends after the sale, for which over 1000 people had registered on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Towne Hall Antiques Moves, Changes Name
Olde Town Hall Antiques in Stratham, New Hampshire, is moving across the street and changing its name. According to owner Natalie Healy, the business plans to open on April 2 at The Farmhouse on 33 at 148 Portsmouth Avenue in Stratham.
"We will be in the farmhouse [across the street] to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Object Lessons
Object Lessons
The case of the Bingham family Civil War memorial secretary, confirmed as a fake, offers some lessons. (M.A.D. published the story online on February 26, and it appears in this issue on page 12-A.)
There's no doubt that the saga stings. Dealer Allan Katz, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the vetting ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Second Annual Curated Sale of Historical Indiana Art
Jackson's Auction & Real Estate Company, Indianapolis, Indiana
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Although Dennis Jackson has been selling Indiana art at auction since 1982, his family auction business tried something new last year: a sale of curated works. The idea was to offer paintings that needed no apologies ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Toomey & Co. Launches
Toomey & Co., Oak Park, Illinois
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When an e-mail arrived in late December 2017 announcing the breakup of Treadway/Toomey Auctions in Oak Park, Illinois, it seemed to come out of the blue.
The news marked the end of a successful 30-year era in which John Toomey hosted sales ... (Read More)
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(Show)An Invitation Worth Accepting
Midwest Antique & Art Show and The Collector's Eye, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Thom Rawson had been after me for at least three years. "Come to my show," he would say when I'd see him at events in Indiana or Illinois. And yet his semiannual Midwest Antique & Art Show and its ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fraktur by Christian Beschler Sells for $39,500
In his article in the Spring 2008 issue of Antiques & Fine Art, antiquarian Donald M. Herr, a retired Lancaster, Pennsylvania, veterinarian, identified the Sussel-Unicorn Artist as Christian Beschler, a schoolmaster in Upper Mahanoy Township, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. When Herr photographed Thomas Umholtz's fraktur collection for the article, he told ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Salmon Ship Portrait Brings $48,000
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
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Bidders have come to expect good marine paintings at a Northeast Auctions sale, and the highlight of the April 7 and 8 spring weekend sale in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, was an 1808 portrait of the Liverpool privateer Ceres, a 331/4" x 521/2" oil ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Koekkoek Tops Eldred's Auction
Robert C. Eldred Co., Inc., East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred's
Ten phones mustered for lot 29 at Eldred's April 6 and 7 Americana and paintings sale at the East Dennis, Massachusetts, gallery. A 241/4" x 193/4" oil on panel winter landscape with wood gatherers and a village in the distance by ... (Read More)
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