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(Auction)A Great Thanksgiving Day Auction
Tim Isaac Antiques, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
Tim Isaac had a great Thanksgiving Day auction on Monday, October 9, 2017, at the Saint John (New Brunswick) Trade and Convention Centre. This was Tim Isaac Antiques’ 48th annual Thanksgiving Day sale. In addition to seeing Tim and Liz Isaac, it was ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Look at Collectors
Editorial
UBS, the Swiss financial services firm, has released an “Investor Watch” report that asked wealthy individuals about their collecting habits and the management of their collections.
According to the report, collecting is rarely tied to investment. The number one reason cited for collecting is “It’s a passion of mine” at 57%, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Lollipop Tree" Brings $1.08 Million
On January 1 Nadeau’s Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, sold Lollipop Tree, an oil on board painting by Wayne Thiebaud (b. 1920) for $1,080,000 (includes buyer’s premium), well above the $400,000/800,000 estimate. The painting, 13" x 10¼", is signed and dated 1969 in pencil and has a 1970 Allan Stone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Money for Old Money
Robert L. Foster Auction Company, Newcastle, Maine
Robert L. Foster opened the new auction year on a frigid sub-zero January 1 morning in Newcastle, Maine. Artist Vernon Broe (1930-2011) figured prominently, but it was old 19th-century money that brought in the big money.
Foster continues to mine the Vern Broe mother lode, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wall Box Tops Auction
Carey Auctions, Somerset, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Carey Auctions
“If you build it, he will come.” (Field of Dreams)
As record cold temperatures blanketed Middle America, Brian Carey filled the Bakersville firehouse outside Somerset, Pennsylvania, with a wide assortment of antiques. The logic is that record temperatures would keep people home, but for about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)2017 American Ceramic Circle Book Award
The American Ceramic Circle Book Award, established in 2005, recognizes English-language publications that advance the study of ceramics, present new scholarship and interpretations, and in doing so become important and standard references in the field.
The ACC Book Award Committee identified Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces, written ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Small Is Big
Cottone Auctions, Geneseo, New York
Photos courtesy Cottone Auctions
It was a hot day on the second day of fall in Geneseo, New York, and even the phone wires were hot as bidders from across the globe vied for their picks among 677 lots in Cottone Auctions’ art, antiques, antiquities, and modern ... (Read More)
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(Show)San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques Show
San Francisco, California
Perhaps the last (in late October, although there were still two months to go) Bay Area tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, the theme of the San Francisco Fall Art & Antiques show, held October 25-29, 2017, was “Flower Power.” Flowers and floral designs ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Americana Week Preview: January in New York City
For three generations, a large conclave of collectors and curators has gathered in New York City in mid-January for an annual treasure hunt. The Winter Antiques Show (WAS) at the Park Avenue Armory has been the catalyst for 64 years. Beginning in the late 1970s, auctions and ancillary shows multiplied ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Autumn Estates Sale in Atlanta
Ahlers & Ogletree Auction Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Photos courtesy Ahlers & Ogletree
There are various ways of selling antiques, and the Atlanta firm of Ahlers & Ogletree—named for Robert Ahlers and his wife, Christy Ogletree Ahlers—has most of them covered. From their facilities on Miami Circle in the stylish Atlanta neighborhood of ... (Read More)
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