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Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
The Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society’s 47th absentee sale closed on May 27. The prices realized show it was a clear win for the Edgefield, South Carolina, candidates. Notable signed examples by Dave the Slave Drake and ... (Read More)
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Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
The interest in politics and the political process is at an all-time high, undoubtedly fueled by the most recent United States presidential election and subsequent discourse concerning the new leaders.
But then again, Monday-morning armchair quarterbacking has been going on for decades, even centuries, where ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Garth’s
Top lots from different sessions had an interesting connection during the sale held by Garth’s in Delaware, Ohio, on May 12 and 13. The link—longtime collections. While high-quality items remained in demand, the event underscored the added appeal of desirable antiques that have ... (Read More)
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In 1999 auctioneer Leslie Hindman launched Eppraisals.com, a company that offered low-cost and quick appraisals over the Internet. The company had hundreds of specialists in 300 collecting categories to provide information and valuation of art, antiques, and collectibles. Eppraisals raised millions of dollars in venture capital and signed a deal ... (Read More)
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Comfortably Numb by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
The Young Collector
The world is getting smaller. Computers have collapsed distances virtually, at the same time that dropping phone prices have made keeping in touch over long distance easier as well. Our kids will never understand that we had to retrain their grandparents to start calling us before 11. Even ... (Read More)
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You’ve seen it hundreds of times at antiques or art shows, in art galleries too—the red sold tag stuck in the corner of a painting, half visible inside a chest drawer, or stuffed into a crevice of a weathervane. More subtle, and some might argue classier, is the red dot. ... (Read More)
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Art dealer Perry Rubenstein, 63, pleaded no contest on March 30 to charges that he failed to pay more than $1 million to the owners of paintings sold through his gallery, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Rubenstein entered his plea to two counts of grand theft by embezzlement. ... (Read More)
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In New York state’s first Class D felony conviction since new ivory legislation was instituted in 2014, the corporation that owns Landmark Gallery, a Manhattan art and antiques store, pleaded guilty to selling illegal elephant ivory, the Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced on March 8.
Changes to New York state’s ... (Read More)
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The town of Trappe in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, was named for its tavern. The story, told in the journal of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America, is about an English fellow who had stayed too long at John Jacob Schrack’s tavern, had a row with ... (Read More)
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A rare daguerreotype from the collection of the Museum of Old Newbury in Newburyport, Massachusetts, is featured in East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., through July 16. The exhibition will be at the New Orleans Museum of ... (Read More)
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