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(Show)The Collector’s Eye
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
The spring edition of The Collector’s Eye took place April 13 at Hawkeye Downs Fairgrounds in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The semiannual event was held in conjunction with the Midwest Antique & Art Show. Housed in the Expo Center, the two shows were located in adjacent halls, and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hilliard’s Eclectic Sale Lives Up to Its Name
Hilliard & Co., Madison, Virginia
Photos courtesy Hilliard & Co.
One of the realities of the post-COVID-19 online antiques auction world is the move toward targeted sales. We now see an increasing number of sales that consist of lots grouped so as to appeal to specific genres or collecting categories—Asian ceramics, 20th-century ... (Read More)
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(Auction)“April Adventure” at Marion
Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marion Antique Auctions
Marion Antique Auctions presented its spring sale April 12 and titled it “April Adventure.” The auction included the estate of Newport, Rhode Island, dealer Alan J. Gaines (1942-2024), who with his wife, Amy Louise (Boocock) Gaines (1955-2022), operated A & A Gaines ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Hermann Antique Show
Hermann, Missouri
Sometimes an antiques show is special for something other than the merchandise. For me, that’s the case with the Hermann Antique Show.
After attending Hermann for the first time last year, the show went on my favorites list. The reasons varied. In part, it was the event itself, a solid ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Catalog of a Once-in-a-Lifetime Assemblage
A Book Review
Valley Culture: Constructing Identity Along the Great Wagon Road is the catalog for the special exhibition that celebrates the fifth anniversary of the Center for Pennsylvania German Studies at Historic Trappe in Trappe, Pennsylvania. This gathering of painted boxes, cupboards, chests, and fraktur that enriched the daily lives ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Auction Record for Temperance Jug
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
Setting a new auction record for an American temperance jug, this Anna Pottery stoneware temperance jug, 12" tall, with a rare solid cobalt ground sold to a folk-art collector for $144,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Provenance, condition, extravagant decoration, and coloring (the blue ground) all played ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)American Antiquarian Society Receives Paine Collection
The American Antiquarian Society (AAS), Worcester, Massachusetts, has received a gift of more than 18,000 pieces of 18th- and 19th-century ephemera. The collection, assembled over several decades by Stephen Davies Paine (1932-1997) and given to AAS in his memory, is one of the largest and most pristine of its kind.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Lost in Flooding
Asheville, North Carolina
A collection of 50 mostly southern high chairs, often lent to museums for exhibitions on life in Appalachia.
An elaborately carved 19th-century Buddha cabinet from Shanxi Province, China, for worship and honoring ancestors. A medieval suit of armor.
Antiques dealers and collectors typically think of themselves as custodians of items ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tiffany and More
Rago, Lambertville, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Rago
Tiffany Studios enameled copper cabinet vase with mushrooms, circa 1905, just 2¼" high x 2½" diameter, sold online for $82,550 (est. $10,000/15,000). “It turned up on Antiques Roadshow in Oregon, and the owner said she bought it for less than a dollar at a garage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$900,000 Fine Levied in Endangered Species Case
On April 9 a federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced two men for trafficking protected birds and eggs into the United States in violation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Dr. John Waldrop of Cataula, Georgia, was ordered to pay a $900,000 fine—one of the largest ever for an ESA case—and serve ... (Read More)
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