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(Feature)Americana Week in New York City: Selling History
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton, winner of 11 Tony Awards, a Grammy for best musical theater album, and the Pulitzer Prize for drama, is proof that the American musical is not only surviving, it is thriving. It costs a bundle to get a ticket to watch Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and Hamilton write ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Americana Week, New York City, 2017
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Tuesday, January 17
Noon, Sotheby’s, George S. Parker II Americana Symposium, RSVP: (212) 894-1099.
6 p.m., Sotheby’s, Americana Week Reception, RSVP: (212) 894-1099.
Wednesday, January 18
10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Christie’s, Chinese export art.
2 p.m., Sotheby’s, Alexander Hamilton: An Important ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Louisa May Alcott Manuscripts Go to Concord Free Public Library in Private Sale
Concord, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts and Concord Free Public Library
Over 500 pages of original working manuscripts by Louisa May Alcott, one of America’s best-beloved 19th-century authors, have been sold in a private deal brokered by Marsha Malinowski Fine Books & Manuscripts of New York City to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pair Arrested for Selling Fake Gold Bars
On October 27 search warrants were executed by the Delaware State Police Financial Crimes Unit with the assistance of the Ocean View Police Department, which resulted in the apprehension of two suspects and the seizure of counterfeit gold bars.
On October 24 detectives from the financial crimes unit had initiated an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Sells a Spice Chest
A small valuables chest, offered as the first of ten lots of furniture at the end of a sale of mostly paintings from the estate of Andre and Nancy Brewster of Maryland, was not overlooked on December 15, 2016, at Freeman’s in Philadelphia. Cataloged as a William and Mary spice ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Turnbull Jewels Perform Well
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Joseph DuMouchelle
Joseph DuMouchelle’s jewelry sale on December 15, 2016, was held at the Lotte New York Palace in New York City and simulcast to Birmingham, Michigan, where “twenty-five-plus phone workers” took the bulk of the bids, according to Melinda Adducci, G.G., vice president of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England" Wins Historic New England Book
The 22nd annual Historic New England Book Prize has been awarded to Suspended Worlds: Historic Theater Scenery in Northern New England by Christine Hadsel. Suspended Worlds is a celebration of the many historic theater curtains in northern New England and their part in community activities and entertainment. The curtains were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Acquires Mei Moses Art Indices
Sotheby’s announced on October 26 that it had acquired the Mei Moses Art Indices, which will now be known as Sotheby’s Mei Moses. The indices use repeat sales—the sale of the same object at different times—to track changes in value. Through this acquisition, “Sotheby’s has unique access to an analytic ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Rare Bradstreet Table and the Italian Glass Record Holder
It is always news when a discovery is made. A John Scott Bradstreet (1845-1914) Lotus table with an elaborately carved square top, marked with Bradstreet’s painted emblem and the date 1903, was discovered in a Sotheby’s design sale catalog and bought for $125,000 (includes buyer’s premium) by the Leeds Art ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)PAAM Adds Hoppers to Permanent Collection
The Provincetown (Massachusetts) Art Association and Museum has acquired 96 drawings by Edward Hopper, 69 drawings and watercolors by his wife, Josephine Hopper, and 22 diaries dating from 1933 to 1956 that chronicle the Hoppers’ lives. The donation was made through the generosity of Laurence C. and J. Anton Schiffenhaus ... (Read More)
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