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(Fragment)Los Angeles Art Dealer Sentenced to Federal Prison
A Los Angeles art dealer has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for conspiring to smuggle looted archaeological resources into the United States and then using those antiquities as the basis of a charitable donation tax fraud scheme involving local museums.
Jonathan M. Markell, 70, a resident of the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Susanin's Art Deco, Art Nouveau, and Retro One-Owner Sale Brings Affordable Jewelry to the Block
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Susanin’s
There is well-made antique and vintage jewelry to be had at reasonable prices, and Susanin’s in Chicago held a sale featuring many examples on February 10. Prices realized for the 382 lots from a single-owner collection ranged from $62.50 to $625. The top lot was ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Movin' On Up
The Young Collector
Over the years this space has served not only to document our lives in and our view of the antiques trade but by necessity, to a degree, our personal lives as well. (At Cowan’s we used to joke about having T-shirts made that read, “The auction business is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Winterthur Closed for Season but Much of the Collection Now Available Online
The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library, Winterthur, Delaware, closed for the season on January 4 and will reopen to the public on March 1 with a new lineup of exhibitions and programs.
The institution has announced that it has reached a significant milestone: 60,000 objects in the collection have been cataloged ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Good Fellows: The Walpole Society
Part IV of V
Photos courtesy the Walpole Society
“Outsiders are often unclear as to what the Walpole Society actually does. [Member Robert Lincoln McNeil Jr.’s daughter] Vickie recalls as a child telling her grade school class that her father was going to spend time with the Tadpole Society!” The Walpole Society ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Westchester Glass Club Show Offers Free Admission
The Westchester Glass Club’s 40th annual Collectors Show and Sale will be held on April 9 and 10 at the Greenwich Civic Center in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. To celebrate the 40th anniversary and to attract new dealers and new buyers to the show, the Westchester Glass Club will offer free ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Passion for Collecting: Part I of the Estate of Candice B. Groot
Treadway Toomey Auctions, Oak Park, Illinois
Photos courtesy Treadway Toomey Auctions
When John Toomey of Treadway Toomey Auctions hired John Walcher, Toomey asked him to build a new sale category. Long celebrated for a depth of Arts and Crafts auctions plus period fine art and 1950s/contemporary sales, the Oak Park, Illinois, gallery ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Old Masters Lead the Potomack Company Sale
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its first sale of the 2016 season on February 6 at its gallery and showrooms in Alexandria, Virginia. This year marks the tenth anniversary of the firm. In that relatively short time Potomack has become a leading auction ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Nelson Collection Succeeds
Skinner, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts
There is nothing quite like a single-owner auction to get everyone’s attention, particularly when that collection is a carefully gathered and highly regarded one. So when the Van Kirke and Helen Nelson collection of Plains Native American art came to auction on February 6 at Skinner’s Boston ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Four Useful Apps
Computer Column #326
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Most antiquers use both desktop and mobile computers these days. Here are four useful mobile apps available for both Apple iOS and Android devices. Most integrate well with desktop Windows, Macintosh, and Chromebook partner software or allow desktop access using any web browser. Except the ... (Read More)
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