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On November 17, 2015, Crouching Dragon Antiques and dealer Yiwei Zheng filed a lawsuit in a federal court against Manatee Galleries of Bradenton, Florida, and Adrienne Falconer and Edward Goldsmith over a consignment of 31 antiques. Crouching Dragon Antiques of St. Cloud, Minnesota, is owned and operated by Zheng. Falconer ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Robert Foster, Newcastle, Maine
Robert Foster always packs in a huge crowd for his larger auctions in New-castle, Maine. I previewed the January 1 sale a day earlier, so by the time I arrived about an hour before the start on New Year’s Day, I had a healthy walk from the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery, Windsor, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Nadeau’s Auction Gallery
Nadeau’s Auction Gallery in Windsor, Connecticut, was selling to a packed house on January 1. Part of the reason could have been the Americana collection consigned to Nadeau from Credit Suisse. That massive collection included a full-length portrait of Thomas Alva Edison ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Gallery 95, Hardeeville, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Gallery 95
Hardeeville occupies a sweet spot in the South Carolina Lowcountry. Midway between the elegant mansions of Savannah, Georgia, and the tony condos of Hilton Head, South Carolina, it is the perfect spot for an auction house. That was the conclusion Maine natives Steve ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
Computer Column #325
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Image searches and language translation will be discussed. But first, here is more on computer accessibility.
Accessibility Again
In the column for the July 2015 issue (see p. 38-C), computer accessibility for people with limited vision, hearing, or dexterity was discussed. Essential tremor or ET is the ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
A Book Review
Framing Fraktur: Pennsylvania German Material Culture & Contemporary Art edited by Judith Tannenbaum, with essays by Janine Pollock, Lisa Minardi, Matthew F. Singer, and Judith Tannenbaum. Free Library of Philadelphia, distributed by University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015, 104 pages, hardbound, $39.95 plus S/H from the Free Library of ... (Read More)
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Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions made two announcements in late November: the MidWeek Antiques Show is moving back to Manchester, New Hampshire, in August 2016, and the Pickers Market show will be revived.
MidWeek will now be held at the JFK Memorial Coliseum at 303 Beech Street in Manchester, the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
There’s a lot of excitement these days at Cedar Grove, the home of Thomas Cole (1801-1848), founder of the Hudson River school of landscape painting.1 Not only has the National Historic Site, located in Catskill, New York, discovered the remnants of murals previously unknown to Cole scholars, but a reconstruction ... (Read More)
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Antiques dealer Linxun Liao was sentenced on November 12, 2015, in Manhattan federal court to two years in prison for his role in a wildlife trafficking scheme in which he purchased and smuggled 16 libation cups carved from rhinoceros horns (worth more than $1 million) from the United States to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
William A. Smith, Inc., Plainfield, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy William A. Smith
The auction hall was nearly full for most of the 500-lot auction at the William A. Smith gallery in Plainfield, New Hampshire, on December 28, 2015. The sale consisted of an interesting and eclectic mixture of country Americana, American art, ... (Read More)
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