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(Book Review)Early Seating Upholstery
A Book Review
Early Seating Upholstery: Reading the Evidence
by Leroy Graves
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 2015, 237 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from Colonial Williamsburg, (www.williamsburgmarketplace.com) or (800) 446-9240.
Not so very long ago—back toward the beginning of my career—the issue of upholstery within museum circles did not receive very much scholarly attention. ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Around and Around
Auction Law & Ethics
We wrapped up 2015 with a list of consignment complaints sent to M.A.D. by a disgruntled reader. The woman had inherited an antiques collection from her parents and placed it with an auction house several states away for sale. She soon regretted that decision and described the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Humbugged!
P. T. Barnum was known as “the Prince of Humbug” for the many fakes and frauds he perpetrated on the American public throughout most of the 19th century. The Fiji Mermaid; Joice Heth, the oldest woman in the world; General Tom Thumb, the smallest man alive; bearded ladies; fat ladies; ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Another Pro-Choice Debate
The Young Collector
Once upon a time, we wrote about how corrosive the concept of convenience is, how we unwittingly give up important, often intangible things in exchange for tangible, often inconsequential things. Nowhere is this more apparent, at least to us this time of year, than holiday shopping. Hollie faces ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Senate Takes a Hard Look at Private Museums
Editorial
According to a story reported in the New York Times on November 29, 2015, Senator Orrin Hatch of Utah, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and one of the most powerful figures in Congress, is taking a hard look at private museums, trying to determine if the museums deserve the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Searching for Family Heirlooms
Users of the website JustaJoy.com (www.justajoy.com) are able to search for family heirlooms and receive notifications when objects matching their search criteria are posted.
Owner and developer Joy Shivar explained that the site is “the world’s largest source of indexed identified items owned by antique dealers and others.” Family researchers can ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, January 2016
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
May I wish M.A.D. readers, one and all, a Happy Christmas and a Good New Year, and hopefully divert some of you with this month’s selection. It includes some very, very expensive Chinese furniture; a very modern ceramic Alice and more than one mouse; a suffragette; Oscar Wilde ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Erie County, New York, Secondhand Dealers Law Exempts Antiques
On December 17, 2015, the Erie County (New York) Legislature unanimously approved a local law regulating pawnbrokers and secondhand dealers, but a provision in the law exempts antiques dealers under several conditions.
The law will make it unlawful for establishments to purchase any articles, jewelry, or precious metals from any person ... (Read More)
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(Auction)In with the Not So Old: American 20th-Century Design
Sotheby’s, New York City, and Wright, Chicago
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s and Wright
An article in the Economist on December 19, 2015, tried to explain why the bottom has dropped out of the antiques market. It claimed the cause is the fall in demand for 18th- and 19th-century furniture and decorations and suggested ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Swann's Best-Ever African American Fine Art Sale: $3.1 Million
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
“Who says auctions can’t be fun?” Swann Galleries’ president and chief auctioneer Nicholas D. Lowry asked his audience after selling a circa 1958 painting by Norman Lewis for an applause-generating record-breaking $965,000 (including buyer’s premium). The untitled and previously uncataloged abstraction in oil ... (Read More)
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