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$1.6 Million Decoy and Sporting Art Auction
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

The Anthony Elmer Crowell preening wood duck was the highlight of the auction and realized $210,000. Albert Elmer Crowell’s miniature green heron, 4 1/4" x 5 1/4" pictured left, carved around 1930, was estimated at $1000/1500 and brought $5100. His miniature bluebill drake is at 1 1/8" x 2 1/8" one of ... (Read More)

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Coeur d'Alene Art Auction Exceeds $23 Million Mark
by Susan Emerson Nutter

Coeur d’Alene Art Auction, Reno, Nevada Photos courtesy Coeur d’Alene Art Auction Classical Western and American artworks are synonymous with the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction. For more than 25 years the Coeur d’Alene Art Auction has offered up stellar examples not only by iconic past masters but by in-demand contemporary artists as ... (Read More)

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Nelson Lots Top Massachusetts Auction
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts When Marion Antique Auctions announces one of its twice yearly sales, collectors and dealers mark their calendars. Much of what passes through the auction house is fresh to the market; much of it has area provenance. Much relates to the maritime heritage of the area. Frank McNamee ... (Read More)

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"Emerald Bay" Brings Gold
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

Gustave J.S. White, Portsmouth, Rhode Island It was all about paintings at the Gustave J.S. White sale on July 25 at Michael R. Corcoran’s Newport County Auction Gallery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. As fixtures on Aquidneck Island (the island that includes Newport, Portsmouth, and Middletown) Corcoran and his staff are positioned ... (Read More)

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"'Pretty Good' Is the New 'Great' in the Antiques Business"
by David Hewett

Michael and Lucinda Seward of Pittsford, Vermont, showed this painting by Lucy H. Doane, who died in 2010 at the age of 101. Born in Nahant, Massachusetts, Doane lived, painted, and taught art in Vermont and Massachusetts. The 21½" x 27½" boating scene was $1250. Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, brought ... (Read More)

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Exhibitions
by M.A.D. Staff

Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)

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Simple Goods Show in Ohio Changes Hands
by M.A.D. Staff

The Simple Goods antiques and primitives show in Mansfield, Ohio, has been sold to Massachusetts antiques dealer and show promote Kris Casucci, who with her husband, Paul, and Pennsylvania antiques dealer Christina Hummel owns Walker Homestead in Brookfield. Hummel and her husband, Scott, own Primitive America Antiques in Pennsdale. Casucci and ... (Read More)

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Dolphin Promotions to Manage 40th Annual Pineapple Antiques Show
by M.A.D. Staff

Dolphin Promotions has been selected by the Rotary Club of Sarasota Sunrise Foundation to manage the 40th annual Pineapple Antiques Show to be held March 12 and 13, 2016, in Sarasota, Florida. The show will feature 40 dealers. The two-day event will be held at the renovated Sarasota Municipal Auditorium, ... (Read More)

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Historic Deerfield Acquires 1803 Tall-Case Clock
by M.A.D. Staff

Tall-case clock by William Lloyd (1779-1845), 1803, Springfield, Massachusetts, cherry, white pine, sumac, birch, brass, iron, bitumen, and enamel. Historic Deerfield photo Historic Deerfield in Deerfield, Massachusetts, has acquired a Springfield, Massachusetts, tall-case clock made by cabinetmaker William Lloyd (1779-1845). The case, made in 1803, had been on loan to Historic ... (Read More)

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An Army of One
by Clayton Pennington

Editorial You can’t fight City Hall, or so the old saying goes. Don’t tell that to Karen Barchi, owner of Bay Avenue Antiques, Barnegat Township, New Jersey. She’s on the verge of victory. Last year the Barnegat Township Committee passed a “Secondhand Dealers” ordinance that put severe restrictions on antiques dealers in the ... (Read More)
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