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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Central Plains wool dress, thread-sewn navy wool, ten rows of dentalia create the yoke, sunburst designs on sleeves, 51" long, fourth quarter of the 19th century, $18,000.
Crow beaded hide rifle scabbard, sinew-sewn, beaded using white, dark blue, light blue,red white-heart, greasy yellow, pea-green, and pink beads, red wool strips, 41" ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)In Defense of Pattern Glass
The Young Collector
What a winter. Everyone seems to be talking about the weather. We’ve been lucky here, keeping mostly warm and never losing power—until the day after Hollie wrote this sentence. There’s hardly an experience more jarring to young Americans than losing power (unless perhaps losing Internet access), especially to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ellis Antiques Show Closes Again
Changing demographics have killed off another venerable antiques show. Boston’s Ellis Memorial Antiques Show saw 49 years as the city’s premier antiques show before closing up shop in 2008.
It was picked up and run as the Ellis Boston Antiques Show in 2011 by producers Tony Fusco and Bob Four of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lowdown on Highboys
This tiger maple Queen Anne highboy, attributed to New Hampshire furniture and clock case maker David Young, showing Dunlap influence around the carved molding and cornice, sold for $34,500.
This 19th-century trade sign reading “7 MILES TO BACONS / JEWELERY [sic] STORE / 8 CENTRAL ST. / DOVER, N. H.” made ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
This original Colt Texas Paterson .36-caliber revolver with a 7½" octagonal barrel and matching serial number 718 on the barrel and cylinder has a folding trigger, and the barrel is marked “Patent Arms M’g. Co. Paterson, N.J. – Colt’s Pt.” The cylinder roll is engraved with a scene of a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Temporary Location for Cahoon Museum
The Cahoon Museum of American Art has a new temporary location: 30 Bates Road in Mashpee Commons North (in the former New Balance space), Mashpee, Massachusetts.
The museum’s permanent location at 4676 Falmouth Road in Cotuit is being restored and a new addition is being built. The permanent location will reopen ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Was in the Air for Couture and Vintage Fashions
Bidding opened at $2500 for a Fortuny stenciled velvet gown of a golden ocher silk velvet tabard with Persian pattern gold stenciling. The gown has peach pleated silk sleeves and dress side panels enclosed with Murano glass beads and silk cord loops. In very good condition and labeled “Mariano / ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Nantucket Antiques Show Rebranded
The Nantucket Antiques Show, held annually for 35-plus years, has been rebranded as the Decorative and Fine Art Show Nantucket. The dates and location of the show remain August 7-10 at the Nantucket High School, Nantucket, Massachusetts.
Jerry Ritch, a second-generation antiques dealer and a 50-year veteran of the show circuit, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Cindy Johnson, Dater House Antiques, Troy, New York
Cindy Johnson.
Dater House Antiques is on Route 2 a few miles east of Troy, New York.
A partial view of Johnson’s shop.
Mortars with pestles: left, $195; right, $169. “They’re always good sellers,” Johnson said.
Quilted skirt or petticoat in tones of brown and plum with green and white flowers, $235.
Two-part stepback cupboard ... (Read More)
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(Show)Liberty in the Spring
Old Salem, Inc. staff member Tyler Cox operates Stepback Antiques in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He brought what he called “a make-do” primitive two-door cabinet with white wash. “If you like primitives, it appeals,” said Cox of the $399 cabinet.
With vestiges of its original red paint, this Sky King velocipede was ... (Read More)
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