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(Issue Story)Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Editorial
Tiny Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts, has a big problem, and the administration thought it had a perfect solution.
The problem is the Vining Collection, approximately 7000 rare books and artifacts given to the college by the family of Edward Payson Vining in 1921. Proper care for the collection is costly, ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Data Disposal, Backup Power, and Mobile Web Sites
Sanding away all or part of the label to the center hole makes a CD or DVD unreadable by identity thieves.
Computer Column #316
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Disposing of data CDs with sensitive information, Internet survival in bad weather, and adapting a Web site for mobile devices will be covered.
Shred CDs and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Paintings, and Sporting Art Sold on the Cape
This 1900 Elk Buffalo by New York artist Henry Merwin Shrady (1871-1922) sold for a record price of $276,000. The buffalo stands ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Enjoys Solid Spring Sale
This oil on canvas is attributed to the circle of Gaetano Lapis (Italian, 1704-1776). The painting depicts the central encounter in the story of Armida and Rinaldo from the poem by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). Armida is shown as she approaches the sleeping Rinaldo. Her intent is to kill Rinaldo; instead ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A New Location for Chelsea Clock Company and a Second Edition of Its History
One of the new photographs in the second edition of the Demeters’ book is a vintage image showing Joseph H. Eastman (1843-1931), founder of the Chelsea Clock Company’s immediate precursor, the Eastman Clock Company. Eastman, who trained as a watchmaker as well as a clockmaker, fitted his clock movement with ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Bowmanville Antiques & Folk Art Show: Fragments of Living Canadian History
Fairfield Antiques, Kingston, Ontario, offered the folk painting of the Yankee whale fishery for $1800. It dated from the second half of the 19th century (ex-Rod Brook collection). The six-board blanket box hailed from the Niagara Peninsula via the Bill Hogan collection and dated from the second quarter of the ... (Read More)
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(Show)It Was an Interesting Time
Customers filled the floor on Saturday afternoon. One thing that pleased the dealers was a steadier than usual second-day flow.
This custard glass dresser set with its mustard-colored decoration on white shows a little wear, but for a set from the 1890s, once proudly gracing someone’s boudoir, that is to be ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Forty Years of Sommer
“I have a wonderful relation with the dealers who are in the shop. I like what they see and buy and bring in. I’m spoiled,” said Phyllis Sommer.
The next time you’re driving on Route 1 into Searsport, Maine, take heed of the 25 m.p.h. speed limit sign as you’re approaching ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hot Prices for Barkley Hendricks's Cool Portraits and Norman Lewis's Abstractions
Barkley L. Hendricks (b. 1945), Steve, 72" x 48" oil, acrylic, and Magna on canvas, 1976, $365,000.
Boy and Sheep under a Tree by Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859-1937) sold within estimates to a collector for $245,000. The 17 3/8" x 27" oil on canvas is signed and dated (“1881”).
Cathedral, Norman Lewis ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Church Painting Brings $353,000
The star lot of the sale, Frederic Edwin Church’s View of Baalbek, circa 1868, sold on the phone to the Detroit Institute of Arts for $353,000. The 9½" x 20" oil and pencil on heavy card had an estimate of $80,000/120,000. The painting had descended in the family of the ... (Read More)
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