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(Young Collectors)Community Gardening
The Young Collector
Kids’ minds work in remarkable ways. Sometimes you have a keen awareness that they are laying track across vast swaths of new territory, and they’re constantly discovering more uncharted areas. (A terrifying awareness is that you are allegedly helping them.) Sometimes the breadth of what they do not ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, March 2015
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Winston Churchill continues to attract adulation and huge prices in the salesroom, as one of the last of the old year sales in London so clearly showed, but in this selection he is joined in his staggering success by the most expensive watch ever made, a $24 million ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)American Neoclassicism--Jefferson versus Emerson
Amanda Lange, curatorial department director at Historic Deerfield, showed that Classical objects such as obelisks were popular decorative forms. This is one of a pair of circa 1800 English “feldspathic stoneware” obelisks by Chetham & Woolley of Longton, Staffordshire County. The overglaze enamel decoration depicts “trophies” of musical and military ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Searching for the Works of a Master Woodcarver--Charles Vollrath
The author and the circa 1930 carving, which stands about 2' high and is carved from a single block of wood.
In the realm of folk art, woodcarving is a popular collectible. The Ottawa Valley in Canada was home to a number of folk artists who worked in wood. One in ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Susan Jaffe Tane: From Collector to Curator
Susan Jaffe Tane, pictured in her library. The bibliophile and philanthropist earned a B.S. from Boston University’s School of Education and later pursued postgraduate courses at Hofstra University and C.W. Post University. She began her career as a schoolteacher and later launched Fashions by Appointment, a small business dedicated to ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Bits of News
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Computer Column #315
John P. Reid, [email protected]
A number of hints and bits of news have accumulated.
NeoCollect Closing
In the Maine Antique Digest editions of June 2009 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A $1,750,000 Norman Rockwell Becomes a $20,000 Harold Anderson
In 1994, collectors Barry and Isabel Knispel of Saddle River, New Jersey, paid $347,437 to Gallery 63 Antiques, New York City, for Mending His Ways, purportedly by Norman Rockwell. Almost two decades later, an appraisal for insurance purposes revealed the painting is not by Rockwell but by Harold Anderson. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barn Star Productions Adds Spring Wilton Show, Moves Guilford's Dates, and Takes Over Cord Shows
It’s been a busy winter for Frank Gaglio and his company, Barn Star Productions. The Rhinebeck, New York, show promoter has announced several major moves.
Two years ago, Gaglio revived the long-running one?day Wilton Antiques Show in the autumn. He is now adding a two?day spring show to his schedule. The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Maine Museums Threatened
Editorial
Governor Paul LePage of Maine, a twice-elected hard-line conservative, included a stunning proposal in a broad and bold plan to overhaul the state’s tax system: he wants to tax nonprofits.
LePage wants to end state revenue sharing with cities and towns, which will have a big impact on local budgets. In ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Secord's Inaugural Exhibition in New Gallery
The William Secord Gallery’s inaugural exhibition at its new location at 29 West 15th Street in Manhattan’s historic Chelsea district is Canine Masters, The Nineteenth Century. It will feature works by English artists such as Maud Earl (1864-1943), Thomas Earl (fl. 1836-85), John Emms (1843-1912) and Arthur Wardle (1864-1949), as ... (Read More)
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