(Young Collectors)
The Young Collector
Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience, even a difficult one, just to be able to have the satisfaction of utilizing what you learned from the awkward, inefficient way you did it the first time. Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience because you’re Homer Simpson and you ... (Read More)
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Aware that moving antiques, fine art, and collectibles requires special care, T-N-T Moving Systems, Charlotte, North Carolina, has upgraded its moving policy to include current appraisals in its client checklist.
T-N-T Moving Systems co-owner Todd Koepke said, “You see appraisal values change over time, so it’s important that when we do ... (Read More)
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Historic New England has awarded its 20th annual book prize to Curiosities of the Craft: Treasures from the Grand Lodge of Massachusetts Collection by Aimee E. Newell, Hilary Anderson Stelling, and Catherine Compton Swanson, and “With Éclat”: The Boston Athenaeum and the Origin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Editorial
An off-the-cuff remark from Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman should be troubling to those in the antiques business. When asked about the cost of restoring almost 40 chairs original to the Nebraska State Capitol in Lincoln, the governor said there were better uses for the taxpayers’ money and that he would ... (Read More)
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Susan P. Schoelwer has been appointed the Robert H. Smith Senior Curator at George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Schoelwer has served as Mount Vernon’s curator since 2010. In that capacity she has overseen the recent refurnishing and reinterpretation of George Washington’s “New Room,” the reinstallation of the greenhouse slave quarters, and ... (Read More)
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From left: A pillar-molded celery glass of yellow glass, blown with eight ribs, tooled at the rim to produce a wavy effect, with an applied circular stem and foot, ground pontil mark, 1840-70, 9½" high x 5 3/8" diameter; pitcher of white, red, and blue glass, blown in white, trailed ... (Read More)
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The Grand Rapids Antiques Market in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and the popular Vintage Marketplace are joining forces this year, creating a bigger weekend of antiques shopping.
Vintage Promotions, producer of the Grand Rapids Antiques Market, will team up with Jenkins Management, producer of the Vintage Marketplace, which is held in Tennessee, ... (Read More)
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Florida collector Alfred A. Turner Jr. spent $100,000 in 2012 to buy two Tiffany lamps from Buffalo, New York, dealer Lawrence Ludtka, who calls his shop Larry’s Antiques. After Turner was rebuffed when he tried to consign one of the lamps to auction, he had them both evaluated and became ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
A 9" x 12" oil on canvas of three fishermen on a rocky ocean coast was titled on the back Bass Rock Fishermen and signed lower right “Chas. P. Gruppe.” Charles Paul Gruppé (1860-1940) was progenitor of the artistic Gruppé clan that included his sons Emile, Karl, and Paulo and ... (Read More)
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The 14½" high early 19th-century sheet-iron door handle backplate in the form of a fiddler is a Connecticut piece, said Greg Kramer of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, who priced the unusual find at $2250.
The Colonial Revival spinning wheel settee, offered by A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, was found ... (Read More)
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