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(Issue Story)What Price History?
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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(Fragment)Mount Vernon Selects Senior Curator
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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(Fragment)Peter Tillou Gives Glass to Carnegie
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, 91/2" high x 5 3/8" diameter; pitcher of white, red, and blue glass, blown in white, trailed ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vintage Marketplace and Grand Rapids Antiques Market Combine for Show in January
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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(Fragment)Collector Alleges He Was Sold Two Tiffany Fakes
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)Gruppe Groupies Head for Farrin's
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 Gruppe (1860-1940) was progenitor of the artistic Gruppe clan that included his sons Emile, Karl, and Paulo and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fewer Participants, Still Top-Quality Merchandise at ADA Show
The 141/2" 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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(Show)Strong Sales at a Wet Fishersville
Garland Grimm commented that since his signs were meant to hang outside, the rain was not a problem for his inventory. The Fishersville, Virginia, dealer offered this array of signs at his infield booth. The Studebaker Erskine sign is perhaps the most scarce. Studebaker manufactured the Erskine for only four ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Art at Auction
Pint-size sand bottle by Andrew Clemens (1857- 1894), one side with design lettered "Our Emma / 1884," other side with a floral design, unusually large at 9" high, $19,200.
Pictured is one of a pair of 18th-century English Chinese Chippendale mirrors by George Godley of Winchester, 65" x 261/2". Of carved ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-American Art Sale Features Richard A. Long's Collection
Elizabeth Catlett's Singing Head of circa 1977 is carved tropical wood with painted details. It is 161/4" x 8" x 71/2" and sold for $125,000 (est. $120,000/ 180,000).
An institution paid $57,500 for Vernon by William E. Artis (1914-1977). The 1946-50 terra-cotta sculpture is 22" tall, including its base. It is ... (Read More)
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