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(Fragment)Colonial Williamsburg and MESDA Announce New Partnership
While some museums and historical societies are merging, two leading decorative arts institutions in the South are embarking on a new partnership. The Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia and the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts (MESDA) in Old Salem, North Carolina, have entered into a five-year agreement ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Three Spring Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Spring auctions held at Joseph DuMouchelle, New York City; John Moran Auctioneers, Altadena, California; and Skinner Inc., Boston, take center stage this month.
This circa 1900 gold oval pill box, 2" long, has guilloche red enamel on a sunburst background on the hinged cover with a central double ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Think No Half Thoughts
Auction Law & Ethics
Many people are prone to not thinking issues through thoroughly. Prospective auction consignors can be particularly guilty of this when they get hung up worrying about selling prices for their property. Consider what a potential consigner said to me.
“I’ve thought it through and decided not to have ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
The Russians, back in some strength in the London salesrooms, along with some exceptional glasswares, make up the bulk of this month’s “Letter,” but also included are an avian cigarette lighter, Iznik water bottles, Running before the Trades with a Nova Scotian marine artist, another set of library ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Sincerest Form of Flattery: Grace Hudson's Little Mendocino and Its Many Copies
Grace Hudson, Little Mendocino, (#5), 1892, oil on canvas, 36" x 26". California Historical Society, Gift of the San Francisco Art Institute, the Bridgeman Art Library.
The Carpenter family, circa 1873, Aurelius O. Carpenter, photographer. Standing at rear, May Carpenter. Seated, left to right: Helen, Grant, Frank, Grace, and Aurelius Ormando ... (Read More)
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(The Art of Marketing)Keys to a Successful Ad Campaign
The Art of Marketing
Last month I covered the topic ofcreating an effective Web site. This month we will begin to review another marketing tactic, which I am sure is front and center in everyone’s mind—advertising. By now you should have laid the groundwork for an effective advertising campaign through developing ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Customer Stops Payment on a Check, Determined Dealer Fights Back
If your bank informs you that a customer’s check has cleared, can a purchaser still stop payment by closing the account? As West Palm Beach, Florida, dealer Penelope Williams discovered this spring, the answer is yes.
Williams’s business is called Penelope’s Past Antiques; her customer was a dealer from Toronto, Ontario, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wallace Nutting Collectors Club Elects Vice President
Sharon Lacasse of West Barnstable, Massachusetts, owner of Sharon Lacasse Antiques, has been elected vice president of the nationwide Wallace Nutting Collectors Club. Lacasse has been an active member of the club for 25 years and a trustee for the past ten years. Although she is a general antiques dealer, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Collectors Should Go Heavy in Old Glass
Opinion
If you have been thinking about expanding your collecting interests, maybe now would be a good time to start buying good antique glass, some collectors suggest.
Remember when the stock market was down, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was 11,000, friends said to invest, but you had cold feet? The Dow ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Ten for Ten
The Young Collector
Time flies. It really does. Except when it’s 5:30 p.m. and you’ve been up since 6 a.m. and home with two small children, one who doesn’t need to nurse and needs to sleep but wants to nurse and doesn’t want to sleep, and the other who does not ... (Read More)
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