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(Feature)Whitaker Couture Auction Filmed by Bravo
Estimated at $800/1200, the Chinese embroidered throne cover, 18th or 19th century, sold for $33,600. The 41½" x 51½" yellow-gold silk tapestry was elaborately embroidered with a gold dragon in couched metallic threads surrounded by cloud bands and Buddhist symbols enclosed by a border of chrysanthemums within couched gold thread, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)NEA Grant to Help Winterthur Digitize
The Winterthur Museum is one of 788 not-for-profit national, regional, state, and local organizations nationwide to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Works grant. Winterthur will use the grant to scan, photograph, and digitize its collection of prints, maps, watercolors, and other paper arts.With the grant, Winterthur will employ ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Shop News
New Shop in the Adirondacks Expands. Over 20 dealers opened a new shop in February in the lower Adirondacks, The Antiques Market Place. It is located at 1066 Route 9, Queensbury, New York, just south of Lake George, and hours are daily, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Because of brisk ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Outsider Art Fair Moves to New Location
Sanford L. Smith's Outsider Art Fair in New York City will take place January 31-February 3, 2013, at a new location in Chelsea: Center548 (548 West 22nd Street), the former DIA Center for the Arts.In a press release, Smith wrote, "Twenty-one years ago, when the Outsider Art Fair debuted at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Summer Writing Contest with an Antiques Twist
A 19th-century doll carved from a bedpost is one of seven items suggested for the "Biography of an Object Writing Contest." Visit the contest page on Garth's Web site for a complete list. Contestants may also select their own object by utilizing a 30-day trial membership offer from Prices4Antiques.com, an ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Exhibitions
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dr. Werner Muensterberger's African Art Collection
Werner Muensterberger's Collecting: An Unruly Passion was first published in 1994 by Princeton University Press. Copies are available on Amazon (www.amazon.com) and other used-book Web sites. One must get to the end of the book to discover the doctor believed that collecting, if kept within bounds, could be a healthy ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Mobile Antiques Web Sites
Newport, Rhode Island, antiques shops listing as seen on an Android smartphone.Computer Column #263by John P. Reid, [email protected] value of Web site ownership to antiquers was discussed in the last two columns along with steps for creating mobile versions of Web sites. This month some interesting mobile antiques Web sites ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fire Screen "Possibly" Going Back to White House
The 47½" x 27" carved giltwood fire screen, possibly by French cabinetmaker Pierre-Antoine Bellangé (circa 1760-1844), sold to an unidentified phone bidder for $22,420 (est. $2000/4000).Still Life by Anton Faistauer (1887-1930), an important Austrian Modernist, sold for $112,100 (est. $30,000/40,000). The 26" x 35" oil on canvas makes evident that ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Box-Lot Blue Pickle, "Wonderfully Imperfect" Stirs Fuss on eBay
Kim Kokles is shown holding his new blue pickle with an old favorite—a colored-enamel back bar bottle, a "Yellowstone Whiskey" with a full-color view of the grand falls. Most of the bottles represented in his bar bottle collection have color depictions relating to the product brand. This photo, Kokles added, ... (Read More)
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