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(Show)Tailgate-Music Valley: A New Approach to Selling Old Stuff
The Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show in February was a reconfigured combined event in a bright new location. With a hint of mad scientist, Jon Jenkins said, "Welcome to my world! We've been in the laboratory quite some time." He posed with a personal purchase, a floor lamp made of old ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History including the Civil War
Daniel S. Mitchell and John Hillers carte de visite portrait album of American Indians, 36 images, most of Mitchell's cartes de visite trimmed at the bottom, Hillers's with paper loss on reverse, $41,125.Personal shaving mug of Deputy U.S. Marshal Buck Garrett, having a photographic transfer of Garrett on horseback, porcelain, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)PAFA Grad to Curate Artwork for Insurance Offices
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) announced the launch of a new partnership with the Philadelphia Insurance Companies. The new internship opportunity allows a PAFA graduate student to install artwork by PAFA students in administrative offices, halls, and common rooms of the Philadelphia Insurance Companies.Scott Schultheis has been ... (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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(Show)Heart of Country: Nashville Classic Has a New Spring in Its Step
At the 2012 show, Susan Kramer Hunkins put together an exhibition of quilts from the collection of her mother, Libby Kramer, the show's founder. Hunkins showed off a favorite flag quilt, priced for sale at $3200, and said, "She loved all textiles."The Gaylord Opryland Hotel contains extensive botanical gardens, expertly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Full House for Merrill's Winter Americana and Fine Arts Sale
The 25" x 30" oil on canvas portraits by Horace Bundy of the Simmonds family of Weston, Vermont, painted in 1853, were fresh and very desirable. A Vermont collector took the lot for $8680.The chair table or hutch table in old red paint has a 48" diameter top and was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse to Open
The Spring Point Ledge Lighthouse in South Portland, Maine, will open for the 2012 season, weather permitting, on Saturday, June 23 and Saturday, June 30 and continue to be open every Saturday and Sunday in July and August. The lighthouse will also be open on Saturday, September 1 (Labor Day ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] left, the "King Carlos IV" secrétaire cabinet as originally constructed and as seen in the 1910 New York City exhibition catalogue.Right, the MGM secrétaire cabinet as sold for $39,320 at Bonhams on March 7. The cabinet in its original form is believed to have been commissioned ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Art of the Americas Show
New York City gallery owner John Molloy was asking $2400 for this mid-20th-century dance apron with an Avanyu/water serpent motif.Terry DeWald of Tucson, Arizona, was asking $48,000 for this circa 1885 indigo-dyed Pueblo blanket ("no lazy lines"). DeWald had a picture from the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona, of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Strong at Farmer Sale
This ship's portrait by Antonio Jacobsen (1850-1921) earned honors as high lot of the Farmer sale. The 21½" x 35½" (sight size) oil on canvas laid down on masonite and mounted onto a period stretcher is a portrait of the ill-fated Danish passenger ship S.S. Geiser. The Geiser, powered by ... (Read More)
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