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(Feature)Taxes 101: Using Your Home for Business
by Caroline EvansMany people who run small businesses operate out of their home. They may use a spare room, the basement, the garage, or maybe that little shed in the backyard. This is a business expense that can be a great deduction at tax time. It is an expense the ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: The Things They Carried
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondRegardless of the anxiety you may have about what people think of how you look in your bathing suit, about your flip-up sunglasses, or your bare feet, when you're sitting on the beach soaking up the sun, the one thing you don't have to worry ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Ken Woodbury, Nipper's Choice, Keene, New Hampshire
Ken Woodbury.Woodbury's shop, formerly the family gas station. "My father built it to keep my mother busy when she wasn't raising three boys and one girl." Woodbury started pumping gas in the 1950's when he was six or seven years old. Regular gas was 14.9¢ a gallon; ethyl, 16.9¢. "The ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fairhaven Antiques Festival
The Fairhaven Antiques Festival is promoted as "A Great American Tradition" in a billboard on the south edge of town, where dealers set up in a small field.Ohio dry sink in untouched condition, $2900 from Thomas J. Jewett and Charles P. Berdan of Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine.From Monty Young Antiques, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Signs of the Times
All was quiet on the western front the eve before the show opened. A large wide concrete driveway separates the opposite buildings used for the show, convenient for trucks and the kettle corn vendor.The first hour of the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair.Traditional favorites from Robert Conrad of Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, included a ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country Antiques and Folk Art Show
Five-year exhibitor Grimes Collectique and Collectibles, which shows at Niles Antiques, Fremont, California, was asking $750 for this circa 1884 Norwegian bride's box with rosemaling and "For Peter's Daughter" painted on the front.At the show's folk artisan corner contemporary material was shown, usually by the artisan. These made-new-to-look-old flag pillows ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Material Bolsters Auction
Anna Pottery pig flask, Union County, Illinois, circa 1880, having an incised map of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, as well as St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, and smaller towns, $14,100.Carved ivory figural group consisting of eight separate pieces, some polychrome decoration, Chinese, on a wooden stand, signed under the central ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Former Director of Salander-O'Reilly Sentenced
by Daniel GrantThe former director of Manhattan's now-defunct Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Leigh Morse, 55, was sentenced on July 19 to weekend jail time and ordered to pay $1.65 million in restitution for her role in the $120 million scam in which numerous clients of the gallery were defrauded.Morse, who left the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century and Modern Auction
A rare pair of Gustav Stickley hammered copper 20" tall candlesticks with "Als ik kan" stamps (est. $3500/5500) sold for $65,100. They are the only pair with original finish and in original condition. "Another pair survives, but they had been electrified," said Beth Cathers, who bought them in the salesroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Let Me Ask You
by Steve ProffittOur trip through the consignment process has been a pretty good trek, and we are not done yet. This is the fourth installment in a series that began at the suggestion of my colleague David Hewett. Dave e-mailed me last January about a column he had written on ... (Read More)
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