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"Antiques Roadshow" Schedule
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Antiques Roadshow, PBS's most-watched prime time series, has announced its summer 2011 tour destinations. Stops and dates include Eugene, Oregon, June 4; El Paso, Texas, June 18; Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 9; Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 23; Atlanta, Georgia, August 6; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 13. Programs taped in those locations will ... (Read More)

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New Wing at Boston Museum: Worth a Trip from Anywhere
by Jeanne Schinto

Museum of Fine Arts, Bostonby Jeanne SchintoA view of all four levels of the new wing from the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard. Photograph © Chuck Choi.The Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard on the morning of the press conference and donor/guest reception. Constructed almost entirely of ... (Read More)

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American Furniture and Decorative Arts and the Fifth Pennsylvania Sale
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This circa 1755 clock in a walnut case, carved probably by Nicholas Bernard of Philadelphia, has works by Edward Duffield. Estimated at $80,000/120,000, it sold in the salesroom to dealer Jim Kilvington of Dover, Delaware, for $193,000. Edward Duffield is much revered. A friend of Benjamin Franklin, he was executor ... (Read More)

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Old-Fashioned Auction at Grogan--"The Way It Should Be"
by Jeanne Schinto

The sale’s top lot at $57,500 (est. $300/500) was a Chinese carved pale green jade bowl, 7½" in diameter. It came from the Cecile Parker Carver estate.Grogan & Company, Dedham, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy GroganGrogan & Company pulled in more than $2 million at its annual fall two-day auction on ... (Read More)

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Harnett's Golden Horseshoe Brings Good Luck
by Jeanne Schinto

The Golden Horseshoe by William M. Harnett (1848-1892) was the sale’s star lot, selling to a private collector on the phone for $552,000 (est. $300,000/500,000). Dated 1886, the 16" x 14" oil on canvas has been widely exhibited and published.Above: a 42¾" x 56½" untitled oil on canvas by RolphScarlett ... (Read More)

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Antiques & Art at the Armory
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Milord Antiques, Montreal, Canada, asked $15,500 for the Leleu table with two 18" leaves. It is 49" in diameter without the leaves and 85" wide with the two leaves. The chairs by Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb, 1950, were $6500 for the four. The Bugatti desk, chairs, and table, a suite of ... (Read More)

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Forums and Texting
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Auction Law and Ethics: Let's Talk
by Steve Proffitt

Auction Law and Ethicsby Steve Proffitt"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."Two hundred thirty-four years after Thomas Jefferson turned this phrase into the Declaration of Independence, these words ring with eloquence still. But while "all men" may be "created equal" within the flourish of ... (Read More)

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Consignors Lose in the J.C. Devine Bankruptcy
by David Hewett

by David Hewett"We looked. There was nothing of value there," said Assistant Attorney General David A. Rienzo of the New Hampshire attorney general's office in mid-December 2010. With that statement, any hopes that consignors to a March 2010 J.C. Devine, Inc. auction would recover the money due them went out ... (Read More)

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Fitz Henry Lane Catalogue Raisonne
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The Cape Ann Museum has initiated the Fitz Henry Lane Catalogue Raisonné project. The museum, located in Gloucester, Massachusetts, Lane's birthplace and home for most of his life, has the largest collection of the artist's paintings, drawings, and related material. The catalogue raisonné project and the associated scholarship is central ... (Read More)
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