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Cloud Computing
by John P. Reid

Computer Column #258by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] screen, the Google Docs on-line word processor looks and acts much like a word processor installed on your computer."Open source" free software was described in the last column. This software, produced by committees of volunteers, is a good way for a small ... (Read More)

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The 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen

 Francis Purcell of Philadelphia brought two working fountains. This French fountain of zinc and iron, circa 1865, has steel pipes and modern fittings. It was $23,950. Two others like it are known; one is at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, and the other is at ... (Read More)

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The Philadelphia Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Peter Eaton offered a set of Philadelphia ladderback chairs made of maple and walnut. He thought they were made in downtown Philadelphia because of the quality of the turnings and the overall proportions of the chairs. The price was $56,000, and they sold the last day of the show to ... (Read More)

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American Portrait Miniatures in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
by Lita Solis-Cohen

A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican Portrait Miniatures in The Metropolitan Museum of Artby Carrie Rebora Barratt and Lori ZabarMetropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010, 316 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from the Metropolitan Museum of Art (www.metmuseum.org) or (800) 468-7386.The Metropolitan Museum of Art has the largest ... (Read More)

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American Furniture 2009
by Lita Solis-Cohen

A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenAmerican Furniture 2009edited by Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, distributed by the University Press of New England, 2009, 192 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from UPNE, (www.upne.com) or (800) 421-1561.The hardbound 2009 edition of the American Furniture journal, the Chipstone Foundation's yearly contribution to furniture scholarship, is ... (Read More)

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Fusco & Four Announces the New Ellis Boston Antiques Show
by Jeanne Schinto

by Jeanne SchintoTony Fusco and Robert Four of Fusco & Four/Ventures have announced the startling news that they will produce a new Ellis Boston Antiques Show, to debut on the weekend of October 20-23, 2011.The old Ellis Antiques Show, founded in 1960 as a fund-raiser for Ellis Memorial & Eldredge ... (Read More)

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James Turns Armacost Antiques Shows Back to Robert Armacost
by Lita Solis-Cohen

by Lita Solis-CohenAfter three and a half years of trying antiques show management, Robert James is leaving the business. "My plans to grow the Armacost company did not pan out," he said at the Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show on Memorial Day weekend. "I was not able to do it ... (Read More)

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WGBH Sues User of ?Roadshow? Name, Again
by David Hewett

by David HewettIf you're a veteran reader of M.A.D., you may recall the brouhaha arising over a toy collecting/dealing group from the Midwest that toured the country under the name "Antique Toy Roadshow."From 1999 to 2001, we published several accounts of the battle WGBH Educational Foundation, the Massachusetts-based charitable corporation ... (Read More)

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Bo-Whoop and Boutet Meet Hair Trigger Bob
by Mark Sisco

Cased Boutet flintlock pistols, $437,000. Julia photo.“Hair Trigger Bob” Meldrum Colt revolver, $258,750. Julia photo.James D. Julia Inc., Fairfield, Maineby Mark SiscoThe James D. Julia auction company held its two-day spring firearms sale in Fairfield, Maine, on March 15 and 16, and the result was nearly $8.5 million worth of ... (Read More)

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Early American Antiques and Decorative Art
by Don Johnson

Cased pair of pistols, European, 19th century, signed “V. Häfner, Königl. Hofbuchsenmacher Cassel” on the interior case label and in gold inlay on the top flats of the barrels, with chased and gilded vining, and cherubs on the frames with original bluing on the barrels, ivory slab grips have some ... (Read More)
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