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(Fragment)Stack’s Bowers Galleries 2025 Professional Numismatist Program
Stack’s Bowers Galleries has announced the 2025 session of its Professional Numismatist Program, scheduled to be held July 20-25. The program’s mission is “To provide practical tools and build professional connections for the next generation of young adult numismatists.” The lead instructor will be Devin Hipp, joined by industry leaders ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Center for Painted Wall Preservation Scholarship
The Center for Painted Wall Preservation (CPWP) invites applications to the 2025 inaugural CPWP scholarship. Awards will be made for either one recipient of $1500 or two recipients of $750. The selection will be based on review of proposals for educational scholarly projects designed to study, understand, and educate about ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Stone Birds: How to Find a Peckham
How do you find a new painting by somebody who’s been dead for 150 years? As you might expect, there’s no straightforward answer. I found myself in that quandary not too long ago while studying the Massachusetts folk painter Deacon Robert Peckham (1785-1877).
Peckham was a staunch advocate for abolition, temperance, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fletcher to Receive President’s Award
On Wednesday, April 16, Old Sturbridge Village will present its President’s Award to Stephen L. Fletcher, Americana expert and former executive vice president of Skinner.
The Old Sturbridge Village President’s Award honors those individuals whose work, like that of Old Sturbridge Village, brings meaning, relevance, and inspiration to the public through ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A-Mark Acquires Parent of Stack’s Bowers Galleries
A-Mark Precious Metals, Inc., a precious metals platform, has entered into a agreement to acquire 100% of the stock of Spectrum Group International, Inc. (SGI), the parent of Stack’s Bowers Galleries (SBG), one of the world’s largest rare coin and currency auction houses and a wholesale and retail dealer specializing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Vander Sande Collection at Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
The entire 211-lot catalog for the March 12 sale at Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina, was devoted to the collection of Marie-Teresa and John (1944-2024) Vander Sande of Newbury, Massachusetts. The couple researched and purchased 17th- and 18th-century Massachusetts furniture and decorative arts. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Skinner Art Sale
Bonhams Skinner, Marlborough, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Bonhams Skinner
Bidders disregarded the estimates on Island Funeral, this charcoal on paper sketch, 43" x 50½" (sheet size), by Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) and drove it to $508,500 (est. $25,000/35,000). In September 1934 Wyeth watched from the porch of his home in Port Clyde, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Balancing Act
Beneath the Surface
Is there anything worse than not being able to find something that you absolutely know is there somewhere? With a big house, an auction gallery, and two kids, Hollie really would not want to calculate how many hours she spends looking for things: keys, math books, library books, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Eldred’s Relaunches Sandwich Auction House
Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts, relaunched Sandwich Auction House in February as a discrete brand under its umbrella of auction and appraisal services.
Sandwich Auction House, founded in 1974, spent decades selling hundreds of thousands of items and providing comprehensive estate auction services to southern New England and beyond. After nearly 50 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Crowntainer Sells for Record $111,150
A rare Chief Oshkosh Crowntainer beer can set a new auction record at $111,150 (includes buyer’s premium) at Morean Auctions, Brimfield, Massachusetts, March 9. (Crowntainers are a style of beer cans that have a funnel-shaped cone top that was sealed with a bottle cap.) The white Chief Oshkosh is the ... (Read More)
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