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(Book Review)A Book Review: Please Touch!
by Jeanne SchintoSensory Marketing: Research on the Sensuality of Productsedited by Aradhna KrishnaRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009, 392 pages, softbound, $39.95, or hardbound, $79, from Taylor & Francis, (800) 634-7064 or (www.taylorandfrancis.com).Give him a tap with your fingernail.Muhlbach does so. The tiny statue rings like porcelain...Muhlbach picks up the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Deaccessioning Regulations Expire
by Betty FloodThe New York State Board of Regents voted to let museum deaccessioning regulations, which were set in 2006, expire as of October 8, according to staff members who attended the meeting on September 14. According to Assemblyman Matthew Titone (D-Staten Island) and Assemblyman Richard Brodsky (D-Westchester), when proponents ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction in Nantucket
The top lot of the sale was this unsigned oil on canvas portrait by British artist George Chinnery (1774-1852). According to catalog notes, Chinnery was the only western painter of his time to make his home in southern China, in Macao and Canton. He began painting in London and Ireland, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Quite a Show Ends with Quite a Blow
All lined up in the booth of DebraElizabeth Schaffer of Wiscasset, Maine: a four-sided glass and tin candle lantern, $45; a rare oil lamp with the original blown and bubbled glass, framed by pierced and painted tin, $675; and a lighthouse-form teapot with remnants of black paint, $175."I've been battling ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Adirondack Museum Show
Ross Brothers, Hatfield, Massachusetts, offered a black canoe by Brodeck for $9500, a red canoe from Charles River for $6800, a circa 1910 silver and red canoe by an unknown maker for $1900, a 1920'swooden canoe by William English for $4900, and a green canoe by Robertson for $5000.Tom Baker ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: What's It Worth?
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondAs expected, we get that "What's it worth?" question on a constant basis. There are other versions, but the underlying question and expectation is the same: give me a dollar value. And we do that on a constant basis too, but after listening to a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Brown Brings Green
John George Brown, Young Aspiring Sailor, signed "J.G. Brown N.A." and dated 1883, numbered No. 52444 on a paper label affixed to the back, oil on canvas, 25" x 20", $192,950. Weschler's photo.Paintings by John George Brown (1831-1913) that were the cover lots at Weschler's in Washington, D.C., and at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Expensive Jade and "That" Outfit
White jade table screen, Chinese, Qing Dynasty, Qianlong period (1736-96). The arched rectangular panel is finely carved with two oarsmen in a boat with a deer and a basket of flowers in a mountainous waterscape with a pavilion in the distance. The reverse is carved with pine and bamboo with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Record Set at Summer Americana Auction
"It's a new world record for a Cahoon," said a pleased Bob Eldred after selling the fabulous and folky Shocking Incident at the Boston Public Garden by Cape Cod artist Ralph Eugene Cahoon. The 32" x 391/2" oil on masonite opened at $60,000 and generated lots of action from the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marine Art at Northeast Auctions
This sperm whale's tooth was "Engraved by Fred-K Myrick on Board of the Susan of Nantucket on September the 1st, 1829." The article "Making Sense of Susan Teeth and Frederick Myrick" by Ken Martin in the October 1998 issue of Maine Antique Digest (text available on line) and his 2000 ... (Read More)
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