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(Issue Story)Hanging with Rob Wolfe
The ability to tell stories through objects is what gets Rob Wolfe out of bed every morning. He grew up in Bettendorf, Iowa, with his older brother, Mike, who is his counterpart on the History Channel's American Pickers, soon to begin its 25th season. The Wolfe boys constructed forts in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Free Admission to Those under 18 at Rhinebeck Show
The Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck show on May 25 and 26 will offer free admission to anyone under 18. The Memorial Day weekend show, produced by Barn Star Productions, will be held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York. The entire show will be held indoors. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Ringing the Warning Bell
On the lawn of a Maine historical society sits a bronze bell cast by the Revere Foundry in Boston. The foundry cast over 900 bells between 1792 and 1843, and 24 of them are in the state of Maine. This particular bell was originally hung in a church, but when ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Boscobel House and Gardens Raising Money to Fix Library Ceiling
During the evening of April 16, the plaster ceiling of the library room at Boscobel House and Gardens, Garrison, New York, collapsed without warning. According to a press release, no one was in the building at the time, but the incident caused major damage to the library, its contents, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of the Attix Collection
Locati LLC, Pineville, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Locati LLC
C. Thomas Attix Jr. (1927-2012) was a passionate collector who liked wood, silver, and Oriental rugs. A corporate lawyer for RCA, the father of four bought carefully, filling his house in New Jersey with furniture made in the mid-18th and early 19th centuries. He ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$10,000 Bucher Box Tops Auction
Horst Auctioneers, Ephrata, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Horst Auctioneers
Horst Auctioneers in Ephrata, Pennsylvania, has been in business since around 1900. According to the history the company posts on its website, which calls the firm "The Voices of Experience," A. A. Landis, Timothy and Thomas Horst's great-grandfather, began calling auctions at the turn ... (Read More)
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(Show)Great Picking at Gilmanor Farm
Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show, Glen Allen, Virginia
The weekend of May 17 and 18 marked the 12th installment of the Virginia Pickers Antiques & Collectables Show. The biannual event is held at Joel Gilman's Gilmanor Farm in Glen Allen, Virginia. The show is still feeling its way as it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Haley Toy Collection Surpasses $2.48 Million
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
Back in the late 1960s and early '70s, purchasing older items was a completely different animal than it is today. Pre-Internet collecting meant days were spent on the road tracking down antiques shops, visiting advanced collectors who had already acquired what you desired, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Barry D. Hogan's Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
The catalog for the sale of Barry D. Hogan's collection is the most recent addition to a long shelf of catalogs for single-owner estate sales of mostly Pennsylvania folk art and what used to be called "country furniture" that the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, June2024
Louise Nevelson, Royal Tide I, 1960, painted wood, 7'2" x 40" x 8". Gift of Peter and Beverly Lipman. Photo courtesy Storm King Art Center by Jerry L. Thompson, (c) 2022 Estate of Louise Nevelson / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
-Through June 9 -Waterville, Maine
The World Outside: Louise Nevelson ... (Read More)
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