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(Auction)Successful Online-Only Event Sparks Jeffers’s Next Venture
Amelia Jeffers, Auctioneer & Appraiser, Columbus, Ohio
For the past few years auctioneer and appraiser Amelia Jeffers has been a solopreneur in the auctioneer business and loving it.
“There is something about only having to manage yourself which can be very freeing,” Jeffers explained. Sure, several of Jeffers’s work projects require ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art at Bonhams
Bonhams, New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
Bonhams held its spring American art sale the afternoon of May 25 in New York City right before the Memorial Day weekend. The house offered 109 lots, of which 87 sold, for a sell-through rate of 80%.
The sale total, including buyers’ premiums, was $2,735,324. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Shane Hawkins’s Collection
Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers, Richmond, Indiana
No buyer’s premium charged.
This one is personal. The story, for now, begins with a miscellaneous box of vintage photographs offered during the May 24 and 25 sale held by Walther & Hawkins Auctioneers in Richmond, Indiana. At the bottom of the flat was a newspaper ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Curious Plan
How does a relatively new museum get objects? In Tennessee, two legislators want to raid the Tennessee State Museum’s storage area.
On January 30 a bill was introduced in the Tennessee State Legislature that would require the Tennessee State Museum to turn over all artifacts relating to the Confederate States of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Horans’ Pewter Collection
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
Robert Horan (1928-2022) was the national secretary of the Pewter Collectors’ Club of America (PCCA) for 30 years. A partner in the New York City law firm Phillips Nizer LLP, he was also an assistant judge in the village of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Quest for the Chest: Madeline Yale Wynne’s Masterpiece
Photographs by Penny Leveritt, courtesy Historic Deerfield
An inadvertent encounter with an unassuming turn-of-the-20th-century photograph of a 1903 bride’s chest, tucked in among hundreds of other images, prompted a two-decades-long search to bring the chest home. The improbable, against-all-odds hunt led eventually to a fund-raising campaign for the linen-style chest’s acquisition ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Shop Raided
Antiques Shop Raided
Executing a search warrant, officers from Hawaii’s Department of Land and Natural Resources and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration confiscated dozens of items from the Antique Freak shop in Wailuku, Hawaii, on May 23.
Shane Rosberg, 42, of Kula was arrested and charged with 26 counts of prohibited ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minardi Named New Editor of Americana Insights
Scholar, author, and curator Lisa Minardi will serve as the new editor of Americana Insights, a publication focused on 18th- and 19th-century Americana and American folk art. Minardi succeeds founding editor Robert Shaw, who retired at the start of 2023.
Minardi serves as executive director of Historic Trappe and its Center ... (Read More)
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(Show)Sunday in the Country with Rusty
Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine
At 10:30 on Sunday morning, May 21, auctioneer Rusty Farrin of Farrin’s Country Auctions, Randolph, Maine, banged his gavel to begin the firm’s Americana, firearms, and sporting goods auction.
The story wasn’t the stuff—there was plenty of salable midrange Americana. The story wasn’t that Farrin, who rarely ... (Read More)
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(Show)Nashville Visits Springfield
Springfield Extravaganza, Springfield, Ohio
There was a new twist to the Springfield Extravaganza, held May 19-21 at the Clark County Fairgrounds in Springfield, Ohio. Promoter Jon Jenkins set aside space in one of the main buildings to house dealers from the Nashville Show, which he manages in Tennessee. The concept offered ... (Read More)
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