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(Show)Hanover Tavern Unveils Founding Father’s Cupboard
Antiques At The Tavern, Hanover, Virginia
The fifth annual Antiques At The Tavern show was held May 5-7 at the historic Hanover Tavern in Hanover, Virginia. The Hanover Tavern Foundation is the host, and proceeds from the show go to benefit the foundation’s goals related to education and preservation. This year ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, may 2023
A view of Chepstow Castle by the youthful JMW Turner, one that has seen a good many auction outings over the years, and a study of a gaucho on horseback that far exceeded all expectations and raised a seven-figure sum are among a number of pictures featured this month.
Outlaw and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana and International Auction
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
Although there was no sound on the first online livestreamed session of Pook & Pook’s May 4 and 5 sale, it did not seem to matter much except for the frustration of not knowing if a lot was sold in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Antiques Street Fair That Wasn’t
Spring Antiques Street Fair, Cameron, North Carolina
Cameron, population 359, is one of North Carolina’s most picturesque small towns. Along its sandy sidewalks are elaborate late Victorian mansions and Arts and Crafts bungalows, 61 of them on the National Register of Historic Places. When passenger trains stopped arriving and the dewberry ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historical Arms, Armor, and Militaria
Lewis & Grant Auctions, Newport, Kentucky
Photos courtesy Lewis & Grant Auctions
A cannon from the Alamo brought the top price during a sale of arms, armor, and militaria held by Lewis & Grant Auctions of Newport, Kentucky, May 5. The piece realized $48,300 (including buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $1000/2000.
Nineteenth-century ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Dealers for NHADA Annual Show
This year’s annual New Hampshire Antiques Show, produced by the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA), will have seven new dealers.
The new dealers are David Kurau of William R. & Teresa F. Kurau, Lampeter, Pennsylvania; Matthew Ehresman of Wadsworth, Ohio; Gemini Antiques Ltd., Oldwick, New Jersey; John Hunt Marshall of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clemens Sand Bottle Brings $113,400
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
On May 2 Doyle held a 372-lot Americana auction in New York City that brought a total of approximately $784,000. The auction was topped by a sand art bottle by deaf and mute artist Andrew Clemens (1857-1894) of McGregor, Iowa, that sold for $113,400 (includes ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Americana Auction
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
Freeman’s traditionally holds previews for its spring Americana sales during the weekend of the Philadelphia Show so that the dealers, collectors, and curators in town for the show can have a look at what’s for sale. The auction held on the following Tuesday gives those from ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Oliver Garland
Being diverted to Boston while on a flight to Chicago many winters ago was kismet for Oliver Garland’s mother.
At the time, the English-born young woman had planned to open an antiques shop in Chicago, but she remained in Boston, where she opened a shop on Newbury Street. It was there ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Philadelphia Show 2023
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The 61st Philadelphia Show camped out in a tent on the East Terrace of the Philadelphia Museum of Art for the second year, April 27-30, with 42 dealers offering mostly American paintings, furniture, folk art, silver, flags, jewelry, and 20th- and 21st-century design.
Most of the glitches from last year ... (Read More)
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