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(Feature)The Cobbs Kick Off the New Year
The Cobbs Auctioneers, Peterborough, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoIt was a day of contrasts at The Cobbs Auctioneers' January 5 auction in Peterborough, New Hampshire. As if reflecting the fog of economic uncertainty hovering over the country, some relatively unheralded items crushed their estimates as other higher-profile lots fell short. With ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sandpainting Weaving Top Lot
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, Californiaby Alice KaufmanThe top lot of the Native American and pre-Columbian art auction at Bonhams & Butterfields on December 3, 2007, was a Navajo sandpainting weaving that probably dates to the 1930's.This 7'8" x 7' Navajo sandpainting rug, attributed to master weaver Marie Antonio, sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Kerman Oriental Rug Tops Prices
John McInnis Auctioneers, Amesbury, Massachusettsby Ed PfeifferJohn McInnis of Amesbury, Massachusetts, started his auction gallery in 1980 after having been associated for some years with his father, who was an antiques dealer. Since then, he has become well known for his sales of fine estates, drawn mostly from the North ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Foster Packs 'Em In
Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiskoCome blizzard, sunshine, or hurricane (unlikely on January 1, we admit), Robert Foster's traditional New Year's Day auction in Newcastle, Maine, packs the bidders in by the hundreds. This year's kickoff sale was no exception. The usual standing-room-only crowd chased about 600 lots, led ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Mr. and Mrs. George Fenimore Johnson Sale
Sotheby's, New York City
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Dale and George Fenimore Johnson lived in a grand country house called Shell Point in Maryland and filled it with furniture bought from Israel Sack and John Walton in the 1950's and '60's and with Chinese export porcelain bought at major shows from dealer Elinor ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Big Gift to Carnegie
Big Gift to CarnegieDr. Ellen Lehman has made a $3 million gift to the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh's Building the Future campaign, through the Alan G. and Jane A. Lehman Foundation, to be used to create two endowments of $1.5 million each.One endowment will establish the Alan G. and Jane ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Andrea Canady Promoted to Fair Director
Andrea Canady has been promoted to fair director of the newly formed Art & Antiques Fairs, North America management division of dmg world media.Canady is responsible for the Original Miami Beach Antiques Show (OMBAS) and the New York, Las Vegas, and Miami Beach Antique Jewelry & Watch shows. OMBAS is ... (Read More)
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(Feature)2008 NHADA Show Brochure
The 51st annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association show will be held August 7-9 at the Radisson, the Center of New Hampshire, in downtown Manchester. Planning ahead for this event is a must, since many collectors and dealers who converge on the Granite State during August wisely make their hotel ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Steuben for Sale
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(Show)Antiques Manhattan, Spurred on by Dealers, Stages a Comeback
New York Cityby Clayton PenningtonThe Altman Building in Manhattan, once a carriage house for the B. Altman department store, hosted a stable of 22 dealers January 17-20 in a revival of Antiques Manhattan, a show last staged in 2003.Promoter Barry Cohen of b4rTIME, Inc. said that although the show shared ... (Read More)
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