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NHADA Elects New Officers
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The New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association held its annual business meeting on November 14, 2007, at the Bedford Village Inn in Bedford.The 2008 slate of officers elected at the meeting are president, Kathy Schoemer, Kathy Schoemer American Antiques, Acworth; immediate past president, Linda Tate, The Tates Antiques, Sanbornton; secretary, Melissa ... (Read More)

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Antique Center Presents Theme Rooms
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According to a press release, Matthew Mead, contributing editor for Country Home magazine, and From Out of the Woods Antiques, Goffstown, New Hampshire, opened their second seasonal room display at From Out of the Woods Antiques on December 8, 2007, to a standing-room-only crowd.The theme was a bedroom setting with ... (Read More)

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Wallachs Seek Help with Tramp Art Book
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Clifford and Nancy Wallach are working on a new book, Tramp Art Another Notch: Folk Art in the Tramp Art Style, to be published by Schiffer Publishing. According to the Wallachs, "It will be an advanced study of the art form, including all the new information we have uncovered since ... (Read More)

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Fine Folk Art Finds at Gould's
by Mark Sisco

Gould Auction Company, Gardiner, Maineby Mark SiscoTimothy Gould still brings forth fresh items to auction several times a year. He admits that truly "fresh" is getting harder and harder to find, but there was enough heretofore undiscovered merchandise at his November 17, 2007, auction in Gardiner, Maine, to keep us ... (Read More)

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A Show with a Mission
by Sharon Verbeten

Green Bay, Wisconsinby Sharon VerbetenThe crisp seasonal chill in the air and the pending holidays may have been on the minds of many attendees at the Green Bay-De Pere Antiquarian Society's Holiday Antique Show and Sale, held November 16 and 17, 2007, in Green Bay, Wisconsin, but the show's organizers ... (Read More)

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Guyette and Schmidt's Fall Decoy Sale
by Karl H. Pass

Guyette and Schmidt, Inc., Easton, Marylandby Karl H. PassGuyette and Schmidt, Inc. held its fall decoy sale November 7 and 8, 2007, in conjunction with the Easton Waterfowl Festival, an annual event that overtakes the small town of Easton on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The auction in the Talbot County Community ... (Read More)

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Heartland Fall Edition Antiques Show
by Don Johnson

Richmond, Indianaby Don Johnson"Look at this! It's eighty-five dollars."She wasn't talking to me, but I couldn't resist looking over my shoulder to see what the woman had found. In her hands was a tractor-type lawn sprinkler in old green paint, pulled from beneath a farm table in an east-central Indiana ... (Read More)

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Triple-Format Western Memorabilia, Photography, and American Indian Art Sales
by Karl H. Pass

Heritage Auction Galleries, Dallas, Texasby Karl H. PassHeritage Auction Galleries held a large two-day event on November 10 and 11, 2007, at the Hilton Anatole Hotel in Dallas, Texas. Beginning with Western photography, the sale was broken into three sessions with three separate, well-illustrated catalogs. The photography and artifacts session ... (Read More)

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The International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen

New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenThose with endless curiosity and a love of materials and craftsmanship from many periods of history and many places in the world find the International Fine Art and Antique Dealers Show in New York City a wondrous place to spend a day. Museum curators, art advisors, ... (Read More)

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In the Trade: Bruce Kalbacher, Period Picks Antiques, Schodack Landing, New York
by Frank Donegan

by Frank DoneganBruce Kalbacher looks at the bright side of life. For him, glasses don't ever seem half empty. Clouds have silver linings. Sows' ears can turn into silk purses. This is a man whose antiques business once burned to the ground, and he looks back on the experience as ... (Read More)
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