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Copake Auction Inc., Copake, New YorkCopake Countryby Jackie Sideli On July 12, Copake Auction hosted a cataloged Americana sale at the company headquarters in rural Copake, New York. There were plenty of good clean country antiques as well as interesting paintings, stoneware, some period slipware, formal furniture, and a few ... (Read More)
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Crocker Farm, Inc., York, Pennsylvania by Karl H. Pass Crocker Farm held its 11th stoneware and redware auction on July 19 in the Old Main Building at the York Fairgrounds in York, Pennsylvania. The 317-lot sale grossed $393,521 (including buyers' premiums). Prices consistent with expectations were achieved for the most ... (Read More)
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Manchester, New HampshireNHADA Exhibitors Cope Well with Changing Marketby David HewettThis year the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its 51st annual show at its usual location, the 11,000-square-foot red brick armory attached to the Radisson Hotel Manchester (Center of New Hampshire), August 7-9. The big Northeast Auctions summer ... (Read More)
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FBI Seeks Owners of Artwork In 2006 a treasure-trove of all kinds of artwork-some of which has subsequently been identified as stolen-was uncovered in a New York City apartment. In an effort to track down the rightful owners, the FBI and the public administrator of New York County have posted ... (Read More)
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New Hampshire Antique Co-op Silver Anniversary When Sam Hackler opened one of New England's first group antiques shops in 1983, he had no idea that 25 years later his entire family would be working alongside him. Sam and his son, Jason, who at age 11 began to accompany his father ... (Read More)
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At Sotheby's sale of the Americana collection of Rear Admiral Edward P. Moore and Barbara Bingham Moore in New York City on September 26, a carved walnut compass-seat stool, Philadelphia, circa 1750, brought a whopping $5,234,500 (includes buyer's premium). The estimate for the rare object was $200,000/500,000.
The buyer was dealer ... (Read More)
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Hurricane Ike Updates
The Houston Antiques Dealers Association show, scheduled for September 19-21, has been canceled because of Hurricane Ike.
The Theta Charity Antiques Show, scheduled for September 18-21, has also been canceled.
A statement on the HADA Web site reads, "The Mayor has this morning cancelled all events in the George ... (Read More)
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The Collector's FindThe Lost Shakespeareby Ben MijuskovicPart I Approximately four and a half decades ago, museum curators, specializing in American Victorian furniture and the decorative arts, initiated a surge in research activity focusing on furniture pieces and decorative objects made between the 1840's and the 1890's in the United States, ... (Read More)
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Copley Fine Art Auctions, LLC, Plymouth, MassachusettsDog Portrait and Crowell Black Duck Lead $3.2 Million Sale by Jeanne SchintoA world auction price record was set for Edmund H. Osthaus when his outstanding portrait of a pointer with a quail in its mouth was sold at Stephen B. O'Brien Jr.'s third ... (Read More)
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