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(Fragment)Pat Garthoeffner Joins Heart of Country as Show Director
Pat Garthoeffner Joins Heart of Country as Show Director by Lita Solis-CohenPat Garthoeffner of Lititz, Pennsylvania, is the new associate show director of Heart of County in Nashville. She said she is sure she can put the show where it belongs. "I know what needs to be done," she said. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The NHADA Show Turns 50
The NHADA Show Turns 50 by David HewettThe annual New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) show in August is always a must-attend event for collectors of country Americana and folk art, and collectors in general, but this year's version promises to be a special happening. It's the 50th show, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ourants Join Morphy as Co-Heads of Doll Department
Becky and Andy Ourant have joined Morphy Auctions in Denver, Pennsylvania, a division of Diamond International Galleries, as co-heads of the soon-to-be-established doll department.A Massachusetts native, Becky Ourant was introduced to dolls while assisting her mother, a part-time dealer who set up regularly at Brimfield. Even as a young teen, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Raffle to Benefit Packwood House Museum
The Packwood House Museum in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, will raffle off a limited-edition, signed print donated to the museum by Lewisburg artist Bradley Shoemaker. The watercolor, Looking East/ Looking West, is actually two smaller prints depicting Market Street, Lewisburg, in the snow, one view looking east, the other looking west.The matted ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ex-Employee of York Antiques Gallery Indicted
Ex-Employee of York Antiques Gallery IndictedElizabeth Piatt, 41, an ex-employee of The York Antiques Gallery in York, Maine, was indicted in April by a grand jury that charged her with stealing approximately $11,500 from the multi-dealer gallery in 2005.The indictment handed up by the grand jury charges: "On or about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Coming of Age on the Piscataqua
The Portsmouth Historical Society, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is presenting a special exhibit, Coming of Age on the Piscataqua: John Samuel Blunt's Views "From Nature," through October 31. This is the first time paintings by Portsmouth-born artist John Samuel Blunt (1798-1835) have been displayed in this city since the artist moved ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)National Course for Personal Property Appraisers
The all-new, six-day course, "Appraising Personal Property: A Core Course in Valuation Studies Featuring USPAP," is the shortest and most complete package available for those wishing to learn the underlying principles of personal property appraising, including the Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice (USPAP). As a bonus, the required textbooks ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stair Galleries Adding Book Auctions
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(Fragment)Wild Things
The newest exhibition at the Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk, Maine, Wild Things: Selections from Kate Manko's Collection of American Folk Art Animals, will remain on view through December 29.Wild Things showcases nearly 100 objects of animal folk art from the personal collection of 26-year-old Kate Manko, a dealer and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Changes at Winterthur
Gregory J. Landrey has been appointed director of the Library, Collections Management, and Academic Programs division (LCMAP) at the Winterthur Museum & Country Estate.Landrey started at Winterthur in 1979 as an assistant furniture conservator and later headed the furniture conservation laboratory. In 1995 he was named director of conservation and ... (Read More)
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