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(Auction)Bonhams American Paintings Sale Dealt a Large Blow
Bonhams, New York Cityby Lita Solis-CohenAfter the Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Area Chamber of Commerce announced plans to auction paintings by Grant Wood, Marvin Cone, and Norman Rockwell at Bonhams in New York City on November 28, 2007, it produced an uproar in the town where Grant Wood and Marvin Cone ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cincinnati Art Galleries, Cincinnati, Ohio: Holiday Sale 2007
by Don JohnsonThis one was a little different. Rookwood is generally the star of the show when Cincinnati Art Galleries holds its annual holiday sale. For this year's event, held November 3 and 4, 2007, two Rookwood items dominated the ceramics offering, but it was a Russian chalice from a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Law Would Force New York Antiques Shops to Offer Access to Restroom
by Jessica Best and Betty Flood, Cuyler News ServiceAntiques dealers in retail establishments may be forced to allow customers access to a restroom, whether the restroom is officially available to the public, under legislation introduced by Assemblyman George Latimer (D-Westchester).Shoplifting has been a concern among antiques establishments, according to an ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)NHADA Elects New Officers
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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(Feature)Antique Center Presents Theme Rooms
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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(Feature)Wallachs Seek Help with Tramp Art Book
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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(Auction)The Invisible Man Makes an $82,600 Statement
The Last Moving Picture Company, New York Cityby Richard de ThuinAn insert from The Invisible Man realized a record-setting price during the fifth annual Hollywood Poster Auction held Saturday, November 10, 2007, in the Gold Ballroom at the Hotel Pennsylvania in New York City. A dealer in the salesroom paid ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Fine Folk Art Finds at Gould's
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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(Issue Story)Author R.L. Wilson Acquitted in Kentucky Firearms Museum Case
by Robert KyleA criminal court case that lingered two years after the Louisville, Kentucky, U.S. Attorney's office handed up indictments ended January 22 when a jury acquitted internationally known gun collector and author Robert L. Wilson and two others of conspiring to defraud the owner of the Frazier Historical Arms ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Show with a Mission
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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