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(Fragment)Parker-French Antique Center Changes Hands
For only the third time in its 48-year history, Parker-French Antique Center, Northwood, New Hampshire, has new owners. In early July, Richard Bojko and John Mullen announced the sale of their group shop to dealers Jerry and Joanne Perry of Chester, New Hampshire. “Twenty-six years is plenty. It’s time for ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Christmas in July
Beneath the Surface
We have taken you with us countless places over the past too-many-to-count-without-feeling-old years. To museums and museum storage, to antiques shows and antiques malls, into the seats at an auction and through the online bidding platforms that run them, and on road trips that resemble a National Lampoon ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Strawbery Banke Museum Becomes First Smithsonian Affiliate in New Hampshire
Strawbery Banke Museum, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has announced its new designation as a Smithsonian Affiliate. This prestigious recognition makes Strawbery Banke the first Smithsonian Affiliate in the state of New Hampshire, joining a network of more than 200 affiliates in the U.S., Puerto Rico, and Panama.
As a Smithsonian Affiliate, Strawbery ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Divorcing Our Collections
I am standing in line at an antiques show, and the conversation fascinates me. As is typical, the average age of those in the queue is probably 65 or higher, and the talk turns to divesting collections. One collector is adamant that she wants top dollar for what she has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Independence Seaport Museum Gifts Portrait to Andalusia Historic House
Museum deaccessions usually appear at auctions, and museums rarely just give a work of art to another museum. The Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia did just that. Portrait of Miss Adèle Sigoigne, painted around 1815 by Bass Otis, commissioned by Adèle Sigoigne’s friends Jane and Nicholas Biddle, has been on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)ADQ to Acquire Minority Stake in Sotheby’s
ADQ, an Abu Dhabi-based investment and holding company, has agreed to acquire a minority interest in Sotheby’s. Under the terms of the agreement, ADQ will acquire newly issued Sotheby’s shares to reduce leverage and support the company’s growth and innovation plans. Patrick Drahi, who acquired Sotheby’s in 2019, will also ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Hanging with Howard Parzow
Country store and drugstore signs from the late 1800s to the early 1900s float Howard Parzow’s boat, along with Corvettes from 1967, especially those painted “marina blue.” He is a proud collector of both genres and has been doing so for over 50 years.
To know Howard Parzow is to appreciate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Feedsacks
Dana Auctions, Princeton, New Jersey
The stories are legend: a dress flies up to reveal the Gold Bond logo, the flour tagline “sweet and pure,” or the weight “98 lbs. net.” Repurposing feedsacks into underwear or other clothing was a desperate measure in desperate times.
What was surely one of the first ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Threads of History
A Book Review
This book is the catalog for an exhibition of quilts, clothing, needlework, fashion, fancy work, and plain sewing at the DAR Museum at the headquarters of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution in Washington, D.C. The museum’s large collection is on display along with modern examples ... (Read More)
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