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(Issue Story)Be There
Editorial
While walking around a recent show, I found something I wanted to purchase for my wife. It was exactly what she had been looking for to grace the walls of her office. Looking it over, I found there was no price tag and no information. Nothing.
I thought I’d ask the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidding the Old-Fashioned Way on a Major Art Collection
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
Over $1 million wouldn’t be a bad total for the entire Thomaston Place Auction Galleries’ August 27-29 event in Thomaston, Maine. But $1.6 million was, by my estimate, the total for what Thomaston Place brought in from just a single midwestern consignor. It was a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Show 2016
Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show, Baltimore, Maryland
This show reflects the market,” said Scott Diament, the energy behind the Palm Beach Show Group, which has transformed what was once a giant flea market and antiquarian book fair into the fancy upscale Baltimore Art, Antique & Jewelry Show.
This 36th annual show ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Penniman Portraits Acquired by Old Sturbridge Village
Tilly and Caroline Hathaway Mead by John Ritto Penniman, each 21" x 18", oils on board, painted in Hardwick, Massachusetts, in April 1831. Photos courtesy Bernard & S. Dean Levy.
Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, has acquired two portraits painted by John Ritto Penniman (1782-1841). The portraits, dated 1831, are ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, September 2016
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Imagining Ichabod: My Journey into 18th-Century America through History, Food, and a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Julia Anchors Maine Auction Week at over $5 Million
James D. Julia, Fairfield, Maine
For the last several decades the keystone of Maine’s unofficial antiques auction week in August has been James D. Julia’s multimillion-dollar blowout. This year it happened August 24-26 in Fairfield, Maine, and included about 2000 lots that made over $5 million in sales, with about three-quarters ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Yes, There Will Be Another Philadelphia Antiques Show
On August 4, Penn Medicine gave show managers Diana Bittel and Karen DiSaia the go-ahead to put together the 55th Philadelphia Antiques Show. “They had asked us to do a feasibility study, which we did, and when we told them that fifty-four of fifty-eight dealers who showed last April said ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, September 2016
Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
The most expensive item in this month’s selection, by far, is one of the old masters featured, Rubens’ Lot and His Daughters, and the pictorial content also includes a 17th-century “selfie.” Antiquities get the most extensive coverage, in words and pictures, but to these I have added some ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pook & Pook to Sell Jewelry in Delaware Tax Free
Pook & Pook, the auction house in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, has announced a collaboration with Stuart Kingston Galleries in Wilmington, Delaware, for a tax-free sale of jewelry and paintings on Saturday, November 19.
James Stein, who with his son Edward runs Stuart Kingston Galleries, a jewelry and fine arts business started by ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Dupuis Fine Jewellery Auctioneers, Toronto, Canada, Online-only Auction
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
There has been a shift in the marketing of jewelry at auction in the last few years. Many auction houses have added Internet-only sales, particularly for the more affordable tier of the market and/or of targeted sales of collections from a well-known single owner or single designer. ... (Read More)
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