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(Feature)More Genres of Posters Than There Are Peanuts in a Snickers Bar
Swann Galleries, New York City
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At the semiannual auction of vintage posters at Swann Galleries in New York City on August 3, there were more genres of posters than there are peanuts in a Snickers bar. About 576 lots were offered for sale, and four auction records were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Buyers Buoy Bonhams
Bonhams, Los Angeles and San Francisco, California
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“As always,” Scot Levitt, Bonhams’ California and Western paintings specialist, was “nervous” before his August 2 Los Angeles/San Francisco auction. Levitt was gratified and sometimes surprised, however, by the sale’s strong prices; sales totaled $3.3 million (includes buyers’ premiums). Levitt was especially ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Austin's Antiques Sold and Renamed
Peter Austin sold Austin’s Antiques co-op in Chichester, New Hampshire, on June 1 to Cathy Consentino and Thomas Thompson, two longtime dealers. Austin had owned the business for 23 years.
“After a lot of thought, the name is being changed to Thos. Bartlett Antiques & Oddments,” Consentino wrote. “The layout has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The 60th Anniversary of the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum
The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum (AARFAM) in Williamsburg, Virginia, is kicking off its diamond anniversary in 2017 with the loan exhibition at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory, January 20 through 29. The oldest continuously operating museum in the United States dedicated solely to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Finale for Farmer
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
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Farmer Auctions held its summer catalog sale on July 30 at the firm’s gallery in Salem, Virginia. The event marked the firm’s final sale. Earlier in the month Will Farmer announced that he had reached an agreement to sell his business to Jarrod Hines, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 42nd Annual VADA Show
Antiques & Art in Woodstock, Woodstock, Vermont
A couple of the exhibitors at the Antiques & Art in Woodstock show (also known as the VADA [Vermont Antiques Dealers’ Association] show) on July 30 and 31 asked not to be identified before they answered questions about how well they’d done at the ... (Read More)
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(Show)National Insulator Association Convention Show
Muncie, Indiana
“What’s an insulator?”
The question came from my 22-year-old daughter. She’s not dumb. The kid attends a prestigious liberal-arts college and scored fives on the AP calculus and chemistry exams at the end of high school, so she has a brain. But she has also spent a lifetime in a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Auction Finds Success with Well-Documented Estates
Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
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Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee, had its most successful sale ever by employing its dual strengths, offering 19th-century regional material of intense local interest, while presenting Asian, European, and 20th-century lots with broad international appeal. The July 30 sale offered close to 1000 lots in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The 35th Convention Auction of the International Nippon Collectors Club
Chandler’s International Auction and Estate Sales, Cary, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Chandler Eshleman
On July 30 the International Nippon Collectors Club (INCC) concluded its 35th annual convention in Cary, North Carolina, with a sale of the beloved porcelain. Most of the 470-plus lots were consigned by INCC members. Additional Nippon pots were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Minnesota Dealer Pleads Guilty in Ivory Case
Antiques dealer Jay Anthony Anderson, 66, of Wabasha, Minnesota, pleaded guilty on June 7 in federal court to smuggling elephant ivory. He was charged on May 16 with knowingly importing and exporting objects made from elephant ivory in violation of the laws and regulations of the United States, including the ... (Read More)
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