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(Fragment)Arion's Delaware Coast Antiques Show & Sale Canceled
Promoter Melvin L. Arion has announced that the 20th annual Delaware Coast Antiques Show & Sale will not be held this year. The cancellation is due to major construction at the Convention Center in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. The event is normally held the first weekend after Labor Day (this year ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Tenth Newport Antiques Show
Middletown, Rhode Island
The Newport Antiques Show, July 22-24, which celebrated its tenth year, continues to attract local collectors and summertime residents. Attendance appeared to be down this year, but “the show holds its own,” said Delaware dealer James M. Kilvington, who has exhibited here for six years.
Held in the ice ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Indian Hill Antiques Fair
Cincinnati, Ohio
Indian Hill Antiques Fair was under new management during the 34th annual show, held July 24 in northeastern Cincinnati. Doug Supinger took over for Ray and Kathy Mongenas, who started the event for the Indian Hill Boosters Association and managed it through last year.
While the Mongenases took pride in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Sporting Auction
Copley Fine Art Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
The festival of feathers continued on July 24 with Copley Fine Art Auctions’ tenth annual auction in Plymouth, Massachusetts, where collectors of decoy and sporting art assembled while artworks and birds moved from one collection to another.
Bird carvers were and remain sportspersons, careful observers of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Three-Ring Auction: Carnival, Wild West, Circus!
Potter & Potter Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Potter & Potter
The posters, banners, and other circus memorabilia auctioned on July 23 at Potter & Potter Auctions in Chicago offered a glimpse into a world that has all but disappeared—the latest sign being that Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey has cited ... (Read More)
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(Show)Goosefare's Camden-Rockport Show
Camden-Rockport Antiques Show & Sale, Rockport, Maine
The Goosefare Antiques and Promotions Camden-Rockport Historical Society antiques show, held this year on July 23 and 24 at coastal Maine’s Camden Hills Regional High School, Rockport, Maine, its 36th year, is rapidly building toward icon status.
With temperatures in the high 80s, the first ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Exhibitions, August 2016
Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and website for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln Goose Flies High at Summer Sale
Decoys Unlimited, Hyannis, Massachusetts
Decoy auctions aren’t like other sales. They are more like reunions or conferences. Snippets of conversations relate to matters such as the best place to buy glass eyes, who is selling what bird, the surface of a particular bird, who has his or her eye on what ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Blanket Statement at Farrin's
Farrin’s Country Auctions holds two or three sales every month at its home base in Randolph, Maine. A regular crowd (including me) has been showing up for decades to paw through furniture, folk art, china, flea market culch, artworks, and various forms of hidden treasures.
Rusty Farrin’s offering on July 20 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Hope Antiques at 40
On July 4 Edwin Hild and Patrick Bell celebrated 40 years in the antiques business. The story of their Olde Hope Antiques in New Hope, Pennsylvania, documents the evolution of the market for what used to be called country antiques into that catchall category called “folk art” over the last ... (Read More)
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