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(Young Collectors)

Gifts That Keep On Giving
by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond

The Young Collector Ah, the season of gifting is upon us. Hooray, some of you are thinking. What fun. We’re sorry. We’ll try to make this as painless as possible, which is going to take some work because gift giving has, for many people, become a painful, protracted process that leaves ... (Read More)

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Stolen Darwin Book Returned to Canada
by M.A.D. Staff

A stolen first edition of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life byCharles Darwin has been returned to Canada. The book, published in 1859, had been stolen from Mount Saint Vincent University Library in Bedford, Nova ... (Read More)

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New Website for Painted Plaster Walls Center
by M.A.D. Staff

A new website (www.wpcenter.org) for the Center for Painted Wall Preservation (PWP) has been created for use as a resource by owners of painted plaster walls in New England. The new site will also serve as a clearing house for artists, conservators, and preservationists to document their research into the ... (Read More)

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Henry Sheldon Museum and Historic New England Team Up
by M.A.D. Staff

The Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History in Middlebury, Vermont, and Historic New England have formed an alliance. The alliance between the two organizations, both devoted to historic preservation, history, art collections, and heritage interpretation, caps a multiyear collaborative partnership in exhibits. Historic New England’s traveling exhibitions Take Me to ... (Read More)

(Issue Story)

John and Lisa Hauenstein, Early Preservation, Charlotte, Vermont
by Frank Donegan

In the Trade Some people just make you feel inadequate. An afternoon I spent recently with John Hauenstein had that effect on me. Hauenstein and his wife, Lisa, do business as Early Preservation and work out of what appears to be a perfectly restored early 19th-century Vermont farmhouse set among 15 acres ... (Read More)

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Old York Receives Grant to Conserve Colonial Crewel Embroideries
by M.A.D. Staff

The Old York Historical Society/Museums of Old York in York, Maine, has received a grant of $35,000 from the Coby Foundation, Ltd., New York City, to conserve the historic Bulman bed hangings for reinstallation in 2016. Created by Mary Swett Bulman (1715-1791) of York, Maine, in the 1730s, the textiles are ... (Read More)

(Auction)

North American Atlas Leads the Auction House's Highest-Grossing Rare Maps Sale
by Jeanne Schinto

Swann Galleries, New York City Photos courtesy Swann Galleries The maps and atlases department of Swann Galleries had its first $1 million sale on December 8, 2015, in New York City. In fact, it didn’t stop there. All told, the auction house took in $1,274,182 (including buyers’ premiums) on an offering of ... (Read More)

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Wallace Hall Show to Return
by M.A.D. Staff

  In January 2015 Debbie Turi and Brad Reh, who called their business Reh Turi Shows, launched a new antiques show during Americana Week in New York City, the Art, Design & Antiques Show at Wallace Hall. The partnership of Turi and Reh has been dissolved, but the show will continue. Brad ... (Read More)

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Good Fellows: The Walpole Society
by Jeanne Schinto

Part II of V Photos courtesy the Walpole Society “He buys ‘like a Prince’ what he wants. He does not ‘pussyfoot,’ ‘soft pedal,’ or haggle. What he feels is beyond his reach or excessive in price is simply left alone, and he is so modest that he does not continually talk about ... (Read More)

(Auction)

Native American Art Auction
by Alice Kaufman

Bonhams, San Francisco, California Photos courtesy Bonhams Sales totaled $1.3 million (includes buyers’ premiums) at Bonhams’ Native American art auction in San Francisco on December 7, 2015. Specialist Jim Haas said there was “a roomful of people” attending, something that he found “almost shocking” considering how many bidders bid on the phone and/or ... (Read More)
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