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Michael Polenske, 53, the owner of Ma(i)sonry Napa Valley, an art and antiques gallery as well as a wine-tasting collective in Yountville, California, pleaded guilty in federal court in San Francisco on August 11 to wildlife trafficking and conspiracy.
Polenske, who has been featured in Town & Country, Forbes, the Robb ... (Read More)
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Is the world of high-end auction houses a good backdrop for a television series? The streaming service Crackle (www.crackle.com) thinks so, and on November 19 the network will debut The Art of More, its first scripted drama.
According to the network, the ten-episode series explores “the underbelly and surprisingly cutthroat world ... (Read More)
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Manhattan from Brooklyn, an etching by Mortimer Borne (1902-1987), was offered on eBay by an antiques store in Hopewell, New Jersey, until the General Services Administration (GSA) found out.
On October 28, 2015, special agents from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) seized the Works Progress Administration (WPA) etching. Government officials ... (Read More)
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Spruce gum boxes were created by lumbermen in the crowded bunkhouses of the North woods on Sundays and during cold winter nights. The boxes were made to contain sap from the spruce tree used as chewing gum. Spruce gum is resin from the spruce tree, and before chicle was discovered ... (Read More)
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Rare and aesthetically arresting furniture by Gustav Stickley does not often appear on the auction market, but when it does there is keen competition. When a chair and a settle, both with copper and pewter inlay, were pictured in the catalog for a Bonhams sale of 20th-century decorative arts on ... (Read More)
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The International Vintage Poster Fair is returning to New York City for its 26th anniversary with a new location; this year’s fair will be a featured section of the Pier Antique Show in New York City on November 14 and 15.
The International Vintage Poster Fair offers collections from over a ... (Read More)
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New York City
Photos courtesy Bonhams
The chair that held many prominent figures in 19th-century American history while their portraits were taken by photographer Mathew Brady sold on the phone for $449,000 (with buyer’s premium) at the Bonhams fine furniture, silver, decorative arts, and clocks sale on October 26, 2015. The carved ... (Read More)
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Wilton Fall Antiques Market, Wilton, Connecticut
For less than the price of a movie ticket, antiquers could spend the day talking with and buying from three dozen dealers who set up booths at the one-day Wilton Fall Antiques Market on October 25, 2015.
Now in its third year under Frank Gaglio’s Barn ... (Read More)
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Americana by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo
Skinner, Boston, Massachusetts
All eyes were on Boston Harbor by William Bradford (1823-1892) at Skinner’s Americana auction on October 25, 2015. In the Boston gallery Bradford’s early Luminist oil on Winsor & Newton board, 18" x 24", fetched $303,000 (includes buyer’s premium) from one of five phone bidders. Several major dealers ... (Read More)
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San Francisco, California
San Francisco Fall Antiques Show (SFFAS), benefiting Enterprise for High School Students, pulled off its 34th annual four-day run without a hitch, October 22-25, 2015. There was zero competition from the Giants making the World Series as in years past, and the weather cooperated with gloriously warm and ... (Read More)
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