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(Feature)The "Pure and Simple" Antique Show
In cut paper with watercolor highlights, this work was tagged $4200 by David L. Good Antiques, Camden, Ohio. A similar example may be found in The Flowering of American Folk Art 1776-1876 by Jean Lipman and Alice Winchester.If a hooked rug can have spooky eyes, this one did. Dating to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early American Antiques and Decorative Arts
Inlaid serpentine-front Hepplewhite sideboard, probably New York, circa 1795, mahogany and pine, with inlay of sawtooth trim, small flowers, and 14 ovals, 41½" high x 75¾" wide, with two short splits on top, several small veneer repairs, and brasses replaced in new holes, $5287.50.Pie safe in poplar, with diamond-pattern tins, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Resale Royalty Law Has Little Effect on Market Abroad
by Daniel GrantWasn't the sky supposed to fall? The United Kingdom's six-year-old artist resale royalty law, which requires that a percentage of the profit of a secondary market sale of art be paid to the creative artist or, since the law was expanded in the beginning of this year, to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Barry Landau Gets Seven Years for Document Theft
by David HewettOn Wednesday, June 27, 64-year-old Barry Landau was sentenced in U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, Baltimore Division, to serve seven years in federal prison and pay roughly $46,000 in restitution for the theft of thousands of documents from historical societies, museums, private and public libraries, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Donald Ellis Buys Navajo Blanket for $1.8 Million
$1,800,000. Photo courtesy John Moran Auctioneers.by Lita Solis-Cohen"I nearly stopped at $1.4 million, but then I bid one more, and it was mine," said Canadian dealer Donald Ellis on the phone waiting for a plane to Vancouver.The night before, he had paid $1.8 million for a first-phase Navajo chief's blanket ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Exhibitions
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 Web site ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Cataloging a Collection On Line
by John P. Reid, [email protected] column has often discussed software for cataloging antiques collections. A few services now provide cataloging that is totally on line: no software is needed on your computer except your Internet browser, and no data is stored on your computer.This makes things easier in several ways. ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Emancipation Proclamation Broadside Sells for $2,085,000
A broadside copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, 21¾" x 17¼", on J. Whatman watermarked paper, sold to David Rubenstein for $2,085,000. It is dated January 1, 1863, but was printed and signed in 1864, "Abraham Lincoln" as president, and co-signed by William Seward as secretary of state and John Nicolay ... (Read More)
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(Show)NYC20
The tent to the left of the Metropolitan Opera House in Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center was a good venue for the show. It was light and airy and accessible with easy in and out for dealers. This fresh venue on the West Side of New York City attracted a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Cautious Sale
Described by the cataloger as a "mysterious creation," this early Edgefield, South Carolina, slave-made face jug is thought to have been made for the maker's pleasure rather than as part of his production. Unusual and haunting, it was the sale's top seller at $38,500.Signed "LM May 13 1863 Dave," this ... (Read More)
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