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Fairhaven Antiques Festival
by Don Johnson

The Fairhaven Antiques Festival is promoted as "A Great American Tradition" in a billboard on the south edge of town, where dealers set up in a small field.Ohio dry sink in untouched condition, $2900 from Thomas J. Jewett and Charles P. Berdan of Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine.From Monty Young Antiques, ... (Read More)

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Signs of the Times
by Fran Kramer

All was quiet on the western front the eve before the show opened. A large wide concrete driveway separates the opposite buildings used for the show, convenient for trucks and the kettle corn vendor.The first hour of the Rhinebeck Antiques Fair.Traditional favorites from Robert Conrad of Yeagertown, Pennsylvania, included a ... (Read More)

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California Country Antiques and Folk Art Show
by Alice Kaufman

Five-year exhibitor Grimes Collectique and Collectibles, which shows at Niles Antiques, Fremont, California, was asking $750 for this circa 1884 Norwegian bride's box with rosemaling and "For Peter's Daughter" painted on the front.At the show's folk artisan corner contemporary material was shown, usually by the artisan. These made-new-to-look-old flag pillows ... (Read More)

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Chinese Material Bolsters Auction
by Don Johnson

Anna Pottery pig flask, Union County, Illinois, circa 1880, having an incised map of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers, as well as St. Louis, Cincinnati, Chicago, and smaller towns, $14,100.Carved ivory figural group consisting of eight separate pieces, some polychrome decoration, Chinese, on a wooden stand, signed under the central ... (Read More)

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Former Director of Salander-O'Reilly Sentenced
by Daniel Grant

by Daniel GrantThe former director of Manhattan's now-defunct Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, Leigh Morse, 55, was sentenced on July 19 to weekend jail time and ordered to pay $1.65 million in restitution for her role in the $120 million scam in which numerous clients of the gallery were defrauded.Morse, who left the ... (Read More)
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