(Auction)
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
It took a phone call to verify the dates for the first Brunk Auctions sale of 2024. Yes, the advertisement was correct. The sale was on Wednesday and Thursday, January 10 and 11. Weekday sales are in for 2024 at Brunk Auctions; weekend ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
New England Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
Photos courtesy New England Auctions
It just keeps getting better at Fred Giampietro’s New England Auctions in Branford, Connecticut. The January 10 and 11 auction was the best sale yet, with over 13,000 bidders registered. Over two days bidders pursued over 900 lots of Americana, folk art, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
The Shipping News by Hollie Davis and Andrew Richmond
Beneath the Surface
The competition has to be getting to Santa these days. When we were kids, he had to have his helpers out at the mall and on the float in the Christmas parade, but now he even has to have help delivering packages! To be fair, it is not ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Amelia Jeffers Auctioneer & Appraiser, Delaware, Ohio
Photos courtesy Amelia Jeffers Auctioneer & Appraiser
More than 800 lots from the collection of Bruce and Vivalyn Knight of Springfield, Ohio, sold for $1.15 million during an auction conducted by Amelia Jeffers Auctioneer & Appraiser January 5 and 6 at Delaware, Ohio.
Jeffers promoted the ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Letter from London
Fighting for the Dunghill...
A contemporary hand-coloured etching with aquatint of 1798 that caught my eye in a November 15 sale held by Dominic Winter, Fighting for the Dunghill: ____ or ____ Jack Tar settling Buonaparte is the work of James Gillray (1756-1815).
In their catalogue notes, the South Cerney, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Paul Neuman in his New York City apartment.
After 40-plus years as a caterer in New York City, Paul Neuman has embarked on a new project involving sustainable packaging related to the food industry. Growing up in Flushing, Queens, he worked in his father’s store in Manhattan, the Rosedale Fish Market, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
A Book Review
Ron Gard is an author and collector who has written three books on American folk art and decoys. As a young boy he collected Native American artifacts on his grandparents’ farm in Texas and kept them in an unused house on the property that served as his own ... (Read More)
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Now in the seventh year of a landmark gift from the Owsley Brown II family and the Brown-Forman Foundation making attendance free for all Sunday visitors, the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, has been awarded a significant grant from Art Bridges Foundation to expand upon its free general admission ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
The Winter Show
For 70 years collectors have made a pilgrimage to the Park Avenue Armory in January to shop at a show founded in 1954 to benefit East Side House Settlement in the Bronx. It was an ingenious idea: an elegant bazaar could provide funds for the needy and at ... (Read More)
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