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(Show)Despite Losses, Heart of Country Beats On
Heart of Country is in the capable hands of the next generation. Front, from left: Susan Kramer Hunkins and daughter Sarah Jane Hunkins, who helped with communications and was a panelist at the “Speaking from the Heart” roundtable discussion. Back, from left: Stephen Hunkins Jr., who handled “everything from ticketing ... (Read More)
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(Show)The D.C. Spring Antiques Show
While New York City dealer Jason Jacques was at Maastricht, his gallery director, Yoni Ben-Yosef, set up a stand in D.C. and sold two Art Nouveau ceramic vases early in the show. Here Ben-Yosef shows a vase designed by Louis Majorelle for Keller & Guerin (Luneville), circa 1900, priced at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Chinese Vase Tops $1.2 Million at Brunk Auctions
$1,236,250. Photo courtesyBrunk Auctions.At the May 9 and 10 auction at Brunk Auctions in Asheville, North Carolina, a 12" vase, believed to be a modern copy and carrying an estimate of $400/800, sold for $1,236,250 (includes buyer's premium).The woman who consigned the Famille Rose vase with flowers on a pale ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stolen Painting Leads to Lawsuit
It's a dealer's nightmare scenario: unwittingly to buy a stolen painting; to have it cleaned and framed; to sell it for a tidy profit; and sometime later to find out the picture had been nicked and have to refund the buyer's money.In the case of California dealer William A. Karges ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction House Opens in Seattle
by Cathy AldrichStarting a new venture in uncertain times might seem to be a recipe for disaster, especially when that new venture deals with antiques. Jim Skrzypczak, however, seems to have tapped into something good with his new auction house, Seattle Auction Gallery.The first auction was held in February and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pewter Dessert Dish Highlights Americana Auction
Freeman's, Philadelphia, Pennsylvaniaby Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Freeman'sAccording to family history, this pewter dessert dish incised with the initials “IZ” and “CZ” and “1728,” surrounded by flowers, belonged to Joost and Christine Zabriskie of Bergen County, New Jersey. It is attributed to Francis Bassett I, New York City, 1715-40; the only ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Rifle Hall Americana Antique Show and Spring Jubilee
This four-panel glass display box came from India, where it was used by a snake charmer to house a cobra between performances. It includes two locks, airholes on top, and an iron ring for hanging it from a tree. It was offered for $295 by Earl Lacy of Woo Woo ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hope Springs Eternal at Moore Sale
Napoleonic Wars ship model in bone of the H.M.S. Glory, $12,320.Simple painted swags and flowers and an 1823 Concord, New Hampshire, newspaper lining turned a $20 box into an $8400 buy.Pastel of the Fitzhugh children, 21" x 27", $7168.Hap Moore Antiques Auctions, York, Maineby Mark SiscoHap Moore opened his March ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)NeoCollect
A NeoCollect catalog page. Clicking on a picture brings up an enlarged image and detail page.A NeoCollect illustration of a hand-engraved gold medal depicting the American Civil War battle at Cold Harbor, Virginia.Computer Column #246by John P. Reid, [email protected] free Internet service for creating an illustrated on-line catalog of a ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Original Round Top Antiques Fair
Kathy Tobler of Granbury, Texas, deals in sterling silver. She asked $7500 for this Francis I four-piece demitasse set with pot, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, and tray, made by Reed & Barton of Taunton, Massachusetts.This Staffordshire porcelain royal pair from 1855 depicts the Prince and Princess of Wales with Cavalier ... (Read More)
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