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(Show)The Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show
by Lita Solis-Cohen
Dealers competed for collectors' dollars in three locations during Antiques Week in Philadelphia in April. The five-day Philadelphia Antiques Show at the 33rd Street Armory attracted the largest crowd, and dealers there did the most business. Barn Star Productions' Original 23rd Street Armory Antiques Show on April 13-15, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Boston Welcomes Its New Antiques Shows
by Jeanne Schinto
Promoter Marvin Getman's latest effort attracted one of the largest crowds in recent memory to an antiques show in Boston. Actually, it was a triple bill. It combined an antiques show, an antiquarian book and ephemera fair, and what is believed to be Boston's first-ever antique textile and ... (Read More)
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(Show)Bowmanville Show Dealers Honor Founder Rob Lambert
by John Norris
All prices in Canadian funds (rounded U.S. funds in parentheses)
Thirty-three years have slipped by as if it were just yesterday when Nancy and Rob Lambert promoted the first Bowmanville show in Bowmanville, Ontario, then called the April Antiques and Folk Art Show. Nancy died a year later, but ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Erotic Art Auction in Arizona
by Alan M. Petrillo
Classique Erotique Auctions, Phoenix, Arizona, conducted its first-ever sale of erotic material in the Hotel Valley Ho in Scottsdale on January 27 and scored. Amanda Collins, gallery director of the associated Martin Gordon Gallery in Phoenix, said they "attracted a great deal of different people." She added ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Computer Column #222: Writing, Cataloging, and Listening
by John P. Reid, [email protected]
A change in Microsoft Word, simple software for collectors, new features of on-line antiques newsletters, and a really simple word processor are the topics this month.
-New Microsoft Word
Microsoft Word dominates the personal computer word processor market. Its file format has been the de facto standard for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Goodbye Peter's Party Complex, Hello Auction Gallery
by Fran Kramer
Just 18 hours after being on the world's longest flight, from Singapore to Newark, New Jersey, in 18 hours, I joined a full house of other auction-goers on April 7 in Leicester, New York, for Samuel Cottone's last major sale at Peter's Party Complex.
Others had traveled from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
by Don Johnson
There was something different about Cowan's sale of furniture, paintings, and decorative arts, held on February 17 in Cincinnati, Ohio. With a gross of more than $974,000, the auction looked good on paper, but the event had a certain lackluster feel.
C. Wesley Cowan, the company's president and principal ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Reaching Out
Finding new collectors is expected to be a major push in the industry in the coming months. In early May, a group of around 30 movers and shakers in the market got together in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, to brainstorm on ways to attract new blood to what is perceived to be ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Ann Arbor Antiques Market Changes Management
by Beth Pulsipher
The Ann Arbor (Michigan) Antiques Market is now under new management. Beginning its 39th season, the show had been managed by longtime dealers Nancy and Woody Straub for the past eight years. In the fall of 2006, show owner Tom Monaghan gifted the show's proceeds to the Father ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Great American Cover Up
The exhibition The Great Cover Up: American Rugs on Beds, Tables, and Floors, organized by Lee Kogan, curator of special exhibitions and public programs, will be on view at the American Folk Art Museum in New York City from June 5 to September 9. This is the museum's first presentation ... (Read More)
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