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• Q&A: Pom Harrington

  20-11-2024 19:20 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Pom Harrington is the owner of Peter Harrington, one of the leading rare book dealers in the world and the largest antiquarian book dealer in Europe. He joined the London firm straight from school in 1994, working for his father, Peter, and uncle Adrian. He took over running the shop in 2000, and after Peter passed away in 2003, became owner and partner. Recently, his firm showed at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair. It seemed like a good time to catch up with him and take the pulse
  
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• Strawser Finds Fortune With Fortunoff Collection

  20-11-2024 19:18 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  WOLCOTTVILLE, IND. — In an auction description found on Strawser Auction Group’s LiveAuctioneers page, it was noted, “Anyone who grew up in the New York-New Jersey metropolitan area will recognize the name Fortunoff, the high-end retailer of housewares, silverware, lighting fixtures and jewelry.The post Strawser Finds Fortune With Fortunoff Collection first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• ADA Honors Arthur Liverant In Night Of Love & Laughter

  20-11-2024 19:01 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  WILMINGTON, DEL. — An exuberant crowd of 160 well-wishers joined the Antiques Dealers Association of America (ADA) in honoring 2024 Award of Merit winner Arthur Liverant at a dinner at the Delaware Antiques Show on Friday night, November 15.
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• Warm Weather, Warm Hearts At TriCon Antiques Show

  20-11-2024 18:58 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  CONCORD, MASS. — If not for the fallen leaves carpeting sidewalks and Halloween jack-o-lanterns sitting on front steps, the weather would make one believe that it was May 1 rather than November 1 in Concord, MassThe post Warm Weather, Warm Hearts At TriCon Antiques Show first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Reed Collection Rides High For Coeur d’Alene Art Auction

  20-11-2024 18:53 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  HAYDEN, IDAHO — With 241 blue-chip lots by contemporary and historical artists, the November 9 sale brought collectors of Western and American art flocking to Coeur d’Alene Art Auction. Coeur d’Alene’s Michael Eric Scott shared, “The total realized for the auction was $3,841,511 and the sale realized a 99 percent sell-through rate with 239 of 241 lots selling. We had approximately 400 registered internet bidders and over 100 telephone and absentee bidders.”The
  
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• San Francisco MoMA — Amy Sherald: American Sublime

  20-11-2024 18:45 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
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• SLAM, BAM! Steve Ditko’s Comics World Revealed At PBA Galleries

  19-11-2024 19:53 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Spider-Man’s First Appearance Comic Swings High
  Amazing Fantasy #15 featured the first appearance of Spider-Man, pedigree enough to swing it to $228,000. Here, Ditko strayed far from superhero conventions, replacing stalky heroes with unassuming protagonists like Peter Parker, Spider-Man’s alter ego.
  Review by W.A. Demers
  BERKELEY, CALIF. — Amazing Fantasy #15 featuring the first appearance of Spider-Man vaulted to $228,000, going to a Virginia collector, at PBA Galleries&rsquo
  
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• Collectors Tune In For Radio Collection At Soulis

  19-11-2024 19:39 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Leading the three-day auction at $9,840 was this 1937 General Electric circular tower-form tone tester, 12 by 8¾ inches ($1,5/2,000).
  Review by Carly Timpson
  LONE JACK, MO. — Between November 1 and 3, Soulis Auctions presented 534 lots from R.A. Lane’s Midwest Wireless Museum: the 50-year collection of Robert ‘Bob’ ‘Doc’ Lane. In total, the three-day auction of the Lane collection realized $268,300 and had a 99 percent sell-through rate. Owner Dirk Soul
  
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• Anchorage House Antiques Anchor Kaminski’s November Sale

  19-11-2024 19:21 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  At the sale’s helm was this marine painting by Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851). Measuring 38 by 33 inches framed and inscribed “Shipwreck — Wales / J.M.W. Turner / 1805” on the reverse, the painting was bid to $21,600.
  Review by Carly Timpson
  SWAMPSCOTT, MASS. — On November 9, Kaminski Auctions brought auction excitement to the Anchorage House, a French chateau-inspired manor on the water in Swampscott. About 25 years ago, Frank Kaminski, the firm
  
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• Fine Art, Silver & Antiques Propel Merrill’s Auction

  19-11-2024 19:12 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  James Abbott McNeill Whistler’s “Seascape in Greys and Silver” sold for $81,900 to a collector. The painting was a watercolor on paper signed with the artist’s butterfly monogram, and had descended in the family of Thomas D. Whistler. It measured 17 by 20 inches framed. The painting was accompanied by an archive of material from the Whistler family, including autographed letters signed to family members and family photos.
  Review by W.A. Demers
  WILLISTON, VT. — James
  
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• Robert Courtney’s Collection Comes To Sale Under Revitalized Family Banner

  19-11-2024 19:03 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  A Chicago private collector paid $8,740 for this three piece clock and candlestick set that depicted the devil and fallen angels.
  Review by Madelia Hickman Ring
  MILLBURY, MASS. — When auctioneer Robert J. Courtney passed away in 2016, he left behind a sizeable personal collection. His widow, Nancy, and one of his four children, Thomas, have resurrected the firm — formerly Bob Courtney Auctions, now Courtney Auctions — and on November 2, offered an initial group of pieces from C
  
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• At Material Culture’s Two-Day Sale — Thomas Wheelock Collection, Tribal Items Lead

  19-11-2024 18:46 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  The top lot over the two days was a monumental antique Chinese landscape painting from the late Seventeenth Century. Measuring 52 by 80 inches, it tripled its high estimate, selling at $65,000. “Fishing Scenery,” an ink and color on silk, titled and bearing the signature of Yuan Jiang (1662-1735) and dated 1698 had provenance to the collections of Dr Mattiebelle Stimson Gittinger and Dr J. Price Gittinger.
  Review by W.A. Demers
  PHILADELPHIA — It was a wrap on Material Culture&r
  
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• Three Days Of Treasure With Thomaston Place

  19-11-2024 18:25 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Leading all three days of the sale was “Study for Night Neighbors” by Linden Frederick (Maine, b 1953), oil on linen, 25 by 25 inches framed, signed lower right, inscribed on stretcher, which earned $18,750, surpassing its $12/16,000 estimate.
  Review by Kiersten Busch
  THOMASTON, MAINE — Thomaston Place Auction Galleries began its November auction series with Autumn Majestic, the firm’s last three-day auction of the calendar year, which spanned November 8-10. The sale offe
  
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• Guyette & Deeter Scores Another Multi-Million Dollar Sale

  19-11-2024 17:54 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Realizing $132,000, this pair of pintails by Lem and Steve Ward, Crisfield, Md., was the highest priced lot in the sale.
  Review & Onsite Photos by Rick Russack
  EASTON, MD. — Guyette & Deeter’s November 8-9 sale was the company’s final major sale of the year. It capped the 40th year the company has been in business, with this year’s annual sales tallying about $21 million. It was the firm’s best-ever year and the first time it exceeded $20 million. The auctio
  
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• Antique mall provides 'plethora of paranormal activity' for ghost hunters - BarrieToday

  19-11-2024 13:30 via news.google.com
  Antique mall provides 'plethora of paranormal activity' for ghost hunters  BarrieToday
  
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• Puzzle Pieces hosting Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Raffle - WEVV

  19-11-2024 02:19 via news.google.com
  Puzzle Pieces hosting Buffalo Trace Antique Collection Raffle  WEVV
  
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• Drexler Painting Exceeds Expectations At Swann

  18-11-2024 21:42 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY — Lynne Drexler’s (American, 1928-1999) 1962 painting, “Expectant Passage” rose above its $50,000 high estimate to lead Swann’s Modern & Post-War Art auction on November 12. The abstract oil on canvas, which measured 16 by 20 inches, was bid to $57,500 including buyer’s premium. It had provenance to Esther Robles Gallery of Los Angeles, Calif., and the consignor, who was also based in California. The auction offered 139 lots and had a sale t
  
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• 75th Anniversary Vitali Tea Service Scores Big At Heritage

  18-11-2024 21:42 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  DALLAS — Heritage Auctions conducted its Fine Silver & Objects of Vertu Signature Auction on November 13, offering 281 lots from six different prominent collections across the US, including the Ruth Nelkin collection, the estate of Toni Chapman Brinker and the collection of Leah Gordon, among others. Leading the sale was a five-piece silver tea and coffee service, including a tray, by Ubaldo Vitali, which served up a $45,000 finish. The 1985 set weighed a collective 371.73 troy ounces
  
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• De Smet Pastel Rests At Top For Mid-Hudson

  18-11-2024 21:41 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW WINDSOR, N.Y. — On November 16, Mid-Hudson Auction Galleries conducted its Antiques, Art, Toys, Bronzes, Oriental, Taino auction, featuring 381 lots of fine art, works on paper, bronzes, photographs, estate glassware, costume jewelry, sterling silver and a collection of New York Yankees ephemera from a 1960-1980s collection, among others. Leading the mixed bag of offerings was a pastel on paper work by Léon de Smet (Belgian, 1881-1966) titled “Repose.” Signed lower
  
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• Louis Vuitton Trunk Packs Up At New England Auctions

  18-11-2024 21:40 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  BRANFORD, CONN. — Fred Giampietro and New England Auctions offered 848 lots across two days of sales: a European and South American Estate Collection on November 13 and Modern, Asian, Jewelry, Silver and Accessories on November 14. Packing in with the highest price overall was a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk sold on the second day. This monogrammed French trunk from the mid Twentieth Century measured 18¼ inches high by 31¾ inches long by 18½ inches wide and came from th
  
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• Rare Leica Camera Snaps Top Price At Dana J. Tharp Photography Sale

  18-11-2024 21:39 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  WILLOUGHBY, OHIO — A rare Leica M2 rangefinder by Ernst Leitz GmbH of Wetzlar, Germany, jumped its $600-$2,500 estimate and sold for $20,910, including buyer’s premium, at Dana J. Tharp’s rare cameras and photographic equipment auction on November 9. The Leica M2 is a 35mm rangefinder camera that was introduced in 1957. Approximately 82,000 M2s were manufactured in the decade between 1957 and 1968. These cameras were considered professional, discreet and unobtrusive, said Thar
  
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• ‘Cherry Blossoms’ Bloom To Highest Price At Butterscotch

  18-11-2024 21:39 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  BEDFORD, N.Y. — Butterscotch Auction presented 578 lots from multiple important estates worldwide in its November 17 Fall Estates auction. Lots on offer included books, furniture and fine art descended through the McDonnell family of Copped Hall (Essex, England), a collection of custom-made arch-top electric guitars from a Stamford, Conn., estate and an array of art glass from a Scarsdale, N.Y., collector, among others. Blooming to $14,640, the highest price of the sale, was Mary Nimmo Mo
  
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• Rare Double-Deer Crock Tops Off At Crocker Farm

  18-11-2024 21:38 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  SPARKS, MD. — A six-gallon stoneware crock by J. & E. Norton, elaborately decorated with a stag and doe in a landscape, achieved $45,000 and top-lot status in Crocker Farm’s November 6-15 auction. The 14-inch-tall vessel had slip-trailing characteristic of John Hilfinger, a German-born artisan considered one of America’s leading Nineteenth Century stoneware decorators, and combined with a rarely seen double-deer motif. What Crocker Farm described as “among the finest
  
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• Shutter Closes For Leica M2 At Auction Team Breker

  18-11-2024 21:36 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  KÖLN, GERMANY — Auction Team Breker’s Specialty Auction on November 9 featured 460 lots of technical antiques including science and technology, office antiques, mechanical music, photographica and film and more. Achieving the sale’s highest price was a circa 1958 Leica M2 camera body. Coming from Leica’s first series of the black-painted M2, this example had a rewind button but no self-timer. Its shutter, viewfinder and rangefinder were tested to be working and accu
  
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• Tiffany & Co. Sterling Silver Flatware Service Is Elected Top Lot At Paul McInnis Auction

  18-11-2024 21:35 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NORTH HAMPTON, N.H. — Paul McInnis’s fall estate sale, on November 13, offered Tiffany flatware, Civil War uniforms, choice jewelry, a Paul Revere spoon and much more. At the top of the sale was a Tiffany and Company sterling silver flatware service designed for Alvan T. Fuller, former governor of Massachusetts, who had a special pattern created in 1908 with his initials entwined in the design. The bespoke service was popular with bidders, who took the set to $15,375, including buye
  
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• Antique Fire Truck Vandalized on Schuylkill Historical Fire Society Property - Skook News

  17-11-2024 22:02 via news.google.com
  Antique Fire Truck Vandalized on Schuylkill Historical Fire Society Property  Skook News
  
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• Thrifting: An ode to the anonymous antique - Deseret News

  16-11-2024 04:12 via news.google.com
  Thrifting: An ode to the anonymous antique  Deseret News
  
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• Farm machinery to boost rice production in Antique - pna.gov.ph

  15-11-2024 09:30 via news.google.com
  Farm machinery to boost rice production in Antique  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antique prov’l gov’t, 9 municipalities named SGLG awardees - pna.gov.ph

  15-11-2024 08:44 via news.google.com
  Antique prov’l gov’t, 9 municipalities named SGLG awardees  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Le'Stuff Antique Mall has it all in Hillsboro | News | biztrib.com - biztrib.com

  14-11-2024 17:00 via news.google.com
  Le'Stuff Antique Mall has it all in Hillsboro | News | biztrib.com  biztrib.com
  
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• Antique state university to put up Kinaray-a Center - pna.gov.ph

  14-11-2024 11:08 via news.google.com
  Antique state university to put up Kinaray-a Center  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Searching For Your Antique Holy Grail - NyackNewsAndViews

  14-11-2024 04:03 via news.google.com
  Searching For Your Antique Holy Grail  NyackNewsAndViews
  
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• Doyle Makes $1.3 Million With American Art, Furniture & Silver

  13-11-2024 18:53 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY — Doyle Auctions conducted its American Paintings & Prints and American Furniture, Silver & Decorative Arts auctions on October 23-24.The post Doyle Makes $1.3 Million With American Art, Furniture & Silver first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Fine Finishes For Art & Jewelry At Grogan & Co.

  13-11-2024 18:51 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  BOSTON — On November 2-3, Grogan & Company conducted two auctions: Fine Art and Fine Jewelry. Georgina Winthrop, president and fine art director, shared, “We were really happy with the level of engagement, with people coming to preview and to bid in person. It felt like a return to form, back to pre-Covid times. In total, the sales realized about $3 million, and we were also really happy with the fact that in the fine art sale, 38 percent of lots sold above their estimate range,
  
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• Estate Collections Astound In Everard Three-Day Sale

  13-11-2024 18:50 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  SAVANNAH, GA. — Everard Auctions & Appraisals closed out October with a three-day sale, Southern Estates and Collections, which was conducted October 29-31.The post Estate Collections Astound In Everard Three-Day Sale first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Fine Art & Furniture Flourish At Showplace

  13-11-2024 18:49 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY — On October 20, Auctions at Showplace conducted its Important Fine Art & Design Auction, which offered 145 lots of fine art, furniture, timepieces by Cartier, accessories by Tiffany, jewelry, a collection of Martin guitars and decorative arts pieces by Toshiko Takaezu and Michael Glancy.The post Fine Art & Furniture Flourish At Showplace first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Wooten & Wooten Sells Braford Collection

  13-11-2024 18:47 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  CAMDEN, S.C. — “It was one of the best sales we’ve had since starting out 13 years ago,” said Jeremy Wooten about Wooten and Wooten’s sale of the Braford collection on October 19. The sale total was $400,950, posting a sell-through rate of 85 percent. Registered bidders, both online and in-house, numbered 3,402.The post Wooten & Wooten Sells Braford Collection first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Travel Around The World With NYC Jewelry & Watch Show

  13-11-2024 18:15 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  NEW YORK CITY — Nestled in between Chelsea and Flatiron — just off of where Sixth Street meets West 18th Street — lies the Metropolitan Pavilion, the location of the 9th annual New York City Jewelry & Watch Show, which took place October 24-27.The post Travel Around The World With NYC Jewelry & Watch Show first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• Heritage’s Ethnographic Auction — From The Americas & Beyond

  13-11-2024 18:14 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  DALLAS — The October 30 Ethnographic Art American Indian, Pre-Columbian and Tribal Art Signature auction at Heritage was conducted in two sessions: a live session of 432 lots followed by an additional online-only 136 lots. At press time, $1,184,972 had been tallied.The post Heritage’s Ethnographic Auction — From The Americas & Beyond first appeared on Antiques And The Arts Weekly.
  
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• 6 Antique LGUs named child-friendly - pna.gov.ph

  13-11-2024 15:29 via news.google.com
  6 Antique LGUs named child-friendly  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Fine Art & Baroness Jewels Heat Up Roland’s Auction

  12-11-2024 21:13 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Rare Civil War Artifacts Span General’s Career
  Samia Halaby abstract oil on canvas, signed, dated and titled on reverse, “#344, 1980,” was the top lot, selling at $75,000.
  GLEN COVE, N.Y. — Roland Auctions NY., October 19 multi-estates auction turned out to be the house’s strongest sale since early this year with high bidding across the board. Topping the sale were several pieces of fine and Modern art, led by two Samia Halaby (Palestinian/American, b 1936) abstract
  
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• Great Barrington Man Gets Rubber Check For Antiques

  12-11-2024 20:59 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  By W.A. Demers
  GREAT BARRINGTON, MASS. — A Great Barrington antiques dealer has gone to court over fraudulent payment for three antique Chinese items purchased from his store.
  Paul Kleinwald has filed an affidavit notice of default against a New York man he accuses of kiting a bad check in the amount of $1,200 for three Chinese antique items purchased from his shop in August. In the affidavit to the court, Kleinwald stated that he had tried to communicate with the man by phone and by lett
  
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• Morphy’s Payout Is $4.2 Million At Coin-Op & Advertising Auction

  12-11-2024 20:43 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  A Hupfeld Phonoliszt-Violina Piano-Violin Model “A” hit a high note, leading the sale at $221,400 on the third day. The device, produced in Leipzig, Germany, circa 1912, featured each violin playing one string, with a bow of 1,350 strands of horsehair and a series of complex mechanisms to mimic violin expression, bowing, vibrato, staccato, accent and other nuances, as well as piano expression.
  Review by W.A. Demers
  LAS VEGAS, NEV. — On October 17-19, Morphy’s Auctions pre
  
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• Single-Family Baseball Card Collection Hits High At Carrell Sale

  12-11-2024 20:34 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Topping the sale at $8,430 was this Babe Ruth 1933 Goudey card.
  Review by W.A. Demers
  INDEPENDENCE, MO. — A 1933 Goudey Babe Ruth baseball card caught $8,430 to take top lot status in Carrell Auctions’ online-only auction, which ran September 30 to October 21. The original 1933 Goudey George Herman (Babe) Ruth baseball card was graded “2” or “Good” by the Professional Sports Authenticator (PSA). George Herman “Babe” Ruth (1895-1948) was an American
  
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• Antique hopes to achieve ASF-free status before year ends - pna.gov.ph

  12-11-2024 16:13 via news.google.com
  
  Antique hopes to achieve ASF-free status before year ends  pna.gov.ph
  
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• P300-M solar streetlights to benefit 300 Antique communities - pna.gov.ph

  12-11-2024 13:38 via news.google.com
  
  P300-M solar streetlights to benefit 300 Antique communities  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Fox Valley Online Antiques Show Returns As Weekend Buying Opportunity

  12-11-2024 07:49 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Show manager Debbie McArdle and husband Jim are also dealers as Iron Horse Antiques. They sold this silhouette of a gentleman from the first half of the Nineteenth Century. The silhouette of the gentleman’s head was hollow-cut while his suit was a scissor-cut watercolor applied to the paper, giving the image a bit of a three-dimensional look. Manitowish Waters, Wis.
  Review by W.A. Demers
  ONLINE — Returning as the ninth online event, the Fox Valley antiques show began as an opportunit
  
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• Book Review — Americana Insights 2024

  12-11-2024 07:13 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Americana Insights. Edited by Lisa Minardi and Trevor Brandt, with contributions by Matthew E. Monk, Trevor Brandt, Amelia Peck and Cynthia V.A. Schaffner, Paul S. D’Ambrosio, Jennifer M. Swope, Christopher Malone, Tobin Fraley, Christian Roden, Richard Miller, Eileen M. Smiles and Emelie Gevalt. Published by Americana Insights and distributed by the University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2024, pp. 274, $65, hardcover.
  In the fall of 2023, the first volume of Americana Insights w
  
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• Q&A: Benjamin Miller

  12-11-2024 06:34 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Decorative arts — whether antique or vintage — resonate with different people for different reasons. A new organization — the Fine Objects Society (FOS) — has recently been established to encourage this shared interest of folks from an unlimited range of backgrounds, professions and interests. The president and a founding member of the society, Benjamin Miller, who is also the host of The Magazine ANTIQUES’ podcast Curious Objects, was kind enough to share some of
  
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• Traces: Ancient Thrace And The Classical World, At The Getty Villa

  12-11-2024 06:22 via antiquesandthearts.com
  
  Offering dish with chariots, made in Athens, Greece, 500-400 BCE, silver with gilding. Found at the necropolis near Duvanlii-Chernozemen, Bulgaria. Regional Archaeological Museum, Plovdiv. Todor Dimitrov photo. VEX.2024.2.121.
  By James D. Balestrieri
  MALIBU, CALIF. — Winners write the histories. Isn’t that how the saying goes? If it’s true, then the winners define the losers. And one of the ways winners define losers is to “other” them, make them seem other than and
  
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