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August 1, 2006"Truly spectacular" was the opening comment from promoter John DeSimone of Goosefare Promotions in reference to the 26th Annual Camden-Rockport Historical Society Antiques Show.
August 1, 2006Weather always affects the Hildene Antiques Show in July in Vermont. This year the weather remained clear of rain until the last hour of the show when sprinkles did fall for about ten minutes.
August 1, 2006It took no time at all for a world record to be set at the July 30 Willis Henry Shaker sale. Early in the sale, a Mount Lebanon Shaker workstand sold for a whopping $491,400.
August 1, 2006Copley Fine Art Auctions' inaugural antique sporting art and waterfowl auction on July 27 was led by an exceptional Frank W. Benson oil on canvas that achieved $747,500.
August 1, 2006The recent design sale at Phillips de Pury & Company confirmed the lasting interest in major French and Italian designers of the Twentieth Century.
July 25, 2006Cincinnati Art Galleries' auction of pottery and art glass saw a Black Iris glaze vase by Matt Daly attain $201,250, making it the second most expensive piece of American art pottery ever sold at auction.-
July 25, 2006A diminutive James McNeill Whistler seascape proved that good things do indeed come in little packages as the painting ascended to $1,001,000 at Cottone's July 7 auction.
July 25, 2006The large yard of Stevens Memorial United Methodist Church was the scene again for a capacity crowd of 120 antiques dealers for Cord Shows' Antiques in the Church Yard July 4 event .
July 25, 2006How Nineteenth Century American painters, who came to hone their craft in Paris and the French countryside, applied French influences to their art is the subject of a stunning traveling exhibition, "Americans...-
July 25, 2006A folk portrait attributed to Sheldon Peck, an itinerant, self-taught portrait painter of the mid-Nineteenth Century, was the top lot at Duane Merrill's July 22 auction, selling for $220,000.
July 25, 2006These days, every Americana consignor wants his property sold in January. The result is that spring Americana sales at Christie's and Sotheby's have dried up. Or so it seems.-
July 25, 2006An exceptional work by J.M.W. Turner, RA (1775-1851), one of the most impressive ever painted by the artist, sold at Christie's last month for $10,987,488, the world record price for a British work on paper.
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