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July 27, 2021By James D Balestrieri CINCINNATI, OHIO – While preparing to write this story on “The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics, and the Monuments Men,” the new exhibition opening...
July 27, 2021On July 20, 78-year-old Thomas Gavin pleaded guilty to one count of disposing of an object of cultural heritage stolen from a museum. The thief was apprehended after he sold more than 20 antique firearms...
July 27, 2021Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy The Auction Barn LLC NEW MILFORD, CONN. – Many antiques hunters and collectors, as well as the casual weekend visitors, are familiar with the Elephant’s...
July 27, 2021HENLEY-ON-THAMES, OXFORDSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM – A George III mahogany serpentine chest attributed to Thomas Chippendale brought top dollar at The Pedestal’s Fine Interiors sale on July 20. The chest...
July 27, 2021NEW YORK CITY – On July 20, Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance Jr announced the indictment of British antiquities restorer Neil Perry Smith following his extradition from London. Smith is charged...
July 27, 2021PLAINFIELD, N.J. – In 1919, art collector and philanthropist J. Ackerman Coles gifted two Albert Bierstadt paintings to the city of Plainfield in memory of his father, Dr Abraham Coles. The city...
July 27, 2021NEW YORK CITY – It’s Art and Antique Dealers League Of America and National Antique and Art Dealers Association of America vs Seggos. An appeal has been filed challenging New York’s display...
July 27, 2021PHILADELPHIA – Ella Schaap died at the age of 108 on July 10, in her Newtown, Penn., home. She had been a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was considered an expert in Dutch ceramics....
July 27, 2021Review and Photos by Greg Smith EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. – The grounds of Mulford Farm made for fertile hunting July 16-18 when about 40 dealers spread throughout the farmstead at the East Hampton Antiques...
July 27, 2021Review by W.A. Demers, Photos Courtesy of Eldred’s EAST DENNIS, MASS. – Property of a direct descendant of Thomas Jefferson, the contents of the Brick House at Coolidge Point, Manchester-by-the-Sea,...
July 27, 2021PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – The price range of offerings at the July 17 Elks Decoy & Outdoor Sporting Collectibles Show was broad. The age of the attendees was broad, too, from mostly senior citizens...
July 27, 2021Review by Madelia Hickman Ring, Catalog Photos Courtesy Ahlers & Ogletree ATLANTA, GA. – Fine art usually dominates in a mixed category auction in which antiques and fine art vie for bidder’s...
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