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November 6, 2018VICTORIA, CANADA — Antiquarian booksellers from around the world have launched a week-long retail protest against AbeBooks and its owner, Amazon, over the company’s decision to no longer support booksellers...
November 6, 2018By Kate Eagen Johnson BOSTON — Bostonians possess an affinity for jewelry. Think of the Sargent portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner with her ropes of pearls, Boston’s system of linked parks called...
November 6, 2018Snow and resentment filled the air on the cold night of March 5, 1770, as a group of American colonists formed a party outside of the Customs House in Boston and began taunting the British guard on duty....
November 6, 2018CINCINNATI – Four historic lots created a bidding frenzy that sent prices soaring past estimates into six figures at Cowan’s Fall Americana, including fine and decorative art, premier auction...
November 6, 2018NEW YORK CITY – The Frick Museum is hosting the first monographic exhibition devoted to one of the towering figures of Eighteenth Century Italian decorative arts, Luigi Valadier (1726-1785). For more...
November 6, 2018Review by Greg Smith NEW HAVEN, CONN. – “I’m more of a curated auctioneer,” said Fred Giampietro, auctioneer and owner at his newly minted New Haven Auctions, a division of Fred...
November 6, 2018Review by Anne Kugielsky MILFORD, CONN. – Confirming Sandra Germain’s opinion on auction success, the top lot at Shannon’s Fine Art Auctioneers’ October 25 sale was a painting that...
November 6, 2018Review and Photos by Madelia Hickman Ring NEW MILFORD, CONN. – The morning of Sunday, October 21 dawned cool and blustery but bright and clear for the second annual New Milford Antiques Show. It was a considerable...
November 6, 2018The gloves were white at a successful Bonhams sale as an untitled work by Manjit Bawa was the top lot at $614,000, contributing to an auction where every lot found a buyer. Meanwhile, Greenwich, Conn.,-based...
November 6, 2018Review and Photos by W.A. Demers HARTFORD, CONN. – Like the Israelites wandering in the desert for 40 years, the ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show has of late been trying to find its “forever...
November 6, 2018Review by R. Scudder Smith WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. – “The sale did extremely well, exceeding our expectations by ten percent,” Leon Weiss said, adding that “we set about 12 to 15 world...
November 5, 2018BOSTON — A signed enamel miniature portrait of George Washington by William Russell Birch (1755–1834) dated 1797 led Skinner’s Americana and Folk Art sale on November 3. Birch was born and trained...
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