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May 15, 2018Review and Photos by W.A. Demers BRONX, N.Y. – It was if someone had flicked a switch and a tenacious winter was instantly replaced by summer when the New York Botanical Garden Antiques and Art Fair...
May 15, 2018Review by Rick Russack, Photos Courtesy Kaminski Auctions BEVERLY, MASS. – On May 5 and 6, Frank Kaminski sold more than 5,000 studio props that had been used on Martha Stewart’s television...
May 15, 2018Review and Onsite Photos by Marty Steiner, Catalog Photos Courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction BUFORD, GA. – I doubt that many readers of this article will ever own a Bill Traylor drawing. Slotin Folk...
May 14, 2018CORNING, N.Y. — At the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, architects William Holabird and Martin Roche found in the glass of Tiffany Studios what they had been searching for: a piece...
May 14, 2018CHICAGO — Artist Frank Frazetta’s painting “Death Dealer 6,” 1990, set a world auction record for the artist when it sold for $1,792,500, nearly three times its estimate, at Heritage Auctions...
May 14, 2018NEW YORK CITY — Chinese interest in abstract artist Zao Wou-Ki continues to give rise to exceptional auction results, and the case was no different at Doyle’s May 9 Post-War & Contemporary art auction...
May 9, 2018Six miles to the inch means, among other things, that you are going for detail. That was the scale used by John La Tourette for his 1845 map of the state of Mississippi, which also included portions of both...
May 9, 2018NEW YORK CITY — The collection of Peggy and David Rockefeller, which is being conducted across six live sales and a two-week online sale by Christie’s New York, started the evening of May 8 with 43 lots...
May 9, 2018OLDWICK, N.J. — “I just sort of liked mechanical banks,” said dealer and collector Tom Sage Sr. “Twenty some years ago, I bought one at a sale in New Jersey, which was the Merry Go Round...
May 8, 2018At 32, Taylor Thistlethwaite is one of the youngest antiques dealers on the circuit. The Kentucky native radiates a Southern charm that runs as deep as his appreciation for the material that hails from...
May 8, 2018By W.A. Demers ODESSA, DEL. – On December 16, 1773, a group of political protesters in Boston – the Sons of Liberty – threw an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company into...
May 8, 2018WILLIAMSBURG, VA. – While forensics is a hot topic, not many people would think to apply this kind of detective work to determine how Seventeenth, Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Century seating...
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