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May 2, 2017Richard Guy Wilson is one of America’s best-known experts on historic architecture. His many credits include a starring role in the A&E television series America’s Castles, which explored...
May 2, 2017SOMERVILLE, N.J. – H. Kels Swan, 88, who patronized many antiques dealers in New England over the past 70 years, died April 22 at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital. Born November 14, 1928,...
May 2, 2017MANCHESTER, N.H. – The expected top lot of R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts’ April 29-30 clock and watch auction more than tripled its high estimate, finishing at $102,350. The No. 57 jeweler’s...
May 2, 2017DOWNINGTOWN, PENN. – Two Newfoundland garden dogs were in the hunt at Pook & Pook on April 29. Dating to circa 1857-78 and standing 3 feet tall, the cast iron figures realized $56,120, including...
May 2, 2017HARTFORD, CONN. – HB 6335, a proposed bill that the antiques trade characterized as “the destructive ivory ban,” has died quietly at the close of the state legislature’s session....
May 2, 2017NEWPORT, R.I. – In the 30th anniversary year of the founding of his Newport gallery, art dealer Bill Vareika will be inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame during a ceremony on May 6. Ironically,...
May 2, 2017ONLINE – The Marcy Carsey Collection of American furniture and folk art, one of the most notable collections of Americana brought to auction in recent memory, will be presented by Lark Mason Associates...
May 2, 2017ST CHARLES, ILL. – Exceedingly rare, a rigmate pair of hollow carved pintails by Canadian carver Ivar Fernlund (1881-1933) was the star lot at Guyette & Deeter’s April 27-28 auction at the Pheasant...
May 1, 2017The Apple-1, the first personal computer kit released by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne under Apple Computer Co. in 1976, was the beginning of a storied ascent for a company that rode the technological...
May 1, 2017NEW YORK CITY — Conservators in the Museum’s Objects Conservation Laboratory at the Museum of Natural History have a unique job. “I get to work on a variety of material including robes...
April 28, 2017FALLS CHURCH, VA. — On April 20 in the closing moments of the sale of Quinn’s Auction Galleries’ Asian, ancient, and ethnographic works of art auction, a Chinese cloisonné bottle vase crossed the block...
April 28, 2017WILLIAMSBURG, VA. — Nearly two and a half years after announcing the public phase of a $40 million capital campaign with its goal met, the Art Museums of Colonial Williamsburg held a groundbreaking...
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