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6/27/2006	Waterloo Antiques Fair In 31st Year, Great Antiques & Fun Western New Jersey, in the hills where Waterloo Village was recreated with a show field for concerts and other events, Stella Show Mgmt Co. continued its tradition for the 31st year with the Waterloo Antiques Show. Read More...
6/27/2006	'Visions Of Victory' At Joslyn Art Museum The worlds of photography and sports have evolved hand-in-hand for more than a century, each moving from relatively primitive states to today's more sophisticated status. Read More...
6/27/2006	Ceramics Fair & Seminar Sees Strong Sales In 25th Year Celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2006, the International Ceramics Fair & Seminar, which was conducted June 15-18 at the Park Lane hotel, proved as popular as ever with private collectors and academics. Read More...
6/27/2006	Farmington Antiques Weekend The Farmington Antiques Show had enough variety to appeal to a wide audience and despite a few weather-related hitches, the show finished its two-day run with a good showing Sunday. Read More...
6/27/2006	Four Flags Recaptured For $17.4 Million At Sotheby's On Flag Day, June 14, at Sotheby's, four rare battle flags captured from American troops during the Revolutionary War sold for $17,392,000, far exceeding the presale estimate of $4/10 million. Read More...
6/27/2006	Egon Schiele Lost Masterpiece Is $21.7 Million At Christie's Egon Schiele's lost masterpiece "Herbstsonne," recently rediscovered and restituted to the heirs of Karl Gr�nwald, was sold at Christie's on June 20 for $21,688,424. Read More...
6/27/2006	Charlie Chaplin's Trademark Hat & Cane Break World Auction Record At $139,250 At Bonhams & Butterfields' entertainment memorabilia sale on June 25, film legend Charlie Chaplin's trademark bowler hat and cane from his iconic Tramp costume sold for $139,250. Read More...
6/27/2006	A Record Price For Nakashima At Skinner's 20th Century Sale A massive George Nakashima table became the top lot at Skinner this past Saturday, June 24, during its Twentieth Century Furniture and Decorative Arts sale when it fetched $204,000. Read More...
6/27/2006	Nagel Auktionen Sees Competition For Collectors' Carpets And Ethnologica The 46th special auction of collectors' carpets and ethnologica at Nagel ended with gratifying knockdowns and a total result of $1.2 million. Read More...
6/27/2006	Merganser Pair Takes Top Honors At Guyette And Schmidt Auction A pair of mergansers, circa 1900, by Clinton Keith, achieved a record $335,000 at Guyette and Schmidt, Inc's recent 21st annual spring decoy auction. Read More...
6/27/2006	'American Visions Of Liberty & Freedom' To Open July 1 What do palmetto trees, rattlesnakes and the Statue of Liberty have in common? The answer is revealed with a visit to "American Visions of Liberty & Freedom," on view at the National Heritage Museum, July 1 to October 15. Read More...
6/27/2006	Lake George Paintings On View At Hancock House In Ticonderoga The Hancock House is exhibiting "Oil & Water: Paintings of Lake George 1860-1945" through August 26. This exhibition offers an opportunity to view the region through the eyes of many American painters who revered this area. Read More...
6/27/2006	Oskar Kokoschka's 'Prometheus Triptych' To Go On View At Courtauld Institute The "Prometheus Triptych," the most important painting by Oskar Kokoschka in the United Kingdom, will be exhibited for the first time in a decade at the Courtauld Institute of Art Gallery, Somerset House, Strand, through September 17. Read More...
6/27/2006	Pennsylvania Conservatory Presents 'Surf & Turf' Through July 21 The Pennsylvania Art Conservatory welcomes summer with a selection of landscape, seascape and harbor motif paintings in a special exhibition titled "Surf & Turf," which will be on view through July 21. Read More...
6/27/2006	Dahesh Museum Presents 'Napoleon On The Nile' The Dahesh Museum of Art's presentation of "Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt," is devoted to the D�scription de L'�gypte, a compendium that shaped Europe's understanding of Egypt. Read More...
6/27/2006	Edward Forbes Smiley III Admits To Stealing 97 Rare Maps From US And UK Institutions Two blocks from where he was apprehended a year ago with maps that he later confessed to have stolen from Yale, antique map dealer Edward Forbes Smiley III, had his day in court. Read More...
6/20/2006	Tea Table Sells For $59,400 At Litchfield County Auctions An early Eighteenth Century Queen Anne tea table soared past all expectations, realizing $59,400, at Litchfield County Auctions' annual spring event. Read More...
6/20/2006	Jumeau, Bru Brevete Dolls Perform At Philip Weiss Estate Sale A turn-of-the-century Jumeau portrait doll hammered for $9,350, while a smiling Bru Brevete fashion doll from the same period garnered $5,225, at Philip Weiss Auctions' recent estate sale. Read More...
6/20/2006	Bertoia Sculpture Takes Lead At Sollo:Rago Modern Auction The recent Sollo:Rago Modern Auction resulted in a personal best for the auction house with a record breaking $4.8 million yield for both days. Read More...
6/20/2006	Sotheby's Reunites Ancient Roman Aphrodite Figure With Her Head On June 6 at Sotheby's, following extensive scholarship, an ancient Roman figure of Aphrodite was reunited with her head after the two elements had been separated for at least 50 years. Read More...
6/20/2006	Allure Of RMS Titanic Tragedy Sparks Interest At Christie's The top lot at Christie's ocean liner furnishings and art sale was a painted cast bonze house flag and name from a lifeboat on the RMS Titanic that sold for $72,000. Read More...
6/20/2006	2nd Annual Blue Ribbon Antiques Show Despite a soaking rain, buyers came to the Blue Ribbon Antiques Show and many of the dealers reported some nice sales. Read More...
6/20/2006	Hollister House Garden: Grounds Designed By Antiquarian George Schoellkopf When American folk art dealer George Schoellkopf resigned from the Winter Antiques Show, it was to pursue a grander vision: that of creating a sprawling garden on 26 tilted acres outside Washington, Conn. Read More...
6/20/2006	Ridgefield Hosts 44th Edition Of Outdoor Antiques Market Intermittent drizzle dampened the verdant grounds skirting Ridgefield's historic Lounsbury House, but that did not take the starch out of the hardy band of antiques dealers who came to show and sell at the outdoor 44th Ridgefield Antiques Market. Read More...
6/20/2006	Newark Museum Surveys 500 Years Of Jewelry The full range of American and European jewelry from The Newark Museum's decorative arts collection is together for the first time in the new exhibition titled "Objects of Desire: 500 Years of Jewelry." Read More...
6/20/2006	Mint Showing Spanish Colonial Art From Lilly And Francis Robicsek Collection Organized by The Mint Museums, paintings, sculptures, silver and furniture from the late Seventeenth through the Nineteenth Century make up "Spanish Colonial Art from the Lilly and Francis Robicsek Collection" on view through September 10. Read More...
6/20/2006	BADA Cancels Americana Week N.Y. Antiques Fair In January The British Antiques Dealers Association has postponed plans for a show in New York from January 16 to 21 to coincide with the Winter Antiques Show and Americana Week activities. Read More...
6/20/2006	Hood Celebrates 400 Years Of Rembrandt In honor of Rembrandt's 400th birthday this year, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College presents "Rembrandt: Master of Light and Shadow; Etchings from the Collection of the Hood Museum of Art" on view through September 17. Read More...
6/20/2006	Betty Dawson Forbes, Well-Known Antiques Show Manager Betty Dawson Forbes, who started New England Antiques Shows and was a longtime show promoter in Connecticut, died on Saturday June 17, a day before her 87th birthday. Read More...
6/20/2006	Flora Gill Jacobs, 87, Founder, Director, Curator Of Dollhouse & Toy Museum On May 31, Flora Gill Jacobs, a native of Washington, died from congestive heart failure at age 87. She was an internationally recognized authority on dollhouses, and the founder of the Dollhouse Museum in Washington, D.C. Read More...
6/20/2006	Laura Jean Evans, 47, Antiques Dealer Antiques dealer Laura Jean Evans, 47, who held several positions at museums and was curator of the Maria Mitchell House in Nantucket, died on June 12 of cancer in Danvers, Mass. Read More...
6/13/2006	'The Stars & Stripes: Fabric Of The American Spirit' Quirky stars and stripes herald Independence Day in the exhibit "The Stars and Stripes: Fabric of the American Spirit," on view at the Wilton Historical Society and Historical Museum. Read More...
6/13/2006	Rhinebeck Antiques Show Marks 30th Anniversary The Rhinebeck Antiques Show set up in four buildings for its May 27-28 megashow at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds during its 30th annual outing. Read More...
6/13/2006	Silhouettes In The Sky: The Art Of The Weathervane One of the best collections in the country and rarely seen as a group, the Shelburne Museum's summer exhibition of weathervanes gathers 50 high flyers. Read More...
6/13/2006	Floyd Starr Half-Disme Achieves $1.3 Million At Heritage Auction A 1792 half disme, which hails from the Floyd Starr collection, sold for $1,322,500 to a private collector at Heritage Auction Galleries' auction of the Central States Numismatic Society Convention. Read More...
6/13/2006	Greg Martin Hits Target With Sale Totaling More Than $7 Million Greg Martin Auctions realized more than $7 million in sales at its auction of Part I of the Robert Howard collection and the collection of Bowie knives, and achieved its second-highest sale in the company's history. Read More...
6/13/2006	Maxfield Parrish's Star Is Rising: 'Daybreak' Brings $7.6 Million Christie's sale of important American paintings, drawings and sculpture, led by Maxfield Parrish's iconic "Daybreak," one of the most reproduced images in American history, totaled $35.8 million. Read More...
6/13/2006	Christie's Completes Record-Breaking Asian Sales Series Christie's recently completed the largest auction series in Asia with the sales of Modern and contemporary Southeast Asian art, Twentieth Century Chinese art, Asian contemporary art and Chinese ceramics works of art. Read More...
6/13/2006	'Twice The Amount Of Energy' At Shannon's May Art Auction "There is twice the amount of energy for this sale than we saw at our last auction," commented Gene Shannon moments prior to Shannon's May 4, auction of Fine American and European Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture. Read More...
6/13/2006	Nan Gurley's Brimfield Show Benefited From Rainy Week Weather for the May Brimfield week was not good but the gate was up more than ten percent over last May at Nan Gurley's Brimfield Week show. Read More...
6/13/2006	NY International Tribal & Textile Arts Show Is On The Collecting World's Frontiers In a city overpopulated with selling events, the New York International Tribal & Textile Arts Show is unto itself - sophisticated, original, diverse and peripatetic in content. Read More...
6/13/2006	National Museum Of American Illustration Will Show Patriotic Images July 1-2 The National Museum of American Illustration will celebrate its sixth anniversary July 1-2 by showing a selection of patriotic images not usually on display. Read More...
6/13/2006	'Searching For Shakespeare' Opens At Yale Center For British Art June 23 What England's most famous poet and playwright actually looked like has been a matter of interest for more than 200 years. "Searching for Shakespeare" at the Yale Center for British Art takes up the debate in this exhibition. Read More...
6/13/2006	Lynne 'Lily' Buckus, 51, eBay Seller Since 1995 Lynne "Lily" Buckus, 51, died May 26, after an illness. The longtime antiques dealer who specialized in Victorian furniture was the founder of Northwind Antiques. Read More...
6/13/2006	'Fifty Great Years' Antiques dealers Ted and Carole Hayward will be celebrating their golden anniversary on June 17 and will be enjoying some time on Cape Cod. Read More...
6/13/2006	Alice Hamilton, Antique Silver Dealer, 78 Alice Hamilton, 78, died on June 5. Alice was the wife of Derek Hamilton with whom she shared a love of antique silver; they were antique silver dealers who showed under the name H and H Antiques, "A Source of Interesting Silver." Read More...
6/6/2006	Massachusetts Bonnet-Top Leads At Skinner A circa 1765 Massachusetts bonnet-top high chest of drawers, the cover lot of Skinner's June 4 sale of American furniture and decorative arts, sold for $226,000. Read More...
6/6/2006	Carol Dean Krute, 65, Curator Of Costume And Textiles Carol Dean Krute, curator of costume and textiles at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art for 15 years, died of cancer Tuesday, May 30, at her home in Grasmere, N.Y. Read More...
6/6/2006	Topsfield Show For June 24-25 Cancelled The Great Indoor/Outdoor Antiques Show at the Topsfield Fairgrounds, scheduled for June 24 and 25, has been cancelled. Read More...
6/6/2006	Currier Acquires William Harnett Still-Life 'A Royal Dessert' The Currier Museum of Art announces the acquisition of a major still-life painting, "A Royal Dessert," 1881, by William Michael Harnett (1848-1892), one of America's most important late Nineteenth Century painters. Read More...
6/6/2006	'The Surreal Calder' Opens At Minneapolis Institute June 11 Internationally famous for his mobiles and stabiles, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is the focus of a new exhibit that shows his lesser known talents as a Surrealist. Read More...
6/6/2006	'Prairie Skyscraper: Frank Lloyd Wright' At National Building Museum June 17 The National Building Museum will present a comprehensive exhibition celebrating the 50th anniversary of the completion of Frank Lloyd Wright's only skyscraper - the Price Tower in Bartlesville, Okla., of 1956. Read More...
6/6/2006	Abraham Lincoln Letter Brings $80,500 At Swann Galleries An important autograph letter signed by Abraham Lincoln to his law partner and political confidant, John T. Stuart, brought $80,500 at a Swann Galleries auction. Read More...
6/6/2006	Signed American Flag Reaches $86,250 At Goldberg Coins & Collectibles Ira and Larry Goldberg Coins & Collectibles' recent Manuscripts and Collectibles Sale offered 927 lots with the sale grossing more than $1 million. Read More...
6/6/2006	$10.2 Million Is Record Price For Ming Porcelain Vase The star lot of Christie's important Chinese ceramics works of art sale on May 30 was an early Ming underglaze copper-red vase, Yuhuchunping, Hongwu period, which fetched $10.2 million. Read More...
6/6/2006	Rockwell's 'Homecoming Marine' Sets Artist's Record At Sotheby's Sotheby's successful sale of American paintings recently brought $60,029,600 and set records for several artists including a Norman Rockwell that fetched $9.2 million. Read More...
6/6/2006	Well Attended Preview Opens Two-Day East Berlin Antiques Show The Historic East Berlin Antiques Show kicked off May 18 with an inviting preview party and then saw approximately 500 visitors through its gates during its two-day run. Read More...
6/6/2006	The Greater York Antiques Show "We gave them a great deal, and people seemed to like it," Jim Burk said of his joint venture with Barry Cohen on May 19 and 20 at the York Expo Center on the York Fairgrounds. Read More...
6/6/2006	York County Classic Antiques Show Gate Increases Over Last May "Our customers liked it, and our dealers liked it, the idea of one show under one roof and just one admission ticket," Barry Cohen said of the combined York County Classic Antiques Show and Jim Burk's Greater York Antiques Show May 19-20. Read More...
6/6/2006	Books & Paper Form New Show Capping Brimfield Week The Sturbridge Book & Ephemera Fair debuted at the Host Hotel and Conference Center on May 12-13 to take advantage of Brimfield crowds. Read More...
6/6/2006	Vintage Textiles Show Has Its 45th Consecutive Sellout Start with a good idea, add hard work, dedication and some good luck and you have Linda Zukas' 45th Vintage Textile Show at the Sturbridge Host Hotel. Read More...
6/6/2006	Dana G. Putnam, 65, Auctioneer, Local Politician And Volunteer Dana G. Putnam, 65, died Wednesday, May 17, in Heywood Hospital, Gardner, Mass. He was a well-known auctioneer, owner of Country-Auctions and a former elected official. Read More...
6/6/2006	English Silver At The Court Of The Tsars The Russian Kremlin evokes many mental images, but for Western minds, the ornately decorated silver flagons, tankards and salt cellars of Tudor England are not usually high on the list. Read More...