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 Winter Antiques Show Filled With Treasures Arie L. Kopelman, chairman of the show, is a fixture on the floor of the Winter Antiques Show from well before the show opens until the last dealer has moved out. Together with Catherine Sweeney Singer, executive director, the show moves smoothly, and each year they look for ways to make things better and keep the show on the top of the heap.
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Betty Ring’s Samplers Sell At Sotheby’s “I can open this lot at $50,000,” the auctioneer at Sotheby’s said, as lot number 616 of the landmark sampler collection of Betty Ring continued on Sunday, January 22, at the York Avenue galleries. The sampler in question, 115 lots into the sale, was the first of the New Jersey lots and was executed in 1807 by Mary Antrim, Burlington County.
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De Menil Byzantine Murals Return To Cyprus In February
Near the Rothko Chapel on the 30-acre Menil Collection campus in Houston is another chapel. Its design is contemporary, foretelling nothing of the contents for which it was built. Within are two fine Byzantine frescoes dating to the Thirteenth Century.
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Joan Lehner, Dealer, Collector, Appraiser 2-3 must On January 4, 2012, dealer/collector Joan Lehner died. For more than 40 years she was an important dealer/collector with major collections of American folk art, antique toys and holiday collectibles, among other things. Joan was a knowledgeable appraiser as well, and specialized in estate jewelry. |
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Jan 31st, 12- Revolutionary War Flintlock Rifle Stolen In Northampton, Mass. A brass-mounted and engraved flintlock Revolutionary rifle was reported to have been taken from private residence here in early January. The rifle measures 56 inches in length with a brass patch box engraved “Clement Fairchild, 4th Connecticut Rgmt, 1780.”
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