(Auction)
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Only at Doyle on Manhattan’s Upper East Side can you buy a sterling silver child’s highchair tray, a silver dog bowl, and a silver terrapin tureen and soup bowls in an Americana sale. The April 10 sale featured paintings, prints, furniture, silver, and decorative art. ... (Read More)
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, has acquired one of the finest scalloped-top Colonial tea tables, the gift of Barbara L. and Theodore B. Alfond. Made in Philadelphia around 1775, it was sold at Christie’s January 19, 2001, consigned by a descendant of Gouverneur Cadwalader, whose mother, Christine Biddle, had ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
It’s the first 60 characters that count. That’s what the LiveAuctioneers guy said. Search engines give weight to the first 60 characters, so listings should be front loaded with the most important keywords. Well, OK. I’ll have to go back and do some rearranging. Better search engine optimization (SEO) might ... (Read More)
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On January 4 Garth’s Auctions, Inc., filed for judicial dissolution in the Court of Common Pleas in Franklin County, Ohio. According to the complaint, “Garth’s is insolvent, the property and assets of said company are insufficient to pay all of its debts and it cannot meet its obligations as they ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Beneath the Surface
Twenty years ago in February, we were going to Nashville to plug an auction house. To be honest, we had no idea what we were doing in any strategic sense. Literally, someone just said, “You should go to the shows in Nashville. Here’s a credit card!” The goal ... (Read More)
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Dr. Daniel Kurt Ackermann has been named director of the Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, the house museum for American decorative arts of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH).
Dr. Ackermann comes to Bayou Bend after a career of 16 years at Old Salem Museums & Gardens and the Museum ... (Read More)
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The Fiddlers Antiques Show in Nashville, Tennessee, has been sold to Mark and Jill Mattingly of Chrisman, Illinois. The long-running event, which takes its name from the Fiddlers Inn motel where dealers sold from their rooms, had most recently been owned by Bill and Kay Puchstein since 2020. The change ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
A Book Review
This book isn’t about antiques, though there are lots of antiques on almost every page, and it’s not about old houses, though most of the houses are old, and if they’re not old, they feel old in that lovely, comfortable way an old house feels. The owners of ... (Read More)
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Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, presented by the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main Street in cooperation with the Museum Association of New York (MANY), examines the nearly 250-year-old American experiment of a government “of, by and for the people” and how each generation continues to question how to form “a ... (Read More)
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A Book Review
We often think of the many spectacular rooms of the White House when we imagine our leaders greeting those of other countries such as presidents and prime ministers, heads of states, secretaries of state, and diplomatic ministers. But before a visit to the White House, most foreign dignitaries ... (Read More)
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