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(Computer Article)E-mail Tips and Scams
An imitation phishing e-mail like the real ones.
Computer Column #317
John P. Reid, jreid@dca.net
It is all about e-mail this month.
Archive E-mail
Many of us save received e-mail messages for years as transaction records or for their information content. I have e-mail to and from companies written about in this column, fellow collectors, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Two-Day Auction at Nye & Company
Nye & Company, Bloomfield, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Nye & Company
When Christie's and Sotheby's get large collections of Americana for sale, they skim the finest examples for New York City sales and often refer the rest to a regional auction house or invite regional auctioneers to compete for the consignment. That ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Artist--and M.A.D. Cartoonist--Wins First Prize in Art Contest
John Stinger of Stewartsville, New Jersey, who contributes cartoons to Maine Antique Digest, was named first-prize winner in the Warren County (New Jersey) Seniors Arts Program contest for his oil painting executed on location in Bucks County. Stinger was awarded top honors in the professional oil painting category. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Philadelphia Show
For 63 years, there has been an antiques show in Philadelphia providing a treasure hunt for the finest things money can buy. In its long history, this grand bazaar under a succession of show managers has moved from the 103rd Engineer Battalion Armory (now the Drexel Armory) to the Convention ... (Read More)
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()Publications of Arthur and Sybil Kern
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(Fragment)Colonial Williamsburg Acquires Rare Portrait
There are only six known portraits by artist William Dering. Now, after receiving the portrait Joyce Armistead Booth (Mrs. Mordecai Booth), the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation has five of them in its collection.
"Executed in saturated, well-preserved reds, blues, and golds, and measuring more than four feet in height, this likeness of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum Buys Friedrich Painting
The Saint Louis Art Museum has acquired Sunburst in the Riesengebirge, a 10" x 121/2" oil on canvas by German painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The museum purchased the painting on December 12, 2018, at Sotheby's in London for $2,720,095 (includes buyer's premium). The estimate was $626,750/877,450.
According to the museum, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions Acquired by Hindman LLC
Two of the Midwest's most prominent auction houses-Leslie Hindman Auctioneers and Cowan's Auctions-have been acquired by a new venture, Hindman LLC. No immediate changes are planned. The auction houses will continue to operate under their original brands, at the same locations, and with their existing staffs.
The owner of the new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tremont Auctions Moves
Tremont Auctions, formerly of Newton, Massachusetts, has moved to new quarters in Sudbury, Massachusetts, and is open for business. The new gallery at 615 Boston Post Road (Route 20) is larger, with more accommodation for storage and parking than at the previous location. In addition, it is situated on a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sotheby's Expands
Sotheby's new expanded exhibition galleries at its York Avenue, New York City, the location will be ready in time for its May sales of Impressionist, modern, and contemporary art. The renovation and expansion was designed by Shohei Shigematsu of OMA New York, in collaboration with Sotheby's.
Exhibition and auction space has ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Box Lot Buy Yields Explosive Device
On March 27 troopers with the Nebraska State Patrol (NSP) Bomb Squad were called to examine a suspected explosive found inside an antique coffee jar. The jar was found by a citizen in a box lot purchased at an auction.
Upon finding the suspicious device, the citizen notified members of the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques at Rhinebeck Adds Fourth Building
Barn Star Productions' Spring Antiques at Rhinebeck Show and Sale on Memorial Day weekend, May 25 and 26, will be adding a fourth building to the event to accommodate more exhibitors. The show is held at the Dutchess County Fairgrounds in Rhinebeck, New York, and Barn Star has filled the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Harvard Art Museums Are Gifted 70 Otto Piene Sketchbooks
Seventy sketchbooks by renowned artist Otto Piene (1928-2014) have been gifted to the Harvard Art Museums. The gift was made by poet and author Elizabeth Goldring, the artist's wife. Dating from 1935 to 2014, the largely unpublished sketchbooks reflect interdisciplinary, cross-media experiments from Piene's long career in the Boston area ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Editorial: Uncertainty
As this issue of Maine Antique Digest is published, thanks to a dedicated crew making sure it reaches the press, uncertainty hangs over the world of art and antiques. Will things ever be the same?
The antiques industry, as we've all always known, is by no means essential. It's a place ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA Grant Benefits Waldoboro Schoolhouse Renovation
The Maine Antiques Dealers Association's Education and Community Grants program, established in 1998, exists to "promote education in, and knowledge of, historical Maine arts and decorative arts." In order to qualify for the grant, a request must be submitted to the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA).
Harry Hepburn of Harrison, Maine, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tiffany Studios Poppy Lamp Brings $541,200
Tiffany Studios table lamp with a 20" conical leaded-glass shade in the Poppy motif and a rare base with 16 iridescent Favrile glass balls as supports for the telescoping stem. There are Tiffany stamps to both the shade and base. It sold for $541,200 (est. $350,000/450,000). According to Morphy Auctions, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Full Schedule for Bath Antique Sale
For the first time since acquiring the Bath (Maine) Antique Sale, Gurley Antique Shows has announced that the show will have a full six-show schedule. The first show this fall, October 9, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., will have approximately 50 dealers from Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Vermont exhibiting.
The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Martindale Acquires Whitehawk
Venice, California-based American Indian art dealer, gallerist, and show producer Kim Martindale's stunning announcement that he has acquired Santa Fe's Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show affects almost all serious members of the Indian art collecting community-dealers, collectors, and artists.
Martindale wrote in a press release, "Words can't fully ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Snow Doesn't Stop Boxborough Show
The January 7 edition of the Boxborough Antique Show opened at 10 a.m. to 12" of snow and freezing temperatures. Run by Rachel and Joshua Gurley at the Boxboro Regency Hotel in Boxborough, Massachusetts, the show carried on. Although most events would have canceled, the Gurleys say "Rain, Snow, or ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peggy Bacon Exhibit in Maine
The Gallery at Trifles, Wiscasset, Maine, is hosting a selling exhibition of 70 drawings by Peggy Bacon (1895-1987) that have never been on public display. This coincides with the exhibition Peggy Bacon: Biting, Never Bitter currently on view at the Portland Museum of Art.
Peggy Bacon was a painter, caricaturist, illustrator, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)FBI Determines Seized Scalp Is Human
On January 17 the Federal Register published a notice from the National Park Service that revealed that a scalp seized in early May 2022 at Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Fairfield, Maine, was human. The scalp was attached to a beaded American Indian pipe bag and was part of a large ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Selling the Future
A 200-vendor group shop in North Tonawanda, New York, entered into an agreement in November 2024 with Flow Capital Funding LLC to provide capital. Those funds came at a high cost-almost 50%.
It wasn't a loan. According to paperwork filed in a Monroe County, New York, courtroom, the shop sold future ... (Read More)
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