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• July Brimfield Canceled, Digital Shows Signal Return

  29-05-2020 15:21 via antiquesandthearts.com
  BRIMFIELD, MASS.—It was announced on Tuesday May 26 that the July 14-19 edition of Brimfield would be canceled. Paul McCarthy, chair of Brimfield’s Select Board wrote, “Though we are entering into a Phased Reopening of the Commonwealth, there appears little likelihood that we will be safely into the Phase 4 period by July and, even if we were, that conditions would allow for such large, intimate gatherings.
  
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• Liquor ban violators help renovate police station in Antique - pna.gov.ph

  29-05-2020 11:11 via pna.gov.ph
  
  Liquor ban violators help renovate police station in Antique  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antique maintains regulated sale, consumption of liquor - Panay News

  29-05-2020 03:36 via panaynews.net
  Antique maintains regulated sale, consumption of liquor  Panay News
  
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• Antique front-liners get weekly ration of fresh milk - pna.gov.ph

  28-05-2020 14:05 via pna.gov.ph
  
  Antique front-liners get weekly ration of fresh milk  pna.gov.ph
  
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• G2G Antique Boutique has reopened - KERO 23ABC News

  27-05-2020 22:50 via turnto23.com
  
  G2G Antique Boutique has reopened  KERO 23ABC News
  
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• Connecticut Antique Gun Law Conviction No Basis for Deportation - Bloomberg Law

  27-05-2020 22:08 via news.bloomberglaw.com
  
  Connecticut Antique Gun Law Conviction No Basis for Deportation  Bloomberg Law
  
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• Notice: We Are Returning To Print With June 19 Issue

  27-05-2020 21:54 via antiquesandthearts.com
  NEWTOWN, CONN.— Notice was sent on page 1 of the April 3 issue of Antiques and The Arts Weekly that the Bee Publishing Company was temporarily suspending the printed newspaper until the worst of the Coronavirus crisis abates. To view that letter, please click here
  
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• Morphy Sets Tomahawk Auction Record At $664,200, Made By Revolutionary War General Richard Butler

  27-05-2020 21:43 via antiquesandthearts.com
  By Greg Smith
  DENVER, PENN.— An auction record for any tomahawk was set at Morphy Auctions on May 27 as a Revolutionary War presentation pipe tomahawk made by future General Richard Butler and inscribed to Lieutenant John McClellan, circa 1765-1770, sold for $664,200, including buyer’s premium, to an American buyer.
  Morphy called it “arguably the most important, most historic, most well decorated and best known American tomahawk in existence.”
  The tomahawk began bidding
  
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• Virginia: Upcoming Universal Background Check Law & Antique Firearms - AmmoLand Shooting Sports News

  27-05-2020 16:26 via ammoland.com
  
  Virginia: Upcoming Universal Background Check Law & Antique Firearms  AmmoLand Shooting Sports News
  
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• Antique still observes regulated sale, consumption of liquor - pna.gov.ph

  27-05-2020 14:58 via pna.gov.ph
  
  Antique still observes regulated sale, consumption of liquor  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antiques Shops Begin Process Of Cautiously Reopening

  27-05-2020 11:50 via antiquesandthearts.com
  UNITED STATES – Similar, in metaphor only, to relearning how to walk following a devastating injury, antiques dealers are opening up their shops as state-mandated retail closures expire around the United States. They do not know what to expect
  
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• Antique Boat Show Cancelled at Hessel - St. Ignace News

  27-05-2020 01:16 via stignacenews.com
  
  Antique Boat Show Cancelled at Hessel  St. Ignace News
  
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• Dewey Antique Show set for June 6 - Lifestyle - Grandlakenews

  26-05-2020 18:19 via grandlakenews.com
  Dewey Antique Show set for June 6 - Lifestyle  Grandlakenews
  
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• Dodge County Antique Power Club show canceled | Community - WiscNews

  26-05-2020 17:00 via wiscnews.com
  Dodge County Antique Power Club show canceled | Community  WiscNews
  
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• Magnitude 3.1 earthquake jolts Anini-y town in Antique - INQUIRER.net

  26-05-2020 14:17 via newsinfo.inquirer.net
  Magnitude 3.1 earthquake jolts Anini-y town in Antique  INQUIRER.net
  
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• Patiently Waiting, Garvey Rita Art & Antiques To Open Gallery In Orleans

  26-05-2020 14:14 via antiquesandthearts.com
  ORLEANS, MASS. – Kevin Rita signed the lease for his new gallery space in November 2019 in the picturesque Cape Cod town of Orleans, Mass. He planned to open Garvey Rita Art & Antiques in May as the season got into swing, but because of the pandemic, that opening has yet to happen. He does not know when it will.
  Rita moved up to Orleans from Connecticut with his wife. The two settled on a home and took note of the open retail location, only a short walk from their doorstep, not long af
  
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• Michael Jordan Basketball Card, Tiffany Lamps Jump Up For Cottone

  26-05-2020 14:14 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Auction Action in Geneseo, N.Y.
  GENESEO, N.Y. – Cottone Auctions’ May 16 online sale featuring 301 lots of art and antiques was more than 97 percent sold by lot and realized a total of approximately $650,000. Pandemic-era restrictions were in place, so buyers had to cope with by-appointment previews and bidding by phones and absentee bids, or via one of the three online platforms Cottone utilizes: LiveAuctioneers, Invaluable or Cottone’s dedicated platform.
  “We were very
  
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• Q&A: Valarie McLeckie

  26-05-2020 14:12 via antiquesandthearts.com
  We might look back in ten years and ask when video game collecting really went mainstream. That answer would be right now. The genre has seen explosive growth in the last year with sales establishing slews of record prices. A new era of collector is blooming, and they want to reconnect with the things they played with when they were children. But beyond that, the perception of video games is shifting as many realize that immersive video game environments were among the very first digital art for
  
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• Fun & Folksy: Garth’s Textile-Folk Art Sale

  26-05-2020 14:12 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Auction Action In Columbus, Ohio
  COLUMBUS, OHIO – On the evening of May 7, Garth’s Auctioneers & Appraisers offered a 95-lot timed online-only auction featuring textiles and folk art from the collection of two Washington, DC sisters. With all but one lot finding new owners, the sale was more than 98 percent sold. Garth’s had given the sale a ten-day online preview, promoted it with targeted marketing and allowed in person previews. The sale attracted a handful of new bidder
  
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• Asian Deities Reign Supreme For Tremont

  26-05-2020 14:10 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Auction Action In Sudbury, Mass.
  SUDBURY, MASS. – Tremont Auctions’ May 17 sale of Asian art and antiques featured among many highlights some Seventeenth Century tea ceremony items from the collections of Charles L. Freer, William Van Horne, Hugo Munsterbeg and Alice Boney, as well as a single owner collection of Japanese “tsuba” sword guards. Bringing a sale total of nearly $500,000, the 525-lot sale was more than 85 percent sold.“I thought the prices were very goo
  
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• High-Octane Petroliana Sets Pace At Morphy’s $1.2M Gas & Oil Auction

  26-05-2020 13:04 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Auction Action In Denver, Penn.
  DENVER, PENN. – It pays to advertise, but investing in rare oil and gas company advertising signage pays even better. That’s the conclusion that can be drawn from Morphy Auctions’ May 13-14 Automobilia & Petroliana sale, which garnered excellent prices across the board and totaled $1.2 million – 20 percent higher than the overall low estimate.
  “Market prices are stronger than ever, and interest in antique and vintage gas and oil m
  
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• Gold Coin Brings Top Dollar For Applebrook

  26-05-2020 13:04 via antiquesandthearts.com
  NEW MILFORD, CONN. – Applebrook Auctions & Estate Sales offered its May 18 “Hope Springs Eternal” auction on a new day – Monday instead of Thursday – but the change did not affect the sale, which saw considerable interest in a 1802/1 graded MS64 $5 gold coin, which closed at $37,500. The sale featured the collectibles, estate jewelry, artwork and attic contents of a large Washington, Conn., home.Prices quoted include buyer’s premium as reported by the auct
  
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• Dennis Waters, 68 Photographer, Daguerreotype Dealer & Expert

  26-05-2020 13:03 via antiquesandthearts.com
  EXETER, N.H. – Dennis “Denny” Waters died at home of liver cancer on Tuesday, May 12. He had only been diagnosed eight weeks prior. Denny was a former professional photographer, current daguerreotype dealer and longtime resident of Exeter, N.H. He was surrounded by his loving family these last weeks, his wife of 47 years, Carol, and his two children, Erin and Casey.
  Dennis was an amazingly wonderful dad, an equally fantastic husband, and the best photo dealer. He was gregarious
  
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• Antique Shops Begin Process Of Cautiously Reopening

  26-05-2020 13:01 via antiquesandthearts.com
  By Greg Smith
  UNITED STATES – Similar, in metaphor only, to relearning how to walk following a devastating injury, antiques dealers are opening up their shops as state-mandated retail closures expire around the United States. They do not know what to expect, but they are taking every precaution for their employees and customers as they get back to business.
  In Stamford, Conn., the Antique and Artisan Gallery opened its doors on Wednesday, May 20. The group shop will be open to the public d
  
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• First For Everything: May Brimfield Goes Digital, Unites Collecting Community & Makes Sales

  26-05-2020 12:02 via antiquesandthearts.com
  ONLINE – If you’re not wearing a hat and standing on the hot pavement as you share Palmer Road with a creeping line of cars and a crowd of folks from just about every walk of life, it’s hard to adequately explain the scope of Brimfield to someone who has never been there, much less replicate the feeling of it. But a band of organizers did something very special for the May edition of the Massachusetts mega antiques market that was canceled this year on account of the coronaviru
  
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• Jeff Evans’ Bidders Screamed For Cobalt Creamer

  26-05-2020 10:09 via antiquesandthearts.com
  MOUNT CRAWFORD, VA. – Bringing the most of more than 900 lots of Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century glass and lighting offered at Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates on May 19-20 was a circa 1825-35 Boston & Sandwich Glass Co., blown and molded cobalt blue creamer that nearly quadrupled its high estimate to sell for $7,605. The creamer was from the Philadelphia collection of the late Alexander Hierholzer (Holt) and Harry Saunders and related to creamers in McKearins’ American Glass
  
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• Eldred’s Marched Online With Solid Sales May 14-15

  26-05-2020 10:09 via antiquesandthearts.com
  EAST DENNIS, MASS. – Josh Eldred reported that Eldred’s May 14 Fine and Decorative Art Auction and the May 15 Summer Living Auction were both successes for the firm.
  “I think, just generally, both sales did really well,” he told us. “The sell-through rates were around 85 percent, which is great – pandemic or no pandemic. There were no floor bidders, but we did have absentee, phone and the internet platforms. There was a tremendous amount of participation, it w
  
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• Patriots Owner Robert Kraft’s 2017 Superbowl Ring Brings Over $1 Million For Charity

  26-05-2020 10:08 via antiquesandthearts.com
  ONLINE – Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s 2017 Superbowl LI championship ring sold for $1,025,000 in an online auction with the All In Challenge.
  The organization puts forward 100 percent of the money raised directly to Feeding America, Meals On Wheels, World Central Kitchen and No Kid Hungry. It says it has raised more than $45 million to date.
  Its goal is to eliminate food insecurity amid the coronavirus pandemic.
  The ring represents one of the greatest comebacks in Superbowl history,
  
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• Kiss This: Warhol Photograph Heats Up To $8,918 At Kensington Estate Auction

  26-05-2020 10:07 via antiquesandthearts.com
  CLINTONDALE, N.Y. – Originally snapped for the 1982 Rainer Fassbinder film Querelle, an original photograph by Andy Warhol found love at the top of Kensington Estate Auction’s sale when it sold for $8,918 on May 18.
  Fassbinder commissioned Warhol to create a poster for the film, which bears a similar resemblance to this photograph with one of the subjects sticking his tongue out in the direction of the other.
  The back of the print featured two authentication stamps and reference numb
  
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• Lark Mason’s Cadmus Sale From Anderson Collection Led By Cadmus Male Nude Work

  26-05-2020 10:06 via antiquesandthearts.com
  NEW YORK CITY- Property from the estate of actor, cabaret singer, and Paul Cadmus’ muse and lover, Jon F. Anderson was offered at Lark Mason’s timed auction that closed May 19, with the highest selling lot found in a crayon-on-hand-toned-paper work of a male nude by Cadmus, which sold for $42,500.
  The work measures 17 by 23¼ inches and was executed circa 1968. It had labels for Ten Hill Studio and DC Moore Gallery. It was exhibited at Moore in “Paul Cadmus:
  
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• Japanese Woodblock Prints Headline Asian Art For The Cobbs

  26-05-2020 10:05 via antiquesandthearts.com
  Auction Action In Peterborough, N.H.
  PETERBOROUGH, N.H. – On May 16, The Cobbs offered a 225-lot “Spring Fine Art, Antique & Ethnographic Auction,” which Charlie Cobb pronounced to Antiques and The Arts Weekly as nearly 100 percent sold, with only one lot passed. While Cobb would not divulge a sale total, he said he was very pleased with the results.“The sale brought 30 or 40 percent more than I thought it would,” Cobb said. “We only allowed inspection by
  
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• DSWD provides needs of sugar migrants in Antique - pna.gov.ph

  26-05-2020 09:49 via pna.gov.ph
  
  DSWD provides needs of sugar migrants in Antique  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antique mayors call for delay of school opening - Panay News

  24-05-2020 18:01 via panaynews.net
  
  Antique mayors call for delay of school opening  Panay News
  
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• Remembering Jerry Sloan: The John Deere Cap, And The Antique Tractor Collection - Forbes

  24-05-2020 17:11 via forbes.com
  Remembering Jerry Sloan: The John Deere Cap, And The Antique Tractor Collection  Forbes
  
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• West Columbia, the antique shop mecca, is reopening - Lexington County Chronicle

  24-05-2020 15:31 via lexingtonchronicle.com
  
  West Columbia, the antique shop mecca, is reopening  Lexington County Chronicle
  
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• Vintage Autos Owner Refurbishing Rare Antique Boat | Alabama News | US News - U.S. News & World Report

  24-05-2020 06:28 via usnews.com
  Vintage Autos Owner Refurbishing Rare Antique Boat | Alabama News | US News  U.S. News & World Report
  
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• Grand Island antique stores reopen - KSNB Local 4

  24-05-2020 00:14 via ksnblocal4.com
  
  Grand Island antique stores reopen  KSNB Local 4
  
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• Southeast Michigan antique tractor show called off - Monroe Evening News

  23-05-2020 23:07 via monroenews.com
  Southeast Michigan antique tractor show called off  Monroe Evening News
  
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• Over 1K Antique sugar migrants stranded in NegOcc return home - Panay News

  23-05-2020 09:25 via panaynews.net
  
  Over 1K Antique sugar migrants stranded in NegOcc return home  Panay News
  
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• Antique eases liquor ban - Panay News

  23-05-2020 08:48 via panaynews.net
  
  Antique eases liquor ban  Panay News
  
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• 'It's been fun': Sisters closing Louisville antique shop after 22 years - WLKY Louisville

  23-05-2020 05:04 via wlky.com
  'It's been fun': Sisters closing Louisville antique shop after 22 years  WLKY Louisville
  
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• Man named Jesus ‘smashed churches antique stained glass window with a foot-long sandstone rock’ - The Sun

  22-05-2020 22:58 via thesun.co.uk
  
  Man named Jesus ‘smashed churches antique stained glass window with a foot-long sandstone rock’  The Sun
  
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• Antique Boat Museum postpones opening day to June 27 - NNY360

  22-05-2020 19:54 via nny360.com
  Antique Boat Museum postpones opening day to June 27  NNY360
  
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• Smooth Landing For Harbor Petroleum Sign At Morph

  22-05-2020 16:33 via antiquesandthearts.com
  DENVER, PENN. – A Harbor Petroleum Products porcelain sign was expected to be among the top lots at Morphy Auctions’ May 13-14 Automobilia & Petroliana sale, and it did not disappoint when it sold for $44,000. Harbor Petroleum Products was based out of Long Beach, Calif., and this sign is circa the 1940s in extremely clean condition. The airplane seen at top of the 39-by-35-inch sign is a Boeing 314 Clipper
  
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• Dealers Show & Three Others Cancel On Antiques Week In New Hampshire

  22-05-2020 16:12 via antiquesandthearts.com
  NEW HAMPSHIRE— The New Hampshire Antiques Show, Antiques in Manchester, The Americana Celebration Antiques Show, and The Milford Show, all part of Antiques Week in New Hampshire, have cancelled their events for August, 2020.
  
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• Antique mayors call for delay of school opening - pna.gov.ph

  22-05-2020 14:55 via pna.gov.ph
  
  Antique mayors call for delay of school opening  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Burglar who stole antique jewellery in Southsea raid jailed for three years - Portsmouth News

  22-05-2020 14:06 via portsmouth.co.uk
  
  Burglar who stole antique jewellery in Southsea raid jailed for three years  Portsmouth News
  
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• 'One Antique Community Quarantine' starts May 25 - pna.gov.ph

  22-05-2020 12:00 via pna.gov.ph
  
  'One Antique Community Quarantine' starts May 25  pna.gov.ph
  
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• Antique cops arrest 122 curfew violators - Panay News

  22-05-2020 09:22 via panaynews.net
  
  Antique cops arrest 122 curfew violators  Panay News
  
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• Auction of rare antique toys expected to fetch £90000 - and you can bid online - Swindon Advertiser

  22-05-2020 06:03 via swindonadvertiser.co.uk
  
  Auction of rare antique toys expected to fetch £90000 - and you can bid online  Swindon Advertiser
  
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