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August 22, 2017 / album quilts, Brenda Hornsby Heindl, Care, Condition, Emily Quail Moon, Features, History, Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mary Seeds Moon, patterns, Provenance, Quilts, sawtooth-diamond pattern

History and Care: The Importance of Provenance and Condition in Today's Quilt Market

By Brenda Hornsby Heindl On the night my grandmother passed away, I learned that she had been trying to finish ...

August 21, 2017 / Bowling Alley, Columns, Frontman, Gavels n Paddles, Greatful Dead, Guernsey's, guitar, Jerry Garcia, Ken Hall, Sothern Poverty Law Ceter, the Brooklyn Bowl

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Jerry Garcia ‘Wolf’ guitar, $1.9 million, Guernsey’s

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall The guitar that Grateful Dead frontman Jerry Garcia called ...

August 19, 2017 / Antique Marketplace News, comics, Comics Event, Graham Nash, Heritage Auctions, Key Comics, Original Art, Original Comic Art, Robert Crumb, Underground Art, Underground Comix

Graham Nash collection of Underground Art tops $6.3 million Comics Event at Heritage Auctions

Collection featuring Robert Crumb makes $1.1 million DALLAS, Texas (Aug. 15, 2017) – Singer/songwriter Graham Nash’s collection of Underground Comix ...

August 18, 2017 / Advertising, Art Nouveau, Baby Ruth, Columns, Corkscrew, Deborah Abernethy, display, gum, lamp, Lamp Shade, Leaded glass, License Plate, Mike McLeod, Moustrap, Paper Lable, Slag Glass, State Police Plate, Store Display, vintage, Vintage Tags, What's Selling on eBay, Wooden, WW2, WWII

What's Selling on eBay: August 2017

by Deborah Abernethy and Mike McLeod $3,377 (28 bids, 10 bidders): Unusual Antique Corkscrew. This is an antique corkscrew that ...

August 16, 2017 / Bel-Air, car, Chevrolet, Columns, Cordier Auctions, Diamond, Floriad Highwaymen, Gavels n Paddles, Harold Newton, Ken Hall, Piano, Ring, Spring Antique Catalog Auction, Steinway Model B Grand Piano, Vehicle

Gavels 'n' Paddles: 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air, $31,860, Cordier Auctions

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A fully restored 1957 Chevrolet Bel-Air car sold for ...

August 11, 2017 / Art, Buccellati, Columns, Gavels n Paddles, John Brandon Smith, John Moran Auctioneers, Ken Hall, Model D Grand Piano, Painting, Piano, plaque, Porcelain, silver eagle, Steinway & Sons, Traditional Collector Auction

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Steinway grand piano, $22,500, John Moran

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A Steinway & Sons Model D grand piano sold ...

August 10, 2017 / Antique Marketplace News, asian art, auction, August Fine Art Asian & Antiques, Decorative Art, Fairfeld ME, Fine Art, furniture, James D Julia, Museum Quality

James D. Julia's August 3-Day Auction

James D. Julia's August 3-Day Auction to Feature Over 1,600 Lots of Extraordinary Fine and Decorative Art, Museum Quality Antiques ...

August 8, 2017 / Antiques Peek, Art, Braided Rugs, Columns, fireplaces, floor coverings, floor mats, Jessica Kosinski, New England, Rag Rugs, reversible rugs, Rugs, straw rugs, traditional, Wallace Nutting, woven mats

Antiques Peek: August 2017

Braided Beauties by Jessica Kosinski Braided rugs have been produced for centuries in some form, and they have also gone ...

August 6, 2017 / Antique Guns, Colt, Columns, Gavels n Paddles, Ken Hall, lever action rifle, Remington, Rifles, Rock Island Auction Company, Winchester

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Engraved Henry lever rifle, $25,875, Rock Island Auction

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall An engraved lever-action Henry rifle sold for $25,875 at ...

August 2, 2017 / Art Museum, Clothing, Colonial Williamsburg, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Curator, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, exhibit, Features, Historic, Home, Kim Ivey, Printed Fashions, Textiles

Printed Fashions: Textiles for Clothing and Home

by Kim Ivey Senior curator of textiles and historic interiors Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Exhibit Introduction The exhibition Printed Fashions: Textiles ...

August 1, 2017 / Albert Einstein, April 1912, cigar lables, cigars, clock, Columns, Gavels n Paddles, glass clock, Ken Hall, Life ring, Postage stamp, President Taft, RMS Titanic, SS Andrea Doria, SS Normandie, Weiss Auctions

Gavels 'n' Paddles: Letter written on the Titanic, $22,500, Philip Weiss Auctions

Results of Recent Auctions From Near and Far by Ken Hall A letter handwritten aboard the RMS Titanic on April ...

July 31, 2017 / American antiques, Americana, Columns, du Pont, garden, Henry Francis du Pont, horticulturist, Library, Maxine Carter-Lome, Museum, Talk of the Trade, Tappahannock Room, Textiles, Time, Winterthur, Winterthur Museum Garden & Library, Woven

Publisher's Corner: August 2017

Woven Through Time By Maxine Carter-Lome Last year I had the opportunity to visit the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library ...