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Decorative arts society inviting proposals to earn $1,000 research stipend

May 16, 2013 | Antique Trader News | Leave a reply
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A $1,000 stipend for historical research is up for grabs in New Hampshire. The Piscataqua Decorative Arts Society has offered the stipend periodically since 2006. Read More +

Art gallery hosting Coney Island ‘Sideshow’ exhibit, sale

May 3, 2013 | Antique Trader News | Leave a reply
Cast iron and enamel clown sign, 47 inches by 47 inches, circa 1940s, from Midwest amusement park found in Chicago. (Photo courtesy Ross Art Group)

Coney Island’s side show and amusement park history takes center stage in the “Sideshow” exhibit at The Ross Art Group’s gallery through May 25. Read More +

MAG invites museum visitors worldwide to slow down during Slow Art Day

April 24, 2013 | Antique Trader News | Leave a reply

Slow Art Day, this year on April 27, asks people all over the globe to visit local museums and art galleries to look at art slowly. Read More +

Exhibit showing artifacts from Reading Railroad

March 26, 2013 | Toni Rahn | Leave a reply
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A special new exhibit at The Reading Railroad Museum, which runs through Nov. 17, celebrates the innovation and ingenuity of this famous steam engine company. Read More +

10 Things You Didn’t Know About: Vintage Telephones

March 14, 2013 | Toni Rahn | Leave a reply
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As a society, we spend a tremendous amount of time on our phones, but there are a few surprising things about the telephone’s past that you may not know. Read More +

Auction house sponsors Museum appraisal event

March 7, 2013 | Antique Trader News | Leave a reply
A diamond, velvet and silver-topped 14-karat gold brooch, 1 inch long, sold for $2,000 at Bonhams Dec. 16-17, 2012 (Photo courtesy Bonhams)

Experts with Bonhams will be on hand to offer appraisals of jewelry, silver, decorative arts, and more, March 20 at the Pasadena Museum of History. Read More +

Corporations hiring archivists to gather vintage advertising, historical artifacts

November 15, 2012 | Chriss Swaney | Leave a reply
This original Ivory soap ad illustration for Procter & Gamble earned $508. The unsigned watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1900, measures 11 inches wide by 16 1/2 inches high (sight).
Photo courtesy Heritage Auction Galleries

Chasing branded antiques and collectibles in attics, antique malls and on eBay is opening up a whole new collecting niche for corporate archivists charged with rescuing a company’s nostalgic past from the dust bin of history. Read More +

Firefighting museum documents 50 years in new book

November 8, 2012 | Karen Knapstein | Leave a reply
Hall of Flame Firefighting at 50 by Dr. Peter Molloy.
Hardcover with dustjacket, 11 inches by 8 1/2 inches, 202 pages, $44.95. ISBN 9781934729755. M.T. Publishing Co., www.mtpublishing.com, info@mtpublishing.com, 812-468-8022.
Also available through the Hall of Flame Museum, www.hallofflame.org.

Dr. Peter Molloy has archived the first 50 years of the Hall of Flame Museum of Firefighting, one of the world’s largest firefighting museums, which now finds its home in Phoenix, Ariz. Read More +

Original Iwo Jima Monument in forefront of Veterans Day Parade en route to Bonhams

November 7, 2012 | Antique Trader News | Leave a reply
Color postcard photograph of Iwo Jima Memorial at Arlington, 5 1/2 inches by 3 1/2 inches. Boldly signed and inscribed in blue ink, adding sentiment and date "1964" beside image. Sold for $100 at Signature House auction, November 2007. Photo courtesy Signature House/LiveAuctioneers.com

Bonhams in New York will exhibit the original Iwo Jima Monument at The 590 Madison Avenue Sculpture Garden adjoining its auction galleries, after the sculpture is featured in the Nov. 11 Veterans Day Parade. Read More +

‘Stories in Sterling’ honors historic collection with top-quality exposé

October 10, 2012 | Karen Knapstein | Leave a reply
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The New York Historical Society’s “Stories in Sterling” is the first comprehensive book written about the New York Historical Society’s silver collection. Outstanding for its provenance, the 148 pieces cataloged in the book all were made or owned in New York from the 16th through the 20th centuries. Read More +

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