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| Alastair Crawford, Crawford Contemporary |
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| Contemporary silver is the neglected cousin of the decorative art family. As collectors move increasingly towards the contemporary and away from the antique, virtually every other field within the industry has enjoyed a significant boom from contemporary art, to furniture, glass, jewelry, porcelain and sculpture. And yet today, contemporary silver is dangerously on the point of extinction. |
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| Lynn Morgan |
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| “Retro” jewelry can be an elusive concept. First coined in the 1970s by jewelry historian Francois Curiel, the term covers a dazzling array of styles spread across several historic eras. |
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| Anne-Marie Melster, Dr. Joern Guenther Rare Books |
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| The collecting field of illuminated manuscripts offers a possibility of intellectual pleasure with medieval books of all kinds. Manuscripts reflect both a never-ending desire for insight and a profound sense of awe inspired basically by the words from the book of books throughout the centuries. Understanding these manuscripts means to approach them from many different angles: studying and appreciating their age, their quality, their condition, their history, their provenance, analyzing them from the perspective of art history and religion, but mainly from the visual point of view since they are beautifully illuminated and handwritten. |
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| Bill Rau, M.S. Rau Antiques |
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| In 1804, when the Secretary of the Treasury, General Alexander Hamilton, referred to the Vice President as the "embryo Caesar of the United States," Aaron Burr took the only appropriate action...he challenged Hamilton to a duel. |
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