Curious Objects
By The Magazine Antiques
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Episodes: 105
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Through interviews with leading figures in the world of fine and decorative arts, Curious Objects—a podcast from The Magazine Antiques—explores the hidden histories, the little-known facts, the intricacies, and the idiosyncrasies that breathe life and energy into historical works of craft and art.
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A Precious 17th-Century Kleenex
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May 08, 2024 |
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Rescued by the Romanovs, a Fabergé Treasure Comes to Market
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May 01, 2024 |
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Advice Ep: How to Buy an Antique/Vintage Rug
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Apr 24, 2024 |
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THROWBACK: This Chair Is Made of America
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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CO Bites: A Pitch-Perfect Vermont Songbook
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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The Book of Dragons (and the Con Artist Who Made It), with Rebecca Romney
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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Remembering Greg Cerio
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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CO Bites: Yoshiko Takaezo's "Closed Form," with Glenn Adamson
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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Taylor Thistlethwaite Gets Excited About "Brown Furniture"
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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THROWBACK: Once Upon a Bowl
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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Ben visits the Art Slice podcast
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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Advice Ep: How to Buy a Vintage Engagement Ring
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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The Woman Who Saved Wedgwood
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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“Enriching Your Life Through Collecting” at the Winter Show
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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The Beatles as Painters
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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The Marginalia That Made Christie's Value This Book at $1 Million
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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Advice Ep: Making Your Home a Source of Inspiration, with Tara McCauley
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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Ask Ben Anything
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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END OF YEAR THROWBACK: A Conversation with Luthier Paul Becker
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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Lewis Littlepage and the Amazing Silk-embroidered Dreamsuit
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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What makes Thomas Cole’s “Course of Empire” Cycle as Relevant Today as in the 19th Century
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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A Met Curator Tells the Strange Story of Louis XIV's Carpets
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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Jewelry We Love and Hate, with Gem X
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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THANKSGIVING THROWBACK: The House that Vanderbilt—Gilded Age Mansions of Newport, RI
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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Debunking the Hitler Diaries and Other Adventures, with Kenneth Rendell
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Meet the Millennials Proving that Young People Love Old Things
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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Should Antiquities Return to Where They Came From?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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All About Amber, with Laura Kugel
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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Why You Should Spend $10,000 on a Shaving Bowl
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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"Antiques Roadshow" Appraiser Nick Dawes
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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A Newly Unearthed George Washington Letter, with Nathan Raab
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Jade, the Imperial Gem, with Clarissa von Spee
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Leather, with Glenn Adamson
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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A Journey Back In Time At the Peabody Essex Museum
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Sep 05, 2023 |
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Around the World at the Peabody Essex Museum
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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New Perspectives on Ancient Glass, with Katherine Larson
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Aug 16, 2023 |
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The New Antiquarians
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Jul 25, 2023 |
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Textiles Don't Get No Respect
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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Of Shoes and Ships and Sealing Wax, with Kay Collier
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May 10, 2023 |
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Gilded-Age Silver with the Gilded Gentleman
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Apr 19, 2023 |
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Thomas Commeraw, Free Black Potter in 1800s New York
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Mar 29, 2023 |
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Collecting Outside the Lines
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Feb 24, 2023 |
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The Shakers, Pt. 2: Afterlife
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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The Shakers, Pt. 1: Faith and Furniture
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Nov 29, 2022 |
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The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 3: The End; or, A New Beginning
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Nov 17, 2022 |
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The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 2: Provenance
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Story of Bélizaire, Pt. 1: Biography
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Bonus Episode: Craft in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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Once Upon a Bowl
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Jan 25, 2022 |
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The Case for Silver Tableware
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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This Chair Is Made of America
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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How to Make a Modern Home (with Antiques), featuring Thomas Jayne
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Aug 25, 2021 |
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O’Keeffe on the Block
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Jul 28, 2021 |
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The WPA Origins of the American Doll, with Allison Robinson
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Jun 29, 2021 |
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English Glass/Chinese Craft
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May 26, 2021 |
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Bill Traylor on the Silver Screen, with filmmakers Sam Pollard and Jeffrey Wolf
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May 05, 2021 |
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Museums and the Lure of the Sell-Off, with the PMA’s director and CEO Timothy Rub
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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The Book of Hours: A Medieval Best-Seller
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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Corot’s Impressionist Lunchbox
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Five Hundred Years of American Craft, with Glenn Adamson
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Feb 24, 2021 |
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Blended Spirits: A Curious Objects Cocktail Hour at the Winter Show
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Jan 29, 2021 |
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Mystery Box
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Dec 16, 2020 |
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What two paintings from the 1930s can tell us about women’s issues
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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A Dalva Brothers Wonder Cabinet Turns Heads at Christie's
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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“The Most Awesome Cup of All Time” . . . and 500 Other Objects
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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A Fireback from Hell—Ironworks and Industrial Labor in the Antebellum South, with Torren Gatson
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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A Journey to the Center of the Earth, with Robert McCracken Peck
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Jul 28, 2020 |
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An Armchair's Astonishing Provenance, with Tiffany Momon
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Jun 28, 2020 |
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The Life and Labor of Enslaved Potter Dave Drake, with Ethan Lasser
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May 27, 2020 |
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Thirty-five Saxon Suits of Armor, with Chassica Kirchhoff
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Apr 29, 2020 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE 4: Licking Glass, Smelling Silver, and Other Tricks of the Trade
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Apr 23, 2020 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE 3: “It feels like being underwater”
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE 2: The Internet to the Rescue
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Mar 28, 2020 |
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The Mystery of the Michelangelo Bust
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Mar 25, 2020 |
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SPECIAL EPISODE 1: The Customer Is Always Right . . . Eventually
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Mar 21, 2020 |
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Afterlife in Alabaster: A Canopic Jar from Charles Ede
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Feb 28, 2020 |
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Winter Show and Tell: Three young dealers and the antiques they ❤️
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Jan 31, 2020 |
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Big Porcelain and Outsider Art at Christie's
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Jan 15, 2020 |
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“Where the Past Never Gets Old”: Re-presenting History at Colonial Williamsburg
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Dec 17, 2019 |
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Surrendering the Colors: An American Flag Collection Goes to Auction
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Nov 20, 2019 |
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Badger Up! Collecting Baseball-abilia with Internet Star Randall
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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Getting Wired at the Peabody Essex Museum
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Sep 27, 2019 |
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Another Man's Treasure: Frank Levy's Tapestry-Upholstered Furniture
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Aug 30, 2019 |
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The Color of Beauty: Philip Hewat-Jaboor’s Neoclassical Vase
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Is it Real? A Caravaggio Rediscovered
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Jun 26, 2019 |
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Object Philosophy 101
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Jun 07, 2019 |
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The Soldier, the Dandy, and the Queen
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Apr 29, 2019 |
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Noah Wunsch Was Born to Collect
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Mar 29, 2019 |
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Let the Market Decide: Economist Friedrich Hayek’s Assets Head to Auction
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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Introducing the New Antiquarians
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Jan 31, 2019 |
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Glass Act: John Stuart Gordon and the Vitreous Curiosities of Yale
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Dec 30, 2018 |
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Reading Congress the Riot Act: Henry Highland Garnet’s “Memorial Discourse”
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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One Year in the Books
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Nov 01, 2018 |
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The House that Vanderbilt: Gilded Age Mansions of Newport, RI
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Sep 29, 2018 |
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#YourCuriousObjects
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Aug 27, 2018 |
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Kevin Brown and His Qing-era Map of China
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Jul 28, 2018 |
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David Webb Archivist Levi Higgs and the Company’s Storied Zebra Bracelet
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Jun 24, 2018 |
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Rare Book Dealer Judy Loto on a Mysterious Engraved Powder Horn
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May 26, 2018 |
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Making Music: A Conversation with Luthier Paul Becker
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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Treasures of the Winter Antiques Show, Part 2
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Mar 24, 2018 |
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Treasures of the Winter Antiques Show, Part 1
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Feb 24, 2018 |
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Historic Preservationist Wade Lege on Living in a Collection
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Jan 14, 2018 |
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Wartski Expert Katherine Purcell: Poetry in Jewelry
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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Dealer Stuart Feld: An 'Expert in Everything’ and an early American linen press
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Dec 02, 2017 |
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Michael Pashby: Secret History of the Windsor Chair
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Nov 03, 2017 |