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An Abraham Lincoln campaign button is up for auction this Sunday in Boston (Photo: Skinner)

Rare Abraham Lincoln Campaign Button Goes Under the Hammer

The image probably appeared not only on pins but in engraved and lithographed portraits, woodcuts for weekly newspapers, and even caricatures, according to Lincoln scholar Harold Holzer. In other words, "the pin was the 1860 equivalent of a Facebook posting," he told the Observer in an email.
By Lale Arikoglu

An Art Nouveau Expose

The largest poster at Swann Galleries’ upcoming Dec. 15 sale of Art Nouveau-era posters is also the most mysterious. The
By Julia Halperin

The Curve of a Career: Designer Vladimir Kagan on Sitting Pretty

When Vladimir Kagan designed his famous “floating” sofa in 1952, he thought of it as a way for clients to
By Lynn Matthews Douglass

Forming an Attachment

By Alexandra Peers

Sailing Away

By Alexandra Peers

Dirt Cheap? Ancient Relics at Modest Prices, With Big Caveats

By Rhea Mahbubani

Turn Back the Clocks

By Lynn Matthews Douglass

Testing the Metal

By Lynn Matthews Douglass

Designed to Change

By Alexandra Peers

Contraband Chic: Mother-of-Pearl Items Sell With Export Restrictions

By Jessica Hodin

Celebrity Hang-Time: Ellen Barkin’s Oscar Jewels Do a Sequel

By Alexandra Peers

High-Concept Survivor

By Alexandra Peers

Folk Art’s Flip Side

By Lynn Matthews Douglass

The Silver Metal

By Rhea Mahbubani

Simply Style

By Rhea Mahbubani

Cash for Gold

By Alexandra Peers

Bengali Tiger

By Alexandra Peers

Signed With a Flourish

By Alexandra Peers

Fashioned for Fame: Opening the Closets of a Style Pioneer

By Lynn Matthews Douglass

Shades of Elvis

By Cora Lewis

Wanderlust

By Cora Lewis

Rock-Bottom Rembrandts

By Cora Lewis

Vintage Hermes Soars at Christie’s

By Cora Lewis

Christie’s Sells Vintage Hermès Bags

By Cora Lewis
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