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WATERBURY, Conn. (AP) – Watchmaker Timex says it’s time to close its museum in Waterbury, Connecticut. The company says Timexpo, which opened in May, 2001, will close on Sept. 30, a result of poor attendance. Waterbury Mayor Neil O’Leary tells the Republican-American newspaper that Timex officials are working with the city’s Mattatuck Museum to preserve […]

WILTON, Conn. – An exquisite portrait miniature of Thomas Jefferson along with two locks of hair (one of them Jefferson’s), and a letter and photograph signed by Albert Einstein are just two of the superstar lots in University Archives’ online-only auction of rare manuscripts, autographs and books scheduled for Wednesday, April 14, beginning at 10:30 […]

WESTPORT, Conn. – Bob Dylan’s signed, handwritten lyrics to his iconic song Like a Rolling Stone, items relating to the recently deceased former President George H.W. Bush, plus rare and highly collectible items pertaining to Washington, Lincoln and other luminaries will be featured in University Archives’ next major online-only auction, scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 23. […]

BEACHWOOD, Ohio – A Minton majolica centerpiece was auctioned in May as an “ice stand.” Minton & Polson was established in 1793 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England. The company started making majolica in about 1850. Some of these early pieces, marked “Minton,” inspired majolica made after 1873, when the company often used the mark “Mintons.” Ice […]