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Letter from London, April 2015
by Ian McKay

Ian McKay, <[email protected]> There are a lot of pictures in this month’s selection, some of them very expensive ones, but added to the mix are some fine old German glasses and a German broadsword, a Bellarmine jug, some wall lights, an odd assortment of items from a “Gentleman’s Library” and what ... (Read More)

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Julia Opens for $3.5 Million
by Mark Sisco

The 8" cannonball that missed killing Admiral David Farragut aboard the U.S.S. Hartford at the Battle of Mobile Bay when it fell intact onto the deck of the ship brought $5332.50. Congressional silver medal commemorating the Jeannette Arctic expedition, 1879-82, given to team member Herbert Leach, $21,330. A collection of about 50 ... (Read More)

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February Auctions at Sotheby's and Freeman's
by Mary Ann Brown

Antique Jewelry & Gemology Photos courtesy Sotheby’s and Freeman’s Two auction houses on the East Coast held moderately priced sales in advance of Valentine’s Day. Sotheby’s Important Jewels auction, held in New York City on February 5, included jewelry with lower estimates than its Magnificent Jewels or Noble Jewels sales would contain. ... (Read More)

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Sotheby's Raises Buyer's Premium
by M.A.D. Staff

Effective February 1, Sotheby’s enacted a new buyer’s premium rate structure. The new rate structure will be 25% on the first $200,000 of the hammer price; 20% on the portion of the hammer price above $200,000 up to and including $3 million; and 12% on any remaining amount above $3 ... (Read More)

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The Original Semi-Annual York Antiques Show & Sale
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Found in Adams County, Pennsylvania, this exceptional redware pottery teapot with raised and molded relief decoration of birds in heart-shaped nests, a chain link spout, coggled rim, and black manganese glaze, signed William Baker twice, was $27,500 from Greg Kramer. Alice and Art Booth of Wayne, New Jersey, asked $3200 for ... (Read More)

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Neal Rolls the Dice on Rococo Revival--and Wins
by Karla Klein Albertson

Big and boisterous, this nine-piece bedroom suite (partially shown) from the Service collection is in the Renaissance style referred to as “Henry II.” Altogether it’s a great deal of carved oak furniture for $52,580 (est. $15,000/25,000). Grant Oakes purchased both chandeliers and table lamps for the Service collection. Most ornate—with figures ... (Read More)

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The Antiques & Garden Show of Nashville: American Beauty in Its 25th Year
by Karla Klein Albertson

Now in its 25th year, the Antiques & Garden Show benefits the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, whose resident gardeners constructed the entry presentation “La Dama del Jardin” with her dramatic blooming dress. Rows of antiques dealers’ displays can be seen beyond the fountain. Veteran exhibitor Ron Lotz ... (Read More)

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Fresh-to-Market Philadelphia Tea Table Sells for $1,895,000
by Lita Solis-Cohen

The 1755-57 Potter-Crouch-Jordan family Philadelphia mahogany tea table, 29" high, top 37 3/8" inches in diameter, sold for $1,895,000 (est. $500,000/2,000,000). A group of Sons of Liberty toasts found in the papers of William Russell (1748-1784), a schoolteacher and early member of the Sons of Liberty and a Boston Tea Party ... (Read More)

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Important Maritime Paintings and Decorative Art
by A.J. Peluso, Jr.

The pilot boat Phantom  started life in Boston harbor in 1868 but subsequently was sold into the Sandy Hook pilots fleet. The painting depicts Phantom (number11) offering the unidentified brig her pilotage service. She and a team of pilot boats rescued hundreds of passengers off the Cunard steamer Oregon, which ... (Read More)

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Asian and Continental Arts and Country Americana
by Don Johnson

Chinese huanghuali altar coffer, late 19th or early 20th century, three drawers over two bifold doors, relief carving of birds and prunus branches, pierce-carved panels, 36" high x 72" wide, minor pieced restorations, $66,000. Ohio stoneware crock incised “July 6 1839 / L.D. Owen Ohio” above a bird and flowers within ... (Read More)
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