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(Show)Doug Supinger Carries on the Fiddler's Tradition
Show manager Doug Supinger of Troy, Ohio, brought some things of his own to sell, including this desirable lighthouse hooked rug for $875.
Cynthia Brooks of MC Antiques specializes in early flags; the example at upper right with 38 stars in a medallion pattern had sold. The 38-star flag at left ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Horst Sells Tannehill and Coleburn Collections
This Confederate Civil War letter signed by Robert E. Lee regarding the formation of the 39th Virginia Volunteers Infantry Regiment, addressed to Col. Charles Smith, sold for $10,600. The letter descended in the family of Smith to his granddaughter Marie Preston Smith, wife of well-known antiques collector Titus Geesey.
This fine ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Thrill of the Hunt at Copley's Winter Sale
A. B. Frost (1851-1928) is perhaps best known for his illustrations for Tom Sawyer and Uncle Remus. This 14" x 22" Quail—A Covey Rise by Frost was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons as part of a chromolithographed set entitled “Shooting Pictures.”The original watercolor was first purchased by Clarence Otis Bigelow, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skiing Down the Slopes Carrying Auction Records
This superior ski poster is by Alex Diggelmann (Swiss, 1902-1987). In 1936 Diggelmann won a gold medal for a poster entitled “Arosa I Placard,” and 12 years later he won a bronze medal and a silver medal for, respectively, a cycling poster and an ice hockey poster in the last ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Western Americana Sale Exceeds Expectations
To quote the catalog, Estracto de Noticias… is an “extremely rare first printed account of the founding of Monterey, the first European settlement in northern California,” attributed to Gaspar de Portolá, published in 1770. It sold for $97,500 (est. $30,000/50,000) after the first of many bidding wars between a bidder ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tlingit Mask Hits the Big Time at Thomaston
Northwest Coast Tlingit mask, $109,250.
This possible Stine Pottery face jug, with an incised date appearing to read “Oct. 5, 1844,” cruised all the way to $21,275. Thomaston Place photo.
Andy Warhol serigraph titled Sunset, 1972, numbered “116/470,” made $34,500.
This unsigned 25½" x 33½" oil on canvas was stylistically and historically ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Tradition of Progress" Exhibit
A section of balcony railing made by the Rose Iron Works, Cleveland, circa 1927, serves as a focal point at the entrance of A Tradition of Progress. Overhead is one of four name boards from the steamer Queen City. Made of painted wood, it dates to 1897.
Cambridge Glass Company items ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Okito's Checker Box Brings $12,000 in Magic Auction
The hand-painted checker cabinet by Theo Bamberg, a.k.a. Okito, sold for $12,000 (est. $7000/9000).
The interest in a photograph of French magician Alexander Herrmann was surprising to Fajuri. It sold for $5760, way above the estimate of $1500/1800. The cabinet card portrait was signed on the back by Adelaide Herrmann, and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, April 2015
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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(Auction)Julia Opens for $3.5 Million
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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