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Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
by Julie Schlenger Adell

This mid-19th-century English burl walnut canterbury, circa 1850, was $3450 from Zane Moss Antiques, New York City. New to the show, Nancy Steinbock Vintage Posters, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, displayed this scene of Newport Harbor, circa 1915, from the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Boston. She asked $3600 for the 29" x 41" ... (Read More)

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Tailor's Dummies by Henry Koerner Brings $270,250
by M.A.D. Staff

Tailor’s Dummies, $270,250. Photo courtesy Dirk Soulis Auctions. The Bailey epergne, an extremely rare piece of R.S. Prussia porcelain, brought $19,550. When Helen Bailey of Kirksville, Missouri, showed up with this piece at the 1987 R.S. Prussia convention in St. Louis, it was the only R.S. Prussia epergne known to exist ... (Read More)

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Picker of the Year at Mebane
by Pete Prunkl

There is a tear in this 18" x 12¾" oil on canvas profile portrait of a young girl by Czech artist Václav Brozik (1851-1901). The painting opened at $500, a long way from where it stopped—$6710. There was a fair amount of foxing to this Currier & Ives lithograph titled ... (Read More)

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Fall Toy Sale
by Lita Solis-Cohen

This Märklin Rocket engine with train cars is a toy version of Stephenson’s Rocket, which was not the first steam locomotive but was the most advanced of its day. It was in service through 1840 and influenced steam locomotive construction for 150 years. Märklin’s Rocket is the only commercially produced ... (Read More)

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Absentee Advertising Auction
by Don Johnson

Dr. A.C. Daniels veterinary cabinet for dog and cat remedies, lithographed tin, 20" x 13 1/8" x 5 3/8", well-done restoration to side panels and back, $7015. Beacon Oil sign, double-sided porcelain, 30" diameter, scattered chips on the back, $6440. Pe-Ru-Na catarrh cure pocket mirror, celluloid, depicting a woman in a low-cut ... (Read More)

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Second to Isaac Newton, First at Christie’s
by Bob Frishman

Title page of the 1673 Horologium Oscillatorium… by Christiaan Huygens. Photo courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd. 2014. We do not know if the anonymous high-bidder loves early books, clocks, physics, annotated authors’ copies, Latin texts, or history of science artifacts, but he or she now owns one of the most important objects ... (Read More)

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Richard Scaife American Art Collection Divvied Up
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Christmas came early to two Pennsylvania museums. On December 3, 2014, the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg announced that they had begun the process of dividing up the art collection of Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the ... (Read More)

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The Holiday Antiques Show
by Walter C. Newman

Here is a nice 18th-century New England shoe-foot cupboard. It was prominent in the booth of Chris and Karen Doscher. The Doschers are from Wallkill, New York, and trade as Witt’s End Antiques. The piece is constructed of white pine, with a red-washed surface. The storage unit features two paneled ... (Read More)

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54th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
by Don Johnson

Landscape of the Mather farm near Lebanon, Ohio, attributed to Marcus Mote (1817-1898), oil on canvas, unsigned, 30" x 40", plus its original frame, minor repairs, $12,500. Inlaid Chippendale blanket chest, Pennsylvania, dated 1818, walnut with tulip, star, and fylfot inlay, 29½" high x 49½" wide, period brasses, old finish, small ... (Read More)

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"Gold Rush" at Printed Manuscript and Americana Sale
by Jeanne Schinto

A patriotic letterpress broadside stating the articles of agreement for the Continental Navy’s U.S.S. Columbus, with attached manuscript signature lists, sold for $62,500. The broadside proper, printed in Philadelphia on November 15, 1775, is 18" x 14". With the list attachments, dating through January 19, 1776, the whole measures 36½" ... (Read More)
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