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(Auction)California and Western Paintings and Sculpture
E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), Sunny Morning, St. Tropez, oil on panel, 13" x 16¼", sold to a private collector in southern California for $281,000, far above its $60,000/80,000 estimate.
Granville Redmond’s Fishermen and Fishing Boats on the Shore, oil on canvas, 12" x 16", sold for $75,000 (est. $40,000/60,000) to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hollywood at Auction
This studio 58-key piano on wheels with wood and plastic keys was likely manufactured by Kohler & Campbell (1927) and was pulled from the Warner Bros. prop room for Casablanca. It realized the highest price of the “There’s No Place like Hollywood” auction. It sold on the phone for $3,413,000. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Auction Record for Movie Poster: $478,000
$478,000. Photo courtesy Heritage Auctions.
The only known copy of the United States release one-sheet from the 1927 lost cinema classic London After Midnight (MGM) sold for $478,000 (includes buyer’s premium) in Heritage Auctions’ November 22, 2014, vintage movie posters auction in Dallas. That price establishes a new record for a ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)E. Howard & Company Wall-Hanging No. 47 Astronomical Regulator Brings $356,950
This clock sold for $356,950. Photo courtesy Fontaine’s Auction Gallery.
One of three known E. Howard & Company No. 47 wall-hanging astronomical regulator clocks sold for $356,950 (includes buyer’s premium) at a clock and watch auction held November 22 and 23, 2014, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Christian Icon Tops Hap Moore Auction
Paul Philippe bronze sculpture of a Turkish Dancer with Parrot, $6555. Hap Moore photo.
Enamel and bronze Christian table icon, $7590.
Surf fishing scene by Emile Albert Gruppe, $4140.
Five-drawer country Chippendale tall chest in a nice grungy red paint, with at least two replaced wooden knobs and an extended bracket base with ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Short, Stout, and Very Expensive Little Sugar Pot
Rare slip-decorated redware sugar pot, 18th century and very likely from one of the potteries in Charlestown, Massachusetts, $14,375.
Saved from potential oblivion in a landfill somewhere, this 60¼" x 32¾" 18th-century trade sign on a wooden shingle turned into one of the sale’s leaders at $16,100.
There wasn’t much information available ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
Bruce Emond of Village Braider, Plymouth, Massachusetts, offered works by still-living artist Claire Harootunian, who once taught at Syracuse University, including a course titled “3-D Design.” The rusted iron standing triangular sculptures were tagged $2900 each.
Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre vase, $7000 from Seaway China Company, Dania Beach, Florida.
The shades and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Neal's Louisiana Purchase Auction: The Main Event
Cover lot, top of the chart, and undisputed star of the sale, the 1791 portrait of English physician Dr. Robert Dow by José Francisco Xavier de Salazar y Mendoza (c. 1750-1802) was purchased for a nice round $250,000 by a local collector after spirited bidding. New Orleans was a sophisticated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)U.S. History Auction
Gardner’s Photographic Sketch Book of the War, two volumes having a total of 100 albumen photographs by Alexander Gardner (1821-1882) and others, first edition, scuffing to the covers, minor problems with the endpapers, light wear and foxing to the pages, $144,000.
Revolutionary War naval document, the official record of a May ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bunny Mellon's Americana
A pair of 7" long Chelsea asparagus tureens and covers, circa 1755, sold for $118,750 (est. $20,000/30,000). Each is realistically modeled as a bundle of asparagus tied at either end. They have a red anchor mark and the number 17 on the base of one and 15 on the other. ... (Read More)
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