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Nautical Antiques Sold in Boston
by Jackie Sideli

This lighthouse beacon was described in the catalog as “monumental.” It had a huge 500 mm Fresnel lens of cut crystal set into a bronze frame. It had been converted to AC current with a light fixture but also was supplied with an AGA gas burner. Measuring 52" tall and ... (Read More)

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Evans Sells Americana from Virginia and the South
by Walter C. Newman

The high lot of the Evans sale was this folk art fraktur birth and baptismal certificate. The document is dated February 12, 1819, and is inscribed with the name Anna Magdalena Scherertz. The fraktur is watercolor and ink on paper and attributed to the so-called Wild Turkey Artist of Wythe ... (Read More)

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Heartland Antique Show, Fall Edition
by Don Johnson

Six flow blue bowls in the Conway pattern by New Wharf Pottery, $45 each from John Wanat of Indianapolis, Indiana. English watercolor of a gentleman and a dog, $795 from Inez Allen and Nan Donovan of City Mouse Country Mouse Antiques, Cincinnati, Ohio. Eight-gallon crock, Albany slip, stenciled in yellow with “S. ... (Read More)

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Max Berry Banks and Toys Top $3 Million
by Dick Friz

Clown on Bar, C. G. Bush Co., circa 1880 ex.-L.C. Hegarty, tin and cast iron. Ingeniously, when placed in the clown’s hand, the coin’s weight causes the figure to lean forward; the coin drops into the bank’s base while the clown continues a full rotation of the bar. It brought ... (Read More)
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