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(Auction)Rare Revolutionary War Map Tops Portsmouth Auction
The top lot of the sale was the 16" x 30¼" hand-drawn map of the Battle of Monmouth by Michel Capitaine du Chesnoy (1746-1804), the cartographer and aide-de-camp of Marquis de Lafayette. It was estimated at $90,000/150,000, but a private collector, bidding by phone, had to pay $486,400 to own ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian and Ethnographic Art Show
Navajo rug specialist Eric Phillips of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was asking $48,000 for this 1910-20 large Zia jar, 17" tall x 22" diameter. “The show was well attended,” Phillips told M.A.D., “with a lot of interest in everything. I sold more historic jars than Navajo weaving.”
This circa 1900 Apache figural ... (Read More)
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(Show)21st Annual Folk Fest
Jackie Haliburton’s memory paintings focus on hats and body shapes within a southern African-American community. Butt Stop is typical of her work. She asked $1500 for this large (3' x 8') acrylic on canvas.
The artist John “Cornbread” Anderson was widely represented at Folk Fest. His 36" square oils on ... (Read More)
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(Show)Objects of Art Santa Fe
Michael Smith, who has a gallery on Canyon Road in Santa Fe, was asking $18,500 for this large (74" x 46") circa 1920 Navajo weaving of a Hopi kachina. Smith said he’d met “a lot of people.” By the day after the opening, he’d sold “a nice painting,” but “business ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Crown Jewel of Maine Antiques Shows
A $10,000 American celestial globe stood prominently with show newcomer Michael Corbett of The Federalist Antiques, Kenilworth, Illinois. Standing on a tripod pedestal with paw feet and acanthus leaf carvings on the knees, it was made by T. M. Bardin of London in the early 19th century.
Robert Foley of Gray, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2014 Great Southwestern Antique Show
An anonymous buyer seemed entranced by the items in Susan Swift’s space. She and Erich Erdoes do business in Santa Fe under her name. That buffalo robe, circa 1890, was a magnificent $25,000. The beaded and quilled bags to the right were $7500 each.
John Durbin of Redding, California, displayed this ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Scores Big with Americana
A SkinnerLive! Internet buyer won this 57" high polychromed and carved figure of an Indian princess figure by Samuel Robb of New York City for $92,250. Skinner sold a quite similar Indian princess figure on October 20, 2011, for $71,000.
Polychrome painted carved “black dandy” tobacconist figure, wearing wildly painted clothes, ... (Read More)
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(Show)“Only the Good Ones Is Still Here!”
Not too long ago somebody paid $2200 at auction for one of these Johnson’s Peacemaker Coffee advertising tins in the form of a log cabin, so you better grab this one from Paul and Nancy Hahn of Country Things, Bowie, Maryland, for $1300. It was dated 1915. The Johnson-Layne Coffee ... (Read More)
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(Show)Most Attendance, Most Sales: It’s All Good at NHADA Show
Offered by Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York, a Pennsylvania carved walnut figural watch hutch, circa 1800, with George Washington as subject. It’s 15½" tall and was priced at $15,000.
The yellow-painted dressing table, probably from Portsmouth and 1810-20, is an eye-dazzler. It’s 62" tall overall and about 36" wide. Russ and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pickers Market 2014
The Pickers Market filled the Everett Arena and was open for shopping from 2 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 7.
The pond boat was $825, and the Adelphi Hotel sign was $3995 from Antiques at 30B, Cambridge, New York.
The shelf was $300, the books ranged from $100 to $425 ... (Read More)
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