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Half Bear, Half Bull Market for Bears
by Mark Sisco

This black mohair Steiff bear, with red-rimmed eyes, symbolizes mourning for the victims of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. It sold for $35,550. This circa 1910 golden mohair Steiff teddy came with a fully functioning growler, a photo of the two children who first owned it, and a letter of ... (Read More)

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American History Auction
by Don Johnson

California gold rush-era pocket watch, 14k yellow gold Girard Watch Company hunter case, circa 1850, ornate floral pattern engraving on the outer case along with eight California ore samples encased in glass on the front cover and surrounded by eight alternating inlaid panels of moss agate and California quartz, $37,600. Flute ... (Read More)

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Decorative Arts in Hatfield
by Lita Solis-Cohen

A collection of 474 early 19th-century plaster intaglios, mounted in 25 volumes in the manner of Giovanni Liberotti, displayed in half vellum volumes against green marbled paper, and each volume with a manuscript list inside the front cover, sold for $9945 (est. $8000/10,000). Paul Weber (1823-1916), Scene in Dolwyddelan Valley, ... (Read More)

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After Almost 20 Years in the Suburbs, Grogan & Company Moves to Boston
by Jeanne Schinto

Nancy, Lucy, and Michael Grogan. An auction house that has been based in Boston’s southwestern suburbs for almost two decades is moving into the city. Grogan & Company has bought a piece of real estate at the foot of Beacon Hill and is transferring its operation there. On June 11 the ... (Read More)

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A Roundup of Design Sales in June
by Julie Schlenger Adell

Bonhams held the first sale of the week. Sales from its 227 lots of decorative arts totaled $1,443,750. This circa 1910 Tiffany Studios Favrile glass and patinated bronze Laburnum table lamp, estimated at $250,000/350,000, sold on the phone to the trade for $425,000. Frank Maraschiello, director of the 20th-century decorative ... (Read More)

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A Tale of Two Art Sales
by Jeanne Schinto

Truckin by William T. Williams (b. 1942) went to an unnamed institution for $137,000 (est. $75,000/100,000). The 84" x 60" (7' x 5') acrylic on canvas was signed, titled, dated 1969, and inscribed on the stretcher bars. June 10. Southern Landscape by Walter Williams (1920-1988) sold to a collector for $81,250 ... (Read More)

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Memorial Service For John J. Snyder Jr.
by M.A.D. Staff

A memorial service for John J. Snyder Jr. will be held on June 8, at 2 p.m., at Rock Ford Plantation, 881 Rockford Road, Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For more information, call (717) 392-7223. Originally published in the June 2014 issue of Maine Antique Digest. © 2014 Maine Antique Digest ... (Read More)

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Some Big Prices at Briggs Auction
by Lita Solis-Cohen

A pair of lounge chairs on welded and patinated steel frames by Paul Evans brought $33,040. There was competition for a Chester County, Pennsylvania, sampler dated 1830 and worked by Hannah Bittle, who stitched flowers, animals, and the names of her parents and grandparents and surrounded them all with a ... (Read More)

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American Art Auction
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Daniel Garber (1880-1958), Wild Cherry, signed lower right, a 28" x 30" oil on canvas in a Newcomb-Macklin frame, $230,500. Painted in 1928, it had been acquired in 1931 by Mr. and Mrs. James Hillman of Pittsburgh. Garber wrote to James Hillman’s wife, Margaret, describing Wild Cherry: “The scene is ... (Read More)
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