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(Fragment)$210,000 Paid for Painting by Georgia Peanut Farmer
Presidents from Millard Fillmore to Barack Obama are represented in this once-in-a-lifetime collection of books authored by or written about a U.S. president. Some of these books are rare or came from the presidents’ personal libraries. The set includes the signatures of the following: Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Pennsylvania State Legislators Flunk History
The Pennsylvania legislature passed a bill in early June, and Governor Tom Corbett signed it on June 26, designating the Piper J-3 Cub and the Pennsylvania long rifle as the state’s official aircraft and firearm. Unfortunately, the legislators got their facts wrong about the rifle. Newspapers in Lancaster and Allentown ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Paintings and Decorative Arts
James Buttersworth, the America’s Cup yacht Vigilant (with two spectator steamboats to the left and with the runner-up yachts to the right), oil on canvas, 20" x 30", signed lower right. Buttersworth’s best paintings may, indeed, be his largest, like this exciting panorama; it brought $305,000.
Name board, Velocity, 6¼" x ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bracket Clock Is a Real Show-Stopper
The high lot of the Evans sale was this unassuming bracket clock by Samuel Betts of London (active 1645-73). The clock features an engraved brass dial signed “Samuel Betts Londini,” with a double-fusee movement, dating from the mid-17th century. The case is ebonized wood resting on a separate base. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 42nd Annual Round Lake Antiques Festival
Ken Woodbury of Keene, New Hampshire, exhibited more wind-up cylinder and disc phonographs than usual. “I brought a good variety of horns but ran out of space to properly display them,” said Woodbury.
Three high-priced burl bowls were in the booth of Kay Riordan Roffe of Williamson, New York. The largest ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of the Shenandoah Valley Antiques Fair
Pete Turner hails from Concord, North Carolina, and trades as P & P Treasures. His booth offered an unexpected combination of vintage advertising signs and face jugs. Here is a selection of Turner’s signs: Chicago Southern Transportation Company, $175; Valvoline, $410; NFBPWC, $325; Martin Senour Paints/NAPA thermometer, $100; a square ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Valley
The paint-decorated bed (against the wall in back), all original and complete with side rails, was $1450 from Raccoon Creek Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania. The early 19th-century banister-back day bed from New Jersey was $2400, and the folk art cradle, $1250. In the cradle, the lithographed cloth cats cost $175 each, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Strengthens Ivory Law
New York Assemblyman Robert Sweeney, chairman of the Environmental Conservation Committee, said on June 18 that an agreement has been reached to restrict the market in New York for ivory articles and rhinoceros horns. The bill prohibits transactions involving these materials with very limited exceptions and increases the criminal and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rhode Island Auction
The New England Queen Anne highboy, circa 1760, went for $7200.
John Howard Benson’s drawing of the courthouse in Newport sold for $3600.
The Massachusetts Chippendale chest sold for $5400 to the trade.
Two Chinese export porcelain garden seats fetched $4800.
Boston artist William Edward Norton’s ship’s portrait sold for $4800.
An early pair of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Early Cropsey Painting Discovered
Photo courtesy Freeman’s.
Not every American painting is sold in American paintings sales. Lot 110 in Freeman’s “European Art and Old Masters” sale on June 17 in Philadelphia was cataloged as “British School (19th Century) ‘Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, England,’ located verso, 22" x 34", oil on canvas laid to panel.” The ... (Read More)
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