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The Pier Antique Show
by Julie Schlenger Adell

David Allen Fine Arts, Arlington, Virginia, had a lot of traffic. Allen “usually sells $20,000 to $30,000 here at the show,” and sometimes sells things for a lot more. He offered a port wine server with spigot, stamped Tiffany, that he found in Italy, for $3500 (middle shelf, second from ... (Read More)

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The End of the Winter that Wouldn't Die
by Mark Sisco

This ship portrait of the Charles Dennis, built in Richmond, Maine, in 1873, sold for $4715. Coastal Maine eider duck decoy, $4600. Chinese dreamstones represent a harmony between man and nature. Nature creates the scenes, but it takes the hand of man to reveal them. The series of ten marble dreamstones was ... (Read More)

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American Tools Ply the Atlantic
by John Adamson

When Francis Nicholson, America’s first known specialist plane-maker, died in 1753, his son John and his freed slave Cesar Chelor continued the trend he had set in producing distinctive plows in yellow birch with square arms mortised in the fence and held fast by wedges. More efficient wooden thumbscrews as ... (Read More)

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Season Opener Rises to the Occasion at $1.2 Million
by Dick Friz

Gunthermann (Germany) Gordon Bennet coupe racer, the medium-size edition of a treasured trio of speedsters, ex-Dr. Malcolm Kates, 8¾" long, $9940. Marx (U.S.) “Butter and Egg Man,” 1934, lithographed tin, 7¾" high, $2242. Not shown: a Marx Red the Iceman with ice tongs and wooden block of ice, 8½" high, ... (Read More)

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Eric Caren Is Selling Again
by Lits Solis-Cohen

Addicted collectors sell periodically in order to continue their hunt. Eric Caren is one of them. He began collecting at age five and by age 11 discovered old newspapers and periodicals. After college he went to London to work for a book dealer and then came back to the U.S. ... (Read More)

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The Star of Boston's First Annual Design Week
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

Lots of effort went into transporting Center Street Studio’s printing press to the Cyclorama building to demonstrate the print process. It attracted much interest. Stephanie Bond, principal of Childs Gallery, Boston, is pictured with Sean Flood, whose Winter Morning on Newbury Street, 2014 (40" x 30") and Summer Rain on Boylston ... (Read More)

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