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(Show)Oglebay Institute’s 60th Annual Antiques Show & Sale
The miniature writing desk featuring four interior cubbies and fantastic inlay work was 18th-century Italian ($6500); the miniature desk/stationery box having ivory decoration could be had for $2200. Both were offered by Paul Fischer and Dannie Chandler of Indianapolis, Indiana.
Sold out of the booth of Sorisio’s Antiques, Leechburg, Pennsylvania, was ... (Read More)
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(Show)"The Jewel in the Crown"
Frontispiece of the first edition of an early (1665) treatise on tobacco, Commentarius De Abusu Tabaci… by Danish physician Simonis Paulli (1603-1680). Priced at £3250 (or $5390) by Sokol Books, London, the book also includes sections on tea, coffee, and chocolate and was at the forefront of the debate over ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Elijah Pierce Carving Breaks Auction Record
Presidents and Convicts, 1941, sold for $87,500 (est. $10,000/15,000), setting a record auction price for carver Elijah Pierce. Born in 1892 to a former Mississippi slave, Pierce eventually settled in Columbus, Ohio. He was a barber, a lay minister, and a wood carver and is best known for his religious ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The ADA On-Line Show
There were no lines, no traffic, no bad weather, no tickets, no dealer-to-dealer preshow buying, and no standing in line at the bar. The Antiques Dealers’ Association of America (ADA) on-line show could be experienced anywhere—on a desktop computer, a laptop, a tablet, or a smartphone. This on-line-only show ran ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Freeman's Sale of the Horst Collection Is “Perfect Storm”
Winter Sunlight by Edward Redfield, oil on canvas, 38¼" x 50", $710,500. Photo courtesy Freeman’s.
Marshes of Long Point by Frank Benson, oil on canvas, 36" x 44", $662,500. Photo courtesy Freeman’s.
On Sunday, March 30, Freeman’s in Philadelphia sold the George D. Horst collection of 63 European and American 19th- and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The George D. Horst Fine Art Sale
Gustaf Edolf Fjaestad (Swedish, 1868-1948), Pool in Winter, inscribed “G Fjaestad 13” on the bottom left. It also retains on the back a label with “The Swedish Exhibition 1916” and “Panama-Pacific International Exposition San Francisco 1915.” Horst bought the 47 3/8" x 57¾" oil on canvas from a Swedish exhibition at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Three Maud Lewis Paintings Bring $38,200
Can$15,400 (US$13,959).
Harris and Sons Auctions sold three paintings by Canadian folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) in its March 29 auction at the Kings Theater in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, for a total of Can$38,200 (US$34,625) (with buyers’ premiums).
A view of a train station, sight size 12" x 11½", that was ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Doll Sells for Whopping $302,400
A circa 1916 French character doll by sculptor Albert Marque sold for $302,400 (includes buyer’s premium) at a March 29 sale in Naples, Florida, conducted by Theriault’s, an Annapolis, Maryland, auction house that specializes in dolls.
The Marque doll was purchased by private collectors who will be sending it for exhibition ... (Read More)
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