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(Auction)Plenty of Variety at Cottone's March Sale
This 16" x 20¼" signed oil on canvas genre painting by Felix Schlesinger (German, 1833-1910), in original condition and its original frame, opened at $10,000 and went all the way to $39,100 (est. $15,000/25,000) to a Pennsylvania buyer.
This appealing 11" x 14" signed oil on canvas by Cornelius David ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Boston Blockfront Chest Leads Willis Henry Sale
This 18th-century Boston mahogany blockfront chest of drawers sold on the phone for $73,160.
A bidder favorite was Harbor Mists, a view of Gloucester harbor with vessels under sail, by Swedish-American artist John F. Carlson. It sold on the phone for $8260. The painting retained labels from the Grand Central Art ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
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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(Auction)The End of the Winter that Wouldn't Die
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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(Auction)American Tools Ply the Atlantic
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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(Auction)Season Opener Rises to the Occasion at $1.2 Million
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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(MAD News)Eric Caren Is Selling Again
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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(Show)The Star of Boston's First Annual Design Week
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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(Auction)A Slave Collar, a Stargazer's Almanac, and Other Rarities at African-Americana Sale
This first-edition presentation copy of A Voice from the South by a Black Woman of the South by Anna Julia Cooper sold to an absentee bidder for $15,000 (est. $6000/8000)—a new record for the title. Published in 1892 with a portrait frontispiece, the book has a pencil note in Cooper’s ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sunburst Snuff Jar Sells for $57,330
Sunburst snuff jar, made 1815-30 by Keene (New Hampshire) Marlboro Street Glassworks, sold for $57,330. It was the top lot of the auction. The rare bottle with a deep yellowish color and in excellent condition had come from the collection of Clarissa Vanderbilt Dundon, the daughter of pioneer collector Merritt ... (Read More)
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