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A grand jury in the San Jose Division of U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, indicted Anthony Barreiro and Ernest Ray Parker, alias Ray Parker Gaylord and Ray Gaylord, on September 25, 2013, for a total of 12 counts of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and the actual ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
William Hart & Son created a series of five episodes of boxing squirrels in the 1850’s. The squirrels are stuffed. Each box is 14¾" x 19" x 7". A set was displayed at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851. Interestingly, the squirrels wear gloves, which became mandatory only after 1867 ... (Read More)
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The high lot of the Quinn & Farmer sale was this pair of Nakashima Conoid chairs. Oral history has it is that these chairs were ordered directly from the Nakashima studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania. George Nakashima (Japanese/American, 1905-1990) is frequently referred to as the father of the American craft ... (Read More)
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Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was signed and dated “FH Lane 1862” on the front and inscribed on the reverse: “... F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Crow Encampment by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas, signed, 22" x 26½" plus original southwestern frame, relined, otherwise in fine condition, $309,000.
Red River Metis quilled-hide knife sheath, 13½" long, with an unmarked Sheffield-made dag knife, circa 1830, $54,000. Sinew-sewn on softly tanned buckskin and quilled using porcupine quills ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector from the South for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was inscribed to the artist’s close friend: “...F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A Souvenir of our excursion to Penobscot ... (Read More)
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Police are looking for the public’s help in trying to identify three people who stole an estimated $10,000 in antique silver flatware from the Cambridge Antiques Center in Cambridge, New York, on September 18 at about 4 p.m. Thieves took from a locked case more than a dozen Tiffany and ... (Read More)
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Jon Magoun of South Paris, Maine, had a large 30" x 40" Indian wool basket for $900; an Indian dual-colored drying basket, 24" x 21", for $395; a Penobscot decorated wall basket for $185; a rocking chair by Snowcraft Company, Norway, Maine, for $95; and a wool-decorated guide boat chair ... (Read More)
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The Manhattan Art and Antiques Center at 1050 Second Avenue, New York City, has added Kaminski Auctions to its roster of nearly 100 high-end antiques dealers.
Kaminski Auctions, located on the first floor of the center in Gallery #28 on the street level, will be offering a free appraisal service every ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Ian McKay, [email protected]
This month’s “Letter,” I indicated last month, might include quite a few paintings and drawings, some clocks, some silver, and a few furnishings. There are indeed a number of old master drawings and a few Dali concoctions in this “Letter,” along with a superb bronze and a lot ... (Read More)
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