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The portrait of the American schooner Jonathan Chase sold for $6050.
This blue historical Staffordshire platter with an Oriental scene of birds and pagoda-type buildings in the center panel sold for $660.
This two-part Federal secretary with matched crotch mahogany-veneered drawer fronts, brass pulls, and doors with four arched glass panels sold ... (Read More)
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Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos by David Vickery
It was sometimes difficult to get a word in edgewise without interrupting jewelry sales at the Maine Antiques Dealers Association show at Damariscotta River Association’s Round Top Farm in Damariscotta, Maine, on August 28. It was a glorious day, and the word from Roger ... (Read More)
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To sign up for the Maine Antique Digest 2014 Antiques Trade Directory,please click here.
If you would like to look through our 2013 Antiques Trade Directory, please click here.
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Deadline: September 13, 2013! Sign up for the Maine Antique Digest 2014 Antiques Trade Directory.
If you are an antiques dealer, an auctioneer, or a show promoter, you should be part of the Maine Antique Digest 2014 Antiques Trade Directory. This helpful volume will be bound separately and included with our ... (Read More)
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Fourteenth-century carved marble plaque, attributed to Tino di Camaino, $109,250 (est. $10,000/15,000).
West Greenland Landscape, 1929, a 28" x 34" (sight size) oil on canvas by Rockwell Kent (1882-1971), more than doubled its estimate to sell for $172,500.
Francis Augustus Silva (1835-1886), a view of Brace Rock, off Cape Ann, Massachusetts, watercolor ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
The top lot of the Keating sale was a Niels Vodder/Finn Juhl settee that sold for $15,525. The modern pieces at the sale came from a Cape Elizabeth, Maine, home, that was furnished on one floor with traditional antique furniture and on the other floor with Modernist designer furniture. The ... (Read More)
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Arcadia Fine Arts, New York City, offered Paul Rousso’s super-size money. Five Grand from NY (bottom), 50" x 75" x 7", was $16,900. (The $1000 bill was $15,900.) Rousso makes wall pieces and free-standing sculpture of large sheets of acrylic, on which he transfers high-resolution prints of paper money from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
This oil on canvas portrait of George Washington by Rembrandt Peale brought $130,350. Sisco photo.
This Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze image of Shadakshari Avalokitesvara, a primary representative of Buddhist compassion (“Lord of the Six Syllables”), brought $438,450.
This 14¾" diameter Ming Dynasty porcelain bowl brought $124,425. Sisco photo.
This relatively small (3" tall) Chinese ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Andrew Wyeth’s sketch of his home on Benner Island, Maine, served as a preliminary study for his tempera painting Otherworld. The sketch, photo, and handwritten note together brought $14,375.
This little piggin went to market and brought home lots of bacon. This piggin form with the upright “lollipop” extended stave is ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Unknown artist, after an 1860 carte de visite by Mathew B. Brady (circa 1822-1896). Presidential campaign medal with portraits of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin (Hamlin on reverse, not shown), 1860. Tintypes in stamped brass medallion. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, The Overbrook Foundation Gift, 2012 (2012.12). Image: © ... (Read More)
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