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(Issue Story)The Young Collector: Gray Matter
The Young Collector
We’ve become a sound bite society. Actually, that’s kind of a sound bite itself. The term dates to the 1980’s during the Reagan era, when the nightly news was undergoing a dramatic makeover. Maybe it was residual news fatigue from the constant crisis state of the early 1970’s ... (Read More)
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(Show)Cabin Fever Show a One-Day-Only Hit
There were lots of old friends among those who were first to enter the show.
Stone Block Antiques, Vergennes, Vermont, is the shop of Vermont ADA president Greg Hamilton. His 19½" x 23½" (sight size) oil on canvas landscape is signed by Walter Farndon (1876-1964) and tagged $9500.
Colt Barn Antiques, Townshend, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heart of Country in Nashville: Stars Align on Valentine’s
After the preview party crowd poured in through the doors, Susan Kramer Hunkins took a moment to smile with relief by the big azalea heart at the entrance. The 32nd edition of Heart of Country Antiques Show was open for business.
Glen C. Rollins of Cat’s Cradle traveled to Nashville from ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tailgate-Music Valley Antiques Show: Traditional and Vintage Broaden the Appeal
Two Rivers Mansion is on the McGavock Pike, located between Nashville and Hendersonville. David McGavock began building the mansion for his bride in 1859. It was completed after the Civil War. It remained in the family until the last heir died in 1965, and it became a public property. For ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African-American Art: Landscapes, Cityscapes, Dreamscapes
Up Balls by William T. Williams (b. 1942) went to an institution for $120,000 (est. $75,000/100,000). The 1971 acrylic on canvas, at 84" x 60" one of the biggest pieces in the sale, had been deaccessioned by the AT&T corporate art collection in New York City. It came to this ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fiddler’s Antique Show: Filling Up Nicely, Thank You
Susan’s Antiques, New Cumberland, West Virginia, had paintings of bucolic landscapes and pleasantly pastoral pearlware. The peddling couple at left was $1800; the bocage group at center, $725; and a figure of Hope with her anchor, $500.
Rebecca and Greg Brown of Lagrange, Indiana, brought a lot of smalls and carefully ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts
The Mark Fritz collection included several articulated wooden artist’s mannequins. The tallest, a French figure, 31½" high, sold for $15,000. Department manager Corbin Horn credits the result to height and great patina. Hindman photo.
As a sale surprise, it’s hard to beat the result for an Italian marble figural group from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Unclaimed Property Highlights Million-Dollar Sale
The James Spence-authenticated 1787 land deed signed by Benjamin Franklin from the Pennsylvania Treasury Department’s Bureau of Unclaimed Property consignment sold for $13,200 (est. $7000/10,000).
A Standard Model A talking machine sold for $540 (est. $300/400).
This “Hershey’s Velvet Sweet Chocolate” sample label is possibly one-of-a-kind and may have never gone into ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)February Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry and Gemology
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s, Doyle New York, and Freeman’s
Three sales in February offered jewelry ranging from modest to extravagant to buyers shopping for Valentine’s Day. Sotheby’s sale of “Important Jewels” was on February 7 and included the higher-priced jewels (though the offerings were more moderate than the stellar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art Nouveau Posters Bring High Bids and Four Auction Records
This 1896 condition A/A- matted and framed poster, 22" x 17", by Alphonse Mucha advertises Job cigarette rolling papers. Conceived and sold by Jean Bardo, a baker in Perpignan, France, the rolling papers were offered in small packets, and Bardo wrote his initials on the packets, with the “J” and ... (Read More)
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