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The museum gallery on opening night of the exhibition. Photo courtesy Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
Chris Murphy, guest curator of the exhibition. Penny Uhlendorf photo. Courtesy Martha’s Vineyard Museum.
“I went to go look at a few decoys that someone called me about recently,” Chris Murphy said. The person ... (Read More)
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Sue and Bear van Asch van Wyck.Some figural items, from left: 19th-century bronze putto after Verrocchio, $5800; cast-iron bust of Lord Byron, $2000; Italian carved wood painted and gilded eagle with a 5'10" wingspan, $7500.English diorama with hand-carved coach and horses, $1200.Still life of flowers, oil on panel, 17th-century Dutch, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
A Victorian 14k yellow gold, emerald, and diamond serpent bracelet, containing one oval step-cut emerald and two rose-cut diamonds set in an engraved serpent head with a body consisting of pivoting gold links with chain attached to the tail, sold for $1586 (est. $600/800). Leslie Hindman photo.An Art Deco platinum ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondThe world would be a better place if doing the right thing were always synonymous with doing the easy thing, but it isn't, and nowhere is this more apparent than parenting. OK, maybe the words "easy" and "parenting" shouldn't even appear in the same sentence, ... (Read More)
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In the late 1980's, Macmillan found in a bank vault all but one of the 91 original boxwood engravings for Tenniel's illustrations of the Alice books. They made 250 copies, using an electrotype of the missing engraving to complete the set. This is Christopher Morgan's copy of one of those ... (Read More)
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(Show)
A circa 1850 cast-iron garden dog with a great original painted surface, by the Gray Foundry of Poultney, Vermont, was $16,500 with Hilary and Paulette Nolan of Falmouth, Massachusetts.Roger Williams of Boathouse Antiques, Wiscasset, Maine, had this $4800 gilded 48" pilothouse eagle, created around 1950, perched dramatically atop a tall ... (Read More)
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