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(Auction)Tall Clock with Music Box Towers at Talbot
A combination Regina tall clock and music box, with the disc-playing mechanism concealed in the base, brought $8250, the top price of the auction.In red paint and with iron hardware, this country store cabinet with the original owner's terms clearly painted on the doors sold for $575.Charles M. Talbot Associates, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Buyers Get the Big Pictures
The highest price of the night was $6325 for this Gustav Stickley Mission oak chest of six drawers with iron ring hardware.This oil on canvas, solidly attributed to John Joseph Enneking, after the famous Jules Breton work Return of the Gleaners, brought $2990.A majolica sardine dish with cover and undertray ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Minnesota Man Pleads Guilty to Wire Fraud in Insurance Case
On August 17, 39-year-old Jason William Sheedy of St. Paul, Minnesota, pleaded guilty in federal court to filing a false insurance claim for approximately $250,000. On August 6, he was charged with one count of wire fraud in connection with this incident.In his plea agreement, Sheedy admitted that between September ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dr. Bruce Barnes to Head George Eastman House
Dr. Bruce Barnes has been appointed the Ron and Donna Fielding Director of the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film in Rochester, New York. Barnes will be the eighth director of the world’s oldest museum of photography and one of the largest motion-picture archives.Barnes is the president ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Buddha Transcendent at the New Brunk Auctions
Brunk Auctions, Asheville, North Carolina
by Pete Prunkl
Photos courtesy Brunk Auctions
Asian antiques dealer Jeffrey Wong of New York City and China was eager to pose during the preview with this Chinese cast bronze standing figure of Buddha. The 22" x 9" x 6¾" figure was the top lot of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Daguerreotype Camera Sells at Benefit Auction
The auction’s top lot, going to Mike Robinson at $14,300, was this mid-19th-century American daguerreotype camera in a rosewood-veneered bellows box that is stamped “Palmer & Longking, Manufacturers of Daguerreotype Apparatus, Newburg & New York.” It was designed by William Lewis and his son William H. Lewis, whose manufactory ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Shenandoah Valley Clock Leads Evans Sale
This Virginia walnut tall-case clock proved to be the high lot of the Evans sale. The circa 1800 clock is a rare signed example from the short-lived partnership of Woodstock, Virginia, clockmakers Jacob Fry and Caleb Davis (working 1796-1800). The hood features a broken-arch pediment with simple turned rosettes and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Folk Art Sale in Georgia
A surprise in the sale was a religious banner, the only one in the sale and estimated at $2000/4000. The lot quickly surpassed the estimates with a phone bidding war. The end result was $33,350. The 1920’s paint on muslin banner, 35" x 68", had 13 images and the words ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Southern Pottery Draws Selective Bids
The obvious star of this sale was this monumental four-handle storage jar. Few such large vessels were made because of the skill required. Thomas Chandler boldly incised his mark just below one of the lug handles. Early decoration is of dark iron clay slip and includes loopy swags tied to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chicago Rides Tidal Wave to $264,500
Claus’s Part Two: Top Nauticals & Toys
Märklin paddle-wheeler Chicago, 1900-02, boxed, 31", $264,500.
Märklin battleship New York, circa 1902, 35", $155,250.
Märklin ocean liner Deutschland, 1909-15, 28", $149,500.
Märklin battleship Mexico, 1915-20, 30", $126,500.
Märklin battleship, circa 1910, boxed, 36", $51,750.
Märklin ocean liner Rhein, 1919-31, 38", $40,250.
Märklin yacht Jolanda, circa 1910, 16", $31,625.
Märklin gunboat ... (Read More)
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