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Weston Perseveres with Aplomb
by David Hewett

Joy Ruskin Hanes and Lee Hanes of Hanes & Ruskin Antiques, Old Lyme, Connecticut, called this the Rolls-Royce of baby carriages. Made in Gardner, Massachusetts, by the Heywood family of manufacturers and dating from the 1860’s-90’s, it was priced at $475. Offered by Robert Perry Antiques, Orchard Park, New ... (Read More)

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Earthenware Kitten Roars at Evans Sale
by Walter C. Newman

This molded and decorated earthenware cat figure is small (5" x 2¼" x 3½"), but it set the tone for the Evans sale. The figure has a solid body and a lead and manganese glaze over a yellow slip wash. The seated cat with its tail wrapped over its haunches ... (Read More)

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The Annual Maine Antiques Festival
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This wonderful document box in grain-decorated red, brown, and ocher wavy comb pattern, with a red-painted interior, was $395 from Roger and Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.A dramatic nautical oil on canvas by James Hamilton (Irish-American, 1819-1878), After the Gale, was $14,500 with Day's Antiques, Brunswick, Maine. Hamilton painted ... (Read More)

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The Pickers Market
by Elizabeth Dinan

Alan R. Pereske Antiques, Lake Placid, New York, had this double-sided "White Birches" camp sign, made from birch bark, for $1095.Doris Marks of Doris Marks Antiques, New Hampshire, is shown with some hand-hooked mittens she said were made in Maine or the Maritimes, probably in the late 1880's or a ... (Read More)

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Learning Linux
by John P. Reid

Ubuntu desktop with the application launcher on the left side and the Pinta picture editor in use.Computer Column #286by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] column sometimes states that a particular service or software product is available for Windows, Linux, and Apple computers. About 78% of us use a Microsoft Windows ... (Read More)

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Tin Circus Wagon Caps Julia Toy, Doll, and Advertising Auction
by Mark Sisco

This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)

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