(Auction)
The 10¾" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the auction business, one occasionally hears references to the Three D's. For decades, that was shorthand for the three most likely ways collections came to auction: death, divorce, disaster (some say disease or debt). People might sell a couple of pieces for other reasons, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Oil on canvas by Abbott Fuller Graves, titled Dividing the Shares, 32" x 46", sold for $26,450. The subjects were a Kennebunkport fishing captain and his crew. Left to right, they were identified as Captain Henry S. Ward, Frank Emery, Tom Basey (seated), a Mr. Pitts (standing, smoking a pipe), ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
New York Arts of Pacific Asia will not be produced in 2013 because a suitable venue for the show is not available during Asia Week New York. The 11th floor of the Merchandise Mart's facility at 7 West 34th Street, which had been the show's venue since 2009, is being ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
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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(Auction)
The 10¾" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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(Show)
Penny Thomas of Bear, Delaware, said she is known as the queen of smalls. "I don't go to auctions, but I find great things at shows and markets," she said. She offered a collection of rolling pins; the Shaker crimper, $65, was used to cut cookies; another crimper from Pennsylvania ... (Read More)
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(Feature)
The 1784 Governor John Langdon House in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. George Washington was entertained at the house in 1789 but slept elsewhere. In keeping with HNE's policies of expanding the appeal and uses of historic properties, the house is available for weddings and functions, and it offers temporary exhibits in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)
by Lita Solis-CohenAnne-Imelda Radice has been named the new director of the American Folk Art Museum in New York City. After a long career in Washington, D.C., she took the helm the second week of September.Dr. Radice served as director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services under Presidents ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Roused, a Tiger and Tigress, Friedrich Wilhelm Kuhnert (1865-1925), 1912, oil on canvas, 24" x 39", $333,500 (est. $150,000/ 250,000).Home of the Big Horn, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 16" x 20", $97,750 (est. $60,000/90,000).Mount Assiniboine, Carl Clemens Moritz Rungius, oil on canvas, 9½" x 11", $14,375 (est. ... (Read More)
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