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Autumn Hartford Antiques Show Canceled
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The Autumn Hartford Antiques Show has been canceled, according to an e-mail from promoter Frank Gaglio of Barn Star Productions. The show lost its venue after the sale of the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford in September 2011."It is with great disappointment and nearly a year of exhaustive searching that ... (Read More)

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Diverse Pottery Sale at Crocker Farm
by Karl H. Pass

Gorsuch Barn has been transformed by the Zipps. Since the family now owns their own facility, they have diversified and have started holding general antiques sales. Karl Pass photo.One of the rarest items ever sold by Crocker Farm was this stoneware face pitcher attributed to Samuel Bell, likely Strasburg, Virginia, ... (Read More)

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Sotheby's 20th-Century Design Sale
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, aluminum Stoel, 27 3/8" x 19¾" x 19¾", $470,500 (est. $100,000/150,000) to a German dealer in the salesroom who said he was bidding for a private European collector. The handmade chair was produced from a single sheet of aluminum in 1960-62 by Gerrit Rietveld, Wim Rietveld, and ... (Read More)

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Fox and Grapes Dressing Table Acquired by PMA
by Lita Solis-Cohen

"The Fox and the Grapes" dressing table, 1765-75, mahogany, yellow poplar, white cedar, yellow pine; brass; ... (Read More)

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Smithsonian Buys a Benjamin Franklin Suit
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Photo courtesy Smithsonian National Museum of American History.The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History is adding to its permanent collection a three-piece suit worn by Benjamin Franklin during his diplomatic trip to France in 1778, which resulted in the signing of the Treaty of Alliance. The suit had been ... (Read More)

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American History, Including the Civil War
by Don Johnson

From the collection of artist Bradford Edwards, 282 Vietnam War-era Zippo lighters were offered together. Passed during the sale, they sold after the auction for $35,250.Robert Linn with two assistants and a stereo-view camera, photographed by I.H. Bonsall, circa 1863, 10¾" x 8½" plus mount, labeled "Point Lookout, Lookout Mt./ ... (Read More)

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20th-Century Design at Bonhams
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Pair of Tiffany Studios leaded glass and faceted Favrile glass windows, 1899-1918, in the original iron frames with latch, 44 3/8" x 36", $21,250 (est. $4000/6000).Dale Chihuly, "Persian" series seven-piece set in emerald green with lemon lip wrap, 2000, blown glass, largest piece 10" high x 22" wide x 21" ... (Read More)

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20th-Century Design at Christie's
by Lita Solis-Cohen

Phone bidders competed for this Isamu Noguchi unique fossil marble table designed for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dretzin in 1948-49. The 13¼" high x 49" wide x 44" deep table sold for $2,882,500 (est. $800,000/1.2 million) to a phone bidder who also bought the Noguchi chess table. Christie's called the ... (Read More)
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