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Though there is most definitely a strong Chinese and Russian presence in this month’s “Letter,” it remains exceptionally wide ranging in content.
Those Chinese lots include a ceramic dish that made an unexpected and record-breaking sum in a Swedish auction as well as rare and highly prized items of huanghuali furniture ... (Read More)
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Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
Eldred’s July 28-30 three-day sale was just what a summer sale should be. Replete with Provincetown art, the sale included a group of white-line woodblock prints by artists of the Provincetown Printers, formed in 1915. Bror Julius Olsson Nordfeldt (1878-1955), who spent summers in Provincetown, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Coming from a family of do-it-yourselfers has guided Jill Waddell in her career, and the “thoughtful, clever, and resourceful traits” she inherited have been carried over to her work as a vice president and senior specialist in the silver department at Christie’s New York.
The Christie’s vice president, a senior ... (Read More)
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There will soon be increased auction activity in central New Hampshire under a familiar name. Marcia and Larry Leizure, owners of Hillsborough, New Hampshire-based Withington Auctions, are joining their business with new partners who are looking to continue the Withington auction legacy.
From left: Kenneth Labnon, Gary Yeaton, and Mike Reopel.
New ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Sworders
There is a wealth of antique jewelry to be found “across the pond,” and Sworders Fine Art Auctioneers’ sale of fine jewelry and watches, held live online on July 27 in Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, U.K., had stellar examples in its 493-lot auction.
Because so many of ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
On July 10 the first lot sold at Casco Bay Auctions in Freeport, Maine, was a Connecticut cherry bonnet-top highboy. Estimated at $8000/12,000, it sold for $51,000 (includes buyer’s premium).
Longtime market observers thought it was a good buy. “That would have easily been $100,000 in the old days,” they said.
Savvy ... (Read More)
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Case Antiques, Knoxville, Tennessee
Photos courtesy Case Antiques
Being in the auction business is a continual learning experience, and no matter how much you learn there will always be surprises. Reviewing his firm’s successful summer auction on July 24 and 25, John Case of Case Antiques noted, “I’m very analytical. I look ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Victoria Hutson Huntley (1900-1971), Babe in Arms, 1937, lithograph, 10" x 8¾". Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia; gift of Stephen Goldfarb.
—Through August 15 —Athens, Georgia
The Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia presents Rediscovering the Art of Victoria Hutson Huntley. Huntley’s lithographs were well known in ... (Read More)
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Antiques Week in New Hampshire will have one less show in 2021. Barn Star Productions has postponed its flagship MidWeek One Day Antiques Fair until August 2022.
According to Frank Gaglio of Barn Star, the event went “from a two-day show two years ago to a one-day event which saw an ... (Read More)
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Lot 1 at a timed sale that began on July 23 and was scheduled to end on August 15 at 9 p.m. at Robert Edward Auctions, Chester, New Jersey, was a 1909 T206 Honus Wagner baseball card. Brian Dwyer, who in 2016 bought the New Jersey sports memorabilia company founded ... (Read More)
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