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A record-demolishing $2 million price in Scotland for a little medieval ivory casket from Paris was a last-minute entry to this month’s “Letter” but gets pride of place.
Fearsome-looking suits of Japanese armour, bizarre birds and other appealing Martinware creations, a rare Saxon shilling, and a bidding race between a camel ... (Read More)
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The Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (BPMM) in the Bronx, New York, has received important additions to its collection of early 19th-century American furniture and furnishings.
A Classical bronze-mounted mahogany center table with an original Thomaston marble top made by Isaac Vose & Son, Boston, 1820-24, has replaced an Empire Revival table in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
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"For a small sale [100 lots], the results were quite good,” said Native American art department director Ingmars Lindbergs about the June 29 auction at Bonhams in Los Angeles. “Quite good” translates to total sales of $645,404 (including buyers’ premiums). The sell-through rate was 87% ... (Read More)
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New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
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The first day of New Haven Auctions’ June 26 and 27 sale in the Branford, Connecticut, gallery featured the estate of Daphne Peabody Murray, which included fine jewelry and fine American and European art, with additions from other area estates.
This 1904 oil ... (Read More)
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Wells, Maine
The energy was electric at Goosefare Antiques & Promotions’ 20th Wells Antiques Show at the Wells Reserve at Laudholm in Wells, Maine, on June 27. On the dot of 10 a.m., the ropes at the entrance dropped, and waves of buyers rushed the dealers set up beneath tents, upstairs ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Neal Auction, New Orleans, Louisiana
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The past year has been filled with news of supply chain problems ranging from missing electronics at the auto factory to having no straws at the drive-through window. At Neal Auction in New Orleans, however, estates filled with fresh-to-the-market material with excellent provenance ... (Read More)
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Marion Antique Auctions, Marion, Massachusetts
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Over a century ago, in 1910, construction began on the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company’s transmitting facility in Marion, Massachusetts, a year after Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his technology facilitating the long distance broadcast of radio ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Heather Campbell Coyle, chief curator and curator of American art at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware, said she didn’t know she wanted to be a curator until she became one. Hired at the museum as a part-time research assistant during graduate school at the University of Delaware, she ended ... (Read More)
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Clocks, watches, and timekeeping in the American Revolution are the focus of “Horology 1776,” the 2021 educational conference sponsored by the National Association of Watch and Clock Collectors (NAWCC). Originally scheduled for October of last year but postponed because of COVID-19, this event will offer the public a first-ever examination ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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Joyce Bowes Collis liked color. She liked schranks, dower chests, and country furniture, especially if it was painted blue or yellow. She liked the bold graphics of mocha and spatterware. She bought English yellow-glazed earthenware, sometimes called canary, and other English ... (Read More)
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