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(Auction)The Newman Collection of Games and Puzzles
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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A game by its very nature is competitive, and so was the sale of 272 board games and puzzles from the legendary collection of more than 850 that Bud and Judy Newman put together over a period of 45 years.
Bud Newman ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Art Sale Totals $3.9 Million
Swann Galleries, New York City
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Swann Galleries’ African American art department had its second-largest-grossing sale on April 22. Offering 220 lots, the sale totaled $3,985,760 (with buyers’ premiums) and had a sell-through rate of 91%, with 200 lots sold. Auction records were made for 13 artists, according to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Declaration Sells for $930,000 and Solves Old Mystery
Christie’s, New York City
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Christie’s printed and manuscript Americana sale, held online April 8-22, was a small one with some big prices. The sale with no printed catalog was offered with “rolling closings” and brought $2,102,500 (including buyers’ premiums) for 46 of the 53 lots offered; that is 87% ... (Read More)
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(Auction)$3.7 Million Sale of Fresh-to-Market California Art
Bonhams, Los Angeles, California
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The secret to the success of the April 20 Bonhams auction of California art in Los Angeles is not really a secret but a tried-and-true formula: quality material, much of which was fresh to the market.
Many of those fresh paintings came from the John Janneck ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Canadiana and Folk Art: The Marty Osler Collection
Miller & Miller Auctions Ltd., New Hamburg, Ontario
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"Let’s put it this way,” said Ethan Miller, co-owner of Miller & Miller Auctions. “In all the auctions we’ve had, you get a sense of when the community is excited about a collection, and this was just ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Books and Manuscripts Blowout
Sotheby’s, New York City
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Printed and manuscript Americana from the estate of Ira and Barbara Lipman offered in 557 lots in three sessions at Sotheby’s, April 13 and 14, brought an impressive $12,396,132 (including buyers’ premiums), well over the presale estimates of $735,000/10,600,000 (figured without buyers’ premiums). The sale, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bunker Hill Visitor Logs Sold
Three logbooks, long missing from the Bunker Hill Museum, Charlestown, Massachusetts, raced past the $7500/8000 estimate to sell for $21,250 (includes buyer’s premium) at University Archives, Wilton, Connecticut, on April 14.
The logbooks contain the signatures of over 40,000 visitors to the Bunker Hill Monument during the Civil War, between 1860 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Color, Form, and Surface Prevail
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusetts
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Eighteenth-century color, form, and surface prevailed in Skinner’s Americana sale that ran online from April 1 to 12. Two Connecticut collections of early New England objects and 18th-century furniture plus textiles, furniture, and decorative arts deaccessioned from Historic Deerfield, Deerfield, Massachusetts, gave bidders much ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Antiques and Accessories
Flying Pig Auctions, Westmoreland, New Hampshire
Country Antiques and Accessories
"The sale was great!” said Roxanne Reuling of Flying Pig Auctions after the sale on April 12 in Westmoreland, New Hampshire. The 399-lot sale was primarily focused on American country antiques and appropriate accessories. An antique Oriental rug, 10'5" x 13'10", estimated ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sevatson and Foley Collections Anchor Sale
New Haven Auctions, Branford, Connecticut
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New Haven Auctions’ April 10 and 11 two-day sale, in the new gallery in Branford, Connecticut, offered two premier folk-art collections on day one. They were the collection of Maine dealer Robert Foley and the estate of Nancy Sevatson (1933-2020), who had ... (Read More)
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