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(Show)Midwest Antique & Art Show
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
There were stories to be told at the Midwest Antique & Art Show, held on April 11 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Stories of how a dog crate connected to a once-in-a-generation movie. Of a painting and the celebrity who once owned it. Of people, perseverance, and a shift ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Collector’s Eye
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Not long into the spring edition of The Collector’s Eye, a general-line antiques show held at Hawkeye Downs in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on April 11, a couple stood near an open bay that separates the event from the Midwest Antique & Art Show. The sibling events sidle against ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chippendale Side Chairs Bring $33,210
A pair of 18th-century Philadelphia Chippendale mahogany side chairs sold for $33,210 (includes buyer’s premium) in an online-only auction held on April 10 by Neue Auctions in Beachwood, Ohio.
$33,210.
The chairs, ex-Joe Kindig Jr., had sold at Garth’s on March 26, 1988, for $80,000 (at that time, Garth’s did not charge ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)Control Issues
The Young Collector
Pandemic lifestyle grates on a person. Of course, at this point in winter, everything grates on a person, and as the anniversary of a year in shutdown rolls around for many of us, it grates all the more.
Many aspects of this are, as the kids would often say ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, April 2021
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Lost and Found: Copley Portraits Reunited
If a longtime trustee had not asked Tom Denenberg, director of the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont, to take a look at a Modernist painting illustrated in Sotheby’s online catalog for a December 11, 2020, American art sale, he might not have known that John Singleton Copley’s portrait of Mrs. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Spring Sale on the Cape
Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Eldred’s
Called “The Spring Sale,” the April 1 and 2 auction at Eldred’s, East Dennis, Massachusetts, was online, culled from an array of Massachusetts-area estates and collections. Estimates seemed of little importance as items passed from one estate or collection to another collection. The auction offered ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Man Pleads Guilty in Warhol Scam
Brian R. Walshe, 46, of Lynn, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty in federal court on April 1 in connection with taking and attempting to sell on eBay two Andy Warhol paintings.
Walshe pleaded guilty to one count each of wire fraud, interstate transportation for a scheme to defraud, possession of converted goods, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Saint Louis Art Museum Buys David Drake Ceramic Jar
The Saint Louis Art Museum has acquired a ceramic vessel signed and dated by the enslaved ceramicist David Drake (c. 1801-1870s). The museum purchased the work in December for $155,000 from dealer Robert Hunter of Yorktown, Virginia.
Jar by David Drake (c. 1801-after 1870), dated June 6, 1857, alkaline-glazed stoneware; ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, April 2021
While business appears to have been quite brisk in New York and other U.S. locations in 2021, the major London salerooms, as is generally the case, have been rather slow getting into “New Year” gear.
From those sales that had taken place before my copy deadline was reached, I have selected ... (Read More)
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