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(Auction)$3.5 Million Sale at Pook
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook
A Mickey Mouse print by Andy Warhol sold for $196,800 (including buyer’s premium); a Harriet Whitney Frishmuth bronze fountain sold for $147,600; an Elie Nadelman bronze head of a man wearing a jaunty hat sold for $116,850; and four bronze 1992 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts
Hindman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Photos courtesy Hindman
An Andrew Clemens sand bottle sold for a record $956,000 (including buyer’s premium) against an estimate of $100,000/150,000 during the Hindman auction of American furniture, folk art, and decorative arts on September 30 and October 1 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Wes Cowan, vice chair of Hindman, said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Sweet Suite of Potomack Company Sales
The Potomack Company, Alexandria, Virginia
Photos courtesy The Potomack Company
The Potomack Company held its recent suite of targeted sales in five sessions, spaced over a three-day period, September 28-30, at its Alexandria, Virginia, galleries. Potomack has settled comfortably into a groove of offering these smaller, more precisely curated auctions in series. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hindman’s Fall Fine Art Sales Online
Hindman Auctions, Chicago, Illinois
Photos courtesy Hindman Auctions
We love these salad days in the auction biz, and still they continue. This September in a series of three days (September 27-29), each with a cataloged fine art sale, Hindman Auctions in Chicago realized over $7.5 million. In the process, more than 15 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Weston Antiques Show Canceled Again
The Weston Antiques Show in Weston, Vermont, has been canceled; it was scheduled for September 30-October 2. It is the second year that COVID-19 has canceled the show, which is part of the annual Vermont Antiques Week.
“There were COVID-19 concerns expressed by dealers and some of the volunteers who manage ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Camp Cups Story: A Correction and a Follow-Up
In the story about the set of camp cups cataloged as having been owned and used by George Washington that were withdrawn from Nate D. Sanders Auctions’ July 29 sale (September, p. 137), the camp cups were compared with documented camp cups in museum collections illustrated in catalogs or posted ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, October 2021
Things tend to get a little quiet in the London rooms in late July and early August, and this month’s “Letter” once again moves into the provinces for some of the lots that make up this latest selection.
That is not to say that big money spinners from the capital are ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Broadside Brings $275,000
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
Photos courtesy Heritage Auctions
A broadside offering a $100,000 reward for the capture of one of America’s most notorious assassins sold for a record $275,000 (including buyer’s premium) at Heritage Auctions’ September 25 and 26 Americana and political auction. Issued by the U.S. War Department on April 20, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Cordier Auction Benefits Art Association and Humane Society of Harrisburg
On September 26 Cordier Auctions & Appraisals, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, hosted an online auction of art from the collection of Raymonde “Ré” DéSabres Plaut (1925-2020); the sale benefited the Art Association of Harrisburg and the Humane Society of Harrisburg Area. The artist loved art and animals, and one of her final ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collectors Appreciate Whitman’s Scholarly Focus on Block Prints
Rachel Davis Fine Arts, Cleveland, Ohio
Photos courtesy Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Collecting interests are limitless. From vintage carrot bags (yes, it’s a thing) to works by old world masters, there are as many collecting areas to delve into as there are people collecting.
For Robert Whitman (1934-2020), a Wisconsin scholar, American block ... (Read More)
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