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(Auction)The Sale of Jay R. Moyer’s Estate
Hess Auction Group, Manheim, Pennsylvania
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On September 28, the day after Pook & Pook in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, finished selling 1500 lots of mostly Pennsylvania antiques used by generations of Pennsylvania Germans, Hess Auctions in Manheim, Lancaster County, a little more than 50 miles up the road, offered ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Antiques and Art Auction with Gunn Textile Collection
Meander Auctions, Whipple, Ohio
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Meander Auctions held its fall antiques and art auction September 28 at the company’s gallery in Whipple, Ohio. Top lots ranged from Clyde Singer paintings to Blenko glass. The most notable inclusion, however, was the first part of the lifetime collection of Dr. Virginia ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)MADA Helps Restore Painting
On July 31 the Maine Antiques Dealers Association (MADA) presented a check for $1000 to the Lincoln County (Maine) Historical Association to help fund the recent restoration of a circa 1840 landscape painting by artist and explorer Henry Cheever Pratt (1803-1880).
The check was presented at the Pownalborough Court House in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Scene Tops Dallas Auction
Heritage Auctions, Dallas, Texas
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Paintings of scenic New England landscapes and seascapes by renowned American artists dominated Heritage Auctions’ September 27 sale of American art, confirming that the market for this genre of art remains strong.
The “American Art Within Reach Showcase Auction” was highlighted by works of late ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Will Coffeepot and Rare Fraktur Lead Americana Sale
Pook & Pook, Inc., Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Pook & Pook, Inc.
On September 27 the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at a record high, and Wall Street’s three main indexes posted weekly gains. On that same day, the last of Pook and Pook’s three-day sale in Downingtown, Pennsylvania, some blue-chip Americana ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Thomas Jefferson’s Furniture
A Book Review
Since 1993 American Furniture,edited by Luke Beckerdite and published by the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee, has presented new research by leading scholars in the field on furniture history, technology, conservation, and connoisseurship of furniture made or used in America from the 17th century to today.
Last year Beckerdite announced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Objects from Thornside Sold
Stair Galleries, Hudson, New York
Photos courtesy Stair Galleries
The “Design from 1860 to 1910” sale that took place at Stair Galleries in Hudson, New York, on September 26 counted bold-faced consignors evocative of Big Oil (Ann and Gordon Getty) and Park Avenue (Jordan Saunders).
Also on the block were the contents of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)West Coast Bitters Bottle Tops Heckler Sale
Norman C. Heckler & Company, Woodstock Valley, Connecticut
Photos courtesy Norman C. Heckler & Company
Norman C. Heckler & Company once again hosted a minimalist online-only event resulting in not-so-minimalist final sale prices. The September 25 auction of early American glass, fine tableware, historical flasks, and bottles offered up a mere 31 ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Dangerous Sentry
Working with an old safe might be unsafe.
On August 28 the Tiffin (Ohio) Police Department took a report from a local citizen who had purchased an old safe and found inside it sealed vials with a liquid in them. Not knowing what they could be, he brought them to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Sale of Richard Wattenmaker’s Collection
Freeman’s | Hindman, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s | Hindman
Freeman’s | Hindman in Philadelphia kicked off the fall season Sunday, September 22, with a single-owner sale of American and European art, American furniture, fraktur, pottery, and the art of the blacksmith, most of it French wrought iron, from the collection of ... (Read More)
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