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(Auction)Bombé Desk Brings $240,000
CRN Auctions, Cambridge, Massachusetts
A Chippendale mahogany bombé desk made between 1765 and 1770 was the runaway favorite at CRN Auctions’ May 20 sale in the Cambridge, Massachusetts, gallery. Prospective buyers had streamed to the auction gallery to see it. Bidding on the desk, estimated at $30,000/50,000, opened at $50,000 and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show 2018
Chicago, Illinois
Here’s an amazing anecdote from the second Chicago Antiques + Art + Design Show, held May 18-20. We swear that it really happened, and every word is true. This was told to us by Andrew Rowan of G. Sergeant Antiques, Woodbury, Connecticut.
Here is an accent table made from parts ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Rainy Day at Fishersville
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
The 62nd Shenandoah Antiques Expo was held on the grounds of Augusta Expoland in Fishersville, Virginia, the weekend of May 18-20. The Fishersville show is organized and promoted by Heritage Promotions. Over the years we have come to know the Fishersville event as something of a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ornate Estate Pumps Up the Sale
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
When the New Orleans Auction Galleries (NOAG) offers an “important estate” sale, thoughts might turn first to the contents of an antebellum plantation on the River Road or a French Quarter townhouse. Not perhaps Englewood, New Jersey, but the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Volcano of Timepieces
R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts, Manchester, New Hampshire
I thought of recent Hawaiian Big Island eruptions as, for more than 16 hours, nearly 1200 lots of clocks and watches flowed from R.O. Schmitt Fine Arts’ auction in Manchester, New Hampshire. On May 19 and 20, most lots slowly streamed by like lava; ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Record Price Paid for E. Howard No. 57
An E. Howard No. 57 regulator clock set a new auction record for that model at $145,200 (includes buyer’s premium) at the May 19 sale at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
The 73" tall clock had its original 14" diameter silvered dial with black incised Roman numerals and blued and pierced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Spring Sale at Wooten & Wooten
Wooten & Wooten, Camden, South Carolina
Photos courtesy Wooten & Wooten
On May 19, while the new Duke and Duchess of Sussex were celebrating with family and friends, auctioneer Jeremy Wooten was working. He spent six hours—10 a.m. to 4 p.m.—pushing 810 lots across the auction block. That’s a sizzling 135 lots ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2018 Penn Dry Goods Market
Pennsburg, Pennsylvania
The lectures were the big draw at the annual Penn Dry Goods Market, held at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania, May 18 and 19. Lecture attendees came to listen and then shopped the stalls of the 24 dealers who offered vintage textiles and related Americana; ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Fresh Start for Barridoff Galleries
Barridoff Galleries, South Portland, Maine
The newly reconstituted Barridoff Galleries is open for business at its South Portland, Maine, location. The building renovations are new, the location is new, and even the landscaping in the rural/urban/industrial setting had a fresh scent to it.
Continuing the parade of Waldo Peirce (1884-1970) offerings that ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Antique Jewelry and Colored Stones Highlight Skinner’s Sale and Fortuna’s White-Glove Sale of Bo
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
The first Skinner important jewelry auction of the year was May 15, highlighted by colored stones, diamonds, and antique and period jewelry. The top lot was a carved Colombian emerald from the estate of Emily Crane Chadbourne that “attracted international interest,” according to Skinner, and it sold ... (Read More)
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