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(Auction)Americana Revisited
Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Chicago, Illinois
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A sale of furniture, decorative arts, and silver held April 18 and 19 at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers may forever be known as the sale with “the chest.”
The Americana highlight of the sale was this circa 1770 Chippendale mahogany chest-on-chest estimated at $100,000/200,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Prices Are Right for the Michener
Doyle New York, New York City
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Doyle New York’s auction of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts on April 18 was a consistent sale where the paintings accounted for $813,344 of the overall total of $1,225,344 (including buyers’ premiums). The presale estimate of the entire sale was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Scottish Rite Masonic Center Sells Collection
Bailey’s Honor Auction & Estate Service, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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In November 2017 the Humphrey Scottish Rite Masonic Center’s members sold their organization’s home of more than 100 years. The 130-year-old building in downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin—which is 70,000 square feet and includes a 470-seat theatre—contained an ... (Read More)
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(Show)AD 20/21
AD 20/21 Home & Boston Print Fair, Boston, Massachusetts
This year’s Boston’s AD 20/21 Home & Boston Print Fair, held April 12-15, was a feast for the eyes. Added to the roster of dealers in fine art, prints, and mid-century modern were designers and fine furniture makers. There was something for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Collection of Ruth Bryson
Pook & Pook, Downingtown, Pennsylvania
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In 1982 Ruth Bryson and her husband, Jack, bought a stone farmhouse in Quarryville, Pennsylvania, in the southern part of Lancaster County. After they restored it and filled it with appropriate Pennsylvania antiques, Ruth opened her antiques shop in a barn on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hingham Highlights
Willis Henry Auctions, Plymouth, Massachusetts
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Positioned as it has been on the South Shore of Massachusetts for well over four decades, Willis Henry Auctions is ideally located to gather collections and estates from surrounding towns. The sale on April 14 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, included many lots of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mormons, Mexicana, and Marilyn Monroe—All in a Day’s Work at Printed and Manuscript Americana Sa
Swann Galleries, New York City
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A first edition of The Book of Mormon was the top lot of Swann’s printed and manuscript Americana sale on April 12 in its New York City gallery—yet again. The auction house has done well with Mormon material for at least a decade. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Wearable Antique Jewelry Is Hot at Leslie Hindman Auctioneers
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
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Leslie Hindman Auctioneers held a sale of jewelry in Chicago April 10 and 11. Katie Guilbault, head of sale, and Jamie Henderson, jewelry associate specialist, shared news about results and market trends after the sale, for which over 1000 people had registered on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Towne Hall Antiques Moves, Changes Name
Olde Town Hall Antiques in Stratham, New Hampshire, is moving across the street and changing its name. According to owner Natalie Healy, the business plans to open on April 2 at The Farmhouse on 33 at 148 Portsmouth Avenue in Stratham.
“We will be in the farmhouse [across the street] to ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Object Lessons
Object Lessons
The case of the Bingham family Civil War memorial secretary, confirmed as a fake, offers some lessons. (M.A.D. published the story online on February 26, and it appears in this issue on page 12-A.)
There’s no doubt that the saga stings. Dealer Allan Katz, the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the vetting ... (Read More)
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