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(Issue Story)Fortuna Breaks the Million-Dollar Mark, Eyes Growth
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Fortuna Auction, Inc.
Fortuna Auction, Inc., held its spring jewels auction on April 6 in New York City, and the record-breaking sale surpassed the $1 million mark in prices realized.
The top lot of the Fortuna auction was “a beautiful pair of perfectly matched sugarloaf cabochon rubies. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)African American Fine Art Spring Sale
Swann Galleries, New York City
Photos courtesy Swann Galleries
Swann had a lot to celebrate on April 6 when collectors and dealers gathered in the salesroom on East 25th Street to bid on paintings and sculptures from 1863 to 2013. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the family-run auction house, as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kneeland and Adams Cabinet Shop Records Found
A 270-page ledger kept by Hartford, Connecticut, cabinetmaker Lemuel Adams (1769-1850) has been discovered at the University of Miami by Kevin G. Ferrigno, according to a press release from Historic Deerfield. The Adams ledger provides a record of the cabinetmaking business in Hartford during the 1790s.
Historic Deerfield associate curator Christine ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
Doyle, New York City
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle’s spring sale of American paintings, furniture, and decorative arts on April 5, including 96 lots from the collection of Willa Kim and William Pène du Bois, totaled $976,802 with a sell-through rate of 85%. As is the case at many auction houses, online sales ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Gurley Show at Deerfield Fairgrounds for Antiques Week in New Hampshire
Joshua and Rachel Gurley, the children of Nan Gurley (1943-2016), have announced that the New Deerfield Antique Show at the Deerfield Fairgrounds, Deerfield, New Hampshire, will be held on Monday, August 7, the beginning of Antiques Week in New Hampshire.
The fairgrounds in Deerfield were not used for Nan Gurley’s show ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Longstanding Vermont Antiques Week Show Changes Name, Moves to New Location
A Vermont Antiques Week show is moving and getting renamed. Antiques in Vermont, which had been held at the Riley Rink at Hunter Park, is moving to the Mountain Lodge at Okemo in Ludlow, Vermont, and the show will now be known as the Vermont Pickers Market. The previous promoters ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Society of the Cincinnati Cup and Saucer Brings $51,600
Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
A Chinese export two-handled cup and saucer with an impressive early American history was the highlight of the Northeast Auctions’ April 2 sale at Treadwell Mansion in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, when it sold for $51,600 (includes buyer’s premium) against the estimated $8000/12,000. Collectors ... (Read More)
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(Show)Johnson's Next-to-Last Monroe Antique Show and Sale
Evergreen State Fairgrounds, Monroe, Washington
Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end; great stories we wish to go on forever. The same can be said for antiques shows. For some, the beginning, middle, and end are almost one and the same. For others that have stood the test of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Herter Brothers Servers Sell at Farmer Auctions
For more than two years, Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia, has been systematically liquidating a large consignment from the estate of W.P. Henritze (d. 1959), a Roanoke, Virginia, entrepreneur and real estate investor, who had moved to the area from West Virginia in the early 1900s. Early on, Henritze purchased the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Herter Brothers Servers Lead Farmer Auction
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia
Photos courtesy Farmer Auctions
Farmer Auctions, Salem, Virginia, held its spring catalog auction on April 1. This was the first of the firm’s sales that I had attended since it was acquired by Jarrod Hines. Hines purchased the auction business from Will Farmer effective August 1, 2016, and ... (Read More)
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