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(Auction)Lincoln Goose Flies High at Summer Sale
Decoys Unlimited, Hyannis, Massachusetts
Decoy auctions aren’t like other sales. They are more like reunions or conferences. Snippets of conversations relate to matters such as the best place to buy glass eyes, who is selling what bird, the surface of a particular bird, who has his or her eye on what ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A Blanket Statement at Farrin's
Farrin’s Country Auctions holds two or three sales every month at its home base in Randolph, Maine. A regular crowd (including me) has been showing up for decades to paw through furniture, folk art, china, flea market culch, artworks, and various forms of hidden treasures.
Rusty Farrin’s offering on July 20 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Olde Hope Antiques at 40
On July 4 Edwin Hild and Patrick Bell celebrated 40 years in the antiques business. The story of their Olde Hope Antiques in New Hope, Pennsylvania, documents the evolution of the market for what used to be called country antiques into that catchall category called “folk art” over the last ... (Read More)
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(Auction)First Annual Textile and Sewing Auction
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its first annual textiles and sewing auction on July 16 at its gallery in Mt. Crawford, Virginia. Specialty auctions are not surprising. We are used to special sales of categories such ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dave Jar among Rarities at Crocker Farm
Crocker Farm, Sparks, Maryland
Photos courtesy Crocker Farm
“It is a great southern piece,” proclaimed Tony Zipp when describing a very rare alkaline-glazed stoneware jar inscribed “Dave / Jan 13 -1862 / Lm” that Crocker Farm sold for $40,250 on July 16.
The company’s stoneware and redware sale of 493 lots grossed $928,803 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ross Perot's U.S.S. "Constitution" Flag Will Be Conserved for New Display
A rare 19-star flag that once flew on the U.S.S. Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, is being conserved by Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts. The flag is owned by Texas billionaire and former U.S. presidential candidate H. Ross Perot, who received it as a birthday present from his ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Bitter Bottle Battle
After almost 150 years, excavating a latrine under one of the more than 100 saloons that operated in Virginia City, Nevada, during the Gold Rush produced some interesting artifacts—a pottery cribbage board, a spittoon, fluted stemware, and several Dr. Wonser’s U.S.A. Indian Root Bitters bottles, among other items. Upon learning ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Sale in Canada
Tim Isaac, Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada
All prices in Canadian dollars
Tim Isaac changed his auction venue from the Algonquin hotel in Saint Andrews, New Brunswick, to the Saint John Trade and Convention Centre in Saint John, New Brunswick, for his annual summer sale on Monday, July 11. It did not ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2016 National APIC Convention
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
The 2016 national convention for the American Political Items Collectors (APIC) was held from July 6 to July 10 at the Harrisburg Hilton Hotel in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
The APIC holds its national convention every two years. “Usually in election years our membership goes up a few hundred,” remarked president Ron ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)GSA Goes After New Deal Painting Offered on eBay
“This [was a] non-identifiable piece of trash that I turned into a gleaming piece, and the government decides they want it,” said art dealer Matthew Schwartz of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Schwartz was speaking about 1934 Farmer, a large oil on canvas by John D. Slavin that he offered on ... (Read More)
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