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(Fragment)Canadian "Beaver" Fruit Jar Sells for $16,240
An antique half-gallon “Beaver” fruit jar sold for $16,240 (includes buyer’s premium) when an auction conducted by Maple Leaf Auctions closed on November 14, 2015. (All prices in Canadian funds.)
Auction organizer Scott Wallace of Carleton Place, Ontario, commented on the sale. “To collectors of fruit jars, this piece was important and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show 2015
New York City
The Pier Antique Show opened Saturday, November 14, 2015, on the morning after the terrorist attack in Paris, and ran through Sunday. There was a stillness to the show, but the event served to take showgoers’ minds off the horror that had occurred 12 hours before.
The show opened ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Custer Leads the Charge
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
It was a weekend of highs and lows at the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries sale on November 14 and 15, 2015, in Thomaston, Maine. The high was a Howard Pyle-type advertising panel of General Custer in extremis at the Little Bighorn, which moved out for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bertoia's "Holiday Surprises" Lives Up to Its Name at $1.867 Million
Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
With an eye-popping inundation of treasures, Bertoia Auctions lived up to its pre-Thanksgiving theme of “Holiday Surprises.” The three-day, 2239-lot event, November 13-15, 2015, was a rip-snorter. No toy category was left behind as banks, trains, doorstops, vintage windups, a well-curated batch of biscuit tins, 250 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Texas Dealer Pleads Guilty in Antiques Investment Case
A William Spratling banquet set once owned by country singer Marty Robbins and pink diamond jewelry once owned by an alleged mob boss were enticing antiques to investors. Several ponied up money to invest in the objects in the hope that once they were sold there would be a handsome ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received, November 2015
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or online orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Magnificent 19th Century Furniture: Historicism in Germany and Central Europe by Rainer ... (Read More)
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(Show)2015 Salon: Art + Design
New York City
Vive le Salon! Now in its fourth year under the management of Sanford L. Smith + Associates, but no longer partnered with the Syndicat National des Antiquaires, The Salon: Art + Design opened in New York City, November 12, 2015, the night before the terrorist attack in Paris.
A ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tennessee Dealer Sentenced
Paul “Mike” Willis, the owner of Unique Antiques and Auction Gallery, Collierville, Tennessee, pleaded guilty to theft of over $60,000 from a customer and was sentenced on September 1 to 90 days in jail and ordered to pay $22,000 in remaining restitution, according to Shelby County District Attorney General Amy ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)School's in Session
The Young Collector
After 120 years our house seems to have come full circle. As of this fall it is once again a schoolhouse. Nora, who just turned five, has started kindergarten at home. (Just in case the house itself wasn’t evidence enough that we never do anything the easy way.) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Callot Soeurs Orientalist Gown, a Paisley Shawl, and a Fairy Skeleton Gown Bring Top Dollar
Augusta Auctions, New York City
Photos courtesy Augusta Auctions
A labeled Callot Soeurs couture Orientalist gown brought an impressive $30,000 (includes buyer’s premium) at a November 11, 2015, auction of couture and vintage fashions held by Augusta Auctions of Bellows Falls, Vermont, at its New York City venue, Landmark on the Park, ... (Read More)
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