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Computer Column #315
John P. Reid, [email protected]
A number of hints and bits of news have accumulated.
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In the Maine Antique Digest editions of June 2009 ... (Read More)
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This miniature watercolor and gouache on ivory portrait of Robert Livingston sold for $24,900. Photo courtesy Louis Dianni.
Nine portrait miniatures by Charles Willson Peale sold for a total of $96,495.50 (with buyers’ premiums), and three portrait miniatures, not by Peale but cataloged as after Peale or in the manner of ... (Read More)
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This Paul Evans (1931-1987), Paul Evans Studio, four-door Sculpture Front cabinet, New Hope, Pennsylvania, 1964, welded, forged, torch-cut, and polychromed steel, bronze, and 23k gold leaf and painted wood, with welded signature “Paul Evans 64D,” 21½" x 99" x 24", was purchased from the artist. It is published in the ... (Read More)
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Among the surprises from Abe’s Old Hat Antiques, Springfield, Illinois, was this musical group fashioned by David Campbell, an Illinois folk artist working in the 1980s who had been a metalsmith by trade. When Campbell retired, he fashioned things from junk metal. The complete quartet was $18,000.
Country Treasures, Preston, Maryland, ... (Read More)
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Show manager Doug Supinger of Troy, Ohio, brought some things of his own to sell, including this desirable lighthouse hooked rug for $875.
Cynthia Brooks of MC Antiques specializes in early flags; the example at upper right with 38 stars in a medallion pattern had sold. The 38-star flag at left ... (Read More)
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This Confederate Civil War letter signed by Robert E. Lee regarding the formation of the 39th Virginia Volunteers Infantry Regiment, addressed to Col. Charles Smith, sold for $10,600. The letter descended in the family of Smith to his granddaughter Marie Preston Smith, wife of well-known antiques collector Titus Geesey.
This fine ... (Read More)
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A. B. Frost (1851-1928) is perhaps best known for his illustrations for Tom Sawyer and Uncle Remus. This 14" x 22" Quail—A Covey Rise by Frost was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons as part of a chromolithographed set entitled “Shooting Pictures.”The original watercolor was first purchased by Clarence Otis Bigelow, ... (Read More)
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This superior ski poster is by Alex Diggelmann (Swiss, 1902-1987). In 1936 Diggelmann won a gold medal for a poster entitled “Arosa I Placard,” and 12 years later he won a bronze medal and a silver medal for, respectively, a cycling poster and an ice hockey poster in the last ... (Read More)
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To quote the catalog, Estracto de Noticias… is an “extremely rare first printed account of the founding of Monterey, the first European settlement in northern California,” attributed to Gaspar de Portolá, published in 1770. It sold for $97,500 (est. $30,000/50,000) after the first of many bidding wars between a bidder ... (Read More)
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Northwest Coast Tlingit mask, $109,250.
This possible Stine Pottery face jug, with an incised date appearing to read “Oct. 5, 1844,” cruised all the way to $21,275. Thomaston Place photo.
Andy Warhol serigraph titled Sunset, 1972, numbered “116/470,” made $34,500.
This unsigned 25½" x 33½" oil on canvas was stylistically and historically ... (Read More)
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