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(Issue Story)Eight Valkyrie Sisters
What did he know and when did he know it?
Was he aware that the New York Yacht Club had received a challenge for the America’s Cup dated March 19, 1889, from the Royal Yacht Squadron on behalf of Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, 4th Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl of Dunraven Castle, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heritage Sells $7.3 Million of American Art
Tom Lovell (1909-1997), Captain Murie’s Pawnees,oil on canvas, 23" x 40½", signed and dated 1983, sold on the phone for $161,000 (est. $100,000/150,000). It illustrates a military story from the early history of Nebraska known as the Battle of Plum Creek, from 1864. Lovell won a gold medal from the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The American Art Fair 2014
Louis Salerno of Questroyal Fine Art, New York City, asked $975,000 for A Side Canyon, Grand Canyon, Arizona by Thomas Moran (1837-1926). The 14" x 20" oil on board was dated 1905; on the back is inscribed “A Side Canyon/ Grand Canyon, Arizona /T. Moran for G. Moulton.”
Proserpine by Hiram ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Babbitt and Hyde Family Artifacts at Auction
An 18k gold or better three-piece Victorian mourning suite in a relief ram’s head motif produced the biggest price of the sale at $4600.
A full-plate daguerreotype of the family of Edwin and Elizabeth A. Hyde sold for $2875.
Gamage had high hopes for this Victorian American walnut and marble bedroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Chinese Wall Plaque Sells for $57,600
The Chinese painted porcelain wall plaque, from the collection of Alma Cleveland Porter, brought $57,600.
This Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) oil on canvas portrait (32" x 27") of Elizabeth Hardenbergh DeWitt went to a collector for $33,600. Northeast Auctions photo.
The pair of Dutch Delft chargers, 1690-1700, depicted Queen Mary II and William, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Nautical Antiques Sold in Boston
This lighthouse beacon was described in the catalog as “monumental.” It had a huge 500 mm Fresnel lens of cut crystal set into a bronze frame. It had been converted to AC current with a light fixture but also was supplied with an AGA gas burner. Measuring 52" tall and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Evans Sells Americana from Virginia and the South
The high lot of the Evans sale was this folk art fraktur birth and baptismal certificate. The document is dated February 12, 1819, and is inscribed with the name Anna Magdalena Scherertz. The fraktur is watercolor and ink on paper and attributed to the so-called Wild Turkey Artist of Wythe ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antique Show, Fall Edition
Six flow blue bowls in the Conway pattern by New Wharf Pottery, $45 each from John Wanat of Indianapolis, Indiana.
English watercolor of a gentleman and a dog, $795 from Inez Allen and Nan Donovan of City Mouse Country Mouse Antiques, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Eight-gallon crock, Albany slip, stenciled in yellow with “S. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Max Berry Banks and Toys Top $3 Million
Clown on Bar, C. G. Bush Co., circa 1880 ex.-L.C. Hegarty, tin and cast iron. Ingeniously, when placed in the clown’s hand, the coin’s weight causes the figure to lean forward; the coin drops into the bank’s base while the clown continues a full rotation of the bar. It brought ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Main Line Antiques Show
This tip-top table, made in Nantucket, of maple and birch, 1815-30, with an old red finish, a three-piece top, turned pedestal with an urn, and spider legs with reeded edges, was 29" high x 27¼" wide x 17" deep. It was $3800 from W.M. Schwind, Jr. He said it was ... (Read More)
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