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(Book Review)Books Received
These are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or a mail-order house is the place to look.
Highlights of the Cary Graphic Arts Collection at Rochester Institute of Technology ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Burglary at Vintage Vendors in Florida
On Wednesday, June 10, employees at Vintage Vendors in Fernandina Beach, Florida, encountered an individual they thought to be suspicious for several reasons. The man arrived at closing time with a box of antique items and attempted to sell the items to the store employees. The employees declined to purchase ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)American Furniture 2014
A Book Review
American Furniture 2014 Edited by Luke Beckerdite The Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2014, 298 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
American Furniture 2014, edited by Luke Beckerdite and published by the Chipstone Foundation, uses several ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Skinner Live Auction in Boston, Online Sales, and Open for Business in NYC
I was watching the Skinner auction online when this signed Howard & Co. antique sapphire and diamond ring from the Lanier family of Indiana and New York came up. It was prong-set with a cushion-cut sapphire measuring approximately 9.82 x 9.10 x 6.60 mm and weighing 5.43 carats framed by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antique Scrimshaw Collectors Association Comes Out against Scrimshaw Legislation
The Antique Scrimshaw Collectors Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the promotion and protection of the trade, collection, and study of antique scrimshaw, issued a press release on April 30 “calling upon legislators to withdraw or amend pending legislation that prohibits and criminalizes the free exchange of 19th-century whalemen’s folk ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)More Questions Than Answers
The Young Collector
Recently on Facebook, home of nuanced discussions, there has been a great deal of discussion about the sale of the Allen H. Eaton (1878-1962) collection at Rago Auctions in Lambertville, New Jersey. For those of you who avoid Facebook and prefer to use your Internet for looking at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Historic Deerfield Awarded $3000 for Needlework Conservation
“The Death of Absalom” (left) by Lois Breck (1738-1789), circa 1755, Boston, polychrome silk embroidery, gouache paint, black satin weave silk ground, metallic-wrapped silk thread. John W. and Christiana G.P. Batdorf Fund. “The Apiary” (right) by Betsy Knox (b. 1791), circa 1804, Deerfield, Massachusetts, polychrome silk embroidery, watercolor, white plain ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Early 20th-Century Decorative Arts and Some Mid-century Modern
This is a 6" square Marblehead tile, decorated with trees reflected in a pond by Arthur Baggs (1886-1947), circa 1908, stamped with a ship mark and “MP,” and with original paper labels including a handwritten one that reads “Marblehead Pottery Bo’t from Tiffany & Co Aug, ‘08 $5.” It sold ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionist Paintings
Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945), “However at last I taught him to call me by my name very familiarly,” oil on canvas, 24 3/8" x 26¼", signed with monogram bottom left, $353,000 (est. $80,000/120,000) to a bidder on the phone. An illustration for Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, published in 1920 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XXV Auction
Rookwood Black Iris scenic vase, Kitaro Shirayamadani, 1907, decorated with five barn swallows flying through trailing boughs of English ivy on a black ground, 14¾" high, a few tiny lines of crazing, $49,450.
Rookwood mouse paperweight, Kitaro Shirayamadani design, cast in 1936, later Goldstone glaze, 3 1/8" high, excellent condition, $2645. ... (Read More)
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