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Assets associated with Ivey-Selkirk Auctioneers, St. Louis, Missouri, including company names and other intellectual property, have been purchased by Legacy Group STL, Inc., which is owned by Jeff and Amelia Jeffers. The couple, who also own Garth’s Auctions, Delaware, Ohio, are revitalizing the longstanding Selkirk brand as Selkirk Auctioneers & ... (Read More)
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The Young Collector
Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience, even a difficult one, just to be able to have the satisfaction of utilizing what you learned from the awkward, inefficient way you did it the first time. Sometimes, you need to repeat an experience because you’re Homer Simpson and you ... (Read More)
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Florida collector Alfred A. Turner Jr. spent $100,000 in 2012 to buy two Tiffany lamps from Buffalo, New York, dealer Lawrence Ludtka, who calls his shop Larry’s Antiques. After Turner was rebuffed when he tried to consign one of the lamps to auction, he had them both evaluated and became ... (Read More)
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A 9" x 12" oil on canvas of three fishermen on a rocky ocean coast was titled on the back Bass Rock Fishermen and signed lower right “Chas. P. Gruppe.” Charles Paul Gruppé (1860-1940) was progenitor of the artistic Gruppé clan that included his sons Emile, Karl, and Paulo and ... (Read More)
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The 14½" high early 19th-century sheet-iron door handle backplate in the form of a fiddler is a Connecticut piece, said Greg Kramer of Robesonia, Pennsylvania, who priced the unusual find at $2250.
The Colonial Revival spinning wheel settee, offered by A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, was found ... (Read More)
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Garland Grimm commented that since his signs were meant to hang outside, the rain was not a problem for his inventory. The Fishersville, Virginia, dealer offered this array of signs at his infield booth. The Studebaker Erskine sign is perhaps the most scarce. Studebaker manufactured the Erskine for only four ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Pint-size sand bottle by Andrew Clemens (1857- 1894), one side with design lettered “Our Emma / 1884,” other side with a floral design, unusually large at 9" high, $19,200.
Pictured is one of a pair of 18th-century English Chinese Chippendale mirrors by George Godley of Winchester, 65" x 26½". Of carved giltwood ... (Read More)
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Elizabeth Catlett’s Singing Head of circa 1977 is carved tropical wood with painted details. It is 16¼" x 8" x 7½" and sold for $125,000 (est. $120,000/ 180,000).
An institution paid $57,500 for Vernon by William E. Artis (1914-1977). The 1946-50 terra-cotta sculpture is 22" tall, including its base. It is ... (Read More)
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Like numerous other lots in the auction, this cased Mannlicher pistol, serial number 231, purported to have belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, had to be sold while waltzing carefully around the murky new ivory laws. The unremoveable and intricate ivory inlays meant that it could be sold, but the ... (Read More)
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This 13-piece German majolica zoomorphic kitchen canister set, circa 1900, sold for $10,800 (est. $3000/5000) on the phone. The mother duck “Oil” canister stands over her kitchen staff with their contents written across their bellies. It may be the only set to survive. Strawser.
This important Minton majolica turquoise-ground flat iron ... (Read More)
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