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The Pier Antique Show
by Julie Schlenger Adell

You know what they say about the early bird. Folks were lined up before the 10 a.m. opening, some with empty shopping carts. This campaign desk made by Kittinger Furniture Co., Buffalo, New York, was available from Harris Art and Mid-Century Antiques, Natick, Massachusetts. It was tagged $2850, and it ... (Read More)

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Old New England Prizes
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

An 18th-century New England desk-on-frame in maple with tiger maple and chestnut secondary wood, 35½" x 32" x 16", sold on the phone for $7080 (est. $2000/3000). It had been passed down through the Solomon Lincoln family, early settlers of Hingham, Massachusetts, and distant relatives of Abraham Lincoln. The early 19th-century ... (Read More)

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AD20/21: Art & Design of the 20th & 21st Centuries
by Frances McQueeney-Jones Mascolo

Left to right: Tony Fusco, coproducer of AD20/21 and Boston Design Week, is pictured with Robert Campbell, recipient of the 2015 Lifetime Achievement Award, Ted Landsmark of the Boston Redevelopment Authority, and Julie Burros, chief of arts and culture for the city of Boston. As show managers, Tony Fusco and Bob ... (Read More)

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Canadian Auction House Busted for Selling 1970s Ivory
by M.A.D. Staff

A scientific first has led to an auction house and its director pleading guilty to offering prohibited ivory for sale in Canada. On February 27, Five Star Auctions and Appraisals of Toronto and its director, Chun Al Jin, pleaded guilty to charges under the Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation ... (Read More)

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Neon Sign Brings $143,750
by M.A.D. Staff

Sold for $143,750. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. An original porcelain neon factory-rotating Mobil Pegasus in working condition brought $83,375. Photo courtesy Mecum Auctions. More than 400 vintage collectible signs from the Vernon Walker collection were offered for sale by Mecum Auctions on March 28 and 29 in West Memphis, Arkansas. The collection, ... (Read More)

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Crossroads of America Civil War/Political Show
by Don Johnson

Punched-paper sampler picturing Abraham Lincoln and the text “Malice toward None” and “Charity for All,” $350 from Tim Saiter of Paris, Illinois. Confederate carbine by Keen, Walker & Company, one of only five known to exist, $29,000 from Bob Willey of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Kentucky rifles offered by Mickey and Vicki Kissick ... (Read More)

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Part II of Berry Toy and Bank Collection Sparks Sensory Overload
by Dick Friz

Bank with a black man kicking a watermelon (a.k.a. “Football Bank”), J. & E. Stevens, patented 1888, Charles Bailey’s penultimate pedestal design, cast iron, ex-Walter Tudor, F.H. Griffith, Leon Perelman, and Stanley Sax collections, Berry II’s top achiever at $270,000. “Zig Zag Bank,” maker unknown, patented 1889 to Moses Newman and ... (Read More)

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Jennifer Carlquist Appointed Curator at Boscobel
by M.A.D. Staff

Curator Jennifer Carlquist in the drawing room of the mansion.   Jennifer Carlquist is the new curator at Boscobel House and Gardens in Garrison, New York, where she will research, oversee, and celebrate the museum’s collection of New York furniture and decorative arts from the Federal period. She will also organize annual ... (Read More)

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Bidsquare Gets New President and CEO
by M.A.D. Staff

Allis Ghim is the new president and CEO of Bidsquare (www.bidsquare.com), the on-line bidding platform formed by six regional auction houses: Leslie Hindman Auctioneers, Rago, Skinner, Inc., Brunk Auctions, Pook & Pook, Inc., and Cowan’s Auctions. Ghim will have oversight of the overall strategic direction and the expansion and operation of ... (Read More)

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Ambrotype of Runaway Slave and Other Photos Highlight African Americana Sale
by Jeanne Schinto

The collector-agent in the U.K. who bought one of the major photography lots also bought this Louisiana slave sale broadside for $37,500 (est. $6000/9000). The 23½" x 18" announcement was printed on pink paper in 1848. It includes a detailed list of “family slaves,” i.e., house servants. There is, for ... (Read More)
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