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(Auction)The Ohio Valley Auction
River landscape after Cornelius Ver Bryck (1813-1844), oil on canvas, signed "T. C- / from an outline by C. Ver Bryck," 12" x 18" plus frame, inpainting to about 10% of the surface, $46,800.
Banjo clock, circa 1825, cherry and pine, scenic and foliate-decorated tablets, gilt surface, restoration to gold ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Sandy Doig, Somers, Connecticut
Sandy Doig in his basement workshop. In good weather he works in his barn. He thinks the two-drawer stand is from the south shore of Massachusetts. "It has the thinner stock that they use there." He's asking $450 for it. "Eight years ago it would have been nine hundred," he ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Masters 2015
Bernard Goldberg Fine Arts, New York City, took a large booth located at the front of the show. Displayed on the wall are a set of five terra-cotta reliefs by Carl Milles (1875-1955), The Muses, circa 1935, each 151/2" x 10", priced at $125,000. In the center is a 1934 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Sales Tax Affecting Galleries in Arizona
A group of Scottsdale, Arizona, art gallery owners say they are being crippled by a sales tax that kicked in at the beginning of this year. The new regulation adds the transaction privilege tax (TPT), Arizona's sales tax, to fine art sales to out-of-state buyers who purchase the art in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo Just Gets Better and Better
Don Toth of Richfield, Ohio, trades as Parkside House Antiques. Toth set up on the infield and offered this group of Americana items. The honey-color dry sink is constructed of pine and features a high back with a shelf and two drawers. The sink was tagged $825. The wooden toolbox ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bonhams Sells von Eldik Collection on Site in Virginia
The high lot of the von Eldik sale came from the fine arts category. This pair of large oil on canvas naturalistic scenes is by Peter Caulitz (German, circa 1650-1719). First is an avian group with strutting cocks, hens, turkeys, and pigeons in a yard before a stone dwelling. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Grass Valley Old West Show
Jeff Holabird of Western Americana, Reno, Nevada, was asking $8000 for this circa 1872 pocket watch made by a Virginia City, Nevada, jeweler.
Helena, Montana, dealer Don Grimmer was exhibiting but not selling this vintage advertising bulldog, something he had long coveted at Desert John's Saloon Museum, Deer Lodge, Montana. It ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"May We Play" Sale
Stutz coupe, Gendron, circa 1926, pedal car, pressed steel, 281/2" long, ex-Don Kaufman, near mint, the sale's top seller at $22,420.
This Batman car by Yanoman, Japan, zoomed to $10,030, doubling the high estimate.
Broadway & Central Park omnibus, George Brown, 1880s, painted tin, 121/2" long, $10,620.
Electric Packard pedal car, American National, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Political Memorabilia Worth $120,000 Stolen
Police are still looking for a break in a case involving the theft of political campaign memorabilia, worth about $120,000, taken from a locked ballroom at the Met Troy, in Troy, Michigan. The burglary at the hotel occurred between 11 p.m. on May 8 and 6 a.m. on May 9, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Canadian Dealer Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison for Smuggling Rhino Horns, Ivory, and Coral
Xiao Ju Guan, aka "Tony Guan," 39, of Richmond, British Columbia, was sentenced on March 25 in United States federal court to 30 months in prison for smuggling rhinoceros horns, elephant ivory, and coral from the United States to Canada. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Judge Laura ... (Read More)
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