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iGavel founder Lark Mason (right) and his son, Lark Mason III, at the New York Ceramics & Glass Fair in January. Lark Mason III has joined the firm and will head up the iGavel branch in Texas.
iGavel (www.igavel.com) has opened a branch in New Braunfels, Texas.
Lark Mason Sr., founder of ... (Read More)
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Gemini Antiques, Oldwick, New Jersey, sold this equestrian cast-iron trade sign, made for the Cincinnati Stove Works company, circa 1901; the asking price was $28,500. The 36-drawer chest, possibly from a hardware store, with original ivory paint and dovetailed construction, also sold. It was tagged $18,500. The tramp art wood ... (Read More)
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(Auction)
Each of these Martelé silver figural ewers, marked for Gorham Mfg. Co., Providence, 1912, in baluster form, is decorated with fluid leaves and waves. One is chased with Poseidon holding his trident and has a cast merman-form handle; the other is chased with a mermaid holding a clamshell with pearls ... (Read More)
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Arnold Lehman is shown accepting the Wunsch award.
Jonathan Prown, director of Chipstone.
Peter Wunsch (left) and Christie’s John Hays.
Christie’s hosted the third annual Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American Arts on January 21, honoring Arnold L. Lehman, the retiring director of the Brooklyn Museum in New York ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)
Drawing of a woman on horseback, circa 1775, attributed to the Sussel-Washington Artist (active 1760-85). Watercolor and ink on laid paper, 8" x 6 3/8". Promised gift of Joan and Victor Johnson.
Drawing of Adam and Eve, 1834-35, attributed to Samuel Gottschall (1808-1898). Watercolor and ink on wove paper, 8" × ... (Read More)
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Ian McKay, <[email protected]>
Joseph Mallord William Turner’s Rome, from Mount Aventine, the 36½" x 49½" oil of 1835 that at Sotheby’s on December 3 sold for $47.4 million. In the last 15 years of his life, Turner was enormously experimental and this work, produced when he was 61, just at the ... (Read More)
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Maine Antique Digest includes, as space permits, brief announcements of exhibitions planned by galleries, museums, or other venues. We need all press materials at least six weeks in advance of opening. We need to know the hours and dates of the exhibit, admission charges, and phone number and Web site ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)
Book Review
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with contributions by Avis Berman, Cynthia G. Falk, Lisa Minardi, and Ralph Sessions Art Services International and Skira Rizzoli, 2014, 256 pages, softbound, $65.
A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America by Richard Miller, with essays by Avis Berman, Cynthia ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)
A low-cost 7" tablet computer running Windows 8.1.
Computer Column #314
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Antiquers may want to identify their personal niche in the computer world. Personal niches are changing as hardware and software rapidly evolve. Let’s look at the whole picture and identify the range of niches.
Big Computers
The really big ... (Read More)
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This circa 1920 signed Tiffany & Co. platinum, moonstone, and sapphire brooch designed by Louis Comfort Tiffany sold to a phone bidder for $62,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). It was accompanied by an AGL report stating that the sapphire is of Ceylon origin, with no indications of heating. Sotheby’s, New York.
When Lisa ... (Read More)
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