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(Auction)American Art and Pennsylvania Impressionism
Six phone bidders competed for The River Road by Daniel Garber (1880-1958). The 30" x 28" circa 1940 oil on canvas was signed “Daniel Garber” on the bottom left. In a Bernard Badura frame, the painting sold to a collector on the phone for $327,750 (est. $150,000/250,000).
Newell Convers Wyeth ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Ownership and Strong Victorian Sales for Farmer
The high lot of Will Farmer’s sale was this elaborately carved parlor table by John Henry Belter. The mid-19th-century table is in the Victorian Rococo Revival style and features what appears to be its original turtle-form marble top. The base is heavily carved and pierced laminated rosewood. The skirt features ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"The House Is Out" and Other Hillsborough Stories
At $44,840, this 100" x 46" x 22" Roanoke River basin Chippendale china press was the sale’s top lot. It was purchased above its $20,000/30,000 estimate by a floor bidder from Virginia.
Ernest Trova (1927-2009) was noted for his “Falling Man” series of armless, pot-bellied male figures in paintings, prints, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Robert and Elaine Dillof Collection
Grueby Faience Company vase decorated by Ruth Erickson (1883-after 1932), carved and applied vertical leaves, suspended matte green glaze, incised artist’s initials, illegible date, 22" high, minor glaze chipping to foot, very good overall, $20,740. This was the vase discovered in the lobby of a hotel in Southwest Harbor, Maine. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Picker of the Year at Mebane
There is a tear in this 18" x 12¾" oil on canvas profile portrait of a young girl by Czech artist Václav Brozik (1851-1901). The painting opened at $500, a long way from where it stopped—$6710.
There was a fair amount of foxing to this Currier & Ives lithograph titled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fall Toy Sale
This Märklin Rocket engine with train cars is a toy version of Stephenson’s Rocket, which was not the first steam locomotive but was the most advanced of its day. It was in service through 1840 and influenced steam locomotive construction for 150 years. Märklin’s Rocket is the only commercially produced ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Absentee Advertising Auction
Dr. A.C. Daniels veterinary cabinet for dog and cat remedies, lithographed tin, 20" x 13 1/8" x 5 3/8", well-done restoration to side panels and back, $7015.
Beacon Oil sign, double-sided porcelain, 30" diameter, scattered chips on the back, $6440.
Pe-Ru-Na catarrh cure pocket mirror, celluloid, depicting a woman in a low-cut ... (Read More)
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(Show)Greenwich Winter Antiques Show
This mid-19th-century English burl walnut canterbury, circa 1850, was $3450 from Zane Moss Antiques, New York City.
New to the show, Nancy Steinbock Vintage Posters, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, displayed this scene of Newport Harbor, circa 1915, from the Forbes Lithograph Manufacturing Co., Boston. She asked $3600 for the 29" x 41" ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tailor's Dummies by Henry Koerner Brings $270,250
Tailor’s Dummies, $270,250. Photo courtesy Dirk Soulis Auctions.
The Bailey epergne, an extremely rare piece of R.S. Prussia porcelain, brought $19,550. When Helen Bailey of Kirksville, Missouri, showed up with this piece at the 1987 R.S. Prussia convention in St. Louis, it was the only R.S. Prussia epergne known to exist ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Second to Isaac Newton, First at Christie’s
Title page of the 1673 Horologium Oscillatorium… by Christiaan Huygens. Photo courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd. 2014.
We do not know if the anonymous high-bidder loves early books, clocks, physics, annotated authors’ copies, Latin texts, or history of science artifacts, but he or she now owns one of the most important objects ... (Read More)
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