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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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(Issue Story)Richard Scaife American Art Collection Divvied Up
Christmas came early to two Pennsylvania museums. On December 3, 2014, the Brandywine River Museum of Art in Chadds Ford and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg announced that they had begun the process of dividing up the art collection of Richard Mellon Scaife, an heir to the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Holiday Antiques Show
Here is a nice 18th-century New England shoe-foot cupboard. It was prominent in the booth of Chris and Karen Doscher. The Doschers are from Wallkill, New York, and trade as Witt’s End Antiques. The piece is constructed of white pine, with a red-washed surface. The storage unit features two paneled ... (Read More)
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(Auction)54th Annual Thanksgiving Americana Auction
Landscape of the Mather farm near Lebanon, Ohio, attributed to Marcus Mote (1817-1898), oil on canvas, unsigned, 30" x 40", plus its original frame, minor repairs, $12,500.
Inlaid Chippendale blanket chest, Pennsylvania, dated 1818, walnut with tulip, star, and fylfot inlay, 29½" high x 49½" wide, period brasses, old finish, small ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"Gold Rush" at Printed Manuscript and Americana Sale
A patriotic letterpress broadside stating the articles of agreement for the Continental Navy’s U.S.S. Columbus, with attached manuscript signature lists, sold for $62,500. The broadside proper, printed in Philadelphia on November 15, 1775, is 18" x 14". With the list attachments, dating through January 19, 1776, the whole measures 36½" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hollywood at Auction
This studio 58-key piano on wheels with wood and plastic keys was likely manufactured by Kohler & Campbell (1927) and was pulled from the Warner Bros. prop room for Casablanca. It realized the highest price of the “There’s No Place like Hollywood” auction. It sold on the phone for $3,413,000. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)California and Western Paintings and Sculpture
E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969), Sunny Morning, St. Tropez, oil on panel, 13" x 16¼", sold to a private collector in southern California for $281,000, far above its $60,000/80,000 estimate.
Granville Redmond’s Fishermen and Fishing Boats on the Shore, oil on canvas, 12" x 16", sold for $75,000 (est. $40,000/60,000) to the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Short, Stout, and Very Expensive Little Sugar Pot
Rare slip-decorated redware sugar pot, 18th century and very likely from one of the potteries in Charlestown, Massachusetts, $14,375.
Saved from potential oblivion in a landfill somewhere, this 60¼" x 32¾" 18th-century trade sign on a wooden shingle turned into one of the sale’s leaders at $16,100.
There wasn’t much information available ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pier Antique Show
Bruce Emond of Village Braider, Plymouth, Massachusetts, offered works by still-living artist Claire Harootunian, who once taught at Syracuse University, including a course titled “3-D Design.” The rusted iron standing triangular sculptures were tagged $2900 each.
Wedgwood Fairyland Lustre vase, $7000 from Seaway China Company, Dania Beach, Florida.
The shades and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)E. Howard & Company Wall-Hanging No. 47 Astronomical Regulator Brings $356,950
This clock sold for $356,950. Photo courtesy Fontaine’s Auction Gallery.
One of three known E. Howard & Company No. 47 wall-hanging astronomical regulator clocks sold for $356,950 (includes buyer’s premium) at a clock and watch auction held November 22 and 23, 2014, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. It was ... (Read More)
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