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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 123/4" oil on canvas profile portrait of a young girl by Czech artist Vaclav 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 Marklin 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. Marklin'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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(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, 291/2" high x 491/2" wide, period brasses, old finish, small ... (Read More)
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