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"Bud" Hill Sale
by Danielle Arnet

Fifteen Mexican silver figural bowls by Jose Marmolejo, Mexico City, sold for $2750. The mid-20th-century handled bowls, each about 4¼" wide including handles, are shaped like swans. Note the gilt coating inside each. This partial set of sterling silver by International in the Wedgwood pattern, 167 pieces, including 14 serving pieces ... (Read More)

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The Great Jewelry Jump Up
by Pete Prunkl

At $21,240, the sale’s highest-dollar painting was The Flower Seller (overall, 65½" x 43¾") by Gaetano Bellei. Its estimate was $20,000/40,000. President Franklin D. Roosevelt had this Crawford expansion band watch on his wrist when he died in 1945 at his retreat in Warm Springs, Georgia. The watch along with ... (Read More)

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The Arms Race
by Mark Sisco

Cased and engraved 28-gauge over-under Boss game gun, serial number 9019, $207,000. Julia photo. This English Boss game gun, a 28-gauge sidelock ejector single side-by-side gun, was made as a small-bore companion piece to the over-under Boss gun and has serial number 9018. It has similar markings to the Boss over-under ... (Read More)

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The 57th Annual Fox Valley Antiques Show
by Danielle Arnet

Sam Scott of Denise Scott Antiques, East Greenwich, Rhode Island, is shown checking the drawer of a $1675 pine stepback open-top cupboard with original paint. Redware on the lower shelf ranged from a $145 bundt pan to a $65 pie plate and an $875 loaf pan. Spring Hill Farm Antiques, Broadhead, ... (Read More)

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Wayne Holt's World
by Pete Prunkl

The top lot of the sale was a signed Louis Comfort Tiffany table lamp on slender arched legs. Signed on the shade and base with a “396,” it sold to the phones for $15,400. This early 19th-century painted blanket chest with lift top originated in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. It was tucked ... (Read More)

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Winterthur's Philadelphia Furniture Forum: What Was Learned?
by Lita Solis-Cohen

The Cadwalader family—John; his wife, Betsy Lloyd; and daughter Anne—by Charles Willson Peale in its traveling frame had just returned from a six-month trip to two museums in Korea and one in Australia. Bret Headley made the frame because the original frame was too fragile to travel, and it had ... (Read More)

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Few Fireworks but One Rarity Discovered at Americana Auction
by David Hewett

“Paul Revere, patriot, silversmith, engraver, and artist?” That was the question some viewers asked auctioneer Steven Fletcher prior to the sale, he said. He told us that he answered them with, “Of course he was an artist. How do you think he laid out the designs on the many pieces ... (Read More)

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Lion-Decorated Pitcher from Manhattan Sells for $115,000
by Karl H. Pass

This early Manhattan, New York, ovoid stoneware pitcher with an incised standing lion sold for $115,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). This fresh-to-the-market discovery was a highlight of the large sale. The watch spring decoration seen here on this one-gallon jug is often associated with Cheesequake, New Jersey, stoneware manufacturer Captain James Morgan, based ... (Read More)

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Rago Brings in $5.6 Million
by Lita Solis-Cohen

University City porcelain gourd vase, exterior glaze in green, University City, Missouri, 1912, signed “UC 12,” 9¾" x 3". It sold for $26,250 (est. $10,000/ 15,000). Lillian Hoffman had bought it from Martin Eidelberg in 1976. Martin Brothers stoneware frog tobacco jar, England, 1895, base signed “Martin Bros.” and head signed ... (Read More)

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Doyle Mines Jewelry Sales
by Mary Ann Brown

This circa 1900 Arts and Crafts gold, diamond, and pink button pearl ring with a 7/8" wide center sold for $5313 (est. $2000/3000). Doyle New York. This antique silver, lapis cameo, and diamond brooch realized $3125 (est. $800/1200). Doyle New York. This group of jewelry including a child’s jade bangle, carved jade ... (Read More)
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