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(Issue Story)E. E. Finch: A Puzzling Folk Artist
In our September article “Great Buckskin Shirt Brings Great Big Bucks” (p. 30-C), we pictured a portrait by itinerant portrait artist E. E. Finch, noting that “little is known about Finch, and even his first name is lost to history.”It turns out more than a little is known, as Marius ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Successful September Auctions in Chicago and Boston
Antique Jewelry & Gemology
Photos courtesy Skinner and Leslie Hindman
I’m back to covering auctions again after spending the last couple of months attending and writing about antique and vintage jewelry sold at shows by dealers. These are two of the ways we learn about what’s happening in the market and about ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Three Lots Top $100,000 at Willis Henry's Shaker Sale
The $206,500 washstand. Photo courtesy Willis Henry Auctions.
It was all good for auctioneer Willis Henry of Marshfield, Massachusetts, at his annual Shaker sale under a tent at Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on September 6.
Three pieces of furniture sold for over $100,000. The highest-priced lot, a New Lebanon, New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Good Times and Good Buys at Mason Sale
The Asbestos brand sad iron case includes two sizes of irons and a detachable handle assembly. The kit is housed in a finger-jointed wooden box and displays a patent date of May 22, 1900. The case and contents sold for $104.50 (est. $50/125).
Here is one selection from the group of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Country Americana at Garth's
Acoma pot signed by Marie Z. Chino (1907-1992), polychrome grid design, possibly 1940’s, 7½" high x 9" diameter, slight wear and minor rim flake, $4500.
One-piece corner cupboard attributed to the Ralph family of Sussex County, Delaware, early 19th century, pine with old green paint, elaborate molded and carved decoration, 87" ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Stick with Hap Moore
This handmade wooden walking stick, with a connection to Abraham Lincoln via an embedded metal plate reading, “From fence rail Abraham Lincoln split in Decatur, Ill. on his father’s farm and made at Niantic, Ill. by Franklin A. Pickering in 1865,” sold for $6325.
Peggy Bacon gouache of a coastal ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Cowan's Inaugural Auction in Cleveland
Circa 1900 brewing company sign showing a bird’s-eye view of “The John Wagner Sons Br’g. Co. / Sidney, Ohio, U.S.A.,” color lithograph on paper, 22½" x 33½" (sight size) plus frame, toning and minor foxing, top of frame scratched, $7200.
Late 19th-century American Star high-wheel bicycle by H.B. Smith Machine Company, Smithville, ... (Read More)
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(Show)American Folk Art Festival
Sacramento contemporary folk artist Susan Arnot makes everything at her booth by “lots of cutting, sewing, gluing,” she said. Her best seller was “the Little Black Cat Theater.”
Karen Pierce of Cottage Creek Antiques, Reno, Nevada, was asking $15 for this 10" diameter old egg basket filled with painted mini gourds. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dealers and Collectors Super Selective at Shaker Sale
The sisters cupboard over drawers in original bittersweet red-orange paint has some great features: there are two original pegs on each side, original brass knobs, and the original iron key in a concealed hiding place. Read the story to discover why that key nearly drove Will Henry mad. The cupboard ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Back-to-Back Sales for John McInnis
The North Carolina secretary-desk by William Seay dated from about 1790. It sold to a bidder from the South for $51,750. McInnis photos.
The China trade portrait of the American ship Julia A. Brown off Hong Kong sold on line for $4255.
The 19th-century bicycle repairing sign (10" x 36") with ... (Read More)
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