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(Auction)Guns Fire Off at Julia's for $19.3 Million
Like numerous other lots in the auction, this cased Mannlicher pistol, serial number 231, purported to have belonged to Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany, had to be sold while waltzing carefully around the murky new ivory laws. The unremoveable and intricate ivory inlays meant that it could be sold, but the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Majolica at Auction
This 13-piece German majolica zoomorphic kitchen canister set, circa 1900, sold for $10,800 (est. $3000/5000) on the phone. The mother duck "Oil" canister stands over her kitchen staff with their contents written across their bellies. It may be the only set to survive. Strawser.
This important Minton majolica turquoise-ground flat iron ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Millersburg Glass Association Auction
This rare purple pitcher in the Multi-Fruits and Flowers pattern sold for $11,500, despite having damage on the handle.
There are perhaps ten tankards known in the Morning Glory pattern. This example in marigold sold for $17,000.
This purple giant rose bowl in the Hobstar and Feather pattern brought $4100.
These marigold Hobstar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Snake, an Eagle, and More Americana
Rare Japanese Meiji period painted-iron articulated snake, probably Myochin school, 62" long, sold for $90,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). The buyer left a bid with the auctioneer, and it was underbid on the phone.
Wilhelm Schimmel (1817-1890) of Cumberland Valley, Pennsylvania, carved and painted spread-wing eagle, 9" x 121/4", with an untouched polychrome ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 63rd Fall Wisconsin Antiques Dealers Show
Seller Gloria Lyon of Lyn's Antiques, Eagle River, Wisconsin, was a farm girl, so she pointed out components of the charming 1920s carved toy wooden vehicles found in Northwoods Wisconsin. The $325 brewery wagon at rear with four horses has barrels plus a man standing on the back. The $175 ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dealer Sues Harvard over Sale Cancellation
In 2011, Boston dealer John Curuby consigned four medical kits-two from the 18th century and two from the 19th century, both in wooden cases-to Grogan & Company. Before the kits could be sold, Harvard University intervened and convinced Grogan to cancel the sale. On October 3, 2014, Curuby filed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings, Furniture, and Decorative Arts
Joseph Whiting Stock (1815-1855) portraits of Mary Wilcox and her younger brother Francis (who died in 1844 at ages four years and two months and two years and four months), 25" x 201/4" and 25" x 20 1/8", sold for $46,875 (est. $25,000/45,000) to the American Folk Art Museum.2
Phone bidding ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Biography of an Object Writing Contest
Garth's third annual Biography of an Object writing contest kicked off on October 1. "The entries last year were tremendous," said contest sponsor and founder Amelia Jeffers, president of Garth's Auctioneers, Delaware, Ohio.
The idea grabbed the attention of Jeffers while assisting her daughter with a school assignment. "I remember entering ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The American Museum of Folk Art Purchases Stock Portraits at Doyle New York
Photo courtesy Doyle New York.
In 1845 Joseph Whiting Stock (1815-1855) painted posthumous portraits of Mary Wilcox and her younger brother Francis (who died 140 years ago at ages four years, two months and two years, four months). The works were commissioned by the children's father, Philo Franklin Wilcox, a wealthy ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Keno Auctions' Contemporary Art and Design Sale
Ruth Asawa (Japanese-American, 1926-2013), hanging five-lobed continuous form with spheres inside four of the lobes, two of the inside spheres containing spheres within them, circa 1954, iron and brass wire, 103" high, diameter at base 21", sold for $329,000 (est. $100,000/200,000). There are a number of Ruth Asawa sculptures at ... (Read More)
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