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(Auction)Skinner Scores Big with Americana
A SkinnerLive! Internet buyer won this 57" high polychromed and carved figure of an Indian princess figure by Samuel Robb of New York City for $92,250. Skinner sold a quite similar Indian princess figure on October 20, 2011, for $71,000.
Polychrome painted carved “black dandy” tobacconist figure, wearing wildly painted clothes, ... (Read More)
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(Show)“Only the Good Ones Is Still Here!”
Not too long ago somebody paid $2200 at auction for one of these Johnson’s Peacemaker Coffee advertising tins in the form of a log cabin, so you better grab this one from Paul and Nancy Hahn of Country Things, Bowie, Maryland, for $1300. It was dated 1915. The Johnson-Layne Coffee ... (Read More)
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(Show)Most Attendance, Most Sales: It’s All Good at NHADA Show
Offered by Axtell Antiques, Deposit, New York, a Pennsylvania carved walnut figural watch hutch, circa 1800, with George Washington as subject. It’s 15½" tall and was priced at $15,000.
The yellow-painted dressing table, probably from Portsmouth and 1810-20, is an eye-dazzler. It’s 62" tall overall and about 36" wide. Russ and ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Pickers Market 2014
The Pickers Market filled the Everett Arena and was open for shopping from 2 to 7 p.m. on Thursday, August 7.
The pond boat was $825, and the Adelphi Hotel sign was $3995 from Antiques at 30B, Cambridge, New York.
The shelf was $300, the books ranged from $100 to $425 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in Manchester: The Collector's Fair
The Collector’s Fair transformed the ice rink.
Shaker specialist John Keith Russell of South Salem, New York, asked $1500 for the second-smallest New Lebanon production chair, circa 1875 (left). The tilting ladder-back chair was $3600 (center). The two-slat chair is a child’s chair. The Shaker broom was $1250.
Kelly Kinzle of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale of Vintage Posters Skyrockets into Immortality
A 37" x 27" condition A recruitment poster by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952) that depicts a young woman in uniform, considered at the time of its design in 1915 to be a provocative and daring World War I image, went to an Internet bidder and set an auction record at ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Quadricentennial of Captain John Smith's Landing, 1614-2014
Crowd at the top of Wharf Hill during the tercentennial celebration. The woman with dark sweater left of center is George Bellows’s wife, Emma. Jenney collection. Courtesy Monhegan Island Art and History Museum.
Monhegan Cornet Band, 1914. In the front row, left, is George Bellows. Courtesy Monhegan Island Art and History ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Jersey Bans Ivory Sales--Antique or Not
On August 5, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie signed into law legislation that criminalizes “importing, selling, or purchasing any ivory or rhinoceros horn product” in New Jersey. The new law allows no exemption for antique ivory.
The bill’s primary sponsor, Senator Raymond J. Lesniak, said, “There was tremendous thought given to ... (Read More)
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(Show)Barn Star’s Midweek Antiques Show
The aisles were crowded at Midweek after the doors opened.
Randi Ona of Wayne, New Jersey, offered miniature cloth-covered books that ranged in size from 1½" to 2". The old shelf was $296, and the collection of books, $3500. The two rattle balls underneath were $825 the pair. One rattle ball ... (Read More)
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(Show)Dependable Deerfield
Betty Anne Lavallee of Hampton, New Hampshire, offered red and blue hula hoops, vintage dresses, flags, and signs, all popular at Deerfield.
Cottage & Camp, Philadelphia, showed a huge store scissors sign, $285, checkerboard, left, $275, signs, and yes, a life ring.
This eclectic booth can only belong to David Ramsay of ... (Read More)
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