Search Stories
Now showing 5730-5740 of 9782 result(s)
(Show)East Coast Toy Soldier Show Draws Record Crowd
Carolyn Kurkowski, a dealer from Peabody, Massachusetts, featured toy soldiers by Marlborough and Ducal. Sets ran from $90 to $120; individual figures from $15 to $35.
Collectors inspect miniature soldiers that ranged from $50 to $250.
Figures by King & Country formed the mainstay of this diorama of a World War II ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)November Crocker Farm Sale Caps Off Remarkable Year for Company
This recently discovered 9¾" long molded redware Moravian fish bottle with copper and manganese decoration was attributed to Rudolph Christ of Salem, North Carolina. It was the first lot of the sale and sold for $23,000 (est. $10,000/20,000) to Pennsylvania collectors. Both the large size and the streaks of green ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)A "Perfect" Clock and a Bright Red Ferrari
Three room bidders and three on phones vied for the month-duration astronomical regulator in an 84½" tall figured walnut case. Made by M. Allard circa 1825 in Paris, it sold to a phone bidder for $96,000 (est. $20,000/40,000). There is handwriting is on the inside back door, and it says ... (Read More)
|
(Show)"Were You There?"
Some pondered if dealers Kris and Dick Kirby of the Farmer’s Daughter, Snoqualmie, Washington, really wanted anyone in their booth as they had so many signs that indicated to stay away: “No Admittance,” “Private Property,” and “Please Keep Off.” The dealers setting up gave them a hard time, but one ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Keno Auctions Fall Sale
Yun Gee (Chinese-American, 1906-1963) signed this Double Self Portrait, an 11" x 16½" oil on cardboard, in Chinese script lower left and dated it “12/8/26,” signed “DO/BO/WE” in the middle right, and also signed it on the back in Chinese script and English “Self Portrait/ $40.” It sold for $42,500. ... (Read More)
|
(Feature)Barn Star Revives Wilton Show
The Wilton Historical Society and Frank Gaglio’s Barn Star Productions will produce a new one-day show, the Wilton Fall Antiques Market, on Sunday, October 27, at the Wilton High School Field House in Wilton, Connecticut.
Show manager Marilyn Gould produced Wilton shows for years. Gaglio said in a press release, “I ... (Read More)
|
(Auction)Skinner Sells Folk & Decorative Arts on Event-Packed Last Sunday in October
Jack O’Brien, on a telephone with Leigh Keno, took the mahogany Chippendale card table with a drawer and square-blocked ends, carved knees, and ball-and-claw feet for $57,000. Keno told us, “I believe it relates to a large group of classic Boston pieces made from the 1730’s to 1750’s. Boston makers ... (Read More)
|
(Show)Wilton Antiques Show Revived
Red Griffin Antiques, Georgetown, Connecticut, asked $13,500 for this ship portrait of Ida by Albert Szatmar Nemethy (1920-1998). A side-wheeler used by the Confederate Navy from 1862 to 1864, she was captured by the North and burned on December 10, 1864.
This circa 1940 sign for “Grinders / 2 Lbs. Average ... (Read More)
|
()Fabergé Figure Found in Attic
A hardstone figure of a Cossack bodyguard, found in an attic in Rhinebeck, New York, has turned out to be a long-lost Fabergé portrait figure commission by Czar Nicholas II in 1912. When Colin Stair sells it at his auction gallery in Hudson, New York, on October 26, he could ... (Read More)
|
(Fragment)Stair Sells Fabergé Figure for $5,980,000
When the executor of an estate handed to auctioneer Colin Stair of Hudson, New York, a hardstone figure of a bearded man, Stair instinctively knew that he might be holding his first million-dollar lot. The 7" tall figure was soon identified by markings on its feet as the work of ... (Read More)
|
1 (800) 752-8521 • PO Box 1429 • Waldoboro, ME 04572
