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(Auction)Collector-Friendly Southern Pottery Sale
At $25,300, this rare Salem, North Carolina, cast redware fish flask was the top-priced lot in this sale. In the society’s over 40 sales and 20 years of auctions, this is only the fifth such example offered. Extremely detailed scales, fins, gills, and eyes are protected by a generously applied ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)An Art Deal Gone Wrong: Dealer Sued and “Buyer” Indicted
An $11,080,000 art deal gone awry has resulted in both a civil suit and a federal indictment.
On June 13, the Degas Sculpture Project Ltd. and Modernism Fine Arts Inc. filed suit in federal court against Rose Ramey Long, who is also known as Rose Ramey Littlejohn and does business as ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heritage Auctions Files Suit against Christie’s, Ex-Employees
What are three experts worth? About $60 million in lost profits and damages, claims Heritage Auctions.
The Dallas-based auction firm filed suit against Christie’s on June 13, claiming that the venerable auction house stole Heritage’s “complete Luxury Accessories business group” when three former employees defected to Christie’s. The former Heritage employees ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Book & Ephemera Fair Folds after Opening Night
A strange thing happened at the Flamingo Eventz Philadelphia Vintage Book & Ephemera Fair at the Sheraton in downtown Philadelphia on Friday, June 13. Greg Gibson of the Ten Pound Island Book Company wrote about it in his weekly blog (http://bookmanslog.blogspot.com). “After setup and opening night at the Philadelphia Vintage Book ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Half Bear, Half Bull Market for Bears
This black mohair Steiff bear, with red-rimmed eyes, symbolizes mourning for the victims of the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. It sold for $35,550.
This circa 1910 golden mohair Steiff teddy came with a fully functioning growler, a photo of the two children who first owned it, and a letter of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Auction
California gold rush-era pocket watch, 14k yellow gold Girard Watch Company hunter case, circa 1850, ornate floral pattern engraving on the outer case along with eight California ore samples encased in glass on the front cover and surrounded by eight alternating inlaid panels of moss agate and California quartz, $37,600.
Flute ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decorative Arts in Hatfield
A collection of 474 early 19th-century plaster intaglios, mounted in 25 volumes in the manner of Giovanni Liberotti, displayed in half vellum volumes against green marbled paper, and each volume with a manuscript list inside the front cover, sold for $9945 (est. $8000/10,000).
Paul Weber (1823-1916), Scene in Dolwyddelan Valley, ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)After Almost 20 Years in the Suburbs, Grogan & Company Moves to Boston
Nancy, Lucy, and Michael Grogan.
An auction house that has been based in Boston’s southwestern suburbs for almost two decades is moving into the city. Grogan & Company has bought a piece of real estate at the foot of Beacon Hill and is transferring its operation there. On June 11 the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Roundup of Design Sales in June
Bonhams held the first sale of the week. Sales from its 227 lots of decorative arts totaled $1,443,750. This circa 1910 Tiffany Studios Favrile glass and patinated bronze Laburnum table lamp, estimated at $250,000/350,000, sold on the phone to the trade for $425,000. Frank Maraschiello, director of the 20th-century decorative ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Tale of Two Art Sales
Truckin by William T. Williams (b. 1942) went to an unnamed institution for $137,000 (est. $75,000/100,000). The 84" x 60" (7' x 5') acrylic on canvas was signed, titled, dated 1969, and inscribed on the stretcher bars. June 10.
Southern Landscape by Walter Williams (1920-1988) sold to a collector for $81,250 ... (Read More)
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