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()Willard House and Clock Museum Hosts Exhibit of Rare Musical Tall Clocks
Christian Eby, ten-tune musical tall-case clock with highly inlaid cherry case, Manheim, Pennsylvania, circa 1804.
The Willard House and Clock Museum in North Grafton, Massachusetts, is hosting Keeping Time: Musical Clocks of Early America, 1730-1830, an exhibit of nearly three dozen early American musical and chiming clocks. These fully functioning mechanical ... (Read More)
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()Wi-Fi and Finders
One of several flea market finding apps available for Android and Apple iOS smartphones.
Computer Column #299
John P. Reid, [email protected]
Cell phone Wi-Fi at antiques shows, auction finders, and finders for flea markets and yard sales are this month’s topics.
Wider Wi-Fi
In the April issue we reported on the increasing use among antiques ... (Read More)
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()Just Another 'Ectomy
Auction Law & Ethics
A lot of folks complain about auctioneers. Auctioneers have complaints too.
Remember when you were a kid and another youngster came along and grabbed something that should have been yours. Maybe it was the next ride down the sliding board that a line-cutter snatched from you. Perhaps it ... (Read More)
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()The Morgan/Van Wickle Pottery: A Case of Mistaken Identity
This rare 1817 Bissett crock has been attributed to the Morgan-Van Wickle pottery for years. The blue flower on the reverse side of the crock and the coggle are identical to the decoration found on the Sim sherd in the Monmouth County Historical Association’s collection. Photographs of the crock are courtesy ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings by Calder among Top Lots of $2.1 Million Sale
Attributed to Jan van Goyen (1596-1656), The Cunera Tower, Rhenen sold for $96,000 (est. $3000/5000). The 17" x 27" oil on panel was the top lot of the sale.
Eastham by Alexander Calder (1898-1976), 31" x 23", gouache on paper, signed and dated “Sandy Calder Eastham 1949,” $72,000 (est. $20,000/30,000). That’s ... (Read More)
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(Show)Museum and Collectors Help Spark ADA/Historic Deerfield Antiques Show
Elliott and Grace Snyder of South Egremont, Massachusetts, showed this Moore County, North Carolina, stand in poplar with a red paint finish and a Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts label in a drawer. It’s 26¾" high and $9500. The 9¼" diameter round box, paint-decorated on a yellow ground, is ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 2013 Ohio Country Antique Show
Made of painted wood, the double-sided “Ice Cream Social” sign was priced at $450. The bonnet chest in walnut had cherry drawer bottoms and was $795. The items were shown by Joseph Jarvis of Jarvis Antiques, Georgetown, Kentucky. “Smalls are doing good, but the big stuff didn’t move today,” he ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Blue Plate Special and Oriental Buffet
This 1883 Royal Worcester plate is 7 7/8" in diameter and is intricately honeycombed and hand painted and has a center scene of a gilt mountain landscape in Oriental style attributed to George Owen. It closed at $20,400.
This Chinese Kangxi period water pot, cataloged as in the taibo zun form, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Record Price Paid for Almshouse Painting
This oil on tin by Charles C. Hofman (1821-1882), labeled and titled in the painting Views of the buildings & surroundings of the Berks County Alms House, has a central oval bird’s-eye view of the complex within an ornate border surrounded by eight smaller vignettes of the outbuildings and with ... (Read More)
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(Show)Shenandoah Antiques Expo Slogs through a Rainy Weekend
Tom and Mary Jo Riggs are from Greensboro, Maryland. They trade as Country Sampler Antiques and are proud that they have “the biggest truck in the parking lot.” The couple has configured a very large box truck to function as both their motor home and cargo carrier. The Arts and ... (Read More)
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