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(Auction)Blankets Catch Fire at Native American Art Auction
This Classic Navajo twill-weave manta of finely woven wool (variegated indigo ground with raveled lac-dyed red stripes) was the most expensive lot in the auction, selling for $112,500 (est. $40,000/60,000). The new owner is a private collector from the Bay Area.
A 23" diameter Apache tray was a surprise hit, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Art and Design
Estimated at $1000/1500, this 1960s Op Art framed piece, with convex-mirrored raised panels, was the big surprise of the sale when it turned out to be a work by German artist Adolf Luther that sold for $36,600.
Never underestimate the determination of a knowledgeable collector. Estimated at $2500/3500, the 18k triangular ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Renaissance in Cambridge
The 36" high Italian polychromed stucco relief by an artist of the school of Donatello realized $84,000.
The 16th-century oil on panel portrait of Mary and Child with Mary Magdalene, 37" x 28", attributed to Jacopino di Giovanni di Francesco (1495-1554), known as Jacone, sold on the phone for $84,000.
A 16th-century ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Books by Ben Franklin and Julia Child Make Sparks Fly
Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volumes 1 (1961) and 2 (1970), sold on the phone for $18,450 (est. $1000/2000). They were signed and inscribed to Avis DeVoto by coauthors Julia Child and Simone Beck (“To my so dearest chérie / Avis, avec toute ma / profonde affection,” Beck wrote ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Great Buckskin Shirt Brings Great Big Bucks
Peter Libbey of coastal Maine is considered by some to be the preeminent master carver of marine eagles. This magnificent sternboard eagle grasping a coiled American flag banner spanned 57". The patriotic bird sold for more than triple the estimate at $8337.50. Thomaston Place Auction Galleries photo.
Even without an artist ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Thomas Webb & Sons Art Glass Vase Brings $260,000
Signed Thomas Webb & Sons finely carved English cameo glass vase, $260,000.
An English cameo art glass vase by Thomas Webb, 9½" tall, signed “G. Woodall 1887,” brought $260,000 (no buyer’s premium charged) at part two of the sale of the collection of the late Dr. Ernest Rieger and his wife, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)A 70-Month Prison Sentence for Dealer
Zhifei Li, the owner of an antiques business in China, was sentenced on May 28 in federal court to serve 70 months in prison for heading an illegal wildlife smuggling conspiracy in which 30 rhinoceros horns and numerous objects made from rhino horn and elephant ivory worth more than $4.5 ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Brandywine Show 2014
The preview party takes place out in the courtyard and on all four floors inside. The weather was fine, with no rain, although there were showers in surrounding communities on Friday night and wet roads for the drive home.
Harold Cole and Bettina Krainin of Woodbury, Connecticut, asked $1650 for the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)"The Rookie" Bats $22,565,000
Norman Rockwell’s The Rookie (Red Sox Locker Room), oil on canvas, 41" x 39", painted in 1957, sold for $22,565,000 (est. $20,000,000/30,000,000) to a phone bidder. Reportedly the consignor had turned down an offer of $30,000,000 (or more), preferring the risk of auction. Rockwell painted it for the March 2, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Al Cali Collection of American Percussion Revolvers and Civil War Carbines
This boxed Bliss & Goodyear pocket model revolver, New Haven, Connecticut, serial no. 3131, circa 1860, sold on the phone for $5625 (est. $5000/8000) to a Texas collector. It was the cover lot of the sale.
This cased, engraved Massachusetts Arms Co. belt model revolver, circa 1850, elicited active bidding from ... (Read More)
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