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(Fragment)Christie’s Posts $5.8 Million Fall Sale
Queen Anne walnut compass-seat side chair, circa 1750, with carving by a contemporary of Samuel Harding, who carved architectural elements in the interior of the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall), sold for $579,750 to a phone bidder, underbid by dealer Leigh Keno on the phone. It was from the estate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Christie’s
This circa 1750 Queen Anne walnut compass- seat side chair has carving by a contemp- orary of Samuel Harding, who carved architect- ural ele- ments at the Pennsylvania State House (Independence Hall). It sold for $579,750 (est. $200,000/300,000) to a phone bidder, underbid on the phone by New York City ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana at Bonhams
This maple desk-on-frame, probably Massachusetts, 1680-1710, 40" high x 26 1/8" wide including molding, has an Israel Sack provenance and is illustrated in Albert Sack’s Fine Points of Furniture: Early American (1961) as an example of “best” form. It sold on the phone for $37,500 (est. $10,000/15,000).
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(Fragment)Bankruptcy of Lender for Pledged Art and Antiques Leads to Arrests
A grand jury in the San Jose Division of U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, indicted Anthony Barreiro and Ernest Ray Parker, alias Ray Parker Gaylord and Ray Gaylord, on September 25, 2013, for a total of 12 counts of conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud, and the actual ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Goodyear Collection at Auction
William Hart & Son created a series of five episodes of boxing squirrels in the 1850’s. The squirrels are stuffed. Each box is 14¾" x 19" x 7". A set was displayed at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 1851. Interestingly, the squirrels wear gloves, which became mandatory only after 1867 ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Variety Prevails at Quinn & Farmer Sale
The high lot of the Quinn & Farmer sale was this pair of Nakashima Conoid chairs. Oral history has it is that these chairs were ordered directly from the Nakashima studio in New Hope, Pennsylvania. George Nakashima (Japanese/American, 1905-1990) is frequently referred to as the father of the American craft ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Skinner Sells a Fitz Henry Lane View for $1,384,000
Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was signed and dated “FH Lane 1862” on the front and inscribed on the reverse: “... F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian & Western Art
Crow Encampment by Joseph Henry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas, signed, 22" x 26½" plus original southwestern frame, relined, otherwise in fine condition, $309,000.
Red River Metis quilled-hide knife sheath, 13½" long, with an unmarked Sheffield-made dag knife, circa 1830, $54,000. Sinew-sewn on softly tanned buckskin and quilled using porcupine quills ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fitz Henry Lane Sells for $1.3 Million; Dance Collection Leaps and Soars
Camden Mts. from the Graves by Fitz Henry Lane (1804-1865) sold to a private collector from the South for $1,384,000. The 13" x 22" oil on canvas was inscribed to the artist’s close friend: “...F.H. Lane to J. L. Stevens Jr./ Gloucester 1862/ A Souvenir of our excursion to Penobscot ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Thieves Hit Antiques Center
Police are looking for the public’s help in trying to identify three people who stole an estimated $10,000 in antique silver flatware from the Cambridge Antiques Center in Cambridge, New York, on September 18 at about 4 p.m. Thieves took from a locked case more than a dozen Tiffany and ... (Read More)
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