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(Show)The 2014 Pure and Simple Antique Show
Family hair record with samples from Martha Baldwin, Little Helen and Rev. Curtis Baldwin, and with a place and date, “Ohio 1855,” $135 from Jim and Toni Stoma of Latcham House Antiques, Waterville, Ohio.
Fraktur-type Mennonite family record, the last event dated 1882, measuring 22" x 28", $2250 from Bob Zordani ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Annual Benefit Auction for RAA
The Bathers—Cape Ann by Emma Fordyce MacRae (1887-1974) sold within estimate for $18,400.
Sugaring Time in Vermont, a 30" x 36" signed oil on masonite view by Ken Gore (1911-1991), sold for $2875.
Otis Cook’s Gloucester Harbor, 20¼" x 24¼", was cataloged as in very good condition and sold for $3737.50.
Aldro Hibbard’s ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Clocks and Cannon Balls
Detail of the tree section from Little Round Top. The relic fetched $23,370 (est. $1000/1500). Schinto photo.
These are both circa 1800 Massachusetts shelf clocks, each 40" tall, with so-called kidney-shaped dials. I have asked experts why these dials are called “kidney-shaped,” when kidneys are bean-shaped. No one seems able to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heart of America Carnival Glass Association Auction
The blue Fenton Portland Elks bell is the only one known and is considered a key piece in the carnival glass world. One of the nicest pieces of lettered glass out there, it sold for $11,000.
Rare and with very pretty irid, this purple Imperial Hattie pattern chop plate sold for ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Furniture, Folk Art, and Decorative Arts
This circa 1800 miniature of a little girl standing on a patterned rug and wearing an applied fabric dress is a watercolor with fabric on cutout paper, glued to a silk ground, in a pressed metal frame, 3¼" x 2½", attributed to Mary Way (1769-1833). It sold to a collector ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Greater York Antiques Show
Raccoon Creek Antiques, Oley, Pennsylvania, asked $32,000 for this Quaker single-door cupboard in red paint and $16,500 for the cats and dogs hooked rug.
Taking up the entire foyer, the stand of Greg K. Kramer & Co., Robesonia, Pennsylvania, was filled with furniture, paintings, folk art, and ceramics of all kinds.
James ... (Read More)
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(Show)Historic East Berlin Antiques Show
This large lavender printed platter depicting “The Residence of the late Richard Jordan/New Jersey” was $295 from Bill and Betty Annable of Oberlin, Ohio.
There were several bee skeps at the East Berlin show. This one is French. It was from Judi and Cy Stellmach of Blue Dog Antiques, Stafford Springs, ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Inaugural Spring Masters Show
Osborne Samuel Gallery, London, displayed Back to Venice by Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003), small version II, 1988, bronze, edition of nine. Asking price was $375,000 for the 25" x 30" x 21" sculpture. The gallery mounted a retrospective in May and June to celebrate the cen- tenary of Chadwick’s birth. Spindle ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Mt. Washington Scene by Gifford Tops Maine Auction
Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880), Mt. Washington, oil on canvas, 7½" x 12½", sold for $234,000 to a phone bidder.
Flemish school (17th/18th century), Feathered Friends, oil on canvas, 27" x 61", sold for $14,400.
Albert Bierstadt (German, 1830-1902), Duck Shooting, circa 1858, oil on canvas, 20" x 30", sold for $66,000 (est. ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Two Expensive Hats
Sold for $46,250. Photo courtesy Bonhams.
Sold for $27,500. Photo courtesy Nate D. Sanders.
Two hats sold at auction brought in a combined $73,750 (includes buyers’ premiums) for two auction houses in Los Angeles, California. Haberdashery is seldom quite so expensive, but these hats have iconic personalities attached.
At Bonhams on May 5, ... (Read More)
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