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()The Adirondack Museum Show
Ronald Wells of Binghamton, New York, featured a circa 1760 fruitwood settee with a caned seat and back for $2800. The horse oil painting, Black Runner by Edward L. Ulrich, 1933, was $5200, and the etched bronzed cocktail table, signed “Mark D’Haehehens” and dated 1979, was $18,500.
Loose Moose Antiques in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Kiowa Cradleboard Brings $103,500
Early 20th-century Native American Kiowa cradleboard, $103,500.
Early 1900’s Sioux traditional style saddle drape, sinew-stitched with lazy stitch beading, $4600.
An early 20th-century Native American Kiowa cradleboard with beaded accents and original boards sold for $103,500 (with buyer’s premium) at the “Best of Santa Fe 2013” sale held August 9 and 10 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Smaller but Still the Biggest
Dennis Raleigh of Wiscasset, Maine, always brings some great upscale stuff to this show. This year, he had a 19th-century patriotic drum for $3400 decorated with an American flag with a non-official star field of about 45. “It was made in Cleveland,” Raleigh confirmed via a “sunbeam” hole in the ... (Read More)
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()Pickers Market to Remain a Friday Event
Michael Hall came from Nashville, Tennessee, and it was his first time exhibiting at the Pickers Market. “It was a long way for me to go from Nashville to do the show. I think a lot of customers didn’t go to the show or left town before Friday…This is the ... (Read More)
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(Show)2013 Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
Strangers from Hopiland, 10¾" x 9¾", was Gustave Baumann’s “favorite” woodcut, according to Steve Stoops of Stevens Fine Art, Phoenix, Arizona. It was priced at $25,000.
At the booth of Gallery Tribal, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Robert Fiedler was asking $2200 for this early 20th-century Urhobo (Niger Delta) canoe carrying shark ... (Read More)
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(Show)NHADA Annual Show: “There’s Nothing Like This Show Anywhere in America!”
Meryl Weiss of American Classics, Canaan, Connecticut, showed the 8' long demilune Windsor-type bench with rush seat, circa 1900; price was $950. The view of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, was painted by Elisa R.F. Lancaster and given by her in 1896 to her native town of East Jaffrey, New Hampshire, in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Dealer Pleads Guilty to Wildlife Smuggling Conspiracy
Qiang Wang, a.k.a. Jeffrey Wang, 34, a New York antiques dealer, pled guilty on August 7 in Manhattan federal court to conspiracy to smuggle Asian artifacts made from rhinoceros horns and ivory and to violate wildlife trafficking laws. Wang was arrested in February 2013 as part of Operation Crash, a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Big Crowds at Antiques in Manchester
James William Lowery of Baldwinsville, New York, featured this over 7' long hooked rug that was inspired by Edward Hicks but oddly reminiscent of the jungle paintings of Henri Rousseau. Lowery called this “a folk art masterpiece.” It dated to the 1860’s, Lowery said, and was found in Scriba, New ... (Read More)
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(Show)Midweek’s Anniversary Party, Celebrating 20 Years
Nancy Fishelson, who shared a booth with Robert Perry Antiques, asked $3600 for her two-sided optometrist’s sign. Fishelson of Orchard Park, New York, who has an interior design business, said the sign’s other side is less faded, but she prefers the one displayed. Fishelson’s early 20th-century rooster weathervane, found in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fifteen of Top 20 Posters Go to Collectors
This 39¼" x 29¼" condition B+ framed poster from 1917 with the iconic image of Uncle Sam by James Montgomery Flagg (1870-1960) opened for bidding at $8000 and closed above estimate at $14,400. It sold to a collector, produced the day’s top auction price, and set an auction record. Not ... (Read More)
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