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(Show)Low-Pressure, High-Value Show
And they’re off, moving at a good pace around the bend and up the hill to the first buildings of the show.
This child’s settle with lift seat, 33" high x 42" long, from Mary de Buhr of Downers Grove, Illinois, was $3700. Always stop by her booth to get a ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana, Fine Arts, and Marine Auction
This vivid oil on masonite by Anne Ramsdell Congdon (1873-1958) of Nantucket was offered early in the Osona sale. It was signed and dated on the lower right, “Anne Congdon, 1940.” A very similar picture is in the Nantucket Historical Association collection and is illustrated in Picturing Nantucket on page ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Great Southwestern Antique Show
This booth featured some santos, religious paintings on tin, not in great condition but representative of a folk art tradition common in the Southwest. The prices were between $150 and $250.
This was the distinctive booth of Joseph Alphabet of Newport Beach, California. The Chinese heads on the top shelf are ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Northeast Auctions Starts Antiques Week in New Hampshire with $2.3 Million Sale
These oval portraits by Rufus Porter of five members of the Bartlett family of Massachusetts brought $25,200.
This 9½" high Liverpool jug with an image of a member of the Boston Fusiliers sold for $11,400.
This Benjamin Frothingham-labeled Chippendale mahogany slant-lid desk with a reverse serpentine front brought $42,000.
Photos courtesy Northeast Auctions
Ron ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Opens Antiques Week in New Hampshire with $2.3 Million Sale
Collector and dealer Gary Green of Moravia, New York, chased this 47" long copper and zinc sulky, horse, and driver weathervane until it was his for $49,200, the auction’s top price. The weathervane had a history of ownership by the Paul Weld estate and Connecticut dealer Jeffrey Tillou.
A noted New ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Currier & Ives Ships at Northeast Auctions’ Annual Summer Auction
Clipper Ship “Racer,” large folio, $840. James Buttersworth, recently arrived from England, was recruited in 1852. He did the clipper yacht Architect in that year for Endicott but then joined Currier with Flying Cloud. He would remain a Currier stalwart into the 1870’s. Shown here is the clipper ship Racer ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)“Dust Jacket” Plover Brings $214,000
$214,000. Pennington photo.
A black-bellied plover by A. Elmer Crowell that appeared on the cover of William J. Mackey’s 1965 book American Bird Decoys sold for $214,000 (est. $125,000/175,000) on August 1 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, at Guyette, Schmidt & Deeter’s annual summer two-day auction.
The plover was part of the Carolyn ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Duck Dynasty
This 1890’s black-bellied plover by A. Elmer Crowell of East Harwich, Massachusetts, appeared on the cover of American Bird Decoys by William J. Mackey Jr., published in 1965. Estimated at $125,000/175,000, it sold for $214,000 to Charleston, South Carolina, dealer Tom Reed, who calls his business American Sporting Classics. Reed ... (Read More)
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()Stoneware and Pottery Auction
“G.W. Hubacher, Dry Goods &c., Clarington Ohio,” eight-gallon crock stenciled with a shield-breasted, spread-winged eagle and having freehand cobalt lines, $5170. It previously sold at auction for $9000 hammer.
Two-piece birdbath with embossed birds at the bottom, diffused blue and white, unmarked, 9¾" high, $3080.
“From W. H. Mallory, Clarington, Ohio,” six-gallon ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Antiques Roadshow “Golden Ticket” Sweepstakes
Antiques Roadshow, PBS’s most-watched ongoing prime time series, is offering “Golden Ticket” sweepstakes entrants a chance to win a VIP trip for two to the Roadshow event in Richmond, Virginia.
The grand prize includes round-trip transportation for two adults to Richmond; hotel accommodations for two consecutive nights; a VIP entrance for ... (Read More)
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