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(Fragment)Armed RobberSentenced to 9½ Years in Prison
On July 23, Robert A. Fiolka, 69, of Staten Island, New York, was sentenced to 114 months in prison for his role in the robbery of Blue Stove Antiques in Fair Haven, New Jersey.
Fiolka previously had pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Freda L. Wolfson to an information charging him ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Numerous New Records Set at July Ceramics Sale
The William Morgan circa 1822 stoneware cooler from Baltimore brought the second-highest price ever paid for stoneware at auction. It sold for $230,000 (est. $30,000/50,000) to dealer Todd Prickett bidding by phone, underbid by collector Adam Weitsman in the salesroom.
This important early Manhattan stoneware jar, just 5½" high, made by ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings and Southern Furniture Are Highlights
Master cabinetmaker Jesse Needham (circa 1774-1838) had close ties to Quaker families in Randolph and Guilford Counties in North Carolina and influenced many Piedmont furniture makers of the day. The scalloped frame with slipper feet is typical of his work. This 69½" x 23" x 44" chest-on-frame by Needham was ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maritime Art at Auction
This diminutive framed oil on canvas, 12" x 16", was presented on the second day of the sale and was the top lot. A classic yacht racing scene, signed on the lower right “J.E. Buttersworth,” it was painted by American master James Edward Buttersworth (1817-1894). It had impeccable provenance—it had ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Alderfer Elected President of National Auctioneers Foundation
Sanford L. Alderfer was elected president of the National Auctioneers Foundation board of trustees. He was installed at the National Auctioneers Association international conference and show in Indianapolis, Indiana, on July 18.
Alderfer is president of the Sanford Alderfer Companies, Hatfield, Pennsylvania. He is active in the National Auctioneers Association and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Adell Venus Collection of Miniatures
We knew the minute we saw it that the 1¼" wide walnut-cased drafting set by William R. Robertson (est. $200/400) would sell high, but the $18,750 result floored us. Bearing a tag on the underside engraved with the maker’s name and inscribed 1993, the chest has two rabbeted drawers. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Harrisburg Auction
One of the last lots on day six was this small, cased pocket pistol believed to have been owned by Doc Holliday. It is thought that the pearl grip broke off during a brawl he had with his common-law wife. It sold for $62,500. Pass photo.
An odd lot was this ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wistar Bottle Returned to Wistar Institute
Richard Wistar’s bottle. According to Stradling, other seal bottles with different initials from the Wistarburgh factory exist, but so far only two have been found with “RW.”
One doesn’t always do well by doing good. If William S. Hyland had put his Wistar bottle on a shelf after he bought it ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Micah Williams, Portrait Artist
Clarkson Crolius (1773-1843) by Micah Williams, pastel on paper, 28" x 24", circa 1817, possibly done in the Cheesequake area, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Clarkson worked in the stoneware pottery business begun by his grandfather Johan William Crolius in New York City, but Crolius potters may have run the Morgan ... (Read More)
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(Feature)American Furniture 2012
A Book Review
American Furniture 2012
Edited by Luke Beckerdite
Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2012, 192 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).
The latest edition of American Furniture, the annual armchair symposium, presents five papers by a diverse group of ... (Read More)
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