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(Auction)Sotheby’s 20th-Century Design
This circa 1905 Tiffany Studios Poppy table lamp, leaded glass and patinated bronze, sold in the salesroom to McClelland + Rachen, New York City, for $209,000 (est. $80,000/120,000). The 20½" diameter shade is impressed “TIFFANY STUDIOS NEW YORK 1531-17.” The base is impressed “TIFFANY STUDIOS/NEW YORK/366” and is ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Twentieth-Century Design
This is the Cappello del Doge vase by Thomas Stearns, 1961-62. It is hand-blown opaque and transparent glass, 5¾" high, produced at Venini in Murano, Italy. The underside is acid-etched with “venini/ murano/ ITALIA,” and it sold for $60,000 (est. $16,000/18,000). According to catalog notes, during his apprenticeship and subsequent ... (Read More)
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(Show)The New California Country & More Antiques Show
This Tesuque bowl was priced at $3900 by Barbara Miles of Miles & Miles Trading Co., Pacifica, California, who was exhibiting at the show for the first time. How did she know about the show? “I read about it on the Internet.”
Dealer Lise Thomas of Modesto, California, whose vintage Mexican ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings Auction (Freeman’s)
George Sotter (1879-1953), Covered Bridge, Winter, signed bottom right, oil on canvas, 22" x 26", $122,500 (est. $50,000/80,000) to someone who left a bid with the auctioneer.
Frederick R. Wagner (1861-1940), Steel Mills Pittsburgh, signed bottom left, oil on canvas, 56" x 68", $46,875 (est. $20,000/30,000) to a buyer in the ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Burton Antiques Market
Funky is prevalent at Burton. Made of wood and hand painted, the trio of stage props for an off-Broadway production of Carousel was offered at $850 by Ken and Jan Silveri of Hawks Inn Antiques, Hamburg, Pennsylvania. The couple had found the set in Buffalo, New York.
A bit of rain ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Potomack Company Catalog Sale
High lot of the Potomack sale was this ancient Roman marble bust from the first century. The sculpture depicts Agrippina the Elder, wife of Germanicus and mother of Gaius or Caligula. The bust is life size, 14" x 8¼" x 5¾". The subject is depicted with her hair parted in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rago’s Design Auctions in June
In a rare armadillo form for a glazed stoneware vessel for flower arrangement, this 1890 pot, 4¼" x 8½" x 3½", is signed “R.W. Martin + Bros.” for Robert W. Martin. It sold for $43,750 (est. $15,000/20,000).
George Ohr (1857-1918) made this 9¼" x 4¼" pot, with in-body twist and folded ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Winnetka Summer Antiques Show
The small seating area by an exit was a nice idea. Items from The Century Shop, Louisville, Kentucky, included a pair of Black Forest carved panels, circa 1850, priced at $1850, and a Gothic Revival pier mirror, 63" high, with original gilding, for $6000.
Whitehall Antiques, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, brought ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sonoma Dealer Arrested for Fraud and Other Charges
On June 5, police deputies in Sonoma, California, arrested 51-year-old antiques dealer Dwayne Robert Kershner. According to authorities, Kershner had been operating an antiques consignment shop named Front Door Antiques at 201 W. Napa Street in the Sonoma Marketplace shopping center. The business suddenly closed up shop at the end ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Maine Auctioneer Denied License Renewal, Fined $12,500
The Maine Board of Licensing of Auctioneers voted unanimously in August to deny a license renewal to Angela Nevells of Blue Hill, Maine, to impose fines totaling $12,500, and to seek relief for the victims of Nevells’s multiple violations of law.
The board found that Nevells, who has a Blue Hill ... (Read More)
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