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(Auction)Virginia Pottery Record Set at Americana Sale
The high lot of the Evans sale was this grapefruit-size (5" high with 4¼" diameter rim) salt-glazed stoneware honey or sugar pot. The compressed ovoid form displays a stencil signature, “Emanuel Suter,” within a freehand cobalt feather design in the center of the body. The reverse features a large brushed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lincoln and the Colonel
From the 1840 campaign, this William Henry Harrison silk flag shows Harrison’s log cabin and cider barrel symbols, which some consider to be among the most effective political logos in the history of American campaigning. Collectors have always prized 1840 flags with this design above those with the candidate’s portrait. ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Round Lake Antiques Festival
Robert Schicke of Reclaimed Memories, New Jersey, offered a school desk priced at $125, a jockey doorstop at $185, a coat tree for $105, and an oak rocker for $185.
Matthew Gosch of North Tonawanda, New York, found this beautiful tiger maple and cherry one-drawer stand and priced it at $325. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American History Sale
“The Same Old Coon/ Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen” flag, 1844 presidential campaign, previously unknown, printed silk in red, white and blue, 24¼" x 29", $49,350.
Gen. R.E. Lee and Staff by Mathew Brady, albumen photograph, 8¼" x 7" plus mount and frame, $19,975.
Carte de visite of First Lieutenant Holman S. Melcher, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Little Things Mean a Lot—Big Things Bring More
This is the fortune telling Esmeralda machine that brought $43,845.
The Mutoscope Multiscope allows several viewers to watch the show. It brought $34,020.
This Western Union Automatic Self-Winding Ticker was probably used as late as the 1940’s to report stock quotes, and later on reported news and sports information. Standing on an ... (Read More)
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(Auction)June Toy Soldier Auction Brings in over $600,000
Britains Exploding Trench with flag, non-cataloged item without set number, originally sold at Hamleys Toy Store, with original box and in excellent condition, sold for $6720. The label is a reproduction copy.
Britains factory sample card with musicians from the very rare Band of the Royal Marine Light Infantry set, issued ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Washington Man Pleads Guilty to Selling Fake Chihuly Art Glass
Two of the pieces that Little claimed were by Dale Chihuly. Immigration and Customs Enforcement photos.
In U.S. District Court in Seattle on June 19, Michael Little, 35, of Renton, Washington, pleaded guilty to wire fraud in connection with advertising and selling fake Dale Chihuly art glass. Little had bought pieces ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)South Korea Hosts American Art
The Cadwalader furniture and Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of John Cadwalader, his wife, Betsy Lloyd and daughter, Anne, in its newly restored frame, are on view at the National Museum of Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Photo courtesy the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Charles Willson Peale’s portrait of John Cadwalader, his ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A New Cornerstone
A Book Review
Woods in British Furniture Making, 1400-1900: An Illustrated Historical Dictionary by Adam BowettOblong Creative Ltd. in association with Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England, 2012, 368 pages, hardbound, $180 plus S/H from the University Press of Chicago, (www.press.uchicago.edu) or (800) 621-2736.
As a furniture person and as a resident of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Proposed Sale of Thomas Cole's "Portage Falls on the Genesee" Argued in Court
In May, acting Surrogate Court Judge Thomas Leone appointed the Reverend Ray Messenger, a descendent of William H. Seward, as administrator of the estate of William H. Seward III for the purpose of enforcing the will’s charitable intent.
Judge Leone heard arguments for over an hour from Messenger’s attorneys, attorneys for ... (Read More)
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