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(Fragment)Earl Davis Wins in Suit Connected to Salander-O'Reilly
Here at M.A.D., we never know where a phone call from a reader might lead us. A call during the early summer of 2007 from a subscriber on the West Coast illustrates that point perfectly. Los Angeles art collector Maurice Katz was having trouble collecting a $32,000 debt owed to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marilyn Monroe Trumps Everyone in Manuscripts Sale
Marilyn Monroe’s undated letter to Lee Strasberg sold for $156,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Written in pencil, it is a wrenching cry for help.
Andrew Jackson wrote these three pages on October 20, 1819, on the justification for his complicated Indian removal policy. The recipient was Joseph McMinn, governor of Tennessee, whose state ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Memorial Day Sale in Portsmouth
Small picture, huge price. This 8¾" x 16¾" oil on panel, The Beach at Trouville, signed by French painter Eugène Louis Boudin (1824-1898), sold to a phone bidder for $542,400, smashing the $90,000/150,000 estimate. The bidder was on the phone, underbid by another phone. It was dated 1880 and inscribed ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Memorial Day Sale Attracts the Faithful Despite Cold Snap
This is how the Hannan merchandise (plus a few similar additions) looked as it was displayed in one of the rooms in the reconstructed French house. Now imagine about 20 would-be buyers squeezed into the room and see what it was like during Saturday and Sunday mornings’ inspection periods. The ... (Read More)
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(Show)Combing the Christie Classic for Collectibles
Ken Aubrey of Ottawa, Ontario, asked $350 for this 1950’s pedal car in green, yellow, and black by an unknown maker.
Bisback Family Antiques sold a circa 1880 file cabinet with 32 drawers from the Ayton, Wellington County, Ontario, municipal office for $2650. An artist needing storage space bought it.
George Lehto ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fearless Followers Forever
Edward and Lillian Miller of Pioneer Folk Antiques, Ellsworth, Maine, have a good eye—well, actually four—and they spot the whimsical and the colorful, such as this metal tractor part, $450, that looks almost like spokes of a game of chance, and the 1940’s metal “Candy-Soda” sign, $675.
This wonderful old 1840’s ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Brandywine River Museum Antiques Show
This is a rare 18th-century brass dog collar for Israel Morris’s dog with his address on it, 67 S. Second Street in Philadelphia. Having a lock but missing the key, it was $1100 from Tucker Frey.
Steven Still of Manheim, Pennsylvania, asked $5400 for this set of six birdcage bamboo ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Racing Icon’s Awards Sold
First presented at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 1909, two years before the debut of the Indianapolis 500, the Prest-O-Lite trophy was eventually incorporated as an award for the Indy 500. Nine engraved silvered plaques commemorate winners and various driving accomplishments, such as lap leaders, from 1910 through 1940. The ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Hopper’s “Blackwell’s Island” Sells for $19.1 Million
Edward Hopper (1882-1967), Blackwell’s Island, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 34½" x 59½", painted in the fall of 1928, sold for $19,163,750 (est. $15/20 million). The subject—the island in the East River now known as Roosevelt Island—embodies the quiet tensions of Hopper’s best work. In 1928 it was the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Art
Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962), Chef, watercolor and ink on paper, 13½" x 10", signed lower right and bearing estate stamp (on the reverse), sold for $7500 (est. $3000/5000).
Theodore Earl Butler (1861-1936), New York Harbor, oil on canvas, 31½" x 44", signed and dated “T.E. Butler 1917,” sold for $86,500 (est. $40,000/60,000).
Paul ... (Read More)
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