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(Show)Fiddler’s Antique Show: Filling Up Nicely, Thank You
Susan’s Antiques, New Cumberland, West Virginia, had paintings of bucolic landscapes and pleasantly pastoral pearlware. The peddling couple at left was $1800; the bocage group at center, $725; and a figure of Hope with her anchor, $500.
Rebecca and Greg Brown of Lagrange, Indiana, brought a lot of smalls and carefully ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine Furniture and Decorative Arts
The Mark Fritz collection included several articulated wooden artist’s mannequins. The tallest, a French figure, 31½" high, sold for $15,000. Department manager Corbin Horn credits the result to height and great patina. Hindman photo.
As a sale surprise, it’s hard to beat the result for an Italian marble figural group from ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Unclaimed Property Highlights Million-Dollar Sale
The James Spence-authenticated 1787 land deed signed by Benjamin Franklin from the Pennsylvania Treasury Department’s Bureau of Unclaimed Property consignment sold for $13,200 (est. $7000/10,000).
A Standard Model A talking machine sold for $540 (est. $300/400).
This “Hershey’s Velvet Sweet Chocolate” sample label is possibly one-of-a-kind and may have never gone into ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)February Jewelry Auctions
Antique Jewelry and Gemology
Photos courtesy Sotheby’s, Doyle New York, and Freeman’s
Three sales in February offered jewelry ranging from modest to extravagant to buyers shopping for Valentine’s Day. Sotheby’s sale of “Important Jewels” was on February 7 and included the higher-priced jewels (though the offerings were more moderate than the stellar ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Art Nouveau Posters Bring High Bids and Four Auction Records
This 1896 condition A/A- matted and framed poster, 22" x 17", by Alphonse Mucha advertises Job cigarette rolling papers. Conceived and sold by Jean Bardo, a baker in Perpignan, France, the rolling papers were offered in small packets, and Bardo wrote his initials on the packets, with the “J” and ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Editorial: Sign and Sell
Editorial
Sign and Sell
Dan Miller, the controller for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, should heed a judge’s ruling and sign an auction contract allowing the deeply indebted city to auction off the Western artifacts it owns.
In 2011, the city council voted to sell what remained of the $8.3 million worth of objects that former ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heavyweight Bible Stolen from Church Recovered by Dealer
by David Hewett
A church in St. Louis, Missouri, that had been the victim of numerous thefts over the past two years got nailed again just before Christmas. Thieves took material intended for needy neighborhood families, cash and gift cards worth $1100, and food items from St. John’s Lutheran Church on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pearls and Paintings Pace the Pack
Bidders chased this circa 1890 primitive New England oil on tin sporting scene, 21" x 36", well past the $1000/1500 estimate to $5922.50.
String of 75 graduated natural pearls with a Tiffany 18k white gold clasp set with three European-cut diamonds, $143,750. Thomaston Place photo.
Oil on canvas by Sir John Lavery ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bronze Dogs Find Good Home at Boston Museum
The sale’s pair of bronze Great Danes by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973) lay at the feet of previewers in Skinner’s Boston gallery on the night of Robin Starr’s gallery walk. Each is approximately 27" x 53" and signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist “Anna V. Hyatt/ Auvers-sur-Oise 1907.” ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winter Edition: Arion York Show Delivers Quality
A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, asked $3500 for this Grenfell Mission rug of a sailing ship at sea. The tiger maple Sheraton chest of drawers was $5400, and the circa 1880 cow weathervane was $25,000.
Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, had this western Pennsylvania or Ohio ... (Read More)
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