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(Show)The 38th Fall Fox Valley Antiques Show
As we stopped to admire the country cupboard with original paint from Raccoon Creek at Oley Forge, Oley, Pennsylvania, waves of lookers came to run their fingers over the surface and admire the bubble glass. Described as “High Country circa 1830,” the piece was $28,800. The scalloped bentwood folk ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Heckler Sells More Flasks from Lane Collection at 100th Absentee Auction
This “extremely rare” (McKearin description of 1941) decorative pint flask (GX-25) by the Pitkin Glass Works, Manchester, Connecticut, 1815-30, was the highest-priced piece in the sale. The vessel is medium yellow-olive color with medallions and diamond-shaped diapering, sheared mouth, and pontil scar. A highly collectible flask and probably the rarest ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Lamps Light Up, but Big Bird Doesn’t Fly
A 25" x 30" oil on canvas of the rocky Maine shoreline by Newell Convers Wyeth was the top seller at $48,750.
Tiffany Studios Venetian table lamp with a black-eyed susan shade, with a Tiffany Studios impression on the base, and a shade tag reading “Tiffany Studios New York” that the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Painting Sale Aids Disabled Jockeys
From left: Terri Moyers, Nedra Matteucci, and Jim Parks of the accounting and consulting firm CBIZ MHM LLC, who conducted the drawing. Chrystina Geagan photo.Nedra Matteucci Galleries, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: A Sense of Place
One of the rarest and most coveted objects in the antiques market today might be a venue to hold a show.It seems there has been more news than ever before about antiques shows being uprooted, relocated, and canceled. In this issue, we report that two shows—Arts of Pacific Asia in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)New Auction Record for Scrimshaw
This 8" long scrimshawed tooth by the so-called “Pagoda Artist” or “Albatross Artist” sold for $324,000 to a Michigan collector sitting in the audience. The underbidder was on the phone. The price establishes a new auction record for scrimshaw, breaking the $303,000 paid for the same tooth in 2005. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New York Auction Houses Must Reveal Consignor's Name to Buyer
by David HewettThe opinion rendered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department on September 19 was explicit and to the point: “While it may be true that auction houses commonly withhold the names of consignors..., this Court is governed not by the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Mid-Atlantic Merger: Quinn's and Ken Farmer Team Up and Acquire Harlowe-Powell
Ken Farmer (left) and Paul Quinn.Quinn’s Auction Galleries of Falls Church, Virginia, is aligning with Ken Farmer Auctions & Appraisals of Radford, Virginia, to purchase the Harlowe-Powell Auction Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The new firm officially launched on October 1. When first making the announcement, they referred to the new ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Let My People Recline
$40,625.An Egyptian Revival bone-inlaid mahogany chaise longue, almost identical to one used in the 1956 film The Ten Commandments, estimated at $1500/2500, sold for $40,625 at Doyle New York’s Belle Epoque sale in New York City on September 17. The panels of the chaise longue are decorated with seated pharaonic ... (Read More)
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(Show)New and Improved Los Angeles Antiques Show
A first-time show exhibitor, Jon Eric Riis of Atlanta, Georgia, is a tapestry artist whose work is in major public and private collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. With this opulent jacket—those are hundreds of pearls—using traditional and contemporary imagery, he crafted a stunning visual, priced ... (Read More)
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