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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, [email protected] this month's "Letter," I have just about cleared all my summer sale files and moved into the new season, and the resulting mix includes a musical elephant and a slice of toast, Scots and skylarks, cricketers, sundials, and a revolver with an alarming design fault.The Royal ... (Read More)
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(Show)Folk Fest: The Same but Different
For many years large turned wooden bowls by Edward Moulthrop were the standard for this form. In this example his son Philip formed stock from cut sections of pine branches in resin and then turned and shaped the bowl. This pine branch mosaic bowl was $6500 from Robert Reeves of ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Santa Fe Show: Objects of Art
Buffaloe Hunting, an 1844-45 hand-colored lithograph by George Catlin (1796-1872), cost $12,000 at Arader Galleries, San Francisco.A very large zebra mask from the Sukuma people of Tanzania was priced at $7200 at Kip McKesson African Art, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanThe first weekend of the Santa ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Susan Tooth Brings $139,200
This Napoleonic prisoner-of-war bone ship model, circa 1810, was an elaborate and fine model of a 78-gun ship-of-the-line with a planked and pinned hull with baleen gunwales and bone gun carriages and a finely carved polychrome stern. The model measures 10" high x 11" long, and the glass dome display ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: The Loaner
The pawnshop is going highbrow. A press release from the collateral loan company borro (www.borro.com) recently caught our eye. The company, with offices in London and Manhattan, gives short-term loans against fine art, antiques, luxury cars, wine, and other valuables. According to a CNN report in June, customers can borrow ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Collector and His Nonprofit Foundation Tangle in Court with Gallery Dealers---Again
by Clayton PenningtonA voracious collector who bought over $11 million worth of art claims he was “overcharged” by 30% and is bringing the matter to court. Collector Richard C. McKenzie Jr. of Greenwich, Connecticut, and the foundation he established and fully funds, Seven Bridges Foundation, Inc., filed suit in federal ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Cheryl and Paul Scott Sale
The gilt copper and zinc lyre-form bannerette weathervane, 59¼" long, was the second lot in the Scotts' collection and carried a $3000/5000 estimate, but the phones quickly pushed it to $10,073. Paul Scott said that he'd given Stephen Fletcher provenances for the pieces, thinking it would lighten up the sale. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Autumn Auction of 20th- and 21st-Century Design
Frederick Hurten Rhead’s 20¾" square four-part tile panel with a peacock is one of two such panels that were a gift from Rhead to his friend, and Weller Pottery colleague, Levi Burgess for his Zanesville, Ohio, house. They were installed facing each other. This one was removed from the house ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Krupp 5CM 50 mm mountain howitzer, 29½" rifled barrel with front sight, metal carriage with iron-banded and wood-spoke wheels, accompanied by tools, trail handle, 24 brass shell casings in a Krupp box, 30-plus projectiles, and a mold for projectiles, $34,500.
Cased Webley-Fosbery target revolver, .455 Eley caliber, 7½" barrel, marked "Webley-Fosbery" ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Giant Opening Night
This circa 1920 wood weathervane of a dog resting on a shotgun, with untouched, original paint, from American Garage, Los Angeles, cost $13,500. Michael Ogle said business was “really good.”
These late 19th-century Odd Fellows badges cost $2400 for the group at Galen Lowe Art and Antiques, Seattle.
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