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Joy Ruskin Hanes and Lee Hanes of Hanes & Ruskin Antiques, Old Lyme, Connecticut, called this the Rolls-Royce of baby carriages. Made in Gardner, Massachusetts, by the Heywood family of manufacturers and dating from the 1860’s-90’s, it was priced at $475.
Offered by Robert Perry Antiques, Orchard Park, New ... (Read More)
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This molded and decorated earthenware cat figure is small (5" x 2¼" x 3½"), but it set the tone for the Evans sale. The figure has a solid body and a lead and manganese glaze over a yellow slip wash. The seated cat with its tail wrapped over its haunches ... (Read More)
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This wonderful document box in grain-decorated red, brown, and ocher wavy comb pattern, with a red-painted interior, was $395 from Roger and Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania.A dramatic nautical oil on canvas by James Hamilton (Irish-American, 1819-1878), After the Gale, was $14,500 with Day's Antiques, Brunswick, Maine. Hamilton painted ... (Read More)
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Alan R. Pereske Antiques, Lake Placid, New York, had this double-sided "White Birches" camp sign, made from birch bark, for $1095.Doris Marks of Doris Marks Antiques, New Hampshire, is shown with some hand-hooked mittens she said were made in Maine or the Maritimes, probably in the late 1880's or a ... (Read More)
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Ubuntu desktop with the application launcher on the left side and the Pinta picture editor in use.Computer Column #286by John P. Reid, e-mail: [email protected] column sometimes states that a particular service or software product is available for Windows, Linux, and Apple computers. About 78% of us use a Microsoft Windows ... (Read More)
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This was the big one for the day-a toy tin circus wagon by George W. Brown & Company, with a caged lioness and two white draft horses. It sold for $76,700 (est. $15,000/35,000). George W. Brown & Company, Forestville, Connecticut, was founded around 1855 and partnered with J. & E. ... (Read More)
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Within an hour of opening, the outdoor market was crowded.John Rudie shows the $35 tip-up ice fishing pole from the 1950's. The short pole has a carved wooden body, twine string line, and a cork bobber.John Atkin Antiques, Glen Ellyn, brought the circa 1780 painting tagged $495. A 1780-1820 mirror ... (Read More)
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Jan and Lou smile for the camera. Jan is holding "a piece of nice sterling that is in a completely different price range, at about one hundred fifty dollars." Lou remarked, "We enjoy the business; we enjoy being with people; we enjoy life." Sounds like a good mantra, and it's ... (Read More)
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The 10¾" long paint-decorated slide-lid box is dated 1795 and attributed to John Drissel of Lower Milford Township, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This red-orange box was part of the Richard and Rosemarie Machmer collection that Pook & Pook sold on October 24, 2008, when it brought $49,140 from dealer Greg Kramer. ... (Read More)
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by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondIn the auction business, one occasionally hears references to the Three D's. For decades, that was shorthand for the three most likely ways collections came to auction: death, divorce, disaster (some say disease or debt). People might sell a couple of pieces for other reasons, ... (Read More)
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