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(Auction)10/10: The Collector's Auction
Philadelphia cherrywood card tables with a drawer and trifid feet are a rare form; only four are known. Circa 1760 and 29" x 18¾" x 16½", this example sold for $13,200 (est. $9000/12,000) to a phone bidder, underbid in the salesroom.Walnut dressing table with trifid feet and carved shells on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Clockmakers of Flemington, New Jersey: 1788-1840: Part II
Figure 10A. Tall-case clock, Richard Hooley, Flemington, New Jersey, circa 1815. Photos courtesy Anne Thompson, Flemington, New Jersey.Figure 10B. Hood of figure 10A.Figure 10C. Nolen & Curtis dial. It is 1815-20 based on minute markers, spandrels decoration, and absence of the painted gilt circle just outside the hour chapter ring.Figure ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Washington Commemorative Perpetual Calendar Watch Paper
Figure 1. Uncut George Washington watch paper showing an obelisk in a peaceful garden setting with an image of George Washington and the inscription "There is Rest in Heaven." To the right is a perpetual calendar that is set from the back by sliding the inserted paper strip up or ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tramp Art Collectors Speak
"As a young collector there are many opportunities where I could focus my attention as I build a collection that is interesting and meaningful to me. There is, I think, a 'voice' that imbues tramp art. It is the voice of artists who are energized through the expression of their ... (Read More)
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(Show)Third Annual Wayside Inn Antiques Show
Thomas Schwenke of Woodbury, Connecticut, wanted $13,500 for the 1820-25 English Regency carved and figured mahogany drum table with a dark brown, gilt-tooled leather top, figured mahogany edge banding, and alternating real and sham drawers. The chairs around the 48" diameter table were rare Sheraton carved mahogany examples. The one ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Memorial Day Weekend Sale Does Just Fine
When Ron Bourgeault offered this hand-drawn map of the Revolutionary War Battle of Monmouth, which took place on June 28, 1778 (for more on that event, read the story), he mentioned that it had been found folded up in a shoebox. A phone bidder took it at $76,700.The biggest surprise ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Asian Art Tops Auction in the Big Easy
Top lot of the auction was this brilliantly colored Chinese cloisonné incense burner with a Qianlong mark (1736-95) that surpassed its $8000/12,000 estimate to reach $51,660.Covered with imperial dragons and clouds, this 18th-century yellow silk woman's robe sold for $7995.Dating to the 18th century, this Chinese folio with brocade cover ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Sultry Night" Court Fight
Martha Nesbit Frankwicz of Madison, Wisconsin, assumed that her Grant Wood oil painting, Sultry Night, was hanging safely in a college museum—until she was told it was up for sale. Now the 82-year-old woman has filed a lawsuit asking a court to declare her the rightful owner and return the ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Ingenious Contrivances, Curiously Carved: Scrimshaw in the New Bedford Whaling Museum ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Washington's Annotated Constitution Returns to Mount Vernon
Left, George Washington's handbound and annotated copy of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and first Acts of Congress, 1789, 12" x 7½", sold to the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association for $9,826,500 (est. $2/3 million). Right, the title page, with Washington's signature. Photos courtesy Christie's.Each year George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, ... (Read More)
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