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(Fragment)Lily Pad Master Salt Sells for $38,700
Yellow olive-amber master salt, 2½" high, circular bowl with folded rim, body decorated with superimposed gather, tooled into a type 2 lily pad design, applied funnel foot with folded rim, tubular pontil scar, attributed to the Lancaster Glass Works, New York, circa 1852, possibly the work of John Lambrix, ex-David ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)James Johnston's Composite Audubon
Full-sheet composite.by Lita Solis-CohenPhotos courtesy Antique Nature PrintsPrint dealer James Gilbert Johnston, who has a shop in Birmingham, Alabama, and a Web site (www.antiquenatureprints.com), is proud of a discovery he made in November 2010. Viewing a Skinner auction catalog on line, he found an undercataloged Audubon print."Lot 628 looked strange, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)A Tool and Its Money
This Stanley No. 340 furring plane was the top money-getter at $10,350.This open screw thread micrometer is in "like-new" condition, despite the patent date of April 23, 1878. It was patented by George M. Pratt of Middletown, Connecticut, and produced by the Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company of Providence, Rhode ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Variety Is the Spice of Success
Märklin (Germany) stationary traction engine steam toy, early 1920's, the crown jewel from the late Klaus Grutkza's steam toy collection, base 14½" x 26", $19,550.Hubley Popeye on motorcycle, cast iron, 1928, includes factory tag, ex-Bob Brady, 6¾" long, $19,550.Arcade parlor coach, cast iron, circa 1926, deemed the finest example known, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Tall Clock Leads Rhode Island Auction
A trip to a home in Jamestown, Rhode Island, was the source of this stunning tall clock with a Goddard case and brass dial that read "Thos. Stretch Philadelphia." The clock features a classic Goddard-carved shell and measures 101" tall. It opened with a $10,000 bid and, with several phones ... (Read More)
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(Auction)"We went to Europe and well, bought a few things for the house," The Chinqua-Penn Sale
*Margaret “Betsy” Penn, as quoted in the Leland Little catalog.This is the front entrance to Chinqua-Penn as seen from the pagoda. The Penns purchased the Chinese carved stone Ming Dynasty style Spirit Road animals-the camel on the left and the reclining horse on the right-in China in 1923. The camel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Paintings Sale Deemed "Robust"
Southern Plains Indian Warrior by Henry F. Farny (1847-1916), a 16" x 11" gouache on paper, sold for $362,500 (est. $100,000/150,000) to a dealer in Santa Fe who was on the telephone. When he heard the opening bid of $100,000, he immediately bid $200,000. Levitt said the "very rare" painting ... (Read More)
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(Show)Woodstock Antique Show Reborn
Kelly Taylor of Kelly Taylor's American Country Antiques, Davenport, Iowa, stands by a $6300 early American lounging sofa of poplar, pine, and chestnut with original surfaces and exposed base construction. Dating it to around 1810, based on the square nails used, Taylor thinks it functioned as a resting spot at ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Orientalia Still Hot
Eighteenth-century Japanese wooden Buddha, seated in the lotus position on a lotus-shaped giltwood base, $7475.There didn't seem to be one particular standout in this small collection of four miniature jade carvings, all in white or celadon nephrite jade. The largest was only about 2" long. They obliterated the $300/600 estimate, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)East Meets West on the Shores of Lake Pontchartrain
Top lot of the sale was this pair of simple, elegant Chinese huanghuali stools from the New Orleans estate of Irene S. Chandler that sold for $69,310 (est. $10,000/15,000).Distinguished by its unusual subject matter, a very large (43½" x 66¾") painting of Prisoner's Escort, A Scene from the Crimean War ... (Read More)
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