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(Issue Story)Letter from London
Ian McKay, [email protected]
From the portraits of two beautiful women whose lives followed very different paths, this month's selections move on to include Dr. Heller's "silver lexicon," blacksmithies and white owls, masterpieces of 18th-century French furniture making, overweight cattle and pigs, beautifully engraved glasses, and something to bring a smile to ... (Read More)
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(Feature)John Fignar of Saratoga Springs, New York
John Fignar is shown with the slot machine he bought in Las Vegas that got him hooked on gambling antiques. It's a Pace "Saratoga" model machine made in 1937. In addition to being a slot machine, it also includes the world's easiest pinball game, which you had to "succeed" at ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)William Crolius Heart-Shaped Inkstand Gifted to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photo courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The William Crolius incised and cobalt blue decorated heart-shaped inkstand on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City for the past 22 years has recently been made a promised and partial gift to the institution. Purchased by Pennsylvania collector ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)California Country Show: Under New Management and New Name
Sandy Raulston and Ted Birbilis, owners of Roadside America in Pasadena, California, have taken over the management and promotion of the California Country Antiques Show in Los Altos, California. The show, now renamed the New California Country & More Antiques Show, will be held on June 9 and October 20.Raulston ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Christie's and Sotheby's Change Buyers' Premiums
On February Christie's and Sotheby's announced new buyers' premiums.
Christie's new buyer's premium in the United States is 25% of the hammer price of each lot up to and including $75,000; 20% of the hammer price from $75,001 up to and including $1,500,000; and 12% above $1,500,000.
Sotheby's new fees are 25% ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)A Taxing Problem
Tax authorities in Philadelphia, in a clumsy and shortsighted move, have decided that dealers exhibiting at the Philadelphia Antiques Show, one of the most prestigious shows in America, are tax scofflaws who haven't been paying enough tax to the city (see Lita Solis-Cohen's report on page 12-A). The city is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)$20 Million Thomas Cole in Crate
In February the Seward House Museum and the Fred L. Emerson Foundation jointly announced that Thomas Cole's landscape Portage Falls on the Genesee, 84" x 61", had been removed from the museum and was going to be sold.
The Fred L. Emerson Foundation, incorporated in Delaware in 1943, was the former ... (Read More)
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(Show)Connecticut Spring Antiques Show in the Armory a Hit with Exhibitors and Visitors
No, it's not an Oreo cookie! This 2 5/8" diameter carved walnut butter print, or stamp, came from the collection of Frederick S. Weiser, a Lutheran pastor and authority on Pennsylvania German culture and artifacts who died in 2009. The print is sitting on page 123 of Weiser's Butter Prints ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Wootens Succeed at Debut Sale
This circa 1830 15-gallon stoneware storage jar signed by Harvey Drake of the Edgefield District, South Carolina, was the top lot of the sale at $168,000. See story for details.
A circa 1830 hunt board from Forsyth County, North Carolina, 41 3/8" x 541/4" x 191/2", was the top furniture lot ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Garth's Country Americana Auction
Soap Hollow blanket chest by Peter K. Thomas, dated 1862, poplar with its original stenciled decoration and red ground, trimmed in black and yellow, 28" high x 471/2" wide, missing escutcheon inlays, replaced period glass pulls, $14,460.
Decorated Chippendale blanket chest, Pennsylvania or Virginia, dated 1791, pine and poplar, original paint, ... (Read More)
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