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(Issue Story)Editorial: Sign and Sell
Editorial
Sign and Sell
Dan Miller, the controller for Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, should heed a judge's ruling and sign an auction contract allowing the deeply indebted city to auction off the Western artifacts it owns.
In 2011, the city council voted to sell what remained of the $8.3 million worth of objects that former ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Heavyweight Bible Stolen from Church Recovered by Dealer
by David Hewett
A church in St. Louis, Missouri, that had been the victim of numerous thefts over the past two years got nailed again just before Christmas. Thieves took material intended for needy neighborhood families, cash and gift cards worth $1100, and food items from St. John's Lutheran Church on ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Pearls and Paintings Pace the Pack
Bidders chased this circa 1890 primitive New England oil on tin sporting scene, 21" x 36", well past the $1000/1500 estimate to $5922.50. ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bronze Dogs Find Good Home at Boston Museum
The sale's pair of bronze Great Danes by Anna Vaughn Hyatt Huntington (1876-1973) lay at the feet of previewers in Skinner's Boston gallery on the night of Robin Starr's gallery walk. Each is approximately 27" x 53" and signed, inscribed, and dated by the artist "Anna V. Hyatt/ Auvers-sur-Oise 1907." ... (Read More)
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(Show)Winter Edition: Arion York Show Delivers Quality
A Bird in Hand Antiques, Florham Park, New Jersey, asked $3500 for this Grenfell Mission rug of a sailing ship at sea. The tiger maple Sheraton chest of drawers was $5400, and the circa 1880 cow weathervane was $25,000.
Elizabeth Ayscough of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, had this western Pennsylvania or Ohio ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Outsider Art Fair
Tanner-Hill Gallery, Chattanooga, Tennessee, offered the Obama Chair, a basswood carved chair, 2012-13, for $4800. Hidden under the seat, to be turned up or down, "depending when you need them," is a set of carved testicles. The artist, Lonnie Usrey, a dairy farmer from northwest Arkansas (and Angela Usrey's uncle) ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Screen Gem
Korean folding longevity screen, 18th or early 19th century, ink and mineral pigments on silk or linen, $603,750.
A pair of 18th-century carved cinnabar vases with red poppies on a yellow ground easily passed the $800/1200 estimate, starting at $5000 and finishing at $9200.
An eight-piece Aesthetic Movement walnut parlor suite by ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Wedgwood Exhibit at Thayer Public Library
The Thayer Public Library in Braintree, Massachusetts, has an exhibit of Wedgwood ceramics through February. Installed by Ron Frazier, a former president of the Wedgwood Society of Boston and a former president of the Braintree Historical Society, the exhibit features Wedgwood from the company's earliest production in the 1750's to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Museum to Lose 212 "Gifts" of Esmerian Folk Art to Bankruptcy Pool
by David Hewett
On December 26, 2012, bankruptcy liquidation trustee Jay Teitelbaum filed documents in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, that, if approved by Judge Robert Drain, would quiet the multiple claims of ownership of approximately 363 pieces of folk art, most of which are now in ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Book and Ephemera Fair in Philadelphia
Flamingo Eventz, LLC will launch a new vintage book and ... (Read More)
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