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(Auction)The Breininger Sale
Fraktur artist Johann Conrad Gilbert painted this birth certificate for Eliesabeth Kunckel, dated 1815, 8" x 13¼". The central script is flanked by two trumpeting male angels with striped coats and stylized flowers in bright yellow, red, green, and blue. Estimated at $15,000/25,000, it sold to collectors in the salesroom ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Sale at New Orleans Auction Galleries
Opening the Sunday session was a collection of Mexican gold coins from the estate of Fernando Jimenez-Torres of Laredo, Texas, that brought a total of $238,790. This lot of three 50-peso pieces—approximately 112.5 grams of pure gold—sold for $6150.An exquisite seven-piece Paris porcelain tea set, with a rare paper label ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Executive Director at Hyde Hall
Dr. Jonathan Maney is the new executive director at Hyde Hall in Cooperstown, New York, a National Historic Landmark, on the National Register of Historic Places, and a New York State Historic Site. Dr. Maney brings extensive experience in event and conference planning, education outreach, program development, historic preservation, and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Copake Sells Uecker Nail Sculpture for $372,900
Sett (left) and Mike Fallon with the $372,900 Günther Uecker relief sculpture of nails.A 1964 nail sculpture, found in an estate in Tivoli, New York, led Seth Fallon of Copake Auction in Copake, New York, to travel to Germany to meet with the artist. It led ultimately to a big ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Two to Tango
by Steve ProffittThe prize at the end of an auction should be the seller's satisfaction with the auctioneer's work. Auctioneers need to focus on the process required to achieve that result, and a major component is teaming with the seller to work jointly for auction success. This effort is complicated ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fall Shenandoah Antiques Expo
Don Toth of Parkside House Antiques, Brecksville, Ohio, used this open kitchen storage rack to display some of the items from his infield booth. The dealer offered a painted tin candle lantern, $135; a paint-decorated valuables box with a lock but no key, $75; another tin candle lantern, $75; a ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country & Folk Art Antiques Show
This Victorian-era felt and hand-stitched table mat cost $450 at Ordeshook's Antiques, La Canada, California, where business was "much slower" than in the past.This small Arts and Crafts wood cabinet found in Monroe, Washington, 1910-18, was priced at $100. Similar items can be found at Antique Avenue, Manteca, California, "the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Motley's 44th Anniversary Sale
Although not an antique, this vintage solitaire diamond engagement ring was the high lot of the Motley's sale. Weighing in at 2.75 carats and set in a six-prong 14k white gold setting, the ring sold in the room for $13,570 (est. $6000/12,000).This petit-point tapestry is either French or Belgian and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Big Guns Cap a $9 Million Blowout
This blue silk battle flag centering the seal of the state of Pennsylvania was flown by the 3rd Pennsylvania Cavalry, which had a history with most battles of the Army of the Potomac, including Antietam and Gettysburg. The flag originally had a standard that read, "Presented by the Grateful Citizens ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Stair to Sell the Gerald Kornblau Estate
by Lita Solis-CohenOver the last decade Colin Stair of Stair Galleries sold a number of things for his Claverack, New York, neighbor, Gerald Kornblau. "I met Gerry when I noticed an iron dog had toppled over in his yard. It was one of those Mott Iron Works casts, and I ... (Read More)
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