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(Auction)Crowell Standing Redhead Drake Highlights Sale
An important full-size standing redhead drake by A. Elmer Crowell (1862-1952) of East Harwich, Massachusetts, sold for $241,500 (est. $140,000/160,000) to a buyer in the South. "It's a beautiful piece of art," stated one collector. It had near-mint original paint and very fine detail and had Crowell's oval brand on ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The World of Duncan Phyfe
by Lita Solis-CohenStuart Feld of Hirschl & Adler Galleries imparted his passion for the furniture of Duncan Phyfe to his daughter, Elizabeth, and together they have put together a selling exhibition, The World of Duncan Phyfe, at their stunning new galleries on the fourth floor of the Crown Building at ... (Read More)
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(Show)Tricks and Treats at York Show
Jewett-Berdan Antiques, Newcastle, Maine, asked $5500 for the architectural blanket chest with scalloping in original green paint decoration. The large wooden hatbox with freehand decoration was $2800.The Norwoods' Spirit of America wanted $995 for this cast-iron stove plate with door from the Oley Furnace.This brightly colored 20th-century hooked rug framed ... (Read More)
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(Feature)December Jewelry Auctions
Platinum and diamond ring. It has one octagonal step-cut diamond of approximately 10.56 carats and two baguette-cut diamonds of approximately 0.30 carat total and it weighs 3.50 dwt. The ring was accompanied by a GIA diamond grading certificate stating, "color: G, clarity: VS2, polish: good, symmetry: fair, fluorescence: none." Drawing ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Bidders Go for "Safe Bets"
Arizona Twilight by Dale Nichols (1904-1995), a 30" x 40" oil on canvas, brought $72,000 (est. $30,000/50,000). Shannon's had previously sold it for $50,400 in October 2007.Greenwood Lake, a 12" x 20" oil on canvas painted in 1873 by Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823-1900), was the sale's top lot at $252,000 ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 75th Augusta Armory Show
A well-painted $550 Tammany nodding bank sat next to a square Columbian Safe Deposit bank at the booth of Doug and Tania Carnrick of Odds 'N Sodds, Winslow, Maine. The $900 Columbian was the black-painted version, a souvenir of the 1894 Chicago World's Fair, a.k.a. the World's Columbian Exposition, with ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Dara Mitchell Leaves Sotheby's after 26 Years
by Lita Solis-CohenIn June 2011, Dara Mitchell, head of Sotheby's American art department and one of eight executive vice presidents of Sotheby's North and South America, decided to retire by the end of 2011. Her children, ages 18 and 22, are out of the house. It is not that she ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: William Birch: Picturing the American Scene
by Lita Solis-CohenWilliam Birch: Picturing the American Sceneby Emily T. Cooperman and Lea Carson Sherk, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 340 pages, hardbound, $75 plus S/H from University of Pennsylvania Press, (www.upenn.edu/pennpress) or (800) 537-5487.This fresh look at the life and work of William Birch (1755-1834), one of the most ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)A Book Review: Expressions of Innocence and Eloquence
by Lita Solis-CohenExpressions of Innocence and Eloquence: Selections from the Jane Katcher Collection of Americana, Volume IIEditors Jane Katcher, David A. Schorsch, and Ruth Wolfe, catalog by David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles, photography by Gavin AshworthMarquand Books, distributed by Yale University Press, 2011, 452 pages, hardbound, $95 plus ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: The Lowdown on Underbidders
by Steve ProffittThe modern world is fast turning the bedrock concept of individual privacy into a relic that will be remembered only in history books. The increasing intrusiveness of government with its telescopic eyes in satellites, ubiquitous surveillance cameras, supercomputers for data mining, facial-recognition software, tracking devices of every kind, ... (Read More)
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