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(Fragment)Unsigned Folk Portrait Brings $1.271 Million at Skinner
by David HewettSkinner's October 30 sale in Boston was delayed a week by the snowstorm that blanketed the entire East Coast and brought widespread destruction of power lines and telephone poles from Maine to Virginia.Faced with loss of phones and Internet, Skinner postponed the sale twice, finally holding it on ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Theater Company Gets into Show Business
USA Theatres, which operates drive-in and outdoor theaters in central Pennsylvania, is launching the American Antique Toy & Coin-Op Show, which will feature exhibitors buying, selling, and trading a wide array of antique and collectible toys and coin-ops."I like to tell people I'm a recovered 'collectiaholic,'" said Ronald Vastola, outreach ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)"Patriotic America" Virtual Exhibition Launched by Transferware Collectors Club
by Lita Solis-CohenThe Transferware Collectors Club, Winterthur, and Historic New England have launched a free interactive on-line exhibition, Patriotic America: Blue Printed Pottery Celebrating a New Nation. These images of English pottery, transfer-printed in the 19th century, celebrate the new United States. The dark blue printed wares made between 1818 ... (Read More)
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(Show)Ellsworth Antiques Show at Woodlawn
Samuel Herrup of Sheffield, Massachusetts, solidly attributed this portrait on academy board of a young girl in a light blue dress, 1840-50, to William Matthew Prior (1806-1873), a seminal primitive-style artist. The frame was of the period as well. Herrup priced it at $35,000."Last night was scary," said Roger Williams ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Tale of Two Dawsons
Born in the Chiswick area of Greater London in 1895, Montague Dawson became world renowned as one of the great maritime painters before the 20th century ended. He was the grandson of artist Henry Dawson (1811-1878), who was well regarded in his own right for his marine and landscape art. ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antique Indian Art Show
Santa Fe dealer H. Malcom "Mac" Grimmer described the show as "good, not four years ago good, but very good considering the economic turmoil. Our sales have been strong, but at a lower price point than a few years ago." This circa 1890 Kiowa deer hide depicting the Sundance, priced ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Santa Fe Show 2011
Ari Maslow of Westside Trading Post, Mill Valley, California, asked $25,000 for this circa 1885 Acoma jar.Tim Chambers of Missouri Plain Folk, Sikeston, Missouri, asked $4500 for this 1870's Parcheesi board from Rochester, New York. He also displayed a copy of his book The Art of the Game (2001), an ... (Read More)
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(Show)Annual Late Summer Coastal Maine Antiques Show
Gerald Bell takes a seat on a trolley bench, priced at $165, and is holding a caulking mallet (used for caulking between the planks in a ship), priced at $65.As fast as she could unwrap them, Colleen Donovan of Foreside Antiques, Falmouth, Maine, sold her wares to other dealers in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Moore Signs Off on Autographs
One signature on this 1788 Pennsylvania land indenture is by Benjamin Franklin, transferring "Merkle's Delight" to Nicholas Merkle. The document sold for $9775.This oil on canvas, signed "Louis Icart," shows a seminude winged fairy surrounded by a flock of soap bubbles. It sold for $3335.The Kentucky long rifle, converted to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Annual Foster Labor Day Weekend Auction
A pair of late 18th-century leather fire buckets, painted and dated "John Sheafe/ 1798," sold for the sale's top price of $3575.Hefty pig weathervane, regilded and with directionals, $2200.Running horse weathervane in copper with a zinc head, old gilding, and directionals, $1540.Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoRobert Foster always ... (Read More)
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