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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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(Feature)IN The Trade: Pamela and Stephen Regan, Nutting House Antiques, New Paltz, New York
Pam and Steve Regan.The Regans' home. Steve said it dates from the 1830's, and, judging by the earliest foundation in the basement, it started as a small one-room structure.The couple's shop behind the house began life as a poured concrete garage with hipped roof, built in 1931.The textile restoration studio.Edward ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Final Breininger Pottery "Porch Show"
The line formed early as people stood outside the Breiningers' Taylor Mansion residence where the show took place.This large fountain stands in the front corner of the property.The workshop where pottery was made is situated in the back of the property and was open for visitors during the show.This plate ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gamage Hosts Wyeth Family Reunion
Mixed media study by Jamie Wyeth, Iris at Sea, study #1, 1994, $71,500.Coastal Maine landscape of the Ridge Church in Martinsville by N.C. Wyeth, $152,900.Watercolor by John McCoy showing a shore road leading to Port Clyde, Maine, $11,000.Pen and watercolor ship portrait of the schooner K.C. Rankin by Jurgen Frederick ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Frank Lloyd Wright Copper Urn Sells for $772,000
$772,000. Photo courtesy Leslie Hindman.by Lita Solis-CohenOn October 3, Leslie Hindman Auctioneers in Chicago sold a Frank Lloyd Wright spherical copper urn with geometric repoussé panels for a record $772,000 (includes buyer's premium) to a Florida collector. The price nearly doubled the previous record for the form, $478,400, paid at ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: "M.A.D." Men (and Women)
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondPerhaps one of the greatest powers of television is to make us interested in something we had absolutely no interest in five minutes ago. Commercials do this all the time—you're suddenly interested in a milkshake or thinking of when you might be able to trade ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Baltimore Summer Antiques Show
Martin Chasin Fine Arts, Fairfield, Connecticut, found some etched English glasses for a brass monteith that Eve Stone had sold to a client who wanted glasses to fit. "I made sixteen sales at setup. My shelves are half empty," said Chasin as the show was about to open.Post Road Gallery, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Hiatt Collection: The First of Seven
There were 18 cars on this 1.6-scale, 7.5-gauge gasoline-powered riding train. Ten cars were made by Scott Weatherford of Scott's Trains, Thayer, Missouri. At $8250, the engine was one of the top ten lots of the sale. The Weatherford caboose came in behind at $1210. Other cars were in the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Photoarchive of the Frick Art Reference Library Available on Line
The Frick Art Reference Library and its partners in the New York Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), the libraries of the Museum of Modern Art and the Brooklyn Museum, have announced that all of the Frick's Photoarchive's research database records created since 1996 (and all future records created for the existing ... (Read More)
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