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Margaret Johnson Sutor of Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania, always has an array of quality transferware, Gaudy Dutch, and canary yellow china, as shown here. The large ship painting by R.E. Nickerson was $4200. The small one at top left was $395, and below, $850.Hanes & Ruskin, Old Lyme, Connecticut, asked $1850 ... (Read More)
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This 2¼" x 1 3/8" platinum and diamond brooch with 94 marquise-shaped and 48 baguette and tapered baguette diamonds weighing approximately 15.00 carats, approximately 20.3 dwt., sold for $17,500 (est. $5500/6500), making it the top lot at the February 22 auction at Doyle New York.A 3¼" x 2" antique gold, ... (Read More)
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by David HewettOn March 17 former auctioneer Tim Conroy, who pleaded guilty in March 2010 to stealing from his Onondaga County clients, escaped further jail time by making restitution of over $3000 to one of them.The 48-year-old Elbridge, New York, man received a sentence of five years' probation from state ... (Read More)
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The Alexander Gallery has moved, after almost 40 years on Madison Avenue in New York City. The executive office is now located at 115 East 72nd Street near Park Avenue, and the interim exhibition space is off Madison Avenue at 34 East 68th Street.According to the firm, plans to move ... (Read More)
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Photos courtesy Hudson Valley Auctioneers.by Lita Solis-CohenAt an estate sale at Hudson Valley Auctioneers in Beacon, New York, on Monday night, February 28, a bidding battle erupted between John Delaney Jr. of West Townsend, Massachusetts, and James Price of Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when a musical clock made by Frederick Heisely in ... (Read More)
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Chest-over-drawers, Lancaster County, 1783, walnut, hard pine, sulfur, brass, and iron, 29" x 54" x 26". Inlaid in sulfur on a board beneath the till covering a secret drawer compartment: "ANNO 1783." Inscribed on underside of lid in graphite: "D.W. Dietrich 1876." Feet replaced (no evidence of ball feet); proper ... (Read More)
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A pair of wrought-iron and leather consoles in the style of Jean-Michel Frank, circa 1945, executed by Comte, Buenos Aires, each 29 5/8" high x 39 1/8" wide x 10 5/8" deep, with the Comte metal label and stamped "4755," sold on the phone for $40,000 (est. $10,000/15,000).Christie's, New York ... (Read More)
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Found in an attic in Maine, a 24" x 36½" Chinese school tea production scene from the first half of the 19th century, ink and colors on paper, sold for $116,500 (est. $20,000/30,000). Tobacco Leaf tureen and cover of lozenge form, enameled with tobacco leaves in Famille Rose colors, with ... (Read More)
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Superman costume in the style worn by Kirk Alyn, light blue and brown, $2860. The outfit was among those Daniel E. Miller claimed he had loaned to the museum.Batmobile in the style used in Batman starring Michael Keaton, 1989, a replica built on a Corvette chassis with a 1985 Corvette ... (Read More)
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Rosemary Krieger, president of Dolphin Promotions.Meet Marco Astrologo, purveyor of Louis Vuitton. This Philadelphia dealer said he has the largest collection of vintage Vuitton trunks and suitcases in the U.S. He was wearing a Vuitton vest made for him from old fabric off a clothes bag.When you think of Miami ... (Read More)
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