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(Show)The 115th Dunham Tavern Museum Antiques Show
Jane Langol Antiques, Medina, Ohio, offered a zinc window surround (not shown) for $495; a bent-twig settee found in a camp in Vermont, $850; a bent-twig chair found in Orange, Missouri, $340; a wooden angel (left) by Earnest Patton, Campton, Kentucky, $990; and a 7'5" x 2'5" Kilim runner, $600.A ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Farrin's Benjamin Swan Song
The Benjamin Swan painted tall clock with a rocking ship movement, conch shell spandrels, and calendar dial sold for $10,450.A fully three-dimensional Black Forest carved hall tree with a mother bear prowling around the base and her two cubs in the upper reaches sold for $3850.Farrin's Country Auctions, Randolph, Maineby ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Isaac Starts 2011 in the Dark but with a Bang
As in previous auctions, the work of Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis (1903-1970) drew strong prices. Sleigh with Covered Bridge (left), an 11½" x 13½" oil on board, fetched $6000, and Winter Village Scene with House, an 11½" x 11½" oil on board, sold for $5500.Very rare were the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Louisiana Purchase Auction Shows Strength in the South
The furniture star of the auction was this rosewood Gothic Revival center table based on a design by Alexander Jackson Davis (1803-1892); it sold for $44,812.50 to a local collector. A similar table thought to be designed by Davis is shown in “Drawing Room at Kenwood, Gothic Style,” an illustration ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Keno's First New York City Auction Successful
There were three phone bidders competing for this diminutive (20½" high x 22¼" wide x 12¾" deep) paint-decorated pine blanket chest attributed to Robert Crosman (1707-1799) of Taunton, Massachusetts. The hinged top is a 19th-century replacement. Estimated at $2000/4000, it sold for $14,640. It was illustrated in The Magazine Antiques ... (Read More)
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(Show)Modernism 2010
This collection of old microphones, some with the stations’ call letters, was around $7000 from James Elkind of Lost City Arts. They sold to someone who saw them on line and came to the show to see them in person and buy them.Jacksons, Stockholm, Sweden, and Berlin, Germany, asked $35,000 ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Paintings
The star of the American Art Fair was Gilbert Stuart’s George Washington, for which Hammer Galleries at 475 Park Avenue was asking $7,500,000. When Armand Hammer bought it at auction in 1970, it cost $205,000, then a record for a painting by an American artist, eclipsed by an Eakins a ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Edward Gorey Glory
Swann sold a signed copy of Gorey’s The Beastly Baby by Ogdred Weary for $1200 (est. $400/600). Published in 1962, it is one of 500 unnumbered copies of the first book bearing Gorey’s own Fantod Press imprint. Ogdred Weary is an anagram for Edward Gorey. According to Swann, the price ... (Read More)
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(Feature)An Antique Jewelry Market Glimpse from Two Maine Businesses
A client of Dan Chambers brought in this circa 1910 natural fancy colored yellow diamond (weighing 5.19 carats), diamond,and platinum ring made by her grandfather, Samuel H. Draisin, a competitor of Harry Winston. Chambers represented his customer with Bonhams and Butterfields,at an auction of fine jewelry and timepieces in June ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Decoys Sell Well in the City
This mallard drake by Joseph W. Lincoln (1859-1938) of Accord, Massachusetts, circa 1925, is probably the only fullsize Lincoln mallard drake decoy in original paint known to exist. It was found several decades ago in an antiques shop in Pennsylvania. During Lincoln’s lifetime, mallard ducks as a wild species were ... (Read More)
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