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(Auction)Asian Art Strong at Chicago Auction
These handsome George II painted and parcel-gilt pedestals sold for $6710 the pair. Hindman photo.The pair of Neoclassical cast metal urns sold for $2928. Fitting for midsummer, the sale had a good amount of outdoor and garden ornamentation. Hindman photo.The Chinese oil on canvas of Hong Kong harbor, measuring almost ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Difficulties in Overseas Transactions
by Daniel GrantThe Asian art and antiques sales at Eldred's in East Dennis, Massachusetts, generally have gone quite well-with occasional exceptions. Some of the mainland Chinese buyers, who may not have read the contract when they registered to bid, or perhaps didn't understand what they read, as soon as they ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Thomas R. Longacre Antiques, Marlborough, New Hampshire
Beverly Weir-Longacre and Tom Longacre.The Marlborough, New Hampshire, cape where Tom Longacre has lived since the 1970's was built by a schoolteacher named Levi Gates who, coincidentally, came from Marlboro, Massachusetts. Lumber for the 1795 house was cut and milled on the property, and the granite foundation blocks were quarried ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Peter Seibert Joins Cordier Part Time
by Lita Solis-CohenPeter Seibert, who served as president of the Heritage Center of Lancaster County Inc. from 1993 to 2008 and is currently the executive director of the National Council for History Education, has a weekend job as a consultant and catalog specialist at Cordier Antiques & Auctions in Camp ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Impressive Decoy Sale Yields Positive Results
This Canada goose in hissing pose by George H. Boyd (1873-1941) of Seabrook, New Hampshire, was from the Carter collection. It has a crooked neck, strongly turned head, and canvas over frame body construction. One of three known examples, it is illustrated on the cover of Jim Cullen's recently published ... (Read More)
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(Show)Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show
A circa 1910 Santo Domingo bowl was priced at $18,500 at Michael D. Higgins & Son, Tucson, Arizona.Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanThe Whitehawk Antique Indian Art Show in Santa Fe, New Mexico, is always beautiful to look at, but the 32nd annual, held August 15-17, seemed to be more ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fall Americana Sales
Parkman-Scollay family bombe chest of drawers, $782,500. Sotheby's photo.Chester County wainscot chair that descended in the Lewis family, $77,025. Pook & Pook photo.Connecticut "sunflower" chest, possibly by Peter Blin, $482,500. Christie's photo.by Lita Solis-CohenAmericana sales in New York City at Christie's and Sotheby's have long been considered seasonal barometers of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Gaining Positive Momentum
The award for "Best in Auction" goes to this Tiffany "Aladdin" lamp with a Favrile glass shade that brought $8550. The shade is signed, and "Tiffany Studios New York 575" is impressed on the base. The central oil font is inscribed with swirling arabesques. The shade measures 10" in diameter, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)What Bad Economy? New Auction Records for Vintage Posters
Bidders vied heavily for this conditionA 48" x 36" Mather work incentive paper poster from 1925 by an unknown designer with a hospital theme (better to view a poster than the inside of an ambulance or a hospital room), which brought the auction's second-highest price at $11,400 from a collector ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Northeast Sells China Trade and Marine Americana
This tooth is from the scrimshaw collection of Thomas H. Gosnell of Rochester, New York, and Nantucket, Massachusetts, who died in April 2009. He was active in land preservation efforts in Nantucket and in New York state and a supporter of and donor to historical societies and educational institutions. This ... (Read More)
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