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(Auction)Snavely Eagles Soar at Sale
This George Hoff, Lancaster, Pennsylvania,30-hour movement withpewter dial in a country Chippendale softwood tall case sold for $16,500. The clock had some restoration, and the light brown- and yellow-painted decoration on the case was old but not original.The pair of Carl Snavely spread-wing eagles with finely detailed cross-hatching and feather ... (Read More)
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(Show)Eighth Annual Shaker Village Antiques Show
Nettie Jarvis of Bloomfield, Kentucky, showed a beautiful cherrywood tester bed with canopy. It was purchased in Kentucky and priced at $6500. Partially seen at right is a customer examining a No. ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: A Collector by Any Other Name
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondYou can imagine our surprise when a recent letter to the editor opined that there are no longer any collectors, that there have, in fact, not been collectors since the early 90's. We can't comment much on the early 90's, as our concerns at the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Glass Museum Opens
The grand opening celebration of the New Bedford Museum of Glass (NBMOG) will be held the weekend of September 10-12. More than 1000 examples of the glassmaker's art are now housed in 50 monumental display cases at the new facility in New Bedford, Massachusetts.Collection highlights include a core-formed Eastern Mediterranean ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Watercolor Scroll Tops Auction
A Chinese watercolor scroll by Pan Tianshou (1897-1971), depicting an eagle standing on a rock, 20th century, 67" x 23½", generated the highest bid of the auction, $203,150.A color aquatint, Bacchanale, after PabloPicasso, circa 1959, framed 25½" x 30½",sold for $10,755.A Steuben plum jade glass vase, created in the 1920’s, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Auctioneer Sentenced
Anthony Bonneau, 46, former owner of T's Family Auction in Cairo, New York, was sentenced to two and one-third to seven years in prison after Bonneau failed to pay Valerie Ducos after auctioning her art.According to Greene County District Attorney Terry Wilhelm, Ducos had commissioned Bonneau to sell some artwork ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Sorger Sale at Freeman's
by Lita Solis-CohenThere is an old adage that auctions held on site bring a third more than in a salesroom. With this in mind, Freeman's in Philadelphia is doing the next best thing: holding the presale exhibition for the estate of the late Joseph Sorger in his elegant townhouse at ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Santa Comes to Town and Bags $161K
Althof, Bergmann & Co. Santa sleigh and goat team, $161,000. Julia photo.Tin equestrian toy attributed to Althof, Bergmann & Co. by Julia, $26,450.James D. Julia department head AndrewTruman predicted that this double Caillemachine with the original music would goover the top, and it did. It was retrieved from Kentucky where ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Burton Antiques Market Is Back
Dealers were set up outside and inside the track and on the infield at the June 12 Burton (Ohio) Antiques Market. The fall show will be held September 25.Phillip Ball, the business manager for Dr. W.H. Smith Antiques, Butler, Pennsylvania, shows how a patient would have been positioned when one ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fancy Mantel Leads Farmer Sale
The star of the Farmer sale was this painted Virginia folk art mantel. Unfortunately, no photograph can do justice to this magnificent piece of craftsmanship. It is profusely decorated with three-dimensional medallions and sunburst carvings, and the columns are intricately marbleized. The chimneypiece measures 62½" x 85½" overall, with an ... (Read More)
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