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(Fragment)Taylor Swift Shops Nashville
Dealer Marilyn Haley, Taylor Swift, and Bea Starr, Kay Puchstein’s mother.Country singer Taylor Swift and her family shopped the October 31, 2009, Music Valley and Tailgate shows in Nashville, Tennessee. According to show management, in between shopping for antiques, Swift and her family stopped at many of the 300 booths ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)All I Really Need to Know about Antiques I Learned in Kindergarten
The Young Collector
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSometimes adults have a tendency to overcomplicate things. We talk about extenuating circumstances, right and wrong, gray areas, and we use big words or abstract concepts, but in reality, most things either are or they're not.Most of the time, life is really simple—get ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)FBI Investigates Fake Clementine Hunter Paintings
William Toye in the studio of his Baton Rouge house, which was raided by the FBI in September 2009.Art collector and dealer Donald Fuson with some of the “Clementine Hunter” paintings he bought from William and Beryl Toye. A Hunter painting of a Christmas tree was considered rare—the artist painted ... (Read More)
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(Show)The 46th Annual Delaware Show
George and Debbie Spiecker of North Hampton, New Hampshire, asked $6500 for the curly maple card table; the fine Boston andirons, with fire tools, fender, and jamb hook, marked “J. David Boston,” were $8500; the horse weathervane was $4200; the Pennsylvania corner cupboardwith swan’s-neck top and an alligatored cherry surface ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ammi Phillips Double Portrait Brings $782,500
A 43" x 40" oil on canvas folk art portrait by Ammi Phillips (1788-1865) of Theron Simpson Ludington (1850-1922) and his older sister Virginia Ludington (1846-1865), circa 1852, sold for $782,500 (includes buyer's premium) at Christie's in New York City on January 22. The buyer was Atlanta, Georgia, dealer Deanne ... (Read More)
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(Feature)The Louisiana Purchase Auction
Very rare to be found in its original 1858 printing, Norman’s Chart of the Lower Mississippi River from Natchez to New Orleans, after Marie Adrien Persac, was the top lot of the sale. Determined and rapid increases—perhaps from parties now living in the area depicted— took the price leagues beyond ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Four More Chairs with Peacock Finials
Martin Cohen's chairs.by Lita Solis-CohenAs the news spread that $390,400 was paid at Rago's December 5, 2009, sale in Lambertville, New Jersey, for a pair of throne-like chairs decorated with Tiffany glass mosaics and hooded peacock finials (see M.A.D., January 2010, p. 11-A), people wondered if they were unique.Jeni Sandberg, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tennessee Officials Seek Return of Davy Crockett's Marriage License Application
by David HewettSometimes exposing a prized family heirloom to public view can have unexpected results. That's just what happened to 90-year-old Margaret V. Smith of Tampa, Florida. She showed up at the June 25, 2005, taping of the widely watched WGBH-created Antiques Roadshow in Tampa with a legal document, an ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)The Vanderbilt Chairs and Cabinet
$32,200.by Lita Solis-CohenThe stars were lined up during the first weekend in December 2009 to bring rare Aesthetic Movement furniture to market. While David Rago in Lambertville, New Jersey, was selling chairs with peacock finials and Tiffany glass inlay, found in a boiler room where they had been stored for ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Fish Carving Sells for Record $100,000
Photo courtesy Steven Michaanby David HewettOn November 2, 2009, collector Steven Michaan sold an Oscar Peterson fish carving for $100,000, the highest amount recorded for the Michigan carver's work.Michaan, author of two books on fish decoys and the host of a Web site (www.fishdecoy.com), said he's not a dealer, just ... (Read More)
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