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(Show)Annual Adirondack Museum Show
Ralph Kylloe of Glens Falls, New York, author of A History of the Old Hickory Chair Company and the Indiana Hickory Furniture Movement, bought 300 of these hickory chairs from a monastery. Before being refinished they were offered at $275 each. If cleaned and varnished, they were $350 each.George Earl ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Timeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocks
A Book Reviewby David A. SperlingTimeless: Masterpiece American Brass Dial Clocksby Frank L. Hohmann III, with contributions from Kirtland H. Crump, Donald L. Fennimore, Morrison H. Heckscher, Martha H. Willoughby, and David F. WoodHohmann Holdings LLC, 2009, 376 pages, hardbound, $125 plus S/H from the publications division of (www.sothebys.com) or ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Computer Column: Following the Links
by John P. Reid, [email protected] e-mail from loyal subscriber and dedicated antiques collector Barry Perlman to the editor of the Maine Antique Digest proposed an interesting game. It involves the links antiques dealers include on their Web sites. He suggests following links from one dealer to the next as a ... (Read More)
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(Show)Lovely Setting, Improved Results at Second Old York Antiques Show
“It’s plank-on-frame construction with many working parts,” said dealer Dave White of White’s Nautical Antiques as he was describing this Gloucester fishing schooner, 1880-90, for which he was asking $3950. It sold later in the show.John Hunt Marshall’s son Leland stands in front of a colorful Italian three-panel folding screen, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)American Indian and Western Art
Turkey Hunter by Eanger Irving Couse (1866-1936), oil on canvas, signed, 20" x 24", professionally relined, minor inpainting, $47,587.50 (est. $30,000/40,000).Portrait of Elk Foot Jerry, Taos by JosephHenry Sharp (1859-1953), oil on canvas,signed and dated 1941, also inscribed“Hunting Son, Taos” on cardboard on back, 20" x 16", $81,075 (est. $40,000/60,000).Nampeyo ... (Read More)
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(Show)Greenwich Kiwanis Fall Antiques Show Slow Out of the Gate
Barrett Menson of Perkins & Menson Antiques, Townsend, Massachusetts, new to the show, had a period frame for every picture, and this one fit his face beautifully. The 14" x 10" 19th-century frame still hadits little brass hanging ring on top ($330). “It’s rare because it’s made of full bird’s-eye ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: Who Would Have Thunk It?
by Steve ProffittHuman nature is funny. There are some people you don't like from the moment you meet them. Others you immediately like and gravitate toward under the same circumstances. My feelings were the latter for a M.A.D. reader who wrote me about a bad auction experience. His comments were ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Plane's the Thing
Lowe’s patent fillister plane, $7040.A triptych-style folding tool cabinet, full of ornamental turning tools by Holtzapfel & Deyerlain of London, England, essentially complete, with handles in beech, rosewood, and ebony, fetched $1210.Martin J. Donnelly Antique Tools, Nashua, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoLive Free or Die Antique Tool Auctions is now celebrating ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Ike's Jacket Leads Three-Day Auction
General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s uniform “Ike” jacket, 38 regular, custom tailored by Clipper Craft Clothes as indicated by a label on the interior breast pocket with the typed identification “Gen. D. Eisenhower”and the date 3/45. The jacket has a patch for SHAEF (Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force) upper left, shoulder ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Birds in Wood and Paint
by Jeanne SchintoBirds in Wood and Paint: American Miniature Bird Carvings and Their Carvers, 1900-1970by Joseph H. EllisUniversity Press of New England, 2009, 184 pages, hardbound, $60 plus S/H from University Press of New England, Order Department, 1 Court Street, Lebanon, NH 03766 or (800) 421-1561 or from the Web ... (Read More)
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