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(Fragment)Twain Manuscript Sells for Record $242,500
Photo courtesy Sotheby's.by Jeanne SchintoAn unpublished manuscript by Mark Twain, titled "A Family Sketch," sold at Sotheby's in New York City on June 17 for $242,500 (includes buyer's premium). The price is a new world auction record for any autograph manuscript by Twain, Sotheby's press office stated. The buyer in ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rockport Art Association's Biggest Auction
Aldro Hibbard (1886-1972), Winter Stream, oil on canvas, 24" x 30", $17,250, the star of this auction. Collectors are fussy concerning the Hibbard paintings for which they will pay five digits. For example, a winter logging scene with plenty of snow and in Hibbard's style, but without a sparkling stream, ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Books Received
by M.A.D. StaffThese are brief reviews of books recently sent to us. We have included ordering information for publishers that accept mail, phone, or on-line orders. For other publishers, your local bookstore or mail-order house is the place to look.Modern Women: Women Artists at the Museum of Modern Art, edited ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Collecting 50 Years Ago
Arrow-back plank-seat chairs. Price in 1957: $10 for two. The going price in shops in 1957 was usually about $10 each.Queen Anne chair bought from a doorstep.Cast-iron clock. Price in 1957: $3.50. In 2010 it still works and bongs the hours.by Dave KrashesCollecting antiques 50 years ago was not like ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Historic Firearms and Early Militaria
Henry Bowers's engraved New York map powder horn with some highlights in red, 16" long, 2" crack at the bottom, very light scratches, $23,000.Pattern 1872 enlisted cavalry dress helmet, black wool body, brass planchet, plume holder with yellow horsehair plume, original white braided cords, wool surfaces heavily worn, $10,925.First Model ... (Read More)
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(Show)Spring Show Is Well Established but Lacked Sales
This period ladder-back side chair was a low $85 from Stevens, Pennsylvania, textile dealer Wendy Christie. The folding tub stand was $125, and the lard tin underneath, $65. The yarn balls were $10 each, and the "tobacco hands" were $25 each. They are "organic relics," remarked Christie, in reference to ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Former Fruitlands Museum Executive Sentenced to Prison for Embezzling $1.3 Million
by Jeanne SchintoOn June 28, Peggy Kempton, the one-time deputy executive director and chief financial officer of the Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts, was sentenced to state prison and ordered to pay restitution after pleading guilty to stealing $1.3 million from her former employer. Worcester Superior Court Judge Richard T. ... (Read More)
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(Book Review)Book Review: Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware
A Book Reviewby Lita Solis-CohenCeramics in America 2009Edited by Robert Hunter and Luke BeckerditeThe Chipstone Foundation, distributed by University Press of New England, 2009, 232 pages, hardbound, $65 plus S/H from University Press of New England, (800) 421-1561 or (www.upne.com).Ceramics in America 2009, like the 2007 Ceramics in America journal ... (Read More)
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(Show)Attendance Was Up, and Furniture Sold
Kay G. Previte Antiques, Aurora, Ohio, offered this 1790-1810 one-drawer table in its original black tar-paint finish for $650. With Hepplewhite legs, a scalloped apron, and dovetailed drawer construction, it was held together with wood pins. The scallopedged hand-painted tole tray with a central motif of a fountain and flowers ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Skinner Sells Unprecedented Horological Tool Collection
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerAfter the tools and books, a section of clocks from various consignors went up, including some from the Crom estate. The top lot of the day, a circa 1815 nine-month duration regulator by Jean Joseph Lepaute (1768-1846), clockmaker to Napoleon I, was Crom's. ... (Read More)
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