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(Issue Story)Auction Prices Realized, June 2023
Here are a few notable prices of antiques sold recently at auction, as provided by press releases. All prices include the buyer’s premium when charged. We’re always looking for news of prices realized at auctions, particularly unusual or top lots. Send pictures, complete descriptions, and information to A.P.R., Maine Antique ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Seller of Counterfeit Art Extradited after 13 Years as a Fugitive
Angela Catherine Hamblin, 74, a citizen of the United Kingdom, was extradited April 21 from Germany to the United States to serve a prison sentence for selling fake works of art through a commercial auction website and in private transactions.
Hamblin pleaded guilty February 6, 2009, to two counts of mail fraud ... (Read More)
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(Show)The First Annual Fox Valley at the Fairgrounds Antiques Show
Wheaton, Illinois
Butterflies migrate, birds migrate, even wildebeests and heat-seeking Yankees migrate. But when a long-established live antiques show migrates after a period of virtual shows during the COVID-19 years—well, there could be possible snags.
Happily, nothing of the sort happened when the venerable Fox Valley Antiques Show presented by the Chicago ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Small Show That Offers a Lot
A Country Gathering Antique Show, Elizabethtown, Indiana
In its 23rd year, A Country Gathering Antique Show was held June 10 in Elizabethtown, Indiana. The show, promoted by Judy Nichols and run from her property, was a relatively small affair, with fewer than 20 booths under a tent and in open-air spaces.
The ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)The Clocks of S-Town
A Book Review
After the 1995 publication of Dava Sobel’s bestseller Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time, my clock-repair customers regularly asked me if I knew about this book. Even to the present day, they still want to repeat to ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Inaugural Boston Auction
Doyle, Boston, Massachusetts
Photos courtesy Doyle
Doyle’s new Boston auction gallery, which opened January 10 in the Back Bay, was the site of its inaugural auction June 8, introducing itself to the public.
Doyle’s Boston gallery is located in the heart of Back Bay at Clarendon Street between Newbury Street and Commonwealth Avenue. ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Letter from London, June 2023
A few British salerooms have taken of late to declining to reveal the prices achieved in what are, in fact, public auctions, which makes rather a nonsense of the term, but plenty of other auctioneers continue to reveal what they have achieved in the way of sales, and it is ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Partners in Withington Auction Form New Entity
In the summer of 2021, it was announced that Hillsborough, New Hampshire-based Withington Auction, Inc., had added new partners: Kenneth Labnon, Gary Yeaton, and Mike Reopel. The three new partners added sales of general line antiques—American furniture, clocks, and decorative arts—to the auction house.
Marcia and Larry Leizure, owners of Withington ... (Read More)
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(Issue Story)Charity Auctions
Don Henley of the rock band Eagles no doubt saw what Heritage Auctions called the “staggering” images of lines of cars waiting in Dallas for donated meals in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic. When asked to contribute a signed guitar for a Heritage-organized auction to benefit the North ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Maine Landscape Makes $2.45 Million
Freeman’s, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Photos courtesy Freeman’s
After a ten-minute bidding battle between auctioneer Alasdair Nichol executing an absentee bid and vice president and senior art specialist David Weiss on the phone, this large Maine landscape, Jetty Tree, by N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945), oil on canvas, 48¼" x 40", painted circa 1936, sold ... (Read More)
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