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(Auction)A Short but Sweet Americana Sale
Frederic Wingate tall clock, 92" x 19" x 10", $19,550.Oh, how they love the blue paint. Doors with double raised panels, rattail hinges, a shaped bracket base skirt, and carved swags under the cornice all pushed this cupboard to $8050.Cyr Auction Company, Gray, Maineby Mark SiscoBy the standards of previous ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Have Van, Will Travel
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWe are gypsies of the open road. In our minds, it always starts out something like gypsies from a Sherlock Holmes story, with a brightly colored mysterious caravan, everything neatly stowed and tied down as we trundle along the backroads, fresh air blowing in our ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Rookwood XIX, Keramics 2009, Art Glass 2009
Rookwood vase in the Standard glaze line by Kataro Shirayamadani, with Native American woman and teepees, marked, 10 3/8" high, fine crazing, pinhead-size glaze miss, and a few minor scratches, $21,850, the sale’s top lot.Rookwood scenic Vellum glaze vase, Carl Schmidt, 1913, snow-covered Rocky Mountains in Calgary, marked, 15" high, ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Vida Hired at Winter Associates
Winter Associates, an auction house and appraisal firm in Plainville, Connecticut, has hired Christina Keyser Vida, former Mount Vernon assistant curator, as a research assistant and advertising coordinator.As an assistant curator at George Washington's Mount Vernon, Vida worked on the restoration of George Washington's study, his 18th-century gardener's house, and ... (Read More)
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(Feature)In the Trade: Alan and Amy Gaines, A & A Gaines Antiques, Newport, Rhode Island
A & A Gaines Antiques on Franklin Street in Newport. It’s in a Victorian building on a quiet street around the corner from all the tourist craziness. They don’t own the building, but they do own the two condominium units that form the store. Amy said, “Rhode Island is a ... (Read More)
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(Show)"OK" Is the New "Good"
Nan Gurley, the show owner and manager, also sets up a booth with her husband, Peter Mavris. They displayed an enormous black-painted country store apothecary cupboard with 57 drawers plus four glass-covered slant-front bins for $5400.Marvin Weis of Baltimore, Maryland, showed a chorus line of dancing wooden jiggers, with Mutt ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Summer Decoy Sale
One of best decoys in the sale was this stick-up model hollow snow goose by John Tax (1900-1967) of Osakis, Minnesota. Tax geese rate among the finest standing decoys, and those in feeder position are highly revered. It had what is believed to be an old working second coat of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Bonhams Adds Boston Representative
Bonhams has appointed Sarah Valelly as Boston and New England regional representative. Operating from Beacon Hill, Bonhams Boston is a liaison to the firm's resources, including specialists.Coming from the financial sector, Valelly was president of Compagnie Financiere Tradition, Buenos Aires, and later director of sales and marketing at Institutional Investors ... (Read More)
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(Feature)A Summary of the Egerton Family and Their Furniture: What's Attributable, What's Not
by David A. SperlingFigure 10. Silas Howell, New Brunswick, New Jersey, musical tall-case clock, labeled Egerton Jr., dial dated 1797. Courtesy Gary Sullivan Antiques, Inc., Sharon, Massachusetts.Figure 10a. Hood of Howell musical tall-case clock. Ornate brass capitals, small gilt rosettes in arch terminals, delicate broken arch, and use of bookend ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Fine and Decorative Arts Auction in Ohio
Anna Pottery pig flask, 1870-75, by Wallace and Cornwall Kirkpatrick, salt-glazed, incised and cobalt-highlighted map of Arkansas railroad, stagecoach, and riverroutes, anatomically correct, spout on pig’sback, small size at 4½" long, old chip on back leg, $12,337.50.Paint-decorated poplar blanket chest with folky decoration, likely Mid-Atlantic, 1830-40, with large flowers in ... (Read More)
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