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(Auction)The Toys of Summer Auction
Barrett called this 21½" long Märklin battleship Iowa the finest example of a first-series battleship and said it was consigned by the heirs of the original owner, who received it as a Christmas present in 1903. In original condition, it is an amazing survivor with its original anchor, one lifeboat, ... (Read More)
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(Show)Heartland Antiques Show: Large Crowd and Enthusiastic Buying
Nineteenth-century watercolor mourning tribute to Anthony Budlong Patt of Rhode Island, who died in 1827, in a period gilt frame, the paper watermarked 1826, $5900 from Ed and Anita Holden of Holden Antiques, Sherman, Connecticut.Old Hickory glider, $1600; painted oilcloth pillow, Ortegia sisters, circa 1920, showing wildlife including an owl, ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs on Exhibit
The people who made the exhibition and book possible (from left), Bruce Barnes, Joseph Cunningham, Liza Rohlfs Ortman,her son, Mike Ortman, and her husband, John Ortman, in the gallery with a desk chair, a promised gift to the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation, and ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Lights Went Out in Georgia at Daniel's First Southern Pottery Auction
It’s a record. This large and rare ant trap storage jar is complete with the correct lid. The well at the top would be filled with water to keep ants from getting into the contents. It would have been used to store molasses, honey, or even cane syrup. It sold ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Oley Show
Marc Witus of Gladstone, New Jersey, offered more than the contents of most antiques shops all on one stand where collectors searched for treasures.Gene and Carol Rappaport of Strasburg, Pennsylvania, offered a lot of iron. Andirons ranged in price from $500 to $3500 for a pair with faceted heads. Skimmers ... (Read More)
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(Show)Antiques in the Gardens
The portrait of the Boothbay-built John G. Richardson byfather-and-son artists John and Frederick Tudgay, 27" x 42", was tagged $87,500 by Running Battle Antiques, Newagen, Maine. The John G. Richardson was launched on April 5, 1855, and carried cotton from Louisiana to Cardiff, Wales, then loaded up with coal, which ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collectors' Guide to Antiques Terminology
The Young Collectorby Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondWhen Hollie was small, she decided she needed a horse and began a campaign that only a grandfather would tolerate. She wrote horse auction dates on his wall calendar, counted the money in his wallet, and read aloud livestock ads from the weekly ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Auction of Attic, Basement, and Closet Treasures
Three views of a Wallace Nutting carved mahogany slant-front desk, branded with the Nutting name, that sold for $18,400 to a bidder in the room.Carl W. Stinson, Inc., North Reading, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy StinsonAn unassuming question about the number of sales that Carl W. Stinson, Inc. organizes annually elicited ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Tacoma Auctioneer Advertises Rarities, Authorities Confiscate Them
by David HewettSometimes you can toot your own horn a little too loudly.That may be the lesson learned by Tacoma, Washington, auctioneer Alan Gorsuch. He called us a few weeks ago to see if we could do a news article about some of the items he had scheduled to offer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: Private Parts
EditorialThe auction numbers from the first half of the year are grim. Christie's announced in late July that worldwide sales were $1.8 billion for the first six months of 2009, down 35% from the same period last year. Expensive lots were in short supply—211 works of art sold for more ... (Read More)
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