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(Auction)Pair of Nisbet Card Tables at Strong Sale in Saint John
A pair of card tables by Saint John cabinetmaker Thomas Nisbet fetched $16,800 ($15,943). They were clearly very early pieces with all the details associated with this most famous of early 19th-century Canadian cabinetmakers.Tim Isaac Auctions, Saint John, New Brunswickby Peter SmitAll prices in Canadian funds; approximate U.S. funds in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Peabody Essex Museum Antiques Show: Steady at the Helm
Salem, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoDiana H. Bittel of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, is the new show manager of the Wayside Inn Antiques Show, scheduled to debut May 14-16 in Sudbury, Massachusetts. For more information, see the Web site (www.wayside.org). On the wall immediately above Bittel's Philadelphia four-drawer chest is acirca 1830 shellwork ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Etnier Oils Lead Foster Auction
Stephen Etnier oil on canvas, signed and dated '59, $6050.Stephen Etnier oil on canvas, probably a scene near his Harpswell, Maine, studio, $2750. Foster photo.Robert L. Foster, Newcastle, Maineby Mark SiscoAs he's been doing for the past few decades, Robert L. Foster held Maine's first big antiques auction of the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Photograph Album Leads Evans Sale
This historically significant photograph album contains 425 albumen prints by John K. Hillers (German-American, 1843-1925), most of which were taken during John Wesley Powell's second Western expedition (1871-72) and with the Cushing Smithsonian expedition to study the Zuni and Pueblo peoples (1877-78). There were several photographers on these expeditions, but ... (Read More)
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(Show)Modernism + Art20
Paul Donzella of Donzella Ltd., New York City, offered two chairs and a cocktail table, designed by Paul Laszlo in the early 1950's, of handcarved and lacquered wood. The Lucite top is a replacement copy of the original. The chairs were $28,000 the pair, "a recession price," said Donzella. In ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Up the Creek with a Paddle
Canoe paddle, 19th century, 67" long, $13,800.Gould Auction Company, Gardiner, Maineby Mark SiscoSeveral years ago, auctioneer Timothy Gould wondered aloud to us about how long he could maintain his auctions, restricting his consignments only to items that conformed to his rigid "fresh-to-the-market" criterion. We're happy to report that as of ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Associate Curator Position at PMA
Alexandra Alevizatos Kirtley has been named The Montgomery-Garvan Associate Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.The new associate curator position was endowed by Robert L. McNeil, Jr. through the Lenfest Challenge, which was established in fall 2008 by museum chairman H.F. (Gerry) Lenfest and Marguerite Lenfest ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: The Nicholas Hilliard miniature portraits of Elizabeth I and Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester and the one real love of her life, which sold for $120,015 at Bonhams.Elizabeth and Leicester: An Unrequited Love Story?One of the three great questions of Europe, the King of France once ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Leslie Hindman Opens Florida Location
Naples, Florida, headquarters of Leslie Hindman Auctioneers.Leslie Hindman Auctioneers of Chicago has opened a new auction facility in Naples, Florida."Many of our longtime clients winter or live year-round in Florida, specifically the southwest region, so Naples is an ideal location for a satellite office," said Hindman. "One of our goals ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Japanese Art Dealers Association Holds Exhibition during Asia Week
Plans are in the works for a very busy Asia Week New York, March 20-28 (see M.A.D., February 2010, p. 9-A).A pocket-size art fair organized by members of the Japanese Art Dealers Association (JADA), a group of six leading dealers who specialize in pre-modern Japanese art, will be held at ... (Read More)
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