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(Auction)Uneven One-Day Sale Brings in $2 Million-Plus
Guesses as to the origin of this 93" high cherry linen press with subdued line inlay ranged from Kentucky to New Jersey, but we agree with two dealers who flatly stated it was definitely of Connecticut origin. It has Sack provenance and was included in American Antiques from Israel Sack ... (Read More)
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(Show)California Country Fall Show
A six-prong Pennsylvania rake made by a member of the Musser family was priced at $350 by Forrest Henry Antiques, San Jose, California.Kossmann's Antiques, Fresno, California, offered an old storage bucket with old paint over the original, $325; a coffee box, $125; and a storage box, $295. Louise Kossmann said ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Collection of King of Dolls Sells for $1.23 Million
A phone bidder took the top lot, a 28" tall Roullet & Decamps automaton of a female magician. The price was $80,580 (est. $25,000/35,000). The mouth of the monkey opens and closes; the bisque child blows kisses; and the clown sticks out its tongue. Made in France circa 1890, the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)New Antiques Show in Greater Boston Debuts in Mid-May
Longfellow's Wayside Inn. Courtesy Ted Fitzgerald Photography (c)2009.by Jeanne SchintoTwenty miles west of Boston, a new antiques show will sprout this spring on the grounds of Longfellow's Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts. Opening with an evening preview and reception to benefit the historic property, the Wayside Inn Antiques Show will ... (Read More)
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(Show)The Marburger Farm Antique Show
Brad and Sundie Ruppert of Vintage Sculpture, Norwalk, Iowa, decorate vintage furniture with vintage bottle caps, which they buy from a flea market dealer in Des Moines. They were asking $5500 for this stepback cupboard from Austin, Texas.Agnes Strauss of Wilde Weedz, Cat Spring, Texas, did a booming business selling ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction: Sweet Surprises at Freeman's
There were six phone bidders and bidders on the Internet for this Tiffany silver and enamel vase designed by George Paulding Farnham (1825-1927). It is 8" high and was made in 1901 for the Pan American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. Cataloged as a "Viking" baluster vase with Celtic-inspired strapwork ... (Read More)
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(Computer Article)Three Versions of Collectorpro Reviewed
Main data entry screen of Collectorpro for Antiques.Computer Column #253by John P. Reid, [email protected] few years, we publish a list of software available for antiques dealers and collectors. These programs primarily record inventory information but often include expense and customer databases. Some include a point-of-sale system to provide cash register ... (Read More)
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(Young Collectors)The Young Collector: Relevance Revisited
by Hollie Davis and Andrew RichmondSo, where were we? We had been talking about relevance-the art of being useful/staying useful or as Merriam-Webster puts it, "having significant and demonstrable bearing on the matter at hand"-and the reasons antiques had once been relevant. The problem, as we mentioned last month, is ... (Read More)
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(Auction Law and Ethics)Auction Law and Ethics: I Never Thought of This
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(Fragment)Willowbrook Village: Improvements Planned and Auctions Scheduled
The exhibits at Willowbrook Village in Newfield, Maine, are spread out over 3.5 acres and housed in 34 structures. Over the next year, Willowbrook will be making changes in order to better tell the story of life in 19th-century rural Maine and to reduce the financial burden of maintaining so ... (Read More)
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