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(Feature)Guns, Germs, and Wheels at Sci-Tech Auction
Skinner, Inc., Bolton, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerNew York City dealer Martin Lane paid $292,000 for the sale’s top lot, a Colt Model 1881 Gatling gun made in Hartford, Connecticut, and purchased by Bannerman’s from the Watervliet (New York) Arsenal some time before World War I. It came unused, never ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Orchestrating an Auction: The Psychology of Bidding
by Daniel Grant "You start out slow, but [lots] three and four will pick up the pace, ease up a little bit, then build some excitement with twelve and thirteen, work up to twenty through twenty-two, which should go way over the top, then come down a bit, trying to ... (Read More)
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(Show)A Super Market
This copper with gold leaf longhorn cow weathervane was priced at $16,500 from Hypoint Art and Antiques, Lake Barrington, Illinois.Philadelphia dealer Joan Wenger was asking $11,000 for this Cochiti bowl. Wenger reported sales of jewelry and “good textiles.”Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanBarry Cohen called his seventh annual Historic Indian ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Bringing the A-Game
Santa Fe, New Mexicoby Alice KaufmanThe circa 1870 Chilkat blanket cost $85,000 at Alaska On Madison, New York City. Jack Bryan said that they’d had “great success at setup and preview, and steady business on day two. Dealers have put their best foot forward, and everyone has ridden the crest.”Jim ... (Read More)
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(Feature)VADA Annual Show: Decent Attendance, Uneven Sales
You can’t ask for a more vivid hooked rug than this 19" high x 43" wide one that Gloria Lonergan of Mendham, New Jersey, offered for $2495.We rather liked the 32½" x 23½" portrait of a boy with a wistful look in his eye. He’s by an unknown American artist ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Editorial: White Knight in the Mirror
White Knight in the MirrorWorlds collided in New York City, the center of the U.S. financial market and the art and antiques market. Amid the meltdown on Wall Street as Congress fashioned a bailout for the teetering financial industry, high-end Americana was crossing the block at Christie’s and Sotheby’s. The ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)JMK Acquires Three Shows in Florida
JMK Shows & Events of Succasunna, New Jersey, has acquired three Sarasota, Florida, antiques and collectibles shows formerly run by Dolphin Promotions. The shows are scheduled for December 27-29, January 30-February 1, 2009, and February 20-22, 2009. All three shows will feature approximately 50 dealers. JMK also runs home and ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Morphy Auctions Launches Toy Trains Division, Names Ken Post to Head Department
Morphy
Auctions of Denver, Pennsylvania, is opening a new toy trains division. The company
anticipates hosting one to two annual specialty sales of antique and vintage trains
and will soft-launch the department with a 600-lot selection of mostly Lionel
and other American-made trains in the December 11-13 winter sale of ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Ayers Appointed
Victoria Ayers has been appointed as furniture and decorative arts specialist for Bonhams in New York City. Ayers entered into the auction world through Sotheby's American Arts course (now known as Sotheby's Institute) then went on to work extensively with that auction house for two decades, appraising and cataloging objects ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Moisan Gets the Silver
The Tiffany silver water pitcher byEdward C. Moore brought $24,150.Marshall Johnson, oil on canvas of the U.S.S. Constitution at war,$6325.Labeled “Megaletoscopio” (also called a megalethoscope) by Carlo Ponti, $3162.50. (See page 29-B for another of these rare instruments.)Devin Moisan Auctioneers, Dover, New Hampshireby Mark SiscoDevin Moisan presents relatively few auctions ... (Read More)
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