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(Auction)Auction Records and a Buyer's Market for Collectors of Vintage Posters
Swann Galleries, New York Cityby Richard de ThuinPhotos courtesy Swann'sAccording to Swann, no record could be found of this Union Pacific Sun Valley poster appearing at auction in the last 20 years. The wait for this 35" x 23" condition A- (punch holes in the top margin) paper poster by ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Tax Law Change in New York
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(Auction)Maritime Paintings and Maritime Decorative Arts Sales
Christie's, New York Cityby A.J. Peluso, Jr.Photos courtesy Christie'sOne from a set of four 19th-century French celestial charts that sold on January 15. Your decorator would have encouraged the $1875 for these handsome colorful images.The schooner yacht Brilliant sold for $80,500. For those who built and sailed her, there was ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Skinner Shows Off New Digs
Skinner, Inc., Marlborough, Massachusettsby Jeanne SchintoPhotos courtesy SkinnerThe front door with the familiar Skinner typography. Schinto photo.Discovery items, including some of the many smalls. The sale was billed as featuring country Americana, but there were many formal period pieces, along with quilts, weathervanes, folk art, and trade signs. There were ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Americana Sale Provides Good Barometer of Market
There were five phone bidders for this Berks County, Pennsylvania, dower chest, dated 1788. The lid and front are profusely decorated with stylized tulips and hearts. It is similar to a chest in the Titus Geesey (1895-1969) collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the same date, but the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Midrange Rugs Carry Two New England Oriental Rug Auctions
Some of Skinner's most attractive decorative carpets suffered from high estimates and reserves, or had extensive restoration, and didn't sell. Its two most successful carpets were a 24'6" x 14'2" Indo-Persian that brought $23,700 (not shown) and this very decorative 19'4" x 13'2" Persian Bahktiari that sold for $18,960.There were ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Letter from London
by Ian McKay, e-mail: This Is Now, That Was ThenThis month's column is in two parts. It begins with reports on five sales of recent weeks, under the general heading "This Is Now," and then rushes headlong through what is left in my file boxes of last year's sales. I ... (Read More)
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(Feature)Murals Discovered
by Nancy Smoak, Projects Director, Rufus Porter MuseumA Hebron, Maine, couple has some advice for all owners of early homes with wallpaper walls-look under the wallpaper to see what is on the plaster. When they bought their home two years ago, they knew it had a long history, having been ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Americana Auction Pulls in Nearly $2 Million
The top-priced lot from the first two sessions of clocks from the Herbert Nilson collection, this 30" high Simon Willard "lighthouse" clock with alarm mechanism, glass dome, mahogany veneered case, and turned brass feet sold to a phone bidder for $71,100 (est. $20,000/30,000). Three phones and two floor bidders were ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)26-Year-Old Burlwood Antique Center Closed During 2009
It's a sure sign of spring, seeing the lines of buyers ready to enter the Burlwood Antique Center in Meredith, New Hampshire, on May 1.This year, spring will surely come, but there will be no line. Last fall, the husband-and-wife owners of Burlwood, Mark Diette and Mary Di Maria, announced ... (Read More)
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