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(Auction)Small Volume of Americana in Bonhams & Butterfields Sale
Bonhams & Butterfields, San Francisco, CaliforniaSmall Volume of Americana in Bonhams & Butterfields Saleby Alice Kaufman The June 16 Bonhams & Butterfields auction of European and American furniture and decorative arts in San Francisco included 26 lots in its Americana section. Only 15 of those lots sold, but three of ... (Read More)
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(Auction)20th-Century Decorative Arts at Bonhams
Bonhams, New York City20th-Century Decorative Arts at Bonhamsby Lita Solis-Cohen In its 1895 catalog Tiffany & Company offered a bicycle with handlebars of carved ivory, partly encased in chased silver, and all joints of the frame encased in solid silver, etched and chased in repousse style. "Mounted on a wheel ... (Read More)
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(Auction)British Sporting Painting Tops Annual Auction
Barridoff Galleries, Portland, MaineBritish Sporting Painting Tops Annual Auctionby Rose SafranOn the front cover of Barridoff Galleries' attractive catalog for its August 1 sale in Portland, Maine, was a detail of The Huntsman, A Bad Scent, an equestrian sporting painting by British artist Sir Alfred Munnings. Dominant against a stark, ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Copake Country
Copake Auction Inc., Copake, New YorkCopake Countryby Jackie Sideli On July 12, Copake Auction hosted a cataloged Americana sale at the company headquarters in rural Copake, New York. There were plenty of good clean country antiques as well as interesting paintings, stoneware, some period slipware, formal furniture, and a few ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Positive Results at Summer Ceramics Sale
Crocker Farm, Inc., York, Pennsylvania by Karl H. Pass Crocker Farm held its 11th stoneware and redware auction on July 19 in the Old Main Building at the York Fairgrounds in York, Pennsylvania. The 317-lot sale grossed $393,521 (including buyers' premiums). Prices consistent with expectations were achieved for the most ... (Read More)
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(Feature)NHADA Exhibitors Cope Well with Changing Market
Manchester, New HampshireNHADA Exhibitors Cope Well with Changing Marketby David HewettThis year the New Hampshire Antiques Dealers Association (NHADA) held its 51st annual show at its usual location, the 11,000-square-foot red brick armory attached to the Radisson Hotel Manchester (Center of New Hampshire), August 7-9. The big Northeast Auctions summer ... (Read More)
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(Feature)FBI Seeks Owners of Artwork
FBI Seeks Owners of Artwork In 2006 a treasure-trove of all kinds of artwork-some of which has subsequently been identified as stolen-was uncovered in a New York City apartment. In an effort to track down the rightful owners, the FBI and the public administrator of New York County have posted ... (Read More)
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(Feature)New Hampshire Antique Co-op Silver Anniversary
New Hampshire Antique Co-op Silver Anniversary When Sam Hackler opened one of New England's first group antiques shops in 1983, he had no idea that 25 years later his entire family would be working alongside him. Sam and his son, Jason, who at age 11 began to accompany his father ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Philadelphia Stool Sells for $5.2 Million
At Sotheby's sale of the Americana collection of Rear Admiral Edward P. Moore and Barbara Bingham Moore in New York City on September 26, a carved walnut compass-seat stool, Philadelphia, circa 1750, brought a whopping $5,234,500 (includes buyer's premium). The estimate for the rare object was $200,000/500,000.
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(Auction)Biddle-Drinker Family Highboy Brings $1,082,500
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