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Slotin Folk Art Auction, Buford, Georgia
Photos courtesy Slotin Folk Art Auction
Folk artists come and go, and collectors and buyers come and go, but the Slotin Folk Art auctions keep presenting a broad range of material ranging from masters that sell for five digits to new discoveries that sell for moderate ... (Read More)
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At an online auction of corkscrews sponsored by ICCAuctions, LLC, a rare German Langenhan spring corkscrew, one of only two known, sold on November 13, 2016, for $25,376.62 (no buyer’s premium charged). For many years, German corkscrew collectors have searched for a Langenhan spring corkscrew, patented in 1878, and known ... (Read More)
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Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates, Mt. Crawford, Virginia
Photos courtesy Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates
Jeffrey S. Evans & Associates held its 31st semiannual Americana and fine antiques auction at its Mt. Crawford, Virginia, gallery and showrooms on November 12, 2016. Over the past several years Evans has used this event to ... (Read More)
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Arcola, Arthur, and Tuscola, Illinois
Smack dab in the middle of practically nowhere, Antiques Week in Central Illinois has slowly been gaining a reputation in recent years. Not that there isn’t a bit of confusion in the midst of it all. Consider this: the semiannual event consists of five antiques shows ... (Read More)
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John McInnis Auctioneers, Newburyport, Massachusetts
There’s nothing like an on-site sale in a Federal house in a seaport town, especially when the owner was a collector’s collector. That’s what John McInnis Auctioneers delivered in three parts on November 11, 2016, in Newburyport, Massachusetts.
The house was owned by Frank E. Miller (1923-2014), ... (Read More)
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The top decoy in Guyette & Deeter’s annual fall decoy and sporting art auction on November 10, 2016, in Easton, Maryland, was a “hump back” style pintail hen by the Ward brothers. It sold for $201,250 (includes buyer’s premium), a world auction record for the Ward brothers. The estimate was ... (Read More)
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Gregory R. Logan, 59, of St. John, New Brunswick, a retired officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, pleaded guilty in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine on September 28 to ten money-laundering offenses. Logan was indicted in November 2012 and charged with conspiracy, smuggling, and money ... (Read More)
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In the Trade
There was a time back in the 20th century when it was not remarkable to find an antiques shop on your average New England village green. In fact, you almost expected it. A local shop that stocked a general line of what the locals lived with (and died ... (Read More)
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Peter Wunsch oversees the Wunsch Americana Foundation, which was founded in 1946 by his father, collector Eric Martin Wunsch (1924-2013), for the purpose of preserving America’s art history. Wunsch has announced that Leroy Graves and Brock Jobe will share the fifth Eric M. Wunsch Award for Excellence in the American ... (Read More)
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Representative Paul Cook, a Republican from California, has introduced a bill in the U.S. Congress that prohibits the sale of any Purple Heart medal presented by the government to a wounded service member or the service member’s family.
The “Private Corrado Piccoli Purple Heart Preservation Act” is named for Private Corrado ... (Read More)
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