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(Fragment)White's Auctions Opens New Gallery in Middleboro, Massachusetts
White’s Auctions is opening a new auction hall in Middleboro, Massachusetts. The new gallery is approximately 3000 square feet, well lit, air conditioned, and handicap accessible. The building also has warehouse storage and shipping spaces as well as a loading dock. This new auction gallery is located just outside Middleboro ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Buy-In Numbers
Editorial
I attended an auction last month that struggled. Lot after lot was passed, but many in the audience had no idea. The auctioneer, deft at using chandelier bids to try to move a lot up to the reserve, relied heavily on buy-in numbers when a lot was passed. A buy-in ... (Read More)
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(Show)Fishersville Reflects the Market
Shenandoah Antiques Expo, Fishersville, Virginia
As a general rule, gardeners like rain, antiquers do not. The 58th Shenandoah Antiques Expo at the Augusta Expoland in Fishersville, Virginia, would have been a gardener’s delight. The weekend of May 20-22 was a rainy one. When I visited the Fishersville show on Saturday, I ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Ring of the Lords
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, Thomaston, Maine
At the Thomaston Place Auction Galleries two-day sale on May 21and 22 in Thomaston, Maine, a few of the five-figure head-liners flatlined with no buyers. Yet more than enough items from the hinterlands of low estimate limbo blew through their expectations and rose to the ... (Read More)
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(Fragment)Chinese Clock Brings $1,270,500
An antique Chinese animated triple fusee bracket clock estimated at $500,000/750,000 sold for $1,270,500 (includes buyer’s premium) at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on May 21. It was the top lot in a sale that grossed approximately $2.5 million. The buyer was in the room but asked not to be ... (Read More)
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(Auction)The Scranton Sale
Skinner, Inc., Killingworth, Connecticut
Hardly anyone was absent. The May 21 on-site sale of the collections of Killingworth, Connecticut, dealer Lewis Scranton packed the tents with collectors and dealers, some of whom had not been seen in the salesrooms in decades. Dealers, all of whom know and respect Scranton, an 11th-generation ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Portraits of Women and One Lovely Mare Star
New Orleans Auction Galleries, New Orleans, Louisiana
Photos courtesy New Orleans Auction Galleries
The May 21 and 22 New Orleans Auction Galleries estates sale was a banquet of furniture, jewelry, and decorative arts, but once again fine art from a major paintings collection brought the highest prices of the weekend. With over ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Dave the Slave Pot Brings $206,800
Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, Bennett, North Carolina
Photos courtesy Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society
The absentee sale conducted by the Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society (SFPCS) that closed on May 21 had 289 lots, but most of the bidding activity and dollars were focused on just four pots by Dave the ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Marklin "Amerika" Steams to a Record $271,400
Bertoia Auctions, Vineland, New Jersey
Photos courtesy Bertoia Auctions
An enthusiastic, rollicking crowd convened at Bertoia Auctions’ Toy Shoppe sale on May 20 and 21. They helped pull off, in Jeanne Bertoia’s words and in racetrack parlance, a trifecta. The $1.4 million run at the Vineland, New Jersey, auction house made it ... (Read More)
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(Auction)Huge Sale from the Descendants of Artist J. Alden Weir
Boyd Auctions, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Photos courtesy Boyd Auctions
On May 20 and 21, Boyd Auctions sold property for the descendants of J. Alden Weir in a monumental sale at the Frank Jones Center in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Weir (1852-1919) was an American Impressionist painter, a member of the Cos Cob art ... (Read More)
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